skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read your original redacted -- great word choice, by the way -- post as a flame against araneae. Which I guess shows my bias against Lil Wayne.

One distinction between me and "the other people" (I don't know what the hell to call them) is that I will allow myself to get convinced that Lil Wayne is worthwhile. I have been convinced to listen to great rap. But, I can ramble all day about how awesome Bach is, and I'm either preaching to the choir or preaching to people who have no interest in understanding your "god." No, I don't mean god is Bach.

People shut off their brain to visiting mormons the same way they shut off their brain when you start talking about great art. They simply refuse to think that way.

There is a very specific quotient of structure in things that are higher art. It is just hard to find people who can, or even want to, acclimate themselves to understanding said structure. It takes a lot of energy.

Easy music. Easy books. Easy food! These things are just like candy. I can see how such things appeal to people (compassion), since they are saturated with the easy-good-stuff. And I am not entirely immune to sweets or easy hooks; however, I have grown up.
Does this mean that the person (who hasn't been playing for months) can pick up another, regularly played instrument and it sounds 'at its best'? Is it the violin which falls asleep or the operator (who hasn't played it much)?

Because certainly the musician's skills (focus, nuance, whatever all lumps in - even sensitivity to musical content and musicality) slowly degrade without continual practice.

I've noted over and over that my keyboard instruments get 'stiff' when unused. But so do my fingers, reflexes and skills. Which leads me to ask: isn't it both?
Does anybody else see the irony in this?

No, it seems necessary. If he could concentrate on a novel length reply, he wouldn't be needing it.
The fact that you want to be remembered in a certain way shows that you still care. I understand that but it's more of a "revenge" kind of feeling. If something drove me to suicide, and I would certainly have to be driven to it, I'd also want to go out in a blaze of destructive glory. Well, I'd enjoy thinking about it, anyway.

Many suicidal people, though, just want their suffering to end. They can't find any reason or meaning in continuing and don't really care about anything after they die. This guy seems to be the second type, and he's just tying up loose ends (thanking his readers) before he goes.

Well, that's his right. I find it somewhat offensive that casual readers of news sites would presume to question his judgement. Maybe he will go through with it. Or maybe, faced with the reality of the act, he'll reconsider. Only he can have that realisation, only he can make that decision, and it's none of our damn business IMO.
"Pretty much no one" != "no one"

It's very nice that you enjoyed Ulysses. I did not enjoy it for 100 pages. Reading it is pretty much only useful for bragging, which I see is alive and well.
On the other hand, it has often seemed like anime has been one of the few professional entertainment industries devoted to trying to make money off the Long Tail.
As a former Mac Genius, this is no surprise. I've seen Power Mac G4 towers so inundated with cigarette smoke that the cooling fans completely siezed and the processor basically melted. The video card looked like a shrinky dink. Not to mention what the smoke does to the clear plastic on some eMacs and iMacs. There's actually an iMac shell at the training facility in Cupertino with a sign that says something along the lines of "Don't smoke- if not for yourself, do it for your iMac"
I agree, and I just sent him a note myself. I don't know about the rest of you but I've certainly experienced shit myself (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=69097), and it helped me when people empathized.
The police will take suicidal people into protective custody, so no: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan

By the way, Lithuania is the most suicidal country:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...
"I'll pay you not to use the competitor that possibly brings you more than half of your discoveries, new customers, and revenue."

Sounds like a sound business model to me. </sarcasm>

On a more serious note, I'm actually afraid of the collective ignorance of most computer users today that Microsoft could win out with manipulative business practices like this - most internet users are layman and don't understand the integrity issues of whats going on here.

It starts with the developers - we are the ones that create the software that start the market that feed the companies that buy into Microsoft's bull. Vote by code. Stand by it.

Seriously, stories like this make me sick to my stomach. I don't post such bold statements here usually because of the holes that could be punched in my statements by downvoters but there's absolutely no integrity in their business model.

Blech.
Terminal, Vim, Cyberduck, and photoshop.

Keepin' it simple folks.
http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/suicide-and-suicidal-b...

*Critical signs:
Direct or indirect threats to commit suicide

I think what you are saying is not in-line with the expert opinion. Regardless of whether or not it is true, I do not believe it is, but I'm not an expert, saying it or trying to convince others to believe it so they don't do something to avert a suicide in the case where someone threatens it is morally reprehensible.

The repercussion of you being wrong and someone listening to you is deadly. The repercussion of you being right and someone ignoring you could save a life.

You really need to be careful how you talk. It's really quite disgusting what you have said here.
I struggled to figure out why the Zefrank video was at the top on Hacker News this evening.

It's mesmerising, and on topic for startup folk.
Replicant: Project to produce a 100% free/libre Android distro
Course when it comes to webservers such as NGinx, implementations of mod_wsgi are far outdated and not compatible with the last three major releases of the webserver. As such your practical choices for deploying Python (WSGI) applications via NGinx is to use either proxy_pass to a local self-served wsgi application, or Phusion Passenger. The latter being far more feasible.

Thanks gduffy for linking my Nginx + Passenger + Python article, never new this site existed.
Wow, so many possible causes for poor concentration! I like this thread as an exagesis.

What works for me is I think also the lowest hanging fruit: a combination of working on things I care about, and actively bringing my wayward bad habits under control.

A reset requires a change of scene. It's likely that you don't like what you do now. That's the root of the problem. Chop it down. Go find something else to do.

Once you pick something, do it all the time. It's analogous to shocking your system with a new diet. Everytime in the past that you procrastinated, you gave strength to these demons. Now it's time to starve them completely for a while.

Get better.
Personal Brands, Identity and Perception Management (2007)
Shouldn't CPUs shut themselves down when overheated?
Completely valid in extreme cases. It's usually good for consumers if limited warranties exclude preventable damage otherwise everyone is paying a higher average cost per machine to cover warranty service for people who inflict their own liquid or physical damage. Extending that to smoke damage seems reasonable especially if the problem can be traced back to heat. Smoke particulates are incredibly fine and clingy -- they will fill every nook and crevasse of a carefully designed cooling system that doesn't have a big margin of error to start with. It's just a fact of life these days. If you want to smoke (and I do) you have to deal with the consequences.
So you're saying...

The set of all people that think Joyce is pretentious is the same as the set of all people that can't imagine the author speak in an Irish accent.

elaborated to emphasize absurdity
Or you just called the biggest thing in his life small. I don't think it's a good idea for people without a background in psychology to do anything other than to say "Don't do it".
Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough
In case anyone is worried: no, I am not going to submit every post from the ribbonfarm archive to Hacker News (though I did go back and read them all myself, since I've been in bed with the flu all week). This is the last one, I promise.
Submission title is somewhat misleading. Nobody appears to be claiming that e.g. a chimp engineered with the human version of FOXP2 (the single gene under discussion) would have human-style language capacity commensurate with its intelligence - just that FOXP2 is a contributing factor.
I was actually talking to a developer awhile back, the conversation resulted in him actually updating the Ubuntu repository for Nginx's mod_wsgi to be updated to mod_wsgi 2.5 (as opposed to 1.0) and making it have choices of using Python 2.4 thru 2.6 via variants. But even then it was barely stable on Nginx 0.7.* and un-buildable on Nginx 0.8.*.

At the moment the most stable version of Nginx to run mod_wsgi with is the legacy 0.6.+, the original author ported it during the 0.5 release.

Performance and integration wise, Passenger excelled over trying to hack the mod_wsgi plugin into working. And as you said there are too many bugs to be effectively used in a production environment.

Once Passenger is compiled, it only requires two lines in the Nginx configuration to enable a Python WSGI application, and its no more heavy on resources than Nginx itself. You do of course have to restart Nginx (which in effect restarts Passenger) if you change or add a web application, but thats about the only hard part. Passenger even builds and installs Nginx for you, so not sure where the high maintenance is at.
I would seriously recommend deleting this post. It is probably both the dumbest and most offensive thing I have ever read on this forum.

If anyone else posted this, their account would be killed and I don't think you would be an exception. It is something "you can't say" and would be enough to have you forcefully committed if someone thought you were a danger to yourself or others.

To address your original point: whether someone intends to go through with it or not, it should be appropriately interpreted as a cry of help. Who are we to ignore a cry for help?
I'm absolutely certain you are missing the context of the videos. The Show ran every weekday for a year. The series is a conversation with the viewer and can't easily be jumped into in the middle. There was no "ass sledding" -- the term was "ass-slappin' awesome" which was coined in a previous video.

In short: There's no need to "do a little better job of relevance in the beginning" because a.) the video is almost thee years old and b.) people liked it that way.
Here's a similar project supporting the same syntax written in python that woks in vim.

http://github.com/rstacruz/sparkup
I can only see this bringing more eyeballs to Newscorp's rivals and wasting microsoft's money.
I read trashy fantasy novels and poetry.

To me, the ability to sit down and finish a project is inversely proportional to the amount of urgency that I attribute to its completion. I recognize tension that I feel when trying to finish a project is really something that I'm making up; I know that programming is easy and I'm at least passable at it. It follows that I can finish the project.

Therefore, all I need to do is find a way to reset my mental state to something neutral/non-tense. For me, science fiction, fantasy, and poetry are all suitable to distract me from the task at hand and dissipate the tension, allowing me to work.
Yes but you're missing the rest of my reply: There is no try, only do.

That means, you gain a longer attention span by making yourself have a longer attention span. It's a struggle. It's supposed to be a struggle. If it had a quick and easy fix you wouldn't be needing our advice in the first place. You're probably a master of quick and easy fixes -- that's what people with short attention spans collect.

Encouraging the world to adapt to you by giving you short, easy quips about what you need to do is not helping anything -- it's just making it worse. You'll pick up the several dozen little shiny quotes and think about them for a few minutes and tomorrow be on to something else.

You want a long attention span? Go do something that requires a long attention span. I mean do it -- don't talk about it, don't blog about it -- just shut the hell up and go do it. When you are done, you will have a longer attention span.

Please forgive me if I sound coarse: this post reminded me of an alcoholic in a bar drinking to his sobriety. It just doesn't add up (at least to me)
Meditation / Yoga (mindfulness).
It looks to me like a PUBLISHER was quoted as saying "puts enormous value on content if search engines are prepared to pay us to index with them."

This means publishers appear to be using some leverage with search engines, forcing them into the position of possibly having to purchase the right to index their content.

This is kind-of what Twitter is doing with bing, right? Imagine if WebMD started doing this, followed by others.

We'd have to go to Bing for some content, Google for other content, and there would be a PirateSearchBay that just indexed everything that people would be forced to use.
When this happened on the joelonsoftware forums, Joel Spolsky took it down and pointed me to this study: http://aepo-xdv-www.epo.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/m0031539/M00...

Threads like this should not stay online because they risk encouraging copycats.
I have trouble finding interesting and attractive girls to go drinking with ;)
I'm not down voting you, it also irritates me. I do have to say though, restriction of content only lasts so long before even the laymen begin to realize their freedoms are suffocated. (slowly boiling the frog)

While Google is a company that produces a lot of innovative technology, operates a service and infrastructure that is highly useful; I wouldn't consider it strictly necessary.

What is more frightening to me, is the net neutrality war - if Google goes down, the internet remains. If freedom of the internet goes down, a very large portion of the internet will not remain (it could persist through Freenet &c... though).
What's the protocol on telling your child "I raised and treated you like a dog"? Do you have to wait until they're 18?
I would like one spot to go to remind me of when everything is going to expire. I have warranties, domain names, web services, SVN services, email accounts, airline miles -- all kinds of crap that has some sort of expiration date on it. And I can't keep track of any of it.

And I want the machine to do all the work -- heck if I want to go around entering everything. I want to answer a few questions, maybe have it "follow me" around as I surf, and then keep a list of when things are going to run out.
Notes about Go
well let's see, the post is about suicide, and I'm discussing motivations behind it.

So the way I read your comment, is that you are advocating for people to kill themselves quietly.

Why would my account be killed(interesting choice of words btw, considering the thread).

Can't there be a civil discussion about suicide? Why is that subject so taboo? Thinking like that is exactly why people take their lives without talking to anyone.

Ok so it's a cry for help...what exactly did you do to address his cry for help? Did you email the guy? Did you call him? Did you track down people close to him and had them talk to him? Or did you just upvote the submission, thinking you did your civic duty?...Did you even do that?

What EXACTLY did you do to "help"? Answer me that.
Yes, I suppose they should... this one didn't though. The thermostat must have malfunctioned too.
Japan did a significant amount of outsourcing work for American studios as recently as the 1990's, but that definitely isn't the case now, and I think that's an important distinction. While a number of things can be blamed, I would pin the main problem on how anime studios have historically tended to stay behind the curve in the use of labor-saving technology. (Compare against American animation, which has fairly enthusiastically taken on 3D, vector animation, digital matte, etc., as soon as they've been commercialized) It's a sustainable practice while you're in an up-and-comer economy and the local labor is cheap or impossible to match anywhere else, but it's much harder to swallow when China and Korea are putting out equally competent work at bargain rates. When the outsourcing market left Japan, you are left with the current situation where the local labor force is squeezed dry building low-revenue products for the leftover niches. There's some great stuff coming from it, artistically speaking, but the business won't last as-is.

The future for Japanese animation will probably have to come from the American playbook - lower scale, more technology, and more diverse revenue streams.
Good article. Questioning everything that's 'known' is essential to coming up with new paradigms. And so far, computing certainly isn't an 'elegant' solution.

"doubling your signal-to-noise ratio demands quadrupling your energy consumption"

Interesting assertion. Makes sense intuitively; the more we dither about an unobvious/complex choice we're facing, the longer it takes to make it. I'm wondering how broadly that statement applies.
Oh, I have a rant. I have trouble hanging up on telemarketers who prey on entrepreneurs (VC associates, recruiters, biz dev, consulting firms). My problem was that hanging up violently put me in a violent mood. So I went as far as writing up scripts that were polite but moved toward hanging up within 10 seconds. Full rant/solution here:

http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2009/03/productivity-ha...

Why did you ask the question?
Can't deny it's a problem for you, but I add all that sort of stuff to my Google Calendar as it crops up. I have lots of things in my calendar years in advance. Works a treat.
Ok, I won't post it to Google Wave then ...
MS being multiple sclerosis. I went through thinking it was something to do with Microsoft.. so if you're reading here first, don't make that mistake :-)
As an aside, the article mentions how scientific paper citations exhibit a power law behaviour. Does anyone know where I might get my hands on some real world scientific
citation graph data without having to scrape it together myself?
Why are you looking for logic in an illogical act? Why are you expecting clear thought processes when someone is in the depths of some very muddy thinking?

I'm with RMS on this one. You claim you are "expressing your thoughts on suicide", but you really are only displaying your ignorance of how ill-equipped some people are at dealing with life - their fault or their parents - either way I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you live in a very walled off world.
You soften them up for the news by telling them "I worked like a dog to provide for you".
David, glad to see you launched, that's more than most people ever do. As a few of the other folks have said, this is a tough field and you definitely have your work cut out for you. And I bet a lot of naysayers would have said the same thing about Google doing search in 1999.

Your background and drive will go a long way. Keep moving forward and good luck.
I'm trying to think up some sort of quick project I could complete in a couple of months that would solve someone's problem :)

Also, it's kind of neat to hear how people would/have solve[d] these problems.
I suppose a Firefox plugin that would automatically hook up to your Google Calender would be perfect.
More radical still, the experimental surgery he performed on his wife offers hope that MS, which afflicts 2.5 million people worldwide, can be cured and even largely prevented.

Isn't that considered a breach of medical ethics, and generally just a bad idea?
"at least put your death to good use. Go buy some guns, go grab some ammo, then go on a killing spree"

This is what bothers me about your post. It's not the taboo of suicide, or your doubts that threats of suicide should be taken seriously. These are horrible sentiments, and I hope you don't mean a word of them.
Google translate: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&...
windsurfer, are you trying to find startup ideas? ;)
I disagree with vaksel but this is too much. Account deletion? Forcibly committed?

He has a right to his opinion and should have the right to say it. It's been forcefully condemned by the community, which is an adequate repudiation.

Funny how you identified his post as a "thing you can't say". I seem to remember reading an essay about that very topic somewhere.
Just trying to help out with a rant. As you said, there are lots of easy solutions to this.

But I find it hard to believe you track everything this way. Things like airline miles expire 2 years from the last time you flew. Do you update Google every time you fly? When you buy a toaster, do you note whether it has a 90-day full replacement or a 30-day parts warranty? We got an email from Google last month with coupons for free AdSense -- they expired in a couple of weeks or so. Amazon sends out sale notices all the time. Little stuff like that adds up over time. It's easy for me to catch the big stuff, but do you really catch all the little stuff on Google calendar as well?
The Millennium Problems
Visit a CSS showcase site such as cssremix.com and get in contact with some of the designers from there.
if your looking for a Web solution there is always dating sites ;)
First malicious iPhone worm slithers into wild
vaksel, you already admitted you don't understand why somebody would want to commit suicide. if you have to get all uppity about free speech and civil liberties on an internet forum right now (as if you are really saying anything novel), at least you could respect that you don't seem to have any knowledge of the topic. your post is accusatory and pointless at best.
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Just spent the last 2 hours reading through most of the 46 pages and skimming through the ones that didn't appear to have much "meat" on them regarding Prince of Persia.

I found the journal to be an incredibly revealing look into what game programmers, and arguably many other programmers, go through. Really makes me wish I had documented some of my earlier forays into programming just so that I could go back, read, and remember.

It's also sparked a bit of intrigue in me that I haven't felt in a while to revisit game development. I toyed around with Dark Basic and Blitz Basic back in 2001 and really haven't touched anything since.

As others have said, great find and I would love to read more from other programmers like this and like ones from Carmack recently posted on HN.
That recommendation is based on some published case reports of suicide clusters, a phenomenon that has been recorded at least as far back as the Western record. The concern is directed more at repetitive, sensationalist reporting (their words). By comparison, I would say most of the comments on this thread are novel, considered, and skeptical. The more juvenile comments are identified and the posters are duly penalized. Of all the forums on the internet, the dynamics of this forum are probably most disposed toward good thinking coming out of a thread on suicide.

[edit]: a different view on suicide contagion: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=lFklgI9qb...