skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope some of the more informed comments here can help you start the process of actively trying things to improve your life.

I do not believe I suffer from depression, but I was recently wondering whether I might perhaps have attention-deficit disorder. It led me down a similar line of questioning, and I realized that if I did have ADHD or something similar, there might be a lot of stigma surrounding that illness and the treatment. I think this stigma of mental illness is a huge problem in our country.

To get to your point, according to Andrew Solomon's INCREDIBLE book about depression The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression there are only two things that have been proven to help with depression: medication and exercise.

I would also suggest that you talk to a psychologist, I have found it incredibly helpful in my own life. They can also reflect very well on this type of question.

Finally, if you are interested particularly in this question towards developers the NodeUp podcast recently had an episode on developer mental health:

http://nodeup.com/eighty
In those countries where such luxuries are provided, the option of working for a (homegrown) tech giant isn't even available: http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/08/24/why-europe-hates-us-int...
Rational or Not: The Dan Ariely Case Study on Online Behaviour
I think it requires awareness about how deep the value of your product goes. E.g. I knew the creators of a very popular cable show (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy) and despite surprising overnight mainstream success they were remarkably clear-eyed about how long the phenomenon was likely to last and how to exploit it over that time period. Other shows in related genres like Top Chef or Project Runway were capable of a longer life because their premises inherently support a richer variety of stories. Both kinds of properties can be valuable.

Angry Birds is predicated on a great, clever irony: fuzzy, harmless-looking creatures with facial expressions and behavior of furious vengeance. But it doesn't seem like there's a lot of deeper/substantive places to go with that: a single emotional register is quite limiting for storytelling.

The odd thing is that Rovio's actions are a mix of rapid exploitation (all the brand-sapping tie-ins, not embedding the birds in a bigger 'universe') and enterprise building (huge headcount, freemium model).
My primary point still stands - the test isn't whether physical analogs exist, it is whether someone WOULD be lead to reach the same solution to the problem. I'm not sure I agree that someone, at the time, would have been lead to the same solution when the existing art revolved around physical mechanisms such as buttons and switches, and did not involve interaction with the screen which the mechanisms has previously been in place to prevent.
I used to use Aleph One's article as a kind of shibboleth when interviewing candidates for security researchers. I'd just casually say "Smashing the stack..." and see if they would fill in the rest of the title.

Not the best data point, but showed pretty quickly who had a self-taught (and usually practical) understanding of security vulnerabilities vs an academic understanding.
>What do you mean, indie devs don't recognize this?

I mean hiring hundreds of people because one game became popular is a bad decision. It happens a lot, and the result is almost always layoffs and eventual bankruptcy, when a conglomerate like EA takes the opportunity to snatch them up.

If indie devs want to keep plugging away for personal fulfillment regardless of the popularity, that's great, but don't drag 300+ people into it unless you're going to be serious about making a successful business, which, in games, means churning out a lot of formulaic content.
The U.S. is not the richest country in the world, at least not anymore.
> I was placed on a dubious performance improvement plan, or PIP, a signal at Amazon that your employment is at risk.

Ah, the PIP. Shorthand for "we're going to get rid of you because of office politics, but only after we humiliate you and make you feel like a horrible person".
Def. Jquery filled the gaps in the built-in JS/DOM/HTML query & manipulation interfaces. React is filling in the gaps of the JS/DOM/HTML component interface.
These only help you determine the state of the entire system. They provide no information about the impact individual applications or processes have especially not relative to each other.
I have a number of friends who play candy crush and before that I had number of friends who play farmville. If you ask them they will say they having fun playing those games.
It depends on whether the company's attitude is begrudging or not. If not, there are plenty of straightforward processes that can go in place.

- First is, where possible, you get the replacement in on a defined temporary cover contract, and do a proper handover of duties to them.

- Second, you offer the person on leave paid "Keep in Touch" days that allow the person to stay abreast of what's happening.

- Thirdly, when they return you have a formal hand-back session that brings the person up to speed and makes it clear to all their contacts that they have returned to their responsibilities and taken back over their old position.

I have seen this work correctly and smoothly multiple times, for both maternity and long-term sick leave. It doesn't involve pretending that they are still in post while they are out, but it involves the company being willing to pay more than lip service to supporting them during a period of long absence.
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It absolutely is. I have spent some time hacking on the Eclipse Lisp plugin in an effort to remediate this, but I simply don't have the motivation anymore to do it for free - the code is in Java (and the codebase is in disrepair), the Eclipse plugin system is fragile, and I'd not really use the output (I use Emacs... a lot). If someone came to me and said that they'd like to use the tool, or offered to compensate me somehow, I'd go on and make it better.
The key takeaway:

«It is my guess that there is a potential goldmine of problems we simply don’t know of because the people who are exposed to them aren’t connected with the people who have the opportunity and willingness to solve them. … Perhaps the real power of diversity in business isn’t hidden in gender but in age»
Look, if you're over 28, you should be in management by now.

What, you've got some other way of updating the DOM using the existing elements? Some other way of receiving data from the server and updating the page? Some other way of detecting bad form data? Pshaw.

You probably still use CSS.

EDIT: Because hivemind cannot into humor, this was all sarcasm.
I got excited and thought Canonical was finally getting close to making Unity a pleasant experience, but I guess this is cool too.
Thomas Frank took a stab at this question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_Matter_with_Kansa... Worth a read.

From my perspective, there's no one answer, but I've noticed a handful of things:

* Race - Most democratic socialist countries tend to have more homogeneous populations. The U.S. has sizable African-American and Latino-American minorities, often segregated into their own neighborhoods, and that often informs how the white majority votes -- i.e. things like welfare and prison reform are viewed as handouts to people not like themselves. You might say it's comparable to how perceptions of Greek laziness inform German attitudes towards debt cancellation.

* Geography - The U.S.'s political system grants a disproportionate power to sparsely populated states (e.g. a state like Wyoming has more electoral votes per person than California, and states like Iowa and New Hampshire have a large say in how the presidential primaries turn out). This matters with respect to policies that might be considered urban-centric -- e.g. public transportation.

* Militarism - The U.S. is the only country that regularly projects force halfway around the globe, and it's super expensive. Every dollar spent on bombs is a dollar not spent on healthcare. It's a good question as to why American voters constantly favor military might, but it's not necessarily an irrational choice. Or rather, you could argue that it wasn't an irrational choice during WW2 and the Cold War, but that the development of a military-industrial complex has had lasting effects on American politics.
I prefer /=
Building a video chat app with WebRTC
jepsen, quickcheck, interleave testers like concuerror; or, by implementing directly in a proof assistant/language like coq, as was recently done with raft.
Regardless of how the absence is handled, having the returning leader managing 1 person instead of the team they previously managed and then putting them on a performance improvement plan sounds a lot like constructive dismissal [0]. This is of course going off only one side of the story.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
No, savers are investors. And I agree that a low to zero interest rate is bad for savers.

Again, much of the money printed is just sitting on the balance sheets and haven't made it's way into the market.

You're saying that lenders who borrow from the Fed then lend to large organizations who do buybacks. Why does this hurt non-investors?
I thought this tweet from Twitch is pretty relevant and funny: https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/609429653271384065
Traversing the Seas
Are you familiar with the many abuseable exemptions in FOIA?
Some updates:

Smashing the Stack in 2010 (linux, windows) - http://www.mgraziano.info/docs/stsi2010.pdf

Smashing the Stack in Windows 8 - https://archive.org/details/SmashingW8Stack
Classic #slatepitch from Farhad Manjoo.
That's a ridiculous article. It conveniently avoids overall GDP, by which the US is the richest in the world.

In the first comparison they use GDP per capita, and in the second they use overall reserve currency? Then they use natural resources, but don't factor overall ability to exploit said resources. They're just picking metrics that don't favor the US.
I wrote it somewhat tongue in check from the employee's perspective. No one would refuse being offered more vacation. However, like you said people don't want to be forced to offer and/or pay for that vacation. The belief is if people really want the vacation, the free market will force employers to give that vacation and therefore any government requirement is either not needed or overly onerous. It is a simplification, but when combined with Cold War fallout of Capitalism v. Socialism (which is often just a softer term for Communism in this country) it explains most of the things described in the original post.
I don't think the problem with scaling is as much economic as it is a product of the number of disparate motivations at scale.

The more people you have, the more difficult it becomes to have any sort of general consensus.
Holy cow:

"After my surgery [for cancer], while I was still on
maternity leave, I received a form letter saying
that the health insurance provided by my employer
had been terminated. Dozens of panicked emails
and phone calls later, the whole thing was, I was
told, a glitch in the system. After a week of back
and forth, I was offered COBRA coverage, by which
point I had already switched to my husband’s
insurance, where I remained for the duration of my
care."

That's a pretty GIGANTIC "glitch," one that turned out hugely in Amazon's favor. Cheiffetz claims she accepts that it was an "administrative error," but you have to wonder. By getting her to switch to her husband's plan, Amazon may have saved themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In hindsight, yes, but the fact a solution is simple does not mean that it isn't inventive. There is the possibility of invention in the use of technology from one field in another unrelated field.
She probably would have won the lawsuit had she sued.
Nice! I've been seeing a lot about Erlang lately and have wanted to give it a go. This is perfect. Thanks for posting.
Right, because calling Mexican immigrants to the United States "criminals, drug dealers, rapists" is a completely reasonable position. I'm sure that many of the 100+ million people in the United States that are non-white would definitely agree with that.

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-epic-statement-...
Actually, you can look find cases of this already. Complete neighborhood-wide monitoring of every car down to the license plate, and every individual's basic outline are captured by surveillance planes.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/mysterious-planes-over...
This is long overdue. As is invalidation of the bounceback patent. Like so many of "designy" patents, there's quite a bit of prior art.

The whole "but on a computer" patent needs to go away. "Sliding a latch from one position to another to open but on a computer" should not be patentable.
I thought honorary degrees were just a ploy for universities to drive stoned wiki stumblers to their pages.
How the brain puts two words together and gets a whole different idea
> Had to match carefully speed and merge the car in a space I wouldn't have used for parking.

> needing to save those ...five minutes

So you wouldn't have parked there but you have no problem squeezing between two moving objects 10x your weight/inertia at highway speed? All so you can take an exit (that you were inexplicably in the left lane when you realized you needed it) rather than just take an extra five minutes and turn around at the next exit?

Hard to imagine why he blew his horn.
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You would almost have to copy how YC incubates startups - fund small teams to build prototypes, expand and profit on the hits. The individual teams take on the risk, while you are diversified enough to make money on the big picture.
There are some wild 404 pages outside of campaigns, too: Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/404) has a pretty nutty one.
> The problem with the U.S. and why universal health care potentially wouldn't work is in terms of scale.

I believe grecy commented on this quite well, but as someone from Canada, I hardly believe this to be true. Sure, you have 318M+ citizens, while Canada only has around 35M+ citizens. However, the United States is more wealthy than Canada, by a similar factor of ten:

US GDP 2014: 17.42 Trillion
Canada GDP 2014: 1.79 Trillion

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/country/Canada
[2] http://data.worldbank.org/country/United-States

To say it wouldn't work at scale is a gross exaggeration. I would argue that you shouldn't just assume that healthcare wouldn't work. If most of the money wasn't appropriated between Big Business (TM) and the Military Industrial Complex, I'm sure it would hardly be an issue to introduce Canadian-style healthcare at a country-wide scale.
I'm enjoying http://riotjs.com/ right now. It fits well in those situations where you need something light but want a bit of clarity as well.
Sacrificing user experience for increased revenue does seem to work in the short-term at least.
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'Angry Birds' Shows Every Tech Firm's Need to Pivot
You are asking me to defend a point that I disagree with, but as the argument goes, you pay for them regardless. Because these type of things are provided for the government, it means they are funded by tax dollars. I am therefore in a way participating in them because I have to pay for them.

If I don't want 4 weeks of vacation, why should I pay for everyone else to get 4 weeks of vacation?
They are currently very attractive. Once you implement a transaction tax on them though, they become less so.

When transaction volume begins shifting to an untaxed foreign exchange, the companies will begin the process of relisting to be on the foreign exchanges. The process (obviously) isn't easy or fast, but it's preferable to unallocated shares.

Beyond that though, as transaction volume dwindles, and it simply must do so, there are less transactions being taxed. The tax might work as advertised in the near term, but will fail through attrition in out years. Of course, by then, it will have been claimed a success and Bernie will likely be out of office, so it'll be blamed on the next guy.

And, of course, let's not forget the idea that for every $1.00 we increase college subsidies, colleges raise prices by $0.65.
a defined temporary cover contract

Thanks for this! Could you elaborate on how this works? It's rather new to me.
"The EU" doesn't have a socialized system - most (all?) of the countries in the EU do have distinct, different, and locally funded socialist programs, but "The EU" doesn't.
Do you sell to consumers? Do you sell an average of more than one order each day to different countries?

This is a problem for smaller companies selling to consumers in various European countries every day.

I know companies for which these rules are a big problem.
Same boat. Except if the audience seems like someone who might then refer to me as a Web Designer (and there are a lot of these people), I will probably then call myself a "computer programmer."
React is neither a hammer or a screwdriver. React is the toolbox. The problem here is that the article writer and you think that React is some kind of hammer.
Sounds like a great application of their Frugality principle.
http://www.amazon.jobs/principles
In the step 2. you write that you "Ask everyone to accept proposal i", but to satisfy the safety property of Paxos you can only accept proposals from round "i" if you were a participant of the round "i" in the step 1.
> However, the Prime Minister's Office said the document was a U.S. proposal that Israel had never accepted. "At no point did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agree to withdraw to 1967 lines, divide Jerusalem or recognize the Palestinian right of return. That was and remains his position," Netanyahu's office told Yedioth Ahronoth.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.645676
This article is already stale: a near majority of the network has voted for BIP100 in the last few days.

http://bitcoinist.net/block-size-debate-takes-turn-f2pool-re...
> But they do (indirectly, of course)!

Who do?

In all western democracies that I'm aware of, the central bankers are meant to be independent of politicians. Of course you can view this as a fiction, but all the players do seem to believe it and it's exceptionally rare for politicians to directly argue with, let alone override, central bankers.

> I don't think that the Bitcoin system has any such advantage. The only difference I see is that Bitcoin's leadership are not accountable (even nominally) to any collective social interests that go beyond technical concerns regarding the currency.

Of course they are. You don't see developers releasing forks of Bitcoin that try to bring about economic outcomes, because such a fork would be almost certainly ignored by the userbase. But that doesn't mean it's impossible, or that it'd never happen even if the users were collectively strongly in favour.

Besides, the two can't be easily divided. The block size debate is a bizarre witches brew of technical concerns, pseudo-technical concerns and social/economic concerns. The line between them is often blurry. So even a fork implementing a very minor technical change is causing massive uproar. Some people just really like the idea of a central planning committee of experts. Regardless, that's not a technical limitation of the protocol. In theory the fork can work.
No matter how skilled you are, no matter how much you're compensated, to be labor is to be the disposable, exploitable end of these modern relations of production. To management, to the owner (whether an individual or a corporation owned by institutions owned by faceless stakeholders) you are but labor-power.

Your body, your self, your individual knitted from human fabric is a liability. If they could chop your labor-power from your flesh, from your family, from your community, and expropriate it as their own, the owners would. The labor market is not a market for human beings, it is a market for working bodies. Bodies that don't work profitably are bad bodies.
The $30 price of a RaspberryPi is pretty disingenuous. You also need over $100 of accessories to actually use it as a desktop computer.
Angry Birds did not have a heroic epic to hang everything on. Here's its story: pigs steal eggs, then birds get angry and fight back. In the very short period of time that I was paying attention to it, I am not even aware of an effort to name the various birds, much less develop a backstory or personality for them.

Gaming, and particularly mobile gaming, is a hits-based industry. Angry Birds 2 is actually Angry Birds 15. They lasted 6 years, which in the mobile gaming world is a success probably comparable with one show lasting 12 years on television. It was a very good run.

Unfortunately, to achieve real staying power, you have to develop your franchise story, usually across multiple platforms. When people become bored with it, your franchise dies. You have to keep it fresh and at least recognizable in the popular culture for decades, in order to become a permanent fixture. Otherwise, you simply have to make do with the occasional nostalgic revivals.
Also no Kernel panic with 4.3.30 anymore. It was a bug in VirtualBox not Xhyve
Well there are people doing some of these things in React and fighting React just so they "did it in react." For instance there is some blog out there which is "the more complicated blog ever" and it's an isomorphic react application. Then there are the people who use React and the 'renderToStaticString'(or something) to make static sites using React.
This reminds me of the Target retreat from the Canadian market.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-busi...
But when we're talking about redistribution to individuals, GDP is a less good metric than GDP per capita.

I agree that it dances around GDP, but I disagree that it is somehow the trump metric that makes everything work. On balance, we have less cash per resident than do countries with higher per capita GDP.
I'm going to take the road less traveled and be critical. For a piece that is essentially about a (painful and harsh) health insurance screw-up, this article is shoehorning quite an agenda:

> I met some of the strongest, most brilliant women of my career there.

> I quickly noted, when it came to leadership positions, they were almost all men.

> the voices commenting on the New York Times piece so far have been predominantly male leaders of male-dominated teams.

> Women power your retail engine. They buy diapers. They buy books. They buy socks for their husbands on Prime.

> On behalf of all the people who want to speak up but can’t: Please, make Amazon a more hospitable place for women and parents.

> You can’t claim to be a data-driven company and not release more specific numbers on how many women and people of color apply, get hired and promoted, and stay on as employees.

Those types of statements can make sense in the right context but they seem out of place here, in this article. I wasn't able to make that connection that she seems to be able to make readily and without effort.
It's apparently entirely custom. There are some tech talks about it online.
The Eternal Ephemerality of Software