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A few excerpts form Saul's satirical dictionary, "The Doubter's Companion", http://www.amazon.com/The-Doubters-Companion-Dictionary-Aggr...

"CALM: A state of emotion which is overrated except in religious retreats.. The Captain of the Titanic was no doubt pleased that his male passengers in first class remained calm as they waited to drown. Had they been less controlled, they might have gained some small satisfaction in passing their time by throwing him overboard.

CROISSANT: Islamic symbol of paradise in the shape of a quarter moon. As an act of religious denigration during the Turkish invasion of Europe, Austrian bakers reduced the croissant to a breakfast bun.

DENIAL: Characteristic reflex of a technocrat. Since actions are the result of solutions arrived at by experts, there can be no error. Error is replaced by a linear succession of right answers. This requires the systematic denial of error when each preceding answer fails to do the job in spite of being right.

ECONOMICS: The romance of truth through measurement.

"FREE SPEECH ... is afflicted by two widely held, contradictory opinions. The first is that we have it; the second is that it is a luxury.

How can you have something which exists only as an existential act? ... freedom of speech is only maintained at sufficiently high levels through constant use. The exhausting effort which this requires involves a willingness to listen combined with a desire to be heard. Listening means taking into account, not simply hearing what people have to say. And being heard means being exposed to criticism, even ridicule.

.. A new method of limitation involves arguing that free speech, having been won in the absolute, can now be treated as a luxury. What people need above all, the argument runs, is prosperity. With the physical well-being and stability that brings, people have the time and energy to engage in free speech. It follows, sotto voce, that the more unsuccessful those in responsible positions are at running the economy of a country, the less the citizenry should use their free speech."
Dr. Kirsch's (a psychologist) work has been valuable, with some justified criticisms of antidepressant therapy and their trials. But his work did not show that antidepressants are clinically ineffective.

Dr. Kirsch's analysis showed that for mild depression treated with antidepressants, there is in fact an improvement in symptoms of depression based on rating scales like the Hamilton Depression Scale - but for mild depression, this improvement in the numbers doesn't necessarily translate into what you correctly identify as clinical significance. However, Dr. Kirsch's own "cutoff" for whether or not such a numerical increase constitutes "clinical significance" or not is itself just an arbitrary number that itself has been criticized.

Also, Kirsch's own metaanalyses (and other metaanalyses) show clearly that for moderate and severe depression (and other conditions), antidepressants are indeed clinically effective (in other words, yes, the benefits actually "mattered" from a patient's perspective), and, importantly, they are highly effective at preventing relapse.

They work, and work well.

In addition, there are a variety of reasons why many short-term clinical trials of antidepressants (which have made up the bulk of clinical trials of SSRIs, for example) are entirely different from the way physicians prescribe antidepressants (and other medications) clinically, and may underestimate their benefit even for cases of mild depression. The beneficial effects of antidepressants increase with longer exposure (i.e. exceeding the length of a six week clinical drug study), probably because of downstream neurotrophic factor(s) increases. Many trials of antidepressants limited dose adjustment or dose adjustment rate. Many clinical trials have excluded patients with severe symptoms or dual diagnoses because inclusion introduces a safety issue or may introduce too many variables. Also, physicians will switch patients to another antidepressant if there is no sign of early efficacy, and while one antidepressant may work very well (probably as a result of genetics), another will not work at all. Most studies focusing on one drug are not going to switch to another medication in the same class (for example, a serotonin reuptake inhibitor) during the trial, even though that's routinely done in clinical practice with good result.

Antidepressants work. Psychotherapy can also be helpful as a sole treatment for mild depression (although please note that psychotherapy has its own set of risks, costs, and drawbacks), and patients often get additional benefit by engaging in psychotherapy along with medication treatment. However, a psychologist or counselor treating a moderately to severely depressed person who fails to refer that patient for evaluation for treatment with an antidepressant would be risking a malpractice suit.
The small civilization living on top of the caldera drew energy from the supervolcano to power a defensive shield around the clock.

The irony is that this caused pressure to build under the caldera and an eruption to wipe out life on the surface.
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Naming is one area where Haskell's academic background is more curse than blessing. Numerous tutorials and blog posts would never have been written if only functor was named mappable and monad was named computation builder. They're named by analogy to category theory, but their usage in computer science is not at all similar.
Nobody is robbing Notch of his opportunity to heal. We as internet commentators can't do that. We're not really dehumanizing him, either-- just pointing out that his burden is light relative to most.

If you're having trouble carrying a light weight, sure, get help. It just seems pretty childish to complain to an open microphone about a something so petty. I have no doubt these emotions are very tough for Notch, and I see that I would probably have the same problems in his situation.

But seriously, this isn't the kind of thing you say to a wide audience without being completely out of touch. He should know better.
By sheer coincidence , I just finished a watching an Oscar nominated short film called MORE which exactly parallels Notch's situation.

It's saddening and quite moving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeeTfsm8bk

I think both Notch's feelings of isolation and ennui and the resentment of those around him are both valid. One doesn't preclude the other , in fact they feed into each other.
I mean a General classifieds, not just for gigs/jobs but for items, tech, algos, office space and anything else you can imagine the community would want to exchange or buy/sell.
Ask HN: Should I pull the plug on my side project?
Built holding page and mailing list. Posted to BetaList and received positive response. Collected 100s of emails. Some influential industry people mentioned it on social media.

Built an MVP. Posted about it on all of the industry sites (Hacker News, Product Hunt, etc.) and social media. Received very little response. Managed to convert single digit paying customers. Zero success from cold emailing.

Six months later and essentially no growth. Operating slightly below break even. Some very laborious but fairly successful marketing campaigns (100s to 1000s of daily visitors) did not result in the conversions I hoped for.

On one hand, it's possible the product is good and I suck at marketing and should continue learning and grinding. On the other hand, it's possible nobody wants the product and I should work on something else. Is it time to classify this project as a failure and move on?
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I was just looking at that $70 million mansion, and comparing it with my $25 hotel room in Thailand. The bathroom here is super modern, and the shower is amazing. Have just spent the last few hours rewatching The Office with my wife. Stuff like that doesn't depend on how much money you have. You can be lonely with billions of dollars, and you certainly have the right to complain about it.

I don't really know if I would be any happier with 17 bathrooms and a home cinema with seating for 30 people. Especially not if you're constantly second guessing your friends' motives when they come over to watch movies.

Yeah, I think I'd probably settle for a $4 million house in a great location. You know, nothing too fancy. Oh, and a jacuzzi way up high with a view of the mountains and the ocean.
> I was an SDE III, and I had some hard-to-find skills.

Mind highlighting what those "hard-to-find" skills were?
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Bitcoin is also huge to any industry that is having problems with trust and transparency related to recording asset ownership, settlement and clearance.

In the United States, the Depository Trust Clearing Corporation, which settles the vast majority of security transfers, could be completely replaced with technologies like Bitcoin.

The DTCC has always had issues with naked short selling and very few financiers will shed a tear when it is dead and gone.

Tracking ownership and settling transfers in an open and transparent manner is also something that is sorely lacking in the realm of copyright. The music industry has taken notice of Bitcoin's technology and publishers and authors alike are excited about the possibilities of using what works out to be an equal-access public datastore to track ownership and payments. The money has never been in running the regulated machinery of ASCAP, Harry Fox or SoundExchange, rather in investing, owning and capitalizing from the profits of authored works.

The same applies to Wall St. There's a rotten core at the center of modern finance and using decentralized consensus mechanisms like Bitcoin is in everyone's best interest. This is why so many established financial institutions are making such a fuss about this technology.
Thanks! I knew you had more than Matasano under your belt, but not how many.

I'm still doubtful if startups can generally work with "sensible hours". It's probably one of the big reasons why I never thought about joining one (besides that it's still unusual in Germany).
If people cannot replicate your methods the fault is yours, period. The claim that it is "too hard" is bullshit. Write better methods. Science is nothing without replication. There are plenty of people writing vague descriptions of their methods to protect their status. These people are shit scientists.
> The response I received was borderline insulting

i know identifying your representitive might identify you too much, but if you could make that name public (which could potentially cost you personally, so i suggest you think hard before you do) and publish your letter and responses, it might make others who sees this and feel the same way you do to vote differently.
Page reloading every 15'ish seconds for anyone else or just me? ._.
That doesn't make them not cherry picked. If there's two years of down-to-earth tweets, and then this, they're cherry picked.
Yeah, seriously. If your money is making you so unhappy, put some in a trust for your kids and donate the rest to worthy charities. There, problem solved.

I don't really have any sympathy.

Plus, his former staff who he sold out needs to reach out to him to apologize? "So fuck all of you. Fuck you so hard."

I lost a lot of respect for that man.
The problem can be that most mathematics maintain that mathematics can be done for its own sake (something which I 100% agree on). However interesting mathematics is, though, there will be plenty of students more interested in the applications to the real world (and there's nothing wrong with that) or they may even have to interest in the mathematics until they see some clever ways it can be used to solve or abstract a specific problem, at which point they take a greater interest in the math itself.

As anecdotal evidence, most math teachers I had in college were at best uninterested and at worst disdainful of applying the math to the real world beyond theorems in a blackboard. Most physics teachers, however, in introducing us to new concepts made an effort to show as soon as possible how the definitions we made were inspired by real world problems and in turn simplified or helped create new physics. This made it much easier to appreciate the pure math itself.
I think it can actually mean something. Often times you'll get folks who aren't used to the pace of startups. They think they're coming into a nice cushy gig. Startups are cut throat. Some folks just aren't cut out for that. They'd be better off going to work for Google or Apple.
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kdb+ answers same description.

And it's a 300KB executable with no dependencies (other than glib/MSVCRT).
The problem with your argument is that this is an administrative GUI that isn't even normally presented to end users unless you search for it or know how MMC snap-ins work. It is a power-user interface by all measure.

And while Microsoft does simplify UIs for end users, they don't typically do the same for administrative content (just look at anything in the Admin Tools, or MMC snap-ins, no sugar coating there).

Your argument about backwards compatibility is at best confusing. What does the data stores utilised have to do with UI representations of the same? I can name numerous examples where things changed behind the scenes and the UI was just updated to support it (e.g. Disk Manager now supports ESP, and exFat, same UI, ConHost now supports Powershell, same UI, Defrag now supports Trim for SSDs, same UI, etc).

> So yeah there are two or more places where certificates are stored. Typical users only care about the abstraction of web security so that's what Windows surfaces.

No, it doesn't. As the blogpost clearly shows it doesn't "surface" all root CAs usable by websites.

> Application developers should choose the new store for new applications. Existing applications can use the old method.

Huh? What do application developers have to do with this? I don't see the connection. This isn't talking about the custom root CAs you may install, it is talking about Microsoft's list of preinstalled ones.

> System administrators and security consultants should make themselves familiar with all the documentation and double their rates.

Please link to the documentation about this on Microsoft's site.

> Bloggers, however, are still free to write linkbait headlines using the Windows bashing meme.

Aside from the word "lying" (which is emotive), the title is largely accurate. Windows does mislead about installed trusted root CAs. And nothing you've said in this apologist answer has come close to addressing that, you're just dancing around it.
You can complain, just don't blame the money. Or if you do, get rid of it.
The Pacific plate is moving northwest, which is why the older islands are there... the hotspot stays in the same place, which is why the newer Big Island Hawai'i emerged southeast of the older islands. I think you had it right but just miswrote.
That's why the 'we' I was referring to doesn't include them.
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So... I get that for someone famous, but notch REALLY isn't famous. If I asked basically any member of my family who "notch" is, I would bet that the number of people who could tell me would be 0. If I even surveyed my "geek" friends, I would be the rate of return would be under 50%.

If he doesn't flaunt the cash, he could very easily find someone who likes "him for who he is". Hell, go rent a normal apartment, get a 9-5 job for a while, and "pretend" you aren't rich for a couple of months.
Argentina didn't recover by kicking the IMF out. Their growth over that time is almost identical to Chile and Brazil. It began at the exact same time all economies began expanding, including Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador as well. The expansion was a macro effect, not something Argentina did.

Worse, Argentina's GDP has hardly moved in 20 years on an inflation adjusted basis. Their debt is soaring faster than during the 2001-02 crisis. [1] Last year their economy had 40% to 60% inflation [2], and is in dire condition. I'd say Argentina is doing a fine job of bankrupting itself. I'm just wondering who they're going to blame this time. [3]

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-01/argentina-...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-07/argentina-...

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-17/-no-why-ar...
YouTube is ripe for disruption. They added annoying commercials so they could charge you to take them away again.

Nowadays, I use youtube-dl and kodi more than the actual site. It'd be a few night's work to create a pulsar provider for at least the most popular videos on the site, and ads could be completely avoided.
Video does not play on either Firefox of Chrome.

Can someone post a transcript or the gist of his message?
Story about the Black Team : http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html
If somebody out there has a reliable way to measure resource consumption in Windows (Mark Russinovich?), I'd be interested in a comparison between (say) a thousand word document in Word and the same document in Google Docs in Chrome.

I think you could probably add "resource hungry" to your description of GDocs....
So, matrices are a convenient way to write down linear transformations. But then the student might ask, why study linear transformations at all? Just because they have nice properties? Why this particular set of nice properties, and not some other set? As a rule of thumb, a good math explanation shouldn't start with axioms and claim that they are "nice". First give some intuitive examples, and only then say which axioms they satisfy.

For linear transformations, one possible avenue is start with the notion of derivative. If we take a real-valued function, its derivative at a particular point is just a single number, which represents the function's rate of change. But what if we have a function that accepts, say, two real numbers and outputs three? It turns out that the natural generalization of "derivative" to such functions is a rectangular array of numbers:

dy1/dx1 dy1/dx2
dy2/dx1 dy2/dx2
dy3/dx1 dy3/dx2

If we know these numbers (and nothing else), we can linearly approximate the values of a function near a particular point, with at most quadratic error.

Now let's say we have two functions. The first one takes two numbers and outputs three, and the second one takes three numbers and outputs four. If we compose them together, can we find the derivative of the composite from the two simpler derivatives by some kind of chain rule, like the one we have for ordinary real-valued functions? It turns out that yes, we can, if we replace the product of two numbers with the product of two matrices (defined in a particular way).

Now it's easy to explain what linear transformations are. They are just multidimensional functions whose derivative (matrix) is the same at every point. They are just like one-dimensional linear functions, whose derivative (number) is the same at every point. (For convenience, people also say that every linear transformation must take the point (0,0,...) to the point (0,0,...), so that matrices correspond one-to-one to linear transformations and vice versa.)

If you want to work with linear transformations effortlessly, there's a lot more intuition to develop, but this should serve for the basics.
Doesn't Android itself support x86? There are phones [1] and tablets [2] base on Intel chips, after all, and they run Android.

[1] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/smartphones/smartphon...

[2] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/tablets/shop-tablets....
Money is just a force multiplier, I am not sure why there should be a "darker side of life" after a big exit, as long as you realize that one is happiest when working, having lots of money will enable one to work as much as they want on what they find important without having to have a job.

With a large amount of money one can focus fully on what one really wants to achieve in life, you can "buy time" by hiring others to work with you, you can "buy life" by setting yourself up in a very low stress environment with quality food and help with your physical needs.

It doesn't take much to figure out that a life spent partying is empty and unfulfilling, the difference between not having a lot of money and having it is that after figuring this out in one case one has to go back to their job, while in the other one can step back and work on something meaningful (to them) without concerning themselves about how to make rent or buy food while they do so.

Maybe though having a big exit / lots of money is easier if one is tendentially an introvert, for me when I read things like "how do I know if all these people around me want to be friends with me or my money" the first thing I think of is "why would I want a lot of people around me, it would just take time away from working towards my goals"

Also unless somebody is a Hollywood star it should be feasible to be anonymous enough to meet people and get to know them without them realizing you are worth gobs of money, just get a modest house somewhere not under your own name and volunteer at some local charities for a while, which is a lot more fulfilling than the party circuit anyways.

This said good luck to Notch and others in his situation in figuring things out, the more people we have working towards making the world a better place, the better it is for everybody.
2.4 Ghz was chosen because it has interference from microwaves:

http://www.wired.com/2010/09/wireless-explainer/

The "imaginary problem" (I don't know how imaginary it is) is people modifying software so that their devices interfere with other, licensed frequencies.

Personally, I don't think there are many people that will buy an SDR and amplify the signal outside of legal ranges. I also think that any people that will do that are also capable and willing to that without the convenience of SDR.

I can imagine this theoretically being a problem with wifi routers: "Download this custom build of OpenWRT and this custom wifi driver, and you can get wifi without interference from your neighbors".
People that understand what certmgr.msc does (or should do) would immediately realize that it's not telling the full story.
The best we have is kodi and youtube-dl. If you want to slay giants, those are some good tools to start with.
and as someone who may not have their money problem solved, it makes it difficult to discuss the possibility that feelings of this nature a real problem. It's similar to the privilege problem that man faces - no man can really understand their privilege and the position a women is in when she is discriminated, because men don't face that problem and never has.
Sealed references and transitive immutability are interesting, but they aren't nearly enough to allow most programs to be expressed without GC. You really need (a) the ability to store references in structures; (b) the ability to have multiple lifetimes per function; (c) propagation of immutability through heap objects and unique loan paths.
Exactly. Obviously MS didn't pay 2.5bil for a messy Java codebase. They paid for the brand, the IP, and the fanbase.
> If you were to replace your body, your brain would necessarily be the same age

You could replace small parts of the brain with new parts piece by piece over time and maintain a continuous consciousness so a sense of self is kept. Whether it'd be really _you_ at the end of full replacement is up for debate.
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I've played with the transmitter power in my Wi-Fi router to get better coverage in a distant room. Thank goodnes for open source.
Also probably the lack of a significant other or close friends to share your experiences with. I knew that feeling, and it doesn't matter how much money or purpose you have.