skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> such as talk therapy and lifestyle changes

The places where anti-depressants are applied vs talk therapy are applied are fairly different. The idea that there is a cohort of mustache-twirling doctors and pill pushers trying to shove pills down the throat of every person who'd be better suited to talk therapy is about as ridiculous as I made it sound.

For many people, talk therapy is simply not effective or possible. And in many situations there are social forces which MUST be taken into consideration because they can cause lead to more anxiety and depression.

> perhaps the bigger mistake was not going off SSRIs (at which point the die may have been more or less cast for you, in the short- to medium-term) -- but agreeing to go on them in the first place.

I get so angry reading this. Hot under the collar even. If you think that SSRIs don't help people then you simply don't understand what a true and chemical despair feels like. The difference they can make, both short term and long, is counted in human lives. Many people like me who used them to bridge a short term gap could barely comprehend days without despair, fear and pain.

To have some smug anti-medicine comment oh-so-politely walk up to someone who says, "Hey I treated my mental illness like a real illness and it worked" and respond with scorn an derision? You simply do not understand what real, clinical, and life-threatening depression is.

If you think you do, if you had a mild case that you talked through? Congratulations! I wish the disease on no one. But that doesn't give you license to skulk about making everyone else with a less treatable form of the illness question everything they've done to secure their right to experience happiness.
I deleted about that many today as well. Cleaner neater more readable code is better.
I'm sure people try doing this with Googlebot... serving different content to it than to real "users". I wonder if Google tries to detect this by spoofing its user agent sometimes.
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Good experience to learn from, thanks for sharing
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My favorite OS updates are the one with negative net install.

Keep trimming.
The main issue seems to be that Google Webmaster Tools isn't handling HTTPS yet.

Major shortcoming on Google's part, but why not add HTTP support to the new domain and see if that helps? (based on the article it didn't sound like it had been tried)
Adult's credit card, probably? I assume the FAA would like to tie drones owned by minors to responsible adults somehow. We haven't seen the form yet though, mind you.
> Anyone with basic SEO knowledge could have told you the pitfalls of transferring domains

nope. A lot more people have "basic" SEO knowledge than could execute a seamless TLD transition.
"I want to pay you as little as possible and still get you to come to work here." That's the truth.
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I find this really strange. The first thing dealerships do to cars is peal off them emblems, particularly if they are from another dealership. Pretty crappy overall, but at the end of the day he probably signed something that said he was selling it, "as is".
I have three problems with the original press release and what it entails.

1 = It comes across as the most epic humble brag of all time. The short form of the release is simply 'Look how great I am for making 10's of billions and how amazing I am for giving most of it to charity. Hell I will only leave a handful of billions for myself to live off.'

2 = He should not be trying to get credit for something he has not actually done yet. You cannot expect credit for giving 10's of billions to charity until you have actually given it to charity. Wait 20 years and then issue a press release showing how much you have actually given away.

3 = Maybe this is more of cultural issue but it is the height of uncouth behaviour to boast about your charity work. The first we hear about your charity work should be many years in the future when it is exposed that you have given billions to good causes. Deriving even the smallest credit for charity giving only diminishes the giving.
>>from the best I can tell there is no consensus on how well SSRIs work among experts.

No, this is totally wrong.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-yo...

tl;dr: SSRIs have a substantial and clinically significant positive effect on patients with severe depression. The positive effect only decreases in patients with moderate depression, and becomes indistinguishable in patients with mild depression.
Ask HN: Does your company use a tool for outbound open source contributions?
There is a lot of blog posts about ‘outbound open source’ contributions in small or big companies. Example: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/12/open-sourcing-projects-guide-getting-started/. Especially when starting a new open source project, many companies go through IP compliance checks and evaluate which license to apply (MIT vs Apache etc). Often times there is an approval process involved by the various parties (management, lawyers, process owners, etc).

Does your company have a tool for this process? If so which one? All I found so far was some companies leveraging Jira workflows.
I still believe that multi-part e-mail conversations can be cleaned up with a few "diffs" and presented in a chat-like view.
Well, I'd argue that the problem is not that companies make use of legal loopholes, which after all is perfectly legal, but that the system still hasn't been fixed to stop them from doing that.

It's not like I don't try to pay the least amount of taxes I can every year.
There was someone at Google whose total code delta over his tenure was something like -2M. Yep, two million lines of code deleted. May we all be that productive.
Angel investors are good for firm growth and follow up funding
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Hasn't Google evolved from the original backrub algo? More implicit links than anchor tags, with user personalized results. Wouldn't local browser history get clobbered? My browser autofills URLs; typing in "n" autocompletes with "http://news.ycombinator.com"

Or maybe it is the brand? PainScience is a rather negative in that it focuses on the problem, whereas SaveYourself focuses on the solution.
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I thought China was not going to cooperate with FATCA. Really surprised they would agree to report on bank holdings to the US gov.
Subsonic is nice, but I'm running it on a Raspberry Pi 2 and you really can feel how haevy Java is on a machine like that. It would be nice to have a lightweight server with the same API but no webfrontend and written in C or go or something for speed. Right now, when I want to start playing a song it sometimes takes up to a couple of seconds what should be instantanious in for example Clementine.
Here's a summary of Google's position on the subject: http://searchengineland.com/google-its-unnatural-to-even-ask...

It's not very clear what sort of asking is permitted, but I'm pretty sure that the sort of asking that Paul Ingraham is doing is not ok. He's specifically asking people to create links in a way that is unnatural.
I understand that in order to pair with Zigbee devices, you need the Zigbee Light Link master key which is only given to licensed manufacturers of ZLL-based products. I also understand that said key leaked a while back and is all over the internet.
We could also blame everyone's parents for having the poor foresight of birthing the people responsible.

/s (because there's always that person without a sense of humor)
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It can invoke arbitrary executables as well, which makes it exactly as interoperable as Bash.

Powershell can run on Linux, too. I've even met a few people who quietly prefer it.

So what, exactly, were you referring to? Shell choices are like editor choices: arbitrary and largely equivalent and without any real meaning or impact on a developer's productivity.
If bitcoin is ever to win in the p2p small transactions space, vs payment processing services moving around digital records of fiat currencies, then it will be because of any inherent advantages it has over those services - or at the root of it actually the advantages it has, at a low level, over moving around digital records of fiat currencies per-se, as most likely there would be just the same range of competing payment processing services built on top of bitcoin anyway.

It won't be because it gets marketing from the mainstream press. Perhaps it could help bring people into the ecosystem after a certain critical mass of users is reached, and using bitcoin regularly and getting real value out of it, but almost certainly it won't help before.

The appeal has to be intrinsic first and foremost, and the critical mass has to be built to and reached first before we start criticising mainstream media outlets for not mentioning it at every given opportunity. Why would they, when it's not yet (if it will ever be) something that's particularly relevant to most of their readership?

The internet was just the same in its very early days. Misunderstood and underestimated at best, actively mocked and trivialised at worst, by the mainstream media. But, clearly, it 'won' in an unimaginably massive sense of the word. Whether this pattern will repeat with bitcoin or not, is a matter of whether bitcoin can realise its lauded potential on paper in the real markets, but regardless I think we should expect there to be a similar pattern if it can. It won't be the opposite, marketed from the top down by the mainstream press and companies, I am pretty confident. But let's see how the next 5 years plays out.. it's going to be fascinating to find out what happens!
We have a term for someone who assures a counterparty that they're going to do something, knowing that the contract says they don't have to, and then fails to do it...
> I found the process frustrating, humbling, and strangely fun. I imagined I was on CSI—but instead of a person, it was my app dead on the floor, and I had to find out who killed it and how

What a great way to think about bug-fixing!
TL;DR: People who have their own mind made up so firmly that no evidence from actual reality can change their mind. And, as a consequence, total jerks who will tell a grieving father that his son never existed, that it was just a fake death from a government false flag operation.

Disgusting.
I think the challenge is that markets in Africa are quite fluid. The car's don't get sold directly to ISIS - they get sold to a broker, who then sells them to another dealer, and so on..
What's more likely is:

"Plumber's brand becomes associated with ISIS."

"Better not patronize that brand out of an abundance of caution to avoid people thinking YOU support ISIS."

There's no requirement that people think that the Plumber's truck ended up being used by ISIS through anything other than an accident. But people are often very cautious and fearful and won't go out of their way to stand on principle, especially if, to them, it's something minor like which plumber they use.
I agree with your "white hat thinking" that Zuck's initiative may turn out either way, but I'm not so sure about your take on "philanthrocapitalism". Call me naive, but I think that the recent trend among tech billionaires to do philanthropy may actually be genuine.

Look at it from Zuck's or Gates' perspective. They have pretty much all the money in the world, and they know there isn't much to spend it on. They've seen past the usual bullshit like boats and rolexes - they know how it's made, so it's nothing special. Zuck can't use that money to indulge in new toys, because he already has access to the cutting-edge toys and if he wants more, he literally has to fund their creation (which takes time).

OTOH, they all know and see that the world is in deep shit, and they have some power to directly affect it. Not turning to philanthropy in this situation would be something weird. I don't believe that those people are literally made of greedonium, like the common stereotype of rich persons would like to paint them.
I suspect it does, all the time, since it would get gamed frequently with fake filler content.
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I feel that they have missed that train. There are ubiquitous products (Venmo), and powerful competitors (Facebook Messenger Pay, or however they call it). If they want Apple Pay to gain traction, they need to make it more useful.

My personal wishlist item is being able to pay at a restaurant with my phone, without ever asking the waiter for the tab.

Right now this requires multiple legs:

1. Ask waiter for check (first trip)
2. they go print it out and come back with it (second trip)
3. I hand over my CC, and they take it to the register (third trip)
4. They return with my credit card, and now I can finally leave the restaurant.

This is annoying for everyone.
The waiter has to do multiple trips to just handle the transaction without providing any meaningful value (as opposed to recommendation entres, for example).
For me it's annoying because I want to leave, but I am essentially trapped until the whole dance completes.

A beefed up Apple Pay would be so cool for this scenario.
It's not clear to me what your definition of "lead generator" is. Do you think that lead generators cannot exercise any discernment in who they do business with? That seems awfully restrictive.
And he did it again at the end of this article.
I think we would want to redefine the term basic SEO knowledge here. When I say basic, I mean an SEO coordinator could tell you what's wrong. From reading the article, the user clearly doesn't have basic SEO knowledge.

Knowing what a 301 redirect hardly counts as basic SEO knowledge. Having access to your webmaster tools doesn't count as basic SEO knowledge. My view of basic may be flawed, as I do work in the industry, but I can say that running around complaining about how it's Google's fault and asking for "link donations" isn't going to get you your results.
A programming god I'd say
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."

— Ken Thompson

http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/
Is "liar" the term you had in mind?

"Oh teller of untruths, your trousers are combusting..." (Stolen from my kids, who stole it from online somewhere.)
To be honest, some of the bad things are really that dangerous, like jet engine damage. And while not as dangerous no one for example likes drones with cameras peeking into windows for a long time either and broken glass is even worse. Encouraging accountability like this is a good idea.
Don't be so literal about it. I used to get defensive about that question too, but the truth is they aren't asking you how much you are making, they are asking you to start the salary negotiation so they can get a feel for what it's going to take to hire you and describe you adequately to a hiring manager. It's just an opportunity for you both to ballpark the situation and eject early if there's going to be a wide disagreement about comp. It can be equally advantageous to both parties if you use it properly.
The full text of the proposed bill is here: http://seattle.legistar.com/ViewReport.ashx?M=R&N=Text&GID=3...

Each "driver coordinator" (e.g. Uber and Lyft) will have one union entity that is certified to enter negotiations with the driver coordinator — as chosen by the majority of drivers who choose to participate in the process.

As far as I can tell, the law doesn't require drivers to enter the union but it doesn't prohibit such an agreement:

> 1. Nothing in this Section 6.310.735 shall preclude a driver coordinator from making an
agreement with the EDR to require membership of for-hire drivers in the EDR’s entity/organization as a
condition of being hired, contracted with, or partnered with by the driver coordinator to provide for-hire
services to the public

The main thing the law does is prevent the driver coordinators from punishing specific individuals from participating in the process. This is a critical factor that is necessary for any real union to take off — otherwise Uber can simply fire anyone who expresses any desire to unionize and prevent the union entity from attaining any critical mass.

> A driver coordinator shall not retaliate against any for-hire driver for exercising the right to
participate in the representative process provided by this Section 6.310.735. It shall be a violation for a driver
coordinator or its agent, designee, employee, or any person or group of persons acting directly or indirectly in
the interest of the driver coordinator in relation to the for-hire driver to:

> 1. Interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, any right protected
under this Section 6.310.735; or

> 2. Take adverse action, including but not limited to threatening, harassing, penalizing, or in any
other manner discriminating or retaliating against a driver because the driver has exercised the rights protected
under this Section 6.310.735.
I deleted a couple thousand lines this week. It felt awesome. But you'd have to admit that rewarding based upon deleted lines of code could be even more dangerous than rewarding added lines of code.
Only because Apple requires HomeKit accessories to be MFi-certified, which requires a DRM chip. Can't add a chip via firmware update..
that is LOL bad reasoning: take a look at human history and see the lengthy list of atrocious things that have been legal at some point in time.
What docs? It's all in the standard
In some countries when you ask for the check, the waiter comes back with a card reader and you pay immediately (leave tip on the table if applicable, only "two trips"). Apple Pay or similar still make the experience shorter and more secure.
Yep. Me too. Thought it was a guest post. Got half way before saying "Wait..."
Thanks for saying this is more friendly terms that I did.

What's also interesting, is that the US is likely a large net 'exporter' of medical tourism. I currently work with hospitals that are rapidly developing large businesses in medical tourism, because for all our needless systemic problems, people trust that, if you have the cash, you can find a good doctor.
iPad 2's performance on iOS 9 makes me wish they had made something around iOS 5-6 into an LTS version for older devices.
If you only fly indoors you don't have to register BTW.
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I don't believe it's 100% on the dev to find all of the problems. Once you get a look at how the code works, you are less likely to find unhappy cases simply because you know in advance that doing X is stupid so you don't think of it. But of course a user wouldn't know that it's stupid or they are lazy or not as careful as they could be.

That's why you need a second person (ideally QA) to look at the result and test it. Cognitive bias 101.
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I'd rather the public decides which propaganda our young generation's minds get poisoned with rather than a billionaire with uncertain motivations.

How are the public's motivations exempt from uncertainty?

(This is a false dilemma, anyway. The educational prospects of the poor in public schools are already bad, regardless of any action undertaken by Zuckerberg. I also find your implication that private school investment somehow "crowds out" public schools to be highly dubious. The real solution is abandoning the traditional schooling model entirely.)
"Oh, him? That's Chuck. He just runs our commits through a minifier and takes credit for the lost lines. Means well, but he's kind of a jerk."
they also decide to disable normal features because fuck you.

android auto does not work on the z3 compacts at all because of their decision to remove the USB charge mode from the phones.
> I was offered the job but decided not to take it because that plus the technical interview made me wary.

Sounds like you made a great choice :)
It's also incredibly hard to stop taking antidepressants. A family member was on SSRIs for less than a year, and decided they weren't helping. In the process of trying to wean herself off them she went through long bouts of nausea and vomiting. She said it was like being seasick for 3 months.

Antidepressants can be a lifesaver, but they can also have some terrible side-effects. They should only be used as a last resort.
Models these days are generally built of durable and reparable foam, and the thrust/weight ratio is often over 1:1. Stalls are easy to avoid, and most beginning-level planes can be safely glided down without power (that is, just enough to power the servos without running the prop). If you're lucky, you should be able to repair your way through a few crashes.

That being said, my wife has flown a quadcopter with zero experience (but careful supervision of the owner). My impression is that a high quality multirotor will be easier to fly than a fixed-wing.
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My understanding is that the founding of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has no tax implications at all. The only way that tax would be avoided is if the foundation sells some Facebook stock and donates the proceeds to accredited non-profits in the same year. But the exact same deductions would apply if the Chan-Zuckerberg family donated directly.
I've got Phillips Hue bulbs, multiple zigbee GE bulbs that work (well until I update) with hue, multiple z wave switches, a nest. I've been able to control all of it using OpenHab running on a raspberry pi that us a z-stick zwave radio attached. OpenHab is hard to get running but immensely powerful. Especially with the Astro binding, you could for example determine when the sun is shining through a window and close the blinds for each window as direct sun starts shining through it. OpenHab 2 is in development and is supposed to be a lot more user friendly.
I worked in SEO and talked to a guy who manually checked a lot of websites for google. This was a few years ago, but he implied that there was a small army of people manually checking websites.
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They weren't cooperating until this year. Now they are in full cooperation. It has something to do with fox hunting and the US also agreeing to report Chinese national bank holdings to the Chinese gov.
> The 'charitable work' feels to me like it's primarily an exercise of power.

It might feel that way. What Gates Foundation does, or what Elon Musk does (not charity, but hitting the market with a stick until it gives up and moves where he wants it to), feels like an exercise of power. It feels undemocratic. It feels good.

There are problems in this world - some of the biggest and most important problems, like climate change, energy crisis, poverty or education, are of this type - for which both democratic governments and free markets fail spectacularly. Making things worse is usually more profitable than making them better, so that's what businesses do. And democracies spend endless amounts of time and resources on constantly talking and doing nothing. I'm very happy that there are people who can single-handedly do something about problems that lie on the other side of coordination trap.

And yes, I'm aware that this type of power can backfire and the next rich person may use it for evil. But when the alternative is to continue doing nothing (or making things worse), the risk can be worth it.