skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very much in this category of depression. I have what is unfortunately termed 'melancholic depression'. I should note that I'm very sceptical of the DSM 'disease model' of mental illness, and am glad to see psychiatry and neuroscience beginning to converge. 'Discrete disease' is a poor abstraction for most mental illnesses. A better term for my kind of depression would be 'endogenous depression' (i.e. depression that comes from within). I have an objectively good life: I have a family that loves me, friends that care about me, and a job that I enjoy with colleagues I respect.

Yet I still have episodes where I sometimes can't get out of bed, or can't bring myself to leave the house. A couple of months ago I spent three days just sitting (and occasionally sleeping) in a chair, not even getting up to eat or shower. I just simply couldn't do it.

While it's true that people can experience temporary depressive episodes due to 'exogenous' factors (e.g. the death of a loved one), it is very different to 'endogenous' depression, and requires different types of treatment. While talk therapy and time can be very helpful for people to work through difficult and temporary 'adverse circumstances', it is of little help for endogenous/biological depression.

No amount of 'talk therapy' can convince my pre-frontal cortex to operate within 'normal' parameters or to get my brain to produce appropriate quantities of neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine and noradrenaline. I'm reasonably sure this is a chronic illness that I will never be rid of (as I've learned from 15 years of failed treatment attempts). On the upside, there's a good chance that there is some treatment out there, coupled with sustained lifestyle changes, that will allow me to stave off the symptoms so that I can live a relatively 'normal' life. In some ways it's similar to how type 1 diabetics can survive and live normal lives with regular injections of insulin.
It took between 150 and 250 years for some areas to recover so the dependency ratio was only impacted for a relativly short part of that.

Foreign wars are a more common ways for the issues your taking about as they kill workers not children or the elderly. WWII failed to have the issues your talking about.

PS: We might be entering a time when economy's are more manpower limited than resource limited, but unemployment trends in the US don't support that assumption.
demodularization is not a problem when competition is overall increasing in the shipping industry.
Seems like a net positive to notice some attempt that likely has little/less/no malice, that may aid you in preparing to increase your security to be more prepared for when someone that actually has malice does the same thing.
Thanks for sharing Russell - would like to chat about what we're building at Affinio. You can check out http://discovery.affinio.com for a simple demo - it clusters your Twitter followers.
Most likely you are underpaid, especially if you haven't gotten a raise in a year or two. Companies rarely keep up with market rates. Do not expect to be rewarded for working hard.

In the old days, companies would give out raises without the employee asking. Now, it is just easier to get another job at market price. You'll get a nice raise and you'll level up on your skill set.

I've always had jobs I loved and looked forward to going to work so this isn't coming from a place of bitterness. It's just the way the world works.
Maybe the difference is that we all learned calculus in classes from experts, while the only way for most people to learn haskell is to pick it up themselves.
> You say "the lights, cameras, and network connections are already installed and paid for", but how many intersections are that way?

In the Seattle metro area, it's hard to find one on an arterial that doesn't have them. (This is just in the last handful of years.)
... and you are guaranteed to only get people with nothing else going on in their lives, such as their current job or degree program.
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Wow those comments! Also that guy named Jeff Needles actively hating on OH so hard was pretty funny. :D
Just had an Amazon owned van deliver some stuff the other day.
What is a simple explanation of the Paxos algorithm?
I think some of these posts might be inadvertently debating dualism, "the philosophical position that mental phenomena are non-physical." You're arguing whether depression is caused by emotions and thoughts vs biology (mind vs brain), when Neuroscience doesn't make a distinction. Emotions and thoughts are biology - serotonin and glutamate and neurons are not considered to be separate from behavior, they are how behavior is encoded. In Neuroscience, the mind is usually considered an emergent property of the brain.

It's like arguing that a bug is a problem with the UI, not the code...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)
You're not quite getting my point.

Sometimes the difference between being ok and standing on your own feet and being downtrodden boils down to knowledge. You're trying to move the goalposts on what 'poor' means, and you keep having to move them because the Internet makes life so much easier that you have to actually be pretty much homeless before it'll qualify for your definition of 'poor'. People like the lady in my story, when they don't have access to social contact and information, fall prey to psychopaths because they perceive they have no other options. The psychopaths take their money and their dignity and leave nothing left. Then sure, they'll fit your definition of poor.

You know what was nice when I was a kid and we were bouncing around from apartment to apartment because my mom kept losing jobs? My Nintendo. My mom won the money to buy it from a radio contest and managed to convince a coworker to sell one to her. It was the only thing I wanted for Christmas that year.

Children, at least the ones I grew up with, are awful, status-conscious, hateful things. They're much better now, but there was no love lost between me and my peers growing up. We bemoan the distractification of America, but I gotta tell you, I'm eminently grateful that I could escape those horrible little shits into a brightly colored world where practice and patience earned you reward after reward.

I had books, and read the ones I had plenty, but having that Nintendo was just the greatest thing in the world for me.

I've seen firsthand how technology curbs violent impulses, raises moods, defuses tense relationships. Distraction from your problems is a real, take-it-to-the-bank luxury when you have no control over your life.
I'm 100% not picking on you but, I started programming in Python around 2004. When Py3k came out, I had exactly zero of these gripes. Not once did I ever say, "I wish urlsplit were in urllib.parse instead of urllib", or anywhere else. I had no problems with iterables, the async stuff (honestly with the GIL, why does any of that matter), exceptions or imports. I recognize that some users of Python did, library/framework devs, etc. But Py3k is a huge, incompatible, and confusing change for 90% of Python devs, and the benefits are things they didn't, and still don't care about. It was honestly just a bad decision.
Aren't any problems with de-modularization opportunities for more modular companies to come along and do a better job? In the long run at least?
Fair enough. I'll settle for decreasing to non-zero for tomorrow :)
The USPS stuff was historically corporate welfare that let UPS and Fedex have a third party handle unprofitable delivery.

USPS is beefing up its parcel operations and is getting more competitive. Generally speaking, in my city the post office performs better for most ground scenarios, mostly because they are separating parcel delivery from the standard routes.
Characters aren't necessary words. In Chinese, a lot of phrases are expressed in groupings of 2 characters and 4 characters.

Especially in these 4 character groupings, you can find a lot of efficiency and elegance. It expresses ideas & meaning that would take 20-100 words to fully express.
That's sort of a different project. They are already building up infrastructure for local delivery via amazonfresh and their same day delivery services, but can also still use UPS or FedEx for to ship from their local terminal.
Organic molecules aren't life.
Actually one of my favorite examples of evolution in action are nylon eating bacteria, which evolved the capabilty to catalyze nylon for energy in a lake that was heavily contaminated by nylon production in the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria
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Motivations;

0) Why did you get your PhD in EE? What was your expectation?
you are dismissing an old and proven technology because you feel it is not marketing to you effectively, which is the backend to the global telecom system (ss7) for the past two decades? why is this a movement in computer science to throw out old things that work? this is confusing to me like nosql. but "good marketing" is something that is called cap'n proto, sounds like a joke?

if you are curious here is a good blog post https://ttsiodras.github.io/asn1.html

i am working with asn.1 the protocol MMS
Lol, I wouldn't call it out as pride. There might simply be no reason to change. Ideas have been expressed in the written language for thousands of years, and I believe that it's probably as efficient as English. Very different, but similar levels of efficiency. Would it be "pride" if Chinese people questioned why English was full of inconsistencies and why don't they just change those aspects of the language?

At the same time, English is a required subject in Chinese, and hopefully as that improves, people here will get the pros (and cons) of both systems.
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Wouldn't that be nice, though? I'd do it in a heartbeat.

One of the guys tried to arrange that where I work, and he ended up retiring.
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Japan is mostly mountans which is why 68.5% of the country is covered in forests. Where farms cover 50% of China and 12% of Japan.

Now China has more land at higher elevation and less rainfall on the western half, but elevation is only an issue at steep gradients or extreme elevations. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_the_People%27s...
Yes it is, because its relative placement in the thread serves as a sort of poll on whether it rings true to people's experiences.
Fuel costs have an incredibly low short (or even medium) term impact on overall costs. It is a major expense and absolute necessity for these companies to even operate, they are probably incredibly hedged. It would take years of low prices (with confidence that they will stay low) for it to have a large impact.
I did an AMA on Reddit a few months ago. I worked for a well-known Sillicon Valley company for about a year and made around $200K/year and that's with about 5 years of programming professionally under my belt.

Just wanted to give you a heads up. I went back to startup work and my salary got immediately cut down to $125K.
You weren't around for the release of Windows 95, I take it. The OS tried very hard to point out that you have to click the start button to, well, start doing things—but people usually just Didn't Get It anyway until someone guided them through the process.

Probably the best thing Microsoft could have done back then was make a little pseudo-video† walkthrough, showing people what's in the Start Menu and what happens when you click on a few of the items in there.

† What do you call a video stored as a sequence of automation triggers for software, rather than as pixels? Are you allowed to call it "machinima" if it's not a game?
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> the onset of change in force is instantaneous, and is felt as a jolt by passengers

An instantaneous change of force (and thus acceleration) create a jolt, I understand that. But taking the derivative again - 'the onset of change in force' - I don't see how that is felt as a jolt.
The paradox here is that the most effective UI would be one where you'd have minimal "signs" (text or otherwise) telling you what to do. The problem with this is that you'd have to _learn_ how to master it. What we have is a compromise. Something that tries to cater both to casual as well as power users.

I'm thinking about for example a swipe based touch interface. A lot of functions now are click here, then click there, when they could be done in a simple gesture. But the problem is that one would have to learn the gesture somehow in the first place. And people don't read manuals, even if there were any nowadays.
I find it interesting that the Google, Apple and especially Amazon have become very successful by going against the orthodoxy of the last few decades which was outsourcing everything that wasn't a core business because you can't possibly do it efficiently.

If these companies followed prevailing MBA business thinking, their products and services would be as mediocre as many other large but floundering fortune 500s.
I'm wondering if Apple will start doing the same.
If this gets python 3 support before google's official implementation I would be much more inclined to give it a shot, but it doesn't look like it's compatible yet either.
Looks like they're going for the full ecosystem of CF development tools too -- BOSH for deployment, Pivotal Tracker for managing work, Concourse for CI.

[Obligatory disclaimer that I work for Pivotal, the main donor of engineering effort to Cloud Foundry].
Cost is only part of the equation. For Amazon customer service is a primary driver. UPS and FedEx both have terrible customer service reputations. USPS isn't any better.

By setting up their own distribution networks they control the entire chain from first click to final delivery, and to Amazon that is equally important as cost.

It also allows them innovate in an area that is sorely lacking innovation, all under their control.

This is the lesson of the new economy. You have to control all contact points with the customer. If you don't, you are letting a third party "sell" your brand which never works in your interest.
> and you don't need any side-effects during its execution.

Have you seen any visualisations for pure functional programs? So they wouldn't have any state/side-effects but I can't imagine how you'd visualise those usefully unless you only used small concrete example inputs and showed the function being evaluated. It is very interesting how some types of algorithms can be visualised easily and others cannot.
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It's kind of hard to feel happy about something that:

- Takes very little time or energy
- Makes you no income
- Doesn't usually lead to friendships
- Doesn't require much intelligence, to be truthful

There's no self-actuation, no challenge, no engagement, and ultimately no reward.

It's just become routine, something I do to pass the time when not writing code for a client or when I need to unwind after a long day.

I'm aware that it's a contribution and it does matter to some people, but I'll never capture any of those $ of value anyway so it's hard to get worked up over it.

I think the most valuable thing I've done for open source in the past year was send the guy who runs dotdeb one of the items on his Amazon wish list as a thanks for making the release candidates for PHP 7 available on Debian Jessie.

In the grand scheme of things, the needle remains unmoved.
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Usability testing with eye tracking software. It's the only way to objectively show designers how crap their design ideas are. It's not even expensive to get this done anymore.
It was shit because it had to be, though.

Windows 3.1, for example. It had a very elegant Virtual Machine Manager with pre-emptive multitasking and true process isolation... and then GUI programs were all placed into a single cooperatively-multitasked event loop, because anything else would have killed performance. And the OS also had to continue to support IO device drivers written for DOS—that could disable interrupts system-wide and thus freeze the computer!—because otherwise your (horrible, un-QAed) scanner wouldn't work.

I fully believe that software hasn't gotten much better over the last 40 years. The hardware constraints have simply relaxed to the point that we're no longer forced to make as many Faustian bargains.
If I'm reading it correctly, a recent Microsoft study of Bing and Hotmail traffic showed 80% of users could be uniquely identified using passive, server-side fingerprinting of just client IP address and User-Agent header.

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/156901/ndss2012.pdf

"User-agent
strings combined with IP addresses have an entropy
of 20.29 bits—higher than that of browser plug-ins,
screen resolution, timezone, and system fonts combined."
TPB had a .com?
Finally a casualty of those emails that domain owners get where we are "required" to verify our information for ICANN.
"aws 51012 labels" brought this as the first result:

http://docs.whirlpool.eu/_doc/W10802912EN.pdf
Personally - as feedback - I don't have problems with it being a for profit company.
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It's lame that you guys couldn't come up with a more creative name. One that doesn't sound just like the guys you copied.
I appreciate this post because the author seems to have gone through a lot of the same things as me, though I'm an introvert.

When I was working from home, I had great productivity, though the biggest problem for me was not being able to stop working. Work began when I woke up and usually kept on going after my wife came home from her job. And those times when I was able to stop physically working, my mind kept going anyway.

Eventually I rented a desk from a local IT company which filled the social void left by working at home. It was also just nice to be around other people to bounce ideas off. It was especially nice because neither of our jobs overlapped, so you could have some nice honesty when receiving feedback as the people in the office had no skin in the game.

After that I decided to just rent my own office and rent out some desks to other people looking for a similar situation. This has been fun and given me a seemingly long-term place to call home in a great part of Santa Barbara. Even though it is quite a bit more expensive than a desk in a coworking place in town, I don't mind it because I have control over the environment and enjoy the consistency of that.

All that said, Industrious sounds like the type of coworking I would like.
Rack rent ( the sort you pay your landlord) is distinct from (Ricardian) land rents.

FTA:"The argument on rents is important because, if correct, it means that there is nothing intrinsic to capitalism that led to this rapid rise in inequality, as for example argued by Thomas Piketty."

I find Baker mostly moderate and nicely curmudgeonly.
I don't know if it is still true but there was a lot of data available during the 4 years I was there to watch this in "real time". Lots of data sources and a number of people interested in the question. You couldn't easily pull apart terms vs quits but at the end of the day it amounted to the same thing.
I would say - using Adam Smith - that that which is rent-seeking is not actually capitalism.
Maxmind (geocity lite), Maxmind (geoip2 demo lookup page from their site), ip2location, eurekAPI, DB-IP, ipinfo.io.
It just redirected to .se

https://web.archive.org/web/20150315015705/http://www.thepir...
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Adding text provides strain as you cant avoid reading text. It also produces huge clutter.

If you replace all the icons for text, you will feel the site looks from the 90's. Try it out on any major site with the browser.

Text label is not a silver bullet.
I haven't used the .com in ages. They have a bunch of domains, I think. .vg springs to mind
> To do quality work, a lot of manual adjustment is necessary.

But should that adjustment result in manual one-off changes, or should it result in a new tweak being taught to a system that can then apply it anywhere else that problem happens?

In other words, why can't we build fonts the way we build Text-to-Speech voices?
My definition is that you are constrained from providing the service unless you pay a third party as rent seeking. If an Uber driver could offer someone a ride and they could accept and pay for it without paying Uber a commission (who has a no participation in that transaction at all) then I would agree it isn't a rent, however they use the lock in of the payment service to extract a rent whether or not they provide the matching service.
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When comparing with scripting languages, I think it's fair to talk about how Haskell increases correctness, but I don't think you'll convince people coming from those languages it reduces a lot of boilerplate. (On the other hand, you can definitely sell Haskell as a boilerplate reducer to people coming from languages like Java, say.)
So, it's a major expense, but would require "years of low prices" to have an impact? Huh?

Fuel and "Purchased Transportation" (also indexed to fuel costs) are their two largest cost categories.

They pass hedging costs directly via fuel surcharges, which is unrelated to rate hikes.

"Both FedEx and UPS reported that fuel costs were down about 35% from the year earlier in their most recent quarter"
I'm not confused. I just don't agree that it makes me an asshole. I know it's differential behavior based on gender. That's why I thought it was interesting and on-topic to share.

For me, it's a safety issue. I'm pretty certain that I'm going to be able to handle 99.99% of encounters with roadside females (or elderly). I've gotten into an altercation with a roadside male I stopped to help in high school (who was likely high when he ran his car off the road).

I don't view it as particularly different from someone choosing to donate money or time to support the NAACP or NOW. Maybe donating to those organizations is racist and sexist, respectively? (Pedantically, it is, but I don't view those actions as negative or "asshole" either.)
Which "Chinese"? Your point seems to miss where the pride lays.

There is a lot infighting since the Communist in the 50s/60s decided to create simplified Chinese. Traditionalists would argue that simplified Chinese writing is not as elegant/pretty as traditional (I agree, although I have a bias as I grew up in a country that kept traditional Chinese) but the dominance of China has forced almost every other place in the world that writes in Chinese to use simplified. This includes Japan, which I believe a large majority of their signs are written in simplified version of kanji.

And this spills over into the U.S. where the Chinese who have lived here (which would consist mostly of Hong Kong and Taiwanese) are now fighting (or have fought) the recently immigrated Chinese from China over which system to use in U.S. schools.

So there is a lot of pride, but maybe not in the way you believe.
> character recognition is so incredibly trained in our heads that it should be our go to.

This is also a problem. You cant avoid reading text when its presented to you, so extra text makes the page cluttery, and hard to find the text you really want to read. It is very useful to replace an ever same-looking label for an recognizable icon (Like "Close", "Open", "Save" etc).
I don't think ASN.1 supports disjoint types, so that is a decent argument for capn proto's continued existence at least.