skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no consensus on what the root causes of major depression are; there are probably many causes. Dopamine can definitely affect happiness, but giving a chronically depressed patient L-DOPA once per day generally won't treat their depression for very long.

On that same note, people with ADHD are often missing dopamine in many parts of the brain, but ADHD isn't necessarily correlated strongly with depression. And quick dopamine-releasing drugs like amphetamine (Adderall/Dexedrine/Vyvanse), or dopamine reuptake inhibitors like methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta), tend not to be great treatments for depression, either. They can be a short term treatment by giving you a euphoric high the first few times you take them, or if you take big doses, but that's not a good long term treatment strategy.
Is it uncommon in other countries? It's definitely very popular for Americans under the age of 30 to experiment with many kinds of drugs.
Just tried emailing you at the address listed on your site and got an undeliverable. Definitely interested in helping contribute.
To add to that, China's simplification process happened during the 50s and 60s, back when China was deeply impoverished, had massive famines thanks to the Great Leap Forward[0], and had basically zero international influence (didn't even have a UN seat). They weren't in a position to influence Japan in any way. Not to mention that Japan was in the opposite camp during the Cold War.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
It appears that the DNC violated rules by cutting off access in violation of the contract (until the Sanders campaign sued on that point, at which point a resolution was almost immediately reached.)
Ketamine has a lot of mechanisms of action, but one of its big ones is that it's a major NMDA receptor antagonist. This prevents glutamate from affecting cells very well. A major decrease in glutamic activity may reduce depression, but it can effectively drop your IQ by quite a lot. People generally report feeling "very stupid" and "brain foggy" after taking strong NMDA antagonists.

I don't know if ketamine has high risk of causing general intelligence reduction in the long term, but there are reports of that from people who abuse the drug in recreational doses for a long period of time. So, it's definitely something to be wary about.
I wish alcohol were seen as a depressant too...
At leas in the country where I live it's all about trust. People have it in their mind that it's more trustworthy to buy from a realtor, and that the realtor is in some way liable for possible problems with the property.

None of this is true in practice however, a realtor has just about no liability in any direction.

It's just a habit for people to use and "trust" realtors, it seems weird for some people if the owner is selling the property himself. That he is possibly witholding information, lying and trying to "gouge" the buyers somehow because he has a "mental bond" with the property.

It's ridiculously easy to sell your appartment or property here, it's all about the image. And you may actually even get a better price using a realtor. So who's winning? The buyer, seller, or realtor? Or is everybody "profiting"? :)

So I don't see this as a technical issue to "disrupt". But if some of these apps would become popular and "accepted", then the trust issues with selling your property yourself would go away (I don't know what the point is of having dozens of "uber" like agents running things though, like explained in the article.). Buying an appartment or house is not about maximizing to the last dollar, but about getting a fair and trustworthy deal with as few problems as possible with the property after the deal is done.
> ...fear that my program isn't abstracted far enough...

This. I feel exactly the same. I read various concepts like Free Monads, I go find papers and read them. But when I sit down to write code, my code is a blob doing IO. I can use State monads, StateT etc. But the result is not the elegant programs that I see on books and blog posts.

I am also very pragmatic. I want to build tools that implement an idea I have. I want to build as soon as possible to try these ideas out. But when programming in Haskell, I find myself code golfing and lost in the means rather than the ends.
Good point. Isn't this a problem with the hash functions exclusively? Can't you avoid this by picking the two hashing functions at random every time you rehash?

(I acknowledge that my original comment was misplaced given the off-/on-line difference).
> I read too quickly and could have sworn there was another stroke there originally

Funny how the meaning ended up basically the same either way.

I'm reminded of a situation where I made a similar mistake (misread one character for another) but the meaning ended up the opposite: There was a hotel room listing that noted 设有电视 ("equipped with TV"). At the time simplified hanzi were still a bit new to me, so I misread ⻈ as ⺡ and thus in my mind it became 没有电视 ("has no TV").

I thought this was an odd thing to advertise, but that maybe it was simply a cultural difference.
Probably by going to the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay.
Micromanagement is exhausting.. Once you learn to let go just enough to be able to supervise and step in only when you need to, work becomes more fun.
A company plants a Christmas tree for every pageview they get
Nice to hear! I've been thinking vaguely about it for a while as a way to explain monads in a wider perspective. Now that someone other than myself seems to find it clarifying, I'll try to work it into a short text to put up.
BrowseU – Pay down your students loan
> More than 50 people have been in solitary confinement for longer than five years. At the same time, the average length of stay in isolation has gone down, to 190 days as of December from 225 days last year.

For me, this is a gut-wrenching statistic. Solitary confinement is a horrendously brutal form of punishment and if used at all, I believe it must be used very sparingly.

>The agreement establishes a maximum sentence of three months for most disciplinary violations, except assaults, and 30 days for almost any prisoner who has committed a nonviolent infraction for the first time. Isolation will no longer be imposed for first-time violations for drug use or possession, which in the past accounted for as much as one-fifth of the solitary population.

>The number of infractions punishable by solitary confinement will be cut in half, and violations that once gave corrections officers wide discretion to impose long sentences, such as “disobeying orders,” will now have a maximum of 30 days.

These are significant improvements and those responsible should feel very proud.
What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial?
Good find.

Since it is not a Web App and hence not publicly available to exploit:

Use of String.Format instead Parameterized queries is how Sql injection issues sneak in. (Line 63, https://github.com/katway/DrugSupervision/blob/GuiDesign/Dru...)
Let's get this sorted out quickly, write them a nice but insistent feedback here (sales usually drop after very bad PR moves):

highfive@eurodns.com
"Streaming is available in Safari, and through the WWDC app."

It's 2015! I didn't think 'Best Viewed with Internet Explorer' was a thing anymore.
As she's a she, check out Hackbright Academy. Disclaimer: I used to teach there.
This is what Knuth's METAFONT does. It was used to create the Computer Modern typeface. However, overall the results are not very pleasing IMHO.
>But nothing stops JS from loading a bunch of encrypted strings, self-modifying at runtime, using eval+substring (at various offsets) on loaded and renamed functions to make it hard to know if there are calls to other functions, let alone what they are.

There is a solution to that. Control the platforms. You have like what, 4? major vendors of browsers. Convince them to make eval disabled by default and you warp the entire usable market. The percentage of people who would bother to go hunting the setting to turn it on would be minuscule.

Use the power of the default to affect the whole space.
Client side encryption with backblaze as storage back end
Cut the Rope 2 gets more in-app spenders by using Gondola’s dynamic pricing
Great job.

High time you add pagination on the landing page now. :)
I'm looking at Juniper's news page [1] and its Twitter feed [2]...it doesn't give me a lot of confidence that this security breach or even its (apparently inadequate) patch doesn't even a news item or a Tweet.

[1] http://newsroom.juniper.net/

[2] https://twitter.com/JuniperNetworks/with_replies
The predilection for cash is more cultural than technological I think - they've had NFC payments w Suica cards for decades.

I don't think their PCs are particularly backwards either - they have some ultrabooks that never make their way to the US that are pretty sexy. Component pricing is a bit more expensive than the US (about 30% even with Yen devaluation) but you can say the same for just about anywhere in the world (heck, I'm in TW right now and even the best pricing is at parity w US pricing, on average it's 20% more even though half the brands are HQ'd here).

For a time last year due to the Yen devaluation, prices for Apple products was ~15% cheaper than stateside.
Wow, so many people talking about how DDG is lacking good search results.

Here's my personal experience.
I've tried using DDG 2 years ago, and it sucked. In my language (italian) results were poor, and also for general searches.

6 Months ago I gave it a try again, and I've been pleased enough to use it both at work, at home and on my smartphone.

The results are not always perfect, but I find myself using !g bang mainly when I feel there's something missing (which doesn't happen that much) or when I need to find a very selective piece of information.

I also loved the integration with stack overflow. Works nicely, it doesn't always "answer" your question, but just yesterday it did and the moment was like "wow, it's getting interesting".

So, while I admit that DDG may not be ready for prime time yet, I guess there's a chance that many of us (developers, etc) might start liking it and using it constantly.

While it would be naive to say "I wouldn't go back to google", I'm now an happy user of DDG, and I wasn't expecting it to begin with (In fact I was very skeptical).
Start-up business plan essentials: Sizing up the relevant market
Arresting people without them having committed a crime is generally considered a Bad Thing.
There should be a law that warnings should be present.
Confirmation of existing discoveries perhaps?
The big story here is not that Juniper is weak but rather that these types of attacks are succeeding. If Juniper has fallen, god knows what else is vulnerable.
It's heartening to see significant progress on this issue. I thank those who pushed to get these reforms through.
I have two modes of thinking when I use a computer program: text mode and graphics mode. I am in text mode while I am reading or writing. I find icons confusing as I have to change from text mode to graphics mode to figure out what the icon means.

The only time I prefer icons is when I am already in graphics mode while using graphics software.
Facebook offers employees $10K to buy or rent home within 10 miles of HQ
boom! that does it, thanks. (well actually what i reallly want is in between -- just each file name as it compiled, in a pretty list that gives me something to look at while waiting for the compile. but this is 𝞊 away.)
Fascinating article – and they did a great job with the Optima-inspired typeface. I'm not usually a fan of Optima, but as a Chinese font, it looks really fresh amidst the more boring traditional fonts.
Internet Firms Urged to Limit Work of Anwar Al-Awlaki
Pulling a Kiko (YC S05)
Switch between iTunes Libraries with Ease
Contrary to the article's claims, I click and visit the clickbaiters less and less. "Annoying but it works"... I disagree. For editorial content to work, it should appeal to long term readers.

Also, "psychology of clicbbait" isn't a clickait headline as they seem to suggest. Edit.. I see now they were referring to their own rather different headline, which I wouldn't have clicked on at all.
Hi!

A buddy and I tried to build a messaging app over the summer. We've decided to work on other things, and don't know what to do with the IP (who gets to keep what, can we use it in the future for other projects, etc.) and we'd like to make some money off of it too :). If you or anyone you know would be interested, please send us an e-mail at admin@nimbusapp.co (or just bid).

Video: http://nimbusmessenger.com (UI is old here, see the ebay pictures for updated UI).

The features are listed in the ebay description, but I'll re-paste them here:

Feature 1: Pasting a YouTube link delivers a inline YouTube player. YouTube playlists supported

Feature 2: Pasting a Spotify link results in a fully functional music player, with scrubbing fast forward, rewind, and play/pause enabled. Playlists and albums are supported. You can skip between songs in a playlist or album.

Feature 3: Pasting a SoundCloud link results in a SoundCloud card, playable, favoritable, and shareable from inside the message stream.

Feature 4: Pasting a twitter link results in a twitter card embedded inside the message stream. Favoriting and retweeting supported.

Feature 5: Pasting an address results in a map card. Clicking Start Navigation will automatically start driving directions on Google Maps. If Google Maps is not installed it will fall back toApple Maps.

Feature 6: Pasting a URL to a page that has a video embedded inside of it will result in a card that looks like this. The video will be playable from directly inside the message stream.

Feature 7: Nimbus allows you to filter your messages based on messages that are links, photos, or have been starred by you (all messages can be starred, by clicking on the start to the left of them).

Feature 8: Easily add a song you received from a friend to an existing Spotify playlist or your Songs.

Feature 9: Shows successfully adding a Spotify song to Songs.

Feature 10: Nimbus allows users to comment about a specific piece of content (link, photo, video, tweet) and keeps that discussion together in one place for future reference and organization.

Feature 11: Shows Apple Maps navigated to from Nimbus Messenger (see top left where it says "Back to Nimbus").
Was discussed yesterday on this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754917 which points to the proactive announcement Juniper made
But you can take the OS and write your own driver for your own hardware. Also, you can take the OS as-is, run it on a VM, and examine the packets coming out for signs of any telemetry or any such nefariousness. I think it is a big step ahead of any other switch/router OS.
Don't Bother to Sign In: Job Site Knows You Before You Apply
San Jose, CA: On New Years day 2016, HireTeamMate, a virtual job recruiter, will release their new platform that has your profile in their data hub. Applicants type in their name and are shown jobs that match their experience and the customized profile company posters are looking for.

Of the company's new design, Steven Jiang, HireTeamMate's CEO, says “It's like your proactive, private career agent. We already know you and the market. You get to choose the company and position.” Jiang's goal is to simplify the job search and recruitment process with data analytics, personalization, and AI.

Other changes in the new release include a Startup Hub, which supports the Startup community with a product discovery blog and reviews of each Startup's teams. As a Startup themselves, HireTeamMate understands the value of affordable and accessible hiring.

In the 6 months since the product first launched, 72,000 applicants have joined and have had on-site interviews at a rate of about 1 a day. The new vision is to increase the relevance of the jobs applicants apply for to ensure a quick, successful hire. Currently, the job site has had almost 13,000 resumes reviewed by hiring companies and their teams. 86% of applicants who get on-site interviews are then hired by the company.
USDCHF+Looks+For+More+Strength+On+Recovery
"ex org" and "ex face" for me
Because laws are administered by humans, who are not blind to intent.

Laws are not software. They are not run like software. This is one of the reasons why.
Romaji is not in use for the most part in Japanese. Romaji would of course be much longer but I was talking about a sentence written out in only kana vs a sentence written out normally with a mixture of kanji and kana.
The strange non-transitivity of random variables (2014)
Self-Compassion Guided Meditations and Exercises by Dr. Kristin Neff
Tech Interview Pointers
Well the intent is people to share files. Not to commit copyright infringement.
There's also http://advisory.juniper.net/ with further details on each security notice.
apologies for being offtopic

No need to apologize, I just wasn't sure if it was deliberate or if you had clicked through and forgotten where you were on the stack.
It's sad but events like this one make me turn away from Internet.

I started using Signal because I don't want people seeing the messages I post. But in the end it's only trust that makes me think Signal is safe to use.

A lot of people also trusted Juniper. But that trust is gone. And not only for Juniper. What about other brands? We don't know.
The reason "bug" is used is because the first computers were programmed through hard wiring and mechanical switches, and they were actually insects that were present. This is from Grace Hopper in 1947:

http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/September/9/

Convention has stuck which is why we have software debuggers, and the word bug in computer science has come to mean any unintended result, not just the presence of insect wildlife.

(I myself debugged a floppy drive in '87 which had an earwig stuck behind the read head backstop resulting in the read head being misaligned to the sectors)
The *'d out name matches my name. There's a chance I wrote this as a very trolly teen. I wish I could see the full name.
Knockin' on New Physics Door
Contempt culture or why you should stop bashing other languages
This Picture Is the Best Thing from the World Internet Conference
You can. Good luck getting anyone else to use it though.
Bitcoin in Iran
You're still secure if you use https. If neither your computer nor the host you're connecting to has been tampered with, then you're safe irrespective of what's happening between.
Lebanon One Step Closer on Becoming a Regional Hub
I think they are migrating to a new blog system. You will see that the latest post you can read using the old URLs are about a week ago.
The emphasis on lack of follow-up on thing-of-the-hour inclines me to say that the real problem being highlighted is not so much micromanagement as drive-by/ADHD chipmunk management...
(Disclosure: I worked at Pivotal for a bit, as well as a consultancy supplying services to Her Maj's Government)

Yeah, and that's a good call in my book. Concourse + Bosh makes open source CF manageable. I've heard stories of people trying to deploy OS CF without Bosh, and it ending in a world of pain.

I wish Bosh had a better user experience - in fact, I gave a talk alluding to that at CF Summit Berlin. It's got some great qualities missing in other tools, but I dare say most of the folks reading this will never had heard of it. Declarative, convergent, effectively immutable infrastructure-as-code across all the major IaaS providers.

Great to see UK Government IT modernising. Can't wait for HMRC to catch up!
This happens a lot when the managers are not technical, because they have some sort of anxiety of not understanding what the team is doing. That anxiety feeds their power hunger over team, and that ultimately leads to paranoia. Micromanagement ensues.
Thanks for linking that!
Invocation of Orwell... check.
Piss Christ... check.
US-centrism... check.
"Western culture"... check.

Well that's a pretty standard Decline of Civilization article there. Well done!

There are issues with modern art and sophomorism, yes; essentially, the big problem with art is artists, and the way they learn to spew bullshit about their production.

There are also big problems with architecture, which is really a τέχνη, and not really an art in the fine arts sense; big architecture spends a lot of time on arty one-upmanship and not enough on the practical matters that make a building work and last.
Well, what if the host you're connecting to is a Juniper firewall?
Agreed! I've been using this quite heavily with the beta and am really impressed with the syntax (clean and simple) and implementation (atomic!). Certainly better than the equivalent in Oracle, to my eyes at least.
Isn't most of Japan's debt owned domestically? Making local companies and retired people go bust by defaulting on debt they own doesn't sound like a good way out.
"High art" is a ver 19th century concept.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=high+art&year_...
I hope they end up planting millions of christmas trees.
It's progress, but even 30 days of solitary confinement is pretty brutal, especially for pretty minor things like disobeying orders.
> ...the making of art was far too serious to be left to sentimental clients who might mistakenly desire a narrative painting with a clear moral message, or a facsimile of a villa they had admired in Tuscany.

> “We are making it out of ourselves” is a fair summary of the revolution in patronage the modern movement had brought about, in which the artist himself had now been transformed into his own patron.

So at some point, artists stopped working for a living. And who doesn't want to do that? But work has a curious way of keeping things grounded and relevant.
“you just browse the world around you” – FlyWeb talk at Mozilla all hands
Also: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Flyweb
On the other hand, 12 years ago MP3 players were commonplace just about everywhere, but in Japan Minidisc was still the big thing.
Here's what my comp has looked like at FB over the years:

2012: ~75k (internship + first half of sign on bonus + relocation bonus)

2013: ~100k (salary for ~6 months + second half of sign on bonus)

2014: ~225k (~110k base salary + stock)

2015: ~265k (~130k base salary + stock)

I believe myself to be around average. From what I've heard about some of my peers' comp they sound comparable to this as well.
Well, maybe one day they will come up with an icon for unisex toilets as well. Good luck designing that in a way that makes everyone happy.
After talking with several managers who tend to micromanage I've noticed that they like to play strategy games on their free time where it's also possible to micromanage. Good example is Civilization where they always like to manage every single detail of their cities whereas I just want to leave that to the computer AI.
And Windows 95 had to run on 4 MB of RAM.
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Blockly is a library for building visual programming editors
Wow that nation state is stupid.

They embedded the backdoor password right into it. Clearly they should have embedded the hash of the password instead. Then it would be unbreakable and no other party would be able to use the backdoor.

Hashing passwords is extremely basic security practice.
My understanding is that they were both, depending on context.
> Or to shut down the computer.

That should be "Start to shut down the computer". (grin)
Yeah, I've noticed the same about managers that play League of Legends.