skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watch out: light therapy for SAD is very well known, but the quality of the evidence is very low.

http://www.cochrane.org/CD011269/DEPRESSN_light-therapy-prev...

> Which studies were included in the review?

> We searched databases up to August 2015 for studies on light therapy to prevent winter depression. Among 2986 records, we found one randomised controlled study including 46 people who received light therapy or no treatment. All individuals in these studies had a history of winter depression.

> What does the evidence from the review reveal?

> The quality of evidence for all outcomes was very low, so we can draw no conclusions about whether light therapy is effective in preventing winter depression. The included study provided no information on side effects of light therapy.

[...]

> Authors' conclusions:

> Evidence on light therapy as preventive treatment for patients with a history of SAD is limited. Methodological limitations and the small sample size of the only available study have precluded review author conclusions on effects of light therapy for SAD. Given that comparative evidence for light therapy versus other preventive options is limited, the decision for or against initiating preventive treatment of SAD and the treatment selected should be strongly based on patient preferences.
It has a plausible mechanism of action, and (so long as other treatment approaches aren't ignored) it's unlikely to do any harm.
Maybe a better title would have left off the initial word "How."
I'm starting to get the impression that you're simply trolling here (I know I know, calling that out is verboten on HN but I stand behind it), but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt one more time. Would you prefer a doctor who only treats the symptoms, and derives perverse pleasure from inflicting pain on the patient in the process? Or rather one who focuses on the disease itself and seeks a permanent cure? Because you are clearly the former, not the latter.

You have a laser focus on the effect, when you should be attacking the cause. If you can't or won't see that, I don't know what else to say.
I liked the joke on arstechnica that the best way to bankrupt a competitor would be to give them our source code :)
It would effectively reward conversation or argument starters. This could let Donald Trump have the highest karma in the land.
At this point I wonder if they're better off selling their house and moving to Mexico or something.
a bachelor's degree in journalism and media studies.

He's especially interested in a Hollywood career, but has found it hard to land a job there.

These folks went into debt to the tune of nearly 4x the average american pre-tax income, for a theater degree.

No, the lenders shouldn't have let them do that... but come on.
No worries at all! This currently is a starter version and after validating demand we're hard at work now producing the full version with payments, pledges, etc. WIP. :)
Ask HN: What do you miss about the life before Internet?
I see. I feel for you.

I think there is more to it than you and most people have seen, in particular I don't just feel better but I know that it has already transformed me to some degree. That said I'd almost say recommend to wait until one "gets" it, and then hold onto it.

That doesn't mean don't try, but don't force it. Ask whatever-it-is to help, read the parts that are accessible (I found Proverbs are partially good business advice.)

And whoever else reads this - don't let anyone scam you, - you should be looking for a personal connection to whatever-it-is that will help you, not someone to fleece you.

If this helps, keep it, if not leave it.

(I'll be offline for a few hours now.)
I’m not saying you shouldn’t use TLDR or StackOverflow. I’m just saying you could benefit from reading the manpage once instead of TLDR 10 times a day. That doesn’t mean you won’t forget most of the stuff and will use TLDR/SO to find it again but at least you’ll be more comfortable using the tool.

In the `tar` case if you know what c, x, v, z and f stand for you can cover 99% of the tar use cases because those can be combined. You learn 5 letters and have now access to 8 different commands (`{c,x}[v][z]f`). Learn one more letter, `t`, and you can combine it with your existing knowledge to have 3 more commands (tf, tvf, tzvf).
I like tutorial but I'm personally not fond of videos. I would enjoy the tutorial if it was a simple html page or even a pdf.

Is it just me? Or most people prefer videos ?
Everything in moderation. That's a decent rule of thumb.
"Could it be one of their non-hosted clients leaking the database? Maybe. Could it be that someone hacked one of their clients and stored a copy of the database at this IP address? Maybe. Could it be that an employee of a client decided to make themselves a copy for their own purposes? Maybe. The possibilities are numerous. We really don’t know and DataBreaches.net declines to speculate."

Umm... you just speculated.
My father in law was a psychiatrist. The "types" described in the article are all too real.

He got attached to some of his patients, tried to help them outside his practice. A handful of these people became part of his (and now mine) family's social circle. A woman on SDI became a nanny, a former factory worker is now our handy-man, another guy he put up in an apartment he was rehabbing and still lives there. At some point, some dude lived in my in-laws basement (my wife just shrugged that off, it apparently happened every few years).

I cringe when I look back on how I thought about psychiatry earlier. I thought it was rich people just going to complain about how sad they felt instead of just sucking it up.

Life is a struggle, for everybody. We have no idea how bad it is indeed. And now, psychiatry to me seems like a terribly lonely profession.
The fact that they need to have friends post fake reviews suggests to me that this is not sanctioned activity or a systematic fraud.

An environment where salespeople feel they can do stuff like that is a problem, but no, it is not proof that "yelp deleted bad reviews for money"
They've done some brilliant things for developers this year, but sadly shipped a giant spyware operating system at the same time. From what I've read people are still trying to determine everything it's calling home.
If you're paying that much for a degree, colleges usually have good contacts in the industry and can really give you a leg up on networking and finding job opportunities.
> "I was just following orders" is not a legitimate excuse.

Nor is there an excuse for treating another human being like a piece of shit because they have a job you don't like. How is one any better than the other?
Next time, try this: "I will not answer questions without an attorney, why are you impeding my Constitutional right to travel?"
I find that after I discovered tmux, I was able to use the command line full-time much more easily. Now everything I do is command-line-unix-ey, from my coding (with Emacs) to my web browser (Elinks).

It's kind of a pain in the butt to learn, but I feel that it helps me stay focused on my work; there are a lot less distractions in the command-line world.
I, too, found the format and text size troublesome. I get that they're going for a style, but it obscures the content rather than emphasizing it.

Otherwise, very interesting.
What makes a truly great logo
Sorry FF. Can't imagine browsing the web without automatic translation
Only pdf format download? Why not epub/mobi? PDF is a terrible format and it's not like there are tables etc to maintain.
Shouldn't it? They're under 60 and they cosigned on $200K of debt. If they really thought that that they could afford be retired right now, coming up with another $200K should only take a few years between the four of them.

They'd still be retiring earlier than anyone that I know who isn't wealthy. Ideally they'd have cut the taps at some point before their child spent $130K on a "journalism and media studies" degree in order to be an actor, but I understand that nobody's invented a time machine yet.
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Yeah outside of tapeworms, eating at a calorie deficit should always result in weight loss (although not healthy, sustainable weight loss).
Reading the manual once will save you a lot of time reading TLDR over and over. Which is not to say you won’t read it; but you’ll read it less than without reading the manual first.
There's another one I originally submitted is in this at the end. Upvote that instead :)
I think if you had that level of traction and revenue, more often than not you wouldn't need any investment at all.
The fine line between quality improvement and medical research
sports.
https://elections.nationbuilder.com

Among many others.

The data itself is mostly free public records, but it's worth paying to get all 50 states in one place
i live in santa monica in west LA, one of the "healthiest" places in the western world if not the healthiest (you can go literally days without seeing an obese person), and every single doctor i've been to in the past 10 years has advised a healthy diet and exercise first and foremost. many advocate low carb or paleo diets. it's not fringe here - it's mainstream. the medical community here is slowly but surely being taken over by a new guard of young up-to-date professionals who understand the changing science.
How to sober up a drunk elephant
Why Responsive Web Design Will Soon Be Required
Completely agree that degree should not be forced to get a job... US should keep the tradition job for skill than a degree otherwise USA will endup like India
The helmet is for if you fall over and hit your head. You can die from a relatively minor blow to he head. It has nothing to do with being safe from cars. You could get hit by a car (more likely clipped and fall off) and bang your head, of course, but it isn't a car defense device.

Not being hit by cars is the best defense against being hit by cars. It is genuinely stupid to not wear some sort of reflector or light when riding in the dark. A driver can't avoid what he can't see. Volvo doesn't seem to have a monopoly on shiny surfaces.

I could see this being of more use if it were permanent. You could put it on your dedicated riding jacket and just always wear that jacket and no worry about the reflectors etc.
The Anti-IF Campaign
Eggs and fats are good? That is either a joke or an ode to powerful industry lobbying which you've fallen victim to.
You've got to love "style". It's just text. How do people manage to screw up something so simple?
North of Urbana, Rockford Public Library did a similar aggressive book purge in 2012. The counter-balancing growth of digital services was not enough to compensate. It turned out to be a part of a weird campaign by the executive director to get the public to see the main building as inadequate for a modern library. The director has since been forced to resign and the new director is pursuing an operations model that has more respect for print.

The purge had support from people who reflexively promote an optimistic use of ebooks. It's important to remember that the digital-vs-print debate can be exploited to accomplish goals that have little to do with any kind of reading.
They're called "stooges" not "clowns".

stooge
sto͞oj/Submit
noun
1.
derogatory
a person who serves merely to support or assist others, particularly in doing unpleasant work.
"you fell for that helpless-female act and let her make you a stooge"
synonyms:	underling, minion, lackey, subordinate; More
2.
a performer whose act involves being the butt of a comedian's jokes.
synonyms:	butt, foil, straight man
"a comedian's stooge"
1. Troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan increase, but more use of drones in army this year and going forward.

2. First use of railgun in Navy in active campaign

3. More car companies go the battery powered route with newer models

4. It becomes even easier to make an app on the phone, but the landscape continues to fracture on the phone OS front

5. someone comes up with something interesting using a small computer like raspberry pi zero and 3d printing

6. Encryption for general population gets better with some really great app.
> we found one randomised controlled study

> the small sample size of the only available study

The only study?

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=light+therapy+depressio...

There are numerous studies showing a benefit from light therapy.

It is true that the the quality of the evidence could be improved. That's a political/financial issue, not a reflection of the efficacy (or lack thereof) of light therapy. The available evidence supports the treatment.
They do want to be there. McDonalds wouldn't hire them, so this is the only job they can get.
SuperTux also uses a filesystem abstraction library: https://icculus.org/physfs/

Fortunately it doesn't need to do networking, threading, or IPC; those are definitely a pain. Boost provides an abstraction layer, but it's a big dependency.
Those are some of the issues I've experienced, even with SD video and only a few tabs open in Firefox.

There's also a general choppiness to X itself. All of this with accelerated Intel graphics, so it's not necessarily driver related. I just figure that given the project's focus on security and clean code, desktop OS performance takes a necessary back seat.

Even with all of that, I give every new release a thorough test run on my old workstation and laptop, just to see if things have improved in that area. And they have been steadily improving!
Party registration is not secret at all, at least not in any state I'm familiar with.
From back in the day. DEF and IMP were two different files:

DEFINITION MODULE Bit;
(* #data(packed=>on) )
( hooks to lib *)
PROCEDURE SetBit(target,bitnum: CARDINAL): CARDINAL;

PROCEDURE ClearBit(target,bitnum: CARDINAL): CARDINAL;

PROCEDURE TestBit(target,bitnum: CARDINAL): BOOLEAN;

PROCEDURE Not(target: CARDINAL): CARDINAL;

END Bits.

IMPLEMENTATION MODULE Bits;

PROCEDURE SetBit(target,bitnum: CARDINAL): CARDINAL;

VAR tempset: BITSET;

BEGIN

tempset:= BITSET(target);

INCL(tempset,bitnum MOD 16);

RETURN CARDINAL(tempset);

END SetBit;

PROCEDURE ClearBit(target,bitnum: CARDINAL): CARDINAL;

VAR tempset: BITSET;

BEGIN

tempset:= BITSET(target);

EXCL(tempset,bitnum MOD 16);

RETURN CARDINAL(tempset);

END ClearBit;

PROCEDURE TestBit(target,bitnum: CARDINAL): BOOLEAN;

VAR tempset: BITSET;

BEGIN

RETURN (bitnum MOD 16) IN BITSET(target);

END TestBit;

PROCEDURE Not(target: CARDINAL): CARDINAL;

BEGIN

RETURN CARDINAL({0..15} - BITSET(target));

END Not;

END Bits.
I was under the impression that laws that force firms to hand over encryption keys also force firms to keep encryption keys to be handed over.
I'm currently trying to compile the Modula-3 sources from GitHub. It's been a long time since I have done this.

I'm fighting with the compiler because it refuses to compile under x64 arch.

Also, one must use an older m3-compiler to compile the newer sources. sigh

I think I should write a little tutorial for us, 80/90es kids (and older) ... you know, nostalgia, mid-life-crisis etc. ;)

Regards,
Not mentioned in the article: how much Microsoft paid for this shilling.

Shill Shill Shill. The Microsoft way.
The 2015 Unicorn Naughty List
Looks like Springer runs a open publishing model for books, with a fee charged to the author, as usual . My guess would be that they are seeding a bunch of these classic books to increase visibility of the open publishing scheme. And anyway, there's probably genlib copies of most of these floating around anyways...
Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow
My observation as well. Bought a Surface Book earlier this year and it was crashy as hell. Took it back to the store. Good luck competing with Apple in the premium segment with this level of QA.
So you think that getting paid relieves you of all culpability for your actions. I don't agree.
It could easily contain logic circuits... Have you been under a rock with all the self-driving car news the past decade?
Thanks for the expanded answer! I found it hard to believe because I was remembering when most insurance had a lifetime payout between 1 and 5 million, but of course that was pre-ACA and never relevant to Medicaid.
Everything? Even cigarettes? Of course not, so a better rule of thumb would be to avoid things which are known to cause health problems altogether, at least to an extent which is practical.
Both. First each project would have a documentation repository. This exists with gh-pages but it is a separate branch, which is confusing to newbies. Having a repo with just content would make it easier to open to contributors who are non-developers (and take advantage of features like inline editing in GitHub[1] (although that needs to automate the fork step as well))

Distributions can then create documentation meta-repositories that include relevant doc repo's as submodules.

If i'm a debian volunteer and I edit a typo in the man page for tar it gets pushed/pull-req up the to main tar repo from where it gets pulled out everywhere else

Not an entirely well formed idea, but the goal is to both lower the threshold for contributing documentation to project and second eliminate the duplicate effort in currently maintaining docs (which the OP project is only further complicating). Git can sit underneath what to contributors looks like nothing more than a wiki.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/editing-files-in-your-repos...
I think you somewhat overlook the nature of transnational global culture. People in Iran read David Foster Wallace and look at Rothko paintings, just as (on a more broad level) people worldwide buy iPhones and watch Tarantino films.

So when these paintings were bought by the Iranian elite they didn't want paintings that showed the depth of Western humanity that can conquer the hearts of their nation. They were guided by a contemporary aesthetic understanding.
We all remember this, right? http://www.cultofmac.com/388350/ipad-pro-comic/

Sums it up fairly well.
which remains for me the main reason why regardless of it is now being cool again I still avoid it like the plague. another funny thing is that they have improved their OS security so much that it is now considered harder than Linux, and Apple
They refuse to speculate if one of the speculations is superior to other speculations. Thus, if all speculations are still on the board to be further speculated upon, one cannot speculate further.

My head hurts.
Interjection: It's not that stoves changed, it's that utilities switched from coal gas (high in carbon monoxide) to natural gas.
Given that you can't get out of student loan debt through bankruptcy, they're at basically no risk. It might take them your entire lifetime to collect, but they'll get it eventually unless you happen to kill yourself at a young age.
Related: http://i.imgur.com/YBBa3dW.jpg

Edit: Ninja'd.
I support your position. Your message can be delivered with honey or vinegar. Attrition in crease in the ranks of the underlings is a valid tactic. Next time, just tell them about the dramatic increase in cancer that TSA folks have from being near the full body scanners.
EverythingMe open and out
It happens in London too. It's just bad manners to sit and loudly play your poor taste in music out loud on a bus or train rather than on headphones. It's not limited to any particular racial group though; it's usually just young men.
Good luck in journalism though.
Add in the fact that TSA regularly lets weapons through and has never caught a terrorist.
>be me

>eat like crap following doc's advice

>hormonal issues and possible micronutrient deficits

>feel lethargic and without energy

>non exercise activity thermogenesis decreases

>decreased energy makes me not take part into sports

>no sports and low protein drops lean tissue which drops rest metabolic rate even further

>now getting fat despite not eating much relative to a normal adult

>reverse doc advice

>better mood and increased energy

>increased NEAT which allows me to eat more

>start doing sports

>now maintaining weight with 4000kcal

>talk about it in tech forum

>being called a liar by nitpicking hners who can't read

>nerds triggered by mean comment

>karma drops below -9000

>eventually banned by admins
It has nothing to do with them being a "beginner".
Journalism and media studies is actually not a theater degree, its a non-theater degree (in a different, low-paying field); its a worse choice than a theater degree for someone trying to get a theater career.
The U.S. educationnal system is wrong. If you go to Canada, you will pay less than 30k$ for you entire program. It's illogical to waste 4 years if you don't have solid chances to get a job and make it profitable, maybe it is not the place to go and/or the career to follow.
People should understand that the party declaration is public information (or at least, not very private). Whether they do is another question.
I always liked the way EverythingMe approached open source.

Now that they are shutting down they are doing the same, open sourcing everything they can and being generally open with the plans and intentions for the future (of the code/product etc)

More companies should behave this way, just because the business didn't work, doesn't mean a lot of people can't benefit from the work you put in.

Kudos to the EverythingMe team for this.
This is one of those things that can start in a small country that happened to have relatively rational politicians and at the time, two car manufacturers - Volvo and Saab. And they all managed to work together towards a common goal.

Saab Automobile is no more (sort of), but Volvo appears to be in a renaissance now that it's Chinese-owned (Geely) rather than American-owned (Ford). Ford sold Volvo to Geely in 2010, and since then Volvo has been working on their own platforms, first shipped in the new XC90. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Scalable_Product_Platfor...

More reading:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/nyregion/de-blasio-looks-t...

"The result has been a sort of social contract between state and citizen: If residents follow the most basic traffic laws, engineers can design roads to guard against all fatalities."

"'Design around the human as we are,' said Claes Tingvall, the director of traffic safety at the Swedish Transport Administration and a godfather of the Vision Zero plan."

https://legacy.tispol.org/interview-room/written-interviews/...

(In-depth interview with Claes Tingvall.)
Does anyone know what it's made of? Perhaps microscopic transparent beads with some water-soluble glue?
Rumoured Surface Phone Will Run iOS Apps on Launch
Ask HN: Arduino or Raspberry PI for teenager?
My nephew, who is 16, wants to do a computer project for his senior year. He wanted to build a computer, but I suggested doing something with a small computer setup like the raspberry pi might be more interesting. What platform and materials would you suggest for a small computer on chip format to a young person with no programming experience?
React-Towel: Rapid React Prototyping. Sans Build Tools and Fluff
> I've used public voter registries to look up addresses, even when I had only a name

This is why Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (and presumably other victims of stalking or DV) does not vote.