skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the "get some exercise" suggestion was not made as a way to build resilience to prevent depression! It was given as a method to treat a current illness.

Here's why I think suggesting exercise as a treatment for depression is a bad idea - it might not work. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11368202

If someone can't go to a doctor that's something that needs to be fixed, and if they can't go to a doctor they're unlikely to be able to get the 5 * 30 minutes per week vigorous exercise.

EDIT: I mean, it's an anecdote. "Exercise worked for me". The trouble is I can find you plenty of people (and I speak to them in mental health hospitals and community settings) who've tried exercise, and it didn't do anything and they felt worse because it didn't do anything.

It is really important for people taking mental health meds to get more exercise, but that's not because of the possible treatment effects of exercise, but to try to mitigate some of the side effects most meds have, and to try to build resilience for the future.
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Please stop posting unsubstantive comments.
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What is a fansub? subtitles?
I'm the developer of this thing, by the way.
Ten points to the first person to point out the ironic twist in the tool's implementation.
Public workers are the last in the list of "low income people who commute to Sillicon Valley for work". There are many many more people who earn much less than $140k working in Menlo Park. There is that sweet lady in Starbucks near Facebook that told me she has two sons or people who work in cleaning services. Those are the ones who deserve media attention first.
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Not sure if those are fair analogies, nor an accurate representation of the choices. I live in a social democratic country and low unemployment has always been the cornerstone of social democratic policy. I associate basic income more with liberal politicians.

There are a lot ways in which a job centric approach would affect economic policy which doesn't necessarily mean hole diggers. E.g. in my home country Norway it was seen by the social democrats that maintain an industrial base and the jobs that came with that was crucial. That is why strict rules on usage of oil money in budgets were devised to hinder deindustrialization due to inflation and loss of industrial jobs.

When the oil was found, the conservatives in Norway were ready to hand all the work over to foreign companies. Norway had no expertise at all on oil drilling at the time. But the social democratic government decided that we should have our own oil industry and companies. They established schools, research and a state oil company to reach those goals. Some of the rules had similarities to what China has done to build up their industry with e.g. partnership rules. In fact the Chinese came to Norway decades ago to learn about our policies on this area (undoubtedly they went many other places as well). The previous Chinese experience was that foreign companies owned all the industry, knowledge and took all the profits.

The free market reforms in China has undoubtedly produced much prosperity. But it also seem clear to me that China including every other successful country has had some form of industrial policy. None of the successful asian tigers really follow a laissez-faire system. Pundits will argue they could have been more successful if they did, but I am not convinced.
... Which is nowhere near enough money to buy a family home there. Maybe if your spouse is earning a similar wage, you could get your foot in the door.
I'd rather just a big filter on Facebook and some added resume features for that. Let me create a professional profile and add professional friends to it. Add a searchable resume system and we're good.
Wouldn't that just need a genlock? A Video Toaster seems like pretty significant overkill for that use case.
> The evidence for physical activity being good for just about every ailment under the sun is about as incontrovertible as the evidence for water being wet.

No, it isn't, but people really, really like to think that it is [1]. Like most other interventions worth talking about, there are situations it improves, situations where it doesn't change much, and situations it worsens (those "consult your physician before starting an exercise program" disclaimers aren't just for show).

[1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2010/11/30/ex...
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As far as I can tell, "machin", "truc" and "bidule" (which all mean "stuff" in french) have the same meaning as "jawn". I wonder what's so different about "jawn", maybe it's just used more?
"The reason we don't have more real unittests is IMO because: - it is hard to write (you need to mockup the analysis result that is used by the vectorizer if you want to test it in isolation)"

Right, and it's infinitely easier to just dump the result of the analysis and check that it said what you want using lit.

We even have a framework explicitly to do that -analyze for opt is specifically meant to run analysis and dump their output.

This doesn't test API boundaries, but the dumpers and printers are usually forced to be written in terms of the API.

(and folks are starting to get religion about testing the other API boundaries)
> Is it really 'irresponsible' to suggest that there are ways to prevent/decrease depression besides going to the doctor?

If the methods you suggest don't actually help, it risks making the depression worse, because it matches the pattern of "Why try anything? Nothing works.".
It sure does not. My concern is that in this research they correlate the amount of crunch with quality of a game and show that "better" games have statistically less crunch. Since I know the games, considered successful in the industry, all have a lot of crunch, it sounds like they use their own criteria for quality, which has nothing to do with the common meaning.
You say these medical advances would be true, but do you really consider them to be correct? Coming from a communist country, they do in fact control the media. They do in fact control what is disseminated and what's not.

On that note, comparing a government to a company is generally wrong. Why you ask, because companies have the ability to run as a dictatorship, but if a country did that, it would be denying of someone's rights, to compare a company to a government, is simply and fully incomparable and quiet frankly scary.
"I believe this "job creation as priority" approach is inferior to both the "laissez-faire" capitalist alternative and the "basic income" social democratic one."

Maybe. My grandfather has a 6th grade education, worked semi-skilled trade labor jobs his entire life, and was able to amass a multi-million dollar fortune through nothing more complicated than buying unused land and occasionally parking cash in certificates of deposit. Admittedly something of an outlier. I mention it only to highlight what was reasonably possible for a working man 50 years ago. This being the case I question the need for new, untried solutions to problems we, as a nation, did not have 50 years ago and that we already know the cause of. Occam's Razor would have me believe the correct course of action would be to incentivize rebooting the manufacturing sector in this country while reinstating the trade tariffs that protected our industries up until the early 90's.
While you are right in raw numerical terms, there is a rich tradition in America of public servants (police, fire, teachers) living where they work. People are generally ok with baristas commuting to work, but are much more likely to be concerned when their firemen live halfway across the state.

EDIT -- just looked it up to confirm, NYC fire and police must live in the city or one of 6 surrounding NY State counties.
Laying single purpose modules with npm.
Or just don’t create a profile in the first place?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11368005 and marked it off-topic.
Yeah, unauthorised subtitles made by fans. http://manga.wikia.com/wiki/Fansub
When BuzzFeed does real journalism, they often do a fantastic job. The bullshit/clickbait is just a way to pay for their investigative journalism.
That allows for patent trolls.
Its not working out for you, maybe it doesnt work for you. Therapy works for many people however so I would suggest you do not put people off from it although it does not work for you.

As far as it goes i dont think therapy works by teaching you something 'new' that you cant get out of a book. Thats like saying excersize doesnt work because you have done all the motions before. Therapy when it works is largely about opening yourself up and committing to reprogramming yourself and going through a bunch of effort and seeing that going through the mechanical process of therapy does have some minimal value and realizing you are in control of your own mind to some degree and using that tiny minuscule victor as a 'hope' that keeps you moving forward.

I wish you well, i wish i could say more. I feel you.
High 200s as an individual contributor? That's north of what directors at iBanks make in many cases here in NYC (and salaries here are already higher than most other places for tech workers).

My guess is that you're working contract at a very lucrative rate? Or perhaps you're at some kind of financial firm that offers a hefty bonus :-D
True, but not if you weight by impact/influence on what's considered standard English, globally.

Probably someday that will be the case, but it isn't yet -- the US still has an outsize influence.
"As automation replaces more and more of the unskilled workforce, we should just accept it and adopt a basic income."

Maybe. There are still vast pools of unskilled jobs that exist globally. They're vanishing in the US in no small part because our industries are forced to compete with business concerns that can take advantage of what equates to slave labor in less developed parts of the world.
While a job might not produce anything of value to a customer, I think it is often forgotten that a job also has the dual purpose of skills training.

People doing "useless" jobs might acquire the skills to do other and more useful jobs in the future. Keeping people unemployed has a high cost in the form of loss of skills over time, mental health etc.

If you don't keep things going you might risk losing some people forever as their skills become so obsolete and their motivation and work capacity destroyed.

Companies will usually not higher long term unemployed so that is why many people can get permanently lost to the labour market.
Thanks for your honesty!!
Morning where?
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> I get so tired of comments like yours. What are we supposed to do then?

The best first advice is to get professional help. That doesn't mean "get drugs," it means start the evaluation process, which may or may not include drugs, therapy, exercise, whatever.

Go ahead and recommend exercise or herbal remedies or whatever, but I believe one should strongly direct a sufferer to professional help first. The closer and more credible to a person you are, that may be more like telling them to go, or even bringing them there.

Everyone's depression is unique to them. Sure the causes and treatment may be common with other people, but what works for one, or doesn't, is not necessarily the same for another.

Treatment for depression needs to be directed by a doctor or other trained professional.
I think the described situation can be resolved in an elegant, Ankh-Morporkian style: Let's just start by burning down your house.
Jimmies is very common in New England as well.
But except for BTC, and probably Ethereum, other cryptocurrencies have insignificant liquidity and volume.
Lol is this satire or are you a troll? Because I can't tell.
> and written using the design philosophies of the time (stressing inheritance, for example),

In fact the GoF book is famous for being one of the first to de-emphasize inheritance:

> "Favor 'object composition' over 'class inheritance'." (Gang of Four 1995:20)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns
Correlation?
We should just let V8 run in the kernel and do away with system calls. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
I think American financial institutions and their clients have a slight advantage when it comes to getting dollar credit than financial institutions in developing countries. That's why when American companies get cheap money it does so much more overseas.
I hear crick as an alternative pronunciation all over the northeast.
Wait, what? 37.5% of the work was completed for $82k? Meaning profit would have been over $3m on a $3.45m contract?
Did anyone fork the project when it was based on Linux?
Oh! Look at that! Thanks :) I've never noticed that before.
So have these guys essentially lost $40k plus time involved? This doesn't sound like much of a deterrent. There should really be criminal charges for these blatant fraudulent behaviours. While I believe prison should primarily be a rehabilitation, giving white collar criminals actual time will work as a deterrent rather than a 'don't get caught' mentality.
> "Why try anything? Nothing works."

That seems like a better outcome all around than not knowing what to try. At least you know you have some options. For some people, it might help - at least enough to get them to the next step.
Kids pick up words from adults. They too don't completely understand the words they use when they first start picking up and using new vocabulary but the usage tend to get calibrated based on social feedback.
Skunk works the tests. Maintain a private branch that management never sees and run them anyway. When they fail, fix the issue.

You'll possibly seen as a genius, but you certainly won't be working on public holidays.
Wages are lower because expenses are lower. Mexican immigrants who can't earn enough to live in the U.S move back to Mexico. Expats living in low rent countries will underbid those living in high cost countries, even with equivalent skills.
I seem to recall that she was asked what Van Gogh was like, and replied that he smelled bad.
To me, the live loading of code and repl is a two edged sword, and I'm not sure which side is sharper.

It sounds great to say "live coding" and whatnot, but it turns out that you very quickly get the repl into an unknown state where you aren't sure what version of what has been eval'd, and what temporary cruft is lying around changing how your program behaves.

A number of times I would find out that a bug I thought I squashed was actually still there, just hidden by some temporary "what-if" I had eval'd. The only way to know is to clean the workspace and reload everything.

This was recognized as problematic by the clojure community and "Component" methodologies were developed, along with namespace refreshing. It would be far less useable if not for this.

However, in a live production system, a blanket reload of anything kind of defeats the purpose of keeping it running. I don't think I'd ever try loading code on a live production system unless all the alternatives were worse than possibly messing up the state of the system.

It's nice to have the repl for investigating what's going on in production, for inspection. But I avoid any code reloading in a live system.
This would have been better left with its original descriptive title: "How Birds Spot a Fraud and Choose the Right Gender for a Mate".

I was expecting something more like tool=making and deductive reasoning in birds (like in corvids).
http://vncroulette.com/images/194.218.45.214.jpg this one is rather interesting.
That's the core premise of freedom. Giving people freedom necessarily incudes giving them the freedom to do things that are stupid or dangerous.

For the HN crowd, I recommend DHH's hilarious discussion of this in his RubyConf 2010 keynote[1].

[1] https://vimeo.com/17420638#t=27m27s
If they're "expected to quit soon" because they seem bored with the place and they've been planning to move on to advance their career, they'll probably go without a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth. Of course, if they're "expected to quit soon" because they're seething with rage and angry about everything, the reaction might be quite the opposite!

As to why lay off instead of waiting for them to quit, probably because you've been told to reduce headcount now, not at some indeterminate future date.
Is there a related word to fork that means "to make an inferior descendant"?
That's why I prefaced my remark by asking if it was my mistake. I'm not familiar with the verb "kik", but I am aware of the slur. I'll happily believe that no offense was meant, but I don't think there's anything wrong with pointing out what I consider a pretty poor naming choice.
I see things that look alarmingly like industrial control. Who leaves wide open unpassworded VNC?
MobX is a great alternative if you are enthused about mutable state, and don't want to rewrite your brain to write reducers, immutable data, and deal with functional programming concepts.
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It might help, but the advice to Get Physical, just by itself, isn't useful. The disease itself works against a will to exercise.

The best advice and only one worth giving is to please seek professional help if you think (or know) you have depression.
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Have you checked your thyroid? There's a potential causal link between hypothyroidism and depression.
Not limited to firefighters, Palo Alto is considering housing subsidies for families making between 150-250K:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/22/250k-per-year-sa...
I should have written license rather than sell. And a license goes with restrictions.

The other choice is to get a patent granted and license it to everyone for free with a do-no-evil-or-revoke clause.
If only game studios could raise money on negative profit margins instead of being forced to deliver milestones to be able to run regular operations... Every day I'd be writing unit tests and doing standups in between code reviews and updating my GitHub profile.
I wonder if there is any east coast bias in high-ranking submissions.
> None of the successful asian tigers really follow a laissez-faire system. Pundits will argue they could have been more successful if they did, but I am not convinced.

Great post. I'm reminded of the book "Bad Samaritans" by Ha-Joon Chang.
Restricted development is one of the reasons the peninsula is such a desirable place to live. There's a lot of open space, and expensive housing helps keep out the riff-raff. (Note to downvoters: the reference to riff-raff was intended to be ironically humorous in the context of a story about how the people being kept out are firefighters and teachers.)
Is a translation possible?
Sit down dear child and hear of languages long ago...

Back I. The days of vacuum tube and electromechanical switches, when punch tape rules the world p, there were two languages: The Algorithmic Language, and the List Processor. The List Process, or LISP, to its friends was built around s-expressions. The other, also known as ALGOL, was built around a strange and unholy hybrid of text and formulae that only an insane mathematician would love, for almost every statement was a special case.

ALGOL syntax went on to rule the world.

Seriously kid. There are only two syntaxes, and procedural, structural, object oriented, aspect, imperative, and all the rest are immaterial to the syntax, for they refer to how programs are organized, not what keys you press on the keyboard. Don't they teach programming languages anymore?
> I hide my tears from my family.

Are you sure they don't see it? And if they see it, do they understand it for what it is, or do they misinterpret it?

Make an appointment on Monday 3/28 with your doctor, or with an EAP service if that's available to you, or county health, etc. Be clear about what the appointment is for, and get the soonest possible appointment (that day if possible).

I'm being successfully treated for depression. My depression and treatment is not your depression and treatment, but it's likely that there is effective treatment available for you.

Put it on your calendar right now to make the appointment on Monday. Your depression may be discouraging you from taking steps. Push through the fog, make and keep the appointment.

If you feel overwhelmed before Monday, call the emergency number. You're not wasting anyone's time, that's why they're working at the jobs they have.

Call Monday.
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Of course, suggest getting professional help first. But as a random internet board commenter, I can't drive them to the doctor. And for many people suffering from depression (I've been there, many of us have) getting to the doctor may as well be getting to the moon. But for me, if I could just get outside, things started to look just a little bit better, and maybe I could make it down the street. And then things looked a tiny bit better again, and pretty soon I could remember that there were people who cared about me. I doubt I'm entirely unique. Maybe there's someone reading this thread for whom the first step to getting help is just to get outside, and I'd call it irresponsible withhold that information.
Media and advertising isn't quite the same. There is a clear value in people writing articles in newspapers about what is going on around us. Advertisement OTOH is frequently of little use.

And it is perfectly possible to deal with advertisement/media through laws and regulations.

E.g. I find that where I live in Norway, much of the informative and quality media exist almost exclusively due to government policy. Either you got the state run broadcaster or quality newspapers which get economic support from government.

The quality newspaper typically don't make a lot of money because they are not shameless sell outs to advertisement and pop culture.

Now for entertaining movies I am happy about the purely commercially driven TV channels, but it is also painstakingly clear that you can run well balanced and insightful journalism easily on primarily profit driven media.
> I've used it for customizing an X11 window manager in the past, too.

always glad to find another old Sawfish user. :)
It's scary, like a SCADA cpanel.
Wait, what? Jenkins can do whatever pre-processing/post-processing you need by means of tasks. Regular Ant/Maven/Java tasks. And that was there, in production, from the time immemorial. People have been doing that for a decade now.

GoCD and Concourse add... what?
And would that be similarly profitable to their current premium account model? (Mainly bought by recruiters, hence the target audience)
Even "gypsy" has negative connotations, hence their preference for "Roma", generally speaking.
I was working with Brad at the time (on other projects) and got to watch the design of the Toaster take shape. I was very skeptical at first, but Brad and Tim pulled it off. It was an amazing product that changed several industries.
> I see things that look alarmingly like industrial control. Who leaves wide open unpassworded VNC?

Apparently tons and tons of people!
Can you sue to get your money back after a patent had been declared invalid?
A lot of bugs in games involve asking if state is X,Y,Z ... does A actually execute.
What I'm saying is that when you convince a depressed person to spend their scarce reserves of effort on useless measures, you risk diminishing their ability to convince themselves that the "next step" is worth taking.