skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Research on animals show that chronic stress causes depression...

Source?

That sounds like an oversimplification in my opinion, as there are some pretty glaring problems with using other animals to model mental illness in humans.

Wouldn't the only real analogue be learned helplessness, or am I missing something?
>Poor security is worse than no security. //

Not sure on this. Mostly the security on houses only has to put people off a little, it doesn't need to actually be effective at keeping people out, it only has to do enough to stop a random passer-by. So don't keep your wallet open on the front porch and you're probably a million-times less likely to be stolen from.

That said I think if the author meant to echo this idiom he should have just said that. The way the FAQ put it sounded like "we really should have security here and I'm embarrassed about it enough to claim that it's what everyone else does to try and diffuse any suggestion it's a deficiency" rather than "we don't have security by choice".

Perhaps I'm just being over-critical of the one thing I noticed that was not quite right.
Agreed. Starting point PerfMon and PerfCounters, as an addition to great suggested profilers I would also have a look at PerfView / ETW.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2012/10/09/improving...
You shouldn't post this way on this site.

You're claiming matter-of-factly that brain inflammation causes depression. Well, I (we) don't believe you, because that's a far from widely accepted theory. Your condescending google links don't help.
Nope, totally different reference. It's to Machiavelli, who distinguished between "Frankish kingdoms" and "Turkish kingdoms". Turkish kingdoms have strong central governments, with local administration subservient to the center. Frankish kingdoms have a much weaker central government, with much power and decision-making in the hands of local leaders.

The US is a Frankish kingdom, in Machiavellian terms.
I think this is great, they are pretty upfront with what they are collecting and why they need that

What's with all these negative comments here? Does any other os give you so much information about what is going on behind the scene?
"You are free to leave to another job"

You SHOULD be free to quit, you're right about that. But some companies have figured out ways to stop it. If anyone is ever in that situation -- you have to get your own immigration lawyers to represent you, and not the company.
Despite having thought of the dangers of AI, this literally never occurred to me. Humans don't create AI, machines do.
For what it's worth DWI and its variations are usually strict liability statutes.
Drugs are illegal, so they are sold by criminals.
I was "asked" to exit my vehicle by no less than 6 officers pointing their service pistol directly at me and yelling at me...

I was walked backwards, hands on head to a police car and cuffed, thrown down on the hood and very physically frisked (ever had someone literally pull your balls down ... yeah)

I stood with my hands behind my back for 10 minutes sitting on them, very painfully (i am a big dude, but i was larger then, over 420lbs (this plays into the story later)

I was talked to like i was trash while officers begin looking through my truck, throwing everything out of place...

...

Want to know why this happened? Because 10 minutes earlier someone robbed the store i was driving behind. His description was a SKINNY male (the word "skinny" was specifically used) with dark hair and a beard. Even through the window of my truck, if you could tell i had a beard, you could tell i wasnt skinny. I was of course let go... but basically my truck was ransacked, left completely a mess, and I was left feeling rather victimized (its not a good feeling knowing 6 guns are loaded and pointed at you with no safety on... its a lot more impactful than you think before it happens to you) ...

At the end of the day, any one with common sense isnt going to think the person who (on foot) robbed a store is going to drive right by the store, surrounded by police officers, 10 minutes later... and i didnt even match the description... yet somehow their warrantless search of my vehicle and self were totally legal and fine...

These were just assholes who wanted to get all hopped up on being the hero that day...

Oh, and at the end... the whole thing ended with the last words of the cop being "you're lucky we arent citing you for your license plate light being out" ... thats how cold cops are, thats what law enforcement is in America... its a bunch of losers who get handed power (because what kind of person seeks out power through a badge and a gun) and in turn, look for every opportunity to use said power in extreme ways to get their kicks...

Warrants are just peices of paper... intimidation is the way of the police now. That's their preferred method of getting what they want
Many of the people I care to listen to live far enough away from me that to 'actually sit down, and physically listen to them' is a multi-day endeavor.
Are there plumbers in Atlanta that aren't fully booked without having nice domain names?
i went back and found this old entry from my university days and it turns out i only used the three works: shakespeare, chaucer and boccaccio; as basis for comparison in the paper, stead all four
The only issue I have with it is the alignment.
The acceptance for cancer is great, but I believe both cancer and depression can be avoided with good chance due to factors you decide yourself. Living healthily, eating healthily.
That is definitely true.
Meh, that's just partisan wankery. Historically, civil rights progress in the US comes from individual states that lead the way, followed by additional states picking up and improving on the original changes, and the federal government and the courts catching up once there's a solid majority. See the recent changes in marriage law for an example.
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It's not a zero-sum game, you can have talented designers and talented engineers working on the same product, as long as they are willing to actually work together.

I evidenced an example of a laptop which is equivalent build quality (but is $1,000 more expensive at the same spec without discounts.)
It's difficult to determine whether or not depression is caused by life situation, unless there is something obvious like a recent bereavement.

It seems likely that both external stressors and internal thought processes can both be the cause of depression (and in many cases, a combination). CBT addresses the internal thought processes, but doesn't do anything to address external factors. My wife underwent CBT and took antidepressants, but they didn't really cure the depression. Quitting her crappy job fixed it for good.
Our iOS dev hunkered down today and may have come up with a decent solution to your EAGLView issue. You can find the write-up on medium: https://medium.com/imgly/bringing-wide-color-to-photoeditor-....
From an iOS device

https://apple.news/A1wKwXJypRGKQtz-VL6IZpw
Don't think so, they didn't look at raw dna sequences. They appear to just look at ethnicities, within which there is a lot of genetic variation.
Except they're still collecting everything by default and shifting the responsibility to review the privacy settings to the consumer.

They conclude:

> When it comes to your privacy, we strive to make choices easy to understand while also providing clear visibility and control over your data.

This is entirely the wrong approach. Just don't harvest the data in the first place. Have opt-in measures if you must. That's it. That's what a serious commitment to privacy looks like. Anything else is a serious commitment to get away with harvesting as much data as possible while minimizing PR backlash.
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> Given that the file in question was in the deleted free space, the technician didn't just stumble into it accidentally and then report it

That's not necessarily true:

> Prosecutors said that the Geek Squad technician who searched the unallocated space was merely trying to recover all the data Rettenmaier had asked to be restored.

So in this case it sounds like the reason Best Buy had the hard drive in the first place was to recover other (possibly deleted) files on the disk. In such a scenario it seems totally plausible that they might stumble across other, more incriminating deleted files as part of the recovery process.
Ask HN: How bad is this survey's security?
I am a participant in a longitudinal study.

Periodically I am asked to answer questions in an online survey that:

- verifies my info (address, phone, email)
- verifies my contacts (name, address, phone, email)
- asks about recent doctor visits, prescriptions, hospitalizations, etc.

The login credentials are:

- login=email
- password=date of birth

But it gets worse: you can login to a partially completed survey and information previously entered has been saved.

I know this is terrible from a vanilla compsec standpoint; but isn't this information covered by HIPAA? What can I tell this organization to get them to understand the severity of this?
It seems misleading to describe Wi-Fi Sense has harvesting passwords - that's a side effect and not the purpose.

That said, I'm not sure if Microsoft still stores Wi-Fi passwords at all; if they do, they removed the primary benefit: Wi-Fi passwords can no longer be shared. The Wi-Fi Sense privacy page only talks about open networks now. If they still store Wi-Fi passwords on their servers, it must be only used for profile sync. I can't find any information one way or another.

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-about-wifi-se...
From your Google query: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/news/severe-depression-linke...

"The Duke team concluded that depression, therefore, is more likely to contribute to inflammation in the body as opposed to arising as a consequence of inflammation."
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I've found another issue where it just removes comments entirely inside an otherwise empty block.

function doSomething() : int {
return myPromise
.then(() => {
// ...do thing
/* what */
})
.catch(() => {
// ..do other thing
/* the heck */
});
}

becomes

function doSomething(): int {
return myPromise
.then(() => {})
.catch(() => {});
}

Still a very nice pretty printer, though.
The thing is, they made the "error correction scheme" work so well that they are no longer required. Give it a go sometime; you might like it.
> taxi drivers would not take me to certain historical sites in the city because they were too dangerous. The "safe" section of the city was fairly small, with the rest of it overrun with harder drugs and crime.

I live in the Netherlands about 25 minutes south of Amsterdam, and there is no place in the Netherlands even remotely unsafe. The country as a whole is ranked either as the safest or second-safest country in the world, and Amsterdam in particular is ranked as one of the safest cities in the world. I have carried expensive scientific equipment through the "shadiest" parts of Amsterdam around 1am - typically the worst hour for crime - and did not feel unsafe for a minute [0].

Additionally, pretty much the only place in Amsterdam even remotely "unsafe" is the Slotermeer [1], to the far west of the city. There is pretty much nothing remotely historical there; if there are any tourists in the area it's because they are lost.

By the way, in 2015 Washington DC had 119 murders with a population of 658,000. Amsterdam had 15 murders with a population of 1.3 million. That's 18 murders per 100,000 in your home city vs barely one per 100,000 in Amsterdam.

Aside from the numbers, I have been in places that are legitimately unsafe, like the over-the-hill area in Nassau, Bahamas (neighborhoods with more than 90 murders per 100,000) or dangerous areas of Ukraine (where the police won't do anything unless you pay them.) There's a certain atmosphere of crime that you can feel, and Amsterdam does not have that at all.

[0] Funny enough, the only time I had a problem carrying the equipment was in the Charles de Gaulle airport, where I was harassed for about an hour by the supremely stupid airport screeners while they tried to figure out if it was a bomb. Meanwhile, they let two full bottles of water through. Security theater at its finest.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Am...
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Grew up in 1850s and 1920s house, owned 1930s and 1910s houses, and rented 1910s and 1960s houses. Many of these homes had been renovated within the last 50 years.

My anecdotal experience:

The very old houses will require expensive systems upgrades - heating, plumbing, electricity, etc. But the quality of the craftsmanship is unbelievably good. It was built to last, whereas the newer 1960s home and my sister's 2000s-era condo was made with lots of cheap crap that has its own replacement burden.

Renovations vary in quality, too. Our downstairs bathroom was renovated in the 60s with cheap, ugly materials. The windows were replaced 15 years ago around the house using a second-tier brand, and they squeal loudly when they are opened. But another owner did a kitchen renovation 10 years ago using high-quality materials that have stood up quite well.
> Umm, yeah. Why bother leaking documents straight into the trash?

They built a legitimacy and reputation for releasing documents in big dumps and this time was different.

> Wikileaks can only leak whatever is given to them. Did you send them Trump email that they refused to leak?

No I did not. The fair and unbiased method I was referencing is the way they had handled things in the past.

> The point of a vote is literally for everyone to take sides.

He's Swedish and leaking information gained from a politically adversarial country. Neither of which get a vote in our election.

> I'd have a vendetta against a politician (in a position of military command) who asked if I could be killed extra-judicially. How can you fault someone for this?

You think trump is going to be any different? I think both were awful candidates, personally.
Microsoft mistake was to mark telemetry as such. Everyone where happy with win 7 and 8 where this was hidden from user...
To do that, you actually have to both be actually able to find and take a different job plus have the clarity to know that such a thing will improve your situation.

And with depression (or anxiety), this isn't so easy. It gets difficult to see opportunities and easier to blame yourself, thinking, "I'm lucky to have this crappy job and that they put up with me". It can make your job seem crappy, even when it isn't.

I get to see the way the chemicals affect my brain once a month. Once a month, I think I'm going to lose my job. That people dislike me. That people are suddenly treating me harshly and I must have done something wrong. I consider changing jobs.

This is like this even when I enjoy my work and actually like the folks I'm surrounded with. It doesn't stop with work, but is a handy example.

I likely should be on anti-depressants half the month - if you've not figured it out, I'm female and this is entirely hormone-related. Instead, I've adjusted life. Once I realize what is going on, I can relax some on the temporary nature of it all. Sometimes it works better than others.

The thing is when depression hits, for me, it is much like this. All the freaking time. Work becomes a relief from home, home becomes a relief from work, sleep a relief from it all. I literally don't have the capacity to sort out which things in life to change or what to do next. I get stuck.

This is why it is a long-term preventative measure. Gotta catch this stuff before the darkness sets in and messes with your sensors.
I have. It usually implies quality.
Topology generation is the new feature engineering, it's not surprising that it's the first thing to go. I have been working on advancing HyperNEAT for this very purpose - similar, but not quite the same to: http://blog.otoro.net/2016/05/07/backprop-neat/

Non-sequential and non-hierarchical topologies are the future, and it makes sense that machines should generate them
To have worked at a company who had one of the most profitable domain on the planet. I confirm!

Internally, we used to call it the money printer. It was so obvious that revenues were flowing because of the domain.
Japan is even weirder, no smoking outside when not in narrowly defined designated areas, but smoking inside is still ok. This was Tokyo.

Pacific Northwest will take passports for those things, just not foreign DLs.
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It's just duplicitous corporatespeak. They do whatever they want, ignoring privacy entirely, for years, and then claim to have a "continuing commitment". They don't care about privacy, they just care that they got flak in the press about privacy so they're trying to backpedal about it.
Nor can you remove the integrated advertising system.
Imagine a world where theres no self-driving cars and that same drunk guy on that some night hops in to the car and tries to drive home.

Edit: I would gladly accept more failure in uncommon edge cases if it means reduced failure in normal operation (ie: drunk guy slams in to a house at 1 AM on a clear calm night)
No one feels ashamed of seeking treatment for pneumonia, but there's no way you would say it's independent of external factors. That depression is affected by external factors should neither be controversial nor related to your concerns about society's acceptance of its treatment. You seem to be conflating "dependent on external factors" with "arises due to bad life decisions", which is bizarre as it's kinda the exact thing you're worried about.
I hate hearing my hard drives grinding away only to find its windows fucking telemetry. I keep trying to shut it off to no avail.
I don't disagree with your concerns, but the way I see it we should either go all the way and ban stuff like alcohol, or accept that if it's legal, then legalizing marijuana if anything will improve things as they are.

I think alcohol by far the more dangerous drug, at least based on what we know now, and yet it's completely accepted in society and often there's even pressure to 'partake'. I would not argue that weed should reach a similar status, and honestly based on the effects it's unlikely to, but even if it did, it would be an improvement.

Plus, when you consider the typical 'abuser', it tends to be an either/or situation when it comes to weed and alcohol. I knew many more people who exclusively use one or the other as a coping mechanism than people who use both.

My ideal approach to figure out what the longer-term impact of weed could be on society is pretty much exactly the coffeeshop approach: don't make the substance as easily available as alcohol (or cigarettes, in many places), but make it relatively possible to get legally if you want it. Basically, give it the status of something like a massage or going bowling (that might be a pun there, I'm not sure). Not something for every day (I'd hope!), but still something easily accessible and defanged of its status as 'illicit'.
No more so than coyotes. Or mountain lions. Both have been known to make appearances in American cities.

Mumbai is also unusual in being a large city that has a national park within its limits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_coyote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Gandhi_National_Park
See for example:

http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v33/n1/abs/1301574a.html

>there are some pretty glaring problems with using other animals to model mental illness in humans

Yes, but the research also looks into stress and depression in human subjects (see above).
author here.. I've pinned that post on twitter. Paul gets it.
Here's a good reference explaining the data:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-o...
> [T]hey would still skew away from scenarios that engineers find boring. Good luck getting them to drive in 2mph stop and go on 880 or 101 during rush hour

I doubt this is because engineers would find it boring. Probably just bad PR to be seen increasing traffic for your experiment.
i hate the output of elm-format, though :( it's very wasteful of vertical space.
This isn't about automating model generation, which is an old goal of many, but of DARPA's involvement in it and the start of a new program to encourage work in this area.
Without getting too political, I don't think Palestine is a great comparison. Are we talking the original borders? The current borders? West Bank plus Gaza? The State of Palestine or the Palestinian Territories?

Palestine in particular is a country that is very difficult to judge the size of, for very political reasons. It's actually far easier for someone to look at a map of Delaware and judge its size than to look at a map of Palestine and judge its size.
You're right. Divide by four, so 500X instead of 2000X. Much more reasonable.
Kinda sucks, since I used to use it as an inaccurate indicator of time remaining while on battery. However, I can't pinpoint the time but I started just paying attention to the percentage and if it was dipping below a certain percentage I would charge it (generally if I'm at home this is 5-10%). I also pay attention to my iStats Menu at the top a lot more than I ever did the battery and usage feature built in.
We asked you to please stop in response to this exact comment just over a month ago. Drive-by posts like this are not what Hacker News is for. We have to ban accounts that refuse to comment civilly and substantively.
This article obviously punted on that question but that gets talked about constantly imo.
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One of my friends asked me how often I reinstall my operating system.

I told him I haven't installed a new OS on my primary PC in 10 years. I just DD it from one drive to another.

DD is by far the easiest way of making bootable media on a flash drive as well. I use that method to create install media for my other computers.
from the post sounds like it still is.
Thanks! We have swim lanes. Your request as I understand it is for detailed swim lane progress reporting (from application to hiring by gender) and linking with a status (blocked). I'll ask our product team to have a look.
Seriously? Linux and BSD, for example, give you complete control over all the information harvested from you.
Watch how far you generalize that view. I realize that "I can do everything with a single...language" can make "everything" mean anything. I had a coworker that helped a middle eastern country with security software. He went full Javascript on it: Node, Mongo, etc. It worked. JS did everything. While he didn't go into details, afterwards he thought it was a bad idea. A great learning experience on when to define "everything" properly as well as what is outside of it.