skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We've made a condition that is largely out of your control a taboo and I don't know why."

The reason "why" is (I suspect) because the people who don't understand depression think that it's not out of one's control. Thus, since they don't experience the effects of depression, they insist that people with depression will be magically cured if they just tried to be happy.

This approach to curing depression - much like trying to fix a severed limb by pretending it's still there - is almost always destined to fail. When it does inevitably fail, the non-depressed people - still failing to understand depression - resort to blaming the depressed people for being depressed.

It's very unsurprising, after all, much like how it's unsurprising for a physically-healthy person to take for granted the ability to use stairs, or how it's very unsurprising for right-handed UX designers to assume that users are right-handed (I'm looking at all y'all Android designers...), or how it's very unsurprising for developers to brush aside bugs with their software because it "works fine on my machine, so you're obviously just doing it wrong; RTFM".

No, I already Read The Fucking Manual™; you just suck at comprehending that your exact situation is not everyone else's.
The active component of tooth-brushing is removal of mutans-type bacterial colonies from the teeth.

Cavities do not form without cariogenic bacteria, provided with a food supply of simple sugars. If you have such bacteria, there are several ways to inhibit cavity-formation, such as by chemically hardening bioapatite with fluoride ions, or by re-mineralizing tooth enamel.

Communities would be better served by mutans eradication efforts, even though they could cost far more than the $1/person-year that fluoridation costs.

If I had the cash and political backing, I would put mutans-specific bacteriophages and tricalcium phosphate in a municipal water supply. I'd then subsidize dental office visits for persons in the affected area, such that anyone desiring fluoride treatments can get them at no additional charge, and offer gratis chlorhexidine/xylitol mouth rinse after every visit.

Kill the S. mutans; end cavities.
LOTS of things affect epigenetics. It currently appears to be a messy, relatively non-deterministic process with lots of different pathways crossing wires with lots of other different pathways.

A snapshot of my mental model of epigenetics (warning: epigenetics/histone modifications are not my particular field of study): "The methylator slides along DNA to methylate histone tails at location 32 of histone 2 while in simultaneous competition the demethylator demethylates methyl groups of histone 1 at locations 4, 12 and 18 under most conditions, or location 32 of histone 2 IFF it is within three histones of an acetylated histone which itself has its acetylation competing with a deacetylator - constantly. And if a certain set of marks occur appropriately in combination, a set of neighboring histones wrap up and hide themselves and their DNA - preventing its hidden DNA from being used in that cell until some other mechanism can unwrap that section. Oh, and (most of) those marks are copied to children/daughter cells right along with the copying of DNA."

Because it's so fickle, non-deterministic, and tangled (unlike it's DNA counterpart) it's actually pretty hard to study and is currently (like this afternoon, down your street) a topic of a significant amount of cutting edge research. As the wikipedia article above shows, the 'Histone Code' is still a work in progress, and it now appears unlikely that there is a 1:1 relationship between this chemical mark and that effect, very much unlike the very nice deterministic relationship we found between DNA->RNA->Protein.

One common change I've read about that bubbles up to normal life is the capability of nicotine to affect histone acetylation. It seems to rapidly alter histone modifications so as to make other habits/actions more addictive [1] (precisely in a way that we now know THC does not - the original 'gateway drug' mis-extrapolation).

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/why-nic...
Can't wait for the next entry in the series: How to Not Be Depressed: Stop Being Depressed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13366542
It does reference the French! It's a reference to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frangokratia
While I would agree with you a company is the sum of its people and right now the personnel at Apple has changed just way too much.

I'm not as hopeful - Apple will continue to be a behemoth, but I'm afraid the magic is gone. It may not go down the path of HP, but it will be closer to Dell in the future than to Apple at its Zenith.
Swift 4? Wow, they surely are iterating quick... How's the backwards compatibility in Swift between major versions? If I understood correctly, Swift 3 was supposed to be the first production-ready release. Or am I wrong?
The 2010 Mac Pro is also very upgradeable (and fairly cheaply too). I upgraded mine from a 2.4ghz 8-core to a 3.3ghz 12-core w/ 128gb RAM, very very fast SSD, USB3, and much improved graphics card (driving five displays). The only thing it's lacking that I'd want is Thunderbolt really. Yes, newer processors are a little faster, but the main benefit of Haswell and later CPUs is much lower TDP for mostly same-ish performance. For my usage, I'm much less concerned about power usage / heat, so it doesn't effect me much.
By my understanding, ANY person who in the course of their work encounters child pornography MUST report it to the NCMEC.

IN the past, I know that film developers were obliged to report child pornography to the police and I'm assuming that this applies here as well.
Of course people in the civil rights movement broke laws.

They also understood that they'd likely be arrested and prosecuted. And many were.
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A great domain name can be a great personal motivator too.
If you're buying expired domains you'd be wise to learn a little bit about how to spot google penalties.

It would suck to buy a domain where a bunch of shady SEO had been done by the previous owner. It will make ranking in google that much harder.
spot on Mike..

If your domain idea fizzles, there is still value in the domain name itself..
It's insane to use fundraising as a proxy for success, especially for venture capital. If YC grads are raising less money, it could easily mean their businesses are more successful.
It's one thing to say "I don't want to discuss this topic," even though that will inevitably leave you intellectually weaker for having not discussed your opinions or interacted with those who disagree. It's something else entirely to say "I don't know ______ but refuse to discuss it because reasons," which is what the GP did. That's what I took issue with.

And people on both sides feel passionately. People can disagree passionately, that doesn't mean it's toxic. HN is very rarely, almost never toxic. If you want toxicity, try discussing this topic... literally anywhere else on the internet, or a lot of places offline. HN is actually the perfect place for this type of discourse because the community is largely not toxic. Unless you're referring to someone just getting downvoted for having an unpopular opinion, which I don't think you are.
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The entire Silk Road debacle showed that law enforcement itself has become massively corrupt. The long-term effect of the case is further distrust of the government and law enforcement.
> When you are depressed, see if there's a serious problem in your life that is causing you to be depressed

You are under the common delusion that depression is caused by something in a person's life/environment.

This is NOT TRUE!

Depression is often caused by nothing whatsoever. Someone is simply depressed with absolutely no reason at all.

Depression that is caused by something is not strictly depression, it is a semi-normal response to difficultly and people will automatically fight to try to make life better - you don't have to tell them to do that. (The problem comes when they aren't able, or don't know how, to fix things.)

Depression is caused by nothing. The brain is just not working right. You just have to wait it out, learn coping methods, sometimes drugs, or sometimes you may be able to do a physical activity that gets the brain working right again.

If you can internalize that depression is not caused by circumstance you will go a long way toward understanding people with depression.
Looks like Home market value
https://www.twilio.com/marketplace/add-ons/nextcaller-advanc...
By virtue of the typical working hours of engineers alone, they are unlikely to drive in the same conditions, roads, and traffic as normal drivers. Their operating hours skew heavily towards driving in city traffic during non rush hours. They skew heavily away from driving at night, during rush hour, during lunch times, and during extreme weather events.

I would also feel comfortable assuming that even if they put an effort into driving at similar times as other people, they 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.

Seeing them on the road commonly is not a guarantee that their driving patterns are representative. Their driving patterns are deliberately designed to not be representative...not because it helps their metrics, but because it is the only feasible path for development. Back when the first DARPA challenge was around, the only objective was to make it from point A to point B in an empty, flat, and mostly obstructionless desert (and everybody failed). By the time of the last challenge, they had to navigate a suburban-ish area devoid of people but populated with demarcated roads and carefully placed obstructions. Now they are on relatively slow city streets with actual people but controlled times/conditions.

So this phenomenon is obviously not new...SDC engineers have known this from the beginning. But now we have a new class of SDC boosters that don't actively involve themselves with development and don't seem to realize that their metrics are representative of the current state of SDCs and not a guarantee that can reliably extrapolate.
I think that you could consider the co-adaption as a form of greedy local optima (I think this is a very handwavy explanation, though, and I'm having trouble forming it better, so take with that what you will). Dropout prevents that by not allowing the 'greedily optimal paths' to form, since sometimes they don't exist, so you can't rely on them too much.
I wonder if it reflects how they manufacture them. Do they print the keycap labels on demand?
The FM band is useless for anything else. The antennas are too big, the noise floor too high and the band too narrow. Nobody are going to make a chipset only for countries where they AND all their neighbors have turned off the FM band. Radio waves dont stop at the border
Facebook's diversity push hampered by its own hiring practices
From The Daily WTF: https://twitter.com/TheDailyWTF/status/818843597822951424
Zume Pizza models how robot workers can create jobs for humans
Agreed. Descriptive.dot.com domain names are the equivalent of generic cereal boxes. I want to go to Amazon for my books, not books.com.

I will never go to food.com, or glutenfree.com, or anything of the like. Amy's Kitchen on the other hand sounds compelling.

I trust my pets with rover.com, but dogsitting.com? No way.
There are some bars that encourage weed smoking, often those that were once a coffeeshop themselves but lost their license (Hill Street Blues, for example). The vast majority of bars in the city however would be quite upset with it and do forbid it.
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Some people are adverse to mediocrity.
Except that the 3.5" disks were not only smaller but higher capacity and more robust than 5.25".
Show HN: Chummy--the first social app for good deeds
That's funny, it's a web-based privacy dashboard that only works when you link your Windows 10 account with your Microsoft Live account. In other words: the opposite of privacy.

Your bing search history shouldn't be linked to your identity in the first place. Same for cortana and edge. So Microsoft isn't getting any kudos for allowing users to see what kind of data is being collected on them (which they have to do by EU law anyhow).

I applaud any serious projects that advance privacy but this ain't it.
It's telling that the lowest telemetry level is considered a premium "Enterprise" feature [1], and there's no way to disable it entirely.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con... CTRL-F "windows 10 enterprise"
For me, I trick my brain with indirection.

When I'm just sitting around saying "am I happy yet?", I never am. It just reinforces the depression by reminding me of the challenges. Happiness, in my experience, is the sort of thing that I can't usually produce on demand.

But I can set yourself up for success. I ask myself what tends to make me happy, and then I make the hard decision to legitimately engage with it: I challenge myself to be swept up in the moment, even though it really seems like I won't be.

For example, I generally find happiness by making progress on the things I'm invested in. But, even though I am invested in being happy, I can't just dive into coding and expect it to work, because coding isn't actually what makes me happy: coding helps me accomplish things I care about, and that makes me happy.

So, first, I find a self-contained goal, like "I'm gonna work on this really cool project because it's really cool", or "I'm going to make progress in this video game because it challenges me to think in new ways". Fulfilling this goal for its own sake, because I'm legitimately invested in it, is what makes me happy. In order to succeed at happiness, I carefully choose a different target, and focus on it instead.

That's what's been working for me recently, anyway.
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Its spotty at best, when you live in an area with hills all over, LTE/gsm is not your friend.
I learned this one looking at mathematics graduate students. There's plenty for non-geniuses to do, but someone who wants to be exceptional at their work should almost certainly pick a different field. There's a ridiculous amount of brainpower in the field, and if you're not near the top you're never going to be one of the superstars.
I think linux is nice and all. But i've had my share of issues with Ubuntu & video card drivers over the years. I've tried to run dual boot on my PC at home, and haven't had much luck keeping it stable. I think the best experience I had was running Ubuntu back around 2008, 2009, on my dell inspiron laptop. Wireless was a challenge, but otherwise it ran great.

On the weekend I picked up a laptop I ordered during boxing day sales. An asus rog with a gtx 1070 in it. More for going to gaming events and that, but I put linux mint on the second hard drive so I can mess around from time to time. Haven't tested the web cam, but most things seem to work fine. I guess time will tell if it's something I want to move to (still use a mac at work)
>At Microsoft, we are deeply committed to protecting our customers’ privacy. This includes providing clear choices and easy-to-use tools that put you in control of how your information is collected and used.

LOL here I stopped reading this FUD. Do they still re-enable telemetry when updates to them are installed?
I support this statement. Not a book for beginners, IMO
Ironically 15 minutes before reading this post I boxed up my 15 inch Macbook Pro and shipped it back via UPS. Similar to the OP it was the battery life that did it for me. My older 2011 17" MBP has equal battery life with it's original 5.5 year old battery! I saw the potential of the touch bar once IDEs support it, but it still was annoying that I would hit it by accident while coding.

So I'm sticking with Apple, as I've been using them since the Mac Plus days. But now I'm wondering what to buy? Wait for Apple to hopefully fix this model in a refresh or by a used or refurbished 2015 Retina model.

I've considered switching to Windows/Linux but I don't relish the thought. I don't use Adobe creative apps any more so I could switch.

This is the first time I've returned an Apple product.
Going public can open the political floodgates for tech companies
The post is part of a blog. If you read other posts in this blog all those things are expanded on and explained more.

I guess each individual post is disjointed. they aren't meant to stand alone but be part of a collective.
>What? No disease is independent of external factors.

This statement is true only in the narrowest sense and is actively harmful to people with mental health issues. Let's compare depression and cancer to see why.

It is common to say something like "cancer is independent of external factors" to mean that anyone can get cancer. It doesn't matter how healthy of a lifestyle you live. Due to random chance, the guy who regularly works out and eats fresh vegetables and avoids toxic substances can get cancer when the guy who watches tv all day, eats nothing but twinkies, and smokes like a chimney might never get cancer. The first guy's cancer was out of his control.

When people talk about depression being "independent of external factors" what they're trying to say is depression can happen to anyone. It doesn't matter how healthy your "mental lifestyle" is. Depression, like cancer, is a disease. Some things may make depression more likely, but anyone can get it at anytime and there's nothing you can do to completely prevent it.

No one feels ashamed for getting treatment for cancer because society recognizes that cancer is disease that can happen to anyone. But people feel ashamed for getting treatment for depression because most people believe "depression doesn't happen to normal people." If you make statements like the parent's about depression but don't make similar statements about cancer, then you are actively contributing to the problem even if your statements are factually correct.
I wish they'd just start using i73970 or i57600k or whatever, thats what most hardcore users look at anyway
It's called Ham Radio. ;)
> If everything was going well (including your own health), you would not be depressed.

Sorry, but that just isn't true. People can be depressed for no reason whatsoever. See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13367913
This company is tackling the same problem with a slightly different approach. I like that they have made their tools open source and modular. Theoretically you can use their system with any language by writing a few modules.

https://sourcegraph.com/
I never said to ban them. I think my wording was really badly chosen. By "rely" I mean people (and I've seen this on numerous occasions) who write code without a plan and then use the debugger to adjust it till it's working, instead of thinking about the code and then using the bugger to fix misconceptions about the own or foreign code.
I’ve wanted to build something like this for a while, down to the 1-minute length restriction and follow/reply interaction. (And to go with it, a small low-power smartphone without a screen!) The main thing that stopped me was that I was working at Facebook when I came up with it.

However, I probably won’t be using this for one reason: waves are ephemeral, deleted from their servers after a week.
If you understand that buying a machine is a subjective decision, then you should also realize that you can't reject the premise that the best product is no longer available, because "the best product" is likewise subjective.

A lot of people saw the old MBP as the best out there, and now it's gone, and that upsets them. "Buy something else" is not a good response to that.
> The problem comes with how you define success.

Exactly. With math, you must focus on the journey at least as much as the destination. While the proof motivates the effort, the mastery of math comes not in deriving elegant proofs, but in devising 'A' proof, then remembering how you did it so you can later: 1) use the method again in other proofs and 2) improve on the proof, often by learning from others. Nobody jumps straight from zero to hero.

Like chessmasters, only the best mathematicians invent techniques. Most just employ what they've learned in inventive combination play.
Interesting, thank you. I'll read up on this.
ok... just made this shotgun. now what?

you're all idiots.
The wonderful thing about standards is that they're, well, standard.

USB Video Class devices can all use the same driver, instead of every new webcam needing it's own special software to work. USB HID devices all use the same driver, so I don't have to know I'd my specific keyboard and mouse are supported.
Swift 3's goal was source stability, but Swift 2 and arguably Swift 1 were production-ready. Swift 4's goal is ABI stability, as well as source compatibility (via a compiler flag) with Swift 3 code. In any case, Swift is basically incrementing by one major version per year. Swift 1.0 was September 2014, Swift 2.0 was September 2015, and Swift 3.0 was September 2016.
HTTP/2, gRPC, and the future of linkerd
Apple is definitely a fashion brand - and their marketing tactics and positioning are mostly aspirational - the underlying commodity is tech.

This is why Apple hired Angela Andrents - who's background is 100% fashion (she re-built Burberry) and 0% technology.

Think about that for a moment: the hired their #1 marketing person with ZERO tech background :).

Who is the 'other' most powerful person at Apple? It's Johhny Ive - a designer - who is very much in the vein of fashion/design, and understands that ethos.

Their store layouts, marketing, pricing strategies - all from luxury fashion.

Yes - the build 'quality' products - I agree - and their products are not too far off the spec pricing for similarly 'quality' gear.

BUT - I would argue that 'high end spec' is just not relevant for most applications even for development.

A decent, middle of the road PC would de-facto provide enough RAM/disk space+speed/CPU to do the job, so long as the form factor is robust enough (and there are a few) - I think they would do just fine.

This is a pretty crude but not unreasonable comparison:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-macbook-pro-13-...

The Macbook is 2x the price across 'mostly' equivalent measurements. (I understand there's more to it, but pragmatically, they are pretty close).

FYI - Luxury brands specifically price on the high end no matter what, they don't ever go on sale - and unlike most other consumer goods - the perception of value goes down if they ever hit mass market appeal. For luxury goods, there has to be an element of 'status' with the purchase, which is what Apple does very effectively, and obviously.

But it's not clothing - so they have to keep up the 'wow' factor, and be 'unquestionably the best', not just in benchmark measurements - but in aspirational terms.

Case and point: 'Siri' - what a useless thing. But they packaged it and sold it in a manner that 'wowed' the consumer market. 'It was the future!'. So this needs to continue in order to hold their pricing model.

That said, I don't think they're going to crash that far. I'm stuck on Mac, I don't want to go through the pain of switching, and eventually I'll bite the bullet and buy a new Mac, but for the first time in a long while I'm thinking of switching.

I'm not doubting that Apple products are pretty good, and that they are not too-too far off given their specs.
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on 2. the official statements have always been that it is to stop human trafficking (indeed cleaning up criminals).
If there is a conspiracy behind it, I don't know.

on 3. I know that in my city the coffeeshop rents the building, rent protection law does not allow the owner to kick a renter out without very good reason (not going to get specific here). The owner (renting company) wants the coffeeshop out, it has tried more than once. They want to re-purpose the building and make more money of the big building in the centre of the city.