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Full title is too long: "Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors versus placebo in patients with major depressive disorder. A systematic review with meta-analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis"

This study is being pushed hard by some anti-psychiatry groups. That's because the conclusions say that SSRIs have a statistically significant result, but that might not be clinically significant.

> Results: A total of 131 randomised placebo-controlled trials enrolling a total of 27,422 participants were included. None of the trials used ‘active’ placebo or no intervention as control intervention. All trials had high risk of bias. SSRIs significantly reduced the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) at end of treatment (mean difference −1.94 HDRS points; 95% CI −2.50 to −1.37; P < 0.00001; 49 trials; Trial Sequential Analysis-adjusted CI −2.70 to −1.18); Bayes factor below predefined threshold (2.01*10−23). The effect estimate, however, was below our predefined threshold for clinical significance of 3 HDRS points. SSRIs significantly decreased the risk of no remission (RR 0.88; 95% CI 0.84 to 0.91; P < 0.00001; 34 trials; Trial Sequential Analysis adjusted CI 0.83 to 0.92); Bayes factor (1426.81) did not confirm the effect).

> SSRIs significantly increased the risks of serious adverse events (OR 1.37; 95% CI 1.08 to 1.75; P = 0.009; 44 trials; Trial Sequential Analysis-adjusted CI 1.03 to 1.89). This corresponds to 31/1000 SSRI participants will experience a serious adverse event compared with 22/1000 control participants. SSRIs also significantly increased the number of non-serious adverse events. There were almost no data on suicidal behaviour, quality of life, and long-term effects.

> Conclusions: SSRIs might have statistically significant effects on depressive symptoms, but all trials were at high risk of bias and the clinical significance seems questionable. SSRIs significantly increase the risk of both serious and non serious adverse events. The potential small beneficial effects seem to be outweighed by harmful effects.
Are you saying you not only know of some website that does password hashing client-side but that you also inspect the javascript that site serves you every time you login?
For better or worse I only had a couple years to be a heads down programmer. After management hit, programming became more of a hobby. Some of the gray beards really just repeat 1 year of experience over and over, but many are worth their weight in gold.
> We can't tell you, because of safety reasons

Reminds me of another "security" organization.
No Facebook account, will I be able to visit the US?
The taxes are never dodged. Either Uber pays them (W2) or the independent contractor does (1040). The bigger issue, st least under Obamacare, was if they were elegiabke for group health insurance if they worked more than 30 hours.
So?

I've become very cynical since the past year or so because there is a lot of noise/articles on the net, all knowing what's best for you or wrong with what you are doing. Yet without context or true authority to talk about it. My question these days when I read such article, "What has the author done that is equivalent?" There is rarely anything to be found.

Facebook might have a "code quality problem." But until you have worked at an organization that is big like Facebook please hold forth your tongues or fingers in this case. Startup principles don't apply nor academia. Facebook's "code problem" is what really does happen in the real world with such humongous business enterprises. Lot's of moving pieces in code, in people, in ideas and the amalgamation of these results in what most programmers will see as "code quality problem" yet the market sees as billions of dollars.
Syntax is not programming. Programmers are usually reasonably good at remembering standard software structures, algos, architectures, and problem solving strategies.

But unlike human languages, computer languages have no conventions and they're misleadingly similar-but-different. So it's quite usual to forget Python syntax if you've been using PHP for a while, and vice versa. It's a very common problem.

It's not unlike trying to learn French and German but only practicing one for a few months at a time while ignoring the other.

Repetition and spaced reinforcement are essential for learning. Learning takes consistent, applied, reliable effort, preferably within a timed strategy. Start/stop practice won't do it.

I think Gladwell is an absolutely terrible science writer. He's good at writing books that sell, and good at creating the illusion of psychological insight. But if you want psychological tips that really work, don't go anywhere near his books.
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In Sweden, as government documents, tax returns are public information. Every year after tax season the tabloids print long lists of "The richest people in YOUR neighborhood! Is your neighbor on there?". You can look up anyone you want.
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Lots of possible ways. Peer review is one. It's how resources are allocated in science. If you want to do a project in science you write a grant proposal. Other scientists evaluate your proposal and if your proposal is scored more highly than others it gets funded. Obviously, peer review, like any democratic process, is not without flaws (and many scientists have written rants about how the reviewers of their rejected proposals were idiots), but it works reasonably well in practice.
I'm referring to your solution to the double-spend problem, which is the problem Bitcoin solves in a trustless manner.

> This problem could be solved much more cheaply than in Bitcoin by using signatures by a trusted (e.g. elected) well-known council.

This is a centralized solution, where a group of -- albeit elected -- officials have complete control over the history of all balances. I'm arguing that no one is interested in such a system. No one wants democratic money, when it comes down it, is what I'm arguing. They want trustless money.

I'm also arguing that Bitcoin has monetary value in and of itself -- because it has use value -- and that its dollar price is a symptom of that, not the other way around. Even with zero dollars bidding on bitcoins, Bitcoin can be used for spam prevention -- out of which it was derived in the first place (Hashcash).
Quite a few military personnel pick up few hard skills. Unless you're in a trade/rate with with high knowledge requirements it seemed like they preferred it to keep some people in.

That being said the current business 'prayer' of soft skills, has been an utterly massive boon to military personnel of any rate.
everybody thinks their product brings value.
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The article says that 409a valuations are imprecise, costly, and unnecessary tools that enable founders to prevent the secondary sale of company stock, and disenfranchise employees and early investors.

This is almost 100% hyperventilation.

I took to Medium to try and explain that 409a valuations are:
a government-required, largely commoditized service;
a consistent, objective approach to dealing with the uncertainty of startups;
nothing more than the translation of the startup’s underlying business fundamentals.

Link: https://medium.com/@tim.riser/startup-valuations-are-no-shel...
Why not plan tasks like that continously and make it part of your normal iterations?
Would it interest you, If you could fix a meeting by a tap on your contact list?
When whatsapp came into picture, there were so many chat clients already (yahoo messenger, icq, orkut chat etc etc) but still whatsapp clicked - reason, its ease of use and the feeling that once downloaded, the users contacts were already there to just chat.
Applying the same logic to meetings, emails are so vague, each person has tons of them, when it comes to inviting people to events, one is really not sure which one to send the invite to. The phone number, on the other had is unique, so we have developed a meetings+tasks based app under the project name "meetnumber". Would love to hear your esteemed feedback and advice on what you think of it and what can be done to make it better. This is a MVP.
What other engineering discipline would say "there's no way to improve our reliability except stopping work altogether"?

All of them. Are your roads more reliable when they're constantly being changed or when they are just being maintained? Is NASA achieving its reliability by constantly changing the designs of their ships, or by reusing the same design over and over?

Arguably, with formal verification, you could ensure large parts of your system are perfectly reliable given simple assumptions.

Yes. But a fixed formally verified system will still be more reliable than a formally verified system being constantly changed.

What was said wasn't that FB couldn't be more reliable. It's that they are already so reliable that only new changes introduce problems. Sure you can still work on minimizing those problems, but that's a different point.
Why can't there be both perfect competition and one company that serves most of the market? If one company is better at resource allocation than all others, their market share will probably outgrow the competition, until someone else figures out how to do it better.

But if everyone is essentially running the same strategy, the biggest player will win by force of momentum. (See also the reasoning behind dozens of copycat food delivery startups trying to "growth hack".)

Either way, you end up with a few players dominating the market with their locally optimal resource allocation.
Try turning off any of the incredibly invasive features in Android. If you try to turn off constant location, for example, maps starts throwing all sort of cryptic messages at you. You can't use google play without an account. They want to get you to log into Chrome so they can hook up your desktop searches to your mobile searches and profile you. If you've ever used Ok Google, every word you've ever said to it is recorded and stored in their servers.

Their entire existence revolves around extracting your personal information to sell you things, to profile you and sell that information to others to sell to you.

When you actually look at what they're storing about you Google's shockingly invasive.

They steal traffic and revenue from content creators, and are getting ever more brazen about it because they know the content creators have nowhere else to go. They use their dominance in search to promote their own sub-standard offerings, exactly as Microsoft did years ago. They've systemically attacked and destroyed other aggregators, while at the same time getting those aggregators to normalise that content so they can scrape and steal it in the form of data annotations, etc. to present the data directly to users without redirecting the user to the site that's actually provided the information.

It's not at all a noble cause and it definitely hop, skipped and jumped feet first into evil years ago.

And now they're trying to take over all mobile web traffic with AMP to lock everyone into their search platform.

They're evil coated in Engineer Cool to fool people like you.

EDIT: I do think they're a necessary evil though. If the government stepped in and forced web search to run as a public utility, which sometimes I think it should be, perhaps even at cost, it would decline.
FB did steal the web and your social network. Remember how FB grew? If not, let me remind you: "See which of your friends are also on FB! Just give us your Google and Yahoo contacts". Yes, you gave FB permission to check your contacts, but FB omitted to tell us that they would be HOLDING ON to your contacts forever and ever. FB then sent those contacts, without your permission and not per your request, an email saying YOU were on FB or and email that YOU had asked them to join. Initially there was a little quid-pro-quo, you could also export contacts from FB to Goole and/or Yahoo. This was closed down soon after they gobbled up the contact lists of the world[1][2].

Of course, LinkedIn later did a similar thing, and grew in a similar fashion, but at least there you could, and can, REMOVE the contacts you've handed over without full disclosure.

I willingly GAVE my contacts to Google/Yahoo, and they provided a service for me, GMAIL/YMAIL. Facebook STOLE what I gave to google/yahoo, and they used dark patterns.

The cat is out of the bag, but let's not forget our history.

PS Articles have even claimed that shadow-profiles were created for those who had not signed up yet, which could be matched with actual sign-ups at a later date.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/facebook-google-contacts/

[2] http://searchengineland.com/facebook-you-have-no-right-to-ex...
systemd is far superior to anything else out there. It matured at roughly the same time as docker.

However it doesn't support being the CMD in a Dockerfile. Which is why it's not very common in software deployment scenarios in the post-container world.

For older deployments, it may not be worth switching to systemd because the base OS may not be compatible.

So it's kind of a catch-22.

If you are on baremetal, systemd is much preferable to run it/supervisord
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Isn't that an appeal to authority? Because someone hasn't done X they don't have the right to criticize X?

Facebook's "code problem" is what really does happen in the real world with such humongous business enterprises.

But does it have to be this way?
Just trolling or could you argue that?
link to the project : https://meetnumber.com
I do expect that would happen over time (even to the extent that states would change their tax laws to align with the federal auto-calculated tax systems).

I support most systems that would take the burden and aggravation off the American public. I also worry that it would make it even more opaque than it is today. (I don't believe we'd have the current rate of taxation nor spending if we hadn't instituted a payroll withholding scheme and Americans had to actually save and write a check to the government each year.)
The reasons that you have given might be part of the explanation, but on their own they do not explain it.

Yes, it is true that there is a tax benefit to employers purchasing healthcare insurance, which is tax deductible, and providing it as a benefit in kind.

However, it does not follow at all from that the insurers should benefit: their costs are not affected and in a competitive market, they would price at marginal cost.

Yes, it is true that people in employer plans could be perceived as being a better risk than those who are do not have them.

They would still be better risks (and 'deserving' of a lower premium) however they obtained their health insurance.

So, as I said before, there must be something else going on.

Similar arguments apply to your claim that employers are less price sensitive than consumers - that really is implausible, given their buying power and incentives to maximise profits.
Hearing how your open-source repo helps others is one of the best things ever
To save me some time and to be able to reuse my Html5 knowledge when making my native iOS app, I came up with a solution that I shared with others via a Github repo. Weeks later I heard from one of the users of how my open-source contribution helped their struggling project. You can read about it on my blog here, https://goo.gl/Ewp3Dr.
Hold forth = To talk at great length.

Have you used it as such?
A huge number of jobs are not in the urban cores of cities so those who live in cities need to drive to them.
But it's not better, it is worse as clearly put forward by this article. ;)

We shouldn't attribute Facebook's success to poor quality code, unless we really believe that 429 people working that that slow sluggish app is productive. Do you?

Maybe Facebook would be in a better situation than they are if they had a firm foundation? What happens when a competitor comes along and knocks on their door? That mess of code becomes an anchor.

They succeeded not because "worse is better" but because ...they succeeded, maybe because they had the greatest social network in the world to expand within, or because of some other reason we don't know. But they didn't succeed because of worse is better, they succeeded in spite of it.
People are building toy systems that work in limited scenarios, not putting in the hard engineering work to build robust, generally applicable systems. (Unless there's some significant hobbyist self-driving system I don't know about? The closest thing I can think of was comma.ai and that was barely at the "won't drive off a fairly straight highway, probably" stage.)
I'm the opposite. I will never buy from you if you only offer paypal. I will take anything over paypal.
They graph the number of incidents. Even if a bad release impact only 0.3% of the user base, it's still an incident.

They have to investigate it, revert or fix the bad code and start the deployment process again.
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Ouch. Duly noted. :)
> it cannot possibly be explained by parenting or practice, because these children are so young and otherwise are very homogeneous

I disagree; parenting during the earliest years makes a huge difference. By the time they get to elementary school, some parents have been reading to their kids and some haven't, some parents gave their kids more educationally incline toys and some didn't, and some kids, whether by parental choice or by chance, have been watching more educational programs on television or less.

Early brain development is fast enough that even a few years of environmental factors can absolutely make a difference.
I think I misread the OP. You're right that there's no straightforward way to make Facebook more reliable on weekdays than on weekends.
why do they need a union, i thought they could choose their own rate?
> To get to the next level you would have to create an independent project that you submit to the committee.

What use is it to be able to create an independent project when 100 per cent of your work consists of delivering implementations according to specifications created by other people, using interfaces created by other people?

Being able to create a single-developer green field project takes you about one fifth the way to being able to survive in large projects (where "large" may also mean a very simple project embedded in layers over layers of process, politics and regulations).
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Even so, with an organization the size of Facebook, it'd still cause a lot of churn. I don't know if there's any hierarchy there, like, lead developers and architects that can align architecture and maintain quality and consistency.
How can a citizen be free if cops try to enforce laws that they merely imagine, while everyone else has to use the legislative process?
Until someone provided s counter-example the assumption is that yes, this is just what happens. We have entire industries of competing methodologies, some almost cult-like in their slavish devotion to "the one true process", and none have birthed any great successes. Why is that?
What's the difference between this plain "hash" you're sending and a plain "password", other than intentions?
They got it wrong on purpose.
If you hash the password on the client, that hash IS the password. The attacker can just replay that request and can authenticate as you.
I agree up to a point. Certainly the implication you should not continue doing something if a) you think it's fun and/or b) you think it's important seems wrongheaded to me and not a very fun way to go through life. I'm never going to be as smart as Andrew Ng, but I still have fun building ML systems and pipelines.

That said, there are times when I've given up and felt like it was the right thing to do. I went to a pretty good school for Physics because I was sure that was what I wanted to do with my life. After 2-3 years, through no lack of effort on my part, it was just super clear I wasn't going to make the cut--I just didn't have it. I worked hard and got okay grades, but as the material got harder, it was just plain to see who was separating from the pack and those kids just had something I never would, and hard work wasn't going to do it. If I didn't put in 10k hours, I came damned close.

I dropped Physics as a major, switched to Math, dropped the idea of academia as a career and have never looked back. An honest look at one's talents relative to peers and competitors is still important.
I agree up to a point. Certainly the implication you should continue doing something if a) you think it's fun and/or b) you think it's important seems wrongheaded to me and not a very fun way to go through life.

That said, there are times when I've given up and felt like it was the right thing to do. I went to a pretty good school for Physics because I was sure that was what I wanted to do with my life. After 2-3 years, through no lack of effort on my part, it was just super clear I wasn't going to make the cut--I just didn't have it. I worked hard and got okay grades, but as the material got harder, it was just plain to see who was separating from the pack and those kids just had something I never would, and hard work was going to do it. If I didn't put in 10k hours, I came damned close. I dropped Physics as a major, switched to Math, dropped the idea of academia as a career and have never looked back. An honest look at one's talents relative to peers and competitors is still important.
I get the idea and I can see why you might want a service like this, but unless you're famous (for some value of 'famous') wouldn't disconnecting from Twitter by not looking at it and not posting mean you won't get actually any DMs or mentions any more? This service won't actually do anything after a month or two.
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It should be compulsory for everyone to be a member of a union as the HR staff at Uber have recently shown. It's much better to let your Union representative deal with sexual harassment charges than your company's internal departments. In the UK there is ACAS as well but being a member of a union is important for all sorts of reasons; fair pay and better working conditions are just two.
I think thats pretty unfair of you and it doesnt seem like thats what they were saying actually
You could definitely be right but I don't think I know enough to say
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> It’s important to clarify at first: I’ve personally typed and carefully went through every single email I sent

I think if this is true then it's really not spamming. At least if someone was to do proper research and mail me without being too salesy (e.g. not including a link) then I would be okay with it.

Spamming is more like mailing a hundred people without trying to communicate just trying to make people click a link.
Picking up Tesla's table scraps for $16B seems like a losing move.
I think the most part of the talent is that your brain likes doing given thing. You enjoy it. That is, unless somebody is forced to, she's unlikely to spend 10K hours on something she doesn't like.

"Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do." - Bob Ross

But it doesn't mean that anybody can achieve anything. Just that one can become a master in a field in which he's happy to put these 10K hours.

I'm yet to meet a great coder who wouldn't enjoy coding.