skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but when you look across 522 studies with more than 100k participants, evidence of efficacy is indisputable:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29477251
> What study shows LSD is more dangerous than SSRI’s?

Except that's not how it works.

How it works is that SSRIs have been tested in trials, and are approved.

LSD isn't. When someone says "try LSD" (or psilocybin which seems the newest rage these days) it means they'd illegally acquire the drug (who know for sure what drug they bought? [EDIT: and who knows the dosage/strength of active substance(s)?]), and administer it recreationally without the aid of a professional.

SSRIs, in contrast, are clinically tested, legally acquired, and administered under the guidance of a professional.

> Antidepressants can also cause psychotic episodes, panic attacks, suicide, etc.

Yes, but these side effects are widely documented. There are more common side effects, btw. These are the extreme ones you mentioned, and also the most rare ones. Many side effects are temporary. And if you are suicidal, it is unlikely you get SSRIs prescribed. Unless you lie about that, of course, but if you lie to your MD you're on your own.

My recommendation is simple: seek professional help. If you don't want to take SSRIs, fair enough; your MD won't force you. Heck, they might even be reluctant to prescribe them. But professional help is much more than drugs. Think about CBT, mindfulness, under the guidance of professionals; not self-medicating new age hippies.
The article is wrong: The number of email addresses is NOT INFINITE.

The 'user' part of an email address (before the @) has a maximum length of 64 characters. If n is the number of non-dot characters in the user part, then only (64 - n) dots can be added to the address for it to still be valid.

The valid email addresses for that user are a subset of all 64 character combinations possible with dots, alphanumeric chars, _, and a finite set of characters that I don't remember right now. That is a finite set, therefore the subset is also finite.
Having read 2001, A Clockwork Orange, and Lolita, I'd say Kubrick's end products justified his changes.

Imagine A Clockwork Orange having a happy ending... Well, that's how the book ends.
It opens with a very strong claim.

Bitcoin is a lifeline for citizens and residents of Venezuela.

It actually does seem harmful to frame “pro-crypto” in those unlikely terms. Or in other words, how does inventing an abstraction layer on top of your original failed currency, obtained by burning fossile fuels, help the average Venezuelan trying to buy food and sundries? It seems more like slapping a bandaid on a sucking chest wound and claiming that you’ve helped the patient.

I’m not interested in the “crypto space” and what it needs, especially in a discussion of an article purporting to describe what the people of Venezuela need. Unless those two things overlap to the degree that it’s a “lifeline” for those people, it reeks of the usual pumping of cryptocurrency that seems to pervade the “space” in question.

Bmelton: Between the distortion of the original Economist article used in this article, and this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16783272

I’d say that’s not what this is about. This currency is just a laundry for dollar bills.
As someone currently on a somewhat high dose of sertraline (100mg b.d.), "numb themselves out" feels like an odd descriptor to use. That seems more like a benzodiazapine-class drug, and certainly doesn't match my experiences (it makes me more prone to insomnia, which I would not associate with a numbing agent) and wouldn't be otherwise be enjoyable/desirable but for the fact that it treats real problems (for me, OCD and anxiety disorder).

> Just say "No!"

They are probably over-prescribed, but a blanket "No!" ignores the cases where they do work, and provide a significant increase in quality of life.
As a security researcher in india, Aadhaar is riddled with Security holes that are glaring. There is clear way to report these issues and nothing gets fixed.

I've had a possible-RCE vulnerability reported to UIDAI since February-2017 and there has been no action. The CERT-IN (Indian equivalent of CERT-US) has been aware of the issue, but there is no fix in sight.

The easiest to do exploits (fingerprint cloning) are already happening: https://www.medianama.com/2018/03/223-cloned-thumb-prints-us...
I have the same issue, except I have a 6 character nickname using 3 unique characters at gmail and people use it for all sorts. Games, flights, utility bills, shopping sites, phone contracts, dating sites and much more. From all over the world. I had someone else's dropbox too, and even after the continued warnings they would cancel it and had cancelled it there were messages to access it still, that it was still there with the ability to view data.

The strangest by far though is the huge amount of gmail accounts created with my email as the backup. I have to assume that wording on some localisations indicate you need one so they mash the keys and pop in my gmail.

So I have hundreds of security alerts for recovery and notifications it has been set.

Funny old world.
Indeed, my wife gets this problem all the time on gmail because her name is a fairly common one. The dots don't enter into it in the general case.
Why do you treat this as only having two sides?

In the "Platform" battlefields you have Microsoft, Apple and Google fighting for the end-users. On the infrastructure side Amazon is also making a play here with all of the AWS options and Google and Microsoft are also fighting there.

In the "Social" battlefield, you have Facebook, with Microsoft+LinkedIn+Xbox carving out some niches and Google flailing wildly at everything.

In the "Creepy Stalkering" battlefield (which overlaps some with Social) you have Facebook getting people to give up data and Google just silently watching .everything.you.do. muahahahaha. Facebook also watches as much as possible via website badges and sharing, but doesn't have near the reach of Google with searches + Analytics.

I'm sure there are other battlefields I'm not listing here including things like overlap into the offline world ("Political Influence" anyone?), but it's far from just a 2-sided battle.
Not sure which cut you watched, it does have a happy ending for the protagonist. He enjoys Beethoven again.

EDIT: A friend who read the book initially just said it was not happy, but agreed it is when you only know the movie.
I'm not thinking primarily of transactional emails here. If Gmail allowed dots and allowed registering both "jane.smith" and "janesmith", Jane Smith would be well-advised to register both, because it's going to be the most common mistake people make. It's the same principle that suggests that if you own a .org address you should probably go ahead and buy the .com, too.
Like I said, I know the history and why it exists. I learned Java before 1.5 came out. That API existed long before generics did (I think 1.0 or earlier). If they had designed the language with generics in mind, they would have probably done it differently; hindsight is 20/20. Doesn't make it not a suboptimal API. I don't think there's a good way to fix it this late in the game without breaking old code, but such are the warts of backwards compatibility.
It the advertising. It is annoying in a standard web browser as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16781959
I never used meteor, but from what I understand it's functionality was, I currently use FeathersJS + SocketIO + VueJS (and nuxtJS for serverside rendering).
It's not clear to me that there's anything more than a video yet.

If you accept their invitation to visit their website, you will find a lot more very detailed CGI of ambitious civil engineering projects:

http://www.dahirinsaat.com/en/2015-12-09-18-23-52/videos.htm...

I could be wrong, but i suspect this company is some sort of extended flight of fancy for someone who is either good at CGI, or wealthy enough to afford a lot of it.
As a former disaffected youth I've very much come to appreciate the original ending of A Clockwork Orange as I've gotten older.

While I am a bit of a fan of Kubrick, I think he did the story a great disservice by ending it as he did.
this makes me cringe because Aadhaar does not certify citizenship. Someone who crosses over the border today into India can get a aadhaar without any documents by:

1. using the introducer system (The enrollment center operator would gladly do this for you)

2. signing a checkbox that says they've lived in India for 180 days.
Netflix deliberately doesn't verify sign-up email addresses. They are to blame.
This was my thought as well.

As an aside, I would personally love to meet Michael Moorcock. He is one of my favorite authors.
You get SSRIs under supervision of someone with a medical qualificationa and a professional registration and an indemnity insurance policy.

That's not the case (currently) for LSD, which will be of unknown quantity and unknown purity. It might not even be LSD.

LSD may be great, but telling people with a potentially fatal illness to just go try it is fantastically irresponsible.
Absolutely amazing! Goes to show how far a clever idea can go. I wonder how much better the system can be improved with two cameras instead
An alternate to psychosis as something to interrupt is that it's a biological process that happens when the default mode network isn't sufficient.

The ideal environment is one in which the psychosis can complete.

It's very similar to a psychedelic journey in that with the right set and setting it can lead to deeper compassion, clarity and connection.

I've been through a number of such experiences over the years; I used to be terrified of them and tried to avoid them at all costs.

Now, it's very much an initiation into whatever the next level of my life demands of me. I've learned to make symptoms bigger vs supressing them and in doing so, I recover vital parts of myself.

Without this orientation, I would never have survived so called schizophrenia, bipolar, suicidal depression, psychosis.
> Possibly a security measure?

What I read in the article sounded like the ID was required to submit an entry to the contest, not to be present in the area. I would need more information to comment on alternate reasons.

> You can't authenticate without Aadhaar OTP. And don't expect the government to send OTP to an unverified mobile number.

Authenticate what? Last time I needed a prepaid SIM card (in the US), I bought it on eBay and provided no information other than a mailing address (not mine).
Likely even to a technical reader. Thanks!
yep, all those cancer cures somehow slipped out despite our best efforts to keep them secret.
c'mon, let's be real. The folks who try to develop new treatments are people with family members and friends who get sick too. The reason we struggle for cures is that it's hard!!!
I just don't know why we give these imagined phases any more credence than the coming of the Twelfth Imam.

They simply aren't relevant for talking about the brutal 20th century system of organising human affairs called communism. (Or rather, perhaps, no more relevant than the details of the Imam are to understanding the Iranian regime. If you want to go deep and read between the lines in speeches etc, then of course you have to know the relevant theology.)
Of course it is Microsoft's fault. They could have chosen to put resources into making those projects work better on Windows Phone.

Microsoft made a bet on Xamarin instead.

Also you had to use their proprietary touch events in the webview browser, which (a) was buggy, (b) had little information about how to use it in practice, and (c) the webview was a branch of IE11 specific to Windows Phone. I think for Update 1 the webview supported the Apple touch event API but it was broken (disappeared in update 2).

The dumbest thing is that supporting Cordova properly would have immediately got them a whole heap of lesser known apps without having to give money directly to developers. Money multiplier investments are smart.
I was talking to a friend in med school, and I feel the difference between what exists in biology as we understand it currently, and what is clinically relevant is gigantic. That paper definitely educated a generation.
Zerão
thanks for letting me know!
Yes but that is vastly different from the benefits Aadhaar provides. With a ration or voter ID card, it was impossible to qualitatively figure out if the person was truly below poverty line or not. It was due to Aadhaar that 1 crore+ LPG users gave up their subsidy. This was not due to a sudden change of heart for the fellow poor Indian citizen. It was instead the realisation that Aadhaar was linked to all bank accounts and it would become evident to the government how many of those are really poor. That's precisely the reason so many voluntarily gave up subsidy that they were illegally claiming.

A ration card was being issued to every Tom, Dick and Harry before Aadhaar. The purpose of a ration card was only for those below poverty line and during war times. Plenty misused it for commercial purposes. It's so much better to procure subsidized rice at 2 rupees per kg and sell it in the open market for 50 rupees per kg. Government had no way to track this corruption.

You might look at it as just a replacement for voter ID and ration card, but the real difference is felt by that poor man who is finally getting what was due to him.
You don't even need to go to the level of a drunk person. Imagine driving down a suburban street and a small child darts out onto the road chasing after a ball.
Luckily most doctors don't push this theory, and you don't need it for SSRIs to be effective.
This is a really smart and cool implementation, seems like a kickstarter waiting to happen.
The application of the policy depends on people with moderation abilities seeing it. The first link for example has only been seen about 50 times a month for the past 5 months.

The Skype question is a bit older Its actually 6 years older and has only been seen on average 100 times a month. The answer is "yes, look at [broken link], and [obsolete python library at source forge]". It needs some curation. Are you up to doing it? The other answer says that the answer was action in 2011... and compares it to using IE5.

The fourth link (python mixed integer linear programming) is interesting in that its three and a half years old, has only one answer and has been updated in the past 5 days. The author of that answer has done almost 20 revisions keeping it up to date since then. This is the work that needs to be done on posts to keep it useful and relevant.

Compare with the second answer to Elasticsearch HTTP API or python API:

> You may also try elasticsearch_dsl it is a high level wraper of elasticsearch.

Thats it. A lot more work is going to need to be done to that post to make it useful. That said, this isn't a "does this exist" question its a "Which technique is better for my occasion? The elasticsearch RESTful API or the python API for elastic search (elasticsearch-py)?"

The Fast bipartite matching actually matches that criteria.

The point I'm trying to make is that it takes a lot of work to keep the good questions of this sort good and useful. Otherwise, they end up like the Skype question and become worse than useless in that they make it harder to find the answer on other sources.
Where market competition exists it's effective in limiting prices and spurring innovation. But the natural tendency of successful businesses is to minimize exposure to competition. That can happen by buying the competition even if there's no state. (You can argue that regulatory capture is how successful businesses minimize competition by using the state, and I'm sympathetic to that argument, but it's also just another example of the tendency to eschew competition.)

OPEC is frequently divided against itself in terms of production targets; ExxonMobil is not. In a world without states there's no antitrust regulation preventing ExxonMobil from acquiring a market share equivalent to present OPEC, then exercising that pricing power with more effective discipline.

I am picturing the elimination of the state. And I agree that one can enforce his own property rights.

An entity that answers to no higher authority and enforces its own territorial claims with force is a de facto state. I understand and sympathize with many arguments for personal liberty over the power of the state. I don't understand the implication that unbounded private power is more trustworthy. It's an affront to liberty for the State of Delaware to exist and enforce its laws at the point of a gun, but it's ok if a corporation or family can acquire a Delaware-sized, Delaware-shaped parcel of land and enforce its decrees at gunpoint within those borders? That may not fairly represent your point of view. I have previously had arguments where self-proclaimed anarchocapitalists affirmed that it's fine for a small group of people to wield power equivalent to a state government as long as it's not called a state.
I haven't had issues with the dot feature but have run into problems using plus.

My problem was that I used a "first.last+website@gmail.com" format when I signed up for a website and some time later I needed to contact customer support by e-mail. They had no record of my account because my e-mail came from "first.last@gmail.com" and not "first.last+website@gmail.com".

It turns out there is a way to send mail from "first.last+website@gmail.com" but I don't think it existed at the time.
whether the benefits outweigh the cost, and that is something doctors should discuss objectively with their patients when considering such a treatment.

These substances are yet another instance in the history of psychopharmacology where the touted benefits have been exaggerated and the harmful side effects denied.
They have their place, but in the bodies of a sizable fraction of the current patients is not it.
Alternate: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/business/media/amazon-goo...
Previously posted (including comments from the author): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745998
Already exists professionally (as in -- commercial product). Sadly I don't remember a name.
This doesn't seem to answer all the questions.
> Both drugs have mechanisms of action we don’t fully yet [sic] understand, and both may cause serious side effects.

This is an extremely narrow and arbitrary ruleset you are applying...

If not merely because of the word "fully". That's a given in science.

> How is suggesting psychedelics more dangerous than suggesting the use of antidepressants?

Because psychedelics are not approved, you don't know the source/purity, and there's a lack of professional guidance.

Yes, you can get a panic attack on SSRIs. I had that when I started Fluoxetine because I almost fainted because my blood pressure was low whilst I was in a grocery store and had barely eaten. It happened a few times, though less severe (it is just low blood pressure), and went away after I got used to the drugs, which took longer than average.

SSRIs are not psychoactive, and better studied.

Finally, SSRIs are used under guidance by a professional. Recreational drugs, in contrast, are not.
KMA, Sandberg.

If our US politicians were honest and respected the will of the citizens - - - as they do in Europe, instead Facebook bribes them with millions $$$$ to keep the status quo, so citizens get no privacy.

Move to Europe where citizens still control their Governments.
Thanks for the outreach Scott!
I had one and for me it was absolutely the lack of apps and I think that is the way for most people. Even if I don't use many it was pretty annoying not to be able to use my banks app, a good workout app or a local taxi company app.

None of those are critical but thing like that is annoying.
This just points out that capitalism as it is practiced nowadays is unsustainable. Not news, of course, the general functioning of the system is known since the 19th century, but the shoes are starting to drop. Since technological revolutions happen so fast, I wonder if we're already seeing the beginnings of the downfall of all this.
So...it's like zamzar?
Rather than SQL queries, you would be using the R language. Unless you use a package like sqldf. stdin can be read just like any other file.
Sri Lanka: Facebook failed for years to monitor ethnic violence
How is that a bad thing? Sure, a cure would be _significantly_ better, but reducing symptoms can result in a vastly better quality of life.
Does it also work when the screen is displaying lots of images of fingers, like in the demo video itself?
Not entirely. Whichever company comes up with a cure first will gain nearly 100% of the market, and can charge a TON to insurance companies for it. It cuts off long term profits, but investors reward quarterly growth primarily.
Sandberg says: “We have different forms of opt-out,” she said during an appearance Friday on NBC’s “Today.” “We don’t have an opt out at the highest level. That would be a paid product.”

Oh yeah, a PAID product ? Like, as in pay us Facebook back for all the millions we had to bribe your politicians to keep it that way . . . .
I upgraded my iPhone 6s+ from 16GB to 64GB in 武汉市 (Wuhan) for 300元, which is ~£30. The process took around an hour and the phone has worked perfectly since then (3 months ago).

It was quite spectacular to see messy workstations, rough and beaten from hard use (and minimal standards). Stacks of scuffed and well loved equipment were crammed into the tiny space available.

What I appreciate most from the experience is the fact these services are not offered by Apple in the UK/US. It seems like a crime.
Software recommendations has a very small community. If even a small fraction of the questions that get closed as recommendation each day re-asked their question there the 9 questions a day they currently get would get lost in noise. Give [this meta post](https://softwarerecs.meta.stackexchange.com/a/762) a read.
The Graphing Calculator was the most impressive bundled software I had seen by then. And it really did showcase the PowerPC‘s speed vs the previous 68k CPUs. I was surprised to learn that it had to be snuck in that way. I think the project would have merited full support.
You can also view it in the context that the previous AG wasn't working in government interest. In fact, there was a hue and cry about removal of the previous AG by Dr. Subramanian Swamy in the 2G scam case: https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/subrama...
>The article mentions fraud is a big issue.

When tackling fraud, you must look at 1)exclusions and 2)cost.

In the case of aadhaar, we've seen the project baloon in cost and vision over the span of two different governments. There have been savings number reported by the government that have since been redacted by the World Bank (but the government keeps claiming them). At some point, you must take stock and consider if the amount you are spending to tackle fraud in the system - is it worth it?

Also, Aadhaar is not a fraud-proof system. The most common type of subsidy-fraud (for food benefits) is quantity fraud where the shopkeeper would sign away 5kg, but only give you 4kg (and sell the other 1kg at a higher rate on the market). There is nothing in the aadhaar system that prevents it (and other kinds of fraud)

Second: Exclusions. Jharkhand, with the highest rate of authentication failures has had multiple deaths. Due to how the system works now (you receive benefits in your bank account instead of directly getting subsidized rations), it requires double the effort (which converts to one-fewer working/earning day because of the extra bank trip).

https://thewire.in/rights/jharkhand-nagri-ration-pds-direct-... is a harrowing read, if someone's interested.

>* Requiring a government ID to enter a middle school art contest.

We've gone beyond this. Nursery schools in india for toddlers now demand aadhaar numbers of both parents and the kid.
Because depression isn't a lifelong thing, it should be at worst episodic.

Because SSRIs have side effects, and you tolerate those if it's preventing depression, but you might not tolerate them if you're now taking a medication for life.