skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more basic than that. You can't get someone to improve their own situation in a sustainable way if they don't want to put in the work. I think most people when confronted with a hard choice would like to pick the choice that will make them healthier in the long run.

I was confronted with facing my own ADHD a few years ago, which helped me stop making choices that were more comfortable in the moment but had suboptimal long term consequences. An example would be impulsively buying something on credit to make myself feel better, one of many little things I did to dig myself into a financial hole and, if I remember correctly, a very common ADHD thing to do. By opening my mind to the possibility that I had to face my issues, it opened the door to slowly chipping away at the core issue.

One thing to keep in mind is that mental health is a hard thing to work on. It takes several weeks in the best of cases just to figure out what's going on inside your head when working with a good mental health professional, and that's assuming your trying to get better and don't have ant major hang ups about being treated. Ask a psychologist at Kaiser Permanente, an HMO based here in California, how many sessions they can spend with most mental health patients. It's a very low number, something like 6 or 8 sessions.
Here are some numbers from Gloucestershire, a rural county in England.

In a population of about 800,000 people there are about 4,000 people on the books of specialist MH treatment services at any time.

There are about 2,000 people with a diagnosis of psychotic illness (eg, schizophrenia). There are about 3,000 people with a diagnosis of mood disorder (eg, depression).

There are about 60 beds for 'adults of working age'[1] with a MH problem. Most treatment is successfully provided in the community by community and home treatment teams. Staff visit people in their homes daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, whatever. Treatment is not just medical and drugs, it involves therapy, but it also involves occupational stuff. (Occupational stuff does not just mean 'work' (although that's important and there are specialist teams focussed on 'place and train' return to work) but includes meaningful social activity, education, exercise, family and friend networks, etc.)

There are no beds in county for children. Children with a need for a psychiatric in-patient stay are sent out of county. (Apart from a short time each year when adult drug and alcohol re-hab is used for children.)

There are a small number of beds in a low-secure forensic unit.

There is an estimated 30,000 (thirty thousand) (high end) or 22,000 (twenty two thousand) (low end) people with a probable diagnosis of one of the personality disorders.

PD is a difficult diagnosis. It used to be a diagnosis of exclusion. Someone with a diagnosis of PD would not be committed to MH hospital, because PD was thought to be not treatable. PD is no longer a diagnosis of exclusion. Someone with a diagnosis can be committed to a MH hospital. But they are much more likely to find themselves involved in the criminal justice system.

Gloucestershire has had a well known incident where someone with a mental illness has killed - (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1182902.stm) (etc).

The serial killers Fred and Rosemary West lived in Gloucestershire. They killed maybe 13 people. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West)

We hear a great deal about these significant murders. We hear very little about the every day murders - the murders by the sane. Very many children are raped or abused or murdered by their sane parents; very many people are murdered by their sane spouses; very many sane people commit acts of violence every day. We don't hear too much about the number of ill people killing themselves. (UK: about 1000 murders a year, about 4000 suicides per year.)

People with a mental illness are far more likely to be the victims of violent crime than to be the perpetrators of violent crime.

The US does have serious problem with terrible care for people with mental illness. Do you really need a spree killing to start that discussion? Do you walk past the homeless and think it's okay so long as they're not killing anyone?

[1] Historically services have been split between "old people"; "adults of working age"; "children and adolescents"; and "people with an IQ < X". There are problems with these arbitrary divisions, and modern services are moving away from them.
> proprietary innovative autonomous MALE UAV airship

I love when companies try to use "proprietary" as a selling point. The point they're trying to convey is "our competitors don't have this", but the point they do convey to savvy customers is "Hoh boy is there some ugly code in here, and we aren't going to let you see it when something goes wrong."
TorMail
The law may not discriminate between teenagers and children, but I would question the parentalabilities on a parent who still treat their 14 year old as if she was 6 or 9.

As, I imagine, would the child authorities.
Hi, when you say "open", you mean also for workers? Do you have any potential advice for somebody looking for a job over there?
Hyde is another alternative (which I use for my website), particularly for those who like Python over Ruby.

http://ringce.com/hyde

https://github.com/hyde/hyde
Everyone's situation is different. I think Styron nails it down very well and offers a lot of hope. This book has helped many, including myself when I was down and it's a short read. Sometimes depression doesn't have a cause, sometimes it does. Please give it a read (not intentionally promoting amazon, easiest place to find a link): http://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Visible-Madness-William-Styro...
Fixed in new Cyanogen build:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35516282
They're not using it to evade website blocks, they're using it to anonymize themselves and evade being identified as FBI agents.
Yes. There is a difference between "private" and "anonymous".

Encryption often removes anonymity by tying an identity to keys and to a web of trust.
Perhaps not a good chance, but certainly a "better" chance than some languages (C/C++).
I care; people with a variety of interests are more fun to talk to and work with. Those interests need not align with my own. If anything, some variance makes for pleasant unplanned learning. Of course, I'm speaking of real interests that one might have; not things you might do just to pad a resume.
> By the end of the year I’ve already promised this, so the engineers – when I promised it publicly they’re already mad at me so they can keep being mad at me.

Wow I would hate to work at Twitter.
Thank you for sharing your story. I agree with many of the points you made. But I have some questions. Knowing what you know about yours sons condition, would you ever consider taking him out and teaching him to shoot a gun? You said you lock up all the sharp objects around the house, but do you leave out your pistols and semi-automatic guns?

We definitely need to do and learn more about mental illness. But in the case of Adam Lanza, his mother shouldn't have owned guns and should have never been able to purchase one with a child that's unstable and has a history/record.
It's strange to watch the debates around gun control unfold in USA time and again. Here in Australia we did the same thing after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, one of the deadliest spree shootings in world history. After that, the government basically outlawed semi-automatic weapons and did a compulsory buyback.

In the 12 years since we've only had one incident. In 2002, a member of a sport shooting club (one of the few categories of people allowed to own handguns) opened fire in a Monash classroom. He killed two people and wounded five others, but since he could only manage to acquire handguns he had to switch weapons and was tackled to the ground. No doubt things would have been a lot worse if he'd had access to something with a larger magazine. We tightened laws on handguns after that as well.

I find myself surprised that an otherwise relatively pragmatic people get so blind to the consequences of readily available firearms. I don't have any ideological opposition to guns - in fact, I quite like them - but if someone told me that yoga was involved in every killing spree in the last decade it would be pretty silly not to take a serious look at whether ready access to yoga is worth the cost.
Thanks for replying. It sounds like your preferred aesthetic is completely at odds with what we're trying to achieve. No harm in that.
<tinfoil hat>

The head of the CIA is aware of the methods used to extract information from suspects, and thus wants his information to be easily found if he's discovered, rather than requiring him to be extra-ordinarily renditioned and water-boarded.

</tinfoil hat>

I guess it just shows that anonymous and private communication is still really hard for most people, even though we had the work of cypherpunks trying to help.
Don't be so flippant. Some of us have our doctorates from the prestigious WebMD.
But you end up having to use monads if you want to do IO or interact with many popular packages, so being able to use monads well ends up being an essential skill for getting anything done at all.
That's the same design, we just allow the page to adjust to the available screen width.
Can you imagine an article about writing clearly and effectively whch ws wrtn all lik dis??!# It sez good shit, wy u care f its all txtspk?

No, you need to avoid demonstrating the opposite of what you're setting out to teach at the very first moment. Don't put an obvious SQL injection in the form that leads to your article on web security. Don't use a hyperactive loudmouth to promote your massage therapy business. And don't put an article about web design on a site that hurts the eyes.

Is it her fault? I guess not, although I imagine she knew what the site looked like even if she didn't actually design it. Does it mean that the content is worthless? Of course not. Is it a huge red flag that really should not be there? Oh yes.
The Japanese are quite xenophobic and consider immigration to be a last resort. For this reason, they have invested (and continue to invest) large sums of money into robotics research, in an attempt to replace their working population without allowing mass immigration.
A head's up in case it happens to anyone else - That page set of MS Security Essentials as containing a Win32/Pdfjsc.ADF, Phoex.A, and Mult.DC
Bipolar - It’s not a bug, it’s a feature
Actually I never understood what is the true problem kids/people in the US have? Really what is it?

There are nations on this earth where people consider themselves fortunate if they can just eat 2-3 times a day. Probably send their kids to their school(Where education is just for names'sake), have some clothes to wear, not fall ill and live with minimal dignity.

The situation is far better in US, people is US probably don't even have an idea how bad things are for people outside. Most US citizens aren't even remotely likely to face such situations.

I guess at the end its too much luxury, and law of diminishing utility kicking in.

I think people in US should face some real hardships in their lives, what people else where face. May be when they see for themselves how fortunate they were with what they had before. They will learn the importance of things the hard way.
Hetzner has crazy prices. Compared to AWS, one does ask himself if amazon cloud is the right solution
They already know all the answers

That's nonsense. Ever commit "moral turpitude"? You'd need to be a historian of the law to know what they're on about, and the peons behind the desks certainly don't know all the answers.

They also didn't know how to interpret my H-1B after my division was purchased by another company, even at the supervisor level, though I had a thick binder from the company lawyers to explain it all - I didn't use it in the end, I did the visa waiver instead.

I'd maintain that almost all people would be turned back by CBP if their lives were inspected closely enough and the laws and questions interpreted literally enough. It's a game; you need to know which questions they think they have the answer to, and answer as expected for them; and admit no wrongdoing elsewhere. And you may still end up with a jobsworth behind the counter - though my experience of most CBP personnel is that they are reasonably cheerful and pleasant.
we also started with just one dell 4gb box from leaseweb.
Just relating it back to the article, seeing that the mother changed jobs in order to obtain healthcare and fund the care of her child scared me. Not everybody is in the position of being able to obtain such a job, and forcing a parent to fund emergency room trips without insurance could be preventing access to adequate treatment.
Momath - Museum of Math opens in NYC
The big red site title at the top is obscured by the "HOME", "ARCHIVES", etc. boxes below it to the point that it's actually difficult to read. The color choices in that section make everything hard to read. It's not important (I come for the content, not the site title) but it demands attention by taking up half the page and containing horribly clashing colors.

It's just far too busy. There's a white button title on top of a semi-transparent gray button which is on top of a darker gray background which is on top of big red letters which are on top of some sort of weird faux-paper diagonal strips. It's like there was an explosion in the layer factory, and it increases the effort needed to actually read the text beyond what I'm willing to put in.
Japanese society strictly follows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroups_and_outgroups
Flickr already has licensing metadata specified by users when they upload their photos.
At the current birthrate/deathrate, Japan's population will be 60 million by 2100. That's the same population as in the 1920s. So the same population but with almost 180 years of technologic and productivity advances? I think most people would like that.

Tokyo literally employees people to shove commuters into rush-hour trains. Who wouldn't want to live in a Tokyo with the same infrastructure but with 40% fewer people using it? Sounds pretty good to me.
I wish to see the flagged comment. Why this censorship?
Which is strange if you think of it. Imagine you come to the shop and it does not have any kettles, buuut you can buy a stew pot and boil water for tea in it.
Hey, that's fantastic. Thank you for the feedback. I can see how you would need to raise TopoJSON's quantization level for creating zoomable geometry; the default level is designed for display approximately 10,000px by 10,000px, and you'd quickly exceed that if you allow people to zoom in. I probably wouldn't want to change the default, though, as that would make the files larger than necessary for static display. (Perhaps there's a way to decide the appropriate quantization automatically?)

A useful technique with zoomable geometry is using Visvalingam's algorithm to precompute the salience (visual importance) of each point, but not prefiltering; then, you filter the points based on the zoom level during rendering. Thus, the rendered detail increases as you zoom in, but you only need to download one TopoJSON file.

Depending on how much zooming you're doing, breaking the geometry into tiles and zoom-level specific data would be helpful (à la Polymaps), but I think for many visualization applications it's overkill. For example, a single TopoJSON file of U.S. states and counties with enough detail for both a national and state-specific view is easily doable without tiling.

The next release of D3 (3.0) includes streaming geometry transformations. This can enable fast filtering of geometry using the precomputed salience during rendering as described above without the overhead of creating multiple copies of the geometry during the rendering pipeline. Also, D3 3.0 supports rendering directly to Canvas, which is excellent for animated or interactive changes to the projection. For example:

http://bl.ocks.org/4183330

You can see the stream interface here:

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/3.0/src/geo/stream.js
Depression being only episodic? I think not I'm afraid. Many times it is, but there are people with the disease whom never 'recover' in the real sense of the word and require essentially lifetime intervention with therapy, drugs or other treatment. It's a difficult thing to live with and I think part of the problem of understanding is those of us on the outside simply can't understand what it is to be depressed 'all the time', and not necessarily for any particular reason.
As a sufferer of clinical anxiety and depression, some of the things said here don't resonate at all. By the same token, some of them do.

> "in the moment it seems like it will never go away, but the truth is, that it always does."

The truth is, it always does for you. I'm not the same person pre- and post-diagnosis, and even when I'm not feeling down, I never feel quite as 'up' as I used to be. To that end, I don't feel like it's gone away. It's by no means as bad as some other people have it, but I feel like I'm stuck with it now.

Exercise, though, is definitely a good idea, and is a piece of advice I've been given from other depressed friends, my counsellor, and my GP. At the very least, doing a bit of it takes your mind off things, and has the benefit of keeping you in decent shape too.

Personally I don't think someone who is either depressed or feeling blue and is a member here should try and remedy those feelings by immersing themselves in even more startup doom and gloom, or success stories. Take your head out of the job, because it means fuck all compared to your own happiness and wellbeing.

And as has been said, consider change. A change of scenery could offer you some peace of mind.
I'd say it's a lot more likely to be playing Mariachi than Christian rock...
Having seen Samsung engineering practices at first hand this doesn't surprise me. I'd put money on this not being an issue on the Nexus 10, where the Google Android team would have been involved with the product.
Interesting. Here in the States (at least, where I grew up), handwriting is a real mixed bag.

When you are learning how to write as a small child, it's a big deal to write clearly (for obvious reason). Then you are forced to learn cursive, and its a big deal to write cursive clearly.

Then it doesn't matter anymore. Literally everyone stops caring as long as it is legible. It's a weird system. While you are learning to read and write, there is an emphasis on penmanship. But once you are literate...no one cares anymore. Most people (like myself) degenerate back to chicken scratch. Especially as typing became more prevalent. I would hazard a guess that children in the States have even worse handwriting nowadays.
Indeed. Which is why fully automatic assault rifles have been illegal for the better part of a century. (They were outlawed during Prohibition due to the notoriety of the Thompson submachine gun.)
You forget that Hispanics are also quite religious.
What You Really Need Is A Market, Not An Idea
It isn't just religious fundamentalists - it's also people with low conscientiousness. They have no moral aversion to birth control, they just don't think too hard about the consequences of unprotected sex (it feels nicer, and condoms are at the drugstore three blocks away).

And while Mormon's rapid breeding might prevent demographic malaise, the rapid breeding of low conscientiousness people won't - the very trait that causes them to breed rapidly also causes them to be generally unproductive.
Oh, absolutely sorry! Makes sense now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASjfzG4mpyU

If you watch that video, you will understand how scary the situation is. If someone could easily get hold of such things, I'm not sure how they react on a moment of anger...
No, it's not. You're being hyperbolic.

In any case, I think you and I would agree that it's worthwhile to resist violations of the fourth amendment even if you could make a case that they would save lives. I'm just suggesting we apply the same standard to other civil rights. American liberals are a little two-faced about this kind of thing.
As mentioned in the post, take a look at TopoJSON's topology-preserving simplification:

https://github.com/mbostock/topojson/wiki

TopoJSON's --simplify flag uses Visvalingam's algorithm. And, since it's the mesh that is simplified rather than independent features, shared borders between features will be preserved. Without this feature, you end up with something that resembles shattered glass:

http://twitter.yfrog.com/z/mn13gp
Balloons like this tend to have high drag. These small propellers seem inadequate for keeping the direction in strong or even medium winds.
It also depends on culture. The article says that Japanese women don't find Japanese men as attractive partners because of low pay, long working hours for them, etc., but there's also the fact that young Japanese men just aren't that interested in having sex or pursuing women. This cultural phenomenon, known as Sōshoku danshi （草食男子）, or herbivorous men[0,1], has to end if things are going to turn around. These men are more interested in their hobbies and personal grooming. This image summarizes the problem well: http://i.imgur.com/SUVEp.jpg

In fact, it's often the opposite of what the article states - there's a trend among women called Nikushoku joshi （肉食女子）, or carnivorous women, where the women are actively pursuing men out of necessity.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men

1: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10...
I think you're missing that this article was posted in jest.
Good advice here I would say! The most important part for the poster is the advice about perhaps looking for another doctor, or even further and perhaps might be helpful as well in their situation, to discuss his treatment with the doctor and see about getting another party involved so as to either reinforce what his current doctor was providing, or change it entirely.

Further I would say, if he isn't currently receiving both therapy AND psychiatric help, he should be going to both due to the likely reasons behind his depression.
I'd second the splitting of self into an analytic side and a emotional side being helpful as a short term coping mechanism, but I would caution against taking it too far. It is great as a short term buffer against letting your state get the better off you, but at the end of the day you're still depressed and viewing everything in some way through that lens of depression. Even if you're able to recognize the cognitive biases that introduces, your self esteem is still in the gutter and you still feel that cold depressed feeling. As far as other not-meds things that help, exercise, a regular schedule, good diet, and avoiding drugs (especially alcohol/narcotics--they can both make the depression worse and you're at a greatly increased risk for addiction) are relatively easy (not that anything is actually easy when you're depressed) things that help.

I'd second the 'if the meds aren't working, try new ones' advice. If all they've put you on is a cocktail of SSRIs, there are other options (MAOIs are effective, but a pain to deal with in terms of other medications, and are as a result less often proscribed) Also, if your depression has been periodically occurring for a long time and doesn't respond well to traditional medications, it might be worth looking at the symptoms of bipolar disorder to see if they fit.
I know several people who were treated for unipolar depression for years before they were diagnosed with bipolar depression: and the medications and treatments are very different. Bipolar depression also is rather famous for not responding well to talk therapy. On the similar note of things that wouldn't respond to medication but are treatable in other ways: if you haven't been checked for hyper and hypo thyroidism, those can also cause depression-like symptoms that don't respond to traditional medication, and sleep disorders like apnea can make minor depression much worse.