skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a depressive, I can tell you the experience is certainly very real, even if much of psychology is on shaky ground, and it's certainly not a pleasant or healthy state of mind.

Are there not relatively good quality studies demonstrating certain treatments such as CBT are effective in treating depression + anxiety?

And surely a schizophrenic who hears voices and is detached from reality can be said to be mentally unwell? And aren't their studies demonstrating anti-psychotic pharmaceuticals are effective in those cases?

Though I am all for data-based scientific reasoning in psychology, I do think there's a place for practical, empirical techniques to treat things we don't quite understand yet (and perhaps don't hope to understand for some time, i.e. a detailed understanding of the operation of the brain).

When people have mental health issues they need help now, not in X years when we have sufficient understanding to make it a harder science.

I often wonder about the disdain those of the harder sciences have for the 'softer' ones. Physics, chemistry + friends have the wonderful advantage of being able to examine phenomena in the small, once you examine things in the large (such as medical studies, or sociological behaviour, etc.) there are often sufficient factors to make it analytically intractable + require fuzzy uncertain statistical techniques. Does that approach make a science 'soft' in your opinion?

I am not for the big fuzzy Freudian unfalsifiable theories that thus can't be tested by the way. Rather I think a lot of big problems require imperfect statistical techniques now which can be improved with a deeper understand later.
> the amount of effort you expend to sign a petition is next to nil. Why would anyone expect, then, that signing a petition can affect any sort of change?

Because government should serve the people and a petition is meant to show government issues the people find important?

Okey, I guess saying that government should serve the people is hard to do with a straight face, but thats how it was suppose to be. Its like saying that the law should be fair and non-discriminating, no matter skin color, sex, or money in the bank. People still expect those two things to be true, even if in truth they are rarely so.
Just to be clear, the article is addressing Clinical Depression not just "having the blues" or any other form of day to day depression which most people suffer.

If you want a good description of how Clinical Depression varies wildly from 'rational depression,' read the Andrew Solomon's book The Noonday Demon. It's well written and, at least for me, expanded my perspective of how little I understood of severe depression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noonday_Demon:_An_Atlas_of_...
Anyone else thinking of a petition against this threshold raise?

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Ignoring Sass @extend is ignoring perhaps its most powerful feature:

http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#ex...
Why has the Rails team not fixed this?

Seems like a sane default would be to have a special token (used in the auto-gened config) that generates a new random key, and then writes it to a 2nd config file (which is in the default gitignore)
And it usually runs out sometime around 3
This is a great resource for startups! My biggest suggestion would somehow be a way to filter by things like type, style, etc. (a lot like http://patterntap.com/ does). It would also be nice if I could view more on a page, so I don't have to click through 11 pages of posts. Again, great work! :)

I don't see a way to submit a site to be added to the list, so I'll comment it here. You should add these 2 great landing pages:

http://www.ebay.com/new & https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch
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I like this idea, but there's a problem with it. His MAC address, which is meant to be specific to a machine, was banned. The intent is clear-- "your machine is no longer welcome on our network."
>This article does not tell people to patch Apache. The >point, as for as I can tell, is to explore the projects you >use so you can learn to write better code.

You're right. But saying something like
"I’ve never taken a hard look at the Apache source code before, but I have found a few bugs in Apache that I’d love to have fixed."
is like launching a stick in front of a dog.

>The article gives good advice. I don't understand why you >would jump to the Dunning–Kruger effect to seemingly assume >that the readers are incapable of following the advice.

It's a book about php. Don't tell me about Composer, Symfony or other things that 0,1% of php coders are using. Php coders don't read, they cut'n'paste.
I prefer Stylus.
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Are you sure you actually read through the webpage? I haven't watched the video either, and I was able to figure it out pretty easily.

> ...analyzes the stack trace of every exception, and determines which line in the backtrace is the source of the bug.... uses git to figure out who might have caused the bug... shows you where in the code the problem was, so you can quickly get to fixing it...

So, it's an exception logger that integrates with your version control system and `git blame`.

> ...sends an email to the engineer at fault...

It emails someone when it figures out they were responsible for an exception.

> ...If the engineer sits on the email, eventually it escalates...

It messages the rest of the team if the bug doesn't get fixed.

> ...Dig inside the values of environment variables, instance variables, request parameters, and more... analyze information about a bug to determine its root cause... symbolicates iOS crashes, un-minifies JavaScript code, and de-obfuscates Java code...

It tracks data about your application, and captures state useful in digging into the cause of a bug.

> ...full-featured commenting system, ticket-management system similar to JIRA, and a news feed... PagerDuty and JIRA integration...

It has collaboration features and integration with various existing development tools.
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Is it me or people at 24 years old and younger not interested in start ups?
The upshot of this is that the guy who outsourced his job successfully figured out a way to manage outsourcers well. He deserves to get paid well to do that right?

Maybe he shouldn't have given his 2 factor auth key to the contractor, but still. Well done.
It comes down to time. My employer pays me money with the understanding I will dedicate a slot of time to working solely on the projects he needs me to work on.

Yes, he's paying me to deliver. If he was paying for my time and I wasn't delivering then there's a problem. If I deliver, however, I can't just get up and walk out in the middle of the day.
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Biohazard: Will biometric authentication ever go mainstream?
What's not clear to me is if it's suited for bugs that dont' result in an exception and/or stack trace.
Small thing:

"If you cancel & there is more than 7 days of the month left you won’t be charged at all. However if there is less than 7 days of the month left, you will be charged for the entire month."

should be "...there ARE..." in both cases.
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Nice tool. It would be good if you also allowed for manually entering certain values. For example, I might want to set the font-size to 16px because that is the font-size used by the rest of my stylesheet. With just the slider I don't really know how the text on my button will look next to the rest of my page.
The meat of the question is how much legal weight a MAC filter should carry. To me the answer is not much. Attach the MAC filter to a simple advertisement of the network rules and it goes way up. This business about safe to assume is scary stuff.
Under the CFAA, it might in fact be illegal to randomize your MAC address depending on the terms of use for the network you are accessing. It is not illegal for this guy to access his home network in this way, because he owns the network. However, the danger of the CFAA is that it makes it a crime to violate user agreements - which can say anything that the network or site owner wants them to. It effectively allows anyone to author and implement their own criminal laws and have them be enforced by the full power of the federal government.

As for the wire fraud implications (which are separate from the CFAA), if you cause a false statement to be transmitted for the purpose of obtaining money or property, you have committed wire fraud and face a potential 20 year sentence. Spoofing MAC addresses to exceed access limits, for example, would qualify. You are causing your device to mask its true identity for the purpose of obtaining "property" that you wouldn't otherwise have access to.
Why would it count against you if you are performing your duties both morally and legally, and something outside of your control and responsibility happens? So, no. This does not count against.
Thanks for the kind feedback kurt :) I'll answer some questions below.

1. It will always be free.

2. You can send Suggestions or Questions to users without an account. You just use their email. However, that functionality is a lot easier if you both have accounts on the platform.

3. Yes, the video was made some time ago, before we updated our UI, so the functionality appears a little differently. We're working on a new video as we speak.
Yes, it's pretty simple. If I knew, or should have known, that you did not want me on your wireless network, and I kept on going on by changing MACs, I've crossed a line.

Probably a line with small damages if it's just your home router.
You have completely and absolutely missed the point.

Changing MAC addresses (upon every restart) is something I do too. It is an extremely easy thing to do. That such an obvious thing will effortlessly add to a list of charges, amplifying the prosecutor's case for no good reason, is what the issue is.

The most frustrating thing about your comment is your condescending attitude. It's exactly this kind of behavior that is sliding us down a path of draconian laws that will in the end harm us all. Please think before going off like this.
Same. I mean, I wrote that line with more than a hint of cynicism, but with an equal dose of earnestness.

At a handful of the larger corporations I've worked for, the folks who got ahead quickest seemed to be the folks who mastered the ancient martial arts of KU/KD (kiss up, kick down) and mass-delegation. (That's not to say that they weren't smart, or good at their jobs. Some of them were; some of them weren't).
Made newsinamap.com A google maps mashup with RSS feeds from reuters. Stoped working after finding other similar projects
Pity Google doesn't have a "please just let me search in 2003" mode. Democrats got tons of mileage out of Bush-era deficit complaints, though. I'm pretty comfortable with my general thesis.
I'm 23 and I've been interested in startups for years. The hard part is knowing what possibilities are out there when you are younger.
I'm really not sure about that...

There are lots of forums (guns, cars, gambling, I.T. security, ...) where people are very careful about what they post.

I think, on the contrary, that with all that push by FaceBook and G+ to try to reduce your anonimity more and more we'll see more and more specialized forum putting an emphasis on anonimity.

I even believe there's a wide open door for a pseudonymous social network. One where people really know each other (you can only add if you know the person in real life) but where it is specifically forbidden to use any real name.
Three frameworks for problem solving
This is totally irrelevant to what I said.
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Would a jury convict on typing in one URL, realizing it gave access to an admin panel and just leaving the site immediately? Hopefully not...

Real-world analogies are fraught, but:

If you innocently walk into a room, thinking you are allowed, and find out it's a bank vault, you are (in general) innocent.
It would be interesting, I think the problem is that people are very attached to their pets. I have no idea how you can vet potential dog sitters, to give a good level of certainty that they won't lose/have sex with/eat your pet. It's like finding a babysitter on Craigslist.
I've always found pretty hard to compete just with the typical landing page - beautiful image, nice mission statement and a sign-up botton. how to out stand?

Personally, I've always found good the landing page of Dropbox with 120s video that explains exactly the core. Something almost impossible with a one-liner.
I'm talking about the display being enabled (else it would simply be similar to regular glasses) bringing two problems:

- the sight problem: both eyes converge and focus simultaneously (unless you have some serious neurologic issue). Unless Google solved the problem of measuring the the lens curvature (i.e eye focal distance) and send light rays the proper way in a ridiculously tiny and cheap package (compared to currently available professional equipment measuring such values), it is sending them in a best-effort way on a fixed focale. Hence the display will look blurred for some focal distances (possibly obscuring all of part of the field of view in a significant manner), while when at the correct focal distance change of focus takes time (possibly preventing to see or notice stuff in a timely manner, or at all).

- the cognitive load problem: even simple notifications on your computer eats away your productivity, so imagine the firehose of your digital life randomly pinging you while driving.

The first one is a general concern covering many areas (safety, health, comfort...) while the second one is making a point that it does not bring anything to safety while driving.
>The best posts rise to the top. //

There's nothing in the UI to show this; presumably the highest top-level comments are those with the most upvotes (!== best, yeah, nitpicking) but the algo is hidden. There is no identification of who is assenting either.
I just found this - http://xml.house.gov/drafting.htm

Some relevant quotes:

> ...most legislation in the House is worked on by attorneys in the Office. The signed paper version submitted to the Clerk of the House on the House Floor is the official document of record.

> HOLC, the main drafters of House legislation, consists of approximately 35 attorneys and a support staff of about 15 individuals, and is headed﻿ by the Legislative Counsel of the House who is appointed by the Speaker of the House...

> Because the paper version is the ﻿document of record, the drafters provide their clients with typeset drafts or PDF files that can be printed in the client’s office. The paper version of legislation is currently created in one of two ways...

The gory details come just after that, but the site itself seems out of date. More interesting is the peek at the physical process of drafting legislation.
I have no idea what will happen after I sign in with Facebook. Show me it before I register and maybe I subscribe to your service.

It is a bit difficult to understand where I can click in your page. I tried to click in each step and in Yahoo/National Post/Google images, the Facebook sign in does not looks like a button.

I have links only in that really small footer, it is even difficult to read (not all people can read a 10px font).

Nevertheless, the site looks nice.
I had the same problem, don't want to watch the video as I am at work and I read quickly the headline... didn't get what it was so I closed the page. I got back to HN and read your comment and only got back to the website at that point to finally figure out what it is. So a little headline wouldn't be too much below the title (and I'm part of the target audience).
To be fair to everyone, I was initially confused, but I was able to piece together what it is. However, I'm not sure about it's scope - like if it's a general bug tracking system (as opposed to just bugs that generate exceptions or stack traces), or if it is even for features, not bugs. I think it would help the project to say these things up front.
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Thank you, I always thought that learning frameworks shouldn't be hard for programmers and was uncertain about my skills. But it's good to see, that I'm not the only one, so I have hope ;)
Thanks for the feedback Julian. In fact, we feel we're quite different to sites like that. Those websites concentrate on "curated collections" and "inspiration feeds", whilst we are trying to build a destination site for all online shopping. Of course the site is still in it's infancy and is nowhere near complete, but you get the idea!
Love it. Great story Patrick. At CoFoundersLab, http://www.cofounderslab.com/, a free online matching platform, we're committed to helping entrepreneurs solve this critical problem of building a core team/finding the right co-founder(s). We're digging into a multitude of assessments beyond simply complementary skills. We believe that shared goals, values, personalities that mesh, and vision for what the company can and will be are equally as important. Our new Entrepreneur Archetype Assessment is a short quiz built into the product. Find out what type of entrepreneur you are and compare yourself to others to find a good match. Good luck!
I did a cross country bicycle trip, and rode through this town. Ten years ago it was poverty stricken. Now shale oil drilling has attracted tons of work and money. However, infrastructure has not caught up, partly because of cyclicality of oil markets makes it risky to invest too much in infrastructure. Interesting part of the US. Apparently strippers move there from lucrative places like Las Vegas because you can make thousands per night... a result of the problems discussed in the article.
Welcome to six years go? It never meant anything. You, too, can create a website and write whatever you want. The trick is, um, tricking people into believing you matter. They won that game a long time ago.
It still seems unclear. There is some allowance for their approval, but they can't unreasonably deny the substitution (which sounds very vague)

"Right of Substitution is fairly clear cut: can you send someone else to do the work. Employees can't do that, so if you can, you are not an employee. However, the client has to have some say in the matter. The usual formula is along the lines of "you may send a substitute subject to the approval of the client, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld"."
http://www.freelancesupermarket.com/featured-articles/the-po...
If you're a JS person, Stylus is pretty great.
On Wearable Computing
I've heard of this!!!
Petitions are completely ineffective because the citizenry doesn't have enough civic knowledge to ask for the right things.

Take for instance, the top one -- "classify the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group" or the various succession petitions. Is there a federal agency that regulates hate groups? Or classifies who is a hate group and who is not? No. "Hate Group" is a label used by the private NGO sector -- in this case the ADL and SPLC (two non-governmental organizations) maintain lists of hate groups.

Nor does one "incorporate" via the federal government. You incorporate in a state. Stripping Westboro of their tax exempt status should be the lead ask there, and yet those petitions are far less popular than the original? Why? Because it's a more severe ask.

Same with "recount the election" -- the federal government doesn't count votes!

Restrict pay for senators? Seriously, c'mon. We all learned about separation of powers, right?

Petitions do work. What a lobbyist does is petition the government. They're just professional at it, and why we presume that a developer or a plumber or a chicken farmer should be as good of a lobbyist as a professional lobbyist is, is beyond me.

Petitions work. But there's a lot more to getting petitions to affect change than writing some nonsense on a web page and getting a bunch of people to agree with you. Is the expectation that if .01% of the US Population clicks a +1 button on a website then the federal government will change a law? That's a scary proposition.
I guess most people in HN understanded it, but HN is not an average audience. You should be prepared to all (or most part of) your audience.
Really? I'm a big fan of delivering and then spending less time in the office.
Maybe the guy was inspired by the video?
Thanks for the detail I agree with your points.

I will add this though from my many years of experience in getting cliche emails in another area (not recruiting).

The skill of the person writing the email does not always equate to the opportunity.

As such, if we can assume that this email was written by the wrong person (for whatever reason) there could still be an opportunity there that is worth exploring.

And (and this is important) think as well of the lack of competition for the opportunity because of the amount of people that are turned off because of the way it is written. See the paradox?

That said of course this could be a bogus or simply bad opportunity. And likewise a well written email could also be. My point being is that you don't necessarily have to waste 10 minutes on the phone you can also simply hit reply and ask a few questions because maybe this might be the needle in a haystack which just happened to task the wrong recruiter to do the job.

The OP's point is taken. This isn't what recruiters should do to attract many candidates. Otoh it could be a good situation for someone who reads it on an individual level.
Ditto ;)
Recruiters know nothing about anything, but I wouldn't dismiss this just because the person was trying too hard to make it attractive.

At the end of the day, the client is the person that can properly tell you what it's about and I haven't come across a recruiter yet that could tell me the difference between javascript and php. It's not their job to know such trivial details...

Be nice it may just be worth it.
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You're being rude. Anyway:

http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/tracking_tropics/210089292...
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I think you're completely and absolutely talking past the argument.

In the law as it exists, doing something "anonymously" for the purpose of committing a crime is itself a crime. It's not the act of changing the MAC address that is illegal by itself. That was the point.

Your point, I think, is that that "extra" crime is a silly law. Which I think many of us agree with. But it's still the law, and it's not unreasonable for a prosecutor to enforce it. In fact, they have a duty to do so.

Turning around and claiming that "the gubmint wants to lock up MAC randomizers!", however, is just dumb. That's not what the law in this case says at all.