skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a little bit about real depression and, even though it ruined my professional live, I consider myself lucky that mine was a 15 year struggle.

Most people suffering this will never recover.

Best way to describe it is that depression is a hallucination induced by your own brain, in other words, it's a mental jail.

The problem is that there can be many causes to receive one but little to none ways to escape one, how can one escape their own delusions if their own brain is holding them hostage with disinformation and lies about how things are functioning.

It is hard to explain because on the outside depressed people seem to function and give little clue to outsiders (unlike other mental ilnesses) and to the victim of the halluciantions.

The halluciantions are not bold as in psychopathy or even manics, but extremely refined and often leave things like morals and concience intact or even enhance them.

I also think that depression will come out to be part of the most difficult mental problems to be solved by the professionals, it is even harder to look in for outsiders than to penetrate from the inside out for the victims.

I wish for all vitims of depression that moment of clarity and insight, to be able to escape that horrible halluciantion prison that was created by their own mind.
You're being intentionally obtuse. As is immediately apparent if you look at a population density map of Sweden[0], the vast majority of the population is concentrated in the southern part of the country.

0: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Swedishpo...
BC has (or rather will return to) a variable sales tax that floats around 7% normally. There is also a 5% GST everywhere in Canada. (Like a VAT)

Correct on MSP (Medical Services Plan). Personally, I'd love to abolish this and roll it into general revenues. It's a nightmare.
Ah, it's clearer that way! Thank you and jacquesm.
Facebook can solve this algorithmically without you needing to have a "clean social graph" or write complex queries to exclude your grandmother.
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> It slightly irritates me when people say this, because usually those people have no problem accepting that other amendments that they hold to be more important (e.g, the 1st) apply to the states.

Heck, people try to apply the 1st amendment to private corporations & online forums set up by 14 year olds.
> one of them explicitly says how this product competes with Google. Something about how if two people search for Apple on Google, they'll get the same results, but if they search Apple on FB Graph Search, they'll get personalized results.

Except that's not true. Google personalizes results for users and also sometime integrates social aspects (through Google+).

If I search for pizza I see a map of pizza places close to me, their average reviews, links to find out more, photos, etc etc. I don't know if a Facebook friend once at a slice there, but I also don't care whatsoever and would rather not see it to be honest.
Cloudera is primarily a consulting company, as are most open-source companies.

There have been only 3 successful open source companies ever: MySQL, Jboss, and Redhat
That's one of the ways, but you can just stick to 1.9 for all of your audience if audience includes early IEs.

jQuery 2.0 is more appropriate for mobile web-apps or for intranets, where you know that users use strict subset of browsers
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Crazy.. I developed a Facebook Graph search about a year ago using FQL queries. It works very similarly to how Facebook implemented their Graph Search. I even put a voice recognizer on top of it. Glad to know that my crazy ideas aren't so crazy after all :)

Link to demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g...
Graph Search in one sentence (based on what I see it as): Search built around friends, not links.
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In other words: "Stop crying, dammit, you're making everyone else feel bad."

Suicide is a private whimper that is not made to be heard. Yes, his family's suffering should be the focus now - they are the ones in pain. That doesn't negate Aaron's circumstances. It's still well-worth reflecting on those circumstance. Yes he chose it, some of it (not necessarily the depressive tendencies), but he also felt compelled for moral reasons to take a path. That's less like choice and more like moral imperative. I agreed with his imperative and it's sad to me to think people with those values face disproportionate burdens. It's OK if you disagree with that imperative, but we don't have to throw people we disagree with to the wolves either. That's bitterness, not problem-solving.
like, make you a smoothie? Or do this: https://github.com/lloyd/node-toobusy/blob/master/toobusy.cc...
I don't quite see how this is big competition for Google (yet). Facebook GS can return me more data about my friends than Google can, but Google can return more results for general information. These seem very different from one another.
exactly my thoughts when I first saw it.
What makes you think that Facebook doesn't calculate an affinity score between each pair of friends and use that to heavily weight search results? The affinity score definitely exists (EdgeRank), and it seems to be used all over Facebook currently, so I suspect it would be a big factor in search.
This is exactly what one would hope from a huge structured data set.
Given that Sweden is about 10% larger than California, albeit with less than a third the population, it's hardly "postage-stamp-sized". Given that we elected Reagan, Schwarzenegger, and David Dreier, California's chock full o' wingnuts as well as socialists/liberals.
ok, the highest marginal tax rate for a $65K gross salary is ~30%. Everyone gets the first ~10K tax-free, then it's ~20% (in BC) off the next ~$40K, then ~30% off the next ~$40K. Only the last ~$15K gets taxed at 30%, and you can easily reduce that to zero with available legal tax-shelters/deductions/credits.

BC health premiums are $65/month for a single person. Sales tax is a consumption tax and not really relevant.
This is the sort of attitude that contributes to the difficulty people who are considering suicide experience in getting help.

Despite what the RCC and the like have drilled into western discussion for centuries, the depressed who consider or commit suicide are victims. Depression is a disease, not a sin, and this sort of stigmatization makes it all the more difficult to treat before it kills.

With no other disease would we term it "inconsiderate" for the afflicted to die.

(That is not to say that depression was the cause in this situation (though I strongly believe it was a contributing factor), but your "ultimate act of self-centeredness" bullshit is not discerning.)
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I also think states and locales should be able to declare bankruptcy and restructure their obligations. Currently there is no clear way to get out from under prior bad governance. Here's a good article about how San Bernardino is trying: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/13/us-bernardino-bank...

> a third of the city's 210,000 people live below the poverty line, making it the poorest city of its size in California. But a police lieutenant can retire in his 50s and take home $230,000 in one-time payouts on his last day, before settling in with a guaranteed $128,000-a-year pension.

> In 2009, patrol lieutenant Richard Taack retired at the age of 59, after 37 years of service. He took home $389,727 that year, including $194,820 in unused sick time and $33,721 for unused vacation time, according to city payroll records. Shortly after Taack retired - on an annual lifetime pension of $128,000 - he was hired part-time by Penman's city attorney's office, at $32 an hour.
Here's a Doctor's angle on the story: http://surgerycenterofoklahoma.tumblr.com/post/40451068999/u...
>Google personalizes results for users and also sometime >integrates social aspects

Right, except this doesn't actually work unless all of your friends work at Google.
The FTB had two choices: allow the deduction for every QSBS that didn't qualify due to the 80% rule, or retroactively impose the tax on all who claimed it. I'm sure somebody did the math, and found a huge liability for the state if all the previously non-qualified QSBS' were given the deduction. Keep in mind the FTB can't allow the status quo: if they allow the previous claimants keep the deduction, they must grant the same ability to the previously non-qualified. They chose then to disqualify the previous claimants and fight with them on a case-by-case basis, rather than pay.
FOR XML and XML data type (e.g. XML column) are pretty much unrelated.
> They could, for example, cut back the bloated private sector.

Isn't that what they're trying to do? :D But I guess this is a typo for "public sector"...
Replace "grandma" with "person whose taste in sushi is very different" if it makes you feel better.
Correct. Downloading their entire archive and putting it online somewhere else puts their business at risk and will prevent them from recouping costs they've invested and asked users to pay for (by legally signing up for an account and paying them). Just because it is public domain doesn't mean it can be taken and posted elsewhere.
Am I missing something or has California crossed over into absurdity?

I don't understand why the VC and tech community in California stand for this stuff [1]. There should either be more lobbying by the seemingly powerful tech and vc community or mass exodus out of the state. I don't see either happening and I wonder why. Perhaps these things just take time.

Is CA killing the golden goose here?

[1] I am guilty too by living here at the moment, but I am a relative new comer to the state. The situation is completely baffling to me after being here for almost two years and am exploring other states at the moment.
So it's just building custom queries? I guess it's novel that you can save the queries and see it as a "feed".
I was in the midst of changing the tense; I should have written it in emacs and then copied it into the form once I was happy with it. So it goes.

I'm actually wondering whether a more considered phrasing would have done worse.

As it is the main goal of putting the headline into Barack Obama's eyeballs has been reached, and Ms. Ortiz knows that her boss is making the political calculation of whether she is a liability or an asset.
Unless I have a connection with a lot of Stephanie's that went to Harvard, that should already be a quick search. Improved search is useful, but this was an incredibly hyped up event. Being able to find basic stuff from your friends should have been something you could do all along, I'm not seeing what the big deal is.
Not any more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act
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> Any programmer who thinks that they should have any right to have "their own time" and "side projects" should leave for a more friendly state. Like California.

In New York, you can negotiate a contract to get this clause - it's quite common. The only difference is that contracts without the exemption (ie, total assignments) are considered enforceable, whereas in California, they aren't. That doesn't mean that Californian contracts don't sometimes include those clauses anyway - from a legal strategy standpoint, it's in the company's best interest to do so.

Furthermore, my understanding is that this Californian precedent is rather limited in practice, since it's easy for a company to claim that your product is related to something that the company is doing or is planning on doing (and hard to prove otherwise), and similarly easy for them to claim that you've used company resources and/or time to do the project, as people sometimes do without thinking about it. When you start picking it apart, the Californian exemption is very narrow in letter, and even more so in practice.

In short, you're definitely not missing out on anything automatically by coming to New York, because it depends on what kind of a contract you negotiate. And Californian law won't get you home free either, because there are too many other variables at play, and too many other ways for them to wiggle around the law - they just need the incentive to do so.
Whenever you want to use simd. I have not yet seen a multimedia project say "The compiler does the right thing here". This may not apply to games and almost certainly does not to most programs.
The magnitude of it is new. The normalization of it is new. A marriage means a lot less than it used to. It's a status symbol, or a source of entertainment that can be disregarded when it no longer entertains.
The social aspects I assume? Personalization absolutely works as it brings up a map of all the pizza places closest to me. Your search shows all the places closest to you.
Looks cool, but what is the fallout? Will Google force feed us + a bit more so that they can match/better these types of search results.

I need to permanently move to DuckDuckGo
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How many mass murders has it taken to get to this point? How is that "drastic" or "very fast"?

The same issue was addressed by the Brady Bill 18 years ago, so it's not like the issue hasn't been addressed before.

That response's effectiveness is another story, of course (hint: it wasn't).
I don't really see the point in answering your questions, since the answers are all subjective anyway. My question (how can I fall asleep more quickly) assumes that for me, doing so is desirable, and that my goals are as stated (e.g. asleep by 10, up by 5:30).
> Given that Sweden is about 10% larger than California, albeit with less than a third the population, it's hardly "postage-stamp-sized".

I already addressed this point below in response to another reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062138

> Given that we elected Reagan, Schwarzenegger, and David Dreier, California's chock full o' wingnuts as well as socialists/liberals.

I'm not familiar with Dreier, but there's no doubt that Californians have a soft spot for actors.
Yep. The original question was "what happens when those things don't exist".
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Proof?
Most of these algorithms build models that do affinity weighting, and then try to guess at how the same some other person is as me (which is hard across such a variety of attributes).

There is no magic, so please explain the math/algorithms you think would work here.

(Sorry, it's just a lot of people wave the magic "algorithm" flag when faced with hard problems)
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I've always felt ambiguous about such card features because ultimately the way those features work is by exploiting vendors via interchange and other membership/hardware/transaction fees. Vendors, in turn, have to stay in business so they pass the cost onto the consumer. In the short term with small populations using these types cards, it wasn't a problem. As more and more people use these features, more and more pressure is put on vendors.

The Durbin Amendment capped interchange for debit transactions, but only for banks with relatively large asset pools. Smaller banks can and do charge more, as do other types of cards. Credit cards have much broader license (although arguably, they at least have a reason to charge for using the card; they're taking a risk).

So the money you are getting is not free. We are all paying for it via the increased cost of doing business.

Honestly, I'd rather my bank and card transactions had 0 interest and minimal cost to the vendor to keep overall costs down. Bluntly, every time I swipe I sort of resent indirectly paying the vendor to help pay for everyone else's benefits.
Or open up the iTunes most "know-very-little" persons use to manage their music.
So how many deaths of individuals threatened with 30 years of prison for minor crimes does it take before this becomes an issue?

We supposedly live in a civilised society I would say 1 death is 1 too many.
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Given that jQuery 2.0 is supposed to be significantly faster, parent's approach offers increased speed to users who are not on sub-IE9 browsers.
Do you want me to send you another invite? I have a bunch on my account, currently.
This bears much more resemblance to Wolfram|Alpha than it does to Google Search.

Glad to see natural language interfaces are finally going mainstream.
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Graph Search is powerful - if all your friends obsessively post to Facebook
Gems are ruby packages, and bundler is a way to use specific versions in an app, independent of what versions are installed globally. I think bundler would be a good fit for redmine, just because you don't really gain anything other than disk space by being able to share ruby-activesupport-2.3 between apps.
Release it as open source and BOOM :D
"I’m sure he was sincere,” Peters said. "But I can’t call him back. Either I'll say something I shouldn't say, or I'm going to act like I accept his condolences, which I don't. So the only thing I can do is not call him back."

What's the point in being sincere now? It isn't going to bring Aaron back. Someone so powerful, with almost infinite resources to go after horrible criminals, chose to go after a person who was idealistic, young and defenseless - they should've known better.

The whole thing is sad, very very sad. I guess the only thing we can do now (after all the anger has cooled down) is make sure something like this doesn't happen again, but I doubt it.
I've also been working on something similar. I will get in touch.
looks awesome! it's great that boston is getting one of these schools now!
Let me point out every prosecutor threatens the accused. Whether you were caught stealing gold or chewing gum.

I doubt this "prosecutor" even knew the details of the "crime" or cared. I doubt she was ever briefed on the details of Aaron's life or cared too hear it. That's what she has assistants for.

And that's the problem with the system. Prosecutors don't take time (except on TV) to learn about the accused. They just go straight for the throat. Be dammed the circumstances.

It's not enough to go after one prosecutor. Change the system.
It is not. Combined with other factors, it can certainly be considered reliably unique.
I don't know too many details as I wasn't on that side of the PCI audit (more handling the software we write), but my impression was that off-the-shelf hardware was already certified where nginx was not. It was also one less component for us to manage, as we opted for hosting where we manage our web stack and the hosting company deals with the hardware and network.
I'm guessing you don't want to sell cycling gear to people who live in Seattle, either.
You mean the chromebook?
After this trolling headline, I'll have to regard non-technical users who declare that something is "down!" after encountering the slightest error, slowness, or incorrect behavior with an iota less irritation.
More importantly, it lacks the 10 years old DOM Level 2 and XHTML features, and DOM Level 2 is probably important for jQuery.
It depends which parts of Mathematica you need.

Python is an alternative, especially within the Sage package [0].

Then there is also Maxima [1].

[0] http://www.sagemath.org/
[1] http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
Fair point -- done.
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The first comment on the OP also asks this question. Looking for something definitive here.
So let me get this straight - Pixate wants people to build native iOS apps with CSS.... um, ARENT WE JUST RE-IMPLMENTING THE WEB PEOPLE?!

Jesus! The one valid use case for native apps is games, everything else can be solved with web apps. Why we are going out of our way to re-implement the ease of web development on native apps should fucking tell you something. On top of all this, they want to charge you $199 for it?

Disregarding the topic of whether or not Pixate itself is commercially viable, but it makes me feel like XML-RPC all over again. Wasn't that what HTTP was for in the first place?

We go through all this crap to make making "apps" convenient. Ultimately the answer was in front of us the whole time we were just too stupid to see it. The web will win. SECREST OUT!
I'm in the same situation. I just clicked the signup link in my email that contained the original invite and it let me sign up.
To my knowledge I don't know anyone who picks up novels, reads the first few sentences, then throws them away. Maybe people do this in airport bookstores, but I don't think Orwell, Ray Bradbury, or Kafka wrote with the ADHD audience in mind.

On the other hand I know that many readers hate to put a book down without giving it a fair shot.

The "catchy opening" design pattern is present in a lot of art where the audience has almost no chance of leaving, like Beethoven's 5th Symphony, or that famous opening shot with the star destroyer in "Star Wars". It's an artistic effect. Conversely, the "Harry Potter" novels have a mundane, slow first few chapters, and they did pretty well.
Worry about that crap when you have something to worry about.
Boulder in particular was named "America's best town for startups" [1]. And if you're coming from California, you'll be right at home with the high property costs. ;)

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2010-04-22/why-boulder-i...
I tried this service, support was a 5+ hour response time commonly. Latency was terrible and they had DNS issues they refused to acknowledge, I was even issued a 5$ credit, however they still didn't acknowledge their issues. I was also billed metered when I should have been a monthly customer, this being said I will never use any of their services or parent companies services in the future.
Either those "unhealthy relationships" are incredibly uncommon as a proportion of marriages, or it is better for children to live in a marriage with an "unhealthy relationship" than a straight-up broken home.

Decreased birthrates pose problems for current economic systems which are premised on taxing the young to pay for the old. Later children are more likely to have birth defects. But like I said, ultimately it is necessary, so it is a mixed bag.

I totally agree with you on the War on Drugs. A legal system that sends 28% of black males to at least one year of prison undoubtably has something to do with why 80% of black children in the US grow up without fathers, and that undoubtably has something to do with why 28% of black males in the US spend at least a year in prison.
Well, if Sergey Brin had finished his intern project we would have an open source version of Mathematica :-).
"So who cares about their image then? The original software vendor, probably."

They care about their bottom line over their image, or they wouldn't get in with the toolbars.
Mailing list.

Back in 2001 someone on a mailing list I was on was looking for a userland ESP (IPsec) implementation to do some fuzzing or something... And I just happened to have one that was 95% complete. Seeing demand for it, I wrapped it up and had a user of it.

Fast forward a few months later, I lost my job in the common downsizing in 2001, he shot me an idea and then we were co-founders before ever meeting in person.
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To be fair, it's also much nicer to live in (at least for white people) than it ever has been. New York before it became a police state was basically Gotham City.
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