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> You don't seem to understand what the overall comparison shows.

I told you i don't. It looks entirely nonsensical. I asked you for clarification. So far your only response has been to parrot my saying that i don't understand why your data representations are dissonant.

> Are you familiar with descriptive statistics?

Possibly under another name, but i don't know what you mean when you say that.

> Quartiles?

In theory yes, i am unsure how you're applying it here, since we're not talking about binnable quantities.

> Box plots?

Yes.
1% margins are about normal for grocery stores... just to put this perspective in perspective :)
If there is one thing I've learned about depression is that we suck at identifying it and we suck even more at "curing" it.

I'm not a doctor. But there is a huge difference between being sad and killing yourself. There are some people who think it is just "in their head" and to "shake it off". There have been lots of diseases in our history that people thought were normal until we made some crazy discovery that what was really causing it was some previously unknown agent.
Depends on the trust you place on Google, as opposed to the whole web. Hence, "mostly".
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From a glass half full perspective. You can argue that Amazon is keeping profits in check so they can continue to offer their customers the best prices and services. But that's if you live in a world where bears fart butterflies.
It's an interesting issue. One fundamental question is what social context has to do with depression. Is it possible that depression is so rampant today because our lives are socially impoverished and that medication is in part just a way to cover up the root cause?
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As are sieges and blockades of course.

As virtual as the Internet is, in many ways, it still takes physical form as fiber optic cables and trunks. And due to a variety of reasons the number of those that cross national borders is fairly limited. Wireless is great but hard to push terabits of data through like lasers in glass do.

I've just always thought of the Great Firewall of China as a state device to keep Chinese citizens from full access to the Internet, this article made me wonder if at some point there will be another Firewall outside the Great Firewall which isn't controlled by the Chinese but also keeps Chinese packets inside the country but for different reasons.
You are conflating two very different opinions/groups: One can necessarily be skeptical of CBT without believing that depression is just sadness.
I think the game example proves my point. You don't play a game by programming the game server. You play the game by itneracting with the computer. These are fundamentally different areas.
Why isn't it an exact science? Science teaches us that things should be repeatable and reproducible.

Running through a form of questions and ticking off boxes doesn't seem very "advanced" to me. In fact it seems like the very definition of backwards.

Why aren't we aiming for a physics level of understanding in psychology?
It is probably worth noting that as there is no untethered jailbreak for iOS 6.0, and there are definite statements that there will be very shortly for iOS 6.1, the adoption curve of the not-enormous-but-more-than-"statistically-significant" demographic of "people who jailbreak their device" is much faster than it has been for other previous releases.
Actually you could rather say that Amazon is reinvesting its profits to strengthen its position and reap the benefits in the future.
Yeah, I was just about to say that the suicides by pesticide-drinking I have been reading about don't exactly seem like a sign of good mental health. I would be willing to bet that depression and anxiety are simply underdiagnosed due to stigma or doctor ignorance. Same goes for the number one suicidal act which is normally attributed only to religious extremism: Suicide bombers.

Think about it. You've read historical accounts hundreds of years old that describe these things. It doesn't make sense that this is just a made-up condition by spoiled Westerners, which is usually the first thing that people think when they look at official numbers for anxiety and depression by country.
Well, but the recent fix to Java was to force the user to click through a prompt from the Java plugin itself; so once the user tells Firefox that yes, I want this dangerous content to run, they get another warning about dangerous content from Java.

If they manage to click through everything correctly and whitelist the site, they're good to go, but I suspect many of my users are going to get at least part of it wrong the first time through.

And of course, the noise about Java security is already breaking things -- for example, a few days ago I got an email from a teacher whose school paid me a $600 for a Java-applet based site subscription... at the same time as their IT department completely uninstalled Java from their school computers.

So now I either have to convince their IT department directly to re-install Java, or refund their money; whoops.
> your brain lies to you

Indeed, I've been saying this to myself in dozens of situations, not just depressive moods. If you actually believe it when you say it, it's like a sort of mantra that can replace any pill! ...but unfortunately people suffering from clinical depression can't get themselves into the "saying it and believing it mode".
That's not my intent; I'm just using one post to reply to a few different people.
Amazon's Price/Earnings ratio is a quite staggering 3897.

Wal-Mart's PE ratio is 14.38. Safeway's is 9.25, Apple's is 10.35.
Oh I do not deny that at all. If it was, we both wouldn't be airing our distaste for diagnosis and treatment. The whole field is still very, very young so we can't expect the same advances as we have in other areas.

My main point is that, from my own person experiences through the whole system, treatment seems the most broken aspect. Diagnosis of depression is possible without a blood-test, as are other physical illnesses, the signs are obvious. The treatment is not as trivial, you won't do well to "let it run it's course", the drugs are gruelling and may not even work and therapy requires drive a depressed person hasn't got.
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So, basically, the only benefit is that your IP is not exposed. I think there are much better alternatives than Tor for that, and I definitely don't think it really justifies using a custom "private" mail service that easily could be a honey pot.

I use PGP for as much mail as I can on my normal server. Even if you use PGP, it's still not a good idea to use a honeypot unless the risks at play have been carefully calculated aforehand. We want the available attack surface to be as small as possible, for lots of potential reasons: PGP mails can be encrypted incorrectly either by operator error or a bug in your crypto stack, recipients may be able to be divined from the crypted message, the government may have a secret weapon capable of decrypting certain messages, the government definitely can make an educated attempt if they determine your content is high-value, etc. etc.

Basically I think a good privacy setup shouldn't need to include anonymously-run services like tormail that are just as likely (if not more likely) to be honeypots as honestly run by a kind-hearted security enthusiast with impenetrable integrity.
not all cases of depression can be attributed to unbalanced brain chemistry. sometimes the chemistry is ok, it's just your life is fucked. in this case depression is a normal reaction. you just can't remain all cheerful when you're drowning in shit. i don't think taking up meds or doing other things to cover it up is a good answer to such situations. with all its negative aspects depression is also a big reminder that something is off and must be fixed, it pushes you to make drastic changes because your regular routine doesn't quite help. sometimes it pushes you to a suicide which is sad but notice how many successful people with stellar careers and shiny popular products or art had been struggling with depression when they were failing at their job, when their dreams were crumbling, and no end to this horror was in sight. maybe it's a stretch but i'd say suffering from depression at some point in life is a normal thing for a maker. sometimes difficulties that you prepared yourself to are just greatly overshadowed by the actual state of affairs. that's to say marking all cases of depression as illness that needs to be treated is a wrong way to look at the problem. in my opinion at least. what helps is support and understanding, phrases like "pull your socks up" or "go get some pills" don't.
But isn't spending on infrastructure improvements cut into the reported profits?

Considering how much Amazon is spending to consistently update their infrastructure, I wouldn't be surprised.
You are speaking to someone who claims that psychiatrists are responsible for the holocaust, pearl harbour, etc etc.
(AFAIK, the official release is not set; it could be earlier, or later, than Sunday.)
I love the comparison to being paralysed. Being "mentally paralysed" is actually a good description.
I'm also from Perth, but I don't see urban decay "all over the city". The worst (and only) place I probably had the feeling of some urban decay was Ellenbrook.
"I'm sure the state managed predecessors were getting backhanders."

If you have evidence, you should go to the police. An example (plucked from Google)

http://www.sfo.gov.uk/press-room/latest-press-releases/press...

I personally would be interested in your (collective) big ideas about how IT can support and enhance learning. The strategy thing. With as much detail as your colleagues and sponsors feel could be released. A good write up of that would work wonders for the UK perception of the Academy programme in general and your school in particular. Especially if you include staff development and mentoring in that.
It's incredibly useful, if you need functionality that's not yet supported in the range of browsers that people use.

I'm pretty sure I can't handle MIDI and audio input, do pitch detection, show animations synched with generated audio, etc. in JavaScript on IE6 (and only parts of that are possible in any browser) -- but I can do it with a Java applet.

Or, I could; my site is obviously starting to suffer from the reliance on Java, and every few days the news seems to get worse.
See, I just don't get that. We aren't talking about an OS kernel here, we're talking about a graphics toolkit. What is it about their libraries that weren't capable of running on different versions of Windows capable of running on different architecture?

Unless, of course, the issue is in porting the toolkit...
Related:

- https://twitter.com/fowlduck/status/296821768902017024
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Very cool.

Just wondering out loud reg. your idea to a have a rick roll detector: How exactly would that work? A brute force approach would be to compare how similar the target video is to some sample rick roll videos, I am guessing music matching could be attempted since frame by frame duplicate detection of the video is insanely hard.

From a machine learning perspective, it gets harder because a good rick roll entices the target into clicking the link which turns out to be a false positive. On the other hand, the link could be completely normal so the features of the link itself or not necessarily useful. Hmmm...
In English, too. Except for the spelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphtha
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THATs what that is... And I thought I was crazy for hearing sounds before a phone rang (as a kid)
Amazon started in one business and is slowly dominating another one. They're revolutionizing cloud computing using the infrastructure that allows them to dominate the online shopping market.

I would say Amazon has two healthy futures as a company. Neither future looks ready to be unseated, given the shopping/cloud landscape in Q1 2013.
Perhaps a digested, weighted, real-world-mapped version of Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases [1] would be useful as mantra.

Just the kind of thing that xkcd does with posters, actually.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biases_in_judgment_and_...
Which tells you how meaningful the P/E ratio is when analyzed independently.
Well, you implied in your comment below that you weren't interested in a simple "discussion of how evil a regime is". Very understandable and I agree with you. Yet the thing is that without this context Americans just don't understand why the Chinese military would get involved on a negative story about a leader. It seems like a gross overreaction. Indeed, without understanding the context it just seems "evil".

Until you realize that undercutting popular support for a leader is step 1 in the PNAC handbook for democratic change. We accuse them of atrocities, we accuse them of holding WMDs, we accuse them of suppressing freedom of speech, we get their population to believe that they are illegitimate by funding "democracy" movements. Then the fighting starts and we drop off weapons with the rebels, even if we know full well this could result in something worse ("Obama administration clearly was worried about the consequences of its hidden hand in helping arm Libyan militants").

Now half a dozen countries are burning across the Middle East in the name of setting up US-controlled democracies.

Yet most Americans don't get why the Chinese would defend their leaders reflexively or why the Chinese military would hit out. The view goes something like this: Sure, Wen Jiaobao may have skimmed some money off the top, but politicians are constantly caught in scandals and China has gotten richer while the US has gotten poorer. So China's corruption isn't fatal to growth, while America's bank/Fed chimera may well be. And yet America wants to set China on fire just like it has so many other countries in the world, first with words and then with guns.

So, yes, I do believe this context is relevant. You don't need to agree with their views, but you do need to understand why they see this as self-defense against US imperialism.
I am not sure this holds.
Aside from the reduced wages bill, a round of retrenchment will probably not do wonders for them.
> Why aren't we aiming for a physics level of understanding in psychology?

We call that neuroscience. On a related note, Henry Markram just got $1.3 billion EUR for whole brain emulation. So there's that.
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I have two good friends who did themselves some serious harm with psychedelics. One has been in an institution for years as a result, the other needs daily anti-psychotic meds to function.

I certainly have also seen people benefit from psychedelics but the danger is real and it's difficult for the dilettante to predict who is at risk and who is not.
Video in a... word processor. Seems like the wrong medium to me.
Actually, it's no secret that CCHR is related to the Church of Scientology. It says so on www.scientology.org:

As part of their religious Code, Scientologists pledge “to expose and help abolish any and all physically damaging practices in the field of mental health,” and thereby bring about an atmosphere of safety and security to mental healing. Accordingly, in 1969 Scientologists established the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a watchdog group that investigates and exposes psychiatric violations of human rights.

http://www.scientology.org/activity/citizens-commission-on-h...

What's an example of a physically damaging practice? How about involuntary commitment? How about psychosurgery? Forced electroshock? How about being drugged against your will? How about raped in a psych hospital?

Here is what CCHR does about it:

http://www.cchr.org/about-us/cchr-accomplishments.html

I'd call CCHR a social reform group.
It took a few starts on this to realize that it was really talking about factories, rather than being some kind of cute analogy for startups...
Professor Sapolsky at Stanford gave an interesting lecture about depression a few years ago... highly recommended:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
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Yet their Enterprise Value/Revenue is ~2 and Google's is ~4 and Walmart's ~2/3 (.6). Ent Value is sort of the total investment/borrowing/valuation minus cash. So Amazon does more in sales vs their company's leverage compared to Google and worse compared to Walmart.

EV/EBITDA is ~53 vs. Walmart's ~8 vs. Google's ~13. EBITDA is basically earnings but more complex ("earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization").

From what I've read there's concern Amazon is overvalued, but not what the Slate article portrays as them being some charity case, being invested in by people with ulterior motives to keep consumer prices low (I have no idea if that was even a sarcastic point or not. It's a terrible article).
Thank you for a quote I will now use always going forward

Depression took his life

Every other disease and illness is personified outside the body - only depression is treated as a choice we make instead of a illness we caught.

Thank you and I am sorry for your loss.
Depression is having a negative outlook on life over an extended period of time that starts effecting your everyday decisions and causing you to withdraw from social situations. It's an extension of being sad. Turn it around. If you're happy most of the time, it will be difficult for a psychiatrist to classify you as being depressed.
Also, keeping your profit margins thinner even when you don't have to gives you extra insulation from competitors.
Hello HN community, I'm just curious about the rise of this new BitCoin currency. I'm currently developing an Saas product myself, so I'm actually torn between choosing various currency processors/vendors.

Can someone explain as to

1) Why and when one should use BitCoin?

2) What advantages does BitCoin have over traditional payment processors like PayPal/Stripe?

3) Is there any legal downside of using BitCoin? (For example, I read somewhere that Bitcoins are used for Money Laundering and the governments are actively monitoring anyone using BitCoins)

4) How much do you save (if at all) by going with BitCoin instead of someone popular like PayPal/Stripe?

Thanks!
You're missing the point here. Google's main business, selling ads, and Amazon's current main business, online retail, are two completely different markets. You're essentially comparing apples to oranges. The margins are lower in the space that Amazon is competing in, it doesn't make sense to compare two completely different companies.
No iOS devices even hae a notification LED, so how can Apple "nail home how an app is supposed to behave?" Or is your point that you'd assume Apple would accomplish that if it had the LED?
Needing to reboot after installing an update or being nagged to death about it, that is definitely messy.
Interestingly they are working on a JS version of flash called Shumway[1], so maybe, just maybe future FF (or even Chrome if it works there) will be able to translate Flash to JS, for your iPads and whatnot.

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What you say about 'getting out of bed to brush his teeth' is exactly what my friend, a psychiatrist, told another friend of mine about his illness: you have to value EACH and EVERYTHING you do, even if it is just getting up and having a shower.

Help, help, help, support, support, support, being able to talk to someone who just listens and does not say 'cheer up' because you CANNOT either cheer or up. Perceive that you are loved and you are counted upon even when you feel the opposite, and that you are not seen as a nuisance (which is what one thinks in that state).

So hard to help, so much in need of it.
Even if most gem developers would understand, there's still a problem with the trust model: If you choose "high security", you cannot install a single gem without signature - so things won't work unless _all_ authors sign their gems. Gem signing would have to be a requirement, similar to packages on ubuntu's ppa. If you choose a lower security setting, a gem may just be repackaged and signed again by the attacker or the signature removed.
Just out of interest, what are the discrimination issues? (I'm Australian so I don't ever get an outsider's perspective, but it'd be nice to have some understanding of what others think of us.)
Right now I am depressed. I feel terrible, and very, very guilty that I feel the way I do. I don't want to do anything, but I do want to do something to distract me away from my awful feeling of numbness. I worry about the future at times, and feel I'm at a dead end. I worry about my kids, and my wife, and my ageing parents. I'm sleeping constantly, but when I sleep my dreams are too vivid.

Despite it all, I'm a functioning human being. I function at work so I use this to distract myself. It's a fairly dull job at the moment while I try to do a Computer Science degree. But I've had to defer it due to family pressures and because of this blasted funk. I intended to study in my own time, especially mathematics, but I just can't get enough motivation to do it now. I was teaching myself JPA from scratch, and was making headway, that's gone out the window. I had some ideas for an ITSM app, but that's gone too. I feel like I haven't fulfilled my goals, and a failure.

I'm not a raging depressive, but a few weeks ago I couldn't stop crying. I feel like a burden so I'm trying to hide it all. It leaks out. So I sleep, and this reduces my ability to socialise. I then feel guilty, but nobody is judging me.

It's life I guess. I don't write this to ask for pity, but to explain what it's like, while it's happening. If I had to summarise my mental state, it's like a piece of me has died inside. Knowing that it will go away doesn't really help the feeling, but it gives me fortitude to get to the next day.

I hope this might give some insight to those who haven't felt this way before.
FWIW, Exede comes from ViaSat, which owns WildBlue. I've heard from folks inside that the reason for the name change is due to the less-than-stellar, to put it nicely, reputation of the WildBlue brand.

I'm glad the service is working out for you, but a quick search of dslreports.com shows that not everyone is as happy with Exede as you are.
Somehow the ad industry would manage (gifs, bundled ad in stream, etc.), and killing flash banners is a good thing, those things are annoying.
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But why does the interference stop once you answer? The author gives a couple of hypotheses in the comments, but might there be somebody here who knows for sure?
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To clarify, no he's not making money. Few people ever do. The products are more often than not worthless ebooks, but the real scam is the conmen that lead you to believe it's easy, anyone can do it, and pay me $99 and I'll have you earning thousands in the next few minutes.

>perhaps you could convince him to sell honest products using honest techniques

Precisely what I'm after. It's hard to be convincing when my side of the argument isn't offering "40000/month on autopilot!"
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