skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depression is partly biological-- the tendency that way surely is-- but it's also a natural outgrowth of a society that doesn't forgive mistakes and that tests people not based on peak capability or creativity, but on breaking point.

Somehow, we've conflated character and loyalty (which are important) with the willingness to suffer needlessly in the name of subordination and whatever the fuck "team player" means.

The brogrammer culture and unnecessary long hours of Corporate America are all about testing people based on their decline curves, not peak performance. It's competing to suffer rather than competing to excel. Who is the first to crack? Fire him. Who is the last to break? Promote him. It's ridiculous and of course it's going to lead to an "epidemic" of mental illness.

In the corporate world, we promote based on participation in shared suffering (i.e. who stays until 1:30am to meet an arbitrary deadline) rather than talent, and we kick people when they're down, which is why it's impossible for someone to get back into the career game after even a short time outside of it (maternity, illness, depression). Of course we're going to have our best people dropping like flies.

Depression and anxiety disorders have always existed, but they don't need to be this common. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that at least half of the problem is caused by social and economic forces. These problems are biological at root, but social factors tend to modulate the severity that people experience.

Mark Suster deserves major props for speaking out about this. I've criticized him in the past, but I'm starting to like the guy.
Language alone does not mean tons of productivity gain. Building software requires more than just syntatic sugar.

C# has all these features yet I have never seen killer tools that changed the .net landscape like Rails did with Ruby. While I would not call those language features smoke and mirror, I argue that they are merely nice to have and not ground nor thought provoking.

At the end of the day, Java ecosystem still move forward way faster than .net. Spring, cloudera, datastax, alfresco, liferay, ehcache, jboss, tomcat, Embedded server like Jetty, and other great, free, mature, serious, and open source tools are available at our disposal vs taking to sales rep to buy licenses, which are a common activity in .net world.
The best (worst) thing about this whole law is that these sites used to work fine without cookies, but now no longer do. In effect, while making a sincere (and successful!) attempt making cookie use more transparent, thereby enhancing user privacy, they unintentionally made cookie use more pervasive, thereby hurting user privacy.

I think that's a net negative.
Exception Handling for REST
Article about Exception Handling with Spring for a REST API.
Realise that regardless of what happens Everything Will Be Grand.

Let's take some scenarios here:

Scenario 1. The launch attracts a lot of subscribers and your infrastructure can't stand up to it or holes in your application are found.

Okay this is a pretty good problem to have - people want your product, nice. But the experience hasn't been A+, not nice. Guess what? People are (for the whole part) understanding and logical. They understand that software matures over time and, as an early adopter, they accept that they may have to put up with a bug or two. Software breaks, get it over it.

Scenario 2. You've thrown a party and no one shows up (aka few subcribers). Okay this sucks from a business POV but on the plus side you'll be able to pay your few early adopters some extra attention and find out why they chose your product. Use this information to improve your marketing.

Scenario 3. Middle of the road - an average number of subscribers, with some bugs discovered. This is a good sustainable start, keep it up (and crush those bugs you know about).

Regardless of what happens, things will be fine. Don't sweat it :)
No it doesn't.

It's impossible for ordinary users to distinguish between privacy invading tracking cookies and regular functional site cookies.

Also, this doesn't form "informed consent". Users have no idea what the data is used for, and this is the key to this law.

It's not about "cookies", that is just FUD. It's about being able to opt-in to very specific forms of gathering personal data.

Browser functionality is neither opt-in nor informed.
I think we also learned that he has only ever had to work at convincing existing bb users that the new version is worth upgrading to. He knows nothing about the technical features which is fine because he only ever interacts with high level people in enterprise businesses who don't care about technical features.

I've started to think that bb management views the company like the IBM of the mobile phone world, an old and venerable company driven by great engineering that doesn't need to be greatly concerned with what its competitors are doing. Them having deeply internalized this kind of view of company is the only reason I can think of that their apparent arrogance and misunderstanding of their place in the world makes sense.
I'm missing links to the specific sources and more background details in many cases.

You might also be interested in this: http://www.futuretimeline.net/ (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2458521)
If you work on a small code base, or if you know the code base perfectly, you might get away with your "tried and true method" most of the time.

But if you are working on a code base with hundreds of commits per month, I wish you a lot of luck. Your 10s of seconds might easily become days.

On a big codebase you might even want to automate bisecting as much as possible. See http://lwn.net/Articles/317154/ where Ingo Molnar says:

>>> for example git-bisect was godsent. I remember that years ago bisection of a bug was a very [laborious] task so that it was only used as a final, last-ditch approach for really nasty bugs. Today we can [autonomously] bisect build bugs via a simple shell command around "git-bisect run", without any human interaction!
Might make an interesting authentication mechanism....
Hi

I went/going through exactly the same scenario you had. The main point I took (and it took me a few years to do so) is that when she starts on a depressing spiral, no matter how much I love her, I need to separate myself from it. Be slightly colder towards her problem and focus on myself, still take care of herself but not be sucked in too her 'imaginary' problems (like being late for something, or something at home isn't perfect), while that may seem harsh, it was the only thing that worked for me) I started with depressive/suicide thoughts after years of this situation when I always lived a relatively stress free and happy life and I couldn't take it anymore. I explained to her this, and how, even though it maybe be worse for her, it was better for myself and our child if at least I was able to remain 'saner'. It is still hard as well.

As toby mentioned, depression really is contagious. Maybe not 'I'm going to blow my head off' contagious, but after a few years dealing almost 24 hours with someone you love that is depressed, your outcome of life ends so messed up you start spiralling too.

All the luck toby!
Bruno
Me thinks Facebook will be eclipsed by a Chinese "social network". Maybe one with compulsory membership or something.
The phrase Rather, the language is the material from which works (including dictionaries and grammars) may be created seems to deny the possibility of a work being able to create another work.
To me, a "secretary" is someone who would sit at a desk near an entrance, greet people, and maybe answer the phones. Maybe also have limited "PA" or "AA" jobs (calendar management, send faxes, type e-mails/letters verbatim, minimal paperwork, etc).

Which still largely exists at the entrance to many companies/businesses, but doesn't really exist as often in the context of a personal or corporate secretaries.

Now, the article argues that these people still exist but that the name has changed. I disagree, I think the expectations have changed. Companies expect this individual to do more than just greet people and answer calls - they have to have a brain. They have to contribute.

For example an "administrative assistant" of a big executive might not only have to answer calls and greet people, but might also have to draft e-mails, speeches, and similar only to have the executive sign off on them. They might also have to work with other departments to get things done (things the executive themselves used to do).

So an "administrative assistant" at least from my perspective is almost a junior executive themselves. They have the same kind of role.

Now "personal assistant" is a non-executive/administrative role. But what a "PA" does varies widely from company and executive. I mean some PAs are literally doing things like collecting dry cleaning and having the executive's car services (and, yes, this IS in the job description) while others are just glorified "secretaries."

I think what it really boils down to is that people, in the West, are far too expensive to just have them for the sake of it. In this day and age they're expected to contribute more for less, or they're surplus of requirements.
I'd like to see their budgetary proof that not a penny of license-payer money was used on this. What about overheads (Light, Heat, Power, Rent)? Do they partition those out? I doubt it.
"I don't understand how you decide between good and evil cookies."

It's all in the intended use.

Good cookies:
Session cookies for ecommerce and other transactional style web interaction

Bad cookies:
Advertisers tracking cookies that track users across multiple sites without their knowledge or consent.

See?
>I don't see what's the point in comparing revenue to profit ratios in wildly different sectors.

That's fair, I don't buy the comparisons of Amazon with Google, Microsoft, etc either. It's also true that P/E ration can be misleading, for example even a healthy company might book a loss, or small profit from time to time for all sorts of reasons.

The problem with Amazon is that their current share price is around $250. For that to make sense, you need to believe that their earnings will rise so that this becomes a good deal. To achieve a P/E ratio of say 20 (still too high for a retailer), their earnings would need to go up about 150x. How are Amazon going to become hundreds of times more profitable than they are now?
More on that new Apple TV’s likely SOC
What happens when states more rigorously enforce sales tax collection? Margin-be-gone?
Although the list is nice I thinks it's a pity there isn't much out-of-the-box thinking in there. And maybe that's because it will be totally different from what we ever could imagine.

My grandma is 93 years old. I don't think anyone could ever imagine a wireless-telephone-phonograph-motionpicture-talktoeveryone-device around the time she was born.
.onion sites don't need SSL as Tor traffic itself is already encrypted.
It fails in practice though. Gawker tried this, and reverted it a few months later when it became clear that their traffic from search engines took a nose-dive.
I'd assume that as well. I have collected several Microsoft IDs by way of Hotmail/live.com/outlook.com but I only have one Facebook account.
Google Adds New Notification Center To Chrome Code
My boyfriend lives in Melbourne; hence the motivation to move. ThoughtWorks has an office in Melbourne, and Google in Sydney, but it was hard to find other pure tech companies in the area.

It's a shame that there isn't a well-defined exchange program between countries like the US and AU. In all other aspects I meet the visa criteria head-on, yet the fact that I don't have a degree will slow me down by 2-3 years.
The Ruby Hangout -- online meetup.
Wow, I'd heard before that the "Coca" in Coca-Cola used to be cocaine, but I dismissed it as an urban legend, not even worthy of a google search. This is so worth being wrong.
Nah.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_courage
A bit hyper-sensitive are we? That's the end of the thread from me though, my absurdist questions should have told you everything you need to know about my opinion of your horrid attitudes. Have a nice day: I fart in your general direction.
The services are trying to provide you with easy access so you don't have that barrier of creating "yet another account". Depending on the service they're offering they'll pick a reasonable third-party that offers oAuth integration.

I'd say that GitHub auth for a service aimed at developers is a reasonable assumption to make.
That interviewer was being an unprofessional asshat to be honest. I think the BBC are near tabloid when it comes to technology reporting these days.
The basement analogy is flawed. It's like a proxy holding your keys and giving them to anyone that asks, without your knowledge.

Education wasn't going to happen without notices like these.
Seems like you could extend this same argument to file by arguing you are writing an interpreter for the PDF/GIF/AutoCAD/PSD notation.
"javascript : the good parts " is a very good book to keep handy.
Interesting article - but it would have been nice if the Globe had more clearly explained the distinctions between making academic papers available for free, vs. making commercial software like Microsoft Excel or SimCity available free - a lot of readers will come away with the wrong idea there. Aside from the prosecutor and the venue, these cases really aren't very similar.
I haven't talked to an immigration lawyer; and I think that they will be able to clear up quite a bit for me. Mostly I've been working through this on my own, with some help from the Australian Embassy as well. I will get in touch with one. Thanks for the tip!
Law Schools’ Applications Fall as Costs Rise and Jobs Are Cut
> Except the time to first user activity is delayed. Speed is an important criteria to responsiveness.

Not if the client receives the requested page pre-rendered. The client should then render subsequent pages.
Microsoft browsers were the first ones that could do AJAX.
This presents an interesting point of consideration. If a saying has its roots in racism, is it still racist if its applied centures later to a completely different context? I'd argue that even if "Dutch courage" was originally in some way racist against the dutch, the racist intent has been stripped away by time. Dutch courage isn't a racist saying at this point, it's just a universally recognised expression for substance-induced courage.

A bit of googling reveals that there's quite a lot of expression with racist roots that we use all the time in different contexts.[1]

[1]: It is a cracked article, but it makes some valid points: http://www.cracked.com/article_16967_8-racist-words-you-use-...
Firefox now comes with a console, DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger out of the box.
Kraftwagen: Everything in code, multiple deploy targets and more… with Drupal
If you've got C/C++ (or Fortran!) code it's pretty straightforward - I work on a profiling tool that tracks things like CPU utilization and memory contention for HPC codes (http://www.allinea.com/products/map/). For single-machine programs you could just hack something together with the perf counters fairly easily.
I believe I linked to our work in Sudan (wiredcraft.com/work/southern-sudan-referendum/index.html). We've also done stuff for the UN (http://reliefweb.int), the World Bank, WRI (http://brtdata.org) and a whole range of other things my colleagues at Wiredcraft will be happy to mention.

I still think there are relevant use cases for using a CMS. However, from experience I think that:

1. In many cases, CMS like Drupal or Wordpress are seen as the silver bullet for everything and anything; "Why use a 3rd party? Just built it in the CMS!". That's how you end up with expensive, tightly coupled platforms that are effectively locking these organisations in.

2. Many organizations are just engaging in some kind of arms race, copying what their neighbors and competitors have.
Livestreaming Atmospheric Data as its Collected by Android Phones
CMU SCS students push for hacker culture in Qatar
DevOps is really about design
No. Returning different content to Googlebot is a technique called cloaking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking

Probably worth reading this: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/webma...

They'll accept geo-targeted or mobile vs desktop optimised content, but everything else is a grey area.
Congratulations with the release Rolf! This will make our Drupal-work a lot easier :)
This entire argument boils down to "if you don't want to get raped, don't wear short skirts in public".

People shouldn't have to take protective action in order to not get stalked by advertisers and marketers.

Such activities require opt-in and informed consent, and standard browser functionality doesn't even come close to supporting that.

Oh, I agree that the current law doesn't solve the problem.

But "educating the people" is a completely backward solution. The opaque stalking of people by the likes of Facebook and Google should be outlawed completely, and heavily enforced.
Depression happens for many reasons. We do need to have sympathy because the depth of depression varies from person to person.

Some of it can be genetic and I think it can also be copied from other people or passed on. That is why if you hang around with happy people you have a tendency to be happier.

One of the things I noticed in my successful peers is that they go through a period of depression before great periods of productivity or creativity. The depths of depressions or "pullbacks" vary from person to person but most of them show that trait before periods of greatness.

IMO, depression is increasing because pressure is increasing on the average individual in general. From society, to our peers, from the media, from our own competitive nature we are putting more pressure on ourselves to perform or not perform via rebelling.

I am not a doctor, but I know when one of my friends or peers say they are depressed, it is taken very seriously. We all go out of our way to support that person.

Life does go on. Life does change. Sometimes it is darkest before the dawn. Never give up.
But cocaine is extracted from coca leaves. Even a trivial amount in soda would be a problem in the USA.

Wikipedia: " . . . the alkaloid content of coca leaves is low: between .25% and .77%, and production of cocaine from coca requires complex chemical processes.[2] This means that chewing the leaves or drinking coca tea does not produce the high people experience with cocaine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca
They like to make an example of computer criminals. Locking up a marginal rapist, murderer, gang member, etc. doesn't serve any useful political purpose -- it just makes crime stats look worse.
Employees Made Up Nearly 2/3 Of Sellers on SecondMarket in 2012
Chromium builds predictive models which are stored client-side. They are not uploaded to a third party server, like Google.
That is not at all how any of this works.

First, expected growth is built in to the value of a stock at any time. If the market expected Apple's sales to double, for example, and it happens, the stock will not skyrocket when Apple announces "record results" - because that doubling is build into the price of the stock. If instead their sales go up 1.5x - which is still healthy - the stock will fall, because it missed the market's expectations. The price was set at the expectation that prices would double.

So what happened with Apple? While I don't claim to be an investor (and don't take any of this as advice), people cut price targets after it looked like Apple's sales had plateaued. The general consensus seemed to be that from the latest report, Apple's ability to beat earnings per share targets (ie. how much money it makes for each share that it has issued) is diminished, so the price has readjusted.

Amazon didn't lose 45%. Amazon's net income fell, from $147 million to $97 million. Net income is what most people refer to as profits. Amazon's revenue is up 22% from last year to just shy of $50 billion, and it has a ton of assets, around $32 billion. So how did profits fall? They spent more money building data centers and warehouses - in the same way that Apple's profits would fall if they spent more money building Apple Stores. It's an indication that the business is healthy, not unhealthy. Operating margin (ie. your return on sales, what portion of revenue turned into income) also increased, by quite a bit from 20% to 24%, which is very healthy.

Apple and Amazon are both great companies, but to be clear, I'm not recommending either of these stocks - if you're buying a single ticker, you're gambling.

If you want to learn about this stuff, I'd recommend as an very readable introduction the book A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
That looks fantastic, I like the idea of mutable local history while guarding against history editing problems.
we can make drastic changes in the UI without any change on the backend

This has always been possible with well-architectected systems, but more importantly it's mostly a platitude. It just doesn't happen in real life. "Drastic changes" to the UI are almost always driven by changes in requirements and hence they impact the entire system.
I think the tax idea is interesting. They have it 55 years after the singularity. I've heard (singularity advocates) say that once the singularity occurs our economy will double every few months. That means that after 55 years the average person would earn 9 figure salaries. At that point the government could probably pretty easily run on donations versus taxes. If thats the case I think 55 years after the singularity is a conservative estimate. I'd bet it will happen less than 5 years after the singularity. Assuming the singularity occurs of course.
It has been estimated on bitcointalk that around 1-2% have been lost. That's not really a large amount. You can still divide bitcoins into satoshis (1E-8) or even further with a protocol change in the future.
Well, it's a conjecture. The stock price is sky-high and this should mean that investors expect Amazon to grow much, much larger. International expansion seems to be the best way to go about that.

For the long-term survival of Amazon it might also be a good idea to try to dominate everywhere. In every market that Amazon doesn't serve, a competitor will take its place. There's a danger that in the long run such a competitor will become large and efficient enough to compete with Amazon in Japan, UK, Europe, or even the US.
The programming language is the language used to give instructions to a machine. For me, it is very similar to a natural language. What do you mean by "programming notation" ?
I was referring to Python doctests (documentation narrative with interspersed Python statements and embedded reference output).

The text looked to me like one could extract all the commands, run them and check their output against the embedded reference output automatically. I don't know, it had such a rigid structure.

On a second look, the output contains timestamps, so what looks like shell output is probably only shell output the author has copied once into their text.
How To Rewire Your Brains for Positivity and Happiness
Diagnosing some diseases , detecting landmines , detecting food safety, detecting tracks(like dogs), analysis of biocompatiblity of couples(through pheromons),improved robotic chefs can all achieved by smelling.

In general , smelling , i.e. analyzing the volatile compounds materials emit can teach us some things about those materials and what processes they are going through.Those seem like usefull capabilities for many industries.
The value of Instagram acquisition is showing up. But still wondering..$1 billion?
Yeah, but I'm not depressed. It's just that I can only take saccharin in small doses.
This is so cool! Looks very very promising!
> VMs for Mac and Linux coming soon.

So you don't have to bother visiting that page.
Facebook's mobile transition is going smoothly - except for games
Is there a difference between what he's talking about and phases that have been in Mercurial for a little while?