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It took me a while to read all the way through the article, because I was doing things with my family. And maybe that is exactly the issue. The author of the article reaches a happy ending when she reflects on involvement with children and hoped-for grandchildren. The anecdotes she relates about her treatment, by the way, reflect the how far understanding of bipolar mood disorders and their treatment has come in the last few decades. She writes as a sixty-year-old with decades of treatment behind her. If you are the age of a typical Hacker News user, you are younger, and today in 2013 if you seek treatment your doctor or psychologist has a much better experience base and theoretical framework to work from in designing your treatment.

The author's main point about what needs more attention in treatment of bipolar mood disorder I cannot fully agree with. Unlike her, I have lived in more than one country of the world for a long span of my life, and at a slightly younger age, I have decades of my life that were spent looking back at living a very culturally and linguistically different place, where "self" plays a very different role in individual lives. Human beings get better as they become more connected to their communities, not usually as they become more self-absorbed. (I'm looking for a link just now about that--perhaps I'll add it in an edit if I find the link I'm looking for.) It's great that the article author has family and community connections. The best reason to take individually prescribed medicine is to help build up interpersonal relationships. Preoccupation with self-identity is not a cultural universal, but being with and dealing with our fellow human beings is.
Long-term unemployment is happening in the US too:
http://blogs.cfr.org/kahn/2013/04/17/our-long-term-unemploym...

Unemployment in the US is near 15% including U6, or near 23% if using pre-1994 counting methods:
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...

(On that subject, I'm looking for work in the north SF bay area, Sonoma/Marin region)
That only works because of the lack of child labor laws and the lack of an advanced economy in which education is required in order to get a well-paying job in countries where extreme poverty is commonplace.
Surely nicotine is a drug and within the purview of the FDA to regulate.
You: Really? There is no historical record of the market responding to increased prices?

Me: we're talking about "price gouging" during disasters or some other event that disrupts normal supply lines

Seems pretty clear what I was talking about. Your hypothesis about price gouging during emergencies doesn't have historical evidence.

I understand perfectly why you think it should work that way according to your ideology. I was pointing out that, in these circumstances, it doesn't match up with the data.

Plenty of other commenters, with knowledge of inventory logistics, have explained why.
"January 22, 2013"

I thought I've seen this posted before. I'm not entirely sure if I have seen it posted here on Hacker News before.
Sure there was - before the debut of high-powered GPUs. Try cracking SHA1-hashed passwords on CPUs - even modern ones - and let me know how far that gets you.

By comparison, today's bcrypt passwords at today's work factors are tomorrow's ASIC snacks. Doesn't mean that bcrypt at reasonable work factors are wrong today.
Spain's youth unemployment is astronomical (55%+). Young people with useful skills are increasing choosing to emigrate -- With lots of encouragement too. e.g. Germany is actively recruiting Spanish Engineers to fill labour gaps there.

Without structural changes, no amount of youth is going to dig them out.
Well...there are no Bedouin neighborhoods. I am talking about Bedouin that are still Bedouin traveling around in the desert. So yes...meet them, befriend them...sleep the night and get fed. But sometimes you can stay a week or so and help work, etc. Let them know where you want to go and they will tell you how to get there..and hook you up with more contacts. Sometimes those are family that live in towns and you stay with them at their house. The monasteries and convents were about $10 to even 7$ a night in Syria and Jordan and included a clean room and a breakfast. Convents were generally about $5 more expensive and the women there were kind of mean.....so we went to the monasteries most often.

We did meet people on the road that helped us out too...but most of the time is was from walking around in the remote parts of a town or area and looking lost or walking up to a Bedouin tent.
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And we still think krugman is
a god.
Mainly because I don't want to get addicted to nicotine just by sitting next to a co-worker who uses e-cigs indoors.
Truth be told, on submission I expected to get the past submission and was looking forward to reading hacker comments.
Someone posted a question on reddit regarding this - it seems like Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) also has a similar program. Though not much information is given here, http://www.reddit.com/r/columbia/comments/1c5lxl/prospective...
Germany isn't completely innocent here though either, even though it can look like they were frugal during the boom years.

From Michael Pettis [1]:

The strength of the German economy in recent years has largely to do with its export success. But for Germany to run a large current account surplus – the consequence I would argue of domestic policies aimed at suppressing consumption and subsidizing production – Spain and the other peripheral countries of Europe had to run large current account deficits. If they didn’t, the euro would have undoubtedly surged, and with it Germany’s export performance would have collapsed. Very low interest rates in the euro area (set largely by Germany) ensured that the peripheral countries would, indeed, run large trade deficits.

The funding by German banks of peripheral European borrowing, in other words, was a necessary part of deal, arrived at willingly or unwillingly, leading both to Germany’s export success and to the debt problems of the deficit countries.

[1] http://www.mpettis.com/2011/07/19/current-account-dilemma/
Doesn't the 2nd-hand vapor contain nicotine, just as the vapor inhaled by the user does? Maybe less than from a cigarette (or maybe not?), but still some.

Nicotine is an addictive, potentially toxic drug, with some possible beneficial effects, and some definite harmful effects. I'd like to be able to choose for myself whether I'm going to inhale it.

How is "I want to choose which drugs I expose myself to" an expression of the nanny state?

If you want to consume a drug in public, figure out how to do so in such a way that you don't share it with bystanders against their will. We already have patches, gum, snuff, chaw; if you really want to inhale it as a vapor, why can't you do that in private?
You are correct. While proofreading I realized my irony might cause confusion, so I edited it away. My apologies, I upvoted you since you present a solution.

There are many things in the health system I find highly illogical, and sometimes I use irony instead of simply presenting the case and possible solutions.

There are in fact various metrics to which programs should be judged against; while they differ by country trying to save the as much years of life at the lowest possible cost is usually well accepted.
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Ask HN: What web development language do you prefer?
What languages do you like the most for making websites? (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, MySQL, etc)
I'm guessing you're not here for any kind of rational discussion, but, could you explain a little bit about your motivation to post that comment? I'm not sure I've seen a pro-Krugman bias on news.yc. Even among most of those who think he's right, I'm not sure that deification is an accurate description.

In this case, it's particularly confusing, since Spain is one of Krugman's "look, austerity is bad" poster children.
Krugman has been against the austerity in Europe from the start. So Krugman was right all along.
Good luck keeping people from using them anywhere. They don't smell, so non-smokers aren't going to complain (I've been using e-cigs at work for two years and never received any complaints, in fact one person who sits five feet from me wasn't aware that I did it). The only people who've ever asked me to stop using them in restaurants and bars are staff (and only two instances in two years of regularly going out with e-cigs), and they're only doing it because they're afraid of getting into trouble with whatever regulators might crack down on them.

Electronic cigarettes should be left the hell alone. I've never seen a more successful smoking cessation tool. Trying to heavy-handedly 'regulate' them so they aren't as easy or affordable to use will only ensure that people keep smoking regular cigarettes. Of course, the more paranoid side of my brain reminds me that a lot of tax revenue comes from old fashioned cigarette sales, and perhaps governments will want to protect those revenues.
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doesn't https secure the connection, and prevent snooping? It's not like someone can see my bank login credentials even if it is a honeypot.
All due respect, I would never hire someone as a security consultant who would make an uninformed statement like that.

Scare tactics work, no doubt, but that's just pathetic.

If you are really trying to help people, why not tell them to control their own DNS? That's what djb advises.

Kick the third party DNS habit.
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Possibly, though questions about morality or free-will, or the nature of knowledge or whatever, are not.

But what I meant was that almost any question can be considered philosophical under that definition. Until you actually test it scientifically at least. And if that's the case, then the meaning of "philosophical questions" becomes worthless. A word that can describe anything is useless. The value of a word is that it can be used to differentiate between things.
Germanys is 42 and they are doing fine, its a longterm issue though.

Theyd need something like germanies dual education system that has classic University/College Education plus on the Job apprenticeships were companies train young People for several years. These companies get some Financial benefits and the young get excellent job training plus a low income during that time. Afterwards they are qualified to tackle the more senior jobs. Of course this is a long term process as well, seems already too late.
They could just sneakily make a picture of your key.
I hate the tone of this whole post, for the following reasons:

1. He contradicts himself: first he says he believes the world is a meritocracy, but then he says it can tolerate a staggering amount of incompetence,

2. Someone put up their package for free, perhaps it wasn't great, but incompetent?

3. Startups with stupid ideas still raised capital and are attempting to make money. Not incompetence.
HTML mostly because of the capabilities that came with HTML5.
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On a Mac, Control is always Control. It's just that it does less than it does on Windows.
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NewAer wants to make the Siri reminders & GPS location based triggers obsolete with a software SDK to use radios in smartphones as app triggers. They just launched their new Android and iOS SDK for the Techcrunch Disrupt hackathon, and have a pretty funny example video posted. Nick's life is pretty sweet! LOL.
Or, A cuts the pizza down the middle, B chooses a half, A and B cut their halves into thirds and C chooses one third each from A's and B's halves.
I don't care how long the company will be around. I care how long the product will be around. I don't think the acquiring company being around increases the likelihood of the product being around.
This is clearly madness.
I'm as anti-smoking as they come, and it enrages me that Greece is stuck in the middle ages in that regard. People smoke everywhere, inside and out, and you can't go to a bar without inhaling loads of smoke. I would like nothing better than to see smoke-free indoors environments, but smokers here have a huge sense of entitlement, their mindset being "if it bothers you, go somewhere else".

All that said, there's no reason to ban e-cigarettes. They don't smell, they don't make my eyes/throat hurt, they aren't obtrusive in any way, unless you're trying to inhale the other person's smoke as it comes out of their nose. As long as it doesn't bother other people, it shouldn't be banned, and e-cigarettes don't bother other people.
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Which service to print and deliver individual stickers?
I'm shopping around for sites that can do very small print runs of vinyl stickers and drop ship single pieces out.

I'm not based in the US and looking to ship primarily to US so this might be a better way than printing locally and shipping myself.

Any recommendation?
For what it's worth they now make smokeless hookah. It's basically stones that are pressure injected with flavored vegetable oil, and they're free of tobacco and nicotine.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en&q=...

I've never tried them, though there are a few different brands you can find on Amazon, some of which actually have pretty good reviews.
Have you made any recent websites using HTML5 extensively?
These things were a godsend to me quitting BUT they do need to be studied to find out if they also have long term harms.
What I don't understand is how are they allowed to put ads on TV?
> The 25-line imperative method is often more intuitive than the highly-dense 6-line functional one.

The 25-line functional program will typically include a 6-line imperative one (with all that imperative code in one place if it's Haskell).
Has there been a study to prove that can happen or are you just assuming?
hey thanks everyone for the feedback. GeoNames includes postal code data for many countries. I'll see if I can add more countries in the next week or so!
Personally, i am of the mindset, that they can keep on adding as much drm as they want on their systems, it will never matter. The more draconian the restrictions become, the more appealing piracy becomes.

They will only succeed in chasing away their paying customers.

Lastly, I always break out this when the topic comes up :

What colour are your bits? - http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

I think it illustrates why the tech community doesn't think that 'unbreakable' DRM is a solvable problem, and why the non-tech community keeps on insisting that it is.
Wow, I miss smoking, maybe this is how to get that clear lucid feeling back but without the health risks. I know it would be regulated, the government needs to make its two cents too. Right?
They could set up a separate non-profit organisation (that donates its proceeds to the wikimedia foundation) to sell and manage the ads. Place the organisation in a city far from any wikimedia presence to counter casual contact. Put in the charter than there can be zero personnel overlap between the businesses at any level and that nobody at the ads company is allowed to edit any article on wikipedia or any reason, much less hold any admin credentials . Embrace openness: Publish as much as is practical about every deal, and make sure all ads on the sites are directly referenceable back to the deal in which they were purchased. Publish the names and resumes of all account managers.
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Well it may be that the brain is hardwired biologically to represent sight to some extent. But otherwise, to a newly sighted person that had not learned to associate visual input with anything, it would just be completely random noise. Neurons are firing but they aren't connected to anything yet.

It would be like asking a person if they could understand text written in a foreign language they don't know anything about. It might be possible, but you would first have to train their brain extensively to understand the format and map the different symbols and words to actual concepts. Otherwise it's all gibberish, random noise.
I believe he means the FDA will impose restrictions that will reduce the use of e-cigarettes. Not precisely what "regulate" means, but a common connotation.
We discussed this fair splitting problem when I was in high school. I understood the theoretical implications of the problem, but I never liked the splitting method in a practical sense.

For instance, the "fair" way to split a pizza into two is to let one person cut, and the other chooses.

But if you've ever cut pizza, you know how hard it is to cut it evenly. So clearly the person who gets to choose has the better end of the deal.
"then you can't trust the cutter to not simply devour the entire pizza right there in front of everybody"

The guy does have a knife after all ... what are the others going to do to stop him!
Hmm, what's the difference between this and Readability?
imo textbox.io looks like it's going to be the best but it's not out yet :P
I long for the future where I can safely assume my passwords are stolen
No you didn't. Not fully at least. OP is saying that there is a penalty just for doing the inserts themselves.
I would say about the same thing. At dozens of MB is size, one might think it would work at least as well as Libre Office, which, based on recent experience, is pretty competent at editing docx files. Google seems to be starting far back from the current state of the art.

What I would really like is a set of Android apps for editing Google Drive documents offline, and richer formatting for Drive documents.
There already is a dual education system. It's called Formación Profesional. Includes on the job apprenticeships, plus a "senior" track, or qualification to college.
Just because you don't smell it doesn't mean they don't have a smell.

My ex-boss started smoking again after he discovered them. Guy puffed it like he was in a noir film, blew the vapor all over the place. They most definitely have a smell, and I'd often end up stinking of it when I got home from work.
Well, this system is somewhat optimised for practicality. A truly 'fair' system would allow people to submit blind bids, for how wide a slice they would like, with the smallest bid taking the slice. Eg:

* Everybody writes down how much pizza they would like on a folded piece of paper.
You put down 15 degrees, I put down 25 degrees, etc.

* The papers are opened and the person who bid the lowest gets their
requested slice

* Repeat until all the pizza is gone.

Essentially you are running a blind auction to split up a limited resource. While being a fairer adaption of my original solution, it does turn out somewhat more unwieldy in practise :-)
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It was certainly very convenient for the germans to have some takers for their cheap bonds, but the fact remains that nobody forced the peripheral countries to live beyond their means and to refrain from implementing necessary reforms.
You can't do much with just HTML. Remember, HTML5 is basically just a wrapper around all the new web technologies (local storage, webgl, audio API, web sockets, etc...). Most of these technologies are interfaced with JavaScript and not HTML.
E-Juice is available with and without nicotine. Without, it is basically a tiny humidifier. I haven't seen any reference to nicotine in the ads.
Ask HN: How are large tech sites such as LivingSocial and Evernote hacked?
Hi,

How are large tech sites such as LivingSocial, Zappos, LinkedIn and Evernote hacked?

I don't understand how these database tables are accessed. Surely it is not SQL Injection, as that should be a thing of the past with prepared statements, I cannot see how changing any session state would effect the application as Unit Tests would have already picked this up, and I cannot imagine that hackers would easily be able to gain root access to the machines which be locked down, with a SSH key.

I ask this because I manage a large database with fields (FirstName, Surname and DOB) and wondering how safe this data is.

Thanks
You write with great confidence but...
have a look at some detailed and interesting arguments for and against at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advertisements
JavaScript (Node.js & Browser), Java and Scala for backend services...
Regulate purity and accuracy of labeling. Then their job is (or should be) done.
A nit, we actually know very little about nicotine since most of the studies are about tobacco use. Further, it's almost impossible to find subjects who use(d) nicotine but not tobacco. However, Sweden has a large percentage of people who use snus with little ill effect, and is one of the better sources of data on purer nicotine (but snus is still tobacco, just a purer form).

Also, we know that inhaling smoke is bad and that tobacco smoke is bad, but we don't know about hot vapor so much, let alone hot nicotine vapor. There is more research needed here and I look forward to it. It's pretty safe to assume though that it's safer than cigarettes.
Perhaps it's not. But it's definitely what most seemed to be doing.
What the is the precedent for austerity? What countries have used it successfully to get out of recession and improve unemployment?
Love love love my e-cig. No one has a clue in the office.

I quit smoking quite a while back, but I still had cheaters from time to time. I really think nicotine has a much more permanent effect on the brain than we are led to believe.

If you don't smoke, don't go near the stuff, but if you do, you really should try it.
It's not really either of these things. The curse of expertise in a field is you live and breathe stuff so deeply for so long that you forget what it's like to not be an expert in your field. You forget what non-experts, or bystanders, don't know, because it's hard to remember a time when you didn't know these things.

Computer people are notorious for having trouble explaining technical issues to computer-illiterates for this exact reason. It's not that their unempathetic - they are trying to explain so that the conversant understands, after all - but rather, they've been experts for so long, they forget which technical terms the conversant should or shouldn't know, or what does and doesn't need to be turned into an analogy. Overcoming this is a difficult skill.
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That seems inappropriate to me, what do you think?
What if B & C collude to make A think that A & B are colluding so that A cuts an unequal slice? Just draw random slices instead. Works for any n.
> $50k colo cage

Can you provide some evidence around these types of costs and benefits over a reasonably secure rack in a reasonably secure data center?