skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think we should stop seeing the depression as a problem

This Grey depression rarely comes without the Black depression described above, which really is a bad disease.

I've only recently been diagnosed with depression, and one of the reasons I went in to see a doctor about it is because of the self-doubt. Right now at work, I've been told to convert an existing synchronous system into an asynchronous workflow engine, and I don't know two shits about workflow engines. So, even with a "normalized" view of what I know and what I can do, I get anxious about the responsibilities I've been assigned, which leads to physical manifestations of anxiety, which leads to physical ailments, which leads to sick days. I know I can sit down and within a week, learn exactly what I need to do, but my mind keeps telling me I'm stupid and I should just quit my job.

Your rant reminds me of the people that claim autism spectrum disorders are just a rung on the evolutionary ladder. It might have one little part that sounds good on paper when you completely ignore the disease as a whole, but it's still a fucking disease.

edit: if you want to try and pretend to know what it's like to have a "baseline" like mine, take a week and instead of saying yes or no, just say "I don't care". Coworker asks you where you want to go to lunch, you don't care because it's all food at the end. Significant other asks if you want to go out to a movie, you don't care because it's all the same action packed or slapstick comedy crap. You no longer care about anything, because it's all stupid crap. You go through the motions of waking up, showering and go to work every morning, not because you like your job (even if you do), but it's because that's what you've been told to do. This is the brink of suicide, and it's a very real thing for people with depression. Nothing excites you, so there's no point in living. </endrant>

edit2: If anyone else is thinking they might have depression, please go see someone. It really does help. Greg Baugues, a developer out of Chicago, recently gave a talk about developers and depression at Mountain West RubyConf, and I would suggest watching it (http://www.confreaks.com/videos/2341-mwrc2013-devs-and-depre...). It gave me the courage to go seek help, hopefully it can do the same for others.
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I can remember being a kid and telling my mother "I don't want to kill myself, I just don't want to live, because I see no point."

That's when they started putting me on medications. four years and 20 different pills later and I finally convinced them to stop doping me with random chemicals, and I started to feel better. I haven't been on any meds since. I currently love my life very much.
Yep and it'll destroy the American empire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter#Social_complexit...
proposed cap and tax carbon regimes disagree.
No, not the immigrants. The Midwesterners.
There is an odd phenomenon prevalent on the 'net: the presumption that a short blurb written with a small audience and particular point in mind should, somehow, contain encyclopedic completeness to every conceivable objection any twit may conjure up, no matter how ill-informed or tenuously applicable.
I'm sorry, but if you are literally marching down the street in a parade, you lose the claim of "privacy". I understand the "exploit them for money" part and I agree with that part of your argument. However, the "cannot just film random people and share the images" seems, to put it bluntly, insane. If you march in a parade down the street, people can take pictures and share them. There is absolutely zero expectations of privacy when you march in a public parade down a public street.
This is extremely common in corporate software engineering, where a contract specifies exactly what will be delivered.

In practice, those change requests are usually rejected, because the people with control of the money aren't the people using the product, and the customer ends up paying for something they aren't happy with.

A lot of Agile methodologies are a response to this extremely strict change control.
No one who originated from Europe is, unless you take the argument America as America didn't exist until it was founded as the American government.
Alright, 12 minutes later, I think I figured out how it works. Bitstamp has a ripple deposit option, where you can deposit, not ripples, but the dollars that you traded them for at the ripple website.

Ripples are only traded at ripple. There is just the one exchange, but folks who buy ripples can potentially do it other places.

I am waiting for my $2USD to clear to bitstamp. That was quick. (Bitstamp acknowledged the $2 deposit.)
Meta-discussions are almost always flagged and downvoted very quickly. If you'd been around for longer and paid attention then you'd know that. In particular, meta-discussion without specific, definite suggestions as to how to improve things get given very short shrift.

And look, here is an item with 7 points and 22 (and now more) comments. Again, points/comments is very small, so it will disappear quickly.

And again, this discussion has very little actual value. let me try to summarise how it might appear:

* 14 hours ago you registered your username

* 7 hours ago you submitted an item that appears to have been flagged off the front page

* 2 hours ago you submit an item about how unfair that is, and how everyone should have instantly realised how valuable your submission was.

* Now you complain that your complaint is being flagged.

* When I explain about how things work, you just continually come back and say that it shouldn't be like that.

Well, that's how it might appear. Welcome to HN.

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In this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685591 you said:

... it seems to only take one person
to vehemently object.

No, it takes several people responding to what they see as a valid objection. One objection on its own, vehement or otherwise, doesn't have any real effect. It only matters if, on balance, people agree and take the trouble to flag it.
> My worry is that this is just the v0.1 and it is the shape of things to come

I don't see how 3D printers will be able to make undetectable bullets. There are not many ways to do a bullet that doesn't involve metals. Maybe a two-stage self-propelled plastic bullet could do the trick.
We don't have a national gun registry; there's no "trace" now.
Holy bejesus the <strike>lined diagonal background</strike>yellow sidebar contrast makes the text pulsate when I read... poor design decision. Going to have to tell someone about that.
I guess I'm still confused -- that's pretty much exactly why and how I use librarian-chef. After all, it's explicitly modelled on Bundler
All of the tables indicate the use of kcal as the unit. The fact isn't spelled out in the text, but this comment seems more like a pet peeve in terminology than an accurate criticism.

It occurs to me, that if all the parts in a conversation understand the correct meaning pedant-ism can be left aside.
It seems to me that we can get a pretty decent approximation as follows:

1. At any given time, Pr(oldest person <= age x) = Pr(one person <= age x)^N. So (over time) the median oldest-person age is the (1-2^-1/N) quantile of the age distribution. (For large N, this is roughly 1-log(2)/N.) (You can get that from actuarial tables, or use the Gompertz-Makeham approximation.)

2. So, crudely, the time between oldest-person deaths is comparable to either the expected lifetime of a person of the age found in step 1, or 1/Pr(someone of that age dies in a given year). (Both are approximations. The former will give shorter inter-death times.)

3. According to Wikipedia (which is always right, except when it's wrong), once you get old enough it's a decent approximation to say that that a Very Old Person has about a 50% chance of making it through any given year, and that figure doesn't depend very much on exactly how old they are.

Which would suggest that we should get a new oldest person about once every two years, and that for decent-sized populations (say, 1000 or more) the figure should depend only very weakly on population size.

If #3 is correct and at very advanced ages the mortality rate is roughly independent of age, it seems like this result shouldn't actually depend much on the details of the probability distributions. (The oldest person alive will almost always be very old.)

(You'd get quite different results if, e.g., there were a hard divinely-appointed cutoff at some particular age.)
Any mention of calories in the article refers to large calories, hence the notation as kcals.

I agree it's confusing, but because almost everyone means a large calorie when they say "calorie", it seemed like the most readable and simplest solution was to refer to them as calories and use the kcal notation in the tables.
And neither has a plastic gun.
Show HN: I just released Sleek, a Ruby gem for doing simple analytics
Frontend Masters: New Responsive Web Design Course by Ben Callahan
Engineers would rather improve their tech than improve the human.
>That type of shyte won't result in a beautifully animated and elegantly worded blog. :-/

The beautifully illustrated blog is post treatment.
It's flippant, but also completely honest. If mc-lovin of HN is correct that this study should be ignored and possibly retracted, then he should email the authors. Telling me about it does no good. Your original comment may be 100% accurate, but it really doesn't take away from the insight the study talks about. Your comment would have been more useful if you had a counter-argument about reading and empathy, but you only offered an unfounded criticism. Really.
>>>and put up mid/high-rises that could house 10x more people and bring down prices.

Except rent prices never go down. This is what you outsiders don't freakin understand. Even if you got rid of the rent control and stabilization laws, made it all "free" market, you'd never, ever see a decrease in rents. When people fled post-9/11 and no one was renting, rents did not go down. They side-stepped that by offering one or two or three months of "free" rent, while the registered rent remained in the city's books. Rents never decrease. And never will unless there is some catastrophe that makes the city inhospitable.
Tesla recharges the battery-car market
Great post, would like to hear more about some of the strategies and thoughts behind slide 15, specifically grouping and evaluating users. Also what is the 7-time rule?
Ask HN: Why did my post about posts getting nixed get nixed?
Are we not allowed to discuss how things could be improved?

Direct question. Please, no bullshit.

The title refers to this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685482

"Recently, when a single person vehemently objects to a post, it disappears off the front page.
Liken a submission to Reddit, or call it over-hyped, and it's a goner.

I've noticed this trend recently, and it just happened with one of my submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5684770

Or do votes not count any more?

(I have a feeling this may mysteriously disappear)"
The state of Rhino Mocks
If you like the combination of Jade + CoffeeScript + LESS, then I submit my generator for your consideration (and I would appreciate any insights you may have on its shortcomings or possible improvements). My generator is slightly more barebones than webapp:app. I don't include LiveReload, connect or require.js initially:

- I did not need LiveReload or connect because I use a combination of `grunt watch` and `http-server -c-1`[1] during development with no issues.

- require.js has not been an immediate requirement for me across a lot of projects, so I decided to defer the decision to the developer and go with a minimal setup.

The inbuilt webapp generator makes no decisions on which template language to use (some may prefer this over starting with Jade). It also decides to go with SASS/Compass instead of LESS. This is also fine except that it means I now need to have ruby and compass installed which I wanted to avoid[2].

The way I approach asset revving is a bit different in that I pass the developer a function to use in their Jade templates to refer to assets (images/css/etc...). It will resolve the path to an asset and form the url with a revision appended as a request parameter during template compilation (not after). It is kind of similar to the way django_compressor does its job if you are familiar with it (that was my primary inspiration).

Finally, I intend to improve the Gruntfile further by defining concurrent tasks, adding a clean task and so on.

[1] https://github.com/nodeapps/http-server

[2] I've written both SCSS and LESS and enjoyed both. Going with LESS really came down to reducing time till first page preview.
Normally multimedia adds to an article, but I thought the formatting in this story was distracting. It broke up the flow of reading, especially because the text was short and the TL;DR explanations were as long as the text itself.
That is not what "beg the question" means. Begging the question refers to a form of argument in which the final conclusion was earlier presented as a given. That is, a circular argument.

I restated the question, to highlight the absurdity of it. That is not begging the question.
I think there was some semantic mismatch here. The fact that something is infeasible means that it should not be the option selected. The fact that something is infeasable says nothing about whether it would be desirable granted feasibility. I am fairly confident you and the parent comment's author agree on both these points.
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How hack days have grown up
Good point, and a blank is deadly at contact range. And the gun is aptly named after the WWII Liberator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator

The objective of such crude and limited guns is to enable you to procure better ones, although of course this one is also an initial proof of concept, plus I gather intended to work though such issues as this takedown (I've read the guy or people behind this believe they've jumped through the required hoops to allow Internet publication).

Although I'll note conventional ammo needs a metal case; there has been work on caseless ammo but it's not gotten beyond R&D, the G11 probably went the furthest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_G11.
Cars kill more kids than anything else. Electricity won't change that.
Workshop / Chrome Experiments
I've been dealing with the exact feeling for over 15 years. I don't see any hope.
I think the main weakness of the diet not listed on their weaknesses is they've made no attempt to break it down into a realistic 3x7 meal plan, because it doesn't really make one. Yeah, it's easy to put together a whole load of things cheaply that conform to predetermined values on a spreadsheet, but sometimes sum of the parts does not give you a realistic outcome.

Also, I can tell you as someone who grew up with parents that grew lots of our own fruit and veg, things like onions will survive weeks or months if they are hand-picked, strung and stored correctly but once they have been through delivery/storage/shelf stacking for a supermarket those dents a bruises start going bad quite fast regardless of your best efforts in storage so buying that far ahead may itself be a false economy.
This article (and many others like it) miss out an incredibly cheap and healthy source of food, growing your own vegetables.
Your problem isn't that PHP is old. PHP is the same age as Java and there are plenty of people willing to use that. Objective-C is trendy now, and that's 12 years older than PHP.

Your problem is that PHP has probably the worst reputation of any programming language since COBOL.
> I think there's a reasonable argument to be made that mathematical constructs are part of the universe.

Well, one could say that we "create" them using our minds, which certainly are, but that's deep into philosophical territory.

> Mathematics "exists" because giving someone the genuine experience of doing mathematics when they really weren't would involve a simulation of almost unfathomable complexity.

Sounds to me like a misapplication of the method - the complexity arises from simulating the response of a person to math, not from simulating math. By that standard, all fiction is "a very real part of the universe".

> So I don't think the article, which is very well written and researched, deserves the middlebrow "Um, no" scorn that you treated it to.

That concerned on one statement, not the entire article (which I found fascinating as well). Yes, I have to admit that this is rather smartassy, but I actially feel that, quite independant of this article, it is an important and amazing realization that few people make.
Creator of Rhino Mocks: "I don’t really use mocking any longer." - interesting
>>>I have no problem with those who were alive during that time keeping rent-control. However, I do have a problem with it when people making $250,000 per year get in on RC because they have connections and pay key money to the children of the deceased. That I have a problem with. And then these hypocritical limousine liberals brag about how they're "sticking it to The Man" by using their connections to get a deal literally superior to ownership.

Oh, I agree completely. I once worked for a boss making six figures who was paying the kind of rent I could afford and he was lucky because he'd been in that place for over twenty years. But what's the solution? If you charged him rent based on his income, the registered rent increases, and will never go down because the landlord will make sure the next tenant has a six-figure income.

New York City rents are an insane system that really does no one any good, especially for those who work and don't make six figures -- which is most of the people who live in NYC.
Snapchat: not for state secrets
Now if only there was consensus what is healthy eating (it changes once a decade, cyclical fashion). Fat is currently returning with a vengeance, while sugar is the killer molecule. 10 years ago a spoonful of butter was considered slightly worse than cyanide.

The amounts of protein per day is also debated as are total calories, and carb/fat ratios.

And the number of meals per day and the optimal amounts of fasts.
Yes - they went from no music sales to the biggest retailer of music in the US in 5 or so years.

That's pretty disruptive if you're a music retailer.
This is an absolutely great description. My biggest problem has always been that people are much more familiar with the black part of depression. My depression is almost 100% of the gray variety. So people are always confused because I don't seem especially sad, self-hatey, or unhappy. It's incredibly frustrating. I can't count the number of times I've said the words "I'm not sad, I'm depressed" with no one really understanding what I meant, and me not having the better words to express myself.
The car companies paid good money to make that happen http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_cons...
Multicast DNS, development VMs, and multi-tenant applications
As someone with a degree in applied math, the pure abstract is more interesting than the applied. Applied math is like building really amazing and intricate sand castles on the beach. Pure math is like building the same sand castle, but in the sky and it's kept aloft purely by how beautiful it is, freed from constraints like "touches the ground" and "can support itself under gravity".

A lot of my friends feel the same way, with some of them specifically avoiding having "real world" applications of their work, as if that makes it an even better sand castle.

As to why I have an applied degree instead of doing pure math, numerical analysis makes a weird intuitive sense to me, and I figured building decent sand castles on the beach was better than making terrible sand castles in the sky that could barely hold themselves up. It also gets the grant money.
God says...

in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves
with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 2:14 Having eyes
full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable
souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed
children: 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray,
following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness; 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass
speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a
tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure
through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that
were clean escaped from them who live in error.

God says...
Yea bark Suppose favour Forgive Athanasius waterest childish
sign blesseth diversifiedst whoever slothful utterly forgetfulness
expound visible Prophet occasioned tempt reproved Wheresoever
restrainest check strengthenest Yes precedest recovered
superior unperceived mutually done think I'm_feeling_nice_today
withered
You said that you agreed with the list, the list explicitly says "nothing apart from piano or violin".
My understanding was you can export crypto programs by executive order, not a court decision, which means not any kind of a clear determination of what trumps what...
'Healthy' doesn't mean the same for all people. If you are not so young any more your cholesterol level becomes high priority. For me food that does not lead to a high cholesterol level is healthy food.
Congrats! I had a similar idea a while ago so I really appreciate that somebody accomplished it in so high level! I already signed up and already waiting for the post alpha version :)

Did you guys consider in the future to add multiple object segmentation? That looks like a natural next step. Keep it up the good work! :)
Ask HN: Should I leave U of Phoenix MBA on my resume
as the title reads. I later got another post graduate degree from a much more prestigious school. The U of Phoenix looks like a huge eyesore in my history.
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The liberation from this fear comes in a somewhat disingenuous way: humility. I'm not saying that as a slight against you (as if you are proud) in any way whatsoever. Nor am I espousing humility as a sort of passive acceptance of "the way things are." But by recognizing, patiently overcoming, and forgiving yourself for your weaknesses and struggles -- and by offering others the same -- you will find that, over time, this fear will lose most of its strength.

Furthermore, you won't be offended when others judge, reject, or humiliate you. Instead you will feel a sorrow for those who live in such a way, a sorrow that can hopefully be nurtured into compassion. If this sorrow turns into a holier-than-thou attitude, though, then we have a problem. :) The way to avoid this is through honest recognition of one's own weaknesses; once again, humility.

Emotions and opinions are fickle; the way people treat others reflects as much about the struggles and burdens they bear as they do about how they might "really" feel about something. To make ourselves beholden to other people's opinions and judgments is to necessarily strap ourselves to a roller coaster.

As someone who used to struggle with this a lot -- albeit unconsciously, because I was the one who was harsh towards others -- this is my experience.