skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't seem to be aware, the author basically stopped updating her blog and essentially fell off the face of the internet almost 2 years ago. It was so disconcerting that last year many people became concerned about her wellbeing and tried to track her down, eventually learning that she was "ok" but working "through" her depression. This has been the first update of her blog/comic since then.
May do. I think it uses websockets and they are a little temperamental over proxies.
>There is no real "cure" to depression

Not now, but there will be one. IMHO symptoms of depression don't seem as something "psychological" or some trauma. They do not make any sense, and do not help survival of the individual. They seem more like a malfunctioning machine, some chemical missing in the brain. Smart people will figure it out some day, and cure it like they did with many other diseases before.

EDIT: do not want to sound like a cheap self-help book, this is my opinion from observing depressed people, and working with lots of malfunctioning machines :)
I don't know... Most people I know with smart phones didn't pay >$200 and a lot got some sorta deal.
Regardless, @ ~$300 or even if it went down to $100 most people aren't gonna spend that to retrieve a pic unless it's supremely important.
Because the title implies an article about Facebook, not a direct link to Facebook which you can only use if you have a Facebook account and login to it.
Answering the headline: no, eventually everything isn't hopeless bullshit. There's still a lot of hopless bullshit, but eventually you'll find something (or if you're lucky, a few things) that makes all the hopeless bullshit worth putting up with.

That's why people find suicide so sad. Almost nothing can't be overcome with time and suicide cuts that time short. You learn this as you overcome things by not giving up.

This process is called 'growing up'.
> That's scary to me; one is proving beyond any shadow of a doubt that one was present at that place at that time.

To some, I imagine they feel could the opposite: Reassurance against wrongful accusations of crimes not committed.
What kind of question is that? This is a web app and not many people use GIMP.
There was a case a few years ago in Australia where someone realized that their (foreign-issued) card would always authorize, but that the debit would never hit their account.

They had a field day (or months). Police estimated that the person had withdrawn up to $2M from ATMs.

But people are greedy - faced with a machine that effectively gave free cash, as much as desired - how was this person caught? A gambling spree (go figure - where's the real allure in "winning" when you can "win" at any ATM?) - on a losing streak, he couldn't be bothered to spread his withdrawals amongst multiple ATMs at or around the casino, and in one night emptied an ATM (approximately $100,000), which tipped off the bank, that had only filled it that morning. Some cross referencing, and it was all over.

Scarily, the bank noted that until then, there was "nothing that had been flagged in their system" alerting to a problem with this person/account.
I remember reading the DSM occasionally, which is what they use to diagnose these things. I'll caution that I am not an expert, have no training in the area, so have at best a layperson's understanding.

But my understanding is that you can have the symptoms of depression from time to time and not meet the criteria. Most of these things have, alongside the list of symptoms, a bullet point or two about it being persistent, that it gets in the way of your activities. Sometimes you see the list of symptoms for something like a mood disorder and you say, hey, that could be anybody, especially teenagers. Then you see the blurb about it being nearly every day for six weeks or whatever.

As a thinking person of somewhat atheist leanings it's personally occurred to me that life is pointless, kind of like you said. Sometimes, especially when thinking of mortality, that can bum me out. But I wouldn't say that's the same as clinical depression.
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That file didn't exist in 1995, but if it had, distributing it outside the US would also have run afoul of arms control laws.

Technology changes, and laws change with it. The laws, almost without exception, lag several years behind the technology.
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Was it on a .com domain? Because they've had the power to take those down for a few years now.
the items that DD designed are all open source designs, so the likelyhood of copyright infringement is ... minimal.
Here are posts that compares CPython 2.7, 3.3 and PyPy 1.9:

1. web frameworks performance:
http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/09/python-fastest-web-frame...
2. template engine performance:
http://mindref.blogspot.com/2012/07/python-fastest-template....

It would be interesting to see how PyPy 1.9 compares to 2.0 in those benchmarks.
(Parts of) weapons is just the beginning. After the Music and Film industry, will we now see the manufacturing industry go after individuals sharing 3D maps of 'their' content?
Hey, I'm the real Ben. You can check my history, etc.

I did post a fair amount of GPG posts to HN, though =)
In fact, you will have to wait until the first of january following the 50th anniversary of the death of the authors for the book to get into the public domain (that's what the "until year end" means), but yes it is that simple.
Looks like I wasn't far off...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5661443
Well it was only a matter of time. On my Galaxy S4 I rooted it and am running GameSpector and downloaded a patch that not only removes the warning sent to the sender of said Snapchat I have taken a screenshot of their Snapchat but it also keeps the Snapchat indefinitely (the countdown drops to zero, but the video or image remains until you press clear). Anyone who honestly believes Snapchat is truly anonymous is very much mistaken. Be careful.

Any anonymous service is bound to be abused and used for nefarious purposes. The high price tag ensures that only serious situations will warrant a Snapchat recovery (primarily law enforcement and on occasion, paranoid parents). Considering most people use Snapchat on their iPhone's mainly, I think most are safe for now.
That seems like a logical explanation. But as far as I could tell reading about Wozniak[1] at least, the guy was 110% focused on playing with technology and making cool things. He didn't seem to care so much about money. So presumably once he had lots of money, he could continue doing what he liked so much. So does it mean that money actually accomplish the opposite result for him? making him less interested in doing hands-on stuff? Or maybe he simply achieved all he ever wanted and there was nothing more to play with??

[1]http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html
The cure to depression is a) calm the mind via the breath and once that is complete, usually after days of effort, and b) to observe your physical sensations from moment to moment without reacting to them in order to see Reality as it is.
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Any scheme at all is always going to be vulnerable to false negatives. There are companies that have multiple-stage recruitment, with skill tests, psychometric tests, multi-person interviews, background checking - and still end up with a few duds.

But if you can use a bunch of proxies (like StackOverflow, GitHub, and LinkedIn), and know the value of each of those proxies, then you can more efficiently match a person with a role. Sure, there'll be lots of mistakes, but it's hard to see a better alternative.
Why is everyone talking about "add IDE features", it doesn't sound like he is planning to implement that request. He was just listing out the top requests.
I know nothing about Android development (this service isn't available for iOS yet, according to the article). Does the OS give you low enough level control to overwrite specific memory locations, say with random data? In other words, could the snapchat app shut this down with a simple update?
Meanwhile, I grabbed it off TPB and, judging by the number of seeds, was hardly the first to think of doing so. Why the USG thinks it can put the cat back in the bag is beyond me.
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Does a tinyurl link to a torrent count?
Great question. Whilst you can attribute this shift to older age, and changes in your priorities in life, I also wonder about younger generation: Is Zukcerberg still doing any hacking these days?
I never said without a diagnosis.
It's only a model. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp2TWNpTA7s
Great cartoons!
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I work for a financial institution. This problem is due to complete ignorance of banks on best security practices.
Their global ATM lacks simple velocity checks. Such can never be made in real-time as data has to be aggregated globally to detect the total money flows from certain financial institutions, but given the manual handling of ATM withdrawals, a minute delay would be acceptable.

Simply sum all withdrawals, not per card number, but per financial institution (per BIC-code), and measure the money flowing out per time unit. If it exceeds a multiple of X times the average for what's normal on that day,
raise an alarm to investigate manually.

Such velocity checks would never work if only looking at withdrawals in a single ATM and still not good enough if they would measure all withdrawals in a single banks all ATMs as there are so many banks.

Banks need to cooperate in developing a global anti-fraud system. Unfortunately they still use COBOL and don't lose enough money on these things to find the motivation to do it.
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People do realise that improvised firearms are actually nothing new right? They've been around for ages - indeed 3D printed versions are vastly inferior to their machine shop counter parts which have been used quite effectively in the past for various political and gang related assassinations.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm

They should probably ban flash lights as well.
This sounds consistent with what I am understanding so far.

To my current understanding, it is necessary to distinguish between a state of mind and a current mood. Certain states of mind just don't support certain moods. Furthermore, for certain states of mind it's hard to get into and hard to get out of.

As a silly example, note my daily life. If I sleep in hard, I'm just not in a productive state of mind and I don't get out of that state of mind all day. The result is that I just don't do much that entire day. On the other hand, if I set my alarm clock to 6 in the morning, I get all my chores done to 10 and pull a full workday on hobby projects without breaking a sweat. The "zone" of programmers also appears to be such a state of mind which just doesn't support social interactions well.

Depression appears to be similar to this. It's a state of mind that's hard to get out of (or hard to cover up even) and that just doesn't support cheerful and happy moods. From there, our usual stress avoidance mechanisms kick in, for example by avoiding overly cheerful or happy people and things don't improve much.
> Like many super-successful execs, he goes home, has dinner with his wife and kids, and then works in the late evening.

This idea that everyone is "going home at 5:30" sounds like a misnomer here, if you're heading straight home at a reasonable time only to log in remotely as soon as you're done dinner. Is this really a policy significantly different than any other given company? Or is it solely because he's a "super-successful exec" that he does extra hours?
hmm that's a thought. I think it would be more sociopathy than psychopathy if anything. Then again, it could be that I'm an introvert who's read too much stoic philosophy meanwhile forcing himself to act extroverted lol.
Relevant: http://xkcd.com/723/
Here is the original Government press release:

http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/2013/2013may09.html

I could not locate a copy of the actual indictment, so if somebody could find a link to it I would appreciate it.

I was curious to how they were caught. That they only caught the runners (the guys going to the ATM's with cards) and not the group leaders or the hackers suggests they were caught via traditional ID methods via ATM cameras[1], mobile phone or car license plates.

The other evidence to support this theory is that the runners in other countries were not arrested or charged at the same time. If law enforcement took these guys down from the top, you'd think they would be able to also ID the runners in other countries.

Instead, only the group of runners organized around New York were caught - 8 people, out of a group that would number at least 50 or more.

I also don't understand the money laundering charge. The defendants deposited $150k in $20 bills into a Miami bank and then used the account to buy a car. That isn't doing a very good job of hiding the source of funds, if that is what their intention was.

Seems very amateur and unworthy of a professional criminal organization - more likely it was the proceeds of a cut that one of the runners got.

[1] During the Boston Marathon Bombing manhunt the Feds released pictures that were taken from an ATM showing Suspect #2 (later identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev):

http://i.imgur.com/0ZF7ud9.png

From the pictures you can see that ATM's take a photo when the user is approaching and while they are using the ATM (the first picture seems to be triggered by the door being opened). The quality is surprisingly good.
If they were open, you would have an online service that could automatically point contradicting studies, and even make suggestions.
Yeah, but that was for encryption. Encryption of today would have been unbreakable in 95. This is for... you know... actual arms.

So, really, the law makes more sense here.
> What do paywalls possible have to do with the reproducibility
> of results? Anyone who has access to a lab

Actually, there's no institution subscribed to every journal. There are, in fact, many papers inaccessible to even the most funded labs. Spotty coverage.
guess you are right to an extent, doctors may not be the best communicators given the nature of the profession, privacy laws, time etc however, sometimes a nudge could make all the difference, don't you think? a nudge from an "app" to prompt the doctor to think of other possibilities beyond their expertise.
What's going to be hilarious is when the NRA works against homemade guns because they don't actually represent gun owners but gun manufacturers and people finally start getting the point of lobbyists.

Going to get some popcorn and watch y'all fight each other over who gets to have the most toys to accidentally kill their friends and family with.
WeakRef still doesn't zero out collected references, so https://github.com/farcaller/motion-memorymanagement (based on mikeash's MAZeroingWeakRef) is still the better alternative.
I know this is only HL2 beta - but unfortunately it doesn't run nearly as fast as HL2 on wine.
I'm on ubuntu 12.10, 2010 mac mini (nvidia graphics)
Sure. Just pass a reference to the Java-land object down to C++ via the Java Native Interface (JNI) and use memset to wipe out the memory in that location.
No. They're nothing like the real world. Some parts are similar, but some parts of prison are similar to the real world too.
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Seriously! I enjoyed the illustrations a lot!
Those are government entities, and the government's parent company is the corporatocracy that owns all the politicians and media.

Science is a business in the service of global capitalism. Truth hurts.

I will give you the MacArthur foundation and certain other non-profits. But most non-profits are also operated by the corporatocratic elite, like everything else on this planet.
Yes, but if you use these instructions, which they've limited the distribution of, you'd be hard pressed to explain where you got them from.

ATF agent: Oh, you got that from a torrent? Did you also seed the file?

You can see where this is going, and it doesn't have a happy ending.

If you do make one of these though, for the love of God embed a chunk of metal. These things wouldn't be legal without it (metal detectors).
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Maybe you were just tired.
Looks awesome. I just wish it was free and open.
Maybe that's too broad, but doesn't the trend exist? Why did it happen?
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Yea... I don't work with PHP.

I don't think its popularity with beginners is what earned it a 'terrible reputation' though.

There are quite a few other good reasons to not like it.
I doubt the general effectiveness of the Streisand effect, since it seems like exactly the kind of thing that would be subject to selection bias: the examples of people trying to stop the spread of information that you know of are of course mainly those where it failed. That you can name many more examples of it failing doesn't mean that there aren't lots of examples of it working that you have no way of knowing about.
I live in the U.S. and I am raising an eyebrow at this. For the rest of the world, I understand the need for this, but the easy access to guns we already have in the states would make it skeptical on why you would want one of these. I guess it would be for curiosity for some, but I would rather stick to my AK and shoot thousands of rounds reliably. I am a firm believer of "to each their own" so if people want to make these, I am all for it. If they blow up their face in the process of shooting, oh well. In a different perspective, I would rather build a gun with my hands as I am a firm believer of do it yourself.
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There are tweaks available on Cydia for jailbroken iOS devices that provide similar functionality.
Even if they did this, there's still a huge problem on Android in that it is trivial to root virtually any Android phone and a rooted phone can be running a background app with READ_FRAMEBUFFER_ACCESS and constantly polling the framebuffer, so anything you see on the screen is leaked out of any app. And you can do this all at the app level without even getting into kernel driver hacks.

Anyone who thinks the photos passed along through these apps are in any way safe from being saved and leaked by the receiver is very technically naive. All of the old rules about all bets being off if someone has physical access to a device in the chain still apply.
You should read Jue Wang's 2007 survey paper which groups and puts all the techniques in context, then a handful of the top performing papers from recent years on alphamatting.com

http://www.juew.org/publication/mattingSurvey.pdf
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Please give some reasoning along with your claim.

In what way do they suck, in which cases? Do they really need to stop being used?

I'm not just being pedantic. I just haven't had any problems with the concept of passwords as a security measure. Many implementations are flawed, but that is a different manner.
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I have some of that too, but tbh I don't think it's depression, psychopathy or sociopathy as the other commenters mentioned, but just a personality trait.

Alternatively, it's a defense mechanism; not caring about others means your mind isn't burdened with their well-being and issues, which lightens the load.

The social interactions being a game is a sign of you being an introvert; extroverts and society at large make it look natural and something you're simply supposed to know, but this isn't true for everyone. I found the social aspect becomes better and easier and more natural - or, my personality slowly shifting towards the extrovert end of the scale - as the years and experiences pass by.

The outlook on life (or death, for that matter) is a nice, down-to-earth statement, releasing you from the burden of living in fear about the afterlife, and allowing you to live as you choose to, not according to a set of rules and habits as imposed by a religion or lifestyle.

Finally, describing yourself as having selfish asshole syndrome shows that you're well-aware of yourself, your behavior etc, and that if you choose so, you can work on self-improvement and changing yourself. That is, if you see any reason to. Being fine with who you are is fine, as long as you're happy / content with it.

tl;dr
Prisons are microcosms, too, and the way prisoners and guards interact is also a good indicator of what we do as a society.

If you fix bullying in schools, you will help fix bullying in society in general. If you fix bullying in society in general, you will help fix bullying in prisons.

I had the surprising insight a few months ago that rape culture is just the Stanford Prison Experiment writ large. It was an insight triggered by reading some commentary about Stuebenville.
Do you not feel emotions, or do you not feel empathy?

The former is called alexithymia. It literally means "no words for emotions", and is experienced as an inability to identify emotional states in oneself. A person may still experience emotions and act on them, but they're unaware of which emotion they're feeling at any given time - for example, they may snap at or say something nasty to a close acquaintance, but be unaware that they were angry or that their words would be hurtful to the other person. Alexithymia isn't a disorder in itself, but it's a symptom that can indicate other disorders. Common causes include dismissive/avoidant attachment disorder, autism spectrum disorders, avoidant or schizoid personality disorders, or sometimes PTSD and emotional trauma.

Lack of empathy means an inability to put yourself in someone else's shoes and imagine someone else's perspective. It's actually divided into two categories: a deficiency in emotional empathy means an inability to understand others' emotional states (and is closely related to alexithymia, as you usually can't identify emotions in others if you can't identify them in yourself) and is commonly associated with sociopathy, schizophrenia, and narcissism; while cognitive empathy is your ability to imagine yourself in another's shoes and take on their perspective given their differing information, and is frequently deficient with autism spectrum disorders, bipolar disorder, or borderline personality disorder.
A friend (who I totally busted with this) points out that while he does have it installed, he hasn't actually used it. Which seems like a fair distinction to make.
I do not intend to downplay the anxiety and the emotional pain of the experience either you or the the OP had. I empathise completely. I myself have gone and continue to go through such "crises" regularly. I feel just as much.

My point was: it's ironic that the author talks about the lack of interest in the aesthetic of "life" and the general disinterest in the veritable cornucopia of little toy horse plays around us when he/she did EXACTLY that by writing a lovely, beautiful and well-crafted blog. (I am not being sarcastic.)

Doesn't anyone see the beauty and irony in that? Does clinical depression create such works of art? If so, we should celebrate it as a gift!
Porting from consoles to PC's is much harder, though, not to mention that they'll also have to upgrade the graphics in a major way to make it a "competitive" PC game. By contrast, porting to Linux should be much easier.

Also porting old games is one thing, but these days most 3rd party game engines support Linux, too, and it should be even easier to support Linux at launch with new games.

Considering Linux users buy about the same amount of games (in revenue) as Mac users right now (from the surveys/research I've seen), it should be a no-brainer to support Linux if you're already going to support Mac. I could see some not wanting to bother with Mac either, though, but for those who choose Mac, they should also choose Linux.