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I don't think there is actually a causal link between exercise and anxiety reduction. All of the self reports can be explained by the placebo effect. And there is a strong bias toward believing in a causal link that is all-pervasive. When regular people experience anxiety reduction in conjunction with exercise, the belief in exercise as the cause is unquestioned, and researchers like these in the article need never fear that their interpretation will be scrutinized. Nobody has a vested interest in opposing exercise. Everyone knows it's just plain good for you.

What did this study prove? The assertion is that mice that are locked in cages so they forcibly can't do what they would normally be doing make good representatives for people that are not exercising, for any reason, including personal preference. Do the researchers actually find that convincing? No, apparently not:

>> Of course, as we all know, mice are not men or women. But, Dr. Gould says, other studies “show that physical exercise reduces anxiety in humans,” suggesting that similar remodeling takes place in the brains of people who work out.

In other words, this study didn't really need to prove anything, anyway, because it's already known from "other studies."

If you were going to design the definitive study to answer the question of whether exercise relieves anxiety, how would you control for the placebo effect? You can make sugar pills that are, plausibly, convincing enough to separate drug effect from placebo. But how do you make a placebo for exercise? Exercise itself would seem like the perfect placebo. If a research study was able to motivate a group of sedentary, depressed subjects to start regular exercise, it would seem to make it very hard to argue that those subjects didn't believe they were genuinely doing something. A rigorous, double-blind, controlled study of exercise sounds all but fundamentally impossible to do.

What about an observational study? How do you take two people, one who exercises regularly, and one who is sedentary, and claim that they are otherwise perfectly matched?

Why are scientists so sure it's been proven? Nature abhors a vacuum. It seems like the less testable something is, the more certain people are of it.
No. Verbosity != file size. Verbosity is a qualitative measure relative to a minimum, complete expression of an idea.
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I don't want to engage in a long-winded argument about issues irrelevant to my point that I was trying to make in the first place, but it seems that somehow you had a lousy trip.

>I did meet some Indians who were born in Singapore - but alas - had never been to India, and appeared to be basically culturally relegated to a sort of mid level service sector niche. It seemed to me that they'd never built up the courage or economic platform to leave.

Are you saying that all Indians in Singapore are working in mid-level service sectors? Is that really what you're saying?

> Sitting in the airport departure lounge, waiting to fly out, a state-sponsored television channel blared feel-good pro-state propaganda to weary travelers. Suddenly, the national anthem came on. Interspersed with its antiquated, politically-populist, Malay-pattois verbiage were smoothly integrated, carefully contrived scenes of the Singaporean miracle: a multicultural table of youth happily consuming artificial foods, a laughing young man in uniform (doing his compulsory military service), and a couple of friendly, similing police. That was just the icing on the cake.

I'm sorry you don't feel the same way about Singapore. I wouldn't expect you to. Yet patriotism exists in every country at different levels, and if you're saying that this is propaganda, then I have nothing else left to add, because to each, his own.

Oh, but I would like to add that while there are many people like yourself who can seem to turn every good into a bad, there are, thankfully, a good number of people who are more perceptive.
- You can't play with 500k/yr strategy because they are other top companies with deeper pocket and can throw more money at employees than yahoo

Those same top companies can throw more money at start ups as well. They don't because they don't think they are worth that much or much at all.

also because it creates a bad precent, where current employees who might be more talented but getting 1/5th of the pay. It also artificially increases values of developers IMO.

Nothing creates worse precedence than being a yahoo employee of few years and finding out the new guy in the next cubicle became a millionaire because he came via a start up that didn't go anywhere. THAT's demoralizing as it gets and tells existing yahoo employees that if you want to make millions, you should leave yahoo because that's what the guy next door did.
Doug was our Einstein, but he largely punched out in the mid-70's, right as the PC and the commercial software industry took off. Later, I met him in 1998 and by that point he had no interest in talking about anything. He had any number of opportunities to build products, start companies, get research funding, etc. beyond what he did. That he didn't was a choice on his part, unfortunate for our industry, and not everyone else's fault like Tom seems to think.
There's a recent quote going around, that if you are male, white and middle-upper class, you're playing life in "easy mode".

Now, this means you get resources from others, those that are playing life in "hard mode". People don't start from equal positions -- and the winners like to think it was their "hard work" and "determination" that got them there. As if a coal miner doesn't work hard, or a single mother of four working at some shitty job to make ends meet is not "determined".

And the higher you go, the easier it gets for you, and the more "cheat codes" you unlock.

Those give you all sorts of powers. Like, firing people. People that own a business fire people that were perfectly good at their job and needed the money, if the company economic conditions require it (whereas, they rarely share their loot when the company makes a killing).

Or take collecting rent. Another injustice. Beginning from an empty land (actually a land inhabited by indians, that were driven out the lands, but I digress), somehow one person now has 4 apartments, and another person has to pay rent to him.

Now, that's a high level view - imbalances and injustice is all around. Even holding on to money, with people starving, is injustice enough in my worldview.
Pitching "you might accidentally stumble upon furry porn" isn't going to win many followers. If the aim is to convince people to listen to the message, then the approach leaves something to be desired. There is a wide range between, "the most extreme thing that you could say at a child's birthday party," and, "furry porn." It would probably be better to find examples that more people can rally behind.
> You can't play with 500k/yr strategy because they are other top companies with deeper pocket and can throw more money at employees than yahoo, also because it creates a bad precent, where current employees who might be more talented but getting 1/5th of the pay. It also artificially increases values of developers IMO.

Silicon Valley has this weird thing where it thinks the labor market shouldn't behave like a market.
True. Always thought it was Apple that was targeted, but it was mostly a node to the Apple-haters crowd.
well, sure it is right now because we are not able to do so yet. But there is a lot of research in computer science trying to do made that statement less over! :)
SILC has it own set of problems though: https://we.riseup.net/riseup+tech/problems-with-silc
Also, you can go to country X that may not be repressive, but if you want to call abroad or use the internet, you are still inspected by routers in all the other countries that you would consider repressive.
As one who hasn't followed Yahoo for a long long time, how does Yahoo actually make money? Is it purely from advertisement?
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>Perhaps you don't value verbosity, but fans of Flaubert, Balzac, Henry James, Joyce, Poe, Dostoyevsky and Dickens would disagree with you.

I don't value verbosity and I do appreciate the works of those authors: I do not consider them verbose. Verbosity is not a measure of the absolute length of a document; it's relative to a minimum expression of an idea. Per this definition, all verbosity is unnecessary because it conveys no additional information.
Call me unimpressed by the "proof by eminent authority", in particular when said authority offers only a "proof by public ridicule".
Once you own slaves you are rotten to the core and nothing that comes out of your mouth is worth paying attention to?

One of the points of the article was that humans are fallible, that is our nature. Best to prepare for that fact in advance (like assuming someone will steal your data stored with the government).
To be honest, I didn't change a single thing about my digital life. Even it didn't make the news before, I have been using the internet for the past 15 years or so and since then, have always been aware that what you do on it is not completely private.

So, I didn't kill my Facebook account as I don't store personal info on it. I didn't kill my Google services as I use encryption to transfer sensitive data (trade secrets and such). Etc.
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If I was Snowden I would try to quietly disappear and let everyone think I was still in the airport for months or years.

I had a crazy idea the other day that we find as many Snowden doppelgängers as possible. We all fly to Moscow and give him our passports. We then all wait in the airport an allotted time until Snowden is safe somewhere else and then all report that our passports have been misplaced and apply for temporary new ones to return home.
Actually it took Denmark a bit more than two weeks to do the same, but you are right, they there second after Iceland. That was February 1991. Most of the other countries only "rushed" at the end of the summer after events in Moscow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_d'état_attemp...

The part about help is true (though I heard a very pragmatic reason for it: "the better you live in your country, the less you will be likely to come to our". Not sure if working.)
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"A NEET or neet is a young person who is not in education, employment, or training. The acronym NEET was first used in the United Kingdom but its use has spread to other countries including Japan, China, and South Korea."

This is even mentioned in the BBC article.
I can't speak for the people in your community but here in the UK 'tough on crime' most certainly does mean getting tough on what is called 'antisocial behaviour'. In our recent Police and Crime Commissioner elections it was these lesser 'antisocial' offences that were the central campaign point for just about all candidates (along with 'giving victims more say').

The result of this attitude is that we lock up people for 4 years for joking about starting a riot on Facebook[1].

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/16/facebook-riot-calls...
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Dead human bodies are considered unclean too. That's not a value judgment about live humans.
All phones traveling below 20 mph would be excluded on the assumption that they're not driving. All phones traveling faster than 20 mph would be plotted to discern what road they are traveling on and what the speed limit is for that road.
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I just turn off the phone..
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My point was that a license was not required to simply blog - which was what the article was insinuating. For the exact rules for licensing of news websites, go to http://www.mda.gov.sg/NewsAndEvents/PressRelease/2013/Pages/...

I'm not saying I agree with it. But at the same time I think that as long as it is not abused (to be addressed below), it is intended to prevent the new class of "independent journalists" from writing baseless stories without getting their facts right.

> In my view it's really self evident that such a law is rife for abuse if a site doesn't toe the governments line.

Exactly. Contrary to what many may think, if or when the government does begin to abuse this right, I can assure you that we, the citizens, will be up in arms and take them to task.
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This isn't only in Japan, it is a phenomenon that is spreading across the globe. Japan is first hit because of the strong disparities between generations. Truth is, the internet brought about a lot of things so one could have a constant "window out" from a single room. Most of us know precisely what I am talking about.

I would like to theorize that this is only one of the things that facilitate such isolation by making it more tolerable. What pushes people IN is the social reflection. Misfits often get shunned for being different. Tack all that on top of the social networks and the compound strength can be overwhelming:
This generation is the first generation EVER to get to observe first-hand how their failure compares to their 5th grade friend Jimbo, who's now a doctor. And Suzan has had 2 kids. Meanwhile Jack constantly posts pictures of his new cars on sites X,Y,Z. That doesn't help your self esteem when you see everyone happy and you're lonely.
Back in the days, your dad might have messed up for 3 years, but the stigma never stuck because (1) people did not have proof from the network itself and (2) he was able to "snap out of it" because he wasn't constantly reminded of others great lives (and by comparison how miserable he was) - those things would get ushered behind the blinds of hearsay, they'd be on the very periphery of your life. But now all of those haunt you, via Facebook feed and other social medias, where subconsciously we mostly try to advertise our successes.
I think it is time for psychiatry to wake up to this. I fear it will take another 50-100 years for this to be understood.

I wish the world would wake up and realize that WE as a society are malfunctioning and that the burden to support each-others falls on all.
France denied the claim that they denied the plane entering their airspace; did France deny the claim that they denied landing?
It's actually a British term that has been adopted by Japan. I know this might be splitting hairs, but both the wiki link you're replying to and the parent article cite this:

"an adopted British acronym meaning "not in education, employment or training"
You don't get the irony of the Madison quote?

Re 'your' data, the problem is that it all exists in the private sector already and IS GROWING in the private sector much more quickly. What do you the big data bandwagon is? I'm much more concerned about a breach of my SSN from Equifax than the US Govt.
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> Are you saying that...

Are you saying you can't read? I commented that the Indians I met were from those sectors, and that generally Indians in Singapore did seem to be over-represented in those sectors. (For example, driving taxis, cleaning, physical security, etc.)

> turn every good into a bad

Perhaps I missed the former, since the fruits of a nanny-state (cleanliness, safety except from the government and their cronies, subsidised identical high-density aircon-free ghetto-housing for low income earners, etc.) don't necessarily seem 'good' to me. Each to their own. I prefer mainland China over Singapore, any day. At least, for all their problems, they have some real freedom and diversity, and a mostly intellectually honest history.
According to that article it's not just men, only 53% of them are male.
"Writing HTML is NOT programming"

- I'm in two minds about this.

"In the strict sense, a programming language is a way to issue instructions to a computer".

- That's not true. Strictly speaking, you are talking only about imperative programming languages. There are other programming languages which are declarative, you just declare the goals you want but not the instructions on how to achieve the goals. Strictly speaking again, HTML & CSS are declarative languages, that's why I can't decide whether it's true that writing HTML is not programming.

"First of all, you will need to learn what programming means. This will be done along learning your first language: Python."

- But you are talking about learning web development, JavaScript is THE language of the web (at least for now). So why Python? why not JavaScript?
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Title says it all. I'm looking for European (non-US servers and non-US corporation) alternatives for VPS servers. Can anyone recommend some? Anyone with personal experiences, or any companies out there offering this?
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I find this version better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A12dH72757U

Don't know what she say but I was paying attention :).
Very neat. Hate the loading screen though. Having to display a loading screen is almost as bad as using flash. Maybe load the assets in the background?
nice post. Sorry to be a pedant but its "Espresso."
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There's a whole other side to Japan than the flashy/noisy side of Tokyo.

One of the start ups who frequents HN lives in Japan's country side and he's written some interesting blogs and comments on here about how he can go days without seeing another human aside his wife.

But sadly the side of Japan that seems to be exported the most is the futuristic, over-populated scenes from Tokyo and thus many foreigners assume that the whole of the nation is like it.
I wondered that too.

It has that "I understand what society expects of me and am willing to obey it therefore I'm a model citizen" vibe to it.
I'd be interested to get my Dads FBI file. He passed away in November 2011 but he had an FBI file for when he worked at the 94 world cup. Is it possible to request FBI documents on foreign subjects?
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These were featured in Human Planet documentary series ( Rivers ). Well worth a look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Planet
Great, another example of a site that is vendor locked to the Chrome browser.
Considering your site doesn't work on the majority of browsers (Neither Firefox nor IE), I'm not sure what "testing" you've actually done.
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That is true. I have not looked at the much of the clojure code and non of the go code but both probebly are written in a very unidiomitic style that one does normally not use.

Also with clojure, the actual timeconsuming calculations can be made with java and that should be at least as fast as go (with a bit more memory).

So all in all I value the architectural things much more then pure speed. Go simply has a diffrent target then Clojure.
+1 for your auto-critic ;)
Actually, a website already exists to track Amazon prices. They could have just searched for it:

http://camelcamelcamel.com/
That manga probably takes things too lightheartedly / humorously though so I personally didn't find it particularly informational or revealing.

It makes up for it by being entertaining though.
It doesn't help that a lot of people only post good stuff to Facebook. "Pictures of wife and I celebrating our anniversary!". They don't then say "We both screamed at each other for 3 hours, just after the photo was taken."
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Maybe it's due to the name, but the "other" salt, saltstack, apparently had a serious problem with cryptography: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5dd304276ba5745ec21...
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That's a beautiful landing page. Assuming you work there, how much time did it take to build?
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I do not consider them verbose

What a curious statement. James did not consider the 'minimum expression of an idea' a virtue, he's almost infamous for his verbosity, as are many of the others in that list. I'll leave you with something from the start of The Ambassadors as an example:

The principle I have just mentioned as operating had been, with the most newly disembarked of the two men, wholly instinctive--the fruit of a sharp sense that, delightful as it would be to find himself looking, after so much separation, into his comrade's face, his business would be a trifle bungled should he simply arrange for this countenance to present itself to the nearing steamer as the first "note," of Europe.

http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/hjames/bl-hjam...
So is this distinct enough from regular 'ol depression that it qualifies as a culture-bound syndrome like Taijin kyofusho?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture-bound_syndrome
Yeah..this is just more with images.
The warnings, hidden away behind a link (unlike the stuff about journalists and LGBTQ activists)

> What Cryptocat Doesn't Do

> While Cryptocat aims to offer strongly encrypted, private Instant Messaging, it's important to note what Cryptocat does not protect you against:

> Cryptocat does not anonymize you: While your communications are encrypted, your identity can still be traced since Cryptocat does not mask your IP address. For anonymization, we highly recommend using Tor.

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Actually, we load first 4 screens at first go. Rest is lazily loaded.
Yeah, all the booksellers would need to buy all new inventory and lease a new building and hire new staff. Brick and Mortar isn't like firing up a Linode. Amazon is basically the Walmart of the Internet.
Japan has imbued the word with a meaning unto itself though. I don't think the British version of the word carries the same kind of social condescension that it does in Japan.

Also Hikikkomori means that you literally don't leave your room at all (which is not the case for a NEET). If the hermit needs something, they'll often bang the floor to summon their mother (typically for food)
Strange. I was working with Firefox 21, and it didn't work. I've updated to 22 and it did.
As others have said, browsers trust a cert from any CA. I'd suggest you also sign your cert with PGP via monkeysphere. Then people who have and use the firefox extension will know if any funny business happens. (Granted this will be a tiny percentage of your users - but it's also the most paranoid ones).