skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incorrect: depression is not defined as "sadness without cause". Most definitions say that stressful life events are a common trigger for depression.

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Exhaustion from stressful life events can result is extreme, suicidal depression that definitely qualifies as "mental illness" - not just a few "negative feelings".
Google trying to evade UK privacy laws, campaigners claim
Unlike the creations of the central banks, there's an end to Bitcoin's creations. The value in this model is seen in Bitcoin's steadily rising and holding price.
I'm using Scala with Ensime in Emacs. It is not as good as the Scala IDE, but it is quite good. The reason I'm doing it is that I like to use the same editor for all the languages that I'm using, so that any additional plugins / modifications I do are not just for this one language, but can be leveraged for everything I do.

However, If that is not a requirement for you, you should really be using the Scala IDE (Eclipse plugin), it has great autocompletion, refactoring, and more.

I have to say I also started with Scala IDE because, when starting with a completely new language, I tend to just install the default IDE so that I don't have to fight two battles in the beginning but can concentrate fully on the language. Otherwise, you'll loose interest / give up even faster.
considering e=mc2, it's not surprising that matter and energy can both accomplish the same thing - they are the same thing
Their indian sites http://junglee.com and https://www.amazon.in/ looks perfectly fine.
They don't appear on the initial load, only when you switch between pages on the site.
poor show FB - thumbs down!
I'm reading the criticisms section and the US just looks extremely hypocritical. It's a joke. Basically Yahoo! Was criticized for giving ip access info to the government. Now all the US companies are doing the same thing for the US govt. So what exactly does this mean? A tacit admission that Chinese policies win? The only difference between the US and China now is that the US still pretends to care about privacy. Both countries are using surveillance to persecute what they think are enemies of the state.
I've been getting 454 Temporary authentication failure errors from the SES SMTP gateway, which is in US-EAST-1.

Edit: back up for me; SMTP gateway is authenticating and emails are sending out again.
Facial Recognition Brings New Look To Shopping
I hate how they weasel out and display a green checkbox, but with a tiny little "i" for information on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. Virginia).

http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status1.gif

I deserve to see something visually distinct if there is a problem. This is purposefully poor UX.

If I'm visiting the status page for your site, it's probably because I'm a technical user who suspects something is broken. Don't you dare hide what is broken from me.
yeah, you're right. Thanks. So I'm guessing higher than 5 wins, less loses? But what about the potions and other stuff you find throughout the game? I'm guessing something like this can give you, say a +1 dice points for 5 moves or something like that?
Why would you arrive before the light left? You could arrive at your destination before light from your source got there, so it would make phoning ahead to let them know you're on your way very difficult, but you wouldn't truly be in the past.
Germany recognizes Bitcoin as private money, makes it tax-free for personal use
White claims to have calculated a way to substantially reduce the energy requirements to form a warp bubble, and without reading his papers I suppose I should provisionally believe him. But the required energy has to be negative (as he confirms here), and I have never, ever seen him or anyone else suggest how he plans to accomplish that. Negative vacuum energies like what he's relying on have never been observed in the universe (directly or indirectly), and would violate a number of "energy conditions" commonly believed to hold for realistic matter. It would be very exciting if those energy conditions really were violated, but it's an extraordinary claim that backed by zero evidence.

With that in mind, I continue to be puzzled by the amount of press that this story seems to receive.
Plenty more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229858
Well Kivy may work for you in terms of portability, but don't expect a native feel.
Here Redmond is blamed for not providing any API to access the physical RTC chip and for switching old APIs to use CPU cycle counter even on RTC-equipped systems.

You can still run hwclock on your Fedora box and get genuine RTC readout if you need it.
For business it will be the same as it always has been: You are naturally under the regulation, effective or not, bitcoins or not, of government when you establish oneself as a business. They can use the blockchain to help, but let us not pretend that in itself is a panacea to taxation required for the gears to keep grinding on in the central banking/ governmental taxation systems (which even under loads pre bitcoin, were faltering).

But for individuals, one can create as many wallets as they wish, use as many laundering clients over tor, to remain out of reach. Which is exactly why governments have to set up honey pots to confiscate bitcoins on sites like the silk road (which end up not being effective deterrents and end up being outed as such by the community that relies/favors on reputable past trades). I suspect business/organizations can employ similar technologies to reduce their taxation and how much they declare.
Yes, it runs on EC2.

Proof: http://youtu.be/dxk8b9rSKOo?t=8m13s
> The idea that imperative programming is "natural" is sort of a myth.

Yes yes yes. I definitely agree. It's "sort of a myth," but it also sort of true. Zip is indeed quite simple, but it wouldn't make any sense at all unless you knew what a list was. Case in point, zipping two lazy (infinite) lists like they're eager won't work at all; each version of a list would have its own zip. The verb will be more or less derived from the noun. A verbless noun makes sense, but a nounless verb? I think there is some dependency.

Ask some programmers if they learned function calls before they learned variable assignment. I'm obviously betting they didn't, but I'd be curious if I were wrong.

I really don't know what's "natural". I'd like to know, but I don't. I do play guitar. (poorly.) Playing a good chord is a lot harder (for a beginner) than playing a good note; I've seen plenty struggle, including myself. Now though, both are about equally hard. I have no preference. The actual structure of a -7 chord is pretty simple once you start to think in the right way. For some reason, though, beginners seem to like playing major chords and single notes. Similar story: when I was a child, I learned how to write the letters before I learned how to write the words. When I was a slightly older child, I learned the chess pieces before I learned the chess openings. It all goes hand in hand, but something's got to come first. I figure it's probably got something to do with how the brain acquires new patterns, but I know even less about neurology than I do programming.

I intended to relate adverbs to lisp macros, but I don't have a rock solid thesis on the matter. Macros can arbitrarily change the nature of functions just like adverbs change the meaning of nouns. In either case, overuse leads to crappy writing. I'd argue they're more awkward to write, but not because of any indoctrination. Just a personal thought.

I'd even bet cash that even a room of grad students could brainstorm/generate new nouns much faster than they can generate adverbs. This might not prove anything.

> You should be ashamed of this remark.
> Bridges are not constructed this way.
> Stop patronizing people.

I got confused by all this. I didn't intend to patronize anyone. Sorry.
Ask HN: New founder in need of advice
Hey guys, launching a startup and need some advice. I'm the technical co-founder/CTO, he is the business development guy.

My cofounder seems to think VC are more concerned with appearance than performance... He thinks the most important thing in a VC's mind is that we have an office with a full team in it every day. I disagree.

He thinks that having our team all in the same city/state is necessary to be taken seriously by investors. I disagree.

I'm constantly getting yelled at any time there is a bug... In his mind if a VC sees a bug, we're finished. My opinion is that as long as we're forthcoming and open and honest about mistakes and communicate with our clients and investors, we'll be fine (to an extent).

He wants a 90/10 split because its his idea and he's put about $80k into the business so far... I think 65/35 is more fair because I've built the software from scratch, have put in about 500 hours so far (no pay), and will continue to work around the clock for free until we're profitable. 10% is pretty unfair right? In his defense, he has crazy connections in the VC industry, has sold a (domain) company before, and has pretty deep pockets. That's the only reason I'm comfortable with going less than 50/50. I'm a sr engineer making $150k/yr now and I've worked for several software startups. Also I'm functioning currently far beyond my CTO capacity -- managing contractors, handling finances, and more.

I also don't think we should raise money... He's got tons of money and we're already making money. Our burn rate right now is about $10k/month and most of that is going to our designer. At the rate we're at, we should be break even in then next 3 months. I don't see a need to pull in a few million dollars and give up 1/3 of the business.
Am I the only one who reads it as "Zero Existence"?
Can you explain how can bitcoin be regulated? Regulation defined as the ability to control transactions.
I'm admittedly a bit lost as this is my first time in the position I'm in so any input would be great. Also if anyone is looking for a mentee, I could really use someone to talk to about stuff on a weekly basis.
AWS Console icon is now red (i.e. Service disruption)
Sometimes 1000 heads aren't better than one - against collective intelligence
Because you are browsing too much and too fast :)
This is exciting. I've been playing around with Dokku (Flynn's little brother). Many interesting things to come. Already built a buildpack for stactic javascript apps.
New Malaysian hatchback sports Android IVI system
I'm unable to log in to the AWS console, and that's been going on for about 15-20 minutes now.
I see the opposite. Regulations will create an even larger undermarket for Bitcoin than exists now. In the next decade, use of Bitcoin (or something similar) will have grown enough outside of regulation that the next generation of Bitcoin users won't even pay attention to the regulators anymore.
This is wrong, hn has an international audience

I earn between 0 and 25k a year in my country and that puts me in the middle class
It could be either certain services limited to Virginia, or certain sites within the region -- my instance is hosted in Virginia, and while very basic, has remained up throughout.
Seriously though, his name is Miranda. Nobody see's the irony?
Or don't...... Assuming he needs AWS :)
Shouldn't it just be hobbies vs income? What makes playing video games a special case? I only mention this because any relationship you might find is probably applicable to any hobby.
That's the thing about depression, when you are sad for no apparent reason it is absolutely maddening. Then when something bad does happen you almost feel better because now you have a legitimate reason for the way you are feeling. It is a very bad feedback loop.
If you don't create it, you can't control it. You can make laws about it, but you still don't actually control it.
There is both a British and US amusement/irony there.
Firefox Design Values [pdf]
I hate him so much.
As far as I know, negative energy is theoretically still sound; I may be quite mistaken though. What "energy conditions" would negative energy (or mass for that matter) be violating?
> So you're saying that business networks typically have completely random IPs setup by their ISP?

No. If 3taps was using a static IP address to
access Craigslist, then IP address is at least
somewhat meaningful as evidence, but mostly
Internet users do not have static IP addresses
and mostly only organizations that want to
operate Internet servers, or Web servers,
do. Why? Because mostly to get to a server,
a user uses a domain name which uses the
domain name system (DNS) which requires
a static IP address.

Yes, in the specific case 3taps asked for trouble
and got it.

But the article seems to suggest that this case
is a threat to ordinary Internet users who,
maybe, get an unusually large number of Web pages
from a Web site. So, there is also some interest
in the more general situation. There IP address
is poor evidence.

To me, in the general case, say, Web sites that
send data to anonymous users, without strong
authentication, etc., should just f'get
about the lawyers, suck it up, and f'get about
users downloading data. Else the Web site
can use strong authentication of users,
charge for access to the site, etc.
Which countries are not complicit?
Sorry if i wasn't clear, I tried trunk when I filed that issue, last week - typed arrays are there, but they are missing things like set() and subarray() (mentioned in the issue).

I am not even sure how to try to build jsc by itself on linux, i couldn't find any instructions (online or in the dir)? All online discussions i found said i need to build all of webkit.
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This I completely agree with. I want to learn them for the same reason Doug Hoyte suggests:

"The conventional wisdom surrounding macros is to use them only when necessary because they can be difficult to understand, contain extremely subtle bugs, and limit you in possibly surprising ways if you think of everything as functions. These aren't defects in the lisp macro system itself but instead are traits of macro programming in general. As with any technology, the more powerful the tool, the more ways there are to misuse it. And, as far as programming constructs go, lisp macros are the most powerful tool.

An interesting parallel to learning macros in lisp is that of learning pointers in the C programming language. Most beginning C programmers are able to quickly pick up most of the language. Functions, types, variables, arithmetic expressions: all have parallels in previous intellectual experiences beginners might have had, from elementary school maths to experimenting with simpler programming languages. But most novice C programmers hit a brick wall when they encounter pointers.

Pointers are second nature to experienced C programmers, most of whom consider their complete understanding necessary for the proper use of C. Because pointers are so fundamental, most experienced C programmers would not advise limits on their use for stylistic or learning purposes. Despite this, many C novices feel pointers are an unnecessary complication and avoid their use, resulting in the FORTRAN in any language symptom where valuable language features are neglected. The disease is ignorance of the language's features, not poor programming style."
This is a sad statement on the complete utter lack of awareness of how the system of tech development works in the United States.

The simple reason Silicon Valley doesn't fund Hyperloops is because they cost BILLIONS to develop over DECADES, with highly uncertain outcomes. This scale of large-scale, long-term, technology investment risk is borne by..... drumroll.....

TAXPAYERS. The guv'ment. Uncle Sam.

The Internet. Computers. NASA (hello SpaceX). Airplanes. Even frickin Siri was funded by the public.

The way it works is it's done under the banner of military applications. DARPA is a key agency in core development, but a very large part is government procurement. Then whatever works out given away pretty much for free to private hands.

Silicon Valley specializes in investing in the "last mile" of commercial development. It's still risky, but orders of magnitude less than something like developing Hyperloop from scratch.
What's a good JS logging solution?
Loggly is super slow. Airbrake's js client appears to be second-class at best. Nothing else I've found seems, well, great.

Needs:

* Log arbitrary events, not just caught exceptions.

* Support down to IE8.

* Decent reporting and aggregation interface.

* Some kind of sensible de-duping.

* Bonus: API to query my data.
How would that notification go?

"Hey guys, we're going to bully the boyfriend of a reporter for you. High five?"
What is the British one?

(for those who don't know, the USA one is the "Miranda rights" read to anyone who is arrested)
Hang on, you’ve done 500 hours unpaid work and haven’t signed a contract stipulating a profit split?
A Falcon rocket is started from flat aluminium plates, which you weld into hoops. Then you weld the hoops together into a barrel.

Similarly with hyperloop, you have to weld the tubes from much shorter barrel sections anyway, there's no way you're going to have 100 m x 12 m plate sections that you could then roll into a pipe. And you couldn't really bend any of that anyway at once. So there certainly are weld seams between pylons.

A spiral weld might be interesting if a continuous sheet could be created at some steel mill. Some big pipes are created by welding a sheet spirally. Armadillo bought such tubes from Europe for their rockets. Though for hyperloop, bends in the pipe would require a really funny shape for the sheet. Both width and orientation of the sheet would have to change, and it would require very accurate welding ).
No, this shows the larva are able to sense heat, not pain.

Read the actual paper, not the title.
If one looks at the intra-day chart of AMZN, you could see the market adjust the pricing of the stock relative to the revenue lost every second due to site down.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=amzn&ei=JWwSUuCkE8Lp0QGC5QE... compare to SPY, the overall market trend.
Right. In a sense it operates on the same principle as why the known universe is larger than it is old (as space-time continues to expand and light has further to go)
I wouldn't say that. It seems that this type of depression is the brain's way of telling you that you need to make changes in your lifestyle to avoid stressors that are perceived as unnecessary. Once you make these changes you definitely do feel rejuvinated.

I think most cases of depression have obvious causes if you care to look.
Paranoid Browsing
Many organizations attempt to build a profile of you based on your browsing history. Paranoid Browsing confuses that effort by browsing the internet randomly in the background.
Thanks!

I think my memory is totally wonked. I remembered after reading your response that Musk mentioned the orbital seam welder. But yeah, I think there are some, uh, gaps in the plan. ;-)
Their AWS Management Console seems to be down as well.

http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Dark energy has negative energy density... so I think there is hope that this is just a engineering problem ;)
Nothing on the @awscloud twitter either. Really sad support. https://twitter.com/awscloud
> I also think you need to engage your brain before spouting BS about something you apparently don't know anything about.

There is really no reason to be so hostile. Perhaps to show respect to the issue under discussion (depression) we could all resolve to be a little kinder to those we speak with.
I don't really understand what significance there is in stating that he is "unemployed." Does that somehow make his actions better/worse or the "hack" more/less tolerable?
Interesting. I hadn't heard of that until now. It may not pass, but it's amazing to see it even being considered for a vote.

And I agree, this thread has been a great read.
Aren't the whitehat term's of service those that were talking about? They're the most relevant terms to this discussion.
I was just able to log in to the console, looks like it's back
The importance of something happening is actually quite important for many users (I've found). An absurd example of this can be found in one of my one-off projects: http://gifmachine.xwl.me

The first version of this didn't have any kind of gloss, just 2 text inputs and a "go" button.

I showed it to some people I know and their immediate recommendation was to have some feedback to see how long things where taking. However, I didn't have any kind of a way to actually tell the user how things where going, so I took the next best approach: I fake it.

If you look at the source code, you'll see that when you press the "make a gif" button it starts loading the loading bar. That loading bar is totally useless, as it is entirely client side and shows no progress at all.

But people love it! Everyone I showed it to said it was a big improvement, making it nicer to use.

Even though it's a fake loading bar.
Large theoretical difficulties, too! To the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever been able to write down a complete mathematical description where an Alcubierre bubble "turns on" or "turns off": instead, the math always seems to describe a scenario where the warp bubble exists (and is inaccessible from the outside) into the infinite past and infinite future. Also, all versions of Alcubierre's model that I am familiar with require forms of matter and energy with properties completely different from anything ever observed (and different from most mainstream ideas for possible new types of matter and energy as well): namely, they require violations of various "energy conditions". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_condition

The vast practical difficulties are in addition to the enormous theoretical challenges. I would absolutely love it if something like the Alcubierre drive could be made real, but there are multiple steps between here and there that would each deserve a Nobel prize. If I were White, I'd be talking about how I'd solved all of those problems (or any of them!) before jumping straight to trying to generate a warp bubble in the lab.
It's back: 3:33 EST.
> So yeah, Windows 8 appears to use the CPU TSC without recalibrating when there's a change in TSC tick rate, but that's because the TSC tick rate isn't supposed to change.

Right - I'd say that the problem they're having is just a bug in the program they use to change the tick rate at runtime, that is, not making the kernel aware of the change. The article is written as if there is something fundamentally wrong with clock implementation on Win8.
Yeah, I can see it swinging either way. However, the alternative of not doing anything could be just as catastrophic. Politicians always talk about creating jobs as if it were the goal. Jobs are just a means to an end, and creating jobs for their own sake is not only inefficient, but something that can't hold out in the long run.
Hidden classes vs jsPerf
Ode to Time
...it took me this long to realize "partner" was a personal relation, not a professional relation.
At a guess, I'd go with:

"O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!"

- Miranda (Act V, Scene I, The Tempest)

But that's possibly a bit of a stretch here.
Not All Gold Glitters - Unexpected Features aren't a Pleasant Surprise
Same here, I don't believe emails are getting sent using SES.
Wow, thanks so much for this! I really appreciate it.
Gripes with Codecademy
UPS may have hit pay dirt with 3D printing
Back up for me as well. ~45 minutes down?