skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it's just the symptom, who cares, as long as the drugs help people?

Because for many, these symptoms are not adequately addressed through more conservative means. There are numerous ways to attack an unusual disposition that do not involve medication -- exercising, weight loss, meditation, psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, rectifying family issues, finding a job. Many of these options are not adequately pursued. I have never seen a psychiatrist refer a patient to see a psychologist or a cognitive behavioral therapist, and they have no incentive to really.
Yeah, while it's unfortunate that it happened the way it happened, his conclusions/insinuations seem a tad ridiculous.

Similar stories happen all the time for features with zero connection to security or the NSA. It's simply a sad fact of human nature and society that people act this way; conspiracy theories are not necessary (and are often harmful, as they distract from the real, if boring, issues).

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" and all that.
Please tell me how we can talk about NSA behavior without disclosing capability used to enable such behavior.
> If the drugs had no effect, then why are people (ab)using drugs like Adderall to improve cognition, etc?

You're making an assumption here -- that people's trust in, and use of, drugs argues that it's not a mere placebo effect. But there are any number of accounts of people persuading themselves that a drug is reliable, for a drug that is in fact a placebo. In fact, that's how the placebo effect is defined.

The only way to sort out these issues is with a double-blind prospective trial. Unfortunately, such trials are nearly nonexistent for this class of drugs, and those trials that have been conducted, are often run badly or published in very selective ways, creating the impression that the drugs are more effective than they really are.

Reference (PDF warning): http://alphachoices.com/repository/assets/pdf/EmperorsNewDru...
> I really hope Snowden releases some hard evidence or specific citations of what the NSA has broken

That's fairly unlikely. The Guardian articles say he never had access to such information, nor was it amongst the documents he liberated.
As a programmer and former EEG tech, all I can do is nod quietly. They could be way more scientific about their medication selection if they wanted to be [1][2] but most psychiatrists are overconfident in their own judgement.

[1] http://www.ncneurocenter.com/eeg/eeg_reference.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_electroencephalogr...
Or as otherwise known, a bitcoin site.
No, but we may eventually manage to organize an equivalent thing for nonprofits.
That's a very simplistic view of a very complicated history of political theories.

Anarchism, a doctrine that explicitly negates the State, is rooted squarely in the leftist camp as classically intended, and gives individuals freedom from being coerced in any collective action whatsoever.

You also have Libertarian Socialism, probably the most romantic of all leftist ideologies, which tries to bring collectivist and individualist theories together.

And then of course, the very source of the meaning of "left": the French Revolution, with its rights trifecta of freedom, fraternity and equality, which was born in complete opposition to the notion of the superiority of the State over individuals.

Saying "left-wing ideology has always placed the interest of the collective, represented by the state, over the interest of the individual" is like saying "right-wing ideology has always placed the interest of the rich, represented by the individual, to screw the poor, over the interest of society to improve as a whole" -- a simplistic mystification.
Thanks a lot for the thoughts and insights.

> About going back to computer...

This app is mobile ready and can be "Added to Homescreen" for easy access.

My quest currently is to understand that do we really need all that details about the running (like paths, comparison with other runs etc.) because more data brings more complexity. I feel, in many cases, being simple is a feature in itself. Just my thought.

I am actually targeting that section of the users who want really simple apps.

For full-fledged requirement, I agree, MapMyRun, Runkeeper apps do the justice.

Thanks again for all the inputs. I really appreciate.
> and both of them apparently work.

I would have said they both appear to work. Recent findings cast doubt on that appearance (PDF warning): http://alphachoices.com/repository/assets/pdf/EmperorsNewDru...
Not to be a hater, but it sounds kind like mooching on an incredible scale. I hope at least he's planning to provide something in return for all the hospitality he intends to receive.
100 km, 10 day Traffic Jam in China (2010)
The Sun patent appears to be listed on Oct 19, 1999. Out of curiosity, when did the compliance discussions with the NSA occur?

(I'm quite interested in '90s crypto/political interaction, and had thought that by '99, the NSA and State/Export restrictions had been mostly lifted, but I'd love to learn more from the inside).
Minimale.
Just.. wow. You must be a very smart person.
NSA and Internet standards
Strangely, that is what my thoughts on snooping at this level has been for a while. Using a combination of compromising people and infra, it is easy to break pretty much anything if, as a state, you put your mind to it.

Unfortunately, the debate is mostly centered around if crypto is broken, while the question to ponder is why is the state suddenly forcing well-meaning people to start thinking like people who have something to hide.
Are you being sarcastic? Name one original feature implemented or introduced. Ios has introduced not 1 new truly original feature in years.
As usual, Randall Munroe was basically correct in identifying the best way to get into closed systems:

http://xkcd.com/538/

Find the weak points in a system, which are more often than not, the pink fleshy things using them.
Why you should stop makign PowerPoint slides forever
The problem here is that following the link I didn't see a product, I saw an advert for a product.

Show HN imo is a way to get feedback for your creation. In this case, in order to be able to provide feedback, I have to pay first $29—59.

Posting your commercial product in HN is an easy way to get tens of thousands of views. So either we should let anyone with a digital product advertise it here (think of any ebook, of any smartphone app, etc) and destroy essentially HN, or let no one.
OK, so for fun I did a ran this on my machine (MacBook Pro, 2.53GHz, 10.8.4, 8GB ram, Python 2.7.2 shipped by Apple). I had to emulate the old timing module using code from [1].

Method 1: 0.115 seconds
Method 2: I gave up after >120s
Method 3: 0.265
Method 4: 0.160
Method 5: 0.220
Method 6: 0.098

I ran each one a few times to make sure the times were roughly correct. Method 6 is still the fastest, but the naive method one is really close. it obviously got optimized. Actually, they're all pretty close with the obvious (and hideous) outlier of using MutableString.

EDIT:

I just remembered I have an old version of PyPy (1.8) on my Mac. Thought I'd give that a try.

Method 1: I gave up after >120s
Method 2: I gave up after >120s
Method 3: 0.090 seconds
Method 4: 0.102
Method 5: 0.430
Method 6: 0.102

Method one is a problem again, and method 5 (the pseudo file) is noticeably slower. Otherwise the results aren't too far off.

[1] http://effbot.org/librarybook/timing.htm
Just to play devil's advocate, did they spread FUD, or just say it didn't suit their purposes?
This was a real good talk I saw on the science of happiness. How it is as a video not sure.

http://www.psy.uq.edu.au/activity/media.html?mid=35

Some points from memory -
Pets are good (Dogs beat cats).
Wage matters.
Friends beat family (Not sure if this talk mentions this)
Money can buy happiness by buying experiences(Not things) and when you spend it on others.
Long commuting time to work is bad. (IE A big house in the suburbs sucks)
— (President) Youth, with its enthusiasms, which rebels against any accepted norm because it must, and we sympathize. It may wear flowers in its hair and bells on its toes, but when the common good is threatened, when the functioning of society is endangered, such revolts must cease! They are non-productive, and must be abolished!

[...]

— (President) Guilty! Read the charge!

— (Delegate) The prisoner has been charged with the most serious breach of social etiquette: Cultural defiance of the elementary laws which sustain our community. Questioning the decisions of those we voted to govern us. Unhealthy aspects of speech and dress, not in accordance with general practice. And the refusal to observe, wear, or respond to his number!

(Quotes from “The Prisoner”, Episode 17, “Fall Out”, 1967)
I disagree with the dichotomy between living a "default life" and being happy[1]. Maybe in America where society is so atomized and culture is so dead this is true, but this is not true everywhere. It is an American sickness that says you must work your way to happiness, that happiness comes at the end of a chain of accomplishments.

What more is needed to be happy but friends, family, and enough to get by? Honestly, I think living in a culture with a strong sense of itself and its purpose is more important than any of the author's points, but people living in America wouldn't know what that feels like.

All of what makes America terrible and most of what makes it successful is the puritan ancestry of its institutions. More and more Americans are skipping having families. Why? Because it would interfere with their career. Translated: they want to work more. In an effort to work their way into heaven, they ignore heaven's gifts.

I know a lot of people that follow the author's advice, or try to (I can guess which cultural milieu this is coming from). They are all stressed out trying to save the world or something and nervous about failing (commandment number 3 is like saying "don't get cold in the winter").

[1] http://www.theonion.com/articles/unambitious-loser-with-happ...
That's why we should all get over the internet as a means of social promotion, building a portfolio, or following. Everything is disposable here. Especially Hacker News itself which will probably be sold to Conde Nasty next week.
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Whether it is acceptable for the NSA to eavesdrop on private messages should not depend on whether those messages are protected by encryption. If I send an unencrypted email to a friend, is the NSA allowed to eavesdrop and get a copy of that email? That is a policy question that can be discussed and answered without any knowledge of the NSA's decryption capabilities.
Sounds interesting, but does that place have good wifi?
From an economic standpoint, I don't think that argument holds water. You don't have to support readers the way you do SaaS customers. Is there such a thing as a parasitic reader?

To the author: For a book with plenty of substitutes (as opposed to a presumably specialized SaaS product), I think it's much more likely that the demand curve is extremely elastic, meaning that as price decreases, quantity sold increases much more than enough to compensate for lower total revenue. And since marginal cost of each unit sold is effectively zero, this is all profit.

Add in the fact that since you're early to the party, you could acquire these customers before substitute products hit the market. By the time they do, you could be the established product.

I think Two Scoops of Django [1] got it right. They priced it to move. I bought it as an impulse purchase when they were in beta, and absolutely loved it. I can tell that many, many other people did the same, because I see it cited as an authority all the time on StackOverflow. It's up to "full price" now, but it's still affordable.

[1] https://django.2scoops.org/
I'd like to throw in a mention for LittleBigPlanet 2[1] on the PS3 as well. The first game in the series allowed users to create their own platforming levels using simple but powerful tools, which more talented creators used to build things like physical logic gates that allowed for more interactive creations. In LBP2, the developers embraced that side of the game by adding proper logic gates which could be packed into microchips, objects that allowed creators to read raw button inputs from the controller, and so on. People have gotten incredibly creative with those tools, going so far as to build everything from custom games to ray tracers in it. Also the visual style of that game is just incredibly charming, far cry from the aesthetic of most modern AAA games.

Another worthy mention is SpaceChem[2], a game that revolves around bonding elements together using a deceptively sophisticated visual programming language. It's not really directly about programming, more of a puzzle game really, but I feel like it uses the same part of my brain that programming does and it'd be a good way to get people into the coding mindset.

[1]: http://www.littlebigplanet.com/games/littlebigplanet-2

[2]: http://www.spacechemthegame.com
Slashdot was my homepage for many years, and it's still a refuge from Hacker News from time to time.
2.3.25 is the current stable version. 2.4.* is in development. Tor server operators would have to compile from source or use the upstream deb/rpm repos.

https://www.torproject.org/download/download-unix.html.en
First off, let me say thanks for an awesome tool. Just because I disagree with the preference of RC4 over AES-CBC doesn't mean I don't think SSL Labs is incredibly useful (I use it all the time to test TLS configs).

In my opinion, if being vulnerable to BEAST means you aren't 'perfect' and capped at a B, then allowing RC4 should have the same effect, as there are very real attacks against TLS's implementation of RC4 as well.

I look forward to the day when we can shut off TLS 1.0 altogether... We disabled SSLv3 a month ago (once it dropped below 1% of our traffic). Alas, TLS 1.0 is still almost 2/3rds of our traffic. The good news is, with the release of Chrome 29 Stable, we've seen a _huge_ spike in TLS 1.2 traffic.
> There are probably near a thousand different Node.js projects each implementing some kind of coordination layer between Node.js processes (ex: https://github.com/amino/amino) and similar efforts abound on for all other applications to be coded against (Hazelcast, Hadoop, &c). Why?

There is only one Erlang though and it has been around for 20+ years. It has built in distribution and automatic failover. Yes it is built on top of Linux/Mac/Windows OS.

But wait, that's not all. There is this project that basically attempts to thin out the OS and replace it with Erlang -- http://erlangonxen.org/ -- Erlang VM implemented on top of Xen hypervisor. To make it even more interesting and bring it back home -- the underlying clustering support is based on 9P (the plan 9 distribution protocol). I think that is pretty cool.
Even developers/designers too?
None of the hosts seem to be asking for anything in return, why are you?
> Are you seriously proposing free e-mail and/or a spam filter is a good trade for one of the major pillar Bill of Rights?

What? Where are on earth are you getting that from what I'm writing?

I'm saying that the Sixth Circuit has ruled that just because you use an email provider that scans your email contents for things like spam (or ads), you have not given up your 4th amendment right for that content to be secure against searches without a warrant.

What you quote is me arguing that your premise that contextual advertising is somehow distinct compared to scanning for spam both in function and legal implication is flawed. The next statement states that even if such a distinction could be made, the above quote from US v Warshak I is a perfect explanation of why agreeing to automated scanning of your email does not imply consent to an abrogation of your rights.

I really don't see how I can be clearer than "The government also insists that ISPs regularly screen users’ e-mails for viruses, spam, and child pornography. Even assuming that this is true, however, such a process does not waive an expectation of privacy in the content of e-mails sent through the ISP...."
I keep checking them out, but haven't had a chance to try one yet. They definitely seem like they'll get off the ground just from the sheer fact that both hardware and software are now capable enough to do it. I remember back in the day some of the solutions that existed that required 120hz CRTs and lcd blanking goggles for playing Descent (or was it Descent II?) in actual 3d. They didn't work well for a number of reasons, but now that we've got a display standard that actually supports 3d that the rift can target it should allow for a much more wide variety of media both in movies and video games. I'd love to try a game like Fallout 3/NV or even Minecraft with a rift.
The thing that is fundamentally different about modern surveillance is how automated it can be. Governments have always been able to listen in on phone calls and physical mail, but the limitations of needing a person to actually do these things kept a check on the scope.

When every phone call can go through a voice recognition system and a set of filters to detect anyone talking about Topic X, that's a very different world. The NSA can't hire half the country to spy on the other half, but they can hire a few thousand people to build a computer system to spy on everyone.
I do feel like a lot of these articles tend to tell you to do stuff you already know you should, but provide very little insight into how to go about doing it--don't compare yourself to others, embrace failure, don't be afraid to disappoint others...this is all easier said than done. I know all this. I need strategies to help achieve them.

That said, just being regularly reminded that these are things to strive helps internalize them. This will help us keep an eye out to catch ourselves and try to correct when we compare ourselves to others.
Note that CodeHero, who is mentioned here, reached front page in HN last year[1] with a non flattering headline.

They seem to be doing much better nowadays, I found this recent video[2] of theirs to be quite inspiring.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912712

[2] http://primerlabs.com/codehero
What I Would Do With Nintendo
1. Kill the Wii U
2. Make the Virtual Console available on iOS and other consoles
3. Double down on the 3DS / future portable
Until someone showed strong evidence that those relying on preconceived notions were right more often than those relying on evidence. Then one'd be stuck ;-)
I'll probably have some questions after looking over some more of the papers. We seem to have a healthy intersection of common interests. What's the best way to get in touch?
There are a few TED talks, including from the 2012 Life Hacks series, that partly address the issue of happiness.
Co-founder candidate must have a formal scientific education and love animals. Email me if you're interested.
The post-1.0 release process
That's absurd. Is he supposed to give it away to do a show HN? Every show HN is a link to a landing page. None of the SaaS apps are free either. You are showing people what you built. Perhaps asking for feedback on the website. You aren't giving it away for free to all of hn.
A camera and a lava lamp?
I was building a strong crypto package for Java in '93-'94. It was part of a capabilities system for Java which would have had the JVM unable to decrypt/instantiate methods in classes for which capabilities had not been granted. I modelled it on the Joule system which Mark Miller had worked on earlier. In late 1991/ early 1992 Sun had engaged RSA Data Security for a license to use their asymmetric crypto system we know as the RSA algorithm. I had started that because I was building a high trust authentication system for our name service (NIS+) and I really wanted to be able to pass around public keys for servers that a client trusted to be legitimate. When I started working on Java security in 1993 I sought to use some of those same techniques in creating a way for the JVM to "load" a cryptographic class which it could trust, and the class could validate that the JVM loadinging was trustable as well (avoiding MITM attacks). Since I had already been engaged with the issues of shipping crypto code in ONC-RPC, I knew it would be an issue to release source code that implemented arbitrarily strong RSA so when it came up, the NSA came out to talk to us. Our "rep" was a woman (and I'm not making this up) named Cindie Spies. She understood what I wanted to do but wasn't particularly keen on us doing it. We went back and forth with me sending code to her, and her sending back suggestions. It was a tedious process and ultimately moot since the capabilities version of Java never actually shipped.
Can I ask why the downvote? Even if you think it's too expensive I don't see why this particular comment is worthy of downvoting.
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Exactly. The idea that the NSA has can break arbitrary SSL without access to source keys is an EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM that goes against most of what we know about the science of cryptography.

Just some managment type in the government saying a single time that the government has made "major breakthroughs" in cracking SSL does not meet the standard of ETRAORDINARY EVIDENCE.
Personally, I like using HTTP principles when interviewing web developer candidates. I'm not expecting people to know every detail of every RFC, or trivia type stuff in general. I more am interested in how much they know / can figure out about how HTTP-based communication works. I will ask stuff like "Explain how a redirect works, and how clients/browsers and servers interact with each other during a redirect." Also, REST is built on the concept of using HTTP verbs and resources properly, so it is nice to ask them to design a rough draft of an API to edit, add, delete, and list users via HTTP. Without asking them to do it RESTfully. It's telling if their first instinct is to have a "createUser" endpoint versus a POST to /users/
Not map mood of nation, map mood of Twitter users in a nation. Big difference.
You have GOT to be kidding us.
Sweet, but what's the deal with going slowly adding basic exercises?
Note that generics are not identical to branded drugs; I believe the FDA has a +/-20% bioavailability tolerance. For medications with broad dose-response curves (e.g. most painkillers, probably lots of other classes of drugs) this isn't a big deal, but for other medications it can be. As I understand it, psychiatric medications often have narrower dose-response curves (disclaimer - IANAD).
How do I find and identify brilliant and positive people?
I don't even care about 4K. I can't really even tell the difference between 720p and 1080p unless I stand right by my TV (42"). Why would I care about 4K, 4K is just this year's 3D. What are they going to do after 4K? 8K? Holographs? TVs are a commodity business.
>Many still see distrust of government as indicative of mental illness, where such distrust is born from paranoia and anarchist/libertarian propaganda.

If you are actually worried that you will be spirited away to be tortured by the US while living as a normal, non-radical muslim in England you may have cognitive issues. If you are white triply so.