skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few employer-provided plans pay for long-term therapy.

If you do use insurance for short-term therapy, all sorts of red flags (aka DSM diagnoses) will forever be branded into your permanent medical record. Obamacare may change some of this - unclear.

In short, while getting therapy is good ... involving insurance is iffy.
Oh yes, it is hardly a game, but I am still impressed with what they managed to do without any JS.
Try the Unitarians, perhaps. They are very non-dogmatic. I don't think they would reject an atheist at all -- in fact a few of them might privately admit to agreeing with you.
It’s not a kludge. It’s a way to search websites that happen to have awful search (like Google Groups).

In most cases that works very well and it’s universally applicable. It’s a consistent search interface for (pretty much) any website there is. You can just throw Google at it and it works as good if not better than the websites’ own search (depending on how good that is), but it’s also a consistent interface you do not have to discover and re-learn for every website individually. Sometimes int

Kludge to me implies that it’s complicated to set up (it’s not; just “site:” in front of the website plus your search terms) or that is either not universally useable or at least requires a lot of manual adjustment every time you want to use it elsewhere (it’s not; universal and consistent search that works the same every time).

Sometimes a website’s own tools can be somewhat more comprehensive, sometimes they are so bad that switching over to Google is a necessity to find anything at all.
Ah, the old negativity-masquerading-as-insight trick. HN really needs to do something about its implicit approval of such foolery tarted up as meaningful commentary.
Not off hand. Hire me and I'll put together a convincing example with whatever qualifiers you want, and document the findings.
I was really disappointed actually. I was expecting it to do some clever analysis to figure out where the stress on the words should go.

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!! http://khanaas.com/kirk/jackson/

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!!! http://khanaas.com/kirk/bob/

though, maybe Bob is a bad example :)
A lot of info about Shapiro and The Hillcrest Group can be found in this reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fog7u/hey_reddit_...
Yes, but I'm not a fan of the innocent/'guilty' dynamic here. No woman deserves that, whether or not the photo in question has been photoshopped.
> It's gross, but I used to actually just take a copy of the code and cut things out until the bug stopped, then look at the last thing I cut.

That's not gross.
This Parasite Eats a Fish's Tongue And Takes Its Place
How convenient for you, chomsky, godel, bertrand russell, dirac, von neumann, montaigne, francis bacon, stoics, and almost all classical great humans to modern great humans had friends and were at least somewhat social give me a break. I know it must be comfortable for you, they're all sick and I'm not so now I don't have to be uncomfortable and try a little.
> One naive idea: a subscription-based nonprofit that pools legal expenses and member patent portfolios and fights defensive cases on behalf of startups and small businesses. The more such companies that join, the more formidable its portfolio would become.

Patent portfolios don't work against trolls that don't have any business other than patent extortion.

> Another naive idea: publish information about patent cases underway in areas of the world that fall outside of the jurisdiction of a court imposing an injunction.

The court records are already public. It's the cases that settle that you never hear about, because the trolls demand that you sign an NDA. I don't know that publishing in a different country gets you out of the NDA.

What we really need is to start a PAC to abolish software patents and have everyone contribute money to it, and provide them with lots of "ammunition" (i.e. thousands of testimonials from startup founders explaining how the patent system is ruining everything) to bring to Congress to get this fixed. Note that this isn't the EFF -- they do good work, but they're litigators, not lobbyists. This is a situation where what we really need are lobbyists to push to get the law changed, and grass roots lobbying by individuals to the same end.
alex smith is pretty much spamming hn with his bitcoin posts
My ‘Learn From India’ Journey
Or don't. I feel for the poster, but I think that depression is given too much emphasis as a category. Psychologists have a justifiable low bar in defining such categories - for them a category's existence is justified by its usefulness. But outside the field of psychology, we should acknowledge that people do not neatly cluster into "depressed" and "not depressed".

If medicalizing (and I don't mean that term in a pejorative way) your problems works for you, then do that. Other people find other solutions to their problems, like self-help, or just prefer to live with them.
Twitter Upping Security To Thwart Government Hacking
I have already suspected the original DPR (who supposedly handed Silk Road to Ross Ulbrich) was Satoshi Nakamoto: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=bJqRUuX_...
Google tracking every move you take with your android device
check it out on a google map -
feeling observed
> Not really had friends and not great at making them.

Making friends is about a combination of exposure (meeting people) and sharing something (a hobby, where you grew up, etc.). Part of the process is that YOU have to be genuinely interested in THEM, and vice-versa.

Many people think that you have to be more interesting, but that's not exactly the case. You have to be more interested. And what's the best way to become more interested? Pursue new and different things! I'm going to sound like a broken record on this, but go travel. You'll meet more people in one week of staying in hostels in Thailand than you'll meet in your normal life in a year! Go hiking and backpacking (I've made many friends by getting involved in those). Take up rock climbing (extremely social) and yoga instead of lifting weights (I love the iron, too, but it's not social). As others have said, do some volunteer work. Take cooking classes. Learn to have a passion for cooking and for foods. Check meetup.com for dining groups in your area, where you can share your new passion for food.

Get out of your bubble. Note, I'm not saying to get out of your comfort zone. I think that's pushed too much by vapid people in order to subtly put themselves above others. However, by exploring new and different things, you will find that your comfort zone grows tremendously.

By the way, I've never really liked Fridays because I always feel too tired for activities that "normal" people seem to push (i.e. going out to bars with coworkers). You're not alone.
Sure, but more and more Siri and Google Now are doing that training. And having used Dragon, I can say it's a very heavyweight solution that requires a great deal of training, not just of the system but of the user. I would vastly prefer a lightweight mic box next to each input field.
The High Cost of Self-Censoring (or why stimming is a good thing)
Love the judge's comment here:

> "There is no inventive idea here," she wrote in her order.
> "Having two or more parties input preference data is not inventive.
> Matchmakers have been doing this for millennia... It is merely a
> mathematical manifestation of the underlying process behind matchmaking:
> determining good matches."

A judge that uses the "computer algorithms == maths", and uses it to shut down a shitty patent? Awesome! I wish there were more judges like Judge Denise Colt. Well done.
> Chronic loneliness can be a serious, life-threatening health condition. At least one study has empirically correlated it with an increased risk of cancer, especially for those who hide their loneliness from the outside world,[34] and it is also associated with increased risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease.[35]

I really don't follow the argument: living in major city also increases cancer risk, in order to justify calling loneliness “life-threatening health condition” one should really provide more relevant information.
NSA Has 50,000 ‘Digital Sleeper Agents’ Via Computer Malware
I'm done for a while.
One thought is to get involved with outgoing church ministries (eg. soup kitchen visits, trash pickups, etc.) For example, my church has a program where during the summer, we visit impoverished area in our city, gather around in an apartment square (with permission of the apartment owners of course), and teach kids how to read by just reading books with them, playing games, etc.

If you're uncomfortable with ministry, you can probably find a community service project without a "hidden agenda." For example, the goal of the above project wasn't to turn the kids into "little christians;" rather the goal was just to keep their literacy skills up during the summer while school isn't in session.

As an athiest, by working with a project like that, you'd be able to help do good in the community while still feeling a sense of fellowship with the others. I'm sure the other churchgoers would appreciate the help for the event even though you don't intend on "converting" or whatever.
/u/aivaomo is hellbanned, but here is his reply to my earlier comment:

Make that the 5S’ home button/TouchID sensor. Plus the outermost element of the rear camera lens is rather sensibly sapphire, IIRC.
I've tried this in various forms and had very mixed results.

Nostalgia can be a really tricky thing and can lead to some unhappy roads.

Overall though I find that what I used to do doesn't really suit me anymore and finding out what my passions are now (which is very hard) is more rewarding than chasing the passions of my youth.
Clearly this is a troll account since it was created one hour ago. But I'll take the bait and respond anyway. Yes, the same Europe where millions of people were murdered by their own governments. What about the ethnic cleansing that the US did in Latin America during the 80s? Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Not sure that solves he upthread probem. If I give you a Treznor hardware wallet containing a private key to $150million worth of bitcoins - would you trust me not to have anther copy of that key? Or would you transfer them immediately to a wallet with a private key I could never possibly have known?
Model Sues Match.com For $1.5 Billion: Photo Used In Hundreds Of Fake Profiles
Most of medicine is listening.

The rest is avoiding further damage -- there are right ways to listen and wrong ways to listen, after all.

That's the difference between an experienced therapist and a bad therapist, or between a trained therapist and an ordinary friend/colleague.
This is great. I love it. It would be nice to have a sound file to go along with the image.
I have no experience with cats, but a lot of experience with adopting dogs from the SPCA (Pasadena) or private shelters. I.e., mutts from the pound. If you know something about pets, and/or the shelter has expertise with adoption, you should be able to adopt a dog who would be a good match for you or your family.

You should be able to set aside a few months to deal with any issues the dog has, like anxiety or other behavioral issues, and to dial in the diet and routines like walks. The shelter should be able to help with some of this. Taking this time is similar to dealing with a puppy.

I know you wrote about cats, but I felt a need to chime in about adopting companion animals from a shelter instead of going to a breeder. Adoption from a shelter is a perfectly good option, and it's a way to do some animal a favor, maybe saving its life.
Even earlier, check out details of Freenet and GNUnet.
Well then libertarians should stop complaining about the militarization of our police forces, since they're clearly just fighting kindness with kindness.
... if you can pay the legal bills.

(Or if the lawyers will take your case on a no-win-no-fee basis.)
Those exact same words apply to your comment. And to this one. :)
As well intentioned as GoldieBlox might be, they apparently violated the wishes of Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, and possibly his will, which prohibits the use of his music "artistic property" for advertising purposes after his death.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/adam-yauchs-will-proh...

According to the Hollywood Reporter, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/beastie-boys-girls-..., the Beastie Boys have threatened Goldblox with copyright infringement, and GoldieBlox has filed a lawsuit asking "declaratory relief that the video is not a copyright infringement" (http://www.scribd.com/doc/186402972/Beastie)

I am certainly not a lawyer, and I enjoyed the video, and it sort of seems like a fair use parody, except that I am led to understand fair use often depends on things like if it's for commercial use and how much of the original material is used. So it could be an interesting legal fight.

It does seem to be disrespectful and a misstep. In contrast, Weird Al Yankovic famously asks for permission of the targeted artists to parody their songs.

Word is GoldieBlox is now learning the lesson of:

(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Parody)
> victim teaching at a school was treated like the perpetrator

I thought the problem was people calling (i.e. harassing) the school about her?

I would hope they gave her some time to deal with things, then let her back in her job.
It's about if you accept it or not. I work at home and don't have friends. Been in this situation for 2+ years and I'm really fine. Just try to find alternative stuff to do.

For example, hitting the gym not for gym sake but to reach a fitness level. Just set some simple life goals and concentrate on them.
Yep, there are a few network cards, intel among them, that have pretty sophisticated firmwares that can be used to either stash stuff, or infect directly through vectors like DMA. Thankfully though, for home users, desktops tend to have cheap crappy cards with no such firmware update capabilities.
> I'm relatively certain sociopath is a real thing.

It's not a question of it being real, it's a matter of science and objectivity. If we can't reliably measure it, it doesn't matter that it exists, because anyone can claim to have, or not have, the condition.

> ... you seem to be disputing an entire field of science because of a single controversy over another unrelated issue.

I'm not doing that. The director of the NIMH is doing that. His reasons are excellent -- psychology is not a science and cannot be relied on to produce repeatable results.

Article: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

Quote: "While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity."

I couldn't have said it better myself -- the DSM, the "Bible" of mental health, is simply not valid, and cannot be used for scientific investigations.

> I don't know if there is a name for that fallacy ...

Paying attention to evidence, or the lack thereof, is not a logical fallacy. Ignoring an absence of evidence, and of scientific discipline, is.

What's ironic about this exchange is that the linked article makes the same point. Its author was forced to the conclusion that even the high-tech scans that led to his conclusion, far removed from ordinary psychological practice, are very questionable and sometimes flat wrong.
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I agree with naming and shaming the trolls, but I also believe in naming and shaming the people who approve these patents.

Every time I look up one of USPTO workers involved, their online profiles (FB, etc.) show how utterly unqualified they are to be involved in the patent process.
Money laundering is the process of concealing illegal sources of money.
I spent most of my childhood on my own and I don't have a particularly close family.

I've had friends and girlfriends that partially extended me into their families, but those ties never seem to last and it's always painful to let go.

Being part of a close family is the only thing I really want in life, or have ever really wanted. It's also something that I can't seem to get. This brings me to tears often.

I feel unbelievably isolated from other people and in a negative feedback loop that I can't get out of. I work from home and have few friends who I don't see very often. I haven't had a relationship in nearly a decade and don't even really know how to be affectionate with other people anymore. I don't hug people. I went on a group trip with some friends earlier this year and in all the pictures I'm standing slightly away from everyone. My self-image is in the toilet.

Lonliness is killing me.
I am quite sure that if someone told them that they had to drop their work or being in order to be friends, they would have found a different friend.

The point is that it is OK to have a different culture, OK to be you, OK to be a light unto yourself. You will find friends, probably more. You do not have to adopt the culture forced upon you if it is not yours.
There is no porn in European TV during daytime. Not by our definition of porn. Not every sexual act is considered porn.
I think on mobile it's lost to the keyboard as well as a general purpose input tool - the hardware and networks weren't there to support it initially, on-screen keyboards have (massively) improved and people have grown more familiar with them, and devices have grown considerably as well which allows for an even better typing experience.
+1 for travel. I took to travel a couple of years back and it worked wonders. So much in fact that I had to cut back on travel and all the friends that I had accumulated. It started taking too much of time (though I enjoyed it).
Tinder could just remove the facebook profile ID from the fields they return for each user, couldn't they? This might be a simple fix.
Where did you get the idea that there is a correlation between brain patterns and being a serial killer?

To my knowledge, no such correlation has been established.

While there is a lot of literature on psychopathy and crime, one must bear in mind that the definition of psychopathy being used includes past criminal history. So there is obviously going to be a link!
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>they used one of our images on their page

DMCA. I'm pretty sure this is probably against all these services TOS too and can probably get them banned from the services.
Extremely inspiring while in the weeds of my own "10 year (hopefully) overnight success". I also really like the presentation format. Thanks for sharing.
This is where the comma should be in that sentence. (nowhere)
Only if that money is the proceeds of a crime and you're attempting to conceal the source of the illegal funds.

The flippant and universalizing way several of the commenters here are referring to money laundering as "concealing where the money came from" cast far too wide a net.

The definition you're using here would include concealing where $500 came from that was donated by anonymous friends to give to another friend in need. Suddenly, by your metric, if any of the friends suspected of donating the cash to help someone don't fess up to the source of the cash, they're laundering money.

Yeah, that's ridiculous. But it fits your description. Money laundering requires the currency be earnings from criminal activity.
do you think you can ask your friends to add their videos to this list. we're assembling all entries. this story isn't finished yet. http://list.ly/list/BOb-salesforce-1m-hackathon-the-real-win...
No no no no no no no no no no no...

NO!
I'm establishing a fact timeline in a google doc. There is a first hand account of a call between salesforce and partners that allowed them to bring premade apps with the instructions that only contributions during the hack would be considered. That info was not made public. It altered the rules materially. Moreover that info was probably not disclosed to judges or the initial team as it would have reduced the upshot app to a text field with Siri to translate. Can someone else confirm?
Eh this is anti-American jibber jabber. Where is this fantastic enlightened country of which you speak? So you mean to say in the UK, Norway, or whatever mythical country you are implying about, no women there would be upset to have people surreptitiously posting nude pictures of them?

I call shenanigans on this and all the other nonsense anti-American rants.
You are conflating loneliness (the feeling) with isolation (the physical separation).
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Serious question: do you (or anyone else) think it's immoral to go to church as an atheist just to meet people?

My opinion, as an atheist who finds personal religiosity quite boring, but finds the cultural phenomena of religion rather interesting, is that most people who attend church do so for socialization rather than faith. Most people (not all) don't really know much about their own religion, they just participate in the rituals because that's what they've always done and they've had no reason to really question it. There are quite a lot of people who give lip service to their religion but live effectively secular lives. Challenge them on it and they will likely become defensive, but actions speak louder than words.

So, I think you'll find plenty of people at church who are looking for socialization and aren't particularly interested in dogma. I'd stay away from the more extremist sects (people that do snake-handling and speaking in tongues are there for more than just something to do on the weekend). FWIW, in college, my muslim friends were always having parties that had their mosque membership as a central connection (not "college parties" but more than just dinners) I never got preached at, but some discussions were over my head ... plus they also had the best food. My connection was a girlfriend who was an immigrant and essentially a secular muslim.
Prudish culture? What a pathetic excuse to save your worldview that entails disenfranchising people legally simply because your hyperbolic insinuation this litigation is another form of violence.
Chrome's supported voice recognition via the Web Speech API since Chrome 25.
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Algorithms from "The Book": Inspired by Erdos's Proofs from "The Book"
This should be completely fixed now (I'm hoping?).
This is just ridiculously dismissive and fanciful.
can anyone who entered the contest put their video here? besides just being an awesome way for us to finally see the outcome of people's efforts, it's a real practical way to keep track (since salesforce won't open the curtain).

http://list.ly/list/BOb-salesforce-1m-hackathon-the-real-win...
In this case, I'll find it completely acceptable to disregard you.

If you're going to choose to ignore a comment by someone who's actually bothered to read her 165-page book (which includes 200+ references) in favor of googling some web articles that support a position of ignoring feminist critiques of porn, in all likelihood you don't care about improving society for women.

I am taking a strong tone because your comment seems to say that if you believe feminism is bad, giving time to thoroughly investigate feminism is clearly a waste of time.
On a (slightly) related note, you should also check out the author Vijay's (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~vijayd/#about) answer on the benefits of learning Finite Automata:
http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/14811/what-is-th...