skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm sure you mean no harm, you are - quite simply - wrong. There are plenty of people who live lives they would never be able to live without medication, and without many of the harmful side-effects being discussed.

It's incredibly frustrating seeing people who acknowledge they have no specialized knowledge in a field make sweeping statements about it, encouraging psuedo-scientific beliefs about psychiatry (which is, make no mistake about it, more of an 'art' than a science, but so was the beginning of many now-scientific fields). Nobody tries to tell a cancer patient how to treat their cancer, yet so many people feel obliged to opine about mental illness.

What this article is discussing is the (unquantified) subset of people who experience serious side-effects from anti-psychotics. The key takeaway from the article:

> “For some people, remaining on medication long-term might impede a full return to wellness,” Insel wrote. “For others, discontinuing medication can be disastrous.”

> The problem is that we do not know who is in which group.

> Some people can learn to talk themselves down from delusional thoughts. And some people might choose hearing voices over being 30 pounds overweight and tired all of the time. The point is that this is not a choice I should be making for my patients; it is a choice I need to make with them.

Of course, if somebody is having a psychotic break or mentally unstable, you can't even begin to have that conversation about their available options because they will be unable to focus or make rational choices. You pretty much need to start with the medication, then work from there to figure out which group they're in, and adapt their treatment accordingly (i.e. stick with meds or drop them but help them learn how to manage it).

I found the article to be a long-winded way of saying "psychiatrists ought to seriously consider dose reduction in their treatment regime", which is something that I doubt anybody would argue against. The devil is in the details (for some people, dose reductions can be incredibly dangerous), and the article does not delve into what a sensible strategy would look like.
Oh yes, as a Chinese let me remind you that from news we have learned that there isn't just Chinese American accused to betray the US government, but other ethnic groups too.
So, maybe all of us are guilty then.

What kind of stupid idiot you are, by your stupid accusation.

Because of your stupid reasoning, let me construct some ideas:

By your reasoning, we should stop hiring Chinese and Russians because they are known to be hacker-active states. I should be thankful that I received a security internship back in summer and my employer should be glad I had a great chance of being a Chinese spy, injecting backdoor, because I care about my origin and I read Chinese newspaper in addition to New York Time because I happen to like NYT.

And so when certain ethnic groups celebrating their ethnic holiday (Mexican, African Americans), we should be careful because they have a spiritual attachment to their origin (or their parents' origin) that they are also likely to be spy or going to be working for their mother country.

Sure we can't assume they won't. I mean I see American born kids turn into terrorists and there are people who just decide they have enough of US government and run to another country (right, you know, those run to North Korean).

We should also note that UK immigrants might have a tendency to take back US as UK's colonies, and Canadian should be careful of US immigrants because there is some people who believe US should own Canada too.

Right?
I was unsurprised considering how few people seem to know about the the Soviet Mars and Venus landers.
> Given that China has had some embarrassing and destructive disasters in the space program, they seem a bit reluctant to go for the live broadcast approach.

The launch and landing of Chang'e 3 were both broadcast live on CCTV English.

If American news networks decided not to cover it live, then you can hardly blame that on the Chinese.
Not sure how many hours go into finding these sorts of vulnerabilities, but his rate of $150/hour[1] seems like a steal compared to the lost revenues he can prevent.

[1] http://www.sakurity.com/
Just goes to show that the NSA doesn't give a rats ass about defence other than penetrating it.
Thanks! I was trying to get my head around why vim mode wasn't working. This works great.
If you attempt to close any backdoors you'll only bring suspicion to yourself. For example using tcpcrypt, you'll only be flagging yourself as an anomaly possibly worthy of inspection.
99.9% of people don't know and don't care about this sort of stuff, you can always thank the bottom of the barrel
A drone was launched. A US citizen was killed. The fun part is connecting the dots in any way you like.
This kind of bug falls in grey area I believe. It's more a legacy feature that should be turned off.

Nonetheless, I think it's wrong to have that feature still working.
The article does mention that he did fight deportation. On the other hand not going to China or working on Chinese rocket projects would have been ludicrous considering his ethnicity and field of expertise. You expect a human to simply drop their life's opus because of accusations of being a communist. Frankly it doesn't matter if he was or wasn't a communist. It doesn't matter in the larger scope of things because being a communist doesn't mean betraying your country. The question is why was he charged with communism (which is not a crime) without proof. Any charge without prior proof is over reach. And him ending in China is the best option he had after being stalled in the USA.
heres mine:

finish college

get job

pay taxes

work until i can afford a van, petrol, food, passport and visas

get van

travel world

die

of course only two of these are certain...
I was a co-worker with two people who started using the Kinesis. It took them about a month to get back up to normal typing speed (starting at about 5 WPM!). So make sure you rent for at least a month.
Love where this is headed. Could you comment on security with nvlope? I'm curious in particular about two-factor auth, but anymore insight would be great.
Not a standard yet, but this just made it to HackerNews: https://nvlope.com/

"nvlope gives you full control over your mail with a full-blown JSON API. You can build an email client with just 3 API calls - threading included!"

http://developer.nvlope.com/
Google's products have been sapping my desire to build things. It used to be that we had to build our own tools to do thing like edit code, send email with a quick workflow, etc. Not so any longer.

I've found a Gmail-based email workflow that work really well for me (and requires no browser extensions or custom code). I now own a Chromecast that allows me to play music and video on my home AV system. It just works, out of the box.

This looks really compelling if I was the kind of hacker that still hacked tools. These days I hack my workflow and use existing tools because they've gotten really good.
I would also like to know :)
"I did, when talking with my american friends. Most of them are saying that Snowden is not a "whistleblower" because he fled the country to Russia."

Anecdotally, that view does seem to be the minority in the US. Increasingly so as time goes on and more is understood. That was a gut reaction by many conservatives initially, but I think most understand by now that him going to Russia is irrelevant, even if they do disagree with the act of disclosing.

Polls seem to back this up: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/06/12/uk-usa-security-pol...
I feel the whole thing is extremely paradoxical that as the government is making examples out of hackers, they're rewarding their own.

I'm not trying to raise the conspiracy flag or show off my tin foil hat, I just hope to see a resolution despite it all.
"fight against the man"

Are there no male feminists? What?

There was widespread uncertainty about whether or not the 'feminist programming' article / research proposal was a joke. I'm fairly sure now that it wasn't. Is this site a satirical take on that?

"Now hosted on BitBucket, as GitHub proves to be too misogynistic to support a feminist programming language."

https://bitbucket.org/FeministSoftwareFoundation/c-plus-equa...

This can't be serious. If it is, then with logic and immaturity like that it might not get far.

EDIT:

I just scrolled down. This is very clearly satire, I didn't see the bullet points. But the whole point of satire is to get these kinds of conversations going. I'm the fall guy this time.
Coding really IS naturally boring and mind numbing. That's neither your imagination nor subjective experience. No one ever steps through a series of break-points in a debugger, or skims through 1,000 lines of log output, and thinks: "YEAH, MAN! THIS IS REALLY LIVING!" It pretty much requires an altered state to enjoy this stuff.

That's just not true. I'm a counterexample.
They're not optimal, but they do work. (The reverse exists too; this is how the D3D build of my game engine works for targeting Metro.)
Say what you want or downvote me to hell.
But I think this is great satire and hilariouisly funny.
Make sure to check the bitbucket link or it wont make much sense.
> How much does the average tax filer in your county pay in income taxes

^ First sentence of the article
I think, working on the type of code I tend to write on my own time: delightful, exciting fun. Working on things assigned by any employers I ever had: somebody kill me already.
I was just issued a refund for a game I purchased several months ago because it's unplayable (Super Street Fighter IV).

This also isn't the first refund I've gotten? Are you all using the same support ticket system?
This can't be serious.

I'm surprised you even considered it was.
But shitlords, it's feminist logic! (http://reasonsociety.blogspot.ca/2011/07/feminist-logic.html)
One of the most surprising things I have seen at Mozilla is the use of Bugzilla, its still mostly black magic and its terrible as a tool for non familiar people to file and find bugs, but as a company wide source of truth for most issues from event relations, it issues to plain bugs and project management its actually ... good.

And its usually pretty hard to say anything nice about Bugzilla.
Well, we'll see. It very well might be.

EDIT: Oh. I just actually scrolled down.
Spot on. This would be great as a way to learn new frameworks/libraries as well.
Ask HN: Trying to get a Dutch bitcoin hackathon off the ground
So I'm in the process of organizing a Dutch bitcoin hackathon. So far I'm doing this alone because I only came up with the idea yesterday, but I expect other people will jump in to help me as soon as I have something up (a website for example).<p>Right now I don't have anything. No prizes, no sponsors, no location, no website. But I feel this can be done easily when others will join. I have heard positive reactions.<p>Anyway, I never organized something this big. What do I need to know? Any good tips?
From the site:

"Based on historical customer deployment data, the average enterprise deployment can take 18 to 32 months from business case through full deployment."

The average is between 1 1/2 and almost 3 years? Sweet Jesus.
I too, think this is awesomely funny and very well constructed! Shame that github censored it.
Suprised
I have often thought that if Einstein was a young person in a public school today they would probably put him on ritalin. It also appears there are a lot of dangerous side effects to these drugs that I think may be causing some of the things in the news lately, I tried posting some articles about this issue but it got blocked probably because some of the language getting snagged by HN's key word filters maybe.
I'm enjoying popping in and watching for a couple minutes here and there. Interesting watching how progress happens.
Not only that, but if Twitter was feeling cruel, they could drag him through court (if he's based in the US). That would be a nuclear option, but, when your future welfare is on the line, you really shouldn't screw with companies.

Twitter obviously wouldn't drag a hacker to court. I'm saying, in general, don't do this, because other companies might. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz#Intel_case
On PRISM, or Listening Neoliberally
Indeed. I first read the hints of that story in Mike Davis's book City of Quartz.

Another interesting co-founder (one of the original handful, along with Parsons) was Frank Malina, who was the second director of JPL (after von Karman).

Malina was also suspected by the FBI of having Communist sympathies. He eventually left JPL and went to live in France.
Sequence of Events in the Cockpit on Asiana Flight 214
Suprised nobody mentioned teamviewer. Teamviewer meetings are totally awesome for multi platform high performance screen sharing
Yeah, I would love to hear the reasoning behind the title change.
i would replace "company" with "huge company with resources". If it wasn't twitter but e.g. some startup, sure I'd report it like everyone does.

But twitter is like saying "back off, we are huge and we don't pay researchers a cent". So let it be
It's hard to justify. I am not going to say he can't be a spy. As a Chinese immigrant, many things you do can make you guilty of treason. There are many things your "friends" would disagree otherwise.

I say he probably wasn't interested in helping the Chinese government (both Nationalist and Communist). I think he likes being in his laboratory and doesn't care about politics.

But if no evidence ever found, our government should apologize.
I've got half a mind to try and make this thing, if I didn't have what seems like a billion other projects going...
Hm, are you sure cracking password and writing about a bug which you didn't exploit on other users are the same thing?
The Facebook Friendship
"But for all of Mr. Snowden’s technical expertise, some American officials also place blame on the security agency for being slow to install software that can detect unusual computer activity carried out by the agency’s work force..."

Should we be surprised that they are ignoring the real problems? Neither Snowden, nor the lack of surveillance is the issue. What the documents revealed about the NSAs Unconstitutional programs is what should be alarming.
Thanks. And Cassini at Saturn, New Horizons on its way to Pluto, Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, and Planck; STEREO and SDO looking at the Sun, and a host of Earth-observing missions (http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/missions/), etc., etc.

Some of the comments above are not very well-informed.
This is some really great discussion here about this issue. I am very glad to see it, I wish the main stream press would pick up on this issue, I think there needs to be more study of the side effects of psychotherapeutic drugs, they do so much good for so many but I am think more research is needed. If it does turn out to be that these drugs are causing people to have violent episodes we need to learn why.
> People really shouldn't orient their moral systems around money.

Neither do corporations, but whenever you hear anyone say "corporations shouldn't base their moral systems around money", then it's all about "free market", "profit" and "shareholder values".

I'm not saying I'd do the same in this case, but it's a bit of a stretch to assume people-people morals apply to people-corporate situations.
Stik.js
At Stack Overflow we use

* google docs

* google mail

* google hangouts (with perma-rooms)

* our own awesome chat (http://chat.stackoverflow.com)

* trello from everything from shopping lists to kanban boards

* our own hosted git and hg, with a kiln "skin" for the looks (plus pretty much any public repo for the myriad open source projects we maintain)

* our own live status (https://github.com/opserver/Opserver)

* team city for CI/CD

* vydio for large whole company meetings
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This is a pretty poor article.

Yes. Cleantech was bad for Kleiner Perkins and a lot of other VCs that bet on it. But it also didn't work out for large companies, governments or research groups investing in it either.

Many of the arguments made here could equally well be applied to life sciences, but life science and biotech VCs have seen reasonable returns in investments and their LPs are often large pharma companies.

Also the author seems to be clueless as to the fact Moore’s Law is nothing to do with the speed of company growth but rather to do with the performance of computing power.

While their might be certain products that require an investment structure that VCs can't provide, this article fails to make any kind of coherent argument for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen#Return_to_China

He seemed to have had a very interesting political career in china as well.
We use a bunch of tools at Zapier but some of our favorite are:

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- Campfire: https://campfirenow.com/

- Zapier: https://zapier.com/

- GTalk

- Dropbox/Box

- RelateIQ: http://relateiq.com/

- Help Scout: https://www.helpscout.net/

- HelloSign: https://www.hellosign.com/

We wrote a lot more about how we use them here: https://zapier.com/blog/how-manage-remote-team/
Are there no male feminists? What?

Yes, there are. "The Man" is slang for "the authorities" or "the powers that be". Although in this case of course there's a double entendre.

There was widespread uncertainty about whether or not the 'feminist programming' article / research proposal was a joke. I'm fairly sure now that it wasn't. Is this site a satirical take on that?

The "feminist programming" research proposal is real.

The C+= language "spec" is a satirical response.

I guess this site is yet another satirical response pointing to the bitbucket repo?
I know that this is satire, but after reading through some "code" on the bitbucket, I am disgusted. You'll never hear me say the word "privilege" in any kind of seriousness, but really guys? This is fucking awful.

Some snippets:

// The whole idea of main() is frankly Oppressive, in an ideal
// world there would be no main() or subroutine(), only me()
// Edit: Luckily, we now have womain(), but I still think me() is better

and

* Post-amble: Today I wrote my first reclamation program for the
* Feminist Software Foundation1 I'm sooooo excited! ^_^
* Imma cccdddrrrr loll
* I'm such a nerd!
* I think I'll write an essay on this triump over the Patriarchy!

Is this the kind of vitriolic community we want to build?
https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...

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> ssh and a vpn client seem glaringly absent from that list.

"VirtualBox (running Ubuntu with all the usual stuff)"

All my terminal stuff is in there. I also use Secure Shell for Chrome for SSH.
Very little real info and too much of what author probably believes to be a humor, but it's just pretentious BS...
Hey, good luck. The mattress business is a terrible quagmire. Nice to see someone trying to disrupt that mess.
Genesis 1:1 does not reflect the thought of any Christian thinkers.
It's not great satire; it's lazy, thoughless satire that punches down and does it poorly. You think it's great satire because you agree with it. This has all the wit and charm of a Ramirez global warming cartoon.
There are 10 types of people:
- those who understand binary

- those who don’t

- those who didn’t expect this joke to be in base 3

They explain this in detail in a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmb3TCvlETk
2-factor auth won't be available at beta launch (it's a MVP, we still have to see if there's enough interest), but we'll probably add 2-factor auth using https://www.authy.com at some point.
Because up until recently the entire space program was run by plucky Americans (with eccentric Brits/acceptable Euros and the occasional crazy Australian if needed) - anything else is Commie propaganda.
At Eyeo (8 developers, no two in the same place), we use:

- IRC (most of us use IRCCloud)

- Discourse (a forum, I can really recommend this even if you have chat, and Discourse is particularly good)

- Skype (only used for one on one meetings)

- Oovoo (like Skype, but has free video conferencing, we use it for meetings with more than two people)

- Rietveld (a review system, we have mandatory reviews for all changes, really really important for distributed teams IMO)

- Trello (we're in the middle of migrating to a real bug tracker (Roundup, what bugs.python.org uses) though)

- Google Drive (mostly as a wiki replacement)
IMHO and probably limited experience, all data problems as data size and concurrency approaches infinite become the same problem, and that problem is more easily solved with a KVS rather than with infinite RDB tables.

To me, KVS and RDB are just two sides of the same coin. If you start modelling properties your DB will look like a RDB, if you start with objects first your DB will look like a KVS. I prefer KVSs because it's more natural for me to think of everything that way.

Here I'm abusing the scope of the word KVS, what I pretend to mean is some kind of "document" store accessible/sorted by keys.
Plain-text by a significant margin; to the extent that my console mail-client treats HTML as an after-thought.
Not very true, in a way. Chinese government is not very wealthy, different from what the media portray. It might have a large pile of "money" in reserve, but they can't take that money out easily.

In particular, most of the local government is in great debt, tens of billions in some cases. The Central government has a lot of debt too. Just because there is a pile of money in reserve doesn't actually make the government wealthy.
Trello, Skype, Github, VirtualBox, http://www.getharvest.com/, Dropbox, Browserstack, Google Docs
this is not funny. this is less funny then when engineers sit around and make puns about ruby idioms
You going to go enterprise with this? That is, "mailboxes for your website." Would pay for that. Currently most email providers only send messages. I can get that from Amazon. What I can't get is an inbox for users which I have some control over too.
> Nobody tries to tell a cancer patient how to treat their cancer,

Oh I wish that was true. My gf had cancer and every crackpot we knew was advising on nonsense causes and treatments.
I'm getting a security warning in FF when subscribing to the newsletter:

http://imgur.com/bMo0G4z
> You think it's great satire because you agree with it.

Thanks for telling me what I think :)
Who is PG?
Parental Guidance?
LOL

"we're the majority so you should expect to see more of us do X, the fact that isn't true proves that minority is bad."

this tired old argument and the convenient self-fulfilling prophecies it spawns can be used to justify anything. especially a persecution of any minority population for any activity whatsoever.

prime example: war on drugs.

let's not forget that investigations are run by people, with focused efforts on specific targets, for specific reasons. oftentimes investigators will go for the politically expedient target, the 'easy' target, or simply the targets that stick out when compared.

when you look at the ranks of falsely accused spies, what do you see?

just because more people are caught doing something does NOT mean that they are doing more of it in real life.
I don't see the point to this.