skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone with deep experience in this field once explained to me, "The big drug companies don't sell cures. They sell diseases." By which he of course meant they sell the idea of the disease, for which -- if whipped up to be scary and believable enough -- the consumer won't hesitate to reach out to "cure."
HipChat provides a couple things that I don't think you can get from Skype:

1. Searchable backlog for all discussions.

2. API for connecting bots (which can be used for C&C).

3. Web-based and native clients.

4. Public and private rooms chat rooms.

HipChat is more like IRC than like IM, which, for distributed teams, is often very useful.
"What does he propose to do to demonstrate that some new way of treatment has greater safety and effectiveness than the way he desires to replace?"

His point is that they are evidently not safe.

There's good old fashioned self-discipline available for most people. I mean, just because you're having mental issues doesn't necessarily mean you can't step outside yourself and understand and assert self control.
We too use Hipchat, Skype and Hangouts. All for different things and since some tools offer features which others don't:

- Hipchat: Internal discussions and exchange, syntax highlighting, easy room and pwemission management, updates from other services (github, new relic etc). Furthermore to push notifications to email, mobile device and/or via text.

- Skype: easy 1on1 communication with externals (sometimes replaces the regular phone), internal LAN file transfer

- Google Hangouts: group video conferences (our company uses Google Apps so everyone has it and can access it from anywhere through a browser)

I probably missed some features and usecases, but I think I got the most important ones :)
Note: This is federal income tax only. No state, local, sales, or other tax burdens were included.
We've been using a free trial of Slack (https://slack.com/) for about a month now and I can't imagine working without it. It's great for war rooms centered around solving a problem. It's great for team members in different timezones, they can catch up on the days events without asking. The mobile apps and thick clients are fantastic.
It only allows you to send DMs to those users you can already message - which is a small mercy.

This part of Twitter's "Get Better" problem - where they've allowed SMS commands to be activated via non-SMS interfaces - http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/26/twitter-get-better/

Of course, it doesn't help that Twitter's permissions system is really poorly thought out. An app which only wants to read your Tweets also has WRITE access as well.
"County" is such an arbitrary designation by which to look at data like this, precisely because of the outliers. If you are going to compare by arbitrary geofenced areas, why not go more granular and compare by zip code?[1]

Example outlier: Brooklyn (Kings County, NY) is a single county, but if it were a separate city would be the 3rd largest city in the US. The tax statistics for this gigantic county (by population, not land size) can vary each mile you drive down the road.

[1]: IRS 2008 .csv tax data by zip code (large) http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/08zpall.csv

[1]: Docs and other formats: http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats-Individual-Income-Tax-S...
One story that came out was that he social engineered the passwords so that he could access more information before he blew the whistle.
Skype, Basecamp, Google Docs
Citizenships. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/411936288904728576
it's a nice reminder that big bang is one of theories and not an indisputable dogma
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There are two sides to this story. The one I consider almost insignificant is that by honouring existing contracts, they have become a defence contractor in the literal sense.

The more important one is that by not doing new work for the military, they have just remove one of the hottest companies from the defence market.

I wonder whether the US government has ways of withholding regulatory approval of this deal because of this.
Hangouts - for voice/video (standups)
Hipchat - for chat
Trello - Tasks
Google Docs - Knowledge, collaborative editing
Github - code versioning

Has anyone tried sqwiggle.com, we tried it, but we get the same thing from impromptu google hangouts for free. A truely native sqwiggle app that integrates more into what we are doing makes sense.
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How reflexive a dismissal this is can be seen in how you pooh-pooh the author's 30 years of experience, yet don't pay enough attention to read her name.

Edit: I'm afraid the "historical perspective" you supply is not very historical. The decline of Freudianism began long before the 1980s, and pharmaceutical psychiatry has a much longer history than you imply. The antipsychotics that Steingard writes about were discovered about 60 years ago—something you might have learned from the fifth paragraph of her article. It is highly unlikely that she was trained as a Freudian; she says she spent 20 years routinely prescribing antipsychotics.
sudo rfkill unblock all

Why? I don't know, but I have to run this command a few times a year. It's in my history so it's easy to find.
I've used a combination of terminal, ssh, vim, tmux, Skype, Hipchat, and Google Hangouts. Those do basically everything I need.

EDIT: I use Asana and Google Docs as well.
Thx! It'll useful for me.
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Cheers for mentioning the closure compiler; I'll look into it. I haven't noticed much literature on its use in current build systems; I guess r.js gets all the fame due to its easier api.
Really? $10 is too much for a trade? And anyone with any reasonable amount of capital is going to choose them based on this? I don't think so. I certainly wouldn't.

And their going to make money on margin accounts and API access? Anyone sophisticated enough to be trading on margin or paying for API access has enough funds to not care about $10 trading fees. Seriously - on a $10,000 trade, that's a tenth of a percent. You've got to be a hedge fund with millisecond precision to care about that.
Three months isn't really that bad. They used to say the rule of thumb was one month for every ten thousand you expect in salary. And that's in a "normal" economy.
Whoops, thanks for that correction!
They didn't get Tesla because Musk wanted Kleiner on the board not the partner who had done all the work. So Tesla took a $70M valuation with a board member they didn't care about rather than a $50M valuation with the board member they did want, which Musk says was a mistake. Still there were other missteps.

This article came out a day after this one, which is more in-depth about all the problems they have faced.

http://pando.com/2013/12/11/john-doerrs-last-stand-can-a-dra...
Actually, I think in this case, the LessWrong types must have some rather strong words for Google. Starting with "PAPERCLIP" and "DON'T".
Your suggestion is the morale equivalent of asking to install Oracle for a simple "tiny data" database problem when sqlite or just a hand crafted table is far enough.
I just realized that Giga linked to the above article, i responded before RTFA
>Where could google be heading to?

They are trying to make hard scifi novels a reality.
I've been with TradeKing for several years. This year they have had 2 outages and customers have been unable to login to accounts. Prior to those incidents they had been great - zero issues. But those two outages are inexcusable and cost me $$.

Sharebuilder is great when you're just starting out or want to automatically dollar cost average into positions. I started there, and then moved to TradeKing.
In a perverse despotic dictatorial way, killing US citizens is okay because "they're my slaves" kind of thing. He's dealing with a government that has killed a group of Yemeni family folks in Yemen who were allegedly attending a wedding accidentally with a drone strike. It is my imagination where they just say "Oops".
I am not at all sure public shaming is the right strategy in dealing with these cases. Then again, I'm not sure what the right strategy is.

I'd be happy if this could all be fixed at an early age via an enlightened education system but that's obviously not happening. Oh well.

In any case, perhaps this is a bit extreme. I "fondly" (sarcasm quotes) remember the Adria Richards farce where public shaming only lead to a huge clusterfuck for everyone involved and a wave of misogynist hate. Then again, this allows one to explain why one shouldn't be on the list. Then again... if it's on the web, it stays on the web. Nothing ever goes away. Complicated stuff right there.
Also note this 66k accounts for about 18% of income.

For comparison, Shannon County in South Dakota (ranked 3135) pays $922, or 4.5% of income.

(There should probably be someone ranked 3144th, but Shannon seemed pretty close to the bottom...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(United_States)#Statisti...
>Not very intelligent for an intelligence agency, missing something so close to home -- literally within their own walls. If they can't figure out what people they vetted and hired, why would anyone expect them to do better with someone whose resume they didn't have.

Would you rather these agencies be truly competent and efficient that their activities would never come to light?
I'd definitely pay for a "typing analytics" addon to my OS, or maybe my editor, though I think that is needlessly restricting things. It depends if there are mistakes and advice that are specific to writing code versus just general typing.

Either way, it could watch for bad habits and common mistakes, show aggregating stats, etc.
And they'll have no reason to change if websites continue to cater to them.
One good thing has come out of the VC's move on cleantech and that is bigger mindshare. More people are now aware of the possibilities and in particular, aware that concerted effort and investment towards a goal can pay off. It just takes longer than the VCs expected but note that one response to the VC activities has been that other companies are increasing their R&D spending.

It will be interesting to see how the stars of the digital age respond. We already have Google investing in various technology initiatives outside of the mainstream software and networking area. But what will Amazon and Twitter and Facebook do? Will one of them invest in solar breakthroughs? Or high speed rail?

The story is not yet over.
I'd like to be able to spend <$1k per stock, $10 is a 1% fee on a $1k order, and if you want to sell later and the stock hasn't appreciated in price another $10 = 2% total fees.

$10 each way fee can seriously eat into the EV of people looking to make small orders, and disadvantages this group against the wealthy (who already have a host of other edges!)

I'd like to spend a few hundred on several stocks, but the fee makes this not worth it. Leaves me with the option of don't, or put it all in one stock which isn't a good idea.
At this point, the military is (in-part) a jobs program, both blue collar and white.
It's a much larger jobs program
Looks nice, but that resolution isn't good enough anymore.
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Exactly - as soon as I saw that black area, immediately thought "Jackson Hole".

Not only is it a very popular skiing area, it's also not a bad place to retire if you enjoy the outdoors, hence, capital gains are a major source of income for the wealthy retirees there.
>Not very intelligent for an intelligence agency

I am also wondering, is it smart for an intelligence agency to tell the truth when they say "We don't know how much was leaked"? Or is this a large lie in order to lower, I don't know, someone's guard. I mean, it doesn't make sense to me.
Here's the discussion on this article from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6875229
This is a bizarre post.

How exactly does someone who is having auditory or visual hallucinations exert self-discipline?

I'd certainly agree that some people know the voices they hear are hallucinations, and that some of those people live happily with those voices and don't need meds. Is that what you're trying to say?

Because it sounds like you're saying "pull yourself together", or "try harder" or similar.

Someone who has a severely broken leg needs to have a cast and needs to do the physiotherapy, and both of those need some self discipline. But after that discipline isn't going to make the bone knit faster.

Many people with "mental issues" can't just think themselves better.
All of your points are good but, keep in mind, a robot that is capable of changing your physical world for the better is capable of doing the opposite. A robot that can get you a beer can also drop one on your toe.

For this reason, I expect the "personal robot revolution" to occur at the nexus of wealthy/non-litigious. I'm not quite sure where that is maximized on earth at the moment, but I'm quite certain its not the USA. (My current bet is Chinese cities)
I don't know. I just don't know.

I earned a perfect score on the SAT and was voted "Class Genius" in the yearbook, but barely graduated from high school. I was dismissed from university.

I went to work for a machine learning company, where we (self included!) did some really neat stuff, including some heroic pre-sales-meeting coding that saved the day in a minor way. But I was fired six months in for low productivity and low engagement.

Was it brain chemistry? ADD? Millenial entitlement? The Bipolar Lisp personality? Depression? SAD? A once-seen-impossible-to-unsee glimpse of the Gervais Principle? (http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...)

Who knows.

What I do know is that

- a) I may have something, but at least I am lucid. This is an understandable HN comment. I write many of them, and they seem to get ok ratings.

- b) I have spent, and could spend, a lot of time trying to nail down exactly what's up with me. I have very little to show for it.

So I'm trying to just capitalize on the "lucid" part. I'm building stuff. I realize I'm the proverbial crank working alone, but I'm trying very hard to avoid the common pitfalls---setting hard deadlines, getting customer feedback, getting appropriate exercise and social interaction, etc. And it's working. Things are happening. Milestones are being reached.

It's the best I can do.
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Excellent article. As promised, the author brings a historical perspective that's typically lacking in this debate (at least for someone like me who has casually followed it on HN).

Not to stray too far off topic, but this article raised a question that I've had since starting software development in earnest... Why do we have to choose between heavily "normalized" relational databases that structure all data & thus allow more arbitrary queries, OR un-structured databases that are fast and flexible but often slow to query in complex ways? Why can't there be a hybrid "smart" database that dynamically generates indexes (to use the term loosely) based on how it's queried, in order to speed up similar queries in the future? With some kind of additional weight given to the most frequent queries. Granted, it would need some time to "warm up" (not unlike a tracing JIT compiler?), and the implementation might be fairly complex, but other than that, I can't think of any downsides...?
It's not a bug per se, but it's certainly a hideous misfeature to have ever had that kind of input parsing except on the SMS interface to Twitter. It's just completely unnecessary.
It seems like the development environment is the hardest part for beginners. Seems like a niche that all the cloud development environments could go after?
Perhaps this is a bit extreme?

This is essentially a list to silence and shame people who for whatever reason end up offending hypersensitive people with a statement that does not completely conform to their world view, or with a joke they personally find distasteful. The same McCarthyist insanity proposed here: http://ashedryden.com/blog/weve-all-got-a-list
Not very intelligent for an intelligence agency, missing something so close to home -- literally within their own walls. If they can't figure out what people they vetted and hired, why would anyone expect them to do better with someone whose resume they didn't have.

And the NSA wasn't the only intelligence agency that vetted and hired him.
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I'm sorry I don't understand your description. You said a grid of conductive dots right? You'd need two separate grids of dots if you're going to use one-wire. Would you superposition both grids? Then it would short. If you have one 'band' on top and one band below, then it's just a rail setup.
Baiboard (iPad app) is awesome for remote collaborative concept sketching.
One of the oldest examples of this phenomenon I can think of is how halitosis wasn't considered nearly as much of a problem before the promotion of Listerine as a cure for it in the 1920s.
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You might enjoy PostgreSQL, then. It supports a variety of "weakly" structured data types, such as JSON, hashmaps (key/value types, also called hstore in PostgreSQL).

Many databases also support XML data types. And of course, you can always store unstructured data in CLOBs and BLOBs
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This is the same guy who hacked GitHub (and Rails) with the multiple assignment hack, among other things.
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>I'm far more interested in the VALUE of a prospective employee than I am in the COST.

Heh heh. Well, sure. It isn't your money.
They could ask questions perhaps if you had overwhelming superiority, such as when fighting an insurgency.

In an actual modern war scenario however they'd have to use every sneaky trick in the book or would eventually lose the war via attrition. Firing high explosive shells into buildings to kill the sniper at the top and all that.
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https://jitsi.org/ is the best chat/cam software I've found. It works perfectly on Linux, and I've not heard of Mac/Win problems either. Skype has never worked well for me on Linux.

I like Hamster for time tracking, https://projecthamster.wordpress.com/
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Just what the title says.

I'm an undergrad at one of the best school studying CS. Wanna start a startup. How do I go about doing this legally?
You can turn your perspective on this the other way as well, though. Do you know how hard it is to sell cryonics, life-extension research, etc? Because, you know, "death isn't that big a deal."

Sometimes, a horrible thing goes unrecognized because we've all just learned to live with how horrible it is, and to stop wasting emotional energy despairing about it. When a cure does then come about... some company has to remind people that the problem is a problem in the first place.

Some "non-problems" are Emperors wearing some very compelling New Clothes.
One good thing has come out of the VC's move on cleantech and that is bigger mindshare.

I don't disagree with you.

I think the VCs are also a victim of mindshare. To me, that's the most likely explanation as to why they erred as much as they did.
Yes, but its a fitting one that does pretty much characterize the field.

It also highlights how remarkable the Bitcoin whitepaper is…
...add in the weirdnesses caused by off-label prescribing (frighteningly common with MH) and placebo / nocebo effects and it's easy to understand how difficult it is for clinicians and patients.

Now think about children, where there's strong social influences, and where they might not have had symptoms for very long, and where few meds are licenced for use and it's quite scary.
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The Einstein quote is great. I would add: The only reason for time is so that everything can't be understood at once.
'Stretching' and 'scaling' as the foundational principle of distances and time makes the idea of a starting point needless. I wrote about it here:
http://hashsign.co.uk/contemporary/by/thoughts/pop-pop-bang-...
"UK" doesn't seem to be shown on the map. I think "UK" should be replaced by "GB" in the URL.
Some thing that sets U.S. apart from other countries for innovation is that 1 trillion dollar military budget. That gives U.S. military enough money and time to spend on "moon shot" researches like this. I'm no fan of spending a lot of money on military but hey, that's how all of these crazy non-sense research spending happen that no one will ever pay for it.

Imagine if Boston Dynamic was a startup and asked for money for their research from a VC!

I'm not sure about this, but I heard that the Internet itself benefited from U.S. military budget at it's beginning.
I must respectfully disagree, halitosis (bad breadth for those wondering) was already considerer a problem in 1550BC and a valid reason in the Talmud for breaking marriage. Hardly small potatoes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halitosis#History.2C_society_a...
"It was the stupidest thing this country ever did," former Navy Secretary Dan Kimball later said, according to Aviation Week. "He was no more a Communist than I was, and we forced him to go."

I would imagine his opinion might count for something.
Native USB, choice of switches, appearance, full NKRO. I would be fine with a Model M myself, but those are at least a couple distinct differences.
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Meanwhile, I still have to get my stimulants illegally.
People in various forums (a couple on HN, SO, Egor's blog, Twitter itself) seem to be saying something like "this isn't really a bug".

It's definitely a bug. Twitter requires clients to ask for the DM permission before they can send DMs. With Egor's approach, clients can privilege-escalate themselves to send DMs even if they never asked for that permission (although they still need to be authorized to send tweets).

Also, even worse, Twitter doesn't consider it a bug, according to the person who originally reported it (who was not Egor): https://twitter.com/DaKnObCS/status/411869431036653568

And here's a response from Ben Ward, the Twitter web lead: https://twitter.com/benward/status/411924515459850240
You posted a duplicate, what's the other link?
from the article:

Qian returned to Caltech in 1949 and a year later faced the accusation by two former members of the Los Angeles Police Department's "Red Squad" that he was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party.

thanks LAPD