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Just so you know, it's considered good form for journalists reporting on suicide to refrain from describing the method (to the extent possible)[0][1][2].

On a professional level, it is believed (and supported by some research) that this can be a trigger for people who read the article, potentially causing more suicides.

On a personal level (for you), you may want your brother remembered for his life, rather than evoking in readers' minds the image of his last moments alive.

[0] www.sprc.org/library/sreporting.pdf

[1] http://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-repo...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/mar/28/media-r...
> And how will Chrome know whether to try to connect via QUIC or not?

Chrome looks for the "alternate-protocol:443:quic" response header (in non-QUIC requests). Once it sees this it will attempt to talk QUIC in future requests to the same domain.

And thanks for pointing out the omission of chrome://flags/#enable-quic in the slides. Have fixed this.
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although slightly alluded to in the 'parking lot problem' i dont see any reference to mptcp. any reason why ?

edit-1: quic geek faq contains some more details (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lmL9EF6qKrk7gbazY8bIdvq3...)
The Manhattan project was a boy band or had a significant boy band component. It clearly involved a number of amateur male musicians[1][2].

Science is about understanding, engineering is about building something.

If the Manhattan project had resulted in no new understanding, but had created a nuclear bomb it would have been a success. The science was incidental to the success of the project.

Engineering is built on science so there will often be scientists involved in Engineering projects, however the assumption with an Engineering project is that the science is already understood (or at least significantly understood) and so the main effort is in the design and
construction.

The problem with Science projects is that they are hard to sell to the public. Thats because its hard for someone who isn't a domain expert to put a value on its significance. This is why a lot of Science projects are dressed up as Engineering projects[1] to sell them to the public.

Its pretty clear that the above fusion research is a Science project, i.e about understanding.

If this facility is being used to produce new bombs then that is an engineering project but if it is just being used to gain understanding about existing bombs then its science.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Love_of_music

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
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No. Feynman actually criticised scientists who weren't prepared to explain and justify their work to the public. He says this in one of the bbc videos, can't remember which, as part of a critique of the social sciences.
Yes, I don't understand how is this study conduced since the diagnosis for bipolar disorder is not conclusive itself..
It doesn't tell anything on how it's purported that the brain is 'faulty'
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As somebody who's been there (on both sides) I don't believe that anybody who might act on suicidal ideation would not have already considered suicide as an option.

I'd say that, if you're worried, starting a conversation about it (in person) is just about the best thing you could do. A "missed diagnosis" is far worse than a "misdiagnosis".

Sorry for the pun.
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I think we're talking about different experiments. I'm not talking about, "here are the correlation statistics for 100 variables", I'm talking about, "I tested 100 variables, and these are the five pairs which are most strongly correlated."
Yeah, I think the animation as "move-from-previous-place" is a mistake, in that I don't think it matches our mental model (or my mental model) - I don't think of the toolbar as something that remains tied to the place I was previously editing after I stop editing there.
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Instead of arbitrary LLVM bitcode, you probably want a subset with some statically verifiable security properties, as a form of very lightweight sandboxing. Google has already created this, and calls it PNaCl.

Running arbitrary LLVM bitcode would make browser exploits trivial, unless you ran the bitcode in a sandboxed subprocess. PNaCl's sandboxing is much lighter weight than requiring IPC to interact with the browser.

EDIT: Just realized this is mostly redundant with another reply, but hopefully gives a bit more detail for those not interested in following links.
I called and emailed my representatives (which included Diane Feinstein whom was swamped with calls). When I looked at the numbers this morning, I felt defeated. It saddened me to see below 100k phone calls. However, I don't think it was a "failure" nor do I think it was a victory. I think this is a good step forward for our voice on this issue. Hopefully our representatives get our message and in return support reigning in the NSA etc.

To be honest, I feel like we lost a while ago and my voice just echos with no response. I don't see social security being there when I retire (I'm 24), I don't see the NSA stopping its surveillance anytime soon, I don't see Americans coming together and dropping this bullshit banter between Left vs. Right and who is wrong.

I think the only way to cleanup this mess would be a revolution (who knows how much that would change). The US Gov't has made it clear that the citizens are now potential enemies and with the agenda they are currently pushing they are creating more enemies here in the states. I am ashamed of my government.
Care to clarify to which platforms you have moved your clients? I've considered Linode, but haven't "pulled the trigger" just yet, and all this turmoil has me reconsidering. Thanks in advance.
Not to split hairs... but your link defines Stereotype (noun): an often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about all people or things with a particular characteristic

Note the word often which does not mean always.

Often (adverb): many times : on many occasions

Always (adverb): at all times

So a stereotype, by definition, may be true... though often is not.
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cnnct.me is a public and free service for creating instant chat conversations between two people. the only thing needed is a web enabled computer or mobile browser. and you are ready to connect. a number of benefits using cnnct.me include:

- not having to sign up and login to any service
- not having to download or install anything
- being able to create a conversation in a matter of seconds just by providing a unique access code
- not having your conversation logged, not leaving any trace on the server or on the client side
- being able to use it across most devices and platforms
- not having to share contact credentials with strangers for a brief chat session or take the time to add them on instant messaging networks
- being able to get around firewalls that may block certain messaging protocols

cnnct.me implements a simple, adaptive user interface along with a lightweight, streamlined feature set. the goal is offering next to no learning curve for users, ease of use and optimal layout and behavior on most browsers across computers and handheld devices.
Most of it is sourced from the official websites. Some of it is sourced from reputable news sources. The rest is from communication with the manufacturer/developer.
Without sounding insensitive, may I ask what it is - that you think - that is at the root of this stripe of depression that you seem to be well acquainted with.

I know that this sort of thing cannot be easily summed up.

However, most of us on the outside have little clue about what sets these things in motion, for various individuals, in the first place.

Broadly and typically, is it a fundamental disillusionment with (and thereby rejection of) the state of affairs of the world and the person's place in that world?

Is it a sense of (perceived) total betrayal of the social contract?

I'm sure any elaboration would help others understand this better.
I think the desire to not be spied upon without warrant goes beyond the libertarian base.
> What you can do is share your code with other programmers. I think that's the real value of things like Github. But, programmers are a notoriously savage bunch, and Github attracts top talent from all corners of the world. You are just as likely to hear a comment breaking down why your approach was wrong, or why you're using the incorrect syntax here or there, or why there's already some library by some other Joe Schmuck that does the same thing, only better.

I won't lie and say that programming is the most uplifting job in the world...its very physical implementation -- involving the long lonely staring at a plain text screen -- is a depression-breeding environment. What has helped me not be depressed about programming is to come up with much more intrinsic values for why I program. So I'm not programming to write better or faster code than the many geniuses out there, I write code to satisfy my own needs and goal.

So to the author's point above, I love the debates and criticism that Github fosters. Submitting a pull request and then repeatedly checking my email to see if the maintainer has made a comment is even more addicting to me than checking Hacker News. I don't mind a "thank you", but I really love a "Thanks, but this is feature creep" or "Why did you use this approach when our convention is [this]?" or even a "Please clean up your code, it fails [whatever code quality tool they've grafted on to the test suite]." Usually the maintainer is right, and I'll have learned a little more about best practices, and sometimes even if I disagree but am in a decent mood, I'll do as they say just because sometimes the physical act of writing code helps me understand it.

But the key is this: I almost never contribute code that doesn't immediately help me...this includes everything from a feature-creepy feature to a bug-fix that affects my particularly wonky setup. That way, even if the pull request is rejected, I still have something that I can use and be happy with.

There's nothing wrong with selfish goals in coding, and I believe that programmers often aren't selfish enough...or at least in the right ways (I suppose wanting to program just because you think it'll earn you money is a selfish mindset, but it's not immediate enough, IMO).

One of my favorite Woz stories is not just how he built the Apple ][ Floppy Disk -- regarded as an early Apple Inc. lifesaver and a technical marvel -- without any previous floppy drive experience and in about 20 days, but the fact that he did it (according to various Apple writers) almost solely because Mike Markkula had tempted him with a free trip to the Las Vegas tech expo, and Woz had never been to Las Vegas before. Can't get much more "selfish" than that :)
This is certainly interesting. What I'm most curious about is how iOS will scale. I desperately hope Apple will finally consider doing more with the home-screen than adding more app icons or scaling the size of them. It could be so much more... alive.
> How do twin studies rule out "environmental" that is, non-genetic, causes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study
Thanks for that. I really appreciate it.
> Given the downsides though, its worth writing the little bit of code necessary to convert your objects to a JSON-able form if your code is ever going to be used by people other than yourself.

Disagree strongly. You have no idea how complex my graphs of (pretty damn complex) python objects are and how much I value being able to change their organization without having to rewrite the serialization code every time I do so.

Don't fear pickle. Just don't expect it to be secure or amazingly fast.
Pancreatic cancer kills about 75% of patients within a year and 95% within five. From this, we take away "let's improve treatment methods", not "oncology is a scam that the free market should eradicate".
Agreed. I chose to soften the language for my mother's sake.
There is an organisation called BlueHackers.org [0] which was started at the Open Source Developers Conference. It has a strong presence at linux.conf.au as well.

The organisation started from a very brief lightning talk that went something along the lines of (me paraphrasing from memory):

"Who here in this room has experienced depression?" (for which the person asking the question put their hand up. After a few seconds, quite a few people in the crowd had their hands up. "Look around, I want you to know that you are not the only ones who experience this, and there are always people willing to talk."

One of the ideas they have is, for anybody who is willing, to put a BlueHackers sticker on their laptop. This little gesture is more than just a decal though, because it informs other hackers that you understand that if they are feeling depressed, they don't need to deal with it on their own. You are telling them that you are willing to discuss anything with them, especially if they are feeling down.

I have had the sticker on my laptop for over two years now. Although I haven't had anybody recognise it, or comment on it, or indeed discuss any issues with me as a consequence of it, and although I myself have been lucky enough not to have to experience depression, I am absolutely, 100% willing to respond to anybody who wishes to chat to me about such issues (on the off chance they recognise the BlueHackers sticker). I would love if this idea took off, so that people all around the world could see that there are so many people who are willing to talk.

[0] - http://bluehackers.org/
When I started at Google, everybody said the same thing. What do you need 3000 people for? They thought it should require like 50 people. It's just a box on a web page that you type into. But there was a lot going on behind the scenes to make that happen :)

I don't know anything about Asana, but there is this iceberg illusion where people judge the size of a company by the size of the UI. The size of the company is probably more related to the size of its customer base, among other things.
Ridiculous prosecution aside, something tells me Tidbit will be used in addition to, not as a replacement of display ads.

(That assumes there will always be a cryptocoin worth mining with a CPU/GPU. Right now it's silly to do so for bitcoin)
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I made a small greasemonkey script for google drive integration :). It adds a button to the documents toolbar.
http://pastebin.com/cw1hHcC5
welcome to the false left-right paradigm. most people just don't realize that it's deliberately being used to have the sheep running in circles every 4 years. meanwhile, there's only one political agenda on all sides.

but it's ok. go back to sleep.
Sounds like a wonderful way to waste electricity and kill browser performance at the same time.
Yeah, I'd second your thoughts about academic contributors.

I know a few HCI grad students who are interested in sharing their work in more informal kinds of venues (I'm one of them). Sure, conference papers are nice, but almost no one reads them. A lot of research in our field would appeal to a more general audience.
This is amazing. Would love to see something like this for wider communities as well. I have a spot picked out on my laptop already.
Sure, but browsers are perfectly right to throw up a giant red warning that says "THIS IS NOT OK". Otherwise MITMing will become commonplace, and users won't care.
Are there any libraries and/or demo code to implement this?
In fact, a static subset is a very nice property to have in a dynamic language. It's probably the easiest way to make a dynamic language self-hosting. For instance, PyPy uses a static subset of Python called RPython and Squeak uses a subset of Smalltalk called Slang.
So, what happens when you fill up the last shard?
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An easy solution to the problem would be to stop being a racist piece of shit, or else own up to it and accept the social consequences.

Another idea would be to have user ratings and feedback. I'm not sure if these services already do something like this, as I've never used them, but it could give hosts and drivers a means of rating their users so that they have some additional criteria by which to judge whether they want to loan their resources to a particular customer. That won't really solve the problem of new black customers who would have no prior rating, though. Maybe a criminal background check for customers is in order if people are really worried about being robbed or assaulted or some other nonsense. Of course that could cost time and money and could destroy the convenience factor of such services. A real bummer of a problem. I wish people were better.
> One small step would be to stop saying "lost the battle and passed from this world" and say "committed suicide."

Or just 'suicided'. Suicide is typically a noun, but can be used as a verb too. Using the word commit, to me, ties it with judgmental phrases like 'committing a crime' or 'committing a sin'. Part of changing our perspective on mental illness will be to call out the subtle ways in which we demonize or otherwise blame the victim.
I don't see a place to buy a decal on the site. Can you point me in the right direction? I'd love to become part of the movement.
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MPTCP doesn't solve the problems that QUIC cares about and OSes don't support it anyway.
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I cannot answer for Rob, but there can be significant bio-medical factors. I am not really prone to depression. If I am depressed for more than a short period of time, you can bet I am anemic, not sleeping well enough, etc. But I have a serious medical condition and have lived with quite a lot of crazy-making stress over the years. If my brain chemistry is wonky enough, I can be suicidal, in spite of not being the depressive type.

I know a fair amount about such things. I suspect bio-medical/brain chemistry issues are much more common than is generally recognized. I manage a lot of my issues in part with diet. I think a lot more can be done. But I don't know how to get the word out.
Great news. In every new project that we create (in general REST JSON APIs made with nodejs, erlang or rails that are consumed by iOS and android clients) we always finish using postgresql, redis and elasticsearch. Great tools.
The analogy between a guitar-player and a software engineer is a pretty poor one. You wouldn't go up and say "Hey guitar player, you should do it like this and that" because there's no absolute "correct" way of playing guitar. It's an art-form.

Engineering on the other hand has problems to solve, and so each solution (in code) gets judged on how well it solves the problem. I don't like the idea of saying "Hey nice try! Let's just go ahead and use it!" if the code actually sucks. That's the real world -- things can suck.

Look, end of the day, it's not about other people's opinions. When other people are cheering you on, it influences you to feel good about yourself, but you can do that yourself. If you're not OK with that, maybe you should be a guitar player. As for me, I'm pretty happy with the luxuries being a programmer affords me.
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There is sample code with the download and more online.
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A vibe I'm getting in this that Python is bland, and that "settling" for whether to use Python is good/bad.

It's existed for so long that it is a hugely high-functional tool, and many/most of it's hard edges have been filed off (either in the stdlib or in user-made packages).

Something I feel in using Python is that it's blandness/utility is itself beautiful, or at the very least, elegant. Like a well made tool, it doesn't get in your way, it works well for what it's designed for, making creation without thought easy.

That is one of the greatest joys of Python for me.
In this scenario, the qualifications of the person or what function they served at the NSA is pretty much irrelevant. (That said, as a hiring manager I wouldn't take what a former NSA employee told me about the functions they served at face value.) The poster is brainstorming ways in which average citizens could cripple an organization seen as out of control. While this particular method may hurt the individuals who work there, and leave the overall hiring a little less unqualified, it doesn't mean that the idea has no credence.
The author is explicitly referring to instant messaging, SMS, and the like -- modes of communication that are much more similar to spoken conversation than previous forms of text communication. I have definitely seem some of the trends noted by the article. I think you are getting caught up thinking about popular online mediums that can be more similar to letters and publications (you mention message boards). Taking the time for proper punctuation and formatting is more important when using these mediums.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz

> In 1938, Szasz moved to the United States, where he attended the University of Cincinnati for his Bachelor of Science in medicine, and received his M.D. from the same university in 1944.[7]
Traditionally, they are handed out for free at conferences. I'm quite confident that if you are going to a conference or a user group, they'd be happy to post some to you (I'm not part of the organisation, just like what they do).

If you just want something for your laptop, I suggest printing out on a piece of paper and sticky taping it to your machine[0]. Although a license is not specified, I'm quite confident that from speaking to these people (and their philosophy on open source) they'd be more than happy for people to print and share them.

[0] http://bluehackers.org/logos