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Yes, exactly. Thank you.

For me, depression/mania is like a volume dial on life. Normal is groovin' to the music, bippin' and boppin' along to the ups and downs. Mania is the music cranked up to 11, the frenetic beat driving you, compelling you, controlling you. Depression is the world put on mute, nothing to connect with; you're drowning in silence. At the risk of belaboring this metaphor, depression is not listening to the blues; depression is a bubble of dead air, where you see other people enjoying music you can't hear and you don't know why.*

That's why I think the phrase "feeling depressed" is almost oxymoronic. You can feel unhappy or tired or something. When you're depressed, you're not feeling much of anything. You're just trying to exist in this apathetic, foggy cloud of pain and vague guilt.*

What's weird about depression is that the causes and symptoms are all mixed up a big feedback loop – unlike brain cancer (mentioned elsewhere in this thread). In the throes of depression, most people 1) do not exercise 2) have really erratic sleep schedules 3) do not eat healthy. If you could somehow reverse each of those symptoms, the underlying cause usually improves too. The problem, of course, is that no depressed person has the will or energy to do any of those things – even if they do them when they're not in the midst of a down cycle.

And obviously, chemical or physical (ECT) intervention is absolutely required for some people. But kind of like code duplication, treating the symptoms treats the disease too, for many cases. It comes back to something Alan Watts said. Humans like to try to separate ourselves from reality, differentiate between the experiencer and the experience, but of course, experiencing the experience is just part of the experience! Thus, if you change the experience (treat the symptoms), you also change the experiencer (affect/improve the disease).

* Depression is different for each person. These are just metaphors/ideas I've used in the past that people have identified with.
He specifically said "since it was all inside a single tag". Without knowing what the payload of the tag is, its hard to say if regex was appropriate or not.
Same here. Chrome on Linux. :(
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I am afraid you don't know what you're talking about. Genocide is not common in Africa. It's happened, but it's not common.
In this case discrimination means a company that is willing to put on events to help women participate more in a community where they are the minority and face unique difficulties because of that. This kind of choice for Github doesn't harm men, men are still the dominant group and will continue to be so even after this workshop is over.
"carrying 10x the people and making the airline a lot more money"

Are they? I remember reading that the Qantas international routes were unprofitable for the company, and I've been on long haul Singapore Airlines flights where everyone had an entire row to themselves. (Of course, some routes are vastly more profitable than others.)
> Does working on a product that produces 10x the revenue justify paying ten times as much?

But how else do you quantify salaries in business?
I also fed a chunk my unfinished novel into the Hemingway app, and wrote about the results: http://coreypein.net/blog/2014/02/13/the-hemingway-app-revie...

I really wanted to hate it, but couldn't.
THIS :)
I used to be able to run 300 tabs (of websites some years ago) at once without lag in Opera 11. It is the most efficient browser I've used.

On an AMD Turion.
While I agree with you it becomes a mess to manage duplicate and overlapping styles later. I usually start off with inline style and when I am happy it, I transition them to a css class.
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I don't think that's what the OP meant at all. The claim was more along the lines of "Focusing on programming as an end in itself usually leads to an unhealthy disregard for the problem space." The key word here being "usually"; makes sense when you think about it since it's really not easy to qualify every programmer that way. The field is too vast for that.
But if you study now, you are going to have $150k of debt just for your full license and maybe one larger type rating. Any jet time and that number will rise very quickly.

I hear from my US pilot friends, that they also must have a college education too.

Compare that to the UK, where training costs more, but is often paid by the company in exchange for 5 years, the wages are a lot higher.

In the US, my instructor was charging pretty much minimum wage, he needed the hours, he was a very good instructor. In the UK I've had terrible instructors who are still demanding $80 per hour. (And some great retired old timers who do it for free, the love of the antique planes!)

The US is very lucky, there is a massive military that pumps out trained pilots, some even with ATP, I think this is one of the reasons why they have been able to pay so little.

However the rest of the world pays more.
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The first thing I look for on a marketing site for a CMS is the link to the demo, which isn't there.

Generally, I think demo videos don't fill this void and this one does a particularly bad job, unless maybe played at half speed.

Apart from that, Wagtail looks very interesting and I'll take the time and install the demo app. Thumbs up for choosing Postgres and integrating CoffeeScript and LESS.
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I think it's important to remember a fact of humanity: you're generally safer on familiar ground, around people who are similar to yourself. It can be very interesting, exciting, and rewarding to be "the foreigner", but at the same time you should never forget when you're in that position.

This is generally true. However, the United States is a multi ethnic country. So the question is, does this statement apply to all ethnicities, everywhere? The fact is, for a large number of Americans, they are "the foreigner" exactly in that position most of the time.
It's not only about "difficulty of operating the equipment" which, yes, is not that much complicated

It's experience, especially in:

- Dealing with foreign ATC

- Meteorological conditions

- Emergency situations
I don't think it's a recognition; at least I don't see that big of a difference to other professions/life styles, etc). There may be an element of solitude, based on how many like minded people are in your life, but I think that goes for alot of other professions as well (e.g. medicine)

My own theory (at least about myself) is that being a programmer, I spent at least half of my day looking at complex systems trying to figure out what is wrong.

Don't get me wrong Programming can be an incredibly rewarding experience...literally creating using primarily pure thought is about as close to "creative" as you can get.

But regardless how how rewarding it can be at times (when you get to marvel at the solution / result), the actual process and significant amounts of time revolve around solving problems. Essentially we spend most of our day focusing on negative facts, trying to figure out whats wrong.

When walking around the real world focusing largely on what is wrong, these thought patterns however are not nearly as effective as when dealing with, albeit complex, well defined logical structures. So not only does focusing on negative things itself introduce depressing thoughts and emotions, but the inability to find "real solution" to problems in the real world the way you do when programming can also be frustrating.
Well, they're still competing with your local telco (AT&T / Verizon), DirecTV, Dish Network, and Google Fiber and/or others in some areas. (Though granted some of those are TV-only, not Internet.)

Not really much different than how Comcast and TWC are individually competing right now (as their service areas don't overlap). Though I'm not suggesting either one is a shining paragon of customer service or fair pricing (I don't have any first-hand experience to speak of there; I'm in Canada).
I guess I see it differently. It seems to me that you can cut back, and enter the profit-margin-death-spiral. Or you can invest in new growth.

And our site had the highest return on investment in the company. Cutting back was suicide. In fact, that's how it played out - declining revenues due to a stagnant product line, for years.

I work at a startup now.
Almost everyone is an outlier along some dimension and almost everyone has genius intellect if you measure their intelligence by what is important to them, but not to others. You can choose to interact with people based on what you have in common or you can choose to interact with people based on their relative shortcomings in the few things you're very good at. The latter approach, while quite tempting, often results in the kind of loneliness and isolation you talk about.

You wrote earlier:

"I've often found that groups proposing to be built of smart people are often as not built of over-opinionated pretentious people who've come to believe they are intelligent through one way or another. It's why I've avoided high-IQ societies and the like."

Why are their reasons for believing that they are special invalid, while yours are valid? I think they came to believe in their own high intelligence much the same way that you have. It validates something and fulfills some need. Grownups talking incessantly about their intelligence are like retired athletes who never made it in the pros talking about their stellar scouting reports placing them above those who had successful professional careers. If they didn't make it, the scouting reports were wrong. Don't assess yourself like society assesses children.
Excellent app! This is the writing style my high school composition teacher drilled into my head. Everything I write now is influenced by her.

I also try to write my code using this style. In fact, code and documentation and email should be:

1. As short as possible: Less words mean less stuff to maintain and comprehend.

2. Simple: The goal in business is to communicate well. Not to impress. And if I haven't communicated clearly, maintaining that code is going to be hard for the next person who has to read it.
Exactly. It just seems to be fashionable to write a blog post bashing W3Schools, PHP etc. Yes, some of their content might have technical inaccuracies. Yes, the design is dreadful. But, when you're quickly looking to find out what are the different properties that text-decoration supports, W3Schools is pretty damn useful. It's very good both as a quick reference or for quickly learning the basics before diving into actual development.
Use a persistent identification cookie even when the "remember me" checkbox isn't used. By themselves, neither the cookie nor the email nonce are enough to authenticate. But if you have both at once, you are authenticated.

This will cover almost everybody, it will have almost no false positives (forwarding an email to somebody who uses the same browser on the same computer is the only one I can think of off the top of my head), and the fallback of requiring explicit authentication in other cases seems acceptable.
> They Use Classic ASP

Maybe not:

wget -S http://www.w3schools.com/

Shows a header of

X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Just really sick of all the online drama, about any site. Just another typical post on HN criticizing another. You know what, You go build a site that is better and perfect. I am sick of people getting articles posted that just criticize. Go build something better, I dare you.
Thanks! Yes, we'll have a live demo soon, and a more in-depth video of the admin functionality even sooner - hopefully in the next few hours.

If you have Vagrant and a reasonable internet connection, the easiest way to try out the admin UI is to clone the demo site at https://github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo, which includes a range of example content types.
a) what is this doing on HN??

b) it's an art installation: http://exopermaculture.com/2013/06/22/bill-witherspoons-oreg...
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Well, I'd call that pseudonymity. Anonymity to me is having no name at all. As long as there are persistent identifiers and/or karma, you are discouraged from speaking freely.

Take for example the 2010/2011 My Little Pony craze.
Could you imagine young men in their mid-teens to early twenties generating hype among their peers for a show targeted primarily at little girls with literally nothing to go on except the name of the executive producer, the title logo, and two pieces of concept art?

On a karma-driven pseudonym system like Reddit, most would be too embarrassed and/or afraid of getting downmodded to hell.

Pseudonym systems, especially Karma-based ones, are a lot closer to real names than to anonymity.
Pilots should really never be skimped on.
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Why we code and why we teach it
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I thought $21k were monthly.
Almost always.

If you're CS program that was like mine you were in a program that is full of guys who largely wanted to build computer games. Diversity of relationships is very important, especially in college. Adding a second major (math, econ, history, etc) will give you this diversity and will also give you a different perspective on certain industries.

If the OP has been programming for 6 years, then a CS degree will not be challenging at his average state school.
> it returns a list of up to the last 600 IP addresses that last accessed the NTP server

It just gives up that data to anyone that asks? Seems like a huge privacy issue.

Imaging Apache or Nginx giving up the last 600 IPs it served and maybe the URLs they went to.

edit: there is always the occasionally open Apache /server-status handler that leaks this type of data.
Surprisingly nice.
"most people don't realize is that it makes a better MongoDB than MongoDB "

(IMHO) Unfortunately for most of the people, old habits to be made. Indeed a nice project and great release.
I don't buy this argument at all. Let's start with what might be a fairly typical set of variable declarations in Javascript:

var firstVar = "one";
var secondVar = "two";
var thirdVar = "three";

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone that would say this is significantly more difficult to read than the lined-up alternative:

var firstVar = "one";
var secondVar = "two";
var thirdVar = "three";

But, of course, variable names aren't always going to be short. You might have something like this instead:

var firstVar = "one";
var secondVar = "two";
var thirdVar = "three";
var thisVarHasAReallyLongName = "four";
var thisIsAnotherVarWithALongerName = "five";

My eyes don't have any problem scanning the variable names to see what's what. I also find it very natural to scan the variables by-value to determine which value is assigned to which variable (which I believe is typically the argument for the lined-up-equals alternative). Lined up, this looks like the following:

var firstVar = "one";
var secondVar = "two";
var thirdVar = "three";
var thisVarHasAReallyLongName = "four";
var thisIsAnotherVarWithALongerName = "five";

I don't know about you, but I find it significantly more difficult to visually parse these by-value to determine the variable corresponding to values "one", "two" and "three". The whitespace gap means that visually I may forget the vertical alignment of what I was looking at on the right when I try to find the variable name on the left.

I also think that it's at least a little bit harder to consistently enforce a convention of this kind. If a variable name gets too long, and you're not using some sort of auto-formatting, you have to manually space-out the variables to a new name length every time you introduce a newer, longer-named variable.

I think the real impulse people have for this kind of convention is that it actually just looks a little bit neater, because things are aligned in columns. In reality I think it's much more difficult to parse and maintain.
Why do people continue to use this terrible analogy? The App Store is not like Walmart.

A better analogy would be a car company that forced you to come to them for all of your service and for any after-market work you wanted to do.
So they had a submission screen and a probably blank graph. It's pretty easy to go back and add a tutorial with colorful graphics and an example graph, a few help pages describing the idea and concept, etc.. Honestly they should have just added some more filler pages rather than writing this blog entry, both are about as tough.
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> Literally the next line is qualifying and clarifying the previous statement

Exactly. What I'm reading here is that "a preference that one's neighbors be of the same color, or even a preference for a mixture 'up to some limit'" is not racism, but can lead to total segregation. I can't see where you're reading something different.

It would have been more interesting for you to clarify that for me, rather than psychologically diagnosing me over the internet.

Is merely having a preference for the race of one's neighbors considered racism in this model, or are those people counted as the non-racist portion of the "communities that consist mostly of non-racist individuals"?

What's a "low level of racism"? Is that what racial preferences are categorized as?

Schelling may be clear about some of these things, but you're not. If I'm getting it wrong, it's because you're doing him a disservice, not because of whatever you're projecting onto me.

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edit: You weren't doing him a disservice, and my interpretation was not wrong. The model is of groups with different preferences of racial balance, and shows that segregation can happen even when only a minority prefer total segregation. The point: in his model, all actors maintain racial preferences, and a 1:1 ratio is considered the opposite of segregation.

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from posts responding to the study on metafilter:

"not that this isn't interesting, but it doesn't take away the 'racist' part - it's not an 'inevitable result of mathematics' unless everyone starts out with a desire for a minimum racial representation. Why would they desire that? Do you seek a neighborhood where 'at least two of my neighbors have brown hair'? Or 'at least two of my neighbors are left-handed'?"

http://www.metafilter.com/52878/Dr-Schellings-neighborhood#1...

or

"It only works when people have a desire to stick to 'their own kind', so racial segregation would only happen if people viewed being around other members of their race as a positive, rather then a neutral.

"You don't see people segregated by hair color, or blood type, or any other genetic trait even when those traits have more effect on the genome? So why would skin color be different, unless there was an underlying sense of 'otherness' caused by skin color.

"Without that underlying sense of otherness, no amount of mathematical mumbo jumbo would cause segregation.

"(by the way, his mathematical models are very naïve, he's basically talking about simple thermodynamics applied to society. If we add 'heat' to cause things to re-randomize slightly and continuously that 'heat' can over come the 'desire' and keep things un-segregated, even if there were a slight desire to keep things segregated)"

http://www.metafilter.com/52878/Dr-Schellings-neighborhood#1...
They would simply enforce draconian bandwidth caps to disincentivize streaming altogether.

It's not like many of their users could opt for a different service, anyway.
Harsh words. They are rewriting everything, surely it's better to focus on 90% of their user-base first?
> Union seniority rules (where pay increases with time of employment, and the cushiest jobs go to the most "senior") are one of the worse parts of unions IMHO, and discredit what should be a positive force for more reasonable, equitable workplaces.

Opposed to non-union workplaces where the inexperienced workers make the most money? Experience always pays more. I understand what you're getting at where it's not fair that a young superstar makes less than an old know-nothing, but in general more years of experience does equal more value.

I'd want the heart surgeon who has 25+ years of experience more than I'd want the kid just off the residency. I'm sure the younger surgeon has the chops, but if the one in a million thing happens during my surgery I want the experienced surgeon. Pilots are very similar.
How hard would it be to work with them to fix their content and HTML instead ? Did anyone try to contact them to make their site better ?
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The slowest processor in the room is the wetware between our ears. Shorter, simpler code is easier to write, read, understand, communicate, remember. Halve the code, get a 32X improvement!
but in the armed forces you have a higher probability of dying
Reading a XML feed instead of JSON is not comparable in difficulty to your examples at all. Getting XML parsed is not rocket science, just use a library. That was probably not the hardest part of the problem.

We have no idea where the expectation of working with their JSON API on the interview came from, the RSS feed could be their standard test problem. They didn't "fuck up", I'd even say their filter (reasonable or not) is working as intended.
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> What if the movie came with the full set of trailers (preview, theatrical, etc.) [...] could even throw in an entirely different ending for the movie [...]

Awesome idea! Throw this in a locked device with some kind of DRM to make sure our viewer has a fully immersive uniform experience, and I'm ready to throw my life savings at it.

(Apologies for that, I couldn't resist pointing out to you where that train of thought has taken the market. ;) )
In this instance, it has nothing to do with being able to cryptographically verify anything. It has everything to do with appearances. Take the average suburban housewife; do you believe that she cares that PinkyPie69 can cryptographically verify anything, or will she care that this person is a full grown human who loves a children's show?

Small-mindedness will usually trump technological ability.
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> If you believe individuals have the right not to be discriminated against based on gender (I'm ambivalent), then this event violates individuals rights. What do you believe?

This workshop in no way harms men as the dominant group in tech and tech public speaking events. Offering a workshop that targets for a type of person who is underrepresented and faces unique challenges for not being in the majority group doesn't constitute sexual discrimination. The workshop is discriminating in the sense that it selects for a particular kind of person, but this is different from what we mean by sexism and sexual discrimination.

> Your first sentence suggests some value system based on group rights, individuals are irrelevant. Could you state your values more carefully? (Im especially curious how you determine which groups to give rights to.) As I said, I suspect you will recognize the points of disagreement when you do.

The question would be are your individual rights being violated when Github hosts a workshop targeted for women? The answer is clearly no. Private individuals and groups have a right to form voluntary workshops that have criteria for entry. It would be silly to say that individuals who face unique problems from not being a part of the dominant culture can't form groups or hold events that address their specific problems.
You can certainly decide to go to flight school yourself. As mentioned in the article though, it's not cheap. The armed forces may or may not be worth it--having to kill people is a deal breaker for a lot of people.