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> Worse still, some people I know are aware and accepting of the fact that they have issues, but they
> refuse to treat them because they fear antidepressants or mood stabilizers will impact productivity.
> One person I know explicitly refrains from treating his bipolar disorder because he thinks
> manic episodes make him productive. :-/

The issue is a little more complicated than that, first amongst the many problems is the tendency to medicate unnecessarily - there're many different and interwoven reasons for this, amongst which are the financial incentives to prescribe, deficits in empirical understanding of the issues, and the extremely severe and detrimental effects of some of the medications. It's easy to blame a patient for unwillingness to participate, which can be the case, but doing so without an objective look at the reasons doesn't fundamentally address the problem. There are many other conditions both physical and mental, that are personally and societally difficult to discuss openly, yet they aren't plagued by similar levels of reluctance in patients. Why is that?

I would add more so much more, as I hope you can understand, and as the article alludes to, these aren't issues easily discussed, especially not with relative strangers on the Internet and I'm not interested in hiding my opinions behind a throwaway. Suffice it to say that my own experiences have led to similar choices to the person you described, and whilst I've never experienced mania, I too believe myself to be better off for those choices. I can categorically say that the opinions shared by those closest to me, the effect on my creativity, productivity and my sense of "self", corroborate that. In my case, the choice wasn't to refuse all treatment or therapy, but only to refuse specific types of treatments which were drastically over-powered and negatively impacted me beyond any perceptible benefit. Subsequent consultations corroborated that decision, and criticised the treatment I was initially suggested as being so heavy handed, that it's analogous to treating a cut finger with amputation of the entire arm.

One size does not fit all, and until approaches to treatment reflect that, we will keep repeating the same mistakes to the detriment of the afflicted. If you're lucky enough to have a supportive network of family and friends around you, I can only reiterate the article's salient point: "talk about it" and add the suggestion that you educate yourself to the best of your ability, to help making the best possible decision.
Another market that's exploded in the Far East is scotch whisky. Scottish producers are struggling to keep up with demand in markets like China, Japan and Taiwan.
The American mainstream media is severely dysfunctional. Cable "news" networks are biased outlets for each political party to deliver their message. Even more-traditional network news outlets like NBC News have sacrificed the appearance of a separation of the reporters from the politicians they're supposed to report on by hiring family members of recent and current political figures. On NBC's current payroll are Jenna Bush Hager, and Chelsea Clinton. On CNN's payroll is Chris Cuomo - brother to the Governor of New York.

It seems that above all else, mainstream news craves access. Hiring the presidential daughters provides a network like NBC access to those presidential families in a way other networks may not have. Attending the annual White House Correspondents dinner provides reporters access to celebrities and a night out of dining and drinking with the people they're supposed to hold to account for their actions. And being complicit with the military's approach towards how a war should be reported ensures they retain their access to the war "story" - be it factual or massaged.

Recall the story from the NYTimes about the military analysts that networks always put on-air whenever a military story is being covered? If not, it's worth a read: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html?pagewan...

Real reporting is hard. And when media organizations elect to go along with how a story is presented rather than providing raw, unbiased accounts of things, it does an injustice to the public. And it's made even more difficult when an administration chooses to take an aggressive stance towards journalists regarding how they source and report their stories.

It's never been easier to be a reporter and disseminate information to millions. I can only hope that the public seizes that opportunity and fixes the ways that news is currently broken.
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The link in parent comment has instructions for creating PNG bombs and a link to an ftp site with some downloads.
I have no idea why the comment by "anon48191" is dead - it's extremely relevant and part of the point raised within the article.
Tl;dr

Iraq never had more than 12 embedded journalists covering 100,000 troops, and they had to be nice or get removed.

Democracy needs transparency and journalism is one of the best means of ensuring this - and it was totally strangled in Iraq so that abuses by Pro-US Iraq groups got no criticism in US - and this leads to no criticism of our military and administration. This fails to be healthy.
Very true; I picked Egyptian mythology for its very long record and well-understood "character developments" over the period. But that's an artifact of features of Egypt that make its history comparatively easy to read; any traditional mythology or modern focus of fanfiction will dwarf the output of Marvel, for the simple reason that a publishing company is not able to devote the same level of effort to storymaking as the group "anyone interested" is.
The privacy "factor" is one of the main thing that binds me to Apple wrt other cloud providers. They seem to really care about it. And I confess I am a little worried about iAd and its possible future implicancies...
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Is it any surprise that newspaper war stories are usually one-sided and glib, considering they are written by journalists who:

a. have "established relations with the military",

b. are rated by military contractors as likely to produce "favourable" coverage

c. are subject to revocation of access AND blacklisting for "controversial reporting"

A system that is designed to promote the army's point of view and penalize those that deviate from it will end up producing exactly that.

The problem, and the solution, lies in the rules of embedding:

> A Pentagon spokesman said, “Embeds are a privilege, not a right.”

> If a reporter’s embed status is terminated, typically she or he is blacklisted. This program of limiting press access was challenged in court in 2013 by a freelance reporter, Wayne Anderson, who claimed to have followed his agreement but to have been terminated after publishing adverse reports about the conflict in Afghanistan. The ruling on his case upheld the military’s position that there was no constitutionally protected right to be an embedded journalist.

As long as embeds are considered a "privilege" to be doled out (or rescinded) by the army based on it's own publicity objectives, it's impossible to expect neutral journalism from such a system.
Once again we see how sad it is that things are so centralized. One test. An interview system. To get into a few good schools where there are great teachers and opportunities. Meanwhile, we could be flipping the classroom and delivering great lectures to everyone, keeping school for actual remedial tutoring and socializing. But that is too radical of a change because school is used as a daycare center while both parents work.
> I disagree, especially in non-US courts, largely because of the "commercial" nature of the site.

Just run a Foundation / Charitable organization (Stichting) under Dutch law, which is not-for-profit. It's possible to gain money with ads, or sell products. So you can pay the hosting. It's even allowed to give people a monthly income. As long it's not making profit (in the end you'll need 0).
A Charitable organisation (Stichting) is always 'non commercial' under Dutch law.

Just to mention Inter IKEA Systems B.V. is a company from The Netherlands.

Not sure what would happen if someone would host IKEAhackers.net from The Netherlands. To sue someone in the USA over "intellectual property rights" is quite easy, our system works quite different.

We're allowed to use someones name (Reclame Code Commissie), Dreft is allowed to make ads which say Ajax makes bad dish-soap. But this falls under another category, since IKEAhackers is not advertising for DealExtreme products.

http://www.iusmentis.com/merken/grappen-parodie/
Frew quotes:
> Verwarring alleen is niet genoeg. Verwarring met een origineel merk is alleen inbreuk als het gebruik ook commercieel is.
> Ook nietcommercieel gebruik van een merk kan merkinbreuk zijn. Het gebruik moet dan afbreuk doen aan de reputatie van het merk. Hier loopt een merkparodie al snel tegenaan.

Which says in English, that parodies are forbidden if "commercial use" and has "undermine the reputation".

IKEAhackers is a non-commercial (ads to pay hosting is NON profit) parody, right? And gains IKEA customers.

Would IKEAhackers.net be safer in The Netherlands?
To be fair, Ikea can be the cheapest source of some raw-ish materials like mirrors, glass tabletops, metal poles, even some forms of solid wood. Why not take advantage of their economy of scale - do you know the alternatives haven't travelled just as far?
Would love to read and buy book like that. I think for me main part here is pure functional implementation of algorithms in Haskell.
I believe pbiggar of CircleCI might comment on that - his (failed) YC from a few years back was a "new news" take. Apparently it is far from clear what is going to come next - technology has provided the opportunity but not the solutions
The Vice documentary 'This Is What Winning Looks Like' has some great reporting on Afghanistan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI
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All valid points but there are ways that you can implement prototypes safely (even in the presence of other utility frameworks that might implement their own version), or use one of the many other ways JavaScript provides you for.
I think you've gone full magneto here :) which is kinda awesome.
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I don't disagree, but none of the comments given are otherwise false.

I've worked on real-time bidding software where the incoming protocol got changed from JSON to protobuffs. Just doing that made bandwidth costs go down majorly, CPU usage more than halved, and response times got cut.

When the question becomes "easy" vs. "good", always picking "easy" isn't very nice.
There's this old discussion about zip bombs:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4616081
A certain Caspian Maclean published a gzip quine on the Web in 2004, but I cannot seem to find it.
That does not explain it. Yes it will be slower with more buckets; how much?

numbuckets uint64 uint32
1000 6 ms 5 ms
10000 6 ms 5 ms
100000 6 ms 7 ms
1000000 14 ms 8 ms
10000000 38 ms 32 ms
20000000 38 ms
40000000 40 ms
80000000 44 ms

40 ms is still >50 times faster than the "software algorithm" in the video. And he didn't use 40 mio buckets there, as can be seen from the graphs.

> make bins with different bounds

You'd have to implement this and use a huge number of buckets and likely still use an older CPU than he did to get to his software timings. Or use a slow language implementation (interpreted or boxing arithmetic results). Or implement a slow algorithm like a linear search over the buckets (which would explain what the difference between his two algorithms of about a factor 2 is, the faster one stopping once the bucket is found). In any of these cases, he either doesn't know how to write fast code, or deliberately left the software version way slower than possible to have the FPGA version shine, pending any other better explanation.
But not for the actual claim of "quite common in Europe". I am in Europe it's inconceivable that any common carrier would try and pull a stunt like this here.
This reminds me of escape velocity.
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We do need to talk about mental health. As a culture. But, sorry, I am not going to read Techcrunch article about it.

Even publications that dedicated to following mental health (and ostensibly authored by "experts" in the field) tend to do a dubious job of describing what is an extremely complicated problem to which THERE IS NO QUICK FIX. Read that again. Addressing mental healthy problems is very hard work and treatment plans vary by individuals (not even by disease) so even once you find a doctor you like - no easy task - and whether you go into psychotherapy or the psychiatric [aka prescribed] route or both - you have a long, hard road ahead of you which will require a lot of patience from you and those that you maintain relationships with whether they are work or personal.

There are lots of mental health disorders of which depression is a common symptom. It's important to work with a doctor you feel comfortable with to figure out if you suffer from depression, or if the root cause is some other disorder (OCD, bi-polar, anxiety are common amongst SDE types) which routinely causes you to feel depressed for days or weeks (or god forbid, months) at a time.

Even if you are comfortable going the medication route (and there are many reasons why this choice should not be made lightly, especially if it is via anti-depressants or another - they're all habit forming and bring their own set of side-effects and problems), it is a long an arduous process to find the right one/right dosage/etc. that will work for you (if there even is one). Each one takes weeks to see results typically.

Anti-depressants help some people greatly. Others will struggle with them and find them counter-productive to their treatment. There is no one-size-fits-all treatment plan. Mental health is a subject that doesn't get attention in any facet of American culture.

PS. There is no evidence to suggest that the software industry suffers disproportionately from mental health issues compared to any other.
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This probably won't be popular here but I have suffered from depression since I can remember and the best remedy I have found so far is psychedelics. Not too often but in higher doses as Terence Mckenna recommends. Psilosybe Mushrooms in particular are good at helping me to shed my fears, love life, and create out of passion. Mileage may vary but I thought I'd put that out there. Any others who have similar experience?
From my very limited understanding of embeds, it appears that they are journalists who form part of the army team. It is not clear to me if they are protected/have access to military secrets by virtue of being part of the team; however, it appears to be implied. In such a scenario, I am not sure how the question of neutrality even ever appears. If you are embedded, you are by definition not neutral? Surely, there are other means for war journalism to exist? As was the case during the other wars of the past century?
"The documentary follows U.S. Marines as they train Afghan security forces, showing their ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption as well as the reduced role of US Marines due to the troop withdrawal."

A reddit discussion on looking at the documentary critically.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/25vm20/this_i...
Wouldn't you say the same was true of hardware? What EE tools are available that help people avoid making stupid choices?
I don't think a beginner would be in a position to judge what is 'jargon' and what is essential terminology.
UK doesn't have any concept of "commin carrier".

BT, a large company in the UK, has done exactly this, using a collaboration with FON to start but using their own tech now. This has been happening for years.

http://ais.globalservices.bt.com/static/assets/insights_and_...

EDIT: the wikipedia article shows many FON collaborations with large telecoms providers across Europe.
That seems like a terrible position to hold about almost anyone uttering almost any sentence.
I'm not clear on whether there will be 0 harm. Is it allowed to permanently redirect IKEAhackers.net to a new domain, where ads may be served? If so, why is that importantly different from the current situation?

If not, can the site stay up, and is Jules going to be able to invest the necessary time, without ads?

As the first commenter on the article says:

your site HELPED developers and designers create new
products, and not only that, the last catalog was nearly a
tribute to YOUR BLOG! Telling us how we could use our
creativity with their products to make our homes our own –
isn’t that what IH is all about?

I'm going to guess the input from the content of the site is worth much more to the designers and developers at IKEA itself than any possible damage from brand dilution or commercial exploitation.
Does anyone know of a similar tool for XML? In particular, it would be cool to have a useful way to run xpath, and maybe xquery, from the command line. The tools I've found have unfortunate interfaces, e.g. they won't read XML from stdin.
> EDIT: For reference, Gates' home is in Medina, WA, near Redmond.

You can search "Bill Gate's house" on Bing Maps and it finds it.

http://www.bing.com/maps/?FORM=Z9LH2#Y3A9NDcuNjI1MjEwfi0xMjI...
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This was initially developed on OS X but has since been ported to Windows and Linux(x86). Does anyone know if the releases for all these platforms are identical in terms of features and release dates, or is one the poor cousin?
Ikea handled this terribly.

She should just turn this site into an Ikea attack site, pointing out the weird charitable foundation status that Ikea uses to avoid paying taxes, and then migrate all this content to another site that includes other manufacturers.
The official site: http://www.oolite.org/
The article is basically saying the same thing, for what it's worth, and is written by someone who claims to have extensive experience with the same issues you're discussing.

The main message is "If you're feeling these things, please talk to someone you trust. If someone talks to you about these issues, please don't dismiss them." I think it's a good message, even if presented at Techcrunch. The more we as a culture talk about mental health issues in a constructive way the better.
That is true. Actually such considerations should be part of any mixed language project, specially in the presence of portable code.
Which is what a friend who is a govern of a school in the UK does that actually fund extra teachers to go into primary's to help kids prepare to move up to high school
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The article describes how to write acceptance tests your Rails application in a more object oriented manner, without external gems like BBQ.
Isn't the real story here the over-pathologization of normal human experience in order to turn a larger profit (for the drug industry and the mental health industry) ? With the way these disorders are currently defined I'm convinced that every human being on earth could be diagnosed at various points within their life.

I'm not suggesting that these symptoms don't exist, but rather that they've been a perfectly normal part of human life since the dawn of man.

It's perfectly natural for people to go through periods where they have less energy than other periods, overeat or under-eat, have difficulty concentrating or making decisions, feel anxious. This is normal stuff depending on the life circumstances especially if you're drinking any amount of coffee because that will lead to periods of highs and lows. It does not mean you "have depression" as if there was some flu virus that you became infected with it simply means you're a human being.

I would argue that legitimate diagnosis should be reserved for people who are either suicidal or who's symptoms strongly suggest elements of self-harming or harming others.
No, there are simply sentences that fall into this category such as not supporting gay marriage, proclaiming Snowden as a traitor, being anti-abortion, which invalidate everything that the person has ever said or done, because they reveal untenable views like homophobia, ignorance and religious misogonysm.

There are some more views, that reveal racism, but lets leave it at that.

In this particular case, this ignorance reveals the view that mass surveillance is okay, whereas the author seems to miss that every nation that supports mass-surveillance is going towards a Nazi-Germany-like regime. Ever wondered why Germany is so adamant about privacy? Because they remember what happened when a certain entity gained too much control. The thing is, it's not a question if such mass control will be abused at some point. It's just a question of when, maybe in 5 years, maybe in 15, but it will inevitably be abused at some point. Americans don't get that, because they haven't been there.
Makes sense. Though, I disagree with your last assertion. That is, no matter how exhaustively a solution has been explored, if the implementation language is a dynamic one, then it is implemented in a dynamic language.

As an example, I take any of the MIX algorithms in Knuth's books. They are more thoroughly documented and explained than anything under other software I have ever seen. They still aren't statically typed. (Simply put, if someone makes a mistake in transcribing it or "cleaning" it up, it will not be caught by a type checker.)

And, yes, I do think we ultimately agree. The heart of my question is just wanting evidence. I even agree with the premise that "in the absence of other evidence*, I would have more faith in a statically typed solution than otherwise. I just wouldn't have that much faith without more. :)
No, exactly. This is not a beginner tutorial - there are plenty of those. This is for people who have already acquired some knowledge of the language. It's an intermediate article for those looking to move beyond the toy programs solving toy problems usually presented.
I would expect them to be identical, the port to Linux just links against GNUstep instead of the equivalent native libraries on OS X.
And immediately I notice a limitation of Flash: unable to zoom in :( http://i.imgur.com/PwvzQyA.png

Next time, WebGL, please :)
Why limit the iPad to iPod levels?
The "rebate" has already been applied to your monthly bill. How much is it worth to you to remove it?
Telstra is planning on doing this in Australia.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/technology/telstra-phones-ho...
:-) me to - at my junior school I was in the small 3-4 group that where allowed to go off and read by our selves as we where so far ahead.

Probably get labelled as a trouble maker and be managed out of the school nowadays.
In the case of fiat money, it does have value because you have to pay taxes with it and anyone has to accept it for settling debts.
Look, asking people to cite opinions is a dumb way of having casual discussion.

If you need any more input from me to convince you to learn something new, then it's not worth my time or yours.

Like I said the tooling isn't as mature but the language enables me to produce results faster with fewer bugs that is much easier to maintain down the road.

The only numerical computing I've ever really programmed for was manipulation of time series data and some standard statistical methods.

I did it at first in Python with Pandas and numpy. Then moved to Haskell. The language was better but the tooling I had to shore up in places.

Take that if it's useful to you :)
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Such arrogance
Idris is a wonderful language but the tooling there is even more immature for numerical computing than Haskell.