skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The active placebo idea strikes me as a plausible one here, and came up in a 2011 article by a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine which I found pretty thought-provoking:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemi...

Here's what I thought was the key takeaway from the piece:

"Altogether, there were forty-two trials of the six drugs. Most of them were negative. Overall, placebos were 82 percent as effective as the drugs, as measured by the Hamilton Depression Scale (HAM-D), a widely used score of symptoms of depression. The average difference between drug and placebo was only 1.8 points on the HAM-D, a difference that, while statistically significant, was clinically meaningless. The results were much the same for all six drugs: they were all equally unimpressive. Yet because the positive studies were extensively publicized, while the negative ones were hidden, the public and the medical profession came to believe that these drugs were highly effective antidepressants.

Kirsch was also struck by another unexpected finding. In his earlier study and in work by others, he observed that even treatments that were not considered to be antidepressants—such as synthetic thyroid hormone, opiates, sedatives, stimulants, and some herbal remedies—were as effective as antidepressants in alleviating the symptoms of depression. Kirsch writes, “When administered as antidepressants, drugs that increase, decrease or have no effect on serotonin all relieve depression to about the same degree.” What all these “effective” drugs had in common was that they produced side effects, which participating patients had been told they might experience."
Definitely, if you're building something with complex UI requirements (aka "interesting" :) hybrid apps probably aren't the right choice. However, most apps typically don't fall into that category - so if you know angular/frontend, there's now virtually no incentive to go native (again, unless you're making a complex UI).
That article doesn't say what you have claimed.

And, apart that Aliyun store had pirated Google apps, it was not an Android fork.

Still waiting those MADA clauses forbidding non Google Android
Google's most recent quarterly report has the following info:

" As of December 31, 2014, we had 53,600 full-time employees: 20,832 in research and development, 17,621 in sales and marketing, 7,510 in general and administrative functions, and 7,637 in operations. "

So generally in line with what you said.
MADA restrictions mandate Google Search be the default search provider, and that the long press on the center button goes to Google Search. And that over 20 apps must be preinstalled with a Google folder on the home screen with many of them in it. Ensuring every device must be sold with very prominent advertising of Google services.

This creates a very chilling effect on the ability for competitors to land on the platform, as at best, they'll be an unwanted second service on the device.
8,000 programmers working for 3 years for this? jesus christ! The site looks like something from the late 90s. What a waste
I agree it does seem high for what is described in the article, but it's a bit more than just your run of the mill ecommerce site.
Given that the monoamine hypothesis was based on fraudulent research to begin with, has been contradicted by pretty much every study since, and has been discredited for years, this result is kind of moot at this point.
It seems you must have referrers enabled in the browser.
The public metadata registry seems insanely good. Hasn't it been tried? What else do know about the subject? Please share.
The ones who got rich during the gold rush were the people selling shovels and wheelbarrows.
Many of these were transitions from other firms.

For example, I am part of this 8000, and I, along with many peers, were hired from HP to (at first) do the same job as before, but for GM. We had previously been contractors or part of HP Enterprise Services with GM as our customer. So, for a good number of these it wasn't a bunch of jobs being created but a simple insourcing shift.

It's been roughly two years since my transition over to a direct job and I've been happy with the choice to take the offer. There's nifty things happening here, way more flexibility and opportunity than before, and GM's a good company to work for.

ADDENDUM: I wouldn't consider myself a programmer; I'm more of a systems engineer / troubleshooter / sysadmin who writes small utility things as-needed.
Doesn't minimalism originate with the fist art forms( cave paintings, fertility dolls), then you got naive art, and then you got art imitating the real counterpart and once there was little left to add we went back to basic symbolism?

And to me it makes sense. It's not that different to me from say a pictographical vs a phonemical representation of human language. They can both do the job very well, you usually pick one or the other and stay with it. Altho, arguably the phonemic representation is more flexible than the pictographical alternative --and we see that with pinyin and romaji serving a purpose in pictographical writing systems.

So with interface symbols, once you learn the cues, it's just as useful as the "full color" version
Microsoft Is Really Turning It the Fuck Around
This is a really appropriate comment. I'm about 8 years into professional development and feel like your first two phases are spot on.

I also sympathize with the author because it's just so fun to get all organized for a new project. Eventually, that ends up just sucking all the energy out of me for actually completing the project I set out to do in the first place.
> In a fashion that violates both laws here in the United States and in other countries abroad.

If it violates so many laws it will be easy to provide at least one proof of that claim, isn't?
Destroyed by the Espionage Act
No, I said exactly what I meant.

Porn is a big part of reddit, as well, and some of it (that found in the gonewild subs) is even among the more ethical sources of free porn on the web. But, as another commenter noted, porn seems to be absent from this network graph.
From the sound of it, the important issue in question is depression itself, and not so much the efficacy of SSRIs. If the causes surrounding the physiological roots of depression are unknown or incorrect, no medicinal approach will be able to accurately address the issue, thus always leaving room for the placebo argument.
And similarly, Google is extending it's monopoly over the Play Store app market to try to grow monopolies over other major online industries like movies and music by requiring those apps be shipped aboard.
Thanks for the great response! I'll most likely make the code for my site open once I'm finished with it, as I think it will make more sense once I have it all documented and tied together.

As far as finishing my projects goes, I have finished multiple small games. That said, the code is very sloppy since I worked on most of them before any formal training. Here are three games I've made for android using Haxe (for "Turnt" as a proof of concept) and Adobe Air (the other two games) https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Zenkman

Here is also another game I created using Haxe: http://indiegames.com/2013/05/browser_pick_stockholm_adds_to...

Once again, thanks for taking time out of your day to reply.
Thanks, that link is an interesting read.
but that should probably be specified somewhere on the site.

If you check the Extensions tab[0] you'll find that it says it searches those websites.

0.http://searchonmath.com/extensions
Today was the day Matthew Green released an update on his blog.

I was just reading it, and that's exclusively I was referring to. I look forward to the results and am grateful of the time they're spending. I hope they find nothing.

Not sure why you made this about me personally.
I think you have technology-induced-ADD and blogosphere-induced-anxiety.

I think we engage in an awful lot of what amounts to mental masturbation. It's a lot more fun to imagine a project, think through the details of it, pick stacks, come up with domain names, etc. than it is to actually do the work. This is human nature. People do it all the time in all sorts of ways.

What seems to help for me is:

1) Stop trying to keep up so much. The New Hotness may change constantly, but a lot of that is just self-promotional noise on the interwebs. I've heard that there are still something like 30,000 VBA programmers out there (and they're very highly paid!), but you never hear about them, because it's completely unsexy. We read awesome blog posts by one-in-a-million developers and automatically compare ourselves to them, and it's a recipe for disaster.

2) Clearly define your project goals, meet them, and move on. It's so easy to allow feature creep or refactor-obsession to happen.

3) Time management techniques like the Pomodoro Technique. This has helped me immensely. I break down projects into tasks and estimate the number of Pomodoros. I make a mark for each expired one, and it becomes obvious when I've started over-obsessing on pointless BS (which happens a lot).

4) Endless to-do list. When intrusive thoughts and ideas pop into your head, write a summary in your to-do list and move on. You don't need to check if MyAwesomeDomain.com is available right this second, so put your idea on the list. How many of us think of the cool domain name and either get completely derailed, or tell ourselves "I'll just remember that for later!" and proceed to waste far more time later trying to remember WTF that clever idea was?

5) Unplug. It's sooo hard to just turn the computer off in the evening and sit down to read a book, but it helps quell the racing thoughts better than anything else I've found. The single worst habit I have is jumping down a tech rabbit hole, then relentlessly pursuing it until I've either solved it or literally start to fall asleep at the keyboard! (I bet that's a common experience here)
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This is pretty cool. Though, I'm confused as to how can you prove that the hash decrypts to you document?
Reporting Research Misconduct
I agree on principle. But I think that the future of IT will not be another IT department, but maybe a team of <5 DevOps engineers and IT architects who will are proficient in using cloud automation tools.
> In a fashion that violates both laws here in the United States and in other countries abroad.

Can you cite the specific provision of U.S. law that it violates?
Push Notifications: Use Broadcast Channels and forget about device tokens
H2O the only web server which supports HTTP/2 draft 16 currently
I wonder why we stopped? Art, architecture and interior design have moved beyond modernism toward richer aesthetics. I'm not sure I'd want to use an interface that looks like Szimpla Kert ( http://bebudapest.hu/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/szimpla41.jp... ) but it would be nice to escape modernism just a little bit.

Uncluttered and ornament-free is functional but it is also a bit boring. Maybe we can make UI feel a little rougher without losing usability.
Take these. Best micro-nutrient on the planet. Product of New Zealand. You'll find that it makes an utterly massive difference. http://www.xtend-life.com/supplements/mens-supplements/total...
As sago suggested, even if the review is double-blind, it's often very easy to figure out the authors: just read the introduction and look at what papers it references. The introduction will cite a lot of existing papers that the authors/research group have published.
More Better Unified JavaScript
I don't think upper management knows much about computers, or programming? I sometimes wonder just why they are putting so many computers and sensors in their automobiles? I understand they need they to get their autos past emmission standards, but it's
gotten rediculous? When something goes wrong with these autos you can't just plug in and find the fault. It's an art to repair, and all too frequently, the mechanic just replaces a bunch of good sensors--praying he found the lazy one; even at the dealership.(Ask a dealership mechanic--it's a running joke.)

Personally, I wouldn't buy a new automobile until everyone has open access to these propriatiary automotive computer systems? I think that date is around 2018? If interested read this blog:

https://ifixit.org/blog/6305/you-gotta-fight-for-your-right-...

But then again, maybe no one cares? I know Saturn engineers tried to make a repair friendly car(you could get to failed components, but no one seemed to care?) This was before the Internet though? Times must have changed?
Thank you! That's helpful. If you'd ever like to talk further feel free to email me (email on my profile).
It seems that you learned the word MADA and you have to repeat in every post.

Do you have problems understanding what a walled garden is?
This is what you actually wrote:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hy5wj0t1t84hlk4/Screenshot%202015-...

I stand by what I just wrote.
They seem to be proud of how 4/5 star reviewer are more intelligent[1] than 1-3.

They de-emphasize how 2-star reviewers are more intelligent than 3-star reviewers, or how their readership will be skewed toward those who already liked their work.

[1] to the extent measured by this proxy
There are three parts to learn -- the electronics (handled by an Arduino and a few servos), the mechanics (for this design, it's not too complicated -- you could make do with popsicle sticks and some screws if you had to), and the software. The tricky bit with the software is the math. The arms, when free to spin around their centers, can be considered circles. You'd want to learn the geometry of circles and, specifically, how to find the intersection of two circles. The joints on the arms are where the circles meet.

I'm working a new version of my mobile testing robot that looks very similar to this clock. Haven't posted the code, yet, but I did have to go back and re-learn some trig and circle geometry to make the simulator. http://youtu.be/qRzrm4zx82g
Does this link work for anyone else?

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&...
Other responses covered the basics, but there are a few other interesting uses.

- Text that does not clearly market anything or provide a meaningful backlink may be part of a larger link network, or just simply testing to generate a list of vulnerable blogs. Those lists can be sold to others or used for your own purposes.

- Similar to some recent spam bots hitting Google Analytics referrer results, these people may not care about organic rankings. They might be marketing to the blog owner who sees the comment and investigates the username/link. If I'm spamming for SEO services, and you are a blog owner looking to increase traffic for example, the attempt may not be about ranking for SEO terms (a losing battle), but simply getting you to look at my site.
I didn't understand it until I read a lot, but seems good.
Ask HN: What are the best videos cast to watch developer?
Injecting failure at PagerDuty to increase reliability
$4k/Month Ultra Modern Castro Studio –  Tech Employees Preferred
Yes, I thought my scroll functionality was broken for a second there. Didn't realize it was working it's way through annoying animation.
I like the irony of the Paul Miller quote from the first article:

“I like to dink around in Terminal, accomplishing nothing, but at least knowing that I’m engaging the computer on my own terms, with no buffer."
That guarantees the same layout that C would have for that struct. There is also #[repr(packed)] which puts things as close as possible without alignment, and then you can insert padding manually with fields of type [u8; N] where N is the number of bytes.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9069295
Perfect is the enemy of good.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
i definately agree with the 'lost art' part. i've been stunned to find programmers who don't understand this and make arguments like "the compiler optimises that for you"... so much so that i've written my own piece on this, and more than once (and in more or less detail in various places - i.e. bitfields):

http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/know-your-cc-struc...

http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/c-struct-layout-op...
I don't understand what does it do. A "website" for what? A user system? It makes a website for me in which users can sign up and login, but then what?
Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
To those that work for a US company (but live elsewhere), how do you get paid, and do you manage to avoid horrible fees?
I read many words but I could not understand what they mean.
Interesting--I was considering getting a Kindle but wasn't sure of an easy way to get my non-Amazon ebook collection over to it. This looks pretty simple given I already have them in my Dropbox account which I use on my iPad to push to the iBooks app.

In terms of the Kindle's ability to handle PDFs, does it allow for resizing the page? Or is it pretty important to get the PDF page sizes "kindle-sized" to have a hope of reading it without a magnifying glass?
This project seems to make this much easier especially if you dumping multiple books or sharing books on dropbox already with friends
There's also XNU, the OS X kernel, which stands for "X is Not Unix", despite the fact that (unlike Linux) OS X has since been Unix certified!
JS is already plenty fast, it's just the DOM manipulation that screws it up. But asm.js with direct access to a <canvas> tag, WebGL or not, would probably be interesting.
Microsoft’s design language, Windows Modern, is eerily similar to the paintings of Mondrian. Its abstract world of flat colored planes and typography has lost all sense of connection to anything meaningful or concrete. These deliberately obscure design choices often leave users without any way to discern the function of interface elements.

That rings of unjustified bias. There's hardly any difference between Windows Phone and iOS 7+ in this respect.

IMHO Windows Phone is somewhat more logical to use and has less ambiguous UI elements for one reason: apps tend to consistently use the bottom bar for actions. The bar always works the same and the buttons always have the same style.

On iOS there's more of a tendency to sprinkle buttons anywhere on the screen, and those buttons can be styled pretty much anything: plain text, plain icon, circle-enclosed icon...

Still, that's a minor gripe in practice.
it's probably not northeast. source: I'm currently looking to move there, and 1250/month only gets you a nice 2 bedroom duplex.
I tried it in SF (fidi and soma). I didn't find offensive stuff, but I'd actually have been happier if it was /b/ level. Instead it was just... lame? Self references to YikYak seemed to get votes. The top ones were old jokes.

I'm 33 so perhaps I just don't get it anymore.
You're rambling.

TrueCrypt lets you create fixed sized encrypted volumes, and allows you to decrypt those volumes on any of the three major OS platforms.

There's nothing special about TrueCrypt in how it performs the encryption/decryption (or so we're told), but no tool besides TrueCrypt allows such a flexible approach.

And it's you who refuses to accept that [secure,easy] can exist, because it'd make you irrelevant. It's a completely silly stance to take, but it's yours.

But hey, at least I've wrung your opinion on TrueCrypt out of you:

> By encouraging people to rely on tools like Truecrypt, you are, in a very small but real way, endangering them.

For posterity, in case you edit it away.

Which leads me to the question: Why are you even involved in the TrueCrypt audit, if you think it's a bad idea to use such tools?

P.S. Ulbricht was caught because the FBI owned TOR, and that's about it. Maybe your indignation towards TrueCrypt should consider Snowden's use of TrueCrypt to evade the combined allied world's intelligence community.
As the quote says ~"in capitalism man exploits man, in communism it's the other way around" (credited to JK Galbraith). The premise of the thread is that there has never been a truly Marxist state; personally I've not seen any evidence for a truly communist one either (but admit my knowledge is relatively weak). Most states called communist appear to be communist dictatorships and this is where this aphorism fits rather well.

>Why do you give Intellectual or personal superiority to communist? //

Probably the same reason you consider it to be superiority I'm claiming!? State capitalism and so-called Communist Dictatorships are not in the least communist (in the sense reviewed here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_society).

>Communist forces OTHERS to work for free //

That's dictatorship. It was a corollary to the point I was making. Unless everyone is committed to the communist ideal it seems it _cannot_ work - one rogue element (who wishes to have more power) will break the classless society. Whilst on the contrary in capitalism rogue elements that stand against, for example, exploitation of workers - choosing to see them as people rather than merely a means to profit - helps to calm the revolts that would otherwise inevitably come to the fore.

It's like being a violent person amongst extreme pacifists - the violence will win easily. In the converse situation the pacifist merely helps to extend the reign of violence.

Communism requires the consideration that all men deserve to be treated as though they are equal in worth. Capitalism, in full, requires that people be treated as a commodity to be exploited. Capitalism has morals purposefully ignored; communism has them as a central axiom. Sure you can casts capitalistic versions of a state in which selling people and exploitative wage setting is outlawed ("Western Capitalism" tends towards this though both negative aspects exist within it of course), for example, but you're moving away from pure capitalism then by allowing workers "ownership" of their own time and resources.
Thanks, I see in your other clarifications that AP is the majority shareholder - though there shouldn't be an assumption that they affect reddit's independence.

It's still something to keep in mind.
Intellectual property rights hold back green tech
Couldn't the JIT provide me a way of allocating new blocks of memory? and freeing blocks of memory back to the 'OS'? At least allocating new blocks?

I don't mind no GC, but having to allocate the maximum memory your program will use before it starts can be painful.
That's still up there in my comment you replied to, you realize that right?
Piano playing transformed into Playstation controllers that play StreetFighter
Thanks! Actually the transaction creates a zero unspent output (thus no transfer of sum is being carried out). Still we allow for 0.0002BTC for miner fees (which go to the miner's wallet). Miner fees plus paypal fees is the total cost for us per stamping. Of course there is also a cost for the server etc.
I noodle around with indie game development on the side, and one thing that's remarkably hard to find are good, reliable artists. I've had them drop off the face of the earth before even getting paid!

(Which is to say, if anybody happens to be or know art folks looking for a little bit of work, get in touch? Email's in my profile.)