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Almost the exact same thing happened to my wife recently. As somebody who experienced this from the "other side" it is truly frightening. It nearly tore my family apart.

Even now, months later, not everything is back to 100% normal. My wife still occasionally shows signs of her episode and is on medication (although we have transitioned to a low dosage of a more forgiving drug). The most obvious problem is a stubborn insistence that what is going on in her head right now is the only reasonable option and any discussion otherwise is an active attempt to undermine her (i.e. a conspiracy against her). This transcends normal disagreements. She also still has trouble sleeping.

At the time she had her breakdown she constructed an elaborate and paranoid fantasy inside her head that everybody was out to get her (including close family members and myself). This was tightly wound with inscrutable religious imagery and governmental conspiracy.

It was terrifying and I had her committed to the psychiatric unit (this is what nearly destroyed our relationship).

The most frightening aspect of the whole thing is that she was 100% convinced she was right at the time. Her logical reasoning facilities simply broke down. There was no reasoning with her. In fact, if anything, trying to talk to her using logic and reason aggravated the situation.

Even now, when she looks back, she can see how strange it must have been for everybody else, but she's still struggling because her brain is telling her she was "on the right side" of this problem the whole time.

This can happen to anybody, and it's nobody's fault. Sometimes, shit happens. Nobody should be ashamed of this. Take care of yourselves and others. Most of all, get a good night's sleep and eat well!
Why not just use a package manager? If the one in your distro sucks, find a better distro. (Arch Linux would be a good example.) The rule of thumb with OSes and implementing features is to avoid reinventing the wheel.

Ports-like tools work very, very well on Linux. Binary distribution works fine too. Also, the shared libraries of each application don't have to be (and usually shouldn't be!) bundled with the application.

Finally, I'm concerned about the MIT licensing, with all the GPL code floating around in that repository.
> The weakness with THAT argument is that it assumes a conspiratorial, immoral federal government. Many of us may be able to imagine that, but it's an idea at the periphery of the Overton window.

As a matter of fact, the US government was established with this basis in mind. You can see this through the checks and balances system, as well as the representative democracy, and the first ten "rules" of the Constitution, which are rules to protect the people.

The creators anticipated the worst kind of people inhabiting the government and set it up to protect us from them. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.
Your not thinking us hipsters is actually not good evidence for us not being hipsters.

As Wikipedia notes:
"Members of the subculture typically do not self-identify as hipsters, and the word hipster is often used as a pejorative to describe someone who is pretentious, overly trendy or effete."

Which "people who are ostensibly fitting the hipster stereotype profusely deny [because, the] hipster mythology devalues their tastes and interests and thus they have to socially distinguish themselves from this cultural category"

The most notable hipster subculture among HN readers is Normcore. From wikipedia -- "Normcore wearers are people who do not wish to distinguish themselves from others by their clothing."

"Normcore clothes include everyday items of casual wear such as t-shirts, hoodies, short-sleeved shirts, jeans and chino pants, but not items such as neckties or blouses. These clothes are worn by men and women alike, making normcore a unisex style."

"The characters featured on the television series Seinfeld are frequently cited as exemplifying the aesthetics and ethos of normcore fashion."

That is to say, wearing unfashionable clothes, when you know of more fashionable clothes, and could afford them, is itself a fashion decision in line with hipster-dom's refusal to fit into the mainstream.

"Everything about [hipsters] is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don't care."

"The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. "

You're a hipster. Sorry homie.
> For me it's about cross-platform command-line, I need to be able to run command-line tools that just behave the same under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux

Then join my headache world of all 3 versions of bash doing subtly different things. We used to think our automation/deploy scripting could be cross platform if we used bash. Oh what heady and foolish days those were.
>Transfat has been banned in europe but in many other countries, manufacturers are responding to consumer demand by removing transfat from their products without needing to be coerced by the government.

And none of that would have happened if REGULATIONS hadn't forced those companies to add trans fat labeling! The decline in trans fat usage correlates very strongly with the labeling requirement.
As near as I can tell, yes.
Exactly. Whereas I may completely ignore the image, now I feel I have to wait and decide whether this piece of information (the image) is useful.
Do you have any specific problem with that?
Problem is when you are sleep you have a hard time judging the quality of the sleep you are getting.
I usually find I need want 8 hours of sleep, it's because I am not getting quality sleep.
I have seen it written before that Wittgenstein had romantic associations with both men and women, but I have never read that he was a pedophile.
Who is the customer?

What value does the service offer those customers?

Why will customers love it?

Is there a prototype?

Good luck.
Many people read stuff that he advocates against, like "real hardcore engineers don't sleep", as "light humour".

It's cool that you recognize his voice, but if this article takes off because of its interdisciplinary nature, it is likely to get an audience that isn't composed exclusively of people who know his style.
Shamanic rituals just screams "shrooms".
PC-BSD has made a real effort to make that integration user facing in a nice UI.
Tomato caviar is a really cool idea!
"Trick them with a clever pacifier"

I'd be more interested in reading about how to make my app start faster so the user can interact with it sooner. Data may need to load in the background, for example, but giving the user a quick start is better.
The real issue is that people are even talking about terrorism at all. By the state definition more people have died from tripping over their own feet than from terrorism in the last thirty years.

It is not about degrees of abstraction, it is about composition. Terrorism is a wrapper function to obscure the true intent behind the militarization of the police, the expansion of the military, and the implementation of the surveillance state - as a politician, you fear uncertainty and a lack of control. The natural state of affairs is to trend towards totalitarianism - the centralization of power and authority in a society absolutely - and it takes the vigilance of participants to repel its advances.

We have been doing a very poor job of that for quite a long time now, and the results of that gradual trend become more and more evident and indisputable.
I have a question, targeted at no one in particular. Is this just a bespoke api for the different public apis? Meaning is it going to be at the mercy of day UPS to not blacklist their ips?
Having re-transitioned last year back to the land of Free *nixen after a long stint on OS X, I marvel at how awesome package management is, and wonder how I ever gave it up. Even where I'm now forced to use OS X (work), I try to brew / brew cask everything.

The Windows / Mac distribution model feels more like a necessity on a closed system than something that is ideal.

EDIT: I realize that comment sounds more critical than what I intended. While I have a preference for package management, others clearly don't. Also, I might be inclined to use something like this for fast-moving big apps where I want the newest features. I could see trying Guile-Emacs or QGIS this way.
But unlike the parent commenter, didn't you have hypomanic episodes before going down that path? I think most who do that sort of thing don't end up in a hospital. At worst, they end up following Deepak Chopra.

Also, thank you for sharing your experience. It takes courage to talk about one's mental issues. And thank you for requests. It's crazy useful!
In some of the software (especially 1Password) I use I dislike animations to hide loading because I have a lurking suspicion that it is making me wait just to show a fancy animation, and is not doing anything useful.
So, the problem is not package managers per se, but the velocity of updates? Fix that instead? (see Arch Linux).
> And the general populace do seem to agree with [getting rid of terrorism/rape/etc].

when framed that way, anyone would agree. However the measures being taken is eroding liberty, asserting more control over people. And yet, people agree to having such measures imposed, because they've been convinced via propaganda that those measures are effective.

The quote is apropo, because by the time they 'come for me' - me being the fact that the new rules instituted is now restricting me from being able to live the way i want - it's too late. Imagine if the gov't had a recording of you at all times - you'd be immediately identified as soon as you have an inkling of civil disobedience, or any hint of activism that the gov't disagrees with.

This _must_ be nipped in the bud, before you no longer have a process to affect change because you'd be too scared of the secret police.
It's possible that they don't like the potential for walled gardens like those being erected in windows or mac-land. I don't like a bunch of binaries either, but I also don't like the app-store-ification of desktops.
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Web servers are not like that. Micro-optimizations only work for benchmarks and very specific load patterns that almost no people have.
Could you please give an example for someone not up-to-date on Haskell?
One of the best things about Linux systems is having this huge pool of apps that you update centrally that are guaranteed to work on your system.

This is a backwards step, if anything.
Taking Redux, for example; doesn't a Redux store's getState, dispatch and subscribe methods roughly map to a Backbone model's get, set and on methods respectively? Isn't the immutabability of data in a redux store an implementation detail of the store? How does this impact the React views?
The problem with that should be obvious. Package managers can, right now, update the library that multiple applications use without updating the applications/executables too. One update rather than hundreds or thousands.

You could also just not update, but then you'll have massive security holes in your computer.

There's a reason Linux adopted the shared library model.
With tables and frames for layout!
I used to work shift work and thought it was great to wake up late and stay up late when working then go to bed even later after winding down when I got back home. The occasional overnight project that would span several nights (you waste two days as one day).

Then I went back to an 8am to 4pm schedule and wow what a difference I didn't realize I was a walking zombie all those years.

Yes sleep is important but consistent sleep is the key.
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Nowhere in this story is the number "billions" used.

Second, google's strategy is not to invest billions, but seek subsidies or exceptions to municipal access fees by specifically targeting communities that decide to change rules that have existed for decades.

Finally, never forget that the new competitor's main monetization tactic is harvesting your usage data & selling your data.

I am all for increased competition, but fuck Google. They are the devil.
Meanwhile there is another poll with a different result http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-poll-idUS...
At least in Amazon Spain there is an option to select "Amazon.es" as seller in the search filters: http://i.imgur.com/LzS0LY7.png

This way you only browse things sold and managed by Amazon directly and not third-party vendors.

Is this not available in other Amazon subsidiaries?
Would you mind recommending it to us?
Most people underestimate how valuable having half a million or so in the stock market can be. That's true passive income, unlike any business.
The last sixteen years' rhetoric and policies make a lot more sense if you simply view politicians from both parties as extreme authoritarians, just marketed to different tribes with differing aesthetics.
I'm not hrtghrth3, so can't speak for him... but..

Yes, I have a problem with that. I trust I can count on Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL will ship a new package for every critical CVE promptly, without forcing me to upgrade to the latest upstream version. I have zero faith upstream maintainers will do the same - which leaves me with two choices

1) Pretend there is no CVE

2) Use the latest app version, bringing with it all new bugs, workarounds, incompatibilities and so forth - and hey, the latest version might not even have the fixed code in it.
I think reusability is something that comes with practice. And I'm starting to think that "write once, reuse forever (without modifications)" is just a pipe dream.

Lately I've been realizing how easy it is to fall into the "abstraction trap". It's exactly your situation: I have a Thing. I need a new Thing that's slightly different, but I don't want to copy all the code! That's not DRY! It's paralyzing.

So instead of duplicating code I spend time trying to tweak Thing, passing in parameters, adding special rendering cases, and finally it works as Thing and a smaller Thing2. But it's a mess, and it's not factored well, and it'll be a nightmare when Thing3 comes along.

Check out this article from the other day:
http://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-cod...

In line with his idea of copy-pasting code, I think that's the way to go: copy all the code from Product, paste it into ProductThumbnail, and make it work. THEN refactor it, and pull out reusable bits... or compose the two somehow... etc.
For your reference: http://blog.mailgun.com/how-to-view-your-messages/
Ah, you're of course right. As I recall, the surveys for discouraged workers are harder because they're harder to find.
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(This is actually not quite true -- you only lose whitespace when one side of the linebreak has an element, not when both are text.)
People making distos, as well as anyone who has been bitten by unreproducible binaries generated by hand-crafted/manually driven build processes.

When I install software from a distro, it's been vetted and I can safely assume the software has a sane reproducible build process, or at a minimum, has had a sane reproducible build process added by the package maintainer.

If a new standard wants to solve that process, I'm all for it, but I demand reproducibility (or somebody to hold financially reaponsible, in the case of closed source)in my software builds.
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Well, you know what they say, "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be".

:-D
I had a roommate who also had very serious mental health issues following a heavy investigation into meditation. I never could piece out if there was any causality - did the issues cause him to seek help from meditation, or did the meditation cause the issues, or was it spurious? In the end it's a lot of brain chemistry.

I appreciate courageous writers like the OP who help take the stigma away from mental illness with their writing.
Nothing in using the distro's packaging formats forces you to release only at the same time as the distro.
> As for your last point, that does sound broken. Perhaps the content owner of the song you used decided that they didn't want people using it on YouTube after all?

Can one revoke a copyright license like that? If one did, would that song still be available on YouTube Video Creator for new videos? Also, how does one be certain in the case of classical music whether one owns performance copyright to it without introducing a certain deviation from the score (defect or flaw if you will) in the musical piece as a fingerprint? I'd imagine if YouTube used an audio score in its tool, it has obtained some sort of a global, perpetual, irrevocable blah blah license don't you think?
I must've done something wrong, but I haven't attained that "zen" part when I tried to use React. On the contrary, it felt like I'm writing a giant pile of boilerplate code "just to use React", where there shouldn't be any.

A simple, almost ToDo-like form quickly grew to 7 files, averaging 100 SLOC each, with a air-filled boilerplate-feeling classes (yet not lacking works-by-convention magic) that juggle data through those render -> onClick={e => this.onItemAdd(e)} -> onItemAdd -> addItem -> update -> UpdatePromise -> handleUpdateItems -> render loops.

Sure, everything's logical but that feels like I'm deeply stuck in the wheel of Samsara, writing code for its own sake and not attaining any Enlightenment. ;)
You removed the 'at any cost' fragment from the sentence, which I think basically describes what you're saying.

I think it's about the tinkering occuring at all - basically, people are giving the government authority to fix problems which don't exist to begin with, or have minimal impact - and those fixes have negative side effects.

It's like re-writing a piece of software entirely to fix a radio button that doesn't work. Even if it's the only possible way to fix the radio button, is that really a good idea? Can't we just live without the radio button?

A more fleshed out example:

I could, tomorrow, drop a glass whilst retrieving it from an overhead cupboard, and blind myself when it smashes over my head. Something like that.

If I were worried about it, I could fix that particular situation by not storing glasses above my head.

What I wouldn't do, is go and remove every instance of glass or ceramic from my house.

That's what I often feel like these situations are coming down to. Someone gets shot in a school, and rather than looking at that problem, we go insane and look at 'how do guns get into the country at all' or 'how can other people end up with different thought patterns to me' or something utterly bonkers.
>The universe can take care of itself. It's when you go into "inflation" and think "you" are the embodiment of God and all that is where everything goes sideways.

This. I think people are too keen on trying to save the whales and save the world. The world is as such. Sure we can work on making it a better place, but to seek perfection is to be blind to the reality of it manifesting under your own feet.

I've had a couple events of going out of my mind deliberately by ways of breathing exercises, extensive singing, yelling, laughing and such. I think that to stay sane, you sometimes have to visit the other side of the looking glass as well. It is much like using LSD, mushrooms, mescaline. Some people can get lost in such situations, and if you feel like such thing could happen, just find a trustworthy individual who has been through such experiences and can hold your hand as you go onto your journey. Andrew Feldmar MD and his books are something to look up if these things interest you.

As far as madness and medication goes, it seems that US citizens are eager to medicate anyone who does not conform the perceived "norm". Even the individual herself gets under the impression that it is her and not the system that is at fault. Meanwhile, the psychological pressure and deformities of consumer society, impulse control and acts of aggression/murder are on the rise, whereas people should be more open to express the absurdities that surround us, and to feel free not to stay in line of a fairly broken and decaying status quo.
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"There is no such thing as absolute truth."

Isn't that an absolute truth?
>In the happy/social/fun environment, this is terrible. The promoters of B might feel unhappy, harming team cohesion, and that could be more important than 10% lower latency.

I don't think anyone competent wants to be on a team that makes bad technical decisions for the sake of people's egos. If someone has hard evidence that choice A is better, but is unable to communicate that in a way that doesn't harm team cohesion, then I'm inclined to say they must have pretty poor social skills.

All you have to say is something like "I understand your reasons for expecting choice B to be better, but I'm afraid this evidence shows otherwise." instead of "experiment failed, your idea is wrong, be smarter next time". Especially since, if you needed an experiment to work out the correct solution, then predicting the wrong outcome can't have been particular stupid.

>In this environment, "you suck at SQL" is just a factual statement that you can choose to remedy or not.

Maybe it's "factual" in some sense, but aside from being unnecessarily harsh, it's also pretty vague. A more useful statement is "Your SQL experience doesn't seem to be sufficient for this task". (EDIT: What I'd actually do first in this situation is ask them how confident they felt in SQL, giving them chance to save face by voicing the criticism themselves.) Of course ideally, you have an environment where this person felt comfortable saying "I don't have much SQL experience" at the time they were given the task.

EDIT: Also, to be clear, I don't think everyone has to talk like this. If two people in an office are happy to trash talk each other, that's fine, just as long as they can change gears when talking to less confrontational people.
Five years is a long time, a lot can happen in five years.

I've made the mistake of not selling an asset fast enough, and that probably cost me $100k-150k (easily!). What might look great today might not in two years.

3-4x does sound reasonable for something that is:

1. Illiquid

2. Taxed as income -> less favourably than capital gains on stocks

3. Requires work, every, single, day

> If I sold at 4x and then said, where can I put that money and get a nearly guaranteed 25% return, I don't think I could find that. That would be risky.

Your SaaS business might get hit with a multi million dollar lawsuit tomorrow and go bankrupt because of it - nothing is certain. But you can definitely get 15-20% returns with proper risk management when investing with your own money. And if structured properly, those gains are capital gains, meaning you pay (a lot) less tax.
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I did not say, nor do I believe, that people should be left untreated to "snap out of it". These are vulnerable distressed people and their crisis can be terrifying and damaging. They need help and support to get through it. However, neuroleptics are NOT the right help, they are basically chemical lobotomies that suppress the brain (you can read about their history for yourself, this is what they are designed to do), and they do not cure psychosis, they merely shut the brain down so it'd symptoms are hidden.

I believe we need new models for how to treat psychosis, and an important first step is realizing that delusional states are revealing. That is all. I am not saying anyone should go off meds and wander the streets.
Averages probably aren't so useful there, though. Like Canada - the average population per square mile is insanely low, but actually the vast majority of the population live clustered close to the US border.