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> Oh, please... Apple could have used dpkg if they wanted to.

Apple chose not to given the apparent community stance.

> dpkg is open source software released under the GPL license. Apple just chose not to, because they would have had to open source all their code that linked to dpkg libraries.

> That is the price they would have to pay for piggy-backing on the efforts of many volunteers and gain immediate access to a state of the art packaging system.

Neither dpkg nor apt-get have any libraries to link against, so that really wasn't the issue.

> But of course Apple being Apple has a lot more money to spend on PR and along with the help of their fan boys, the story turned into "Debian developers are mean, capitalism-hating hippies". I am not really surprised.*

This isn't an Apple PR story. This is something I just told you, recollected from nearly a decade ago when the mere possibility of using dpkg was on the table.

... Although, I have to say, your modern response really rather lends some credence to my ancient recollection.
Bayesian spam filtering - machine learning 101
No, I think it's absurd to have a religion linked into ethnicity and I find the whole jewish is it a religion or is it an ethnicity question very confusing. I'd love a conclusive answer but as far as I can tell there doesn't appear to really be one.
> Four and a half years later I still have no US credit cards and no US credit rating. I haven't really found a need for it, though locals occasionally look shocked at the idea.

This might turn out to be very penny wise and pound foolish. Sooner or later you might want to buy a property to live in or for investment reasons, and oftentimes you'll only realize you want to buy a place six months or a year before you want to buy. That's not long enough to build a good credit rating to get a decent mortgage - you're very possibly throwing away thousands of dollars of your future money to save yourself... like $20 now.

And you don't pay interest on a credit card unless you carry a balance - pay in full each month. I only spent $150 on a credit card once because it had excellent benefits and I got $600 of free airfare from that card. I've paid $0 in fees or carrying a balance besides that in my life, aside from that $20 for a secured loan. Why not build a credit score? - there's no real downside, it doesn't take long to do, and might make a big difference for you later.
I can say that without question the Marines changed my brother for the better. Much, much better. From lost and aimless to driven and motivated.
Also clustering algorithms (k-means et al) used to do a preliminary analysis of NMRI scans
I find it strange to separate philosophy from practicality. If your philosophy does not have practical implications, you're doing it wrong.
Someone kick me if this isn't progressive enough, but I don't think any of the women listed really should have been on the list. The others are figureheads for web-focused projects. None of the women listed (with the exception of Sally Floyd, whom I've never heard of. I might just be ignorant) were really at all involved directly with the web. Even Java isn't primarily a web platform.

I'm more disturbed that those are the best examples the poster can come up with. Are there other women who really should have been listed in the article? If so, terrific. If not, why not? Is there an underlying problem with the hacker image that should be fixed?
Reading this I felt as if someone was holding up a mirror to me. I am a borderline personality, so in some ways I know how you feel. On the other hand I should be the last person giving you advice as I am a work in progress too, but I need to say a few things to you.

First of all, I know that you probably feel inside that it's wrong for you to be like this, and sometimes you just question why you're a freak. Other times you might question your very existence, and how far you have fallen. After all being hysterical isn't something that you look forward too. I used to feel exactly the same, but then you have those days when everything is beautiful and you are high in ways that is so difficult to define in words. Those days make you wonder even more why you're like this, but the thing is that its okay. There is nothing wrong with you.

I know that this is so clichéd and you hear this all the time, but its true. It takes some time to digest and even more time to accept, but consider the possibility. This curse might actually be a boon in a lot of ways.

Second, is there anyone you love and trust? Talking to people helps a lot, especially when you are down and out. It, in fact, saved my life. I wouldn't be alive bashing this out right now if someone hadn't loved me, guided me and accepted me.

I know that you probably won't talk to them because you don't want to be a burden, but can you imagine how they feel about you? They will in fact be glad that you reached out to them in the darkest moments of your life, and it will show you a side of humanity that most people never see. As this forum proves people can be extremely kind, loving and generous. A lot of people are will go the distance to help you heal. Let them do that.

You are not a burden either. In fact, it's quite probable that you've made a contribution to their life in a way that even you can't define. So, don't plunge the icy dagger of death into them. Reach out to them. Also if you want you can email me at yesthisisananonymousid [at] gmail. (can't post my real id on this forum in case someone from my past reads this)

Third, taking those pills will not be a good experience. At times they are a constant reminder that no matter what you do, what plans you make, what you think, what you dream. You are at the mercy of those tiny bundles of chemicals, and a bunch of receptors in your brain.

DON'T let that stop you from taking them. They are a lifeline in that chaos, and sure there is a cost to taking some of them but it is worth each and every moment. It helps you to breathe in a way that you had long forgotten, and that sense of freedom from your moods is an amazing feeling. Moreover, as time passes on you'll be able to leave that crutch, or reduce it to barely perceptible amounts, and live life free.

Fourth, I want you to know that you really aren't alone. Even though we have never met, and probably never will I want to tell you that I can empathize with you and if you wish I want to be there for you.

Take care.

P.S. - You might get some mileage from the awesome advice lionhearted and others gave me in this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1484882).
Hey dude,

I strongly identify with your feelings - I know that place very well.

Here is the way I hacked it out:
1. Regarding relationships with girls\friend - After years of having too many friends, I understood that almost everyone I met wanted to be friends of mine, this lead to an overload of friends, and made me be not a good friend of a lot of freinds.
Once I realized that, I decided to stop socializing with everyone I met, and focus on my closest friends.

Another hack regarding friends - I found that having a certain structure, like meeting every thursday to play poker and playstation - was really good for me.(Of course that I socialize beyond this routine, but this baseline routine with friends really made our friendship strong and fulfilling).

2. Focusing on one thing: I found that working with partners really helps me focus, it is true regarding learning, programming and founding startups.

If you wish to create a new startup - find a partner and make it with him\her - level out with him that you have a focusing problem - and that he should call you out if he sees that you are unfocused or unproductive.

this is very powerful, this discovery has changed my life, it allowed me to open my startups, and today I am the owner of a very successful israeli bootstrapped start up(founded with 2 partners ofcourse).

3. hacking suicide thoughts\meaningless feeling - most important hack of all - imagine being a mountaineer, climbing on the everest, your feet hurt, it is difficult to breath, it is cold, but you still do it because it is your fucking dream.

Now image climbing the everest without a special reason, without having the dream of climbing it - the pain would be the same, but you would hate it so much, it would take so much energy from you, you would be miserable and stop pretty early on.

My point is, my friend - that if you feel that pain overwhelms you - you are currently climbing the wrong mountain(You don't have a burning desire).

You should stop climbing(trying to focus, trying to better yourself, trying to do things) - and decide what is the thing you really want to do.
You might not know, you might have some options and you won't be sure which is the "right" dream from you, I can tell you this, life is precious - you should be brave(taking the risk of maybe it is the "wrong" dream) and choose your dream - and fucking go for it full power.
Even if in the end you will understand that you didn't "really" want to do that dream, the only true way of finding out is doing it fullpower.

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If all fails - I highly recommend finding a life coach, I have found that they are extremely useful, not trying to figure out whats wrong with you, but just giving you power to do the things you really want to do(and finding out what these things are).
I considered that. When I returned to school, I promised to stay away from start-ups for at least a year. My life sucked even more perhaps. Hopping onto my current startup brought some joy--though not long-lasting. But nothing has brought me long-lasting joy and that may be the crux of the problem.
You let the kid off too easily.

He is already selling artists sheet music that they absolutely need for their profession via instant download for the cost of a coffee and the teenager in question still believes it is her right to misappropriate a copy instead because she doesn't want to pay.

The author isn't trying to preserve his work's integrity, whatever that is, he is trying to preserve his income.

He is a song writer. He genre is not a big recording industry item, mechanical royalties will be minimal. There are no concert tee shirts ,to assuage anyone's guilt here.
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I don't know much about how the American accent arose. But from what I know about the Australian accent, it apparently arose in the first generation of children born in the country.
Tell/Ask HN: Design for Coders
We are a UI design / usability group starting to produce a weekly blog series on design for coders/programmers. We've learned so much from HN over time (yes, we lurked) and we want to teach a bit in return.

It seems there's always common themes that cycle through the submissions every few weeks, most of which we aren't qualified to offer any advice on ("Which language is SUPER easy to start programming in?","Ruby > PHP ... Right?" or "Stop Talking About Appl.... Ooops!"). Another common theme is questions related to design ("What makes good design?", "Where can I learn more about good design?" or "Where do I go to find a good designer?"). That's the one we might be able to help you with. We've got a few topics lined up and of course we can come up with ideas all by ourselves, but we want to know what YOU want to know about design. What confuses you? What does there seem to be a lack of information on?

As for the series, we'll start it up next week and post weekly. Our goal is 5-10 minute articles with examples and links to additional resources that are easy to understand. Our first planned topics are Space/Simplicity, Color & Typography. We won't be creating comprehensive resources to cover every topic comprehensively and overwhelm you but we'll be on hand to respond, interact and clarify. Happy 4th of July!
Well, the Robin Hood stories are set about five centuries earlier, so I don't think anybody knows how things were pronounced back then. If you wanted a verbally authentic version of Robin Hood then it would be in a version of English closer to Chaucer's than Shakespeare's, and it would be almost completely incomprehensible.
> What MacPort "sees" is what's in /opt/local with its tools. I'll bet the binary you got installed ImageMagick into /usr/local.

It's actually worse than this; MacPorts maintains its own idea of what's installed, and, while you can put your files in its directories, that won't fool it into believing that ImageMagick is installed if it hasn't done it itself. (People have asked MacPorts for ways to work around this—to avoid installing all the X libraries again just to use an X application, for example—but, as near as I can tell, this is a design decision.)

Also, it's 'true enough', but not always true, that MacPorts looks in /opt/local. For example, I'm finicky about having one easily backed-up directory for everything that I install, so mine is in /Users/Shared/Applications/Utilities/MacPorts (much easier to type, no? :-) ).
You forgot deism. No way this is covered by "Other"
ANTI-theism != atheist
This sounds like you just started having an internal dialogue with yourself labeling the personification on the other end of your consciousness as "god". If this is the case, and this is really all it takes to qualify as having "spoken to god" then probably the vast majority of humanity have done it. They could even push it a little further and say ludicrous stuff like the bible is true, etc etc etc.
Just a couple of examples I happened to come across while researching for another comment:

In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare makes a pun which only works if "Rome" is pronounced like "room".

Also, in Henry IV, Part One, there's a pun resting on the similarity of "reason" and "raisin".
The first 90% was new stuff, where I got to play with new tech (new to me that is) and different constraints. What's left is the stuff I have done many times before. Also the last part involves a lot of UI work which can get tedious.
I'm pretty sure he means languages like Lisp and (especially) Haskell which reduce the number of side-effects (and, not incidentally, the amount of boilerplate code) by abstracting away the loop and replacing it with some notion of mapping a function over some sequence of values (and/or key-value pairs, etc.).

The advantage is that off-by-one errors are largely eliminated, it's easier to see how to parallelize the code, and there is no visual noise associated with maintaining index variables.

The problem is that it's no longer as natural to bail on a loop early: You need some notion of exceptions or, in the most general case, first-class continuations, as in Scheme.
Speculatively, there are more than 2 Pythons. Python, like perl has become a family of languages. Some time ago Perl Mongers accepted that Perl 6 was not the next version of Perl but a new language in the Perl family. I suspect Python 3 is to Python 2 as Perl 6 is to Perl 5. Google's Go is also a language in the python family I think.
If I want a coffee, I take my cash to the corner store and buy it. It is easy. Doing any commerce on the internet is nowhere near as easy as that.

You are clearly someone who has never not had a credit card. These things are almost impossible without one, and certainly not as easy as getting a coffee. And news flash, lots of student and poor people DO NOT HAVE A CREDIT CARD!

And even if you do, you go to some dodgy website that you have never heard of before and just enter in your credit card details? Well, I don't.
Wait 'til the "Christian News" discussion forum finds out about the poll, and sends their members over en masse to vote.

On a serious note, I think many people who believe in science/technology, and/or practice its many disciplines, are more likely to logically consider questions/claims relating to religion in the same way they evaluate other aspects of society. In the absence of observable evidence, many will be undecided about the existence of God, or will conclude that there is no god, and choose "Nonreligious/Atheist/Agnostic" to describe their own beliefs.
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I believe in Google

what is that, Googleism?
Don't jump too far ahead -- medicine is a secondary issue right now. The important thing is to go see someone who is trained in mental health issues and get a diagnosis. When someone is in a depressed state they don't realize how messed up their thinking is -- people end up thinking they must have done something wrong to get in the state they are in. It's very hard to be objective in this situation and almost impossible to self-diagnose.

Any thinking about suicide, even without specific intent, is a symptom of depression.
Check that link, especially post #7 -- the pun is Renaissance era, not Roman.

Can you shed more light on 'll' vs 'y'? In Mexico, at least, the two are similar enough that handmade signs frequently contain spelling errors confusing the two.
I suspect you're joking, but the spelling and pronunciation issues are different events.
I'm also not a pagan nor a Christian, but I celebrate their Christmas holiday.
Google employees on Reddit answers questions.
Click-able link: http://blog.theminimgroup.com/ - No, there's nothing fun there yet.

RSS: http://blog.theminimgroup.com/feed
Of course, I'll do that, but the problem is that, um I can't see it.

Anyway, you can reach me at yesthisisananonymousid [at] gmail.
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Clearly you ban onmouseover etc. inline. These have to be set inside a <script>. Agree about the user input part.

How do you securely tell the browser what the nonce is to check?
> ... near as I can tell, this is a design decision.

Yes. A very long time ago, MacPorts relied on file dependencies; if a library was there, it was used.

The problem that emerged was that these dependencies often broken. Sometimes Apple shipped a broken update, sometimes users installed broken software.

This would cause MacPorts to break.

If Apple shipped a broken update (eg, openssl headers that didn't match the openssl library), MacPorts had to switch to their own openssl package in order to be able to keep building software.

If users installed broken, too-old, or otherwise non-suitable packages, the MacPorts developers had to help debug their rather random systems to figure out the problem.

When you couple this with OS-shipped dependencies that go stale, you necessarily see your dependency tree begin relying on internal dependencies for almost everything, and due to all the software deployed using those dependencies, you can't cull them from the tree.

So instead you wind up maintaining a controlled, parallel universe. It's foolish to think this won't happen with Homebrew, too.
Thanks man, really appreciate your support. Helps to know I'm not the only one going through this stuff.
Ok, master is a poor choice of words.
You could offer a barometer in exchange.
I'd figured this would be an uncharitable summary, but after reading the article, it's pretty much spot on. He keeps reiterating that he needs to make money, she keeps giving good explanations for why her actions don't impede that goal, and he keeps ignoring everything she says in favor of repeating his thesis.
google: http://research.google.com/pubs/MachineLearning.html

LinkedIn SNA: http://sna-projects.com/sna/

Microsoft MLAS: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/mlas/

Yahoo ML: http://research.yahoo.com/Machine_Learning

ATT & Netflix: http://www2.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/
"After a million self-help programs and motivation books that haven't been of much help"

Which self-help programs and books?
>Have the treatments worked for you?

Yes. Sometimes completely, usually partially.

>I've come super close to getting tested for ADD, each time resisting out of fear that it'll only be another temporary fix(in pills).

OK. I believe you should get tested anyway; testing does not mean you have to follow through with treatment. Benefits from knowing you have ADD include being able to read about it. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Attention-Deficit-Disorder-Unfocused...

About the pills: it turns out ADD is a chemical problem. I have heard about it being treated with therapy (talking to people) but really, the real fix is pills. In my case at least, there is a hole in my brain shaped like amphetamines (Adderall, Ritalin) and if I take amphetamines I have nothing to envy people without ADD. When I first took them I felt something I had never felt before: an incredible sense of urgency and desire to work.

Is it a temporary fix? In some senses yes, in others, no. It can be temporary in that SSRI's induce tolerance, much like cigarettes or coffee. But this is hardly a Red Queen scenario. Most people with ADDs reach a dose they're comfortable with and can work with from here to forever, with some caveats your doctor can tell you about. I would not compare it to padding your schedule to deal with time overruns due to procrastination. This is a fundamental change in the way your brain works.

And if you don't like the idea of taking pills, consider this: there's really no other way out if you have ADD and are part of the 80% of ADD patients who respond positively to pills.

I highly recommend it.
Are you referring to The Big Rewrite around the time of Noah?
I've faced this situation before and still face it with my side-projects (most recently with http://weekis.com). I've realized something simple though. The last 10% got difficult because I took up 110% of work. As you progress through a project, you'll be tempted to add more features. The features may be small, but they still alter and prolong the course. Do less, work in iterations, and you'll be able to easily get past that last 10%.
... but only for the relatively ancient and poorly performing SSD that Apple ships with the MacBook Air. Whether the results generalize to other SSDs, or the reason for why there's no major performance degradation, are both open questions.
You name it. Toni Robbins, Eckhart Tolle, Think and grow rich.

After a while they just become noise if you don't have the self-discipline to follow them.
- It would be great if this were true (Yay afterlife/alternate worlds!)

Must there be a God for there to be an afterlife?
If you're a typical geek and into the coding and "setting up technology" aspects of a project, it's natural that adding the shine, doing design tweaks, thinking about marketing, and the "soft" elements is going to be less fun and, therefore, "harder."

I suspect if you took a print designer who was asked to design and then code a Web site, they'd spend a ton of time on the design and enjoy it, but then find the "10%" of time taken to try and turn it into HTML and upload it someplace would be similarly difficult.
The question that you are dancing around is: do we care enough about creative works to support their creation, or do we really care so little about the food for our soul that we look forward to consuming only the side-project crumbs that people make in their evenings and on weekends for fun?

Some artists have a "live" performance that people enjoy paying for that un-copyable experience. But do we really want our authors to make their entire living from tips at book-signings?

Copyright hasn't caught up to the reality of unlimited instant effortless copying, but artists still need to eat, and paying them for what they do is probably going to remain the simplest way to make sure they eat at all.