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A personal anecdote-- I suffered from cluster headaches for about 20 years, starting in high school.

Because of bad emotions and not having much success with traditional psychotherapy and anti-depressants, I started going to primal therapy.

I'm well aware that primal therapy is not considered valid in mainstream psychology. I'm not trying to debate that.

I found my therapy helpful for dealing with my daily emotional swings and negative thoughts and feelings.

Surprisingly, I found that it greatly reduced the number of cluster headaches that I had.

Long story short, I had been suppressing my actual emotions in order to appear okay and not an over-reactive emotional wreck. This was a much deeper and subtle process than "I'm okay"-- it was a subconscious, physio-psychological process involving arresting the subtle motions of my face and neck that normally create expression. This process, which I did often throughout the day, subconsciously, when I thought of something personally painful, would eventually lead up to a cluster headache.

That whole paragraph above is something I figured out on my own, while I was doing the therapy, not something that the therapist presented me with or helped me figure out. But I would not have been able to do it if I had not had a space to enact my emotions, which is what primal therapy is (it's not screaming--or, I should say, not just screaming).

Being in a place where you can actually emote what you are feeling, not just talk about what you feel, is a game-changer when you grew up not being accepted for validated as a child. I can talk about how I feel all I want-- that's what I had to learn to do as a child, going to psychologists. That has no therapeutic or helpful effect for me-- it became just another coping or defense mechanism. I'm completely dissociated from myself when I talk about my feelings. I was never allowed to actually feel.

I still have general physical pain, and get crushing migraines from time to time ( I just started a new medication for that), but thankfully I only have cluster headaches about once every six months. I attribute this entirely to the changes that came about from going to primal therapy.

I know that primal therapy has not been rigorously studied, and is generally considered "debunked" by mainstream psychology. But anyways, it really helped me. I entirely certain that the lessening of cluster headaches to almost gone was not a coincidence, and a result of primal therapy.
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The create-a-sim user interface hid the corresponding astrological sign for the initial all-zero personality you first see before you've spent any points, because that would be insulting to 1/12th of the players (implying [your sign] has zero personality)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffzt12tEGpY
I don't get post-exertional malaise now at all. I regularly do high-intensity spin cycling ("Soul-cycle" style, which activates the adrenals very significantly) and don't get malaise. I've also done plenty of weights training and jogging (up to 10km/6mi), over the past year, and again, post-exertional malaise is just never an issue.

Up until about 3 years ago, a solid weight training session (squat/bench/deadlift) would have me overstimulated and unable to sleep that night, then crashing for 7-10 days.
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Why, the store that sells Nazi paraphernalia on Amazon, of course. People who sell NAZI books.

Jokes aside, why does it matter that Advertisers are not choosing certain 'unpalatable' bubbles to not be associated with those channels, that's perfectly fine.

You seem to be concerned about extremist videos making money, I don't care about that at all. I just want all videos to be available unless legal system demands its removal after due process. Present sanitized content by default, present all content if explicitly requested, where an action from user says they want to see offending content.

Advertisers should be allowed to chose the channels that they advertise on. Some may choose to advertise on default channel before the content is flagged. Let the buyer make the decision. Why is YouTube giving in to certain vocal Ad buyers to decide for entire Ad market?
It's not comforting, indeed.

But you should know that the various space-based positioning systems (GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou etc) are deployed and administered by the respective governments of their countries of origin. They were invented for the military and can be selectively disabled or degraded for civilian users.

Does anyone think it's possible for non-governments to stand up replacements for these systems, from either a technical or legal / political perspective?
> But what would it take in a fiat currency: walk to the bank, explain why you are sending so much money, set-up the order, wait a few days. No doubt with fees in the hundreds of dollars.

When was the last time you sent a wire? For accounts with $15,000 minimums it's usually free, can be set up from your phone and, depending on your bank, either clears within minutes or by close of business.
I use a technique where I can visualize user stories as if they were part of a regular functional specification. It involves categorizing user stories into features/functions on paper first, and then entering them into our agile tracking tool, and then keeping the paper up to date when new user stories come up.

I use dot notation for functional specification grouping into features to uniquely identify user stories, which get tagged in the user stories in the tracking tool. Often they look like "Admin.UserManagement.CreateUser" or similar naming. I give meaning to each level of the hierarchy and document each, so they become like natural epic, feature and story levels.

It's extra work, but you basically end up with almost the same thing as if you had written a functional specification with use cases, just lighter weight.

If you have the features to do it in your agile tracking tool, you can use tags or categories and then produce a report of user stories that looks the same.

I remain convinced that agile and waterfall use almost the same basic tools but just in different ways.

I could go on how one can use formal project management Gantt charts to visualize sprints too.
Optical machines do not have chads. Those are "punch card" machines. The low toner comment doesn't make any sense. The ballots are printed BEFORE the election. If you get a ballot that you can't read, you can return it to the pollster, they will mark the ballot as "unusable" and give you another. I know this because I've done this when I accidentally filled in the wrong circle. It's SOP.

Incompletely filled-in bubbles is a real problem, true, but in my experience I've never seen this.
If I create my own company, I will try really hard not to hire people who adopted buzzwords like - scrum/agile/user story/spike/standup/sprint etc.

These people tend to create bureaucratic nightmare, an environment which demotivate creative people and promote mediocre people, an environment where you get rewarded to look busy instead of actually get things done.

Please, do not point me at agile manifesto.

To me agile looks like totalitarian sect which constantly preaches flexibility and freedom while swiftly punishing anybody who ever dare to deviate from strict daily rituals and mantras.

Dry definitions in agile manifesto means nothing in real life. What's actually important is a context which created by people who adopted it.

Agile/scrum is biggest cargo cult I've ever seen in my life.
I recently started listening to some fiction podcasts, and they are amazing!

Limetown, Message, Black tapes.
Because with bot you can just shut them down when they don't behave like you expected or when you dont need them.
Yup, recently moved to a smaller team. We have reduced standup to once a week and combined the other ceremonies into a single meeting, although we do give slack status' the other days. Even something this small has been a tremendous boost on my productivity.

I have been slowly suggesting we get rid of pointing all together, but I don't think that will be easily won :p
This looks really good. The main application I would have for this is online teaching, where previously I would have used WolframAlpha, so while this does not have computational functionality it looks like it might be superior as a communication tool. The one thing I would like to see is support for mobile devices.
Well, depends if you want the random access to be by bytes or code points - you might have the byte indices from a previous access.

Also, factor (and iirc python too) keeps it at 8 bits if all codepoints fit in 8 bits, 16 if it fits in 16, and 32 otherwise.
I relate to most of the things she talks about, except I think exclusively in English, to the point I'm losing my French even though I live in France.

English is convenient and quick. And everything feels less severe, I feel like a completely different person when I use it, more confident and light-hearted.

Another thing I've noticed is that I'm much more prone to swearing, the worst swears in English seem light and cute compared to French for some reason.

It'd be interesting to figure out whether these differences stem from culture, context of use, or inherent properties of the languages.
Similarly, Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance is a great read about finances from World War I to the Great Depression.
It's used for both. Take for instance Super Mario Bros 3, different banks holds different data for the various enemies, and the same banks also contains the subroutines of logic for those enemies.

That's why, even if you hacked so that Goomba's death behavior should point to the same as that of a Drybones, it would fail as the subroutine for that behavior isn't in the same bank as the Goomba.
I speak almost exclusively my non native language (English) and over time it has become a second nature but while everyone around me congratulates me for my fluency and vocabulary, I KNOW I'm not as nimble and witty in English as in my second language. Having an intellectual argument is exhausting in the same way swimming with a tshirt on is harder than just swimming naked. Words come from a different place in my brain, I can just feel it, and connections sometimes are made that I cannot fully express. Seems like cause-effect logic is able to form itself in my mind but then gets lost as I try to translate it to English. It's very frustrating and I feel that has partly affected my ability to be convincing.
many NATO guided bombs, missiles and drones rely on GPS navigation

There are separate code sets for civilian and military GPS, and the latter should only be availability to US military equipment manufacturers. What I wonder is whether that means some NATO equipment will be misdirected by spoofing attacks and other will not, or if the attackers actually are able to spoof both types of signal.
Of course they want to kill macOS, it's only a small fraction of their profits. They've rewritten all the software they've acquired over the years, Final Cut Pro etc, I'd bet they're internally compatible with whatever their future iOS based desktop OS is.
Reminds me of the Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident, when a CIA drone was captured by Iranian forces; one of the leading theories was GPS spoofing, although naturally Lockheed Martin denied that it was vulnerable to such a simple (for a nation state) attack.
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GPS goes wonky near the Kremlin, as every tourist knows.
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Well Google is pretty shit if the same keyword combos occur in multiple complex answers. It can even be a waste of time/send you off on a wild goose chase VS just reading a book. Google benefits from the fact that most people's attention spans and patience has dropped.
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This is fairly old news. Reports are a year or two old and suggest that Russian security uses GPS spoofing anywhere V. Putin may be located, presumably as a defense against drone type attacks or surveillance. The spoofed location is often an airport. The black sea spoofing could be related to a visit to e.g., Sochi.

Alternatively Russia could be deploying the spoofers on ships now, which would seem to have offensive implications as well as defense.

(sorry, no links)
I used to suffer from depression and my solution was to start regularly attending faith-related events.

Not going to go into the exact specifics, to be respectful of everyone's personal religious/spiritual beliefs, but I found a great community, hope, sense of belonging, volunteer opportunities and more. This provided me a firm foundation to reduce my drinking, eat healthier, exercise more, and just be an overall kinder and better person with hope for the future.

I encourage people who suffer from milder forms of depression (situational, as opposed to the more serious forms of major depression) to maybe consider faith/religion/spirituality as a part of a balanced approach to handling it.
Piracy is a huge issue, one way around it, although too late for you now, is to only sell an online hosted version of your software, they can't crack what they don't have access too.

Have you got a forum to engage your customers with directly? Most times (and this is a huge generalisation) but these consumers aren't 'evil', they just either have no money or don't know any better.

If you can engage with them and get them to like you it'll make them more disinclined to pirate you, you could also give away a 'lite' version, there's no need to pirate your software if they get it for free, then concentrate on adding more features to the regular priced one for them to upgrade too eventually.

There's no real technical solution to piracy, it's always going to be a human issue so needs to be looked at from that perspective.
Okay, I read the article but why is this thing called "user story"?
Me too. Everyone tells me how much I swear in english, I barely register it. I like to refer to that feeling as "I know the words but I can't hear the music".
Does anyone remember "Inside Macintosh," the manuals Apple published back in the classic Mac OS days? I have many of those books, covering everything from how the hardware handles drawing to the screen, up through memory management, files, networking, etc. They're examples of some of the best technical documentation I've ever encountered. It's too bad they don't prioritize that anymore. :(
> When you dive a lot into loneliness, you begin to create your own world with your own habits and not so usual interests.

Not sure this generalizes.
Office 365 and Outlook solves my email problem perfectly - their "focused inbox" emphasises important mail while leaving the cruft behind and the spam filter is excellent.

For those with thousands of emails every day maybe the solution is to receive less mail instead of finding tools to manage it.
how do we know there aren't similar bugs with MS explorer / Finder ?
Not odd at all for someone bent on retiring on Mars. Airtight underground dwellings are the current best bet for Mars habitation.
How you address this depends greatly on your software and who it's marketed towards. Piracy can be a hint that you haven't come up with the best business strategy for that market.

Often what's best is to meet the market where it is--would you rather have more people using and aware of your software or only small amount of people people that know about your software and pay for it? The answer in many scenarios is to have more people using it regardless of whether they pay you because they can convert others into future sales and grow your market.

Software and its markets vary greatly, so it's hard to give a strategy that works for all software, but I've seen one model be fairly successful over time: basically using a subset of users to subsidize the rest of users. Find out who's deriving the most value from your product and get them to pay you, rather than trying to scrape an equal amount from everyone. This can be done many different ways, but are most commonly done with feature gating or providing external services. The idea is that if your software is more available, more people have the opportunity of deriving value from it and ultimately end up paying you.
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Actually, my opinion is that "agile" the way I most often see it is nothing more than a lighter weight variation of what we were already doing with SDLC. Time/cycles are compressed, documentation is not quite as structured, but the basic ideas are similar.

I agree the hype cycle distorts things too much. I think maybe your opinion is a bit too harsh, but - I would think to use whatever technique succeeds for the need and the team, whether more or less formal. So more power to you if the technique you prefer works.
The best way to find out what your brain does with languages is to try to pay attention to your dreams. It's hard to do that, but the few times I managed that (not on purpose), I realized that I would switch languages multiple times within the same sentence and it all "made sense", because my brain was picking the language that has the best fit for the concept it was trying to express.

Of course, waking life is more structured than that, but I find myself struggling with the same problem there: I want to express something that's best said in one language, but unfortunately I'm speaking to someone in another language and now I have to pause to look up the best translation.

Some things do seem to be subconsciously fixed, though. I find that when I have to count, I almost always do that in Serbian, my native language. Cussing, on the other hand, is something that I tend to do mostly in English, even when it's only in my head. That's probably because of my temperament, which makes me mentally cuss a lot. When I'm in need of serious cussing power, I switch to Spanish.
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> but look for people from degree programs you trust

How is someone who doesn't really keep tabs on departments of psychology supposed to have developed a sense of trust of particularly degree programs?

Do you mean like preferring Vanderbilt's psychology program over Harvard's? Or preferring Psychology over Acupuncture?
Interpret that behavior as damage and route around it.
Old methods (90s):
- turn to the law (DCMA)
- prevent people from modifying code

New methods:
- change to a SaaS model
- change the backend to an API, users order API key
- ping home from your software code or every keystroke like in Windows.
- free product, offer training + ads
I cannot "upvote" you enough.
But piracy is good right? Death to DRM!

If someone doesn't want to pay they should be able to get the content for free, then they can decide if you deserve to be paid.

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That content above seems to be very popular sentiment on HN and other techy places. I don't understand that since all you hurt are people like the author of this post.

The tech community needs to get its act together and decide to support intellectual property rights because as tech people that's all we have.

And don't think this only applies to proprietary software. MIT, GPL, Apache, etc are all licenses and are all capable of just as much abuse as your traditional EULA.
The other answers are better, but I've done something like this before:

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Its a business, do you not expect them to somehow collect revenue on products they have created?
Because if you talk to your friends and family about it, their reaction will be to shun you, and tell you to get professional help.

Professional help is very unsophisticated. Standard psychoanalytic talk therapy has very low success rates. Pharmacologic solutions seem to work but are dicey ( big side effects and long lag between start of drug and effect, obscuring value of treatment and making settling on a course of treatment hard ). The best treatment in all my reading is excercise, which can be applied as "self-medication".

In America, where we have no practical medical record privacy, if you seek treatment, pre-Obamacare you would be practically denied insurance on the open market forevermore, and likely the information may be leaked in a variety of ways, or - again in the old system - you might be practically denied. I have heard stores about people getting insurance, then seeking treatment, getting a bunch of treatment, then the insurance company coming back ( remember, after approving care ) saying "This was probably a preexisting condition so we're not going to pay it after all, and we're going to retroactively cancel your policy, and you can never have a policy again with us, and you have to tell any other insurance company why we denied you coverage - because you lied when describing medical history, which will block you from any other insurance". Very reliable source, who obviously I can't disclose.

I suppose America is past those dark days --- but I'll need another 2 years before I believe it.

If you fundraise successfully, you will be asked to fill out a questionnaire regarding medical history. You will be asked whether you have a history of depression. This may be asked as due diligence, this may be asked as part of the "key man insurance". At least, I'm pretty sure I had a number of those --- and I was very happy I could truthfully answer "no history of any medical issues" to all of those questions.

You don't want to go looking for money as a founder with "history of depression" on your resume. Really don't. Funding is hard, founding is hard, don't need more "hair on the ball".
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I sometimes think in English and sometimes in Swedish.

But I think I mostly don't think in a language but more in the underlying concepts.

I might be wrong about that, it's hard to observe yourself think...
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Linear regression is incredibly important, but I think it's much better understood either practically (by implementing it or using it), or if you want to understand it mathematically, at the "end" of a statistics course. There's a reason that when learning probability/statistics, you usually encounter Linear Regression near the end of an introductory course, not in the beginning.

Again, this really depends on how mathematically competent you already are. I'm just basing this on how I felt coming to the course after having finished my degree about 10 years ago, therefore not really having most prob/statistics fresh in my mind.
I think the vocab has a fair amount to do with it - for example I understand English is far broader than Spanish. Don't forget also that our tabloid press are hooked on puns and word play: http://www.shortlist.com/news/the-60-greatest-newspaper-head...