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Ask HN: How to talk to someone who's been a victim of child abuse
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask such questions, but I'm out of choices, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

Without me knowing what emotions it would set off, yesterday I pointed my girlfriend to read the HuffPO article about Bill Zeller (after reading about it on HN). To my complete surprise and shock, when we were together last night, she told me that reading that article brought back a lot of memories: she was abused by a cousin of hers (a female) when she was 6.

She said that at the time, she felt guilty: for both letting her do this, experiencing joy, knowing about things she did not think she should have know about that early in her life and more. This is also the reason she has trouble trusting people (She doesn't drink, and despite me asking her over and over for the reason, she never told why until last night). She does not feel like she was scarred sexually (we have a healthy sexual life despite our relationship being relatively short, but she's also enjoyed a similarly healthy sexual life with her ex-boyfriends). However, she did say that she does think about that time every so often, and feels depressed whenever she does. She speaks with this cousin of hers from time-to-time but says they never discuss what happened (the cousin, btw, was 11 at the time). She has also not told anybody besides me and her ex-boyfriend (whom she was with for a long time). She has not spoken with her parents about it, not a professional.

My response, when she told me all this was of complete shock, and anger at the cousin. I told her that she has nothing to feel guilty about, that this isn't something she had control over and that all the guilt lies with her cousin. I also asked her if she had similar feelings towards life as Zeller did (re: suicide) - No. I also told her that she should think about speaking with a professional: this might bring out and resolve issues she does not even know exist.

Beyond this, I did not know what else to tell her. I have absolutely no training in mental health (all knowledge I have on the subject, come from TV shows/movies). I was hoping to solicit some advice from the HN community regarding how I could talk to her, to make her feel better, more comfortable and stop feeling the guilt she does from this incident.
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You don't have to smell a lazy recruiter. As your own evidence states, 90% of them you should run, run, run away from.
Hasn't Taleb been making this argument for the last 15 years? He and Dr. Doom are both NYU faculty...that must be awkward.
A lot of this has to do with the way we "score" forecasts. Applying some kind of uniform weighting over forecasts is the natural, and wrong, way to think about things.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (black swan, fooled by randomness) has written about his trading strategy. At his fund, he consistently takes positions that predict extreme events, and he's wrong almost all the time, consistently producing grinding, negative returns. He's only been right a couple times, but when he's right he's really right, making enough money that he doesn't need to make money anymore.
Sounds like a useful tool to have if you are a pirate and you want a better chance at shooting the crew before they shoot back as well.
In an ideal society, where there is no fraud or stolen identities, what are the benefits in building this?
> the people you know would have been fired already.

I guess you're right, though who knows what those pesky unions might have said.
It looks great. I see more and more UIs using this.
I couldn't see it til I realised that it's only on inactive tabs.
I think this is a good approach for identifying who this is, but you should assume good faith. They probably don't even know they're causing you problems. Try asking them nicely to limit their request rate, and only block them if they're not willing to do that.
So, you think we should disband the FCC and let "biggest transmitter wins" be the law of the land on the airwaves?

Or is that ridiculously and obviously stupid? Maybe it turns out that in order to do things right, you have to get into the weeds on an issue by issue basis and not rely on one size fits all approaches. Hands off economics are exactly the right thing to do most of the time, except when they aren't.

Also, 1929 in terms of government policy was totally different from now.
I had a professor that told me it's actually a good strategy to make wild predictions far in the future. If you're right, you look like an oracle. If you're wrong, nobody remembers to go back and dig up "he predicted this on this date", primarily because they're already focused on the next predictions. Most of the time it's a win-win; the farther out in the future the better.
These days I find that people get help (whether it's from a friend or copy/paste from somewhere else) that it's not a very good indicator of their writing or communication skills.

Even the cover letter isn't a good example, since many of them are cut and paste jobs.

I can't tell you how many people I've interviewed over the phone whose resumes were acceptably well written but couldn't put a sentence together when you talked to them.
passive reader +1 (warszawa) ;]
You are comparing top startups to mediocre Ph.D.'s. Top academia is very high-risk and very competitive. You take on very difficult research problems in the hope of becoming famous (but you may never be able to solve them). The rewards are accordingly high - having a large impact on the world, getting tenure to do what you love for the rest of your life, being surrounded by the best people in your field.
Tir 0.9 Is Out, Hype.la Open Sourced
The idea has been around in game user interfaces for a while. The mouse-trail dhtml animations were a plague, but this pertains to single elements, and may help elevate their importance in the visual hierarchy.
Note that Python is also a functional language, in the sense that it has almost all elements and features that allow you to do functional programming. [1] So if you do a lot of stuff in Python, chances are good that you're already doing functional programming to some extent, without having noticed.

[1] The most annoying deficiency of Python is the missing implementation of proper local variables in sub functions, which means that Python has no real closures. Recent Python versions try to fix that via the "nonlocal" keyword, but that's not a really intuitive fix, compared to how this issue is solved in other functional languages like Haskell or LISP.
It'll be optional in the way driver's licenses are. If you want access to any internet service with value (e.g. google, etc.) you will need one. I can see it going that way.
Seems like a silly thing to worry about.

Even if you're going to worry about tap water, surely lead levels and antibiotics are more of a threat than fluoride.
Most South Korean discussion sites and forums more or less require you to supply your national ID number before you can register.

Until recently, a lot of SK banks also used ActiveX plugins for "security" instead of SSL, making it basically impossible to use anything other than Internet Explorer. I get the impression this is changing.
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I don't think "an emacs extension" and "a nice interface" really belong together. (Then again, I'm a vim guy...)

Almost none of those features matter to me, and sound like a bunch of extra junk I don't want. I want:

1) Webmail

2) with a reasonable interface

3) and a good spam filter

4) That has a ton of space to save my emails

5) That I don't have to administer.
Are you saying we should put plutonium in the drinking water then?

Or are you saying that, like "body radiation", fluoride should be prescribed by doctors after extensive testing the the FDA?
> Seems if you can invalidate a patent by showing prior art that would be a powerful deterrent to someone wanting to sue you.

Sometimes, yes, but not always. It once worked out that way for one of my clients. The client got a letter from another company's lawyer, saying, "you may be interested in this patent." That's code for a threat to sue. The other company was a legitimate company that actually made stuff; it wasn't a troll, er, non-practicing entity.

My client had solid evidence that it had come up with the invention several years before, and that it had not abandoned, suppressed, or concealed the invention. This put the client in a position to make a powerful invalidity argument, one that can be especially persuasive to a jury -- even assuming this invention was patentable, we'd have been the ones entitled to the patent, not them.

I sent a letter to the patent owner's lawyer (whom I knew), saying, almost in so many words: I've reviewed some prior art not cited by the patent examiner, and my client is not the least bit interested in discussing your client's patent. The lawyer asked if I'd send him a copy of the prior art. I said, if you file a lawsuit, you'll get the prior art in the ordinary course of discovery. The lawyer evidently got the message - we never heard from them again, at least not on that subject.

(As usual, YMMV, and don't rely on this anecdote as a substitute for legal advice. Knowingly infringing a patent without clear and convincing evidence of invalidity could result in being held liable for willful infringement. That in turn could mean having to pay treble damages and the patent owner's attorneys' fees, which will almost always be considerable.)
Bodybuilders would tend to go for the 100% method, not the 80/20. Although reading through some responses to the book on bodybuilding forums is an entertaining way to spend an hour.
so long as it's optional I'm not worried.

I've got a bridge to sell you, too.

Social Security Numbers, we were promised, would not be used as personal identifiers. See, e.g., http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EFD71039F...

FOR many years, Social Security cards carried an admonition that they were to be used "for Social Security and tax purposes -- not for identification."

You've got my personal guarantee that if an optional Internet ID is created today, it will be required before long. This is how the system works. Witness the gradual ratcheting up of (ridiculous) security measures in airports if you're skeptical.
What about facebook? they are as close as it gets to a centralized database. It's opt-in and tons of sites already support the 'facebook id'.
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Older documentation might actually be a disadvantage. Older tutorials often tell you out-of-date ways to do things, and do it in a not-so-hip way.
Sounds a bit like Android vs iOS (or Windows vs. MacOS).
Just because we need something is no reason to believe that the government ought to do it.

Indeed, if something's that important, then I think that the government's track record ought to immediately disqualify them from consideration.
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This is an iPad and a Kindle for less than the price of an iPad. I am astounded but Notion Ink seem to have delivered a very compelling product. I hope they sell truck loads of the stuff. One wonders whether the magnetic center for innovation is finally swinging east!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_tablet

ps: anyone got a spare $499?
I would buy this argument if it wasn't for the fact that he managed to not only correctly call the timing but also the cause of the recession.

It sounds to me like he's a good person to listen to for potential trouble spots. The economy is very path-dependent; just because someone is good at pointing out potential issues doesn't mean they're going to know how it turns out.
Instagram Shuffle Adds Roulette To Photo-Sharing
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You obviously have never tried to compile profiling binaries for a haskell
I would not call cabal the nicest build system I had used. Cpan beats the pants off it.
Beware of the message a the top of the page. Apparently some pretty bad things can happen. I've tried instant and side tabs with no apparent negative ramifications on Windows Vista.
Trying out AVX
The point I'm trying to make is that you have to understand the trade-offs. Saying GPL automatically makes it harder for others to use your code is wrong. It depends on what you want and don't want to happen. This also completely ignores the LGPL. Many projects licensed under BSD would benefit from being re-licensed under the LGPL.

There's also no reason why you can't dual-license a product, or license different parts of the same codebase under different licenses (for example, I release the unit test files in my Free Software projects into the public domain).
And a true C++ programmer can name ALL the uses of the 'static' keyword.
You're right. I'll give you more details, when we'll do more work on it.
There's nothing irrational about it. If I ask for a resume, it is because I am looking for a resume, not a pointer to where I can go find a resume.

Perhaps I am collecting all resumes received by email into one mailbox, and I periodically do a batch print of everything there, then take the printouts home to review in comfort on the couch.

Perhaps I'm doing some classification of resumes based on keywords in the body and attachments, and the software that does that does not follow links.
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Bad enough with Chrome? Did you even notice it before you read the article?
I am just now getting into Lisp so I can't say how learning it would affect subsequent language exploration. Functional programming is good but if it's the most interesting part of any language, that would be a boring language. Erlang's functional style and pattern matching syntax were novel but the immutable bindings, process spawning, and message passing made it interesting to me. In Lisp, I am interested in S-expressions and macros (and wishing it had those other Erlangly bits I mentioned!).
It looks like I may have unintentionally downvoted this post on my phone -- one of the major downsides of using the same interaction (touch) for clicking and scrolling. I wonder if this explains some of the apparently-unmotivated downvoting seen on HN.
The big question is will they be able to ship in any numbers. The pixelQi version (aka the version you want) sold out within hours of being made available for pre-order, and there is no hints on when it will be available for order again.

I just hope they'll be able to get enough hardware out of the factories to cover their costs long enough to successfully ramp up production.
The date of this article is April 2007.

My guess is that it was re-posted here for a some humor or entertainment purposes only.

I think everyone knows MS is far from "dead".
LinkedIn has an experimental tool called Resume Builder that will create a resume from your profile (and keep it in sync.)

http://resume.linkedinlabs.com
If the Fraud Stops, The Financial System Collapses
The government isn't the problem; the concept of top down control is the problem.

No one group of people should ever be allowed this much power.
If it waddles like a national ID system and quacks like a national ID system, then it's probably a national ID system. Here in the UK we are fortunate to have recently dumped plans for a national ID system. Americans should do the same.
Isn't this why the stuff out of the Entertainment & Devices division is doing so well? My understanding is that E&D are not as strongly shackled to corporate culture and runs as a semi-autonomous unit making its own decisions, albeit with a healthy cash flow. This is why Xbox has done so well, and Windows Phone 7, for all its critics, is really the epitome of something Microsoft simply couldn't have designed when this article was written. I mean, WP7 actually has a design. You can like it or not like it, but you can't claim it to be a copycat or not show any aesthetic talent at all.

Bing is run the same way, is it not?

It seems that Microsoft might finally be learning that if it acts as a loosely coupled set of components rather than a monolith with everyone getting veto on everyone else, things work a lot better (and presumably cheaper too). They have all the talent, they just kill it with middle-management (see: Kin).
Please someone explain the downvote.

redis is a k/v store that will force you to write a lot of code to get the results you want out of it, people use it for purposes like caching, not storing your main content which you'll want to query in complex ways.

meanwhile couchdb is just more complex enough to make things easier, and it features database side authentication which will allow you to write full client side apps, which seems like what this author was going for here.

anyway it just seems to me like couchdb fits the use case here perfectly. when i wrote hipchan i used mongodb because I had server side code to auth, no bias here...
A lot of the stuff is still in use - one of the best selling video games recently (and many others) are still using this tech to some degree (brushes, bsp, and csg).
> PS: also, please never send Word documents, I hate opening Word documents, use PDF instead.

Such generalizations are poor advice. Send what the employer asks for. Some will ask for Word, and are likely to be as annoyed by a PDF as you are to be annoyed by Word.
I used to wash windows for a living and daydreamed about automating the task. But this particular solution seems a lot more trouble than its worth. The thing can't move from window to window without having a person on both sides of the window. Not to mention that it takes forever.

I envision something with suction cups, a squeegee and maybe a safety line.
Are you being sarcastic or serious?
One more stake in the heart of liberty.
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ok i feel like a dummy but this doesn't make sense to me.

they just relabeled the old large -> new medium but kept the price points the same? so if a medium 12 oz. was $2, and a large 16 oz. was $4, the "medium" $2 cup is now 16 oz. doesn't that mean they are now giving out more coffee for the same price? how does that help their bottom line...
I feel like I should add that I have a very healthy respect for Microsoft and their continuing influence/power. It's unwise to underestimate Microsoft.
Users don't fix software, developers do.
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I'll be getting one of these when hell freezes over. If that means starting my own Internet, then that's exactly what I'll do.
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It looks good in Win7 too, I like how the colour of the glow is controlled by the application's icon.
I think Norton and VirusBarrier are probably the two most common apps.

If it's really a malware/infection/rootkit and not just someone sniffing your password or the like, you could always backup and reinstall the OS.
This could be useful for allowing various levels of government to provide more services online. For instance, I wouldn't have to provide my social security number to a third party if I wanted to pay my taxes online. Or better yet, maybe they could allow voting online like Estonia does. Imagine what that would do for voter turnout.
Great Minds Are A Mess
Whoosh

You really don't get it.
I'm submitting this again, even though it already got lost in the "new" queue once (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1736030) because it's an amazing solution to a common problem. It helped me tremendously and mentioning it in another thread seemed to have helped others (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2085671).
You're very welcome. I see now that it was submitted before (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1736030) but didn't get any upvotes. Bad timing, I guess.

I submitted it again in the hopes that it will help others (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2086498).
Wait, bad guys can have weapons too!?
Estonia is notable because their government does practically everything online.
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It's not a problem; the rules only apply to eth0, but I connect over tun0. And, it's time-limited to 60 seconds either way. And, I have web console access.

So this is not something I worry about. ssh password crackers and script kiddies taking down my website are a little more worrisome.
They said something similar to this about the proposed UK national ID system, then shortly afterwards unveiled plans for an incredibly centralised system with a slow transition leading from voluntary to mandatory. Fortunately these plans were recently scrapped.

I think the big picture here is that various governments for a variety of reasons foresee difficult times ahead and are trying, falteringly and often swimming against public opinion, to move towards a state of affairs where they have a greater degree of authoritarian control than was the case in the past - perhaps similar to China, which may become the new model state/economy which others seek to emulate.
I think what you're saying can easily be extrapolated to any vocation...

There are people who are passionate about what they do, and then there vastly more people who are doing it simply because it's a job.
for those of you who aren't omniscient:

Tir is an experimental web framework for the Mongrel2 webserver and Lua programming language.

Hype.la is a simple way to promote your art, music, etc. with other like-minded artists by trading small promotional blurbs. (ad network)
The point here is that most people who have the luxury (and information) to chose their platform won't use Windows.

If teleporters were invented today, chances are that you wouldn't be able to afford one for the next 20 years.
To whom does the pronoun "they" refer, if not "the Perl folk"?
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I think most people here know that MS is indeed dead in terms of not controlling things anymore (which is exactly what the article stated if you read it).

Who cares about browser percentage scores? People stopped making websites for IE-only years ago.
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Just out of curiosity, if the national government in the UK doesn't issue IDs, who does? Counties? Cities?
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I'm sure some are, but it's not mainstream. For example, the Django team hasn't started porting to Python 3 yet. For now, you can ignore Python 3.
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If something like this can slow your servers down, you're probably going to be in serious trouble when you get an inbound link from a heavily trafficked site. I'd recommend you put a caching proxy like Varnish in front of your web server process.

Varnish serves 404s quickly and happily, and will keep the storm from even reaching your apaches. You won't even notice it when the scrapers come in.
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I think dwelling on a bad experience strengthens the memory in your head. So once you've learned what you can from it, make a conscious effort not to think about events that make you suffer.

Doing something physical can help take you out of your head. Things like Qi Gong or Tai Chi. Meditation also can help calm that part of your brain that tends to dwell on things.

But these are approaches that a person can take if they are interested in addressing the problem. In other words, if your girlfriend is asking you what she can do, make suggestions. It may be that she just wants you to listen.
Have you found anything adds text-shadow support to IE?
I know several people who willingly chose Windows 7, and who are knowledgeable about computers.

In fact, 75% of IT people I know could be about right.
It's not just wild predictions far in the future; even next year will usually do you more good than harm. Published predictions aren't meant to have anything to do with the future, they're for your enjoyment here and now[1].

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/hi/futuristic_predictions_as_consuma...