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It's the BSD approach that's divergent. /usr/local is supposed to belong to programs that have been manually installed by the administrator. BSD's awkward and frankly unhelpful split between packages and ports means they need one more level of hierarchy than linux (rather than package-managed programs and manually installed programs, you have package-managed programs, ports-managed programs and manually installed programs); unfortunately they've taken over /usr/local for the ports-managed programs, leaving you with nowhere for manually installed programs. And while ports purports to support a configuration variable for changing where ports software gets installed to, it must not get tested because a number of programs break if you try and actually use it.
post hoc ergo propter hoc

Religion is in the chain of events, but it's just a carrier. That's why I think it's not about religion but totally related to the political tensions. They just needed an excuse to take violent actions. It could have been something totally different for the exact same effect, an official insulting an inhabitant, a driver doing a hit and run, a cultural misunderstanding...

I'll admit my original reply was a little bit of an aphorism for the sake of the punchline.
Indeed, Go goes much further than Java before 1.5, since it does allow you to specify types for maps, lists, and channels.

Still, it would be nice if you wrote, say a matrix package, that you could simply specialize data structures for double or single precision. You see such shortcomings in the standard library as well, for instance for the ParseFloat string conversion functions in strconv, you have to specify the number of bits of the data type. It would be much better if the return type was some generic type for fractional numbers. Now, if you want to have a single precision double, you have to specify that you want to have a 32-bit float and then cast it to a float32.

That said, I believe that Go needs generics, but I'd rather see them implement them properly than to rush.
Browser vendors are trying to do too much. Innovation needs to move from top-down to bottom-up. Browser vendors need to provide just basic access to bare metal and let OSS do the rest.

One way to help is to ask for lower level OS apis to be exposed by browsers, so that the open source community can do the rest:

1. Ask for UDP to be exposed to trusted web apps installed by the user. This will let the P2P community race ahead without having to wait for WebRTC to get released and then fixed.

2. Ask for TCP to be exposed to trusted web apps installed by the user. This will instantly enable things like SMTP clients running in the browser without the need for WebSocket proxies/proprietary gateway servers.

3. Ask for POSIX to be exposed to trusted web apps installed by the user. This will lead to an explosion of database innovation in the browser. IndexedDB is design-by-committee. Insist on proper POSIX not the FileSystem API. Borrow from the Node API. Impedance mismatch is crippling browser storage.

4. Low-hanging fruit: ask for LevelDB to be exposed directly (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128865). Most of the browser vendors are using LevelDB underneath IndexedDB, and just exposing LevelDB directly would already be a huge leap forward. No need to wait for the many IndexedDB bugs to get fixed by browser vendors.
> On every update it seems to be getting more optimized, less buggy, and introduces new features (sometimes interesting) that make you want to give it a go.

Well, that doesn't counter rimantas' argument, it's just that Ubuntu still has some distance to pass before it will reach maturity.
The example was very simple but basically it was correct. The difference is, in CBT it is a lot deeper, there is more going on. You will work on discovering where certain thought patterns come from, what triggers them and that alone can be very helpful. And then you will work on changing these patterns.

It is not so much someone "slim" berating a fat person; therapists actually don't tell you what to do or think and they never judge you. In CBT they interact with you a little more than in psychoanalysis but you never get told "that's just because you are lazy!"... but you would discover e.g. you are (ab)using food as an escape mechanism to counter fear, anxiety or depression. By knowing that, you already have your finger on a harmful behavior you might not have understood before and then you can do something against it. But it all comes 80-90% from you, the patient. The therapist helps you understand what's going on, they can frame or re-frame situations for you, give you a different insight or share stories of other patients in similar situations. Often, the real problems are things, thought patterns which have been with you your whole life and typically were established when you were a child; you aren't even aware of them, they have always felt and come natural to you. You just end up feeling bad, afraid or depressed but all the behavior and patterns ultimately leading to that feel normal and "right", natural.

And at the very least, the fact you are talking about your problems and there is someone who actively listens can be beneficial.

Also, no, this is NOT something "a friend would just do for you", no matter how much it might seem like that at first. I made the mistake to listen, to show empathy to a severely depressed and suicidal friend and it caused a chain-reaction in my own mind to the point where I now firmly and consciously tell myself that I will never ever do that again for anyone. Not because empathy for friends was wrong in any way but because in a very selfish, very self-preserving way I do not want to bleed energy and thoughts into a black hole and when people who are so close to the edge ever open up then that's what they are... they cannot help it. But you best let an expert deal with it, it will be much better for you and the person suffering. I know this sounds terrible and cold but I think it is for the best for everyone involved. Be there for the one suffering but don't attempt to be an armchair-therapist to them, don't become their dump for all their negative emotions and problems. It WILL overwhelm you and will show you a side of life and the human mind that you cannot un-see.
Ask HN: what's your policy for sharing on Github?
I'm a contract dev and sometimes I would like to contribute and make pull requests to projects on Github while I work.

Supposing it's OK for the company to share that bit of work, how do you usually manage it user-wise? Do you use your own personal user? Does the company create one for you?

I think there is no official way on Github of publishing something keeping my identity, but referencing the company where I was working, so that both can have credit. Am I wrong?
Tech press often gets it wrong. The Galaxy Note "phablet" was another example. The original reviews called it ridiculous, but they actually sold well. And I've seen a lot of seemingly happy users with them.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/16/3246378/samsung-galaxy-not...

10 million is of course not iPhone-big, but then again, this is just one phone in Samsung's lineup. And it is more than Nokia has sold all their Lumias, for instance.
Does it really work?

Statistically, CBT combined with medication is currently the most effective clinical treatment for depression. Personally, having tried a number of sessions, I think it works very well for some, and not so well for others. If your tendency is to blame yourself for things that are beyond your control, it may be a great aid. If instead you want to understand the world so as to make it better, CBT probably isn't a good choice.

I'm seeing people throw blame all the time, precisely because it's easier to cope with failure.

See, you've already got it. Stop there.

But it's not healthy to pass the blame,

Why? The studies seem to show that for most any measure of 'health', it is better not to blame yourself for the mistakes you make. You'll be happier, and live longer. You (and I) might wish that taking personal responsibility would always be the better choice, but statistically it's often not.

My conclusion was that CBT is effective to the extent that you are willing to give up on the concept of truth. People who train themselves to see only the positive are happier than those that insist on truth. I decided that truth was more important to me than happiness, dropped the CBT, and stuck with the meds.
Are the new form factors boring? A little.

Would people be going on about how boring they were if Steve Jobs were around? I doubt it.

The biggest problem Apple faces right now is that people expect them to lose their magic now that Steve Jobs is gone. Then as they watch Apple confirmation bias sets in and articles like this are written.

Apple is pretty well equipped to continue leading the tech sector, but this perception people have is going to be a major problem.
If you have some savings and are passionate about it: Why not? I have done the same thing. Is it a success? Well, from an experience side it very much is, financial or carreer: Don't know yet.

Two things I would advice:
- Give yourself somekind of milestone and target date to help keep focus (for instance, working prototype and share with 10 bloggers in 2 months)
- Get out there: Go to meetups, etc. Not to sell your thing, but to meet people and when they ask share your idea, progress, experiences and see what questions and advice/ideas they have.

Good luck: It can be awesome!
Richard, I'm very much from the artist community back here in India. Used to be singer songwriter & frontman of my band. Most of the artists that we have on board right now are predominantly from here. But we've seen good number of signups from artists outside India as well. So reaching out to a larger crowd is what we've considered.

Agree on the value proposition & UI! We need to fix it like ASAP! Thanks for the feedback!
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This entire "article" gave me a bad taste in my mouth. The LEAST this guy could do is actually wait for Apple to do their Keynote. Now he's responding to rumors and leaks. I suppose it's no fun to write an article based on things like facts.

I think the Passbook alone could create a surge in new Apps. Here's an article about just that: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2012/09/04/apples-ios-6-passbo...
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You are absolutely right. As much as I hate religion (and I hate it very much), outbursts of violence are not exclusive to religions. Think Breivik or Ramil Safarov, who cold-bloodedly killed two guys because they were Armenian [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramil_Safarov

[edit]: I stand corrected, Breivik was actually islamophobic.
Not sure if relevant but have you tried "EMDR"? (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)

From own experience, I can say this is nothing short of magic and voodoo but it does work.
Do something! Talk to someone; start with someone you trust (not necessarily a doctor). Catalog your history, list the duration and severity of every time you were depressed enough to impact your school, job, or social life. You're doing this with someone because this is serious trigger territory. If you're on the edge, then do this with a therapist.

Don't try to diagnose yourself from this: the point is to let it sink in that you have an issue, and it's not going to get better unless you do something. Don't skip this step. Now that you're convinced, start hacking at the problem.

I recommend http://www.amazon.com/The-Depression-Cure-Program-without/dp...; but do your own research, talk to people, get better. Get better every day. You'll fail several times along the way; have people you can count on for help. Get better every year.

Maybe it will be an easy, short road for you. Maybe it will be a life-long struggle. That's okay, just make sure you live long enough to find out; it will be worth it. There's only one thing you need to know: problems you ignore won't go away.
What I'm not able to reconcile is if the despair and anxiety resulting from nihilism is something that should be treated. I'm a staunch believer in existential nihilism (and hence believe life is inherently purposeless and pointless), so time to time it gives a sharp tinge of sadness on the lines of _why am I existing at all_. It's not a suicidal feeling, but very close to it. I have (rightly, so) convinced myself of all sorts of Nihilistic conclusions such as subjective morality, consciousness and free will as not being special rather an illusion and byproduct of evolution, cosmos being huge and indifferent, etc. etc. This belief definitely gives freedom in the sense that you aren't bound by any assumptions, so you can do whatever you desire. But it also leads to slight, nagging, constant sense of unhappiness.

Running a startup being a Nihilist is sort of a difficult task, and once I had blogged about here: http://paraschopra.com/blog/personal/startups-and-nihilism-d... -- I tend to agree with Camus on his Absurdist stance, but treating for having such a correct, depressing stance is something I still haven't come to terms with.

Any thoughts on what do mental disorders really mean, or what does treatment of those disorders really mean? My current opinion is that if happiness means blocking or ignoring certain truths (via medication or treatment), then that is preferable. But I'm still undecided on that.
Well, I have different distros on my home computers, and I switch between Mint, OpenSuse and Ubuntu on a daily basis. But Ubuntu is really nicely put together, and while I realize Unity is definitely slower than the rest, on the hardware I run it it is still fast enough for most of what I do, so I do not mind it so much. Sorry to hear you have a hard time to get Ubuntu working well...
betaout - That's by far the most kindest feedback we've got till now. Thanks for that. We'll put all these suggestions to work for sure!
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I don't know, maybe it indeed works, but the problem is you have to believe what you keep telling yourself and that's hard. In regards to seeing the real world and your place in it for what it is, I think that the extremes are hurtful.

For instance many of us here posses an over average intelligence (whether we were born with it, or we acquired it through hard work that's another discussion). Also, many of us here have overinflated egos because of that.

I remember seeing case-studies of smart people that weren't as accomplished as they should be because of fear of failure and rejection. Continually telling your child that she's smart will overinflate her ego, expecting nothing but success after success. A few years later the real world kicks in, and this is a recipe for stress and depression. Another thing that happens is that many of us here are the smartest amongst our acquaintances. This creates sampling-bias; you genuinely start thinking that you are amongst the smartest people alive. But then you start competing with a global pool of other smart people, because of globalization and the Internet, and you witness how you're just a grain of sand on a beach full of smarter people that are more accomplished from a younger age.

I prefer intermediate thoughts rather than blame others. "I should work harder" works better for me than "teacher was in a bad mood", because the first statement might always be true, while the second statement I know deep-down in my gut that it's just an excuse.
I'm having a hard time following the point you are making, especially since the Al Jazzera footage is from Cairo and Vile Rat died in Bengazhi.
I read Seligman's book about optimism as well. He studied insurance salespeople for a time, which I think influences a lot of the advice. The best salespeople had a modicum of self-preserving delusion. Not enough to ignore correctable problems with their own performance, but enough to endure all the rejections one gets as a salesperson.

This advice is clearly more applicable to sales than to, say, spacecraft design. But maybe more things are like sales than we think.

Seligman's book is challenging to a hacker personality because he is saying that there's some information which it's best not to ruminate about. Many hackers are naturally inclined to perfectionism: analyze failures, perfect the technique before daring to try again. But a lot of success in life might just be about sheer persistence; trying again without dwelling on failures too much.
>For example, I really would like to have some sort of standard widget library in order to develop GUI applications

So, what's the best candidate for GUI applications? I think we also need an IDE or at least a form builder akin to Visual Studio and WinForms, it's so easy to work on GUI applications and write prototypes it's ridiculous how other projects aren't copying this.
The issue is that treating dates as keys makes it hard to model normal intuitions about time when constructing queries.

You might find this talk informative: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/shasha/papers/jagtalk.html
"This may or may not be a spat, but it looks suspiciously like when two tribes who were happily expanding across virgin tundra suddenly find they are jostling each other for space."

Speaking of analogies, that's a great one. I'll have to remember it and use it myself!
Disappointed to see no mention of GNU Stow there, very handy for /usr/local having multiple version of foo installed and being able to make one of them current, e.g. rewind if a new one breaks things. http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
I really dislike languages which decide to bless some special data-structures, but then won't let me add my own generic data structures.

Of course, I really love data structures, so I can understand other people who just want to get on with things, and are happy to slightly abuse some built-in data structures to get most of the way there.
How many of these were brought to Burning Man this year?
cstrat: You've hit it on the head. That's exactly what we have planned. We'll soon be putting out profiles of artists and their new releases up on the website. We've already requested our fellow friends (bands,writers) to start contributing & save our asses! :)

And No doubt, no one will ever pay for something like this, unless they exactly know what they're getting in return! So we haven't or say won't ask for it until we have something to show for!
How the film industry shaped the booming startup scene in New Orleans.
I've been looking for something to replace Fancybox for a while, so this looks like a nice option.
I was initially diagnosed with a Major Depressive Disorder; my first round of SSRIs sent me into a manic episode. That was enough to get me diagnosed with Bipolar II. I question whether that was an accurate diagnosis; my experience with bipolar medication was pretty awful, and with behavioral treatments (CBT and environmental changes) I seem to do okay without them, which is much more rare for people who suffer from Bipolar than for people who suffer from MDD.
Opus is royalty-free, in contrast to mp3. And it will be used in WebRTC. I can see some devices picking up Opus to support WebRTC and possibly some (not portable music players, obviously) dropping mp3.

Obviously neither you nor I have a crystal ball, but I see Opus as the PNG of audio codecs - not displacing the lousy but entrenched de-facto standard (GIF/mp3), but slowly taking over at the technological edge.
The way I understand it, the 's' in "/sbin" does not stand for "system", but for "superuser" - essential system tools which need superuser privileges (insmod, ifconfig, fsck, ...)

/bin should contain all the non-privileged essential tools for system to boot up and execute all its initscripts - stuff like echo, cat, grep, awk, sed, chmod and many other everyday tools.
In addition, it should contain tools which will allow you to repair a broken system in minimal environment (where only / is available to you). So, stuff like ls, mount, gunzip, dmesg, ...
The Stock Market is bigger and more impactful than sports, but I wouldn't say cheating in sports is less serious. There is a LOT of money moving around in sports (Superbowl, BCS, etc.) and having the best (doping or non doping players) turns into dollars. The total impact is less, but I don't think you can wave it away.
Yeah so the NYT says an Israeli-American named Sam Bacile raises funds and directs an anti-Islam movie and posts the trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmodVun16Q4&feature=youtu...) on July 2. The first Arabic comments are from 2 months ago. 11k views and 2 months later protests erupt at the American embassy in Cairo and consulate in Benghazi.

Edit: Video has been pulled from youtube but the account(http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4DjVszAn4GAyzgsjtkJONg) it was uploaded by links(ed) to this google+ account (https://plus.google.com/u/0/100558867757140477111/posts) of Sam Bacile who has one person in his circle. This man (https://plus.google.com/u/0/110003734376972911289/posts) Mohamed Hamed El-Sherbini according to his g+ works for something called the Arab Parliamentary newspaper and attended Mansoura University.
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I turned my monitor upside-down and it didn't do anything- is it broken?
Get the first world to stop meddling in the third world.
Especially, stop overthrowing their governments.

The jihadi loon "freedom fighters" who are now running around in Libya and Syria were created in Afghanistan when James Bond, Rambo and Zbigniew Brzezinski decided that it was a really good idea to annoy the Russians by giving Stinger missiles to Osama Ben Laden.
What could possibly go wrong?

Note: AlQaeda are Islamo-Reaganites, not Islamo-Fascists. Mussolini wasn't much involved.

ADDENDUM: Let's overthrough Ghaddafi and leave Libya in jihadi militia-ridden chaos, What could possibly go wrong?
Many people thought Ubuntu was a mature product until Unity came along. The blowback from that also explains why Apple seeks to refine, rather than reinvent. OSX has looked pretty much the same for 10 years, compared to MS' constant reinvention of Windows. The MacBook Pro hasn't really changed since the unibody update, although the Retina might be a sign of things to come. Hell, the Mac Pro hasn't changed its appearance in forever.

Apple's MO seems to be to iterate over prototypes until they get something they're happy with, then release it and give it minor updates as it matures. The only two products I can think of that buck this trend are the iPod and iPhone, and the rapid changes in the former were simply the result of massive miniaturization of the requisite technologies, and the emergence of capacitive touch screens.
I read an interesting report (I think it was from McKinsey) about different tech clusters around the world, and which had succeeded or failed. One major theme (as the report was mainly aimed at policy makers) was government support; was it helpful or harmful?

One finding was that when it came to financial support for startups, government acting alone (ie allowing some random beauracrats to decide which startups to give grants to) was counter-productive. But working with VC firms (ie governments investing in VC firms or some kind of matched investment scheme) generally saw good results. (Passion Capital in the UK and various initiatives in Israel were both given as examples IIRC).
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Sahil, thanks for the feedback! :)
We are surely going to be patient ducks for as long as it takes! I think Pinterest has done us all a favor by being role models!
I didn't know this conference existed until about 5 minutes ago, and Session 1 is something like an obscure personal favorite topic of mine, so my intellectual curiosity has been greatly gratified. At least until I switch to Reddit.