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Whilst I agree it's dangerous to attempt offering people therapy when you don't have the qualifications to back it up, I think you're conflating therapy with helping depressed individuals to recognize their condition so that they may seek therapy.

Believe me I have no desire to rescue people. Been there, tried that. However, part of the problem with people who are depressed is that they don't realise they are depressed. So when you see somebody struggling with dysfunctional thinking you have 3 options:

1. Pretend you have no additional information that can help them and hope they find the appropriate resources themselves.

2. Decide that (1) is unethical and suggest appropriate resources that may help them.

3. If (2) didn't work the last time, acknowledge that sometimes depressed individuals can be either unaware or in denial of the seriousness of their condition. Since you can't force them to seek help, you have the option of asking them the very same questions CBT taught you to ask yourself in the situation. At this point the person hopefully sees the value in what you're doing and is more convinced in the value of your suggestions in (2). At no point do you take it upon yourself to perform therapy.

CBT is based on the idea that we're ultimately rational creatures but sometimes we're not aware of all the factors influencing our cognition. While you ought to have training if you are attempting to perform therapy, you don't need a professional training to point out dysfunctional thinking in someone and point them in the direction of professionals who can perform therapy.
and I would hardly call most of them illusions.
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I'm aware of that. But as I've said, that term still tends to confuse me at first, especially when it's not paired immediately with "web design" or "layout". It's a pretty common word, and this very specific meaning has been around for, what, two years?
Not an idea, but I have to say I was blown away by the first meeting I was in with a company that said they were trying to exit for $1B.

This pretty much summed up my reaction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CEbl9cK3o&t=3m7s
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"Deaf-mute" has mostly fallen out of usage, much like other once-commonplace derogatory classifiers such as "colored", "oriental", and "savage".

Generally speaking, "deaf" = physically deaf, i.e. unable to hear, and "Deaf" = culturally Deaf, i.e. part of a visual-culture / signing linguistic group. Big-D Deafness does not necessarily imply little-d deafness, nor the other way around. Children of Deaf adults, for example, often learn a signed language before an auditory one, despite being physically able to hear. And sadly, many physically deaf children are still deprived of language until quite late in their development.

And, as always, if a Deaf person tells you something that contradicts me, that person is right.

For more info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture
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Proposal for namespace support in Objective-C
I'm happy for you, really. But those who strive for greatness and who invent or discover new concepts also get amazing feelings, and learn amazing things too.

Not to mention that nobody can know everything. If you know everything about programming, you are deluding yourself. And even if you could know everything, there is much to be said of applying concepts from other disciplines to your own. That's how we got Design Patterns.
Dependency on anyone, really. Good for the governments sure, but even better for the kids.

It almost doesn't matter—they don't need anything but a browser these days.
Why do you have a hard time believing that our health care system needlessly bankrupts people?

I'd like to see good evidence that it's a significant problem. You haven't provided any. No one I've asked has provided any, beyond Elizabeth Warren's study and the claim that it's "obvious".

As for "savvy way", it's paying in cash, up front. Prices magically drop when payment is convenient. In my experience, and those of the many uninsured people I know, it's that simple. I'm going to speculate that you don't know very many uninsured people...

(Sadly, there is little data on this. If you have some, I'd love to see it.)
Also has broken usability: the next/prev arrows move underneath my cursor based on the size of the image.

So many lightboxes get this wrong. I don't get what's so hard. Keep the main UI in one place.
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How does this compare to Chrome?
On my iphone, clicking an image opened as a tiny thumbnail at the top right and I couldn't navigate to the other images. A lightbox that worke on desktop and mobile smoothly would be great. But this doesn't see to be it. (and even better, as others note, handled links and herfs nicely.)
This is not new, though. What they're installing is not pure Ubuntu, but Guadalinex, which is a distro created by the Andalusian government in 2003, and which apparently moved from a Debian to an Ubuntu base since then.
Everyone can be part of the 1% if they just work hard enough.
He was also a moderator at SomethingAwful.com. Here's the thread about his passing: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=350...

Corresponding Middle East thread (go to last page for coverage of the incident): http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=339...

There is an article in Eurogamer about him: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-12-us-official-kil...
May I suggest another option?

The Startup Owner's Manual, Elements of Typographic Style, Missing Manual: Photoshop CS5 and Classroom in a Book: Illustrator CS5 are likely to bring in around 30-50$ if you trade them in on Amazon. I'll organize the shipping label and the package slip, you send them to amazon and we share the gift card amount :)
You seem to be confusing rationalisation with rational thinking.

Rational thinking involves making logical deductions from a set of objectives and constraints to determine what actions to take. Ideally some of the constraints will be ethical, and perhaps some of the objectives will be emotional.

Rationalisation involves coming up with reasons to justify a decision that has already been made for other reasons. Perhaps the real reasons do not satisfy the person's conscience. Perhaps the real reasons will not persuade other people. Perhaps the real reasons are emotional and not rational. But the process of inventing these reasons is not allowed to challenge the original decision.
I was saying back in the day in another HN post that the so called Libyan "protesters" were a bunch of crooks and mercenaries picked up and supported to topple Khadaffi. The Libyan case had nothing like the _real_ popular protest in Algeria, Egypt etc.

Why? Because Libya was stable under Khadaffi (as stable as those kind of places get) and people had it relatively very good. And yet he was portrayed like some Dr. Evil plotting to takeover the world, so that the western masses will cheer when he got toppled and foreign interests get the oil and natural resources.

And the very thing was hailed as a "triumph of democracy" etc (what a democracy, when foreign leaders cheer when an adversary is beaten to a pulp -- gone are the days when even Nazi generals were treated with respect by the western officers when captured).

Well, it didn't last long, now, as predicted, Libya will get to be another unstable, civil-war, dogmatic islam nightmarish country.
> And here's the coolest part of the article that completely took me by surprise: "The IETF recently decided with “strong consensus” to adopt Opus as a mandatory-to-implement (MTI) codec for WebRTC, an upcoming standard for real-time communication on the web."

Indeed. There may be interesting side consequences for that. The first article comment asks:

> Interesting! Any idea if this will become mandatory to implement for HTML5 audio as well? That’s another area in sore need of a single format that works everywhere.

This means that if a browser supports WebRTC, it has to support Opus, and it then happens that the codec will be available for <audio>. Now that does not mean that <audio> => Opus support, but it will have a (increasingly with time) high chance to be so.
I bought http://projects.nickstakenburg.com/tipped/ from the same author. Well done and constantly updated, never regretted. Maybe just give it some time.
tl;dr You don't anything about this (I don't either) but you doubt it because there is "economic pressure". Right. The same comment can apply to every single item posted to this website, yoohoo.
It's not perfectly linear in the short term, though what tends to happen is a longer-term cyclical effect rather than spikes.

This makes sense - medical advances won't be widely adopted immediately, then there will be a gradual acceleration of adoption (and improvement rate) once its benefits are proven and costs come down, and then no further contribution to improvements once wide adoption is the norm.

What you also tend to see is that advances affect improvements by year of birth more prominently than by year of discovery. In the UK we have a 'golden cohort' for example, which you could Google for more info.

Spikes do tend to occur during and after big causes of death (spanish flu, world wars) as the improvement rate drops sharply and then recovers again.
I'd rather a direct link from Mozilla... But can't find anything decent. Can anyone help here?
A truly amazing turn of events. How to get into the tech business without being techie.
Neal's plight is not too dissimilar from many a tech entrepreneur learning to code, create, work or monetize their endeavours. The eureka moment for Neal is that he inadvertently realised he wasn't a coder, and became an event marketer. People like the glamour of coding, but it's anything but glamorous. There’s a level of intense curiosity that's required to figure it all out, so if you're struggling to learn 'holed up' at home, chances are it's not right for you, and that's fine.
Neal found his skill, that said, the skills he's selling might not be yours.
Except Parse is much more usable and more productive than AppEngine for regular folks who build mobile and web apps.
Wait, did I just read that correctly? Microsoft is going to make their OS less responsive to the web by disabling JIT for browsers other than IE? IE is horrid, it just makes no sense why they would do this to the detriment of their users. Microsoft... this is why you're a curse word to front end devs.
As an aside ~ I find it an interesting convergence of 'our future' that the man used social engineering / diplomacy / subterfuge to excel in the most cut-throat and blood-thirsty game on the market, where sociopathic tendencies are often required to 'win'.

Oh, and he played EvE well, apparently.

[He "worked IT" for an embassy in a war zone, and modelled complex 'interpersonal' relations in a vast virtual world. We've come a long way from Pong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Carpenter]
I must misunderstand illusion, weren't they artistic interpretations and not illusion?
Probably not -- the 12% fee would severely limit the margin if you tried to trade them.
Here it is: https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2012/09/12/ionmonkey-in-...

They'll also blog on the upcoming weeks about details of the architecture
>It greatly disappoints me that being the biggest public company on the planet isn't enough for them, and they have to start suing everyone.

True, they could have played the "we're getting copied verbatim" card better, and only sue for relevant very technical patents.

I also had a hope that some policies will change for the better under Cook, but I'm not so sure.
Depending on where the factory is it's either good, bad or totally average. China seems to have multiple minimum wages for different areas.
maybe != definitely
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Migrating to Linux on the desktop -- and Ubuntu in particular -- can make a lot of financial sense for all the national and regional governments, school systems, and other governmental bodies which are currently budget-constrained around the planet. While migration can be costly, painful, and disruptive in the short run, the long-term cost savings appear to be substantial.[1]

PS. This is not a new initiative, but a well-established project that recently reached a new milestone: 220,000 is the number of school PCs already running a local flavor of Ubuntu in Andalusia, Spain.

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[1] For instance, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3787539

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Edits: reordered and expanded sentences to present my views in a more organized manner.
- Put the undergarment somewhere in the room

- Divide the room in two: one half that contains the undergarment and the other half

- Go in the middle of the room

- Close your eyes and spin for a while. Then, count one if you are facing the part of the room that contains the undergarment and 0 otherwise

- Reiterate previous step as many times as necessary to build an integer (by binary writing).

Was this an interview question?
Tmpfs considered harmful
Full quote of what Mark Zuckerberg actually said about HTML5
The no JIT is only for the metro interface and ARM based machines - this is only for tablet like machines and is for the same reason apple do the exact same, the apps are all sandboxed and can't write executable memory regions. Normal x86 machines will behave just as they do now.
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The following is probably the inflammatory movie trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmodVun16Q4

It was uploaded over 3 mo ago under a user name identical to the name (Sam Bacile) of the man the BBC identified as the producer of the movie.

Huffington Post says the trailer has been dubbed into Egyptian Arabic, which of course means there are other copies of the video online, which explains why this particular YouTube video has a relatively small number of hits.
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Has anybody ever read "Quelqu'un d'autre" from Tonino Benacquista? This directly stems from an invention in the book.
This may be non-PC, but I think the IQs and maturity of the Quora users and their responses is head and shoulders above those of Yahoo! Answers.

This may be a function of niche vs wide adoption, or real name usage on Quora, but regardless, it's a very apparent effect.
The Republicans had to show they were also hip to social technology after Obama did an AMA on Reddit.
Good catch. I was developing that way in 2005 too.
Funny, I felt the same!

My favourite Portugese to English phrasebook of all time, incidentally, is English As She Is Spoke, which I learned of in Stephen Pile's book, The Book of Heroic Failures, where he comments: "Is there anything in conventional English which could equal the vividness of 'to craunch a marmoset'?"
It's kind of a vague, press-release style answer that is short on details though.
I actually had a great day today. My views on this matter are strong, but they are the evolved result of several years of reading and careful consideration. Certainly you would never have found me espousing such views during the Bush administration, but I've come to reevaluate my previous convictions.

We find ourselves in a clash of civilizations. On the one hand, we have the progeny of the Enlightenment. Despite our flaws, humanity has achieved unthought-of progress as a result of these ideals. On the other, we have fundamentalism characterized by our worst impulses: profound immaturity evidenced by the "you insulted me so now I'll hurt you" behaviour of these people, as well as unthinking supplication to unworthy authorities and adherence to their dictates.

It's worse than that, though. The people who called for and carried out this attack and others like it were not seeking to hurt those who insulted them. Rather, they perceived some offense and so struck out blindly, murdering innocents. This is the very height of immaturity. It is supremely childish, and is behaviour that would be distressing even in a toddler. This is what fundamentalism reduces us to: unthinking animals frothing at the mouth and indulging in our most base tendencies. It strips us of all semblance of civilization, and in so doing degrades the species as a whole.

These two paradigms, civilization and barbarity, are utterly incompatible. They cannot coexist. The unfeeling cruelty engaged in by these fundamentalists is anathema to the very foundations of our society and the human progress it engenders. Where the two cultures meet they will inevitably clash, inevitably with violence.

We must decide whether our values are worth fighting for. Education and economic liberation can only take us so far. Where the scions of hatred and ignorance come at us with arms, we must be prepared to respond in kind, or lose what our forebears fought for.
Well 70 000/1 300 000 * 100% = 5.38%, so it seems Gruber made the error. And yeah someone is wrong.

Unless I'm mistaken and 1.3 million is by some weird definition 13 000 000.
Did you see the bold disclaimer at the top of the article?

It points out that this is a requested op-ed piece and not a normal BBC article. The author of this piece is the guy who writes the fake Steve Jobs blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs". I wouldn't start condemning the BBC just yet.
We live in a society where mental problems are considered to be a spiritual problem, not a medical one. The brain is an organ and organs malfunction. I think the younger people see this and are more likely to get the help and medication they need. It seems to be the +60 year olds who will go to their priest instead of their doctor.
As someone who is currently in a school that uses only free and/or open source software I have to say that this is a terrible idea.

The biggest problem is the teachers, they are not as tech-savvy as the kids and introducing them to a completely new operating system has done nothing but slow them down and cause problems. They are having trouble distributing learning material because they are not familiar with the file formats (and most of the students here are using windows, so compatibility is a problem).

There have also been problems with the personal storage spaces students have on the computer network, people are sometimes unable to log in or unable to access their files. It's been a mess.

I'm all for supporting ubuntu, in fact I've been using an ubuntu variant on my laptop for a few years now without any trouble, but using Ubuntu (or any other OS that isn't Windows or OS X) in a school environment just to cut costs is a recipe for disaster.
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It might be pertinent to add that Booster Boards are a YC company.
#6. Get yourself Resharper.
also, it doesn't save the school any money anyway since they have to hire Network Admins and other IT people with Linux experience
In May, Foxconn’s base salary was $350 per month [1]

So, $350 / 22 working days (per month aprox, assuming 2 days of weekend, I don't know if they have 1 or 2)
=> $15.9 per day. / 10 hours per day
=> $1.59 per hour

Earning $2 for every extra hour... is like earning 1/3 extra per hour. Just to compare, here in Argentina, every extra hour is paid double by law. But I don't know if this is regulated in China...

Anyway, given the kind of job, I wouldn't try to stimulate working extra hours, as attention would decrease too much for this kind of monotonous and precision work. So, it makes sense that they pay little for overtime work.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/china/iphone-manufacturer-foxconn-...
I thought /opt was the new /usr/local, no?
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I don't like the special treatment for builtin data structures either. But if the alternatives are ending up in a mental institution (C++ templates) or in a Potemkin village (Java), I'd rather live with this inconsistency for a while.

Maybe (hopefully!) these are not the only alternatives.
When I see news like this it makes me think of a quote, "Nothing makes a man angrier than to be wrong and know it."
Sam Bacile, Anti-Islam Filmmaker, In Hiding After Protests
The first book about Mitnick was Takedown. It came out right after he was caught.
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Mark is talking. What do you think of his interview?
Sorry, but they've already started the fight. If only they would keep to themselves, I'd have no quarrel with them. The Amish are incredibly religious, but they keep to themselves. I would never say we have to get rid of the Amish Church.

Fundamentalist Islam, like Evangelical Christianity, is not like that. The first threatens our values with bombs, the latter with ballots. Both seek to unmake Western civilization, and remake it in their image. Both must be defeated. The only difference is that the Evangelicals are not yet blowing people up, and so our response to them need not be so firm. Make no mistake, though, our society simply isn't compatible with religious fundamentalism, and so it must be subdued and eradicated. In most places, we can do that with education, dialogue, and economic development. In others, it will require armed resistance.
Come for the X, stay for the Y
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I think that the term "Airport lavatory signage" is quite fitting.

It is quite pleasing, does the job, but does not excite anyone. People like it, but do not love it. Just like the old Android design, before Holo.
The context wasn't really necessary. I think we all believe HTML5 has a great future. Hardware gets better at a rapid rate and HTML5 (CSS, Javascript, etc) is still improving. The point is, and was, that it's probably best to produce native apps at this time, for the majority of apps. Facebook, for example, needs a 5 star app.
Being on the Maker schedule doesn't imply being awake at 3 AM.
> they don't need anything but a browser these days

Sure, assuming you only want the next generation of young adults to be able to look things up on Google and use Facebook.

When my school tried to teach me how to use MS Word (I was 13) I laughed. I already knew everything there was to know about it.

Of course none of this was innate, nor did I know it just because I was young. Eight years earlier when I was having my first play with computers (much to their detriment) and I would play, yes play with word processors. I didn't have anything to write but I learned WordPerfect. I learned MS Word. Hell, I learned most of MS Office and several versions in-between my first encounter and my Year 9 ICT training.

The newest generation is growing up on touch devices. It's great for the arts, I suspect but it's the end of kids who'll just load up a Word processor just to see how it works. They'll need to be taught.
The Apple Supplier Responsibility 2012 Progress Report [1] is worth a read.

[1] http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/Apple_SR_...
If that is true, why don't they have robots already? I know they are planning[1], however that kind of work seems to be very easily replaced by a robot (who will have a far higher accuracy and less failure rate than humans especially for the task the journalist describes).

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robot...
Statement from Secretary of State: http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2012/09/197630.htm
I think this is obvious to most people. No need to feed the trolls.