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No one taught middle school kids how to deal with emotions.

That's because the adults around them don't know how to deal with them.

We are educated in a math & science heavy society. That's good. However, it puts the focus on evidence. Emotions don't leave much of a trace unless you act on it. So we use behavior resulting from emotion as evidence of reality and ignore the experience of reality.

Then we say, "be real" and cut off an entire spectrum of reality -- that of experiencing emotions.

These are the makings of the shadow side, the Jungian shadows. When you disown or suppress experiences, then they get stronger.

So yes. We have not grown up because we don't know how. Or at least, no one told you how.

You cannot "get over" negativity. That's a form of rejecting something you don't want to feel. The only way out is to accept the experience of it as is, without rationalizing it and without acting on it. That's probably the hardest thing you will ever do in your life, but the most important if you want to grow as a person.

There are several methods by which one can do this. One of them, called vipassana, was taught to some prisoners with great results (http://www.dhammabrothers.com/). However, you don't need to be a criminal to use this.
Firstly, thank you for your humanity.

There's a guy on Quora named Michael Santos that spent 25 years in prison for drug dealing. He was released last August. While incarcerated, he got his degree, got married, and wrote a book. He has written extensively on the prison experience, and how one can come out on top. He's also quite willing to answer any questions:

http://www.quora.com/Michael-Santos-4

You may have to sign up to Quora to read his answers, but it's totally worth it, if just for his perspectives alone.

Once again, I salute you for what you're doing. I don't know if you've seen the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption', but there's something very "Andy Dufresne" about what you're doing. Through your humanity, you're giving this man dignity. Salaam.
first i though it was Amazon website , after clicking i saw url which is different .
Really seeing 294+ upvotes in hackernews i can phished .
It took me several days to get an unlock code from T-Mobile, for a phone I'd paid for unsubsidized. And, they make a big deal out of the process, and make a lot of noise about possibly being unable to provide unlock codes if they don't have them.

That's not to say T-Mobile isn't better than some other carriers. As I understand it, they are. But, I shouldn't have to ask permission to use my phone, that I paid $600 for, in Mexico for a few weeks, while I continue to pay for my US service.

Making unlocking a phone yourself illegal is anti-consumer and pro-corporate in ways that I find extremely distasteful and it makes me angry that the US state serves corporate interests so much more enthusiastically than individual interests.
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Looks like it's worth avoiding Barracuda appliances even after this patch, since they're retaining the "remote" account.

As to why they did this -- feature checklist compatibility with Huawei and ZTE is my guess.

Remember most of these do intercept -- they have an SSL CA cert which is trusted by all your business client devices, to do MITM. So, if you pwn the box, you can pwn all the SSL traffic at the target company, too. It's an excellent place to attack.
Just a thought I had, and maybe someone can help me, but if a convicted felon has a hard time getting an apartment, can they start an LLC (or any other business entity) and then have the business rent the apt? I'm assuming the management would still like to see see financial history, so probably an aged LLC or corp would be best?
AT&T also has this policy. Sprint and Verizon will not, but CDMA phones don't work in most places around the world anyway.
It is open source. If a project does not move forward then commit code to it.
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profit?
Or, he might be able to use freelancing online to establish a working relationship with a company that would hire him directly. It is just tough, the money is terrible and I think this guy is going to need more structure than working from home will provide. Self-starting is hard for anyone and our friend has had every minute regulated for the past 18 years.
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Best explanation of this project: http://gigaom.com/2013/01/24/russias-yandex-releases-wonder-...
From some years ago, in pre-smart phone days, stories from Europe would be somewhat transfixing.

'When I became unhappy with my current provider / traveled to another country / didn't want a monthly plan and fixed fee, I simply bought a different SIM and popped it in.'

You mean, you changed your cell service by changing the 'memory card'? You didn't have to pay $40/month (or equivalent) for 90 minutes of phone calls? You're not locked into a 2 year contract? You don't get caught and screwed over with roaming fees (remember those)? (Different SIM card for the different country.) THEY DON'T $0.10, $0.20, WHATEVER PER TEXT MESSAGE?

I'm probably forgetting many of the other "astonishing" differences.

All you needed to do was have an "average" U.S. person talk for 2 minutes with an "average" European about cell phone use, and the American was ready for a change.

P.S. I realize this is sarcastic, but I suppose this change will end up getting someone charged with a felony for "hacking", at the DOJ's or other law enforcement organization's convenience.
That's moralizing. Punishment is something parents do to their kids or churches do to their congregants. I certainly understand why people strongly believe the prison system should be used to try to balance the grand metaphysical scales of justice, but I tend to think it should be used to make society safer and better.

Thinking that criminal justice should be about personal punishment, not social outcomes, is what leads to people being thrown in prison for selling sex or consuming drugs.
His felony wouldn't be a big deal for employers who would potentially be sending him into people's homes on a regular basis?

I have to strongly disagree with that one.
I haven't ever had locked phone, and I won't have one in future either. What's the problem. If you don't want locked phone, don't buy one.
In that case, maybe I'm wrong. If it is really true that the base cost of living has risen compared to real wages, then I'm wrong. I wonder if someone were able to only buy amenities and luxuries to create a standard of living comparable to the median standard of living in 1970, would it cost more or less in real wages? Or the same? My premise was that it would cost less even though real wages have not risen, because one would not have to buy as much to live like 1970 compared to how the average US citizen lives today. Similar to how mobile phones, computers, and the like are cheaper today. But if it's true that 1970's-comparable housing, health care, education, etc. costs have all risen, then you're right... the standard of living in some ways could be considered to be lower today than in 1970. Which is really effed up.
I've already got the app. It's awesome guys. I will say though I hope the app store search allows you just to search 'vine' because I had to search 'vine made' to get the app to show.
If you turn off the phone and leave it in a drawer you will pay the minimum fees. The phone companies are aiming for the maximum. That is having you go over the limits, pay roaming etc. By letting you unlock the phone it opens the door for always receiving only the minimum. This is what they want to avoid.
If the minimum average IQ for a major is X, then there will be many students in that major with IQs less than X.

Also, keep in mind that the study is deriving IQ from students' performance on standardized tests. These tests are primarily intended to measure education, rather than intelligence, and so this might simply be showing that the average education level of college students is higher than the average of the general population.

If they wanted to be honest about the reliability of their data, they would have left the IQ column off completely.
I'll definitely suggest the blog to him. While researching his situation I came across someone on Quora who was just recently released after 25 years. He writes extensively on the subject you're curious about:

http://michaelsantos.com/

http://www.quora.com/Michael-Santos-4
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You have to get into the GNU mindset here:

If you consider non-free software immoral and your ultimate goal is to outlaw it, providing libraries which can be used by proprietary software makes you guilty of aiding and abetting.
Too easily defeated. Simple Faraday cage and this device will never complete a call to 911.
"If I see something I don't like, whether it's on the internet, at work, or just in general, I will usually say I don't like it."

Regarding the views of the larger public who don't know you, who cares what your feelings are?

If your goal is to reflect your driven, passionate, intelligent nature to affect the public, then what's more relevant is WHY you don't like it - what, specifically is problematic in your experience. Getting to that point isn't white-lie, pc, or bending over backward to be polite - it's simply more relevant.

Utility-wise, isn't it more efficient to share that stuff, and just skip the "it sucks, it stinks, it's awful" comments? I don't know how you actually communicate since I haven't noticed other comments of yours but in general it seems to me that there's a major difference between venting and informative criticism - and mixing them can definitely reduce your efficiency in positively affecting others.
> The Free Software Foundation was contacted about making LibreDWG GPLv2+ instead (since the FSF is the copyright holder), but the FSF/Richard Stallman doesn't the DWG library on the earlier version of their own open-source license.

Doesn't the what?
Is there a reason you chose to drop a class and not just do it in your free time and take a hit on your GPA for the semester?
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Saying "nobody's going to hire an ex-felon, wash dishes" is very encouraging guys. :S

This is someone who already has paid his debt to society. Why continue to damn him after he's trying to work his way up again. I'd rather be naive and give someone like him a second chance. Unfortunately I don't have a lot to offer at the moment but I can seem to remember from the "Help HN, I'm homeless" thread that there are many people on HN who are willing (and able) to help someone out in need.
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RMS's comments in a recent Slashdot interview are worth noting:

http://features.slashdot.org/story/13/01/06/163248/richard-s...

"What project is using the wrong license?
by gQuigs

...

RMS: If I could magically change one program to GPLv3, it would be Linux. ... Another program that is important to convert is LibreCAD. This is more than a fantasy: the developers of LibreCAD are working on replacing the old GPLv2-only code that they included, so as to switch to GPLv3-or-later. Would you like to help?"
Thanks, I wasn't aware it was an option. My experience is solely from staring at it in sundry repositories.
My team at large megacorp has 2 Bootstrap designed products, one I created, and one an intern created after I showed him Bootstrap. Everyone thinks it's some of the best design they've seen out of an internal project in a while. None of them have ever heard of Bootstrap, and none of them care that it looks like other Bootstrap websites.
The first time I heard the song was sometime in December on KROQ in LA. I heard it on the radio before I heard about all this internet hype it is getting, but then I don't follow a lot of music blogs.
Not to mention the fact that Torvalds, Jobs and Gates all used their frank and forthright exchange with people they worked with, whom they knew, and who knew the deal in working for them. That is quite different from blasting opinions at strangers over twitter.
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Open source software is fantastic, I've made code public and free to use, I build on open source, I've committed to open source and done crazy bug hunts. I love open source.

I cannot stand the GPL, it's an absolute unworkable nightmare. It's set out to achieve something fantastic and it's been ruined, it's so heavy handed that in the real world it's now meaning developers will avoid it rather than deal with it as there's so many gotchas like this.
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Maybe fido has different policies, but typically if your phone has the right radios, your carrier will let you "roam", and they charge you for the privilege. This means you should get service in the states, it just costs a lot of money.
My name's not "Ma&euml;l" (in the header) :)

There is an annoying red dot on the news feed, but even if I click on it, it doesn't disappear

I have linked my twitter account but it still asks to "connect a platform to start"

[edit] It's probably because the data have not been imported yet. Maybe you should display another message, it's confusing

But it sounds interesting ! Do you plan adding a driver for Piwik ?
Your answers are found in the saga of the readline wars (where every imaginable method to run around the GPL and make it meaningless has been tried).

Broadly speaking the rule of thumb is that if something makes use of internal knowledge of GPL code implementation or function (i.e. unique data structures/objects/functions that are not considered "standard"), it's considered a derivative work (this is also how the Linux kernel approaches GPL vs non-GPL drivers, too). If all it were to take was to adapt and repackage a GPL project as a dynamically loaded library, the GPL would be meaningless.

In my mind, the really hairy area is where certain projects seem to be allowed to define "public" APIs that surrender GPL protection and allow use of closed binary libraries (i.e. the Linux kernel's public driver interface or Octave's MEX interface). Or what happens when the BSD folks just copy your API and re-implement everything (undermining the uniqueness of the GPL software's internals)? Don't bring this up to the FSF though, they suddenly switch from being eloquent to pretending to be dense.
A good friend of mine is a felon and a union master electrician. He makes a decent living, when there's work, and his past doesn't seem to make a difference to his employers. There are definitely many paths one can take; code is a really good one, let's be honest, but it's not the only one.
It probably depends on exactly what the crime was, but bank robbery or fraud are going to be tough.

(I'd be ok with hiring someone with a manslaughter conviction or other thing if it were not calling character into question. Or, something like a principled hacking conviction would probably be ok in most roles, although clients often care about felony status.)
Djb redo[1], a make alternative, feels like a good fit for these type of data manipulation and dependency representations. Below is a port of the first example. The build script is just shell, so you can do stuff like embed python with a heredoc. One bit of syntactic sugar is that redo assumes stdout is the desired contents of the generated file, so you don't need to explicitly pipe to an OUTPUT variable.

#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
contracts.csv)
curl http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/eqr/soft-tools/sample-csv/contract.txt
;;
evergreens.csv)
redo-ifchange contracts.csv
grep Evergreen contracts.csv
;;
report.txt)
input=evergreens.csv
redo-ifchange $input
python2 <<-EOF
linecount = len(file("$input").readlines())
print("File $input has {0} lines.\n".format(linecount))
EOF
;;
esac

[1] https://github.com/apenwarr/redo
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well it would be a DMCA violation, so you'd be subject to those penalties http://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/faq.cgi#QID...
>> "Prisons are also used as punishment, but that's a side-effect. There are other ways of having a non-violent (or no longer violent) person repay his debt to society."

Is this accurate? Depriving someone of normal civilian rights seems pretty punitive to me. And regarding other ways for people to repay their debts to societies: I'm interested in hearing what else we could be doing with these people.
It probably depends on exactly what the crime was, but bank robbery of fraud are going to be tough.

(I'd be ok with hiring someone with a manslaughter conviction or other thing if it were not calling character into question. Or, something like a principled hacking conviction would probably be ok in most roles, although clients often care about felony status.)
If anyone is writing a post on this, I took some photos at the announcement event of the Minister which are released under CC.

http://500px.com/zachaysan/sets/startup_visa
>The real issue is what happens after you've completed the 18 or 24 month contract. The carrier recouped their subsidy on the phone and has profited from your contract. But you can't use your phone (which you have more than paid for) on any other network.

I'm not so sure this is true. Carriers will allow you to unlock your phone once your contract is up, and according to this DMCA law, it is legal to unlock your phone if your carrier allows you to do so.
You're wrong. The whole system should be based on crime prevention, not punishment.

There should be better predictors of how likely a person is going to repeat the crime and keep him locked up for that amount of time. Also, predictors of how likely it is for someone to make their first crime, so it could be prevented in the first place.

I'm pretty sure that it's possible to predict future criminals from their Facebook data etc, and just send those people somewhere else where their environment matches their behavior.
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It's at least not as bad on an iPad 4 as it was on an iPad 1; it doesn't crash Safari immediately.
Why would hardcore libertarians defend laws like these? It's an obvious market restriction.
Ask HN: Tips for Startup Weekend
I am attending Startup Weekend in Calgary (way up in Canada!) as a developer. Anybody from HN going??

Just wondering if anyone has any tips/tricks/suggestions people have for Startup Weekends in general!

Note: I am currently a student / novice hacker. I've gathered some of my peers / novice hackers together from school, we are thinking of attending together as a group. Do you recommend us to stick together as a group or fan out? Should we practice anything together / standardize on some kind of platform so we can act efficiently as a team?

Other things I've though of:
-prep dev machine/environment (prep RoR / NodeJS / Python)
-dev warm-up / standardize on platform

Any other suggestions would be welcome! Thanks.
the reason why not many people know who Markov is is that sometimes he is hidden. And a hidden markov can be quite elusive.
I see a career in code as being one based on merit, versus others that are based on credentials or politics. I believe that if he can make things that people appreciate, then the money will follow. In theory, right?
It's a shame that Twitter decided to roll their own solution to this problem instead of using schema.org or other existing semantic markup. I'd be interested in knowing what didn't work for them about the existing standards.
> What people lack of understanding is that prisons are not real punishment for those who are actually there. Some of them might even like it. So, prisons are not efficient in punishment nor rehabilitation.

Maybe they're not effective punishment or rehabilitation, but I would certainly say they're an effective deterrent. They might not be a punishment for anyone in there, but they could still be (and at least in my case, certainly are) seen as a punishment for some people who aren't in there. I would bet that a prison sentence is a much better deterrent than, say, volunteer hours or a fine. Whether deterring bank robberies is a valuable enough goal is a matter of opinion I suppose.

Obviously this is all conjecture, if someone can pull up a study showing that prison sentences don't have any deterrent effect over other forms of punishment then I'd accept that I'm wrong... But I'd be somewhat shocked if that were the case.
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A large percentage of work for plumbers, electricians, HVAC, etc. is in new construction. It might be an issue for some employers, but it won't be for others.
Make was a major inspiration for us, and so Drake definitely has similarities to Make. The differences you list were non-trivial to us in usefulness, but of course YMMV. Also, there are a lot of (possibly) interesting future features described in the spec.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bF-OKNLIG10v_lMes_m4yyaJ...
Congrats! I've been using SimpleNote (iPhone) for years with Notational Velocity and quite happy with the sync.
Yeah there actually is- Financial aid $$ for the drone stuff :) I figure if I'm going to get it, I might as well put it to good use.
I think that's called hole punching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_punching
Hi. Author here.

> and i don't want to be that guy,

Nah. Be that guy. They are all valid questions.

> unless the type system (not mentioned here)

I had bits in about the type system but it got cut cause, well, it was too long. It has static types, (not many, the basic types required to parse json) plus first order functions. There are no user defined types beyond ad-hoc via maps/vectors. And it has "strong" typing and does type inference.

> but surely this screams out to be implemented in lisp

One of the reasons this developed into its own language is historical. It started off very, very simple and slowly evolved into a domain-specific language. But there are a set of design requirements that complicate the situation: 1) easy to deploy changes and patch running instances (response time is critical), 2) embedding in a service, interoperatibility with the service, and so on.

> want to expose a limited interface to the users?

Yes, indeed. Part of the goal is to make the language as simple as possible for analysts to use. Obviously you need to be technical to some degree to write in a functional language, but we were trying to make it a business-logic layer on top of the infra.
You're suggesting Protectionism. An industry won't innovate or provide realistic pricing based on their actual costs, so you suggest we protect their income through artificial means. Sure, I'd love some protectionism - how big do I have to be before the government will invent some laws for me to make sure you can only use my service, and not yours?
I've seen way worse than that. I've probably written way worse than that. I wish I knew where to find it.
It's a weird relationship that they have with China. China props them up and gives them stuff, but at the same time they wish that N. Korea would quit fucking with their number one customer, the United States.

There are a lot of people in N. Korea who would probably embrace change, but at the same time, there are probably millions that are so brainwashed that a significant insurgency would grow there as it did in Iraq.

Once again, look at the middle east. Logically, there's absolutely no reason that a woman would want to buy into fundamental Islam. It offers them nothing but violence, abuse, and a lifetime of being treated like livestock. That doesn't stop women who have already been indoctrinated from becoming suicide bombers.