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While going through a down cycle one time, I decided to watch some of the psychotherapy presentations on youtube. Not the ones designed to be uplifting and helpful, but the ones with actual research or for psychotherapy students.

> I think we're going about treating depression the wrong way.

The main thing I took away from the presentations was that psychotherapists know they aren't getting it all right. I was surprised when they talked about the client dropout rates, client satisfaction rates and measurement techniques, and the treatment success, and reoccurrence, rates. It reminded me of discussions about the realities of software project management.

> targeting the mechanisms that let people go into and out of it

Mindfulness is the term used currently to describe the ability to regulate your own "mode", and the automatic thoughts that go along with them. Usually the term gets lumped into the act of meditation, but the result, being able to manage your mode yourself, is the same. MBCT, DBT, ACT, CBT and other modern forms of psychotherapy, seem to be designed around this idea of teaching people how to recognize the mode they are in and manage the cycle between them in different ways.
Ah, got it. Yes. This happens a lot here, dairy products being a prime example. New Zealand produced stuff is often cheaper outside the country. It grates a little.
I don't really care for Samsung's overpriced plastic phones, but their S-Pen is all sorts of awesome.

Why no-one else is innovating in that area is beyond me. Or do google prefer us to type our data in, because it's easier to index?
I'm highly doubtful people would put up with that. Essentially people would be paying for college twice.
I just wanted to add that, to me, this is a more egregious shutdown than reader. While many on Hacker News (who I'm assuming are more likely to have a smartphone than the average working-class citizen) may not understand this, envision this:

You are in an unfamiliar city, attempting to follow directions someone gave you that you scribbled down. You take a wrong turn and wind up in a rough-looking neighborhood at 2 AM. Most of your friends are asleep. What do you do?

This has happened to me, and I counted myself lucky to be able to text google for directions. While this may not be an extremely common scenario, there is the possibiilty that access to google's sms search may have saved someone's life.
"Do you mean viable, as free of charge?"

No, but it would have to be a fraction not a multiple of my per server profit margin. Azul's target market is clearly hedge funds and the like. They don't even quote a price on their website.

To be not only viable but also beneficial, the Azul license plus the additional DRAM cost of Java itself would have to be less than it costs me to use C++ instead of Java.
Hmm, I'm interested why you think that - I think Google's goal is to fundamentally change the smartphone business to be about services, not hardware, but I don't think that's the same as killing it. As for Samsung, Apple don't seem to be able to match Google's services, so I don't see why Samsung should be able to do any better. I don't own a Samsung device, but if I did I can't think of any Samsung service I'd want to use.
Ask HN: Where is the best place to work as a junior iOS developer?
I have about 6 months experience, and I have a few opportunities in the pipeline that are local but, I'm open to looking at any firm in the US. Are there any firms that you would recommend?

I would prefer a smaller firm where I could get great training. I have a good foundation but I need a full time role to keep growing. Thanks!
>> Right out of the box, things work quite well. The Secure Shell browser extension can give you an xterm-compliant terminal directly in a browser tab.
>> Be sure to install the Crosh Window browser extension. It allows you to pull the browser-tab terminal out into its own window. Without it, many important key bindings will be swallowed by the browser.

Or just buy a new laptop, delete Windows and install Ubuntu and have a real machine with real software, not browser based similarities.

edits: fixing my brain's desire to misspell buy.
Nearly every single country is moving to smartphones. At wildly different rates and current penetration, but the vast majority of the world is going to be on smartphones in the near future. Companies who focus on the present and are obsessed with backward compatibility will inevitably find themselves behind more forward thinking companies.
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On the web, you can use Selenium and pair it with either a headless browser like PhantomJS and/or a headless virtual machine running IE.
> Are you suggesting that screen sizes and resolutions are uniform among Samsung devices? Drivers are the same? That is nonsense.

...No? In fact my post said exactly the opposite of that:

> all cause a LOT of issues and these things all exist on virgin Android just as much as Samsung's strange re-imagining of the ecosystem.

I am saying there is fragmentation between two "virgin Android" devices. Therefore making his point that virgin Android somehow "solves" fragmentation wrong.

Samsung has a lot of fragmentation. So do "virgin Android" devices. Android has fragmentation because there is too much incompatible hardware and for some things the abstraction is more weakly enforced than for others (e.g. hardware acceleration).
I'm no expert on the matter, but to me a startup is trying to get big fast, whereas a small business is just trying to make enough money to live comfortably.
I think "a better Windows than Windows" was an official IBM marketing line for OS/2 for a while.

I used it for a while in the early 1990s as a contractor in an "IBM shop". Literally everything they bought was IBM. From the mainframe to Terminals, printers, PCs, OSes. I remember it being painfully slow.... but the PS/2 PC it was running on was probably underpowered (as is typical, contractors got the oldest hand-me-down workstations).
I had this argument with my brother too, who is a mathematician. He was able to enjoy it on its own terms, I wasn't.

As he concluded, "they couldn't solve an interesting problem, so they solved an uninteresting one instead."

And from a certain stance, these fabricated problems do hold a bit of interest, especially when you consider how many mathematicians go out of their way to be impractical. Referencing the games confuses their work more than anything else, though.
I wouldn't exactly refer to them as a "dying breed" quite yet. I recall seeing a statistic somewhere that in many developing countries, SMS adoption rates are still going up. There's still a prominent market for SMS search, just not necessarily the one that Google wants to serve.
Without Samsung, Android would be about as relevant as Windows Phone OS.
Only fragile jobs are lost during technological upheavals (See Taleb, Anti-fragility).
> You can have 50 levels of applied knowledge, rising all the way to PhD

Nice idea. I think fine-grained representations of the learner's "state" will lead to interesting applications in the future.

Though there are a few things going on. Having the credits for course the Advanced Calculus course MATH314 on my transcript granted from {{U_name}} means a couple of things: (1) I passed the class, (2) I probably know all the material in the courses which are prerequisites (D.CALC, INT.CALC, MULTIVAR.CALC, LA), and (3) I am ready to take more advanced courses that require AdCalc (like say, a 3rd year Electricity & Magnetism course).

My feeling is that none of the above three aspects are worth certification. (And payment!) This level of knowledge cert. would be too granular. What we want certification for is at the end of the completed degree. ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: ENGINEER

That being said it would be cool to have University "credits" portable in between institutions without having to jump through hooks trying to get administrators to accept credits form other universities...
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Good luck porting a professional grade tool like Eclipse. :)
But I'm afraid we'd have to wait until tablets have the same specs as current average laptops. Although I guess stuff like HTML and Javascript could be done on current tables.
I'd like to know what you're basing this on. In the U.S. this may very well be true, though the fact still remains that lower-income people are less likely to have smartphones. But what about in developing nations?
What do you mean by 'complete protein'. Based on your comment, and a quick Google, I am inferring that you are saying that plants do not produce enough of he Lysine Amino Acid.

Based on wikipedia`ing [1] it, Lysine is produced exlusivly in plants. Based on my own recollection of high school bio,
most amino acid production happens in plants, and animals typically get amino acids through eating.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysine
In Italian, mama is "mamma", dad is "pap�" (in pap� you stress the second syllabe)
As a proud member of the idiot brigade, I thank you for working overtime to understand my camp's objections to GM.

I'm ok with breeding. I probably don't even have a problem with transgenetics, but I'd want each effort vetted.

What I oppose, utterly, are two things.

1) GM foods engineered to enable ever greater use of pesticides.

2) GM foods engineered to create their own pesticides.

See, I've got this weird idea: first, do no harm.

Some people call it the precautionary principle. Also known as the Hippocratic Oath popular in the healthcare professions.

Now, I understand that it may not be possible to completely prove any particle thing completely safe. I get that. I'm not a zealot. And some things thought safe today could proof unsafe in the future. Or vice versa. Because science marches on, values change, and context matters.

But here's two things I do know. With absolute certainty. Based on readily available data:

1) The parties pushing GM are bad actors. Repeatedly. Monsanto, ADM, Cargill, etc are only too happy to poison people to make a buck.

2) The parties charged with safe guarding public health and the environment are completely enthrall to megacorps profiting from poisoning us.

These two points are not in dispute.

So while, in principle, further GM efforts may be all well and fine, in an ideal world, we, unfortunately, do not live a libertarian fruit cake free market utopia. And I prefer to judge things as they are, not by what they should be.
One thing that would be nice is if you could right click and 'send to project' tabs from another project or an unclaimed window.

Or even have checkboxes by tabs in the project list that allow you to select lots and send them all to another project.

That way say you have a lot of tabs open and you suddenly realise that half are procrastination and half are part of a project, you could send the first half to a new project and keep the second half open as a procrastination window.

Adding to this the ability to merge projects would be cool.
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Well, I agree with the PG's startup's definition. http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Plenty of stats around. The trend is fairly clear. Mobile data is the future and almost the present, even in developing countries: http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile...
Click on the green lock symbol in Chrome to see what certificates each site uses.

Google issues its own, GitHub uses DigiCert(http://www.digicert.com), Hacker News uses Entrust (http://www.entrust.net).

In general, Verisign (http://www.verisign.com/) will be the most expensive and presumably the most widely supported, but there's no need to pay up for it when DigiCert will work just as well.
I have not done any view caching as of now. I plan to do that. But the main issue in my mind currently is that ruby is performing slow and while searching on net I found solutions such as:
1) using REE (some GC fix)
2) Erubis is faster than erb
3) Other ruby implementations.

I am wondering if anyone can share their experiences with an y of these approaches.

Caching is something I plan to do but I wish to keep it as the last resort.
I wouldn't argue that it needs regulation to ensure it is used responsibly.

Huh?
There is a rather large difference between "runs slower" and "runs horribly".

What you did is try to move the goal posts.
Mama isn't always the first "word". Some babies start with dada or papa, sometimes to the dismay of their mother who don't understand the development of language and feel rejected...

It is not surprising that some culture developed it the other way around.
There have probably been more 1 off servers written in the period of 1993 to 2000 than in the past three years. If you never encounter one of those older servers, consider yourselves lucky. If you expect to support every server out here, including the ones attached to crapoy webcams and toaster ovens, then you should be prepared for exact what the OP is talking about.

I don't mean to pick on your response, but there have been a lot of comments in this thread that amounts to "it's not that hard", when the reality is quite different.

And when proxies come in to play, the matrix of pain is multiplied.
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I don't think you were implying that all other operating systems were catching up, just most of them.

For example, Solaris has had a stable driver DDI (Device Driver Interface) for years. This is what allowed ISVs to write drivers for ancient versions of Solaris that still work today (assuming the base hardware platform is still supported).

That's also what allows the latest versions of the nVidia driver to generally just work on different releases of Solaris.
A quote like that, I want to see how they added up their sums for "all of the money it pours into.." and "tuition free, or close to it, for..".
These posts remind me of the articles by designers trying to use MS Paint instead of Photoshop to create amazing pictures.

http://mytechquest.com/windows/amazing-ms-paint-pictures/

Yes, you can do it, but you're forcing yourself and it is not the best tool for the job. One giveaway is the emphasis on the time spent (a whole six weeks!) as if it's a test of endurance and willpower(hey, I stopped smoking for 6 weeks!) I have to disagree on the cost too, laptops and desktops are really cheap, powerful and last a long time now. Not to mention the fact that using VNC and SSH makes you dependent on another machine anyway.
"But privacy advocates fear the inevitable mission creep, ending with the proof of self being required at polling places, to rent a house, buy a gun, open a bank account, acquire credit, board a plane or even attend a sporting event or log on the internet."

It's even worse: it means that the government will be able to identify anyone whose face is visible in surveillance camera footage or any other photograph (e.g., a photo posted on Facebook). They'll be able to easily make a list of everyone who attended a protest, or a political rally for the opposition party.
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I believe this article is false.

I have a site that is extremely heavy on front page traffic. Basically 97% of all traffic is front page traffic, and 75% of all traffic is single visit (they hit the front page and nothing else). 55% of traffic does not generate multiple page views on any given day.

I have absolutely no problem with Google reporting 0 second visits. In fact, quite the opposite, Google reports very high visit durations, as visitors tend to spend a lot of time on the front page and then leave. If there were a problem with 0 second counting, it would decimate my time on site numbers due to all the people not generating second page requests for GA to count.

I've been using Google Analytics since they purchased it, and have never run into this problem (across millions of uniques and two dozen sites). The only time I've ever seen 0 second requests on any scale, is from bots, and in that case they're easy to out by looking at flash settings + browser version. If you're seeing a huge number of 0 second requests, it's most likely a bot.
No, 'vand' is Danish/Norwegian for water.
Yes, Google should be supporting active pens in a much bigger way. There are certain "niches" in the app ecosystems where the iPad and the iPhone are much better than Android, and that's mainly because of Google's almost complete disregard for those categories of apps such as: games, music tools, and drawing/designing.

Rumors are Google begin to address gaming at next I/O, and some rumors said they will announce something about audio latency improvements in Android, too. But I'm not expecting them to announce anything about drawing yet.
I'd be interested as well. Let me know when you found it (or the closest approximation)
This isn't the case on any of my machines. What kind of system are you on ?
I don't know the details and also I don't know to which ISS cameras you compare, but those suit cameras have to be robust, flexible, likely low power consuming and bring a good reception. The interference with this analog technology isn't that bad. A human viewer can filter those troubles in real time. Compared to a digital video stream, we would have had green blocks, frozen images, delays etc. at least when using the same bandwidth. There could be improvements for sure, but maybe it isn't worth the effort.
We can't really even match the long-term stock market averages. We tend to make more money when times are good (when the market is high), and less money when times are bad (when the market is low), so if we invest money as we save/earn then we're generally buying high.

At some point you wonder if you should just give up on saving and instead invest it into a business or a duplex or something.
Makes sense. It's like the people who can't throw anything away because they "might need it" some day. Eventually they are drowning in clutter and just keeping it all organized would consume more time than they have.
The Federal Reserve which is the Central Bank of the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System
What did Google SMS Search return exactly when you sent a text?
> " Americans, by contrast, seem a lot more upset about the swearing."

Consider the term "f-bomb". The reason the term exists is because it's evocative: a bomb produces a "sudden and violent release of energy", typically intended to destroy a target or to draw attention, often producing a sentiment of "shock and awe". The word "fuck" can intensify a destructive sentiment, or draw attention and produce shock. It carries some amount of emotional payload (possibly more in the US, but some wherever it's spoken); you would not be using the word otherwise.

The effect changes when you lob f-grenades indiscriminately. The underlying sentiment you're trying to draw attention to can get lost in the chaos -- being "repetitious to the point of banality" makes the mobile app criticism into an indistinct mass of lexical white noise (see the alt text on http://xkcd.com/1210/ ). I found your tumblr obnoxious, not so much due to lacking professionalism or corporate-ness, but because the commentary is flat, tiresome, and flavorless. You've gone way beyond spicing it up with f-pepper, and all the way to burying it under f-spam. With some nuance and cleverness, you could turn it into hilarious overreaction rather than banal overreaction.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3212694
On the google products forum, someone mentioned that in India, everyone was using this service because it's fairly uncommon to have a data plan. The study you just linked seems to show monthly 3G access at about 8% for urban India. Which seems like a pretty clearcut minority to me.
Samsung have a lot of money, and a lot of resources to through behind making their software work better. I find it hard to believe that is that hard to get right.

If they had any sense they should buy BB or Palm OS.
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Hmm, at least around here, the word "startup" does imply vying for explosive growth. But not necessarily aiming for a quick sell--often, the ultimate goal is to create a large company like Facebook or Google. Some people go as far as considering most acquisitions failures! But certainly explosive growth.

What you described (long-term sustainable growth) is the hallmark of a good small business. And there is nothing wrong with that! But it is a very different model from what we know as a "startup". After all, if "startup" could mean any small company, there would not be any reason to have the word at all! We could just say "small business" instead.

The two models are very different in every way apart from the size of the company. Having different words for them just makes sense. It's important not to see this as some judgement on either concept; rather, it's just using language to differentiate between two fundamentally different things.
Every job is fragile given the right technological advance.
Why do *nix-y folks single-quote like `this' instead of 'this'?
> the things you mention specifically are a few years out of date at this point.

Right, hence the 'I hear it's a bit better these days.' Maybe I should have been more clear.

> I'm not sure what licensing issues you've had

The whole time I was using the language, there was the dual licensed aspect of the compiler, where the front end (I think?) was not open, but the back end was? Or maybe the other way around? I think I heard that Walter ended up OSSing the entire thing. As a strong BSD proponent I find complex licensing requirements tiring.

> but it's still rather immature compared to something like D.

Right, I thought I said this too.
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äiti, anya (pronounced ~aaya) and avva are still compatible with the explanation.

The Telugu word is the formal name (corresponding to mother on Wikipedia). Are you familiar with the language?

We'd need statistics on the frequency of the first consonant utterance, and see if it correllates with the distribution of the names given to mothers by babies.
Repaying the loans is only one way the system might be corrected. Allowing student loans to be discharged via bankruptcy would be another, which has recently been outlawed. Thus prices for education are set in a marketplace which rewards bad loans by shifting all of the risk to the borrower.
And what do you call someone who ignores all negative evidence?

I'd be okay with GMO apologists making an intellectually honest argument, listing the pros and cons, arguing that on the balance such and such makes sense.

Basically, the greatest good for the most people.

Alas, that takes some effort. It's easier to mock critics.
In 1900 something like 40% of the American workforce worked on farms. Today it's around 2%.

Farming is a fragile profession? It's been around for thousands of years!
the same rapidssl certificate is $9.45 from namecheap.

after having been a reseller for geotrust for years, lately, i ended up buying all my certificates from namecheap. the namecheap end user prices are even lower than my rapidssl reseller prices...
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Oh, GDC is back? Last I saw, it hadn't received commits for a loooong time, and we were using LDC.

Even for a while after the phobos/tango thing 'was resolved,' people were still bitter/split over it.

Like I said, I'm glad things are better nowadays.
You said you were at Microconf - Rob Walling's story sounds like that. Personally I get more out of Startups for the Rest of Us than Mixergy (both are in my regular rotation). Also did up all the podcasts patio11 has done - his story is fairly humble. Ditto for Brennan Dunn. Some of these guys are HN rock stars, but if you dig, you'll find some really good stories there.