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Living in far Northern Canada I can relate to this.

Up here, if someone wants to smile and say "Have a nice day", they will do so while making eye contact and you can tell they genuinely mean it. They are usually prompting you for further friendly chit-chat and happiness. Even when there are other customers waiting in line - those customers will be made to wait while two people have a friendly chat.

When they don't want to say "Have a nice day", they won't. Likely they won't say anything at all or kind of grunt/mumble and just move along (even in retail) - but at least you know they're being genuine either way.

Last time I went back to "the real world" I was shocked time and time again when someone would say "Have a nice day" - I'd start to return the sentiment and be utterly disgusted the person wasn't even looking at me, and wasn't even paying attention to me. It all felt so fake, and I was quickly tired of it.

Lots of business up here have a little sign in their shop "Yukon hospitality - it grows on you".

I genuinely wonder if the climate has something to do with this. Extreme cold and very dark days tend to bring people together, and tends to make people more genuine and humble, in my experience.
To be fair, democracy seems to work fine in the Nordic countries. America is bad at it.
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There's really no need to be stingy with your smile.

If you smile more often at work, even if there's nothing specific to be happy about, it really does lighten up the mood and make people cheerier. People will want to work with you more.

Also, I hope I don't sound like a sociopath here, but smiles are a form of brain hacking. If they are genuine, or at least seem genuine, they disarm people and make them more receptive to you. Also, I've heard that it's a way of hacking your own brain, to make yourself happier than you would otherwise be, just by smiling.

One of the easiest things you can do to give better presentations is to learn to genuinely smile while giving them. Not all the time, but a smile peppered here or there. This works wonders on investors.
I don't want this to start into another debate.

For most companies, its either Microsoft or Java stack. There isn't too much in between. And frankly its not a bad stack when money is not a factor in deciding the stack.Most companies whose core business isn't software just want to get their job done. Microsoft works well in this space and will continue to do so. Frankly, with Java being part of Oracle, I feel there is an even more push to Microsoft.

Obviously this is my opinion but I don't believe I will running out of work any time soon on the Microsoft stack.
> You do need to pare down features to an MVP, because otherwise you're never going to finish, or are going to deliver crap.

Or deliver something beautiful to your team that no one actually wants, or will purchase
Markets are where money votes, not people. The distinction is important, and creates the pathological behavior we witness in real capitalist systems all the fucking time.
As someone who has read "Feeling Good" and is married to a therapist, I can not suggest this book enough. The general method is called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy

The key idea is that our thoughts control how we feel, not the events or surroundings of our lives. A person who is considering suicide often has a very different view of events because of their thought process. The idea of CBT is to change the way you think and by doing so you are able to feel differently about the events in your life.

However, I would never suggest that someone simply start applying CBT on their own with out some guidance. I am very nervous about how you want to make this a social application. Depression can be a very personal and embarrassing disease for a person and even positive encouragement can cause more depression.

Lets say we have a kid named Stan. Stan is a very depressed kid who is considering suicide. He manages to let his friend Bobby know that he has been considering killing himself. Bobby is shocked as Stan is a very bright and successful kid. Bobby tells Stan that he 'can't believe that Stan would want to do such a thing' and that 'he has so much to live for.' Bobby thinks that he is helping Stan, but Stan views this very differently. Stan thinks, 'No one understands me, Bobby is just saying that to make me feel better.' While the temporary relief of telling someone was something that Stan really wanted to do, in the end it only ends up making him feel more depressed.

The reason behind this sort of thinking is because of the Cognitive Distortions. Stan's perception of reality is vastly different because of them. It is for this reason that I am concerned about how you make this a social application. In my opinion the best thing you can do for a person who is considering suicide is to get them to a trained professional.
I'm in no way an apologist for walmart but this story seems "too good to be true." It makes me wonder if there is more context, like the food drive is for a specific family or small group of families with employees at walmart that have an extra load of hardship this season. It just seems so tone-deaf on walmart's part otherwise.

However, I am reminded of the various "support the troops" drives that all the major defense contractors run among their employees. They are clearly kissing the ass of their customer (the DoD), but they always struck me as insulting because if you have to run a food-drive for families of troops that says the troops aren't being paid enough to support their families.
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I just sold my pet Bitcoin that I bought for $80 a while back. This is getting crazy, I wonder who the buyers are?
Are you talking about religious morals or humanist morals? No one I know lacks moral sensibility. Some of them even derive their set from religion.

I had a look at my own OED, and it agrees with your definition. It's still not an accurate depiction of the morals of anyone I know.
Well for instance, if you know that a certain person is mailing or receiving drugs, then it's easier to make sure particular packages are "randomly" inspected and get probable cause for a warrant.
Is this correct? It is my understanding that XAML is the client language that is used in WPF and Silverlight (which is a subset of WPF). Both WPF and Silverlight can be used for desktop or web development (although WPF leans to desktop and SL leans to web).
XAML is a xml language for instantiating objects, whether it be a one of 3 similar but different GUI frameworks (WPF,Silverlight,WinRT) or say a workflow run-time (WWF).

Saying "XAML is what counts" is like saying "XIB is what counts" in the Apple world.
the entire point of parallel construction is to construct a legal explanation for the presence of data needed for the conviction.

ie, I would use illegal means to obtain proof that you have convicted a crime, then I would use parallel construction to provide a legal explanation for how I obtained the proof.

iee, parallel construction is what they use when they did not have probable cause.

I am having trouble believing that you do not understand that? what am I missing?
You sound so laughably certain. What we are interested is in empirical truths here. Not agenda from any side. How can you know know a priori what is true? You cannot.
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Saw it at $600 today and sold mine too. Made enough to pay rent, not to mention the other odd things I've gotten with my BTC over the past 2 years... it was fun, but I think I'm done with it.

I'd also like to know who is buying IN at this point. Anyone on HN have some insight?
Spot on (yeah, I'm "russki")

Russians do like to laugh, though. We don't have as much stand-up comedians as Americans do (and skits by the one we do have are very low-brow), but a related genre of satire is quite popular among performers and listeners alike. Not sure if Jvanetsky's performances are available in English, but for those studying Russian I'd highly recommend listening to those.
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We were previously in a crowded open space where I had like 10 sq feet to myself (open). Now we have a modern cube farm 6x8 and it seems luxurious.
Did you read the article? The whole thing is basically an argument for why your comment is culturally insensitive and myopic.
Ah but since their point was the US is even worse for the government controlling the media, what the Washington Post says is the Government saying it.

Of course this would make this simply government propaganda to stir up anti-Chinese feelings. But then that would mean that maybe the Chinese government isn't leading the media and therefore the US is worse at not controlling the media. Making this not one government criticizing another, but just the words of the Washington Post.

And I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
> Not all people who attempt suicide have the same mindset. I know people who have attempted suicide (one guy's face is disfigured due to a self-inflicted gun shot) and they do not even remotely suggest that suicide could possibly be anything but bad.

Yes, that's a great point. There are a variety of viewpoints to consider, and it's important to understand the context in which they all occur.

I'm sure the person you're referring to did not have that opinion a few moments before pulling the trigger, otherwise he wouldn't have done it. The surviving individual cannot be said to be the same one who pulled the trigger, in spite of appearances. His life went on, and in a radically different direction.
Here's a pretty good explanation from The Complete Manual of Typography, by James Felici:

"No two words in typography are as commonly misused as font and typeface. A
typeface is a collection of characters—letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation
marks, etc.—that are designed to work together like the parts of a coordinated
outfit. A typeface is an alphabet with a certain design. A font, in contrast, is a
physical thing, the description of a typeface—in computer code, photographic
film, or metal—used to image the type. The font is the cookie cutter, and the
typeface is the cookie (see Figure 3 1).† When you look at a page of type, you can say, “What typeface is that? ” or “What font was used to set that? ” But you can’t say, “What font is that? ” because you’re not looking at a font; you’re looking at the product of a font. The confusion between the terms arises largely from the ambiguous use of
the term font in computer programs, most of which have a Font menu. Although
that menu lists what fonts are available for use by the program, it could just as
easily be called the Typeface menu, as it also lists the typefaces available for
your pages. In fact, since some fonts contain data for more than one typeface,
it would be more accurate to call it the Typeface menu."

† Figure 3.1 shows an example font (the computer code) and its corresponding typeface.
Wow, quite a story. I wish we saw more like it on HN. Honest and real
Yes.

The article talks about the fact, I create an hypothesis about the reason.

When you travel the world you see there is a correspondence between seriousness and weather. You go to Brasil and the South is way more serious than the North. In Europe-North America it is the opposite, as they are in a different hemisphere.
> I'm not convinced that any technology exists today that will be so set-it-and-forget-it wonderful that companies should plan to build it now and leave it the hell alone for a decade.

Perhaps not, but there probably should be. A lot of LoB applications don't really need to keep up so to speak. Employees learn how to use them, and they accomplish whatever business process goal they are supposed to accomplish. Yes maybe they look or feel terribly old fashioned (curses anyone?) but as long as they get the job done, why should they need to be re-written every 10 years at considerable expense and risk?
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I've been spending more time in the technology dedicated subreddits. While the general content is lesser than HN was ~1 year ago, it's more on topic. I only see 3-4 stories a day on HN worth reading, which honestly is nice because it limits my browsing time.
I hate to be the....umm...what's the opposite of naysayer? Yaysayer? I hate to be the yaysayer here, but...

1) The design is great! Simple, fast, easy to read. I understood the point immediately.

2) There's a use for this. I won't say "need", because you know there isn't a need. But, people will find it nice and will use it.

3) If you're doing this to get rich, then I misread you and you should quit now. But, if you're doing this to do something good, then I think you nailed it.

Now, for some naysaying:
1) As others have said, putting your wife's real name and address up was simply stupid. Take it down, now.

2) Moderation? How do you choose which ask to feature?
Yes. We disclaimed this. Honestly this should be obvious. There is a lot of friction in hiring; the candidates who help reduce that friction will benefit from it.
As a Russian-American this comes off as complete BS. I've seen this written before and it's always in the form of "It's not us that smile too little, it's you Americans that are fake and smile too much!".

For one, Americans don't just smile to be polite. For the most part it's genuinely conveying positive emotions.

Now I know this is going to be unpopular, but I think the real reason Russians don't smile is cultural. It's because they are genuinely more cynical miserable people. This is completely a generalization and there are tons of exceptions on an individual level, but on average life (especially in the cities) is more cut throat, it's cold, the authorities are corrupt, people are asshole to each other in public, and if anything goes wrong you can be darn well be sure that no one will help you[1]. There is no sense of community, or impulse for people to help each other out and being nice to strangers. So naturally you're worried you'll get robbed or whatever - so you keep to yourself, don't make eye-contact, and don't smile.

If you go to the country side, people are a lot more likely to smile at you.

A bit of an aside - I've found it's also a very Slavic thing. Prague had very similar miserable faces, which Budapest was full of smiles (though economically the countries were very similar)

[1] I remember a story my friend told me of how he was on the subway and a bunch of skinheads beat up an African college student. After they left, no one did anything to help the kid, and everyone just pretended like nothing happened. A good ol' "it's non of my business" attitude.
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Some years ago, whilst on holiday in the U.S.A., a smiling American summarized my experience for me:

In San Francisco they ask you 'how's it going, man!', in Chicago they shout 'WHAT?' and in New York they don't even talk to you.

So it is a sliding scale of friendliness, from West to East.
Um, there is Adobe AIR which seems like a very reasonable option for building Line of Business Apps on Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever. I know it's not cool to like Adobe AIR/Flash but it would certainly get the job done and allow for easy updates, etc. outside of the Windows Store.
Of course Facebook is a utility.
I bought about a week ago. Of course, it was at $315 then, not ~$600. I'd like to buy more, but I'm not made of money.
I think this is a fantastic idea, great job!
>Isn't that usually sorted out by the resume piece of the puzzle? By listing placed an applicant has actually worked?

You clearly haven't done a lot of hiring if you think this is a good filter. People lie.
Is this Mozilla's responsive to Chrome's Aura? I'm a little confused with what benefit this offers over the previous one.
Let me clarify my position: the utility of decentralized digital currencies on society is so enormous that it is inevitable that they will succeed. Decentralized digital financial transactions are an invention as big as the Internet.

Is it Bitcoin that will succeed, or some other cryptocurrency? I don't know, but it has a good shot at it because it has the first-mover advantage and benefits from network effect.
I agree on this old UI failure...I thought for a moment it had been reverted, but then realized I had installed the Custom Tab Width add-on. The realization brought me back to my own extreme frustration with coming back to Firefox and finding this behavior being the default and not easily changed.

I'm generally OK with a lot of stuff being in add-ons. But, this one is not one of those things. I really don't think I should have to install a plugin to decide not to have a scrolling tab bar (I hate the scrolling tab bar).
The sad part is Apple has a more consistent message even between iOS and MacOS, that is Cocoa, and they show no sign of abandoning it anytime soon for a new framework.
No, I don't.

I have written quite a bit of stuff that I was paid to write that made it to GitHub, FWIW.
I'm probably wrong about this, and I know very little psychology, but I am under the impression that suicidal people don't admit to having a problem. Also, they don't hope to find help, either coz they think or know it's out of reach, or don't know help is available. If this was not so, I would imagine they'd seek this help rather than take their lives, which is a sign of someone giving up hope.
Now, installing an app for suicide prevention looks to me like an act by someone who HASN'T given up hope. And if you haven't given up hope, you are already walking away from the brink. And if you're already walking away from the brink, maybe you're not suicidal?
My feeling here is that an app for reaching out or talking someone out of taking their life may not be the best approach to reaching such a person to make them pull back. Of course the journey to suicide is long and complex, and there must be many points at which an intervention is useful and where your app will play a part, but I just feel like there might be a disconnect between the people who should use your app and those who would use your app.
Be that as it may, like I said, I'm not a psychologist, and most likely my assumptions are wrong. I imagine the literature on suicide being mentioned talks about this in detail and from a professional point of view. All the same, I wish you all the best in your project and hope it succeeds.
I'm over 12 and I have a rainbow in my title bar.

Design is extremely subjective.
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Assuming we are talking about ubuntu - a lot.
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Hmmm...I like the look of current Firefox more than Chrome on Linux. Looks more native.
I've seen several preorder strategies in the recent electronics kit field.

The P112 project did a kickstarter. Mines sitting on the bench, too many other things to work on. A very simple kit given what it does. I'm sad I had to wait like 4 months for someone else to put the SMD components on, I could have done that myself in less than an hour.

The N8VEM people sit on preorders until they get 20 at a time. Sometimes thats a very short amount of time indeed like days, sometimes its a bit longer like years between orders of certain obscure PCBs!

The SpareTimeGizmo people have done some ship off the shelf and some preorder, I think? I was fast on the draw and got one of the last 6120 PDP-8 full kits ever made some time in the 00s.

The KB9YIG SDR people were supply line limited at a very low price, so as they put together sets of bargain price kits they put them up for sale and usually sold out in an hour or at most a couple hours. To say this aggravated people who missed the 45 minute sale window, every time, would be a profound understatement. They switched to a much higher price and off the shelf shipping a couple years ago. I miss paying $11 for a single band fixed freq SDR although its annoying to pay $21 today for the same thing, its nice that its always in stock rather than being something like a lotto.
Yes. I'm responding to, "Russians need a reason to smile."

Russians can do whatever they like of course, but I'm discussing the possible benefits of the American model of smiling for no particular reason.
It really wouldn't. Take the average of the puzzle, if it's 75% grey in a wide distribution then move it a bit, repeat until there's some huge change in the histogram. Easier to solve than most I've seen.
Relevant: The grumpy Russian traveler http://imgur.com/a/4ix4I
Bout 4 years ago, I was spending about $4000/mo on Adwords, with some nice results. About 2% CTR on the ads, most of which were banner ads on the content network, average about 20 cents PPC. About 50% of the people clicking on the ad would download our game. About 25% of the people downloading the game would run it+create a character. About 5% of those who ran it would eventually pay a monthly subscription. About a $35 customer acquisition cost, and I basically put all free cash into Adwords. Only thing that slowed it down was an average time of 3 months between joining the game and becoming a paying subscriber.

Fast forward to about a year or two ago, every metric for traffic from Adwords has plummeted. CTR's are 0.5%. Percent of people who hit the landing page and download are less than 1%. Percent of people who download and run the game to character creation is about 10%. Percent of people from Google who end up ever paying anything is near 0%. The cost of customer acquisition via Adwords has basically approached infinity, and I've basically stopped using Adwords altogether. Nothing I've done has seemed to get things right for Adword traffic, and that includes following all the advice from them. Meanwhile, traffic from Reddit converts just fine, there just isn't that much traffic from Reddit available.

Anyone else have experience while a huge degradation of the "quality" of traffic from Adwords? I'm at the point that this article mentions where no amount of bid manipulation can make PPC advertising via Google profitable.
Hi everyone, Josh here. Lemme know if you have any questions you'd like to ask.
I've splurged on tiny things and donations over the years with my old CPU-mined bitcoins. I'd completely forgotten about my wallet until things started getting crazy at $300 a week or so ago (was it that short?).

I was lucky enough to find 1.02BTC still sitting there, and now I can only hope that I can get Coinbase to verify my bank account before anything pops.
So more like how people on the East Coast then?
My experience is completely different. I run 2 subreddits, one with ~15k subscribers and one with ~2k, and I don't remember last time I even saw spam being submitted - and when it got submitted 95% of the time spam filter caught it. If I remember correctly number of spam posts that got through spam filter was a lot higher a year ago than now.
Would also be interested in lending a hand where I can (after being able to read up on the vision behind the app). Feel free to contact me with the project details once you've got set up.
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Well in firefox you can't do searches like cache:news.ycombinator.com or site:news.ycombinator.com (Edit: in the address bar)

I also prefer the way firefox acts with suggestions in the search and address bar being separate, I often find myself messing up where I meant to go because I thought pressing enter would take me to a site but instead goes to a search.

Firefox is easy for me because the address bar acts differently.
Ignorance? Oh my. Unfortunately, I satisfy your criteria required for understanding suicide, so I vehemently disagree with your assertion that "Suicide is a very rational reaction to life."

Especially when we're discussing teenagers, who haven't even lived one fifth of their expected lifespan.
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