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I saw this first hand my senior year of college: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-03-16-IHE...

There are of course many factors in play here. However one thing I noticed in my time there was that academic advising (which classes to take, how to satisfy requirements and achieve your goals) was exceedingly bad. I've heard similar complaints from students at similar schools (big pressure-cooker universities). When students started throwing themselves off of bridges, the university put up nets, fences, and security guards but didn't re-examine its academic advising.

Many of my friends had to stay an extra year or dropped out which I think could have been avoided with better advising. In fact, I had to change my undergraduate major due to my advisor, my parents and I misunderstanding the major requirements.

Many (all?) institutions have professors serving as advisors to the students. I don't actually think that professors serve as great advocates for students since the goals and priorities of students and of professors are not always aligned. Instead, it'd be great to see some non-faculty advisors who specialize in advocating for the student and understanding all of the fine print.

I'm not sure if academic advising is the biggest problem, but I do think it is a factor and is directly actionable.
Can I ask which book in particular?
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A bit off-topic but is there a name for the tone of the copy on this? It reads like the current tranche of MS/Apple advertising speak. Would cult-like be going too far?
Neither was started by Apple and arguably in the case of WebKit they only contributed because it was hard not to.
They are not compatible, in particular the Flash no longer inherits from Hash which makes any de-marshal fail.
The short version: If you know someone who is suicidal and you care about them, spend time with them. In person. Suicide is almost always committed when one is alone.

I read an article about a sports person here who was going to commit suicide, they had it all planned out, and planned the day. But on the day he planned to do it, his mother stayed home instead of going to Mass. Saved his life.
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> Rewrites, starting over having learnt more the first time. Yet the idea of that happening in a commercial setting is ludicrous for almost every company I have known.

I am not a commercial setting, I am a programmer. If I would not learn new things and adapt I would become rather pointless quickly. What's important for a company is not important for an individual.
As long as users are not allowed to install their own apps, Apple have "absurd tyrannical control" over iOS apps.
I got that bit :)
The moment a service linked Linkedin or Facebook tries to connect to your Google or Yahoo account, there should be a big glaring red pop-up listing the horrors in store ... and how some of the damage is irreversible. It'll haunt you for ages as someone else said in another comment.
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The question is not "Do you trust bitcoin", it's "Do you trust the Bitcoin Foundation". The latter is an organization set up recently and is not involved with the original bitcoin creator.
A COO is great in a large company, where the CEO can be more hands-off and have a more representative role. In startups or small companies it's frankly a waste and just leads to very conflicting sets of responsibilities and infighting. Been experiencing this myself.
I found this on the homepage:

"We’re seeing a lot requests for the stickers, which is great – we’re happy to post some, but we do need to optimise things a bit otherwise the logistics (and cost) won’t be practical. So here’s the deal for the currently remaining roll of approx 500 stickers.

If you are active for a local user group, conference or company, and want a sticker for yourself as well as some to hand out at your next meeting or just among your colleagues, send us an email at l i f e (at) b l u e h a c k e r s (dot) o r g with a brief note on what group/company/conference it is, your address of course, and how many stickers you need.

I think numbers of up to a couple of dozen are practical at this stage. Remember, we’ll be printing more stickers anyway so this is just to get things going and spread the word further. We’ll gather the emails and do a mailout about once a week, and of course we’ll reply to let you know when they’ve been posted, and how many you get. Okidoki?

By the way, if you’re on Facebook you can also join the BlueHackers cause, again to help make the issue more visible." [1]

I don't know if it is still true, but I will try.

[1]http://bluehackers.org/2009/02/02/if-you-want-bluehackers-st...
Free markets only work for spherical chickens.
That's a shame. Mood trackers are a useful tool to help tackle some mental health problems. Tacking on a bunch of stuff to get it into the app store feels sub-optimal. My current mood tracker has some features that I really don't like. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/moodometer/id404137652?mt=8

When did "do one thing and do it well" become something to avoid?
Youtube comments are terrible because it's the lowest common denominator of internet message boards. More sophisticated use Reddit/HN/etc.
I'm an avid anarchist, and no fan of the law, but do you not think its immoral for a company to misrepresent itself in order to get preferential treatment under the law? Doesn't that hurt us all by weakening the systems that (attempt to) keep organizations like CLI Holdings from running amok? As US taxpayers (forgive the presumption), don't court room shams like this expend our collective treasure?

While I must confess that I do not fully understand the motives at play, and everyone is innocent until proven guilty, I'm struggling to find a reason for a profitable company to file for bankruptcy which isn't fraudulent.
What do you think? Give me some feedback!
I friend of mine worked many years ago on a php site where all the php files ended in .asp due to a bunch of legacy and policy reasons.
Thank you!

Typically I don't record anywhere near an hour at a time anyways. My videos are usually between 30 seconds and 3 minutes long. This is for two reasons:

(1) I'm recording content to share online, where people have short attention spans and

(2) it's really painful to edit an hour-long video because that means spending at least an hour watching it

So in a typical day of use I only use up 15~20 minutes of recording time, to capture little highlights of the best moments
What do you do when you're in custody and the police deny you access to your lawyer as appears to be the case here. Or moves you and provides a puppet lawyer, as also appears to be the case here. Or simply incarcerate you without charge for an extended period as also seems to be the case here. Do you keep quite when those incarcerating you [by action or inaction] set you up to be raped. At what point do you give in and say anything to try and make it stop?

If USA has an actual justice system that cares for due process I can't see how anyone involved in these actions can retain a position of any authority within that system.
They're _a lobbying group_. They don't release educational materials, they don't write code, the main thing that they do is lobby. I too agree that Charlie Shrem is 100% morally innocent (with the exception of other alleged sins like borrowing a huge pile of btc and not paying it back), but the fact is that if you're going to have a lobbying group you should be damn well sure that everyone involved is squeaky clean.
Hep I have one of them. 2.7GHz i7 with 16Gb of RAM just sitting here rotting because it's unreliable and unsaleable.
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The question has not a lot to-do with Bitcoin itself, it's mainly aimed at us believers who have a lot invested in these crypto currencies.

I'm personally wary of the foundation because some of the central members promote coin blocking and tracking, and I see this as opposite to Bitcoin's intended purpose.
And that's putting the article in perspective by referring to someone with talent and experience in music, a universally enjoyed skill that also happens to combine very well with typical feel-good scenario's where people are more inclined to appreciate your work anyway.

Like someone before me, I can think of hundreds of jobs that require skills with exactly the same opaqueness as programming: high finance, fundamental science, designing and fixing machinery, wiring electronics/floorplanning piping, genetics, law making, the list goes on and on...

There may very well be reasons why programming increases your chances on depression, but the fact that its hard to explain, hard to appreciate by outsiders, and doesn't get you laid, really aren't the root causes. If that were true, almost everyone would be suffering from depression.

One side note I have about the guitarist analogy is that looking at the music industry, it seems to me that incidence of depression, addiction, suicidal behaviour, etc is much higher among pop stars than it appears to be among high-profile technical people, which also invalidates the premise that 'recognition of skills' is such an important factor for depression.
The thing is, Android copied most of the UX (and I say that as someone that likes Android a lot more than iOS, and I had a Palm before).

I agree that Apple's UX was a significant advance. (See this 2007 review talking about "paradigm-shifting interface"

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/iphone-review-part-1-hard... )
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Ask HN: Why aren't more designers contributing to Android/Windows Phone?
Most of what I've seen on dribbble are only iphone/ipad related work. Most of the designers there seem to know only about Apple software. Icons, designs, themes, you name it, all for iOS.

You have two platforms of which one will become much more popular than Apple's (as it already is) with emerging countries starting to have access to great hardware at cheap prices (Moto G, some Lumias) all of which are non-Apple.

I think android/wp needs good designers and there is opportunity for well designed apps. Everything you need is there: lenient rules regarding publishing, cheap to start and a less saturated market.
The reason is known as "taste". Other day I was in AT&T store to try out new Android phones thinking it must have gotten better now that its 2014. Store didn't had Nexus so I didn't got chance to see it but, boy, latest LG and Samsung models totally sucked. The UX, the experience was outrageously horrible. The icon colors were repulsive. Animations so overdone that it hurt my eyes. If pricing of this crap wasn't so low and saving grace like Google Now and Maps didn't exist, I can't imagine anyone would really want to buy this horrible piece of shit compared to iPhones. The iOS7 has degraded significantly but it's still miles ahead of crap that is known as Android. Overall, it is this taste that outweights Apple's idiosyncrasies around walled garden for some people - your weights may vary.
It's really your typical regulatory committee keeping up appearance and hitting their quota:

Regardless of quality or compliance with the rules, Apple's App Store review staff needs to reject a given number of admission a week. Otherwise, they're out of a job.

Think about end-of-the-day traffic tickets or city's planning and zoning... Here's a classic explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apdi885ZdBA Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Food_and_Drug...
Python has the libraries.
But not everyone.

I've gone through it myself, both badly and more commonly to lesser extents, and while I'm not a professional and don't claim to be, I do have the personal understanding, and can understand why/how people feel depressed. Myself, I find talking to people helps, not all the time, but often, and I know when I might want to.

As it is, not everyone is such a way either - for many people, just knowing that there is someone that could talk with if they wanted to can be helpful.

As it is, I find the description of depression as a mental illness a bit overbroad - yes, it definitely is a real condition (sometimes lifelong, sometimes intermittent, sometimes temporary) and unfortunately there isn't a better term, but it isn't something requiring drugs (which can make things worse in some conditions)/ doctors all the time, and normal people can and should help if they feel able and willing to.
HTC. Sony. Moto. Just ignore Korean trash completely.
He must be seriously depressed by his daily routine to miss the point of programming by that much - it's a creative discipline that allows you to bring something to life - no cheers needed.
If you want cheers though, present your salary or income numbers to people in other professions. Only being a stock broker allows you to earn more money, you can even freely decide the price most of the times (and within reaonsable limits and your competition), since your clients are unlikely to be able to estimate the technical efforts behind.
haven't tried ev3, but i tend to get immersed in cooking when i do it too. believe it or not i actually had an ex gf that was worried about it.
SXSX official schedule page is down :(   come on guys...
That said, not all Windows laptops are that bad :) , I never had such a bad experience (not with Gateway, HP, IBM/Lenovo or Asus), but then again, I never bought a Dell either :P .

I'm also willing to wager you paid nowhere near the retina MBP price for the Dell :) (though I guess you are more likely to have a bad experience with a high-priced Windows laptop than with a MBP, complaints about the 2011 batch aside)
On top of that, a simple solution to a task people do again and again.
The lock on my front door is annoying.
Just curious, were you and your friends burned by CoinBase?
You can also try this site for Berlin startup jobs: http://berlinstartupjobs.com/ If current vacancies are not enough you can go down the list of companies on the right side of the page and check their sites directly.
Berlin is nice, lots of work, more or less English-friendly, though rent prices are growing. Check for BlueCard visa if you want to move here.
You're free to pay a lot for little service.
You should offer the script via gist :)
>direct threat //

Is it a direct threat if one doesn't have the means to carry it out? For example if I say I'm going to run you over in my car but I don't have a car, nor access to a car, doesn't that make it an empty threat. Context of course is vital to establish the force, if any, behind such a comment.
Wow. Really interesting. And really sad, if you think about it. But okay...
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It's difficult to do, that's why. Pinning a certificate relies upon trusting someone. But who do you trust, and how do you decide upon a basis to trust them?

With Chrome, the answer is easy. Google control the browser code, so you're implicitly trusting them anyway, and they're vouching for the certificates to their own sites, so you have good reason to accept what they say are the real certs.

With Firefox, the picture is much more hazy. The certificates being pinned aren't owned by Mozilla (at least, for the functionality to be useful you want to pin certs from other places, unless you browse mozilla's website all day long). So someone at Mozilla has to vouch for a 3rd party's certificate. Why should we trust Mozilla at this? How would Mozilla decide who to trust when they say 'honest, this really is my certificate'? And even if we accepted mozilla's judgement, all this does is make them an authority. You know, like all those other certificate authorities that already do this job. So nothing will have changed and nothing will have been improved.
In person isn't always possible - I'd expect the assumption any friends you know that closely are local from people in most communities, but not here. I've spent time talking to people who I've never met in person who I know consider me a close friend as do I them.
That's good news. Good luck, little rabbit! :)
Or maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron.... ?
Your server would have handled it fine if your WordPress install had some basic performance tuning.

Read http://browserdiet.com/ or http://blog.newrelic.com/2013/02/07/web-performance-optimiza...
At least you can see which bands will be at SXSW here (even if the schedule details aren't quite up to date yet):

http://gigsounder.com
Do I trust my government? No.

Do I use local currency? Yes.
http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=hi%20how%2...
European Parliament Proposed to protect EU Citizen's Privacy
True.

The problem for all of us could be that people often forget that "An idea is not responsible for the people that believe in it" (some "Don Marquis" said that)
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Just to clarify:

With modern DNS and SSL one of the root issuers can be compromised to impersonate any website. More root certificates - more targets.

With blockchain as a root authority, every website is their own guardian. If Google loses their keys, someone may impersonate only Google, but not Facebook, Twitter or your homepage. In combination with multisignature transactions, Google may lock access to their "BitDNS" records to a board of directors with 3-of-5 vote. If one or two keys are compromised or unavailable, it does not stop the company from moving their property how they want.
Namecoin is the best attempt, because if someone compromises DNS it doesn't immediately have access to real money. The task of maintaining Namecoin would be taken by the current maintainers of the DNS system.

What's so bad about keeping different things separated?
He/she is pointing out the hypocrisy.
2 Won't work any more now that Google have led the charge with downloading images in email messages to their own servers and serving them to users themselves.

I expect all email providers to follow Google's lead on that tbh because it's really quite good.

3 is a bit of a problem with residential broadband as IP address get re-assigned a fair bit.
The 'Duplicate Content' point in the article just plain wrong. It's not duplicate content - it's a load balancing and mirroring technique that's very common. For example, http://us2.php.net/echo and http://uk1.php.net/echo

Also, as ygra has already pointed out, the .asp extension doesn't necessarily mean they're using ASP. They've possibly just kept the extension and they're routing to something more modern with URL rewriting.

If you're going to critique other people's work, make sure you know precisely what you're talking about first.
> What I'd really like to see at this point is some smart packages built on top of Meteor that make building basic CRUD applications simple again.

We built what you've described with Exponential.io.

Essentially, we take a spec file and generate an Angular client, an Express API and a Mongo backend with a focus on CRUD applications.

We're doing a beta / soft launch in 2 weeks on Feb. 28.

In terms of platforms, we're releasing a solution to rapidly build an Angular + Node/Express API + Mongo (aka MEAN) on the 28th.

We'll follow-up with a solution for Meteor in short order. Interestingly, we built the Meteor solution first but are releasing the MEAN solution first as Meteor 1.0 is close, but not ready yet.
You've misread my comments and are trying to make them into something they're not. I wasn't calling you out for criticizing Go or trying to discuss its shortcomings. I was calling you out for being a dick to Enneff. I think my original comment was fairly clear about this.

Anyways this is a pointless argument. I'm sure youre a great guy in person.
I was in a similar situation. I read book after book, doing some small stuff. Now I switched from this book-first approach to problem-first. If you don't know what to choose, read articles, talk to people, books are too time-consuming, focused to start with. When you find an interesting problem (for me it's now reactive driver for Github in Scala, just started on it), you start coding, find appropriate books, other people solutions etc. I've found I learn way more and feel more engaged when I keep focusing on solving a problem.
Both this story and the one a few weeks ago about similar problems at Yale, just stun me by showing how these universities do everything absolutely wrong to create an environment where people with mild mental health issues can get better and at the same time get useful work done. What is needed is acceptance, correct treatment, flexibility in workload, support from friends and administration.

Mental health is not an "us and them" issue. A remarkably high percentage of the population suffers from mild anxiety or depression at one point or other. And even more serious conditions are very rarely a threat to anyone but the patient. I'm just glad I don't have to go to any of the schools mentioned in this story.
I strongly agree with you.

Except destigmatising mental health problems is an important step in letting people get therapeutic help.

Someone suffering a mental health problem might not know where to turn to or want a bit of support to go get help. Knowing that colleagues and friends are not judgmental about mental health; or that those people will help access services is a good thing.
Muahahaha Ha! I'm not American. I'll read it TWICE and cost you TWICE the taxpayer dollars, then I'll share it with all my friends and soon all the dollars in America will be GONE. Better call the president and tell him to start enacting measures, cause there are no breaks on THIS terrorist train!
The sequel to Canadian Bacon.
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3602645273/
May I recommend "The entire history of you" one of a short series of films shown on TV. (All 6 so far have been very good.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/

"In the future,thanks to the Grain, a chip which can be implanted on a hard drive in the brain,every single action that a person makes is recorded and may be played back."
Okay I have a fairly old Galaxy Nexus and can only say that I experience it completely different. The stock Android UI is simple, nothing fancy or unexpected going on. iOS 7 is exactly like what you describe Android. Horrible icons, icons and overdone animations(0.5s zoom out from app to homescreen, really?).
Please tell me how context makes a difference to vitriolic abuse of an outsider.
Nexus 5 is LG and is hands down the most gorgeous phone I've ever had.