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American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: "Suicide can be prevented. While some suicides occur without any outward warning, most people who are suicidal do give warnings."

http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?page_id=0519ec1a-d73a-8d90-7d2...

But let's move on summarize the rest of your drivel for those who can no longer read your grayed out words. You're not interested in any well established research that shows people who attempt and commit suicide commonly talk about it or warn ahead of time.

You're only relying on your "perspective"....that bad enough personal problems should be addressed by denial, isolation, theft, and mass murder.

Did we miss anything?

I agree with rms. Yours is probably the dumbest and most offensive post I've ever read on HN.
www.warrantyelephant.com is a site designed to solve your warranty problem. Won't help with the others though.
looks around

Is that a bad thing? ;)
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Right, so your advice to someone wanting to kill themselves is to make sure they kill others too. That's about the absolute stupidest piece of advice I have ever been unfortunate to read. The only person wanting attention here is you. No one wants to hear your philosophy on suicide right now. Not only is it baseless, it's dangerous, inappropriate, and irrelevant to the topic. You've pretty much devalued all 20k of your karma points with that, to me personally.

Someone please delete this post. But don't bring others down with it!
Granted this is a parable to prove a technical point, but encryption and steganography issues aside, NO professional investigative journalist would risk keeping such sensitive material at home. It's kept at the office, or rotated across multiple safe deposit boxes, multiple safehouses, or, at the bare minimum, an offsite dead/dry dump--NEVER at home.

Additionally, why did he even open the door in the first place?

If they have a warrant, and if the information is valuable enough, let them expend time, effort, and resources to physically break in while the critical files are scrubbed (i.e. securely deleted with multiple over-writes).

If he's paranoid enough, these days, it will never be permanently stored on hard disk media in the first place. Instead the project files will be on easy-to-destroy and physically tiny flash media.

If the information is valuable enough (especially with corporate backing and 'sources' laws protections in the U.S.) it's worth the risk fighting an obstruction of justice charge.
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You're advocating taking innocent lives as a way to live life to its fullest? Kill others because you just couldn't take the pressure anymore?

The anger your post evoked in me has forced me to rewrite this sentence five times...this is the most peaceful response I can muster: your "philosophy" is psychopathic. I hope you grow up one day and realize the measure of your life is the number of lives you positively change...not the number you take with you on the way out.
If the numbers mentioned in the article are valid, it sounds like he's found a cure for at least one cause of M.S. Whether it's the sole possible cause is another question...
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Nope, not at all! Though this particular crowd may be a suboptimal one to ask that question of, as we are more likely than most to start our own startup (or at least write our own shell script) to solve our problems... :-)

Maybe next time you're at your local dry cleaner, ask this same question.
I have trouble finding the "Programming Pearls" of various topics. For example I'd like to find a book of similar quality and style that deals w/ networking computers. This applies to non-computer related subjects too... for example I'd love to find great books/lectures etc about caring for animals but I don't want to search a lot. Maybe my problem is I'm lazy :-p

I've noticed a recurring pattern where I'll find something really interesting every once in a while... for example I just discovered the Graphics Programming Black Book by accident. Would be nice to just have a list of learning materials that are highly likely to be good matches for me.
Assuming that the treatment is proved to be successful -- and despite promising early results, that's still a ways off -- what happens to the various "find a cure for MS" organizations? Would they go away quietly? Is there a precedent for such an event?
There is no way this could draw another antitrust lawsuit. No way.
An excellenrt arrticle with a couple of verey good examples.
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Maybe he doesn't mean a word of them. But history is full, absolutely jam-packed, with examples of people seeking violent, terminal retribution for the injustices they perceive to have ruined their lives. Heard of a movie called Braveheart? Heard of a little comic book called V for Vendetta? Both examples of an aggrieved party fighting willingly to the death in an act of, essentially, revenge.

This is a real human emotion and downvoting will not just make it go away. How about some rational counterarguments, such as the injustice of taking innocent people with you, or the long-term futility of such an approach.

Pretty disappointing to see this kind of morally outraged pile-on here.
Ask HN: A start-loading button for videos?
I thought of an idea: Online videos should have a button, "Start loading", which makes the video start loading.

Personally, when I come across a video I want to see, I usually hit play and then immediately pause, then go read something else, so the video will be completely loaded when I start watching it. And it's annoying to do that, especially because sometimes it takes time until the pause button shows.

So I suggest a "Start loading" button that will cause the widget to start downloading the video. It will disappear the moment it is pressed or "play" is pressed.

What do you think?
Does anyone know enough Japanese to call one of these numbers? They're suicide hotlines in Japan. Any threat like this should be taken seriously!

http://www.suicide.org/hotlines/international/japan-suicide-...

+81 (0) 3 5286 9090
+81 (0) 6 4395 4343
I find that this crowd would be more willing to use or pay for a solution, as opposed to the average person would would just slug their way through the problem, ignoring any better or easier way of doing things. Most people aren't even aware of something being a problem until they are shown a solution. People here on HN are more apt to be thinking of easier and faster ways of doing things.

As I sometimes say: Most people don't know what they want.
What would stop the de-listed sites from appearing in Google search results via syndication/aggregation on blogs and other sites? Seems like they would be putting themselves in a weaker position by letting other sites capture the click-trhough traffic and apply their own spin to the content. In how many cases would the searcher be satisfied with the syndicated/aggregated summary and never click-through? They would have to insist Google de-list sites that link to the content for this to make any sense.
i wonder about your example. is it that i don't know where my time goes, or that i lack the means to change my habits? perhaps both are occurring, since sometimes knowing just how much time is wasted on <foo> provides motivation to stop....but really, the means are the tough part.

how can we motivate positive change beyond simple tracking?
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/02/24/122-moleskine-not...
Your comment implies that Tetsuya might somehow get offended or discouraged by a friendly note that tries to put things in perspective. Please. I'd take real human contact over a swarm of psychologists any day in his situation.
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If you follow the literature referenced in this recent blog post you should be able to find what you are looking for. Also pay close attention to the content of shalizi and newman's review article - there is a lot of notorious and well known statistical sloppiness in the literature on power law distributions.

http://cs.unm.edu/~aaron/blog/archives/2009/11/power_laws_an...

It's especially interesting that they call the power law distribution of wealth into question.

EDIT: the link to the shalizi and newman review in the blog post is a link to a "buy this .pdf" site. Here's the mentioned article on the arxiv

http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062
I just had some time to scan your repository on GitHub and noticed this: http://github.com/slact/nginx_http_push_module/commit/6823f7...

Though it just looks like a stub for now.

Also, I read the following here:
http://github.com/slact/nginx_http_push_module/issues/unread...

"Meanwhile, you can use your application to do the authenticating, and generate ids for already-authenticated clients from a large enough (> 2^128) keyspace for security."

So, there, I did my homework.
vaksel,

your statements about getting a bunch of guns, going out in a blaze of glory, etc, clearly indicate you are full of hope and would be justifiably pissed off if external forces pushed you toward suicide. This is in line with your desire to be remembered, your legacy, you want to have consequences.

I think a number of the negative responses toward you are from folks who have known death and have learned to cherish life the more thereby. They are deeply concerned by what may appear to be cavalier comments about killing. Justifiably so.

You're in a forum for hackers. Presumably you find the values of hackers to be admirable. And you seem to have put a lot of effort into pushing back. If I had to guess, you want someone to tell you why you're wrong, but not just tell you, you want them to prove it.

Well, instead, be a good hacker, and figure it out yourself. Go read up on suicide. Why people commit suicide. Here's a good place to start:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=aaron+beck+hopelessness
Here he is on twitter - http://twitter.com/Tetsuya_K
Fascinating. I'd love to see a collection of these videos.
and there's no 9P library in sight

Well, it so happens that someone wrote one just in time - http://bitbucket.org/f2f/go9p/

Funny coincidence that I was reading ths story right now, and I got a mail in the 9fans archive about this 9p implementation written in Go, and to top it, look at the domain name !
Agreed, but careful. The tech guy has to rock at tech! :)

Feel free to email me too, anthony at hypem.com
More of the people in those states are employed doing the things that have to get done every day ... wait the tables, make the beds, feed the cows. Jobs that don't go away but also don't enrich. With pockets of exception, they don't have nearly as many technical or research or development or education or arts or entertainment jobs ... and those they have got usually couldn't pay any less.

"Perpetual misery" might be a caustic, but appropriate, description. (Spent much of my life in them.)
I program, draw, write music. They're all quite similar for me. Each requires logic and intuition.

The left/right brain thing is a simplistic pop-science myth. (Sorry about your $19K. Perhaps someone with a medical degree, such as a psychiatrist or neurologist, would have been more helpful about the mechanics of the brain).

It may still be helpful to do non-coder things to break the monotony. But you'll be using your whole brain doing it.
Get into a habit that you only do while doing "serious work". For me, it was listening to music, on headphones. When I start doing "serious work" I put the headphones on. When I'm distracted, I take the headphones off. Repeat.

Now, a few years later, I can get into Serious Work Mode, just by putting on the headphones, without listening to music. I've accidentally Pavlov Conditioned myself. It's great.
The closest thing that came to mine was March of Dimes. Originally it targeted Polio, but now it's "mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Dimes). So, maybe they move on to fight another fight.
Also, suicide is more common in Japan, and viewed differently by Japanese society:

"Suicide has never been criminalized in Japan. Japanese society's attitude toward suicide has been termed "tolerant", and on many occasions a suicide is seen as a morally responsible action."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan
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If not for Google, GO would never have been noticed much less commented on by anyone important.
When you've become dependent on cheap foreign labor to produce what we need, then you have to get creative to employ hundreds of millions of Americans. So: maybe its partly because we 'like a good deal' (more crap, less quality) that more people aren't doing the productive work Americans did before we became a 'service' economy. Can't have it both ways.
Here is a similar tool that outputs static html/css: http://www.csstextwrap.com/

EDIT: It seems that this plugin falls back on the normal css float property, so the only downsides I see are that JS is required and there is some small bandwidth overhead of sending the script. Not very big downsides at all.
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This is an interesting post but I would suggest that comments about suicide in general are on a different discussion post. When talking about a specific individual compassion and respect is called for.
you can download the original prince of persia here :

http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/prince-of-persia.p...

use dosbox (http://dosbox.com) to run the exe. This brings back childhood memories. Learning how to use the command line to play prince on a 386.

The journal really motivates me to start writing my own. I would help me to clarify my thoughts and keeping my goals in mind..
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We're all going to die. Why not put our "deaths" to good use by being a dick while we're still alive? Really?

We're defined by what we do in our lives (and to whom we do it) in the last minutes, and in all the years leading up to them. This idea of last minute anti-glory is as repugnant as it is ridiculous.

If you wait until the last seconds of you life to be who you really are, all that shows is cowardice.
Those keyboards are only suitable for typing shorthand.
"I'm actually afraid of the collective ignorance of most computer users today that Microsoft could win out with manipulative business practices like this - most internet users are layman and don't understand the integrity issues of whats going on here."

OK, so let's assume this will work, for this reason, and game it out. I don't hold up the following analysis as Truth, just some thoughts.

In the short term, even for several years, Microsoft could match any revenues to a news company that it chose. In the long term, though, the news company faces two outcomes: Bing essentially succeeds, and Bing essentially fails. In the first case, they essentially win and everything's hunky-dory. In the second case, they lose any independent market existence they have and become a Microsoft vassal, dependent on the Microsoft payoff to survive on the net.

So, taking this offer from Microsoft is effectively betting that Microsoft can successfully dethrone Google and beat them at their core competency. As a person interested in the software industry who has watched Microsoft thrash around in numerous fields over the past couple of decades, and scoring only one modest success outside of Windows and Office in that time frame (the games division, which still isn't in the Office/Windows league by any means), this is not a bet I'd care to make. I have no idea how a news company would see this, though.

(BTW, I'm judging "success" by "profit". Very few things at Microsoft make money. I believe the XBox division did finally break even fairly recently, and that makes them a rarity, and I could be misremembering.)

It seems to me it's going to be hard to convince a company to be the first to jump ship. "Hard" here of course mostly means "will take more money", but still, to pull this off successfully it seems like Microsoft will need to get not just one news organization, but several, and match it up with a very big, very expensive advertising campaign to boot.

It might work... but it seems to me it's more like a "Hail Mary" than a sound plan. But Hail Marys do sometimes work; I'm not saying it's impossible.
I think you're being a bit dramatic here. Whats the difference between this and Playstation paying for Grand Theft Auto's exclusivity, or Bing and Google paying for access to Twitter's content while small engines like DuckDuckGo go without? Or the NFL network only allowing coverage of most football games on DirecTV/Dish?

I'm not judging the business model's merits, but selling exclusive access to content is nothing new.

"It starts with the developers - we are the ones that create the software that start the market that feed the companies that buy into Microsoft's bull. Vote by code. Stand by it."

You're confusing Microsoft the software company with Microsoft the advertising company. This has absolutely nothing to do with developers.
Direct link to episode (legal): http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103795
For many, the world building is the point. While your favorites throw in just enough tech to make the plot work, mine throw in just enough plot to take us through the world. There are authors who take such pride in this they go to conventions and seminars with other authors just to design shared worlds from scratch.

And "summon technology or magic" is where a lot of bad sci-fi fails. Magic can have ridiculously arbitrary rules attached, but technology has to work systematically. If you add technology but omit all the effects it obviously should have had on your society (especially on other technology), readers like me are going to quit in disgust.

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Collusion isn't that hard of a problem to tackle when people are colluding at a poker table as they act very differently to when they aren't. Since the poker site can see all the hands this becomes visible very easily.

They obviously won't catch all people colluding but they will catch most of them. And just changing IPs won't help much when they ban your account/payment details and you have to arrange another fake identity that checks out at a payment processor regularly.
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Dear Mr. Kitahata,
Please don't kill yourself. I have no idea what you're going through right now, but I can imagine that you feel a great weight on your shoulders and you might perceive a certain hopelessness in your circumstances. Someone very close to me has at times expressed suicidal thoughts and it pangs my heart to think of a world without him. In the end, all I can do is show him love and hope he reaches out to embrace that love. I would ask that you do the same. Please read the pleas from the dozens of people writing you and know there are hundreds more out there rooting for you to take the first step in helping yourself.
I did not imply that the article refutes the idea the chording keyboards allow speedier typing, I stated it plainly.

In any event, the parent poster compared chording keyboards to "regular keyboards," not mini-QWERTY keyboards (those are the sort found on cell phones and are distinct from the small-awful-QWERTY keyboards found on netbooks).
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Presumably one could store the data in an accessible format and create some interesting projects around it.
Maybe, but consider it from his perspective.
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The U.S. society goes further, discouraging patients from getting tested or seeking surgical treatment. Rather, it continues to promote drug treatments used to alleviate symptoms...

Statements like this make me wonder how much influence the drug industry had in this decision. Clearly it's not in their best interest for MS sufferers to get surgery and be done with it. I'm sure they rather MS sufferers take a Rx for the rest of their life.
Ritalin. Only thing that's ever worked for me.
Bing trying to get exclusive on Fox is smart (Mark Cuban)
Textmate and Eclipse. I use vi for quick editing.

I also use Virtualbox for running virtual Linux and Windows (for testing)
I think it's a great clarification, and I can't imagine why someone would downvote you for it. You verbalized an important artistic distinction in story versus style.
Yeah, even just seeing the still frames brought flashbacks of those animations.
I could not agree more. At my university there was suppose to be a place for undergraduates to research and work together, but sadly the unviersity turned it into a conference room. Most of my friends in CS that are terrible programmers were simply never taught the proper way to program or even remotely how to tackle a problem. Its sad to tutor other students and they understand the problem but they have no idea where to start or how to implement a solution. I think CS programs should definately teach how to problem solve as opposed to just finish the project for the grade. My parents enforced good study habits in me and it is apparent in my friends/roommates that did not have it instilled in them. If universities did teach students how to study and manage time I am sure a lot of the "bad" students would be right on up there. Lastly I also find it very hard to believe how many crappy professors are still allowed to teach. In fact I had one professor in a basic studies class say "I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT ME! CALL ME AN ASSHOLE! IM TENURE! I DON'T CARE!". I've also had professors that simply cannot teach at all. You could look around the room and see blank stairs on everyones face and yet the professor just keeps on going...
Amazing story of a very exciting and chaotic time in computing and computer games.
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While true, GO is not unique in this respect:

- C was noticed due to Bell Labs

- C# was noticed due to Microsoft

- Java was noticed due to Sun

- etc
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I know here in Seattle, KOMO 4 is starting to do #3 (Indexes of news and information by zip code)
http://www.komonews.com/communities
...and News corp not going bankrupt, and the eyeballs having no choice but to go to the remaining news sources.
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Ask HN: Where to find startup partners?
Hi, I have been trying to find someone to create a start up for the past 2-3 years while in college. I'm a cs student and know probably about half of the students in my program but I have found few that really learn anything outside the classroom. I've tried working with a few students but find it frustrating because most of them simply are not passionate about what they do.

So I was wondering are there any sites to help find startup partners? I've nearly given up hope on finding anyone to work with, but I would love to find someone to work with before I start on a few of my ideas.

Also are there any HN meetups in NC? Thanks.