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Here are some suggestions that worked for me, and may (or may not) help.

I find that depression -- at least for me -- has two main causes:

[1] Excessive emotional response to bad situations (similar to what the author of this article is experiencing).

and:

[2] Insufficient motivation/goals/joy.

My solution to [1] is twofold: mindfulness and resolution. Be aware that excessive negative emotional responses are bad (as they lead to depression), so it is better to just observe bad situations and try not to get overly emotional. Secondly, try to resolve the issue (either by actively managing it, or by accepting that the world is just like that and you can't change it), so that the conflict doesn't arise in future.

For [2], the solution is to have a purpose in life, with motivating, goal-oriented activities that you enjoy. I suspect this might be the issue for you. There is more to life than having a well-paid job. I gave up very well paid contract work 15 years ago, as I hated it. Since then I have worked on my own business. I earn a hell of a lot less money now, but I'm much happier.

Having friends (or at least social contact) is also important to mental health, even if that is just saying hello to people you meet on the street, or chatting to like-minded people online.

Please don't wait for something to happen. Take charge of your life and do something about it. Being depressed all the time is an unnatural state, and is your brain's way of telling you that you need to change something in your life. Sometimes you need to make major changes in your life to make things better.

Feel free to email me at cpncrunchhn@gmail.com if you want to chat.
Researchers have nothing better to do than explore the harmless neuroses of the middle class?
there are access gates, I think, for emergency vehicles (as well as maintenance).
And the best solution they can come up with is "Let's oppress the SHIT out of everybody, then everything will be .. better!"
I wonder how they're going to block the packets - are they just blocking Port 53, sniffing, or using some mandatory proxy for the root hosts.
Yes. Unlike the parent, I welcome reading such stories. It keeps me cognizant of the risks of ignoring mental well-being. I think our professions (programming in particular) has more mischief potential because it makes it easy to drift into solitude while remaining productive. I can easily do my work locked up in a room with my computer sustained by Instacart without much human interaction, but therein lies sorrow. You couldn't work like that if you were a dentist or a plumber. I sometimes envy the forced social interactions of other professions.
MicroPython has been ported to the esp8266: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13252

which is a wifi-ready microcontroller that can be found on eBay for a few bucks:

https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/esp82...
Whether or not the allegations are true (as most people are questioning here), this article is really poorly researched. There's no indication that any attempt was made to get Roberts' side of the story or to check with any other security researcher about the plausibility of the accusations.

Several people have suggested that Roberts' goal is to raise awareness about airplane safety, so perhaps he actually wanted the article published like this even if inaccurate, though it still reflects poorly on the author.
The UK gov't, and other governments around the world have clearly demonstrated incompetence WRT their ability to tell dangerous individuals from harmless ones

There's also the position that they (the government) are somehow uniquely positioned to be able to do this better than anyone else, and yet keep failing at it.
ask:I started charging money on my app. Flurry says 2k download, iTunes says 200
Hello,

I've developed an iOS application.
My application has been receiving a steady download rate of 5K per day. Lately, I've become short on money and decided to start charging money for downloading the app.

From that point onwards AppStore reported a decline to around 200 installs per day, whereas Flurry, Facebook and crashalytics have all been reporting ~2 k new app installs.

How could that be? What am I missing?
> I haven't heard of any epidemics.

People in the US have had kidney failure as a result of raw milk. That's pretty risky considering not many people drink it.

If I knew what the Polish is for "kidney failure" I could probably find the Polish children who were made very ill by parents imposing their fads.
>having no friends for 14 years can be disruptive

WHAT THE UNHOLY FLYING FUCK!?

How are you not dead? No actual personal relationships closer than coworker or acquaintance, other than possibly your parents? Near-total personal isolation? FOR 14 YEARS!?

That would have broken me in mere months.
Ah, my bad. I thought Xsan had been retired, but it seems not.
This is horribly written.
You're losing me at "equity vesting" "fully" at the end of a "3 month" "contract". A lot of those terms don't go well together in a sentence.
I heard they're working on Yo Enterprise. It'll have features to collaborate and listen.
Serious question, because I am admittedly ignorant to the plusses and minuses of the different package managers.

If you're going to swap out: why not switch to apt? What does apt lack that DNF is going to provide? This seems like one of those low hanging fruit where standardization across distributions would make sense.
True, but the website is shit, just like the arduinosrl.it website. You can definitely tell the difference. Feels like a dodgy website.

I think a break away from that name will do them good. It will take some time but it's for the best.
Meizu Announces Ubuntu MX4 for Developers
Most of these interview questions can be summarized as

1. Have you heard this question before?

or

2. What number am I thinking of?

I.e., any answer other than the one the interviewer is expecting is wrong. I had a recent interview with some SQL/Linux questions. I gave a correct answer, but one that wasn't on the interviewer's script. He wasn't able to accept my answer as correct. So I'm left trying to guess what answer the interviewer is expecting.
> Raw reasoning and logic is not constantly changing.

That's exactly why it's a better foundation for economic conclusions.

Why would you keep requesting evidence even after acknowledging that there's evidence every which way? Anyone can just cherry-pick evidence that suits them, but where does that leave us?

Reasoning based on correct premises works pretty well though.

> I'm sorry for assuming an economic context for my terms — elsewhere in the thread you asserted that "Opposition to UBI comes from people with a clue about economics" so I made the assumption that you were familiar with economic terms.

Let's just say I've seen those terms thrown around, but they're vague and obtuse enough to be practically meaningless. That's hardly surprising, considering their main use is rationalizing government intervention.

For example, no economy can ever reach "pareto optimality": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_optimality .. because every single voluntary exchange leaves both participants better off, because otherwise they wouldn't go through it. Since value is subjective, it really is enough that they both perceive a benefit in the trade.

If you want to argue against that, you'd have to somehow magically know how much I'd be willing to pay for a Ford Fiesta tomorrow at 4pm. But you can't. No one else can. Just like I couldn't possibly know your preferences at some given moment in time.

So yeah, pareto optimality is nonsense, as explained above, and so is a lot of the other stuff involved in these discussions. That's part of why I demanded definitions.

> I don't think there are many serious economists that you back you up on this assertion.

You'd have to look to the Austrian school of economic thought for that, but all of them would agree with me.

> This claims that I would be happier if there were no roads, no water supply, no education systems, no protection from criminals (which technically don't exist because there's no criminal behavior), and no protection from other countries.

All the services you list are provided by people working for a living. Do you want to claim people need governments to tell/force them to work for a living?

> I absolutely would like some of my money taken and spent on those thing.

No you don't. No one wants to be robbed, any more than beaten to a pulp with a baseball bat. What you might be thinking is that you're willing to pay for those services, but that would also apply without getting robbed.

> At the very least arguing economics won't get us to any common ground — I think we'd have to switch over to philosophy before we'd find common ground.

You're right about that :)
The fact that this is what you think means your relationship at a new company level is already beyond salvation.
1997 but still relevant today, nice! (well, except maybe the very last part about tapes and not being able to adjust tempo).

While this is pretty much a goldmine of information, one thing I would advise of being careful about is about this « My practice hours are divided about equally between works from the standard cello literature and highly focused mechanical exercises ».

While I'm sure it's the the best solution if your only goal is to get better, it is not a format I would suggest for everyone. I for one would have been so bored if I had to to this that I probably would have quit. What I'm doing is about 1/3 practicing scores with sheets, 1/3 mechanical exercises and scales and 1/3 improvisation and just fun (which is very important to me for keeping the motivation to go on, and I guess it could apply to other people). Just for the record, I started playing violin at 24, a bit over one year ago (first instrument), so obviously I can only say that as a total newbie, just keep in mind though (:
Is Japan Becoming Extinct?
It's "niewydolność nerek" and I don't see anything about it with connection to milk other than reprints of American studies.
thanks for the recommendation.

i think malloc and free are a lesser evil than this stuff:

http://thbecker.net/articles/rvalue_references/section_08.ht...

feel free to disagree!
We've made the consumer web look like TV and magazines. Not much more complicated than that. People find color, icons, animation, and video engaging.

Sure we may be going overboard with some of the latest javascript effects. That's just Flash all over again. But there's a reason that the web no longer looks like academic journal articles. Those are boring.
While I don't really understand the differences between CBT and DBT, I've been seeing a therapist who has prescribed a lot of the treatments the author mentions. It never occurred to me that I suffered with anxiety but through a series of events I started having panic attacks and sought help.

I've since learned that anxiety is often a front for emotions that cannot be adequately expressed or processed. For me, it's all the "unhealthy" emotions - anger, sadness, shame. The tools I've been able to deploy in anxiety fits include mindfulness: simply concentrating on my breathing and realizing how my body is reacting to stimuli. Often just meditating for a few minutes helps lower my anxiety, get my breathing under control and stop my heart from pounding.

There's also journaling my emotions several times a day. I built an app that sends me an SMS asking me how I am feeling and why and logs the response for later analysis.

It's not easy building new skills. It's also not easy re-training your mind after a lifetime of negative thinking. But so far its been working, and I've been able to do it drug free.
Yeah, I think the compiler has enough information to do that, in principle. But there is another problem: Rust has the design principle that every language-enforced invariant should be clear just from the function signature. This has at least two benefits: the compiler doesn't have to reason about the code invariants "globally", which might slow and hard to optimize, and the APIs are clearer and the user doesn't have to know implementation details to reason about them.

If there's going to be some concept of purity, according to the same principle, it'd be something that one could know just by looking at the function signatures.
Least squares is disastrously bad for anything with a fat tail (e.g., power law decay). The reason is that in these cases one or two outliers will dominate the sum of the tails.

It's not optimal for any other distribution. For a general error distribution g(x), you want to maximize sum(log(g(x-x0))) (or equivalently prod(g(x-x0))) - this only turns to least squares if log(g(x)) = C + D(x-x0)^2.
hey sorry to hear you had such a tough time in college. My time wasn't so rosy either and I graduated with poor grades but it did feel good to complete it, so maybe speak to some of your professors before you make the final call? Also, when you say 76 days to create something of value, do you have anything in mind or will it be writing? Having time pressure may add to anxiety so i recommend steady exercise routine, no alcohol, and a balanced diet. Also interacting with humans on somewhat regular basis can be good for keeping a positive outlook. Either way you go good luck!
It's funny how anyone we don't like is a hipster. You think they're the people who like plain web pages. I think hipsters are the people who insist on using a dozen artisanal hand crafted fonts on every web page.
Cowan talks about a "reset". Perhaps part of the "reset" will be putting some of benefits of productivity back in everyone's pocket.
If this is really what you want to say, maybe try to spend a bit more effort saying it.
Okay, I found something (http://www.merkur.de/lokales/muenchen/stadt-muenchen/unbekan...), the trains got shot at two times, and multiple acts of sabotage and vandalism occurred.

Nothing about the outcome of all this, though.
This is the funniest and scariest thing I have read today, but it's brilliantly illustrative.
Apt is part of a tool chain that is extreme Unix philosophy. With this we benefit from backwards compatibility and continuing to use our muscle memory, but it also means that if say you want to find out which uninstalled package provides a specific file it means installing another tool.
If you are going to buy or sell drugs online, at least figure out how to cover your tracks.
You could just not read the articles that aren't interesting to you. Wishing that all/more of the articles are within your interests is essentially wishing that all/more of the people within the community are more like you. But in a community, that's unlikely.

Or, you could read some of the articles that aren't interesting to you, as they'll have ideas and problems that might be outside of your immediate experience and view. Who knows, they might directly or indirectly inspire some entrepreneurial idea that wouldn't have occurred to you otherwise.

Keep your eyes and mind open, you never know what problems you might solve.
"no laws are constructed such that they are enforced in a mechanical fashion"

Actually, I believe a lot of laws mandate minimums - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_sentencing
I presume the players involved want to decide the fate of the project for themselves.

Less charitably, it's a kind of political NIH syndrome.
For those wondering how he got this much in credits:

http://aws.amazon.com/activate/
Don't know why you were downvoted, but have an upvote from me. You nailed it. There is such an assuredness of the rightness of some beliefs here and I have used the word religion to describe it as well.

It's a shame. It's called Hacker News and presumably seemed to have Libertarian leanings that you might expect. Yet, in reality, there is a solid emphasis on conforming over individualism.

A bunch of comformist hackers (oxymoron) and professed libertarians who insist that you believe as they do?

And, to your point, I think a lot of people do conform (knowingly or not). Because, unless everyone actually does agree with one another on everything (not likely), then the choices are to conform or simply stop participating.
Pretty much everything you said applies to human beings as much as, if not more than, to hypothetical sentient AI agents.
This didn't deserve a downvote, it's a good observation of the problem. If you're depressed, it's very hard for people to be around you, and that makes the depression worse.
It seems so simple, yet it is the antithesis of all secret government policies in the western world for a while.
Why use VMware? Is indeed the existential question that's facing them. For now, it's because many IT shops can't wrap their heads around the alternatives or justify the switch. Lack of skills (lots of Windoes centric shops), deep love for DRS/Vmotion/HA, deep support for fibre channel setups, etc. Btw this is arguably why VMware announced Photon recently, to go after RedHat. Eat at their Linux monopoly.

That said, VMware did basically invent x86 virtualization as we know it today, and that's justified the many billions in wealth it has generated to date. Docker is (so far) a registry and a CLI wrapper around a Linux kernel feature. It can and will be more, but it's not clear what.
Have you heard of Papers We Love? http://paperswelove.org
But as long as the political system and the market economic system exist side-by-side, this particular market will always exist! It's a feedback loop. The favor generates a return, the return allows acquisition of power, and the power allows more favors.

It's like Rod Blagojevich said, to paraphrase, if you've got this incredibly valuable thing (the ability to make policy), why would you ever give it away for free?! You sell it to the highest bidder. And the highest bidder will always be a "special" interest, because, as I pointed out in my last comment, they are the only ones who can afford it (because they will use the policies to make the money back).

The Koch brothers understand this, they came right out and said that they view campaign contributions as investments. As long as we delude ourselves into believing that the system can be made to work with just the right combination of rules and checks (in other words, as long as we delude ourselves into thinking that markets aren't dynamic and don't route around damage), nothing will change.
I'm on Linux. I have HTML5 videos enabled, so I think it's mostly that, but I can check later if you want.
I've begun to wonder if the US is really and second and a half world nation. We have so much potential, and we keep it from ourselves. Maddening.
Clearly, English is not the author's native tongue.
at some point *hat could do us all a favor and remember that we're just humans.
RSA with DHE or ECDHE is a sane handshake. I would avoid DSA and ECDSA based key exchanges because they fail catastrophically with bad random number generators. For most APIs session caching is more important than a faster initial handshake.

The HTTPS only choice would annoy me a lot because I run most HTTPS services in behind a reverse proxy in a FreeBSD jail on the same host. HA proxy and nginx are still superior to most applications in regard to reliable TLS termination.

Using HTTPS by default a the right choice for a new project but offering no HTTP support (outside of a benchmark) patronizes the user.

All in all this looks like a nice way to export C APIs through HTTPS.
Something could call into FFI. Or whatever.

The Rust compiler tries not to talk of function kinds past the function boundary as a design principle^. So while the compiler can do a transitive search down all function calls and ensure there's no trickery, Rust doesn't want to do things like that. Inference should not extend past a function.

Introducing a `pure` or `const` keyword to be applied on fns would work, that way the pureness of a function can be determined without recursing into its contents. We've had some proposals for the latter, but no full implementations or rfcs yet IIRC. It might happen.

^I think it's a design principle, at least.
They just updated their text and dropped San Francisco from the list of supported areas. Currently they are only in Berkeley.

I would use this service. I easily have couple bag of not-quite-trash that wants to be dealt with. But really, what are they going to do with an old Nokia cellphone charger? Or a 24" LCD monitor with DVI and VGA input but the HDMI input is broken. Or slightly damaged clothes with rivets and zippers I keep meaning to repair but have never gotten around it, so might as well throw out.

For $5, I can't imagine I'll get any sort of post-processing report about what they got out of my crap or what they managed to do with it.

Hell, I've got a bunch of crap that I keep meaning to put up for sale on ebay/craigslist that I never get to. I doubt I'm alone in that regard.
Yeah, a little sympathy and open-mindedness here would be helpful.

I'm a grown adult, C-level professional with ZERO real-world friends. And I've tried... but the connections haven't stuck. It's quite bothersome, and makes you question everything about yourself and why this outcome could possibly be true after a lifetime of having tried to maintain and improve connections with others.

I've adopted a more tolerant and accepting self-view with respect to this, and the pain level of being completely socially isolated is in the 20-30% range, but the pain of on-going disinterest on the part of others was quite high.. like 80-90%. So it's a bit of progress. But my point is: for those who haven't found their way to an operable level of acceptance, a "WTF!" response isn't kind or helpful or insightful.

There are many of us "ForeverAlone"-ers out there, and trust me... we're 10x more confused than you might profess to be.
Computer expert hacked into plane and made it fly sideways, according to FBI
Ah, OK - so the username/password sent via email is what you use to actually activate NOD32? No serial required?
Yes, this is a good option. I view Stallman's writings the way I view most polemics. While they're useful in understanding the roots of an idea and challenging the way things are, they often aren't practical. If everybody had to use a computer the way Stallman does, they probably wouldn't use computers.

The benefit accessibility, which unfortunately often relies on non-free software, provides is of great value to many people.

Stallman has the privilege of an education from MIT where he learned the ins-and-outs of computing and is able to function efficiently with this knowledge. I have friends who have to work for subsistence wages who simply wouldn't have the time nor the energy to learn everything about how to use fully free software, and they get huge benefits from using the Internet.

My mute brother often uses proprietary voice assistance software to speak that locks him into Apple's platform. He doesn't care. The benefits of him being able to communicate efficiently far outweigh the cost in terms of both the cost of the software and the "dangers" of using proprietary software. Admittedly, I'd like it if I could modify the source code, but it's better than starting from scratch.

Even his stance on cell phones ignores the concerns of many people. I don't know where Stallman lives, but I'm betting it's a pretty safe area for him. He can live without a cell phone because the likelihood that he will need to call 911 when he's out and about is low. Constant tracking is bad, but being assaulted is worse.

All that being said, I wish more software was free. It'd lead to more eyes on the software everyone is using which would probably improve it a lot in terms of functionality, security, and performance. It's hard for one person or a small group of people to have expertise in every area that a good piece of modern software requires.
It would have been better to switch to zypper. Both dnf and zypper use a SAT solver for very fast depsolving. Yum and apt don't and both have very slow depsolving. Zypper also directly supports rpm, and would have unified the package managers on Fedora, OpenSUSE and the enterprise Linux distros RHEL and SUSE.