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Notch makes a bunch of early-morning tweets, these get dissected in the press with sentences ending in ", no really" and explanations of how much the toilets in his new mansion cost. And now the comments (even in here) mock him.

He has a history of mood issues and blogged about how his father killed himself due to depression. [0]

He is a human being in trouble.

You can do better, HN.

[0] http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/13/3763968/notch-father-minec...
I did say "food" right?

ignoring the stupidity of your question i'd just like to point out that without the knowledge of your caloric maintenance requirements (and not from a bullshit online calculator), we can't make any assumptions on what amount of calories would be required to lose weight
Cocaine isn't just a stimulant like caffeine.
He was happy programming right? Why not do more live programming sessions making games? And as you suggested, picking up a genuine hobby is a start. Look at James Cameron, he is a marine biologist at heart, his day job is making movies.
Have you tested HO between Sprint network and WiFi ?

As per our understanding Sprint doesn't have VoLTE network so if Handoff is supported means Project Fi is VoIP.
> browser+server framework for board games that can abstract the display and rules to the point where you can implement things from chess to warhammer

I've been wanting to do something like this for tabletop card games.

* Provide an open standard to define the design and optionally, logic related data for cards. I'll come back to this

* Provide an API for people to manage decks, draws, discards etc.

* Provide another API to manage distribution of cards amongst players via achievements or payments (collecting card decks basically)

The idea behind this would be to allow people to build card games that are either played online or offline (by allowing people to download card decks). Grand scheme of things would include a "github for card games" kind of system. Big dreams, shit execution on my part :D
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At least he's not deluding himself that he's not still a regular human being. I prefer a super rich guy trying to identify as a regular person, even if cringey, than a rich guy who's suddenly convinced himself that he's special and gets to live in a different world just because he made money.
He is in emotional distress and anyone who wants to be helpful should suggest he not turn to Twitter for support. Anywhere but Twitter in fact. There are specializations psychologists go into helping people deal with the problems he is facing.
Duke and U-Penn are also doing early clinical trials of T-cell therapies (using HIV and other virii to train the own body's T-cells to identify cancer) and other novel approaches for attacking GBM.

https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02209376 (Novartis + U-Penn + UC SF)

http://neuro.surgery.duke.edu/research/basic-research/duke-b...
Trivializing the fact that dude feels bad about having too much cash in his bank account? Are you off your rocker mate?!

Every time the rich look for empathy because the life is so so fucking hard and depressingly hard for them they should take a trip to a third world country and not spend millions on yachts, houses or cars.

Poor fucking me! WTF! He's in a unique situation where the money that he has will last him for generations....go and use it for changing other people's lives, not buying crap just so you can.
If by following you mean eating exactly the same amounts then yes it would obviously be silly.

But you can follow someones diet by taking the core concepts; higher protein intake, moderate caloric deficit, increased activity, and make fantastic results after you tailor it to your individual needs by figuring out your caloric maintenance (by tracking food and being weight stable over a period of time not by punching your age and height into a calculator)
The hardware is fine, it's a software issue.
When were you reading a textbook under time constraints?
To make matters worse, or maybe better, most non keyboard instruments have no sensible temperament whatsoever. Even fretted instruments are a compromise.
Looking forward to see who sanctions who.
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There have been numerous threads about this in the last few days, including https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10139734 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10144309.

The Schadenfreude in many of the comments is vicious. Those of you posting those ought to reflect on why you do that.

Beyond that, it's wrong for us to be conducting message board threads about the happiness and mental health of a human being. It's off-topic for HN in any case, because it's garden-variety celebrity gossip. But it's also wrong, and I wish I'd realized this earlier.

It's time this stopped. Since more of these threads are sure to be posted, please flag them if you see them before we do.
>>when I do become a billionaire

I like your confidence! Are you actually doing anything to make that happen?
Thanks! Also note

1) It currently supports M4 and provided that there is a simple rule to infer the name of the preprocessed file from the name of the unprocessed file, it would be easy to add another one, see [1].

It is also possible to support more complicated source generation tools, like literate programming tool. We currently have support for noweb [2] which could be used to derive more.

[1] https://github.com/michipili/bsdowl/blob/master/bps/bps.m4.mk
[2] https://github.com/michipili/bsdowl/blob/master/bps/bps.noweb.mk

2) I would say, they are not difficult to write, but these are Makefile, and programming Makefiles is a mindset on its own, because we never write the “glorious high-level procedure doing plop-plop fuzz-fuzz on all our files” but just move from one step to the other and must save all state in inodes. :) The folder `bps` contains code which is shared by all frameworks (langc, texmf, ocaml, script).

3, 4) The system supports two variables ARCHITECTURE and CONFIGURATION which are used to selectively include a configuration file to tweak flags (like debugging, profiling, cross-compiler chain and the like) and which can be used to tweak the directory where compilation products are stored. Once it is setup it just looks like

bmake ARCHITECTURE=Mingw32
bmake ARCHITECTURE=Native CONFIGURATION=Release

You can see a small example in the example/langc/heat directory [3]

[3] https://github.com/michipili/bsdowl/tree/master/example/langc/heat
Your comment seems little different to me then telling someone who is depressed that they just need to "get over it." I don't think it is at all that simple.
The overwhelming body of evidence suggests that sugar-free sweeteners absolutely don't cause fat gain, and that increasing water consumption has no affect on fat loss. Your body has a well regulated mechanism of telling you when you need water; it's called thirst.

Your advice on cutting back on fructose and eating more fibre fat and protein, without mentioning that you have to also be in a caloric deficit is a huge oversight. If my maintenance caloric intake is 2k cals per day and I change the macronutrient ratio I'm consuming but not the overall calories, I likely won't experience any weight loss except a small amount from thermic effect of feeding related to protein consumption.

You absolutely need to be in a caloric deficit to lose weight, and fructose is satan in disguise that's going to mess up your weight loss goals.
Of course. To always turn megaspotlights on him every time he decides to utter... anything, really, publicly isn't helping either, though.
What's your source for your claims? In the US, a lot of mental illnesses are medicated by general practitioners, and mental health insurance coverage is notoriously poor. That sounds like a great way to work, but it's not how I see the system actually working.

That you don't think pathologization of homosexuality is comparable is, I suppose, fine for you. I obviously do or I wouldn't have made the comparison. It's not like we don't have a historical context now as well; it's just a different context. In particular, the US has some very deeply culturally embedded notions about work ethic and willpower that are relevant to ADD and addiction treatment. That we corrected one mistake does not mean we corrected the general pattern of mistake.

Regarding the last bit, glad to know Wikipedia is now a reliable source when you're citing it in your favor.
We'd like to! We're thinking of something this winter, but are taking a much-needed break for a few weeks.

Our first event was a lot of work and these are entirely labors of love--the ticket cost lets us basically break even.
I think he calls it quite accurately, its a different architecture and that breaks things. Having used FOSS OS'es for a long time now Linux userland has been tugged back and forth between people who want things to be more UNIX like and people who want things to be more Windows like. I wish that they would just fork and lean in on those missions, have one fork go all in Windows NT clone and the other UNIX clone.
I'm extremely sorry to hear about your relative. My mother was going through S3 colorectal earlier this year. Two tips:
1. Quackwatch.org - the work this retired doctor has done filtering the BS across the Internet is astounding. I even emailed him and he made himself available to talk to my mom. He said, "usually all they need is another voice to calm their fears".
2. Listen to them. Don't tell them NOT to do something. Just focus on the context and the most likely outcome.
3. Don't let them get "advice" from patients at the local acupuncture clinic or alternative treatments center. Or from Internet "testimonials". It's all about the first-hand. Talk to the oncologist and see if you can find patients that have been through it. My mother feared the ostomy bag absolutely. A week after she had it, she forgot it was there!

The hardest part will be before surgery.
There is no starvation mode that makes the body disobey the laws of conservation of energy. Sorry. Your wife is either not in a deficit due to the calories not being low enough (or not exercising enough) or she's simply eating more and not recording it.
If I had the time and money I would build a running cat-like robot. I've always loved mechatronics, have a background in mechanical engineering, and just recently started programming so I'm dying to give it a shot. I know it's probably harder than it seems on the surface, but I have hope.
How bad are winters there?
One of the things Notch has consistently stated that he disliked about his fame was the tendency for media outlets to make his life and opinions into news stories.

He's having a rough time at the moment, I really hope the media over-analysis doesn't make things worse.
It seems that Safari iOS's latest "helpful" behavior, sliding the tabs and favorites bar out of sight, is changig the window size and so invoking reflow. Which moved what I was reading off the bottom of the screen. Scrolling down to find it again re-opened the tabs and favorites, changed the window size back, invoked reflow, and moved my reading point out of view above the window. Scrolling back up again - well, I'm sure you get the picture. Part of the magnitude of the issue was moving the page header (big green panel) from the top to the side and back again, also when the header was on the side the text font was larger.
Once you have a family and out of the party scene, things are much more normal.

Careful. I'm fairly sure that's actually the technical definition of begging the question. That is, because you assume settling down and having kids is "normal", naturally doing that will, you know, make things "more normal".

In fact, I'll put money down that if he had that house with the white picket fence and 2.5 children and suddenly became a billionaire, odda are most of his problems would still exist. Friends would still be alienated. People would still be jealous. The only difference is he'd have a wife who might (hopefully) support him and a couple dependents to worry about.
I thought you guys manually chose what went on the front page? Or is it an algorithm?
I don't agree it's the fault of the mirror. A tradition jam newspaper can be seen as a vertically integrated article aggregator and curation site.

So the model for reddit and HN is to charge for access, and pass on to the articles clicked through to. However in that game, I would pay NYT a long time before I paid Reddit.
So true...the lack of resistance allows for a more fluid thought and design process too
> Talent market: with specific regards to foreign entrepreneurs hiring in Tokyo, I often find that they have... interesting expectations. "Hey I'd like to find a bilingual Japanese/English engineer who has startup-compatible risk tolerances, is comfortable working in a bicultural environment under a minimum amount of supervision, can solo-ship code in one or more modern programming stacks, and is willing to work for $2.5k per month." I think if you also have this expectation, you will not find the Tokyo labor market to be accommodating of your desires.

Are you sure about this? Honest question.

I read a lot of posts, especially in threads like this one on HN and other places, by developers typically in their early twenties, who want to go to Japan and work for a few years and experience something different, before heading back home and getting a proper job. Some of them are going to be fine with pretty much any salary that pays the bills (and $2.5k can pay the bills for a twenty-something with no responsibilities in Tokyo - this is a typical salary for an English teacher here). I don't know how serious they are but surely some of them find their way over here.

Of course it sucks to compete with this if you're an engineer who wants to stay here long-term and earn an actual living - but from the perspective of an entrepreneur it's great. It's sort of like being a games developer, except you're not limited to making games.
Homoiconicity specifically means that the primary representation of the language is a datatype in the language itself; Erlang isn't that.

I don't find it particularly subjective, it's just what it means. According to what you're saying any language that can be parsed and manipulated by the language is homoiconic, since the AST can be represented by types available in the language, no?
There's tons of better sources, but this can give you an idea:

"NSA 'engaged in industrial espionage' - Snowden"

http://www.bbc.com/news/25907502
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It's an algorithm, of course, but humans make moderation decisions too.
Heh. I always wanted to build a little robot that would sweep the house by itself :D.
That's cool! I have my TV connected to the sound system and just chromecast from my phone to TV.
Are you sure about the latter? Wikipedia believes that "disease" means "any condition that impairs the normal functioning of the human body":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease#Terminology

Illness, they say, refers to the patient's experience of the disease. A person with a disease might not feel ill, and a person who experiences illness might not have a disease.
isn't the us government hacking all the time too?
It really is not.
Slightly off-topic, but because I love this topic so much: there is a wonderful documentary called Pianomania about a piano tuner ("piano technician", if you will) to the stars. The story centers around a good-natured piano tuner and his seemingly impossible task of translating the pianists' vaguely expressed desires into a well-tuned piano. As the movie illustrates, piano tuning is just as much about timbre as it is about pitch -- perhaps even more so!

As I discovered just now, the whole thing is available on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxEcifeMf08, only 1.5 hours, not 3 hours as the video incorrectly suggests].
They definitely can cause mood alteration, but tend to not cause jitters in the doses prescribed for ADHD.
The default is opt-out. I just opened "Customer Experience" for the first time ever on a Windows machine, and it was set to "Yes, send information to Microsoft". You can turn it off, but whether that actually stops communications someone else will have to check.
If HN is curated, what is the point of the little up arrow next to each article?
There are some definite possible advantages to HIIT. If you are careful to monitor your heart rate to keep a good level overall, then I think it has good potential. I used to run track when I was young (400 and 1500 meters) and we always trained this way.

Honestly, if you are training every day and being relatively careful with your diet, then you will pretty easily get down to a weight that the average North American would call "skinny". The main problems I've seen with people are not understanding what they are eating (Google tells me a single blueberry muffin is 377 calories -- that's practically a meal in itself!!!) or people who are fooling themselves about their exercise (unless you are a competitive athlete, the 5-600 calories per hour is about right -- if you are lifting weights, you can divide that by a fair amount).
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Am I the only one who always feels that the search for "passionate engineers" really means "cheap, doesn't know his value, works for rent and pizza"?

What about competent? Professional? Experienced?

Nobody looks for a "passionate lawyer", that would even be a red flag, indicating that he can't evaluate a legal situation objectively.

Nobody looks for a "passionate basketball player". As long as he shoots those three pointers, who cares whether his secret passion is really boardgaming.
Understanding the entire lifecycle of a service (from development to production) is a must for a developer. But it should not be the primary objective of the developer to deliver the service; developers should be working on development.

When developers are in charge of delivering a service, they will end up spending most, if not all, of their time debugging operational issues instead of improving the service. This problem gets worse over time as the service will need to be deployed to more places to address scale.

An organization with good technical leadership should know this.
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Interesting read, but I wish it wasn't so inflammatory.

> "...release coordinators and the like are at the bottom of the totem pole. Why is it arranged like this? Because each role can do the job of all roles below it if necessary."

I find this to be belittling those who choose to work on a different part of the stack than the author. It seems to suggest there is an innate incompetence that keeps release engineers from functioning as "developers". That couldn't be further from the truth.

Release Engineering @ Mozilla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0NDGJVROI
I recently was part of a team that properly practiced DevOps and as soon as it started working we had a reorg and it was broken apart.

If the premise of the article is "Developer time is precious, don't make them do grunt work" the I would counter with "Developer momentum is precious, don't let developers get blocked by operations/QA/release."

On our team, we had Ops and QA. But I needed something done and they were already working on something then I could have a quick 15 minute chat after standup about the Puppet change I needed to make and then go do it myself. An hour later I'm done, the change is deployed and I'm moving on to the next task. Now, without an embedded Ops resource on the team, I have to file a ticket and pray someone picks it up within a few days.
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There are two recent trends I really hate:
DevOps and the notion of the "full-stack" developer

I have to question the wisdom of bunching these two together. One is about freeing the developer as much as possible from peripheral duties so he can concentrate on his primary responsibility - design and development. The other, at least to me, is more about avoiding systems composed of modules that don't fit together properly, rather than getting more work done for less money.
I recently went to see Woz speak in Massachusetts and he claims he suffers from an affliction similar to this (the inability to recognize faces).
Ask HN: Iwant to start a new SaaS startup, but I don't have a bank account
Long story short, I don't have a social security number or passport (and I cannot procure either of those things), so I cannot get a bank account no matter what. What are some ways to channel funds to an account that I can control?

PS I'm not an illegal immigrant; I just have a pending case with immigration, and I'm not allowed to work at the moment. I'm pretty sure starting a startup isn't considered employment.
maybe that a statement like "xxx is dead" is perhaps too much in line to the bully joke "bsd is dead" that was prominent from linux jocks many years ago, more mature nowadays and not seen that `joke` in a while myself (though don't read /. much these days either).

Also when the the CPU is still in use today in places, again hardly constructive and with that probably the glibness of the whole statement without qualifiers that found disfavour.
Actually I read in the news before that gwent (card game from witcher 3) has been implemented as a mod in tabletop simulator. I wanted to respond to you with the link (http://store.steampowered.com/app/286160) - and I discovered it actually supports any board game!
It's a mistake to make assumptions about her maintenance
intake and assume she's in an 800 calorie deficit.

Agreed, but I think it was quite clear that I was speaking about a hypothetical person when I said "For the average, moderately active woman (requiring 2,000kcal per day) that would be a deficit of 800kcal" (emphasis added).

If she was she'd be losing weight very very quickly.

That's why I suggested re-checking their calculations.
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"Full-stack" is a skillset for founders/first employees and hack-of-all-trades SREs. Later on in a now enterprise shop, deployments and development gets formalized, so it's crucial to have people/service providers whom know the nitty-gritty of the stack components really well... but it would be a distraction to expect a senior Postgres DBA to know client-side JavaScript. The overlap on the interface between sysadmining and development is deployment, where TwelveFactors-like shops can excel and reduce dev-ops turf wars. DevOps is about working together to make the overall service better; not shifting responsibilities around, getting people to take on more hats or renaming sysadmins.

Disclaimer: I've been a (in no particular order): industrial embedded developer, sysadmin, engineering manager, founder, security researcher, consultant and SRE.
The wheels turn slowly. Amazing that it's taken this long.
Those 9 points are exactly the reasons why you should work for a startup.
If you can find a Roomba that someone is getting rid of, that should make it into a doable 3hr project or so by cannibalizing the brains and just modifying the body. But depending on if you enjoy building the brains or the body more then that may be a kill-joy and defeat the purpose.
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Release Engineer here too.

FUNNY STORY: we make the developers act as release coordinators, because it distracts us from the work of improving the release process by replacing it with automated software systems.

The top of his hierarchy should be PMs/executive team; betrayed by his own developer ego…