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> Only because you choose to define it that way. In reality, people have spiritual health that is just as important as mental health. There doesn't need to have any mysticism attached, just the recognition that religion and other practices give people senses of belonging and purpose, and those drives are important to ones overall health.

There is mental health, and physical health. There's no such concept as spiritual health because there's no scientifically proven concept of spirit. "Spiritual health" or "religious health" or whatever you want to call it is just some new age word for mental and/or physical health. But since the concept of spirit or spiritually is pseudo science at best, it is a worthless concept and therefore completely irrelevant unless you want to discuss it with those who believe in it. The keyword here is believe. I am an atheist, I can't prove God does not exist but I find it highly unlikely. So I am going to take it for granted there is no God. The same with "spirituality" and everything "spiritual".

> Well those are strong words, would you like to source that claim? IIRC the rates of psychosis among psychedelic users and the normal population is equivalent, meaning psychedelics absolutely do not cause psychosis.

Those are not at all strong words. All one has to do is read the dozens and dozens of trip reports on e.g. Erowid. I know from anecdotal experience that it is possible to even OD on cannabis which can trigger a psychosis (albeit relatively mild).

Heck, a trip is akin to a psychosis; just a 'positive' one. Bad trips happen. The reason mushrooms are illegal in my country (NL) is because of a young French tourist committing suicide on mushrooms. I also know of two separate stories from people I know who have jumped off a high building whole on LSD. Finally, I'm aware of research being done on cannabis which was triggering a schizophrenic episode quicker with those prone to schizophrenia. Not everyone knows they're prone to that; nobody in my direct family suffers from schizophrenia, for example, but elsewhere in the family tree? Yup.

Research like this is all around on the Internet. There's also research conducted in using psychedelic drugs to cure issues such as depression. However, those are administered under doctor supervision.

> Also noteworthy is the fact that meditation can trigger latent psychoses just the same as any drug or stressor would - so in both cases, exploring ones consciousness can be a dangerous pursuit best done working with experienced guides.

Sure, there is some chance, but there's also the chance a psychosis occurs from stress (which I know first hand). I really doubt the chance of the above occurring during meditation is the same as during a full dose of mushrooms or LSD. I can imagine the chance is higher when you follow a Vipassana course for 10 days because it is more intense, but that is one of the reasons its guided.
Using threading and queues where appropriate is excellent stuff. Presenting yourself as intermediate knowledge is also humble, and from your description of your background I do think you'd be able to get a back end job.

I'd look at AngelList for companies in Portland.
I simply don't believe you - if there were a hypothetical way you could have a $50 bill on your desk but, in case they end up worth something, your unexercised options are no longer yours, they're someone else's, and you didn't need to deal with anything else and it were easy legally - then I don't think you would actually want to do that, you wouldn't choose to make that trade.

Let me compare it with something else - say you already belonged to a gym but your employer as a christmas gift gave you a totally transferrable 50% off gift certificate (but that there's no particularly liquid market for, it's not like it has an obvious market price you can sell online) to a more expensive gym that is far from you, that you don't like for some reason because its focus doesn't match yours (maybe it's always fairly bustling and you like fewer people distracting you, whatever, in fact maybe you like going at times that that gym is closed!), and that is still more expensive after 50% off than your annually paid-up membership 15 minutes from your house and that you like: then you would be happy to give it to someone you know for, say $10 or if it'll make them happy or as a favor or for a sandwich. It really is something you value at closer to $0, and I judge that you would be glad to part with it for that amount or for free in that case.

I judge you wouldn't actually part with your options for $10 or $50 even if hypothetically it's legal and trivially easy for you. This is just my impression. I don't think you would do it. If you reflect on the two scenarios above (the first and the second paragraph of this comment) I think in your heart of hearts you see the difference. It's not a small difference.
Depending on how near they landed the Blackhawk it would probably be louder than the patrons. Mind you, I've seen someone land a small helicopter at a pub before.
Most expensive means that it's the best. Right? (right?)
I can't claim you are wrong. But this is so non-intuitive to me that it hurts. I get why "covered ground" for text books would be easier to do. But many textbooks should be pushing the field, as well. Right?

And I fully note that the book I linked to is exceptional. It won a oscar.[1] And was basically required reading at pixar, if I recall.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9juPsv1QU
Multiple things...

Blogging, in the hope I have stuff to say people are interested in.

Maybe going to more meetups, but I don't know about this yet, most meetups are boring.

Doing more cardio in hopes of better endurance.

Getting rid of the fat-part of my 13kg gains I got last year. hopefully it will be more muscle than I fear, haha.

Software wise, I don't know. My girlfriends sometimes have nice app ideas, which I then build for them as a sideproject, but this often just takes 2-4 days.
You can get a 13" 1920x1080 IPS panel on a Chromebook for about $350. With ~5 minutes of labor (swapping in an SSD) you can install Linux natively on it with GalliumOS.

Full details can be found here:

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/transform-a-toshiba-chromeboo...

Been using it for a few months now for development and it's been great.
I don't think you can do that. Lambda has a max limit of 5 minutes per invocation. You can however schedule Lambda to invoke as per schedule just like cron.

You'd probably be better off having a small EC2 box that runs long processes than AWS Lambda if your processes can't be broken into 5 minute chunks.
Ask HN: When hiring a developer, is lack of basic SSH skills a red flag?
Short version: Would the HN community share my view that a lack of even basic SSH skills is a strong negative indicator of a developer's overall skillset?

Long version:

I have a friend with a business background (MBA), who is quite successful in the financial industry. He has an idea for an app he would like to develop. Since he has no technical expertise to speak of, he's looking to partner with another acquaintance of his to be CTO.

Said CTO has proposed a number of people for the initial development of the app and the backend. Being inexperienced, my friend asked me for my input on the suggestions, as I used to be a developer myself.

I did that, and while their background stories seem somewhat plausible (eg: X years Java experience, backed up by references), the one thing that immediately alarmed me was that none of them managed to connect to the development server using SSH.

This is inconceivable to me. Back when I got my CS degree in 2008, having at least basic SSH skills was a prerequirement for at least a half-dozen courses. As a developer later on, I've had to use it again and again, for one thing or the other.

My question is: Can or even should a lack of basic SSH skills been seen as red flag? Should I advise my friend to reject all these candidates (and possibly the CTO who suggested them, and IMHO should know better)? Or are my expectations just faulty generalizations based on my own personal experience? eg: developer X can be a talented Java developer and yet still be unfamiliar with SSH (and the learning curve is generally far more gradual than I personally see it), developer Y can be a great iOS developer, etc.
That day arrived May 31st 2016: https://krita.org/en/item/krita-3-0-released/. Get the appimage, make it executable, execute it, done. No need to whine about how Ubuntu drags in the weirdest set of dependencies anymore.
maybe when community and development speed and extensibility are the main requirements it all leads back to Jekyll :/ if I would be a ruby guy it would be definitely my first choice.
Hugo is the speedy gonzales with easy deployment but lacks good extensibility when you want to go into the code level :(
Canada has guns. In fact Canada has some guns one can't get in the US due to import bans, like Norinco.
I agree. If they end up being worth something, it's a bonus, not a part of your compensation. There are just too many potential scenarios where you get nothing out of them to rely on them.
A major benefit to drug legalization will be the removal of a filter to police hiring that required that candidates be credulously moralistic, stupid, or hypocritical, since a large part of their job entails greviously hurting people who are doing no harm rather than protecting or aiding endangered people. Good, thoughtful people can't become police now, knowing what police spend most of their time doing. After drug legalization, the entire police force will improve quickly.
At coarse grain, the the coloring could probably be cached and only rerendered on a 'wall calendar' timescale.
that's why good and fair journalism is so important. It should connect the dots and try to explain to the layman what's going on, while ideally being honest about the opinions of the paper and not having an explicit agenda (i am not really sure if i used that word right, for me it feels kinda extreme).
IP is by the very definition, property.

Edit: Why? Property rights should be upheld in perpetuity. The author's estate should continue to benefit from his works.
> They have to be the enforcers for the crap laws that get passed too.

No, they don't. You probably somehow managed not to be. I've never been tempted.
If you're willing to employ a "buy and hold" strategy for property to ride out the bottom of the RE market, you should be able to do it just as well with a diversified investment portfolio.
The term is "plug-in," not "plugin."
Parent poster was me and you do not loose data. Instead it just does not go into hibernation in my case :)
No but I wonder if that's what he got instead the price taken into consideration.
You should read the article (or even just the subtitle of the article) which takes the position that all that spending on one tiny little expansion is what keeps us from being able to spend larger amounts on projects that really would benefit a lot of people.
I understand most people's enthusiasm with static site generators. But either they are only building sites for themselves or their clients are very different than mines. How do your clients edit the site? How do they do simple things like cropping images for example? And what about forms, newsletter subscribe forms or contact forms? Do you use a third party service for everything? I can't see how that is simpler or more reliable.
I think you're right... Bah, just when I was convinced by Hugo, you convinced me to use Lektor again :P
Without knowing the total number of shares it's hard to know what you have. You also need to know how your options will be treated under various scenarios: company goes public, company is sold, company is acquired, company gets more funding, etc. In general employee options get the short end of the stick in most of those scenarios. One can still make out well, just usually not as well as they had thought/hoped.

At the end of the day one must remember that more often than not options don't work out the way one hopes. They're used as a cheap form of comp since it's just paper to the company. They can provide a nice bonus under the right scenario but be very cautious about accepting options in place of proper compensation at your full value (e.g. cash in the bank). More people than would care to admit it accepted options in place of cash for their base comp and lived to regret it.

Negotiate proper comp up front and only accept options as part of the icing on the cake. If they can't pay you properly then you have serious reason to question if this thing is a "real company" or just a bunch of hyped up fluff with a valuation that could vaporize overnight--making your options completely worthless before you even knew what just happened.
Show HN: SavTravv Hotels, Leave the Hotel Rate Hacking to Someone with More Time
The trackpad of a mac really is addictive. Especially if you get used to any gestures.
n² - 1 = (n - 1)(n + 1)
Trackpoint is superior to trackball and touchpad because you don't need to raise your fiber from it when going long distance (say one corner of your screen to another corner), and of course the fact that you don't need to take you hands off the keyboard like others mentioned.
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Got any research to show that? Or should I just assume that your personal opinion is worth more than everybody elses'?
Yes. Let's all write IR instead of assembly. Let's encourage others to do the same, making Assembly even more of an ivory tower (or, more accurately, a grimy sub-basement) than it already is, further discouraging newcomers from learning it, thus keeping them from properly understanding the machines they program on. Eventually, nobody will even understand any of these machines.

Use whatever you want in production, I don't care. But don't discourage people from learning assembly. It's a worthwhile task.
Except Lenovo takes forever to ship anything. I can walk down to the Apple Store and have most fixes done the same day.
Investigation of the Ville Platte PD and the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office
Similar situation here, and I absolutely agree with you.
A good trader can explain their trades, a good AI cannot yet. This is important in many financial settings when some human must still be personally responsible for the trades. For a manager it is much easier to approve regression coefficients or a particular trading formula than to sign a neural network into production.
Stress tends to wreak havoc on the entire body, so I'd have been surprised if this weren't the case.
Huh. Didn't know that. Okay...
You have been working with something for 3 months and you think you are proficient enough to warrant writing a book about it?
Westworld is also dramatized to make for interesting TV. For example, deaf people without a voice in their head would not be conscious by their definition.

Consciousness, and suffering, are biological concepts. Computer code running algorithms on microprocessors aren't going to experience these things.
Some people use Black Scholes to price options but that can be very hard, as there are two unknowns (volatility and if anyone has preferences over you).

A few questions you can and should ask:

1 - What was the last valuation based on outside investors, and how long ago was it?

2 - How many preferences are in the cap table? (If a group of investors put in 100 million with a 2X liquidation preference then they are guaranteed to get 200 million before others get anything)

3 - Related to 2, ask at what exit value all shareholders get treated the same.

4 - Ask about how soon you would have to exercise upon leaving. (Frequently 90 days)

5 - See if the stock is trading in any secondary markets, or if there is news of public market investors remarking their shares.

6 - Ask about growth projections. (EBITDA for PE funded companies, Revenue for VC backed)

7 - Ask if future rounds will be needed. (If the business isn't close to cash flow positive and there are a lot of growth projected, this will take a lot of money)

Net - there is a price the investors put per share on their stock. Yours should be at some discount to that. So if the investors value it at $1300 then you should come in less, much less. (And if it's too much less than the strike price, you are betting on a lot of growth)
Edinburgh has lots of interesting technology companies: Rockstar, SkyScanner, Amazon, Codeplay etc. The University of Edinburgh has an excellent CS department and hosts the UK's national HPC facility, ARCHER.

It's one of the few cities in the UK that I would be tempted to move to from Bristol.
not sure what we are arguing, maybe i should have mentioned the fact that my macbook ran OSX and my Thinkpad runs Arch Linux? I've did several battery management optimizations as well.

If i could run Arch painfree on a mac i would agree that i would have better battery life most likely.

I am mostly just arguing against the constant mention for "macbooks having the best battery life for developer laptops". Which is not true if you could also use a Thinkpad with Linux
You almost certainly wouldn't use lambda for that (the last option I've listed is a case where you still could).

You have several options.

For many cases like that you should just have an EC2 instance that you run jobs on -- this is the simplest and there are already many tools for managing scheduled tasks like that.

You could also use a scheduled Lambda to start an EC2 instance/record task info in a DynamoDB table and another Lambda to check the status of the task periodically, shutting the instance down when it is done and updating the status. I've written a thing that does this and it works pretty well. You can also use spot instances for this to potentially save some $.

You can use ECS and kick off an ECS Task via a scheduled Lambda. This means learning some stuff about ECS and Docker.

Another interesting but much more complex (and probably not applicable) option is to break your task up into chunks that take less than 5 minutes, and just have Lambdas kick off more Lambdas for the next parts of the task.
No my theory is that they may have already done a reverse split to wash out small stakeholders. If there is an IPO in their future they will have to do a split as well. The former small stakeholders would not get their shares back.

Obviously I know nothing about this but if I were the poster I would ask to hear the story.
What caught my attention was the segment register use --- besides the fact that Linux runs processes in flat mode, the more common way to es = ds is push ds; pop es.

That said, it does look better than compiler output and distinctly has the style of hand-written Asm; the 3 pops at the beginning, for example, would be something no compiler I've seen can do. (Minor "optimisation" --- rethinking your register use can eliminate some superfluous moves.)
The numbers are on a cumulative basis though. So $200 per person per year sounds less. It's hard to tell without seeing similar for other countries. I assume Russia is higher. And how do you measure corruption in government contracts in the US?
Git-annex: Peer-to-peer network with Tor
Another con is that there is no Amazon here which was surprising to me, India has a better ecommerce services compared to Aus.
That actually seems like a pretty good way to do it. Much better than the Australian method of "if you're over the limit we'll fine you even if it's safe, if you're under the limit we can fine you if we want to say it wasn't safe."
Another joke is that the U.S. is the last remaining tax haven in the world, because despite the U.S. requiring everybody else to share information with them (eg FATCA), they refuse to share information with anyone else.

The U.S. is not a participating country of AEOI.
What is wrong with PHP?
> If the valuation you say is accurate, it looks like they are giving you options for around 0.026% of the company

Don't forget about dilution - outstanding shares is only a portion of currently issued shares. With 3 dilutions or more this percentage is going to be much smaller.
For those of us that were somewhat puzzled about the mention of misconduct, I think this is what todd8 was referring to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba-Kongsberg_scandal
The problem with elevations from GPS chips are that they are ellipsoidal heights, that is the height from the surface of the ellipsoid used to model the earth. This can be very far from the elevation referred from mean sea level. I think SRTM is still the best way to get elevation data as mentioned by other commenters.
I'd go to SF/Silicon Valley and look to buy a small starter apartment. Higher wages can pay into high housing costs -- which translate into major savings if you move to a low-cost city. You're also going to be close to some of the world's best talent which should help you hone your craft.
> I would think that signing is a good method to curate and moderate a distributed solution. Looking at debian repositories, they are both trusted, distributed and failure resistant.

BitTorrent uses cryptography to ensure file integrity. DCPP does too. Even FXP did (although only CRC32 this was reasonable back then).

Debian repositories don't compare to the illegal distribution of quality audio (and video) because Debian repositories are legal to host/spread. Because of this reason they're widely available and therefore the supply meets the demand. Unlike with illegal distribution of quality audio (and video).

The comparison with Library of Alexandria goes moot. During the burning of the Library of Alexandria many works got lost forever. Thanks to the invention of printing in the 15th century this is already more unlikely to happen. Nevermind storage on computers which has seen tremendous progress. One also needs to keep in mind that all the copies people had from the content on What.CD still exists. So it is more akin to a Library of Alexandria being burned down while all the copies are still spread (multiple times!) among large groups of individuals around the globe. I don't think many people on Earth would be able to figure out where those copies are, except maybe the NSA or GCHQ. But it'd cost them a lot of effort which isn't worth the hassle, besides being outside their scope of interest.

This is not to say we're there yet, just that its less dramatic than it seems. The burning of the Library (What.CD) is substantial because it was a meeting place for those interested in the data, akin to the shutting down of Silk Road or Timothy Leary getting busted. However one lost battle doesn't mean the war is lost.

Its still important to improve distribution of data, allow anonymity on the Internet, or the combination of both.
Me too. If I think about not working in Amsterdam, I get miserable. What a place!

There is a wee cafe on the Singel which does BLTs which are so good, that it the only food that i care about, everything else is mere mass. These BLTs though...

Yes, I'd move for the BLT alone!
> And what happens when montasanto highers a couple off duty police officers to protect their investment?

What could drug cartels do against a couple of off-duty police officers?

> The cartels have no power in anywhere but the border.

Chicago disagrees.