skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
low GI meals are the important staple of anyones diet, but nearly ANY type of fruit is a healthy substitute for junk food. I think the fruit proponents here all realize you can't be a fruititarian and are simply saying fruit is the easiest way to quit a junk food addiction.

Also a simple hack to lower the glycemic index of anything you eat is to consume it with additional fat or fiber. So a salad\baby greens with olive oil or the higher percent fat nuts like Hazelnuts, Walnuts, Macademia & Brazil.
If you haven't yet, read up on the concept of the "Uncanny Valley". It's relevant to what you express here.
Full video

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I'm guessing you are working LOTS of hours. This adds up when thinking is involved in your work[like with programming]. You are most definitely bured out. I'm almost certain. What you've described is a pretty decent description. Being burnt out is a very strange thing. Even though it may not sound quite right... trust me, that is the case... this is the best description of what is going on with your brain- as others have pointed out. It's strange that the term "burned out" is used so widely- yet most people don't recognize what it is or what it's like to experience being burned out. Even first hand (obviously) people most likely may not be able to recognize what exactly is going on.. may take a few weeks or so to realize something is really really wrong and depression could even start to set in at that point if you don't catch it quickly. B-complex vitamins and fish oils can help repair your brain from this type of subconscious distress... BUT the real answer is like minimum 1 week vacation RIGHT NOW. You may want to change your long term routines as well and just make time for lots of non-computer-related things.
I've noticed that since I've been using internet - circa 1997-1998 right after I was out of the army (Bulgarian's army).

Too much distraction - even news.yc is one for me and TCE (thechaosengine)
In nominal terms yes, but over that period, there was also inflation, population growth, and a rise in standards of living. If you look at state spending as a percentage of state GDP, it's pretty flat from 1996-2006, basically wobbling on either side of 20%, until the current recession when it jumps up to ~25%.

1995: 19.7%
2000: 18.2%
2005: 20.8%
2008: 22.3%
2010 (est): 24.8%

Source: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=19...
The past month I've been hitting the gym in my building whenever my brain doesn't want to work, and clear my mind completely. I'll put on the noise canceling headphones, find some good 100 -> 120bpm music, and get lost in it while pedaling as fast as I can for 30 minutes, then a shower and a snack and some coffee seems to be a good way to really put me back on track for a few hours.
Use real butter, in moderation.

It gives you the fats and nutrients your bodies crave, and in moderation, it won't harm you.

It also makes virtually anything tasty, including terrible bodega mac n cheese.
> VOTERS who apparently don't give a rats ass about anything unless it is approving more services and lower taxes for themselves.

California has the highest state taxes in almost every tax category, from personal income, to corporate income, to minimum corporate tax ($800 corporate taxes payable if you broke even or lost money, ouch), highest vehicle registration costs, vehicle re-sale taxes, high sales tax, high hotel taxes, etc, etc.

It doesn't matter how much money you bring in if you consistently spend more than it.
So, would you disagree with the statement 'value is subjective'? What about different value systems? How do we decide which one is more valuable than another, considering we ourselves certainly have a very odd and rare value system, which considers philosophical discussions to be of a high value. Reality check: most people don't spend their time on HN discussing pragmatism and subjectivism.

As an extreme example, consider value system of a heroin addict, for instance. He or she values heroin above all. You might say his value system is inferior to yours, but how would you defend that statement? Speaking from utilitarian point of view, it's not necessarily that a heroin addict decreases society's happiness or pleasure, if he uses it as a constructive stimuli.

Speaking from a physiological point of view, we are not much different from heroin addicts. My opinion is that value systems are psychological routes by which we can get an endogenous high. Our brains have built a series of quests for us to accomplish, after which they reward us with various pleasurable chemicals.

Some people get high watching Fox News, some people get high debating philosophy, some people get high from heroin. The value of each activity is (non-verbally) agreed upon, by spending time on that activity and hanging around people who spend their time on the activity.
My own view is that the more software costs to the end user the worse it is - and enterprise software can be very very expensive.
The suit is back?
Invoking Jon Postel does not make a wrong argument right. The only thing that makes apple 'wrong' in this case is that they restrict the deployment of browsers that would support flash.
"Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8	Works with Google Chrome Frame"

It's like saying, "This software is Mac compatible!... inside a VMware instance running windows XP"
That's because this is an evolutionary (in a broad sense) method of learning, i.e. it does not involve analytical understanding of what it's trying to optimize, but rather it uses feedback from previous iterations to achieve the objective.

Evolution works in the same way: there's no analysis from the phenotypical world back to the genes ("oh, we should be taller; let's just tweak this gene", i.e. Lamarckism). Instead, it's just massively scalable trial and error.

In fact, the logical disconnect between effect and cause is probably a strength rather than a weakness.
Between 7 and 9am. I do the night shift because we have a baby. That way my wife gets a full 8 hours of sleep and can be an even better care giver during the day.
Wow! First off, thank you for all of the very well informed responses!

I had no idea there was so much to be known about eating better, and why we eat the way we do, especially with regards to carbohydrates.

I should probably add that it's not just bad carbs I'm out to cut. I want stuff like steak/bacon/pepperoni pizza/nachos/taco bell all the time, and I know that with my genes it's only a matter of time before that sends me to the hospital.

Also, I'm quite skinny at the moment, apparently regardless of what I eat...so I'm not sure if that's a sign of a contributing factor

Again, Thank you so much for the information!
It was my pleasure! :)
Is this true of all cravings? I mean, there are loads of times (now) when I crave Sour Patch Kids or something like that, and I feel like I am just after the taste.
>migrations: I can see how this could come in handy but in my case this was yet another extra thing I had to keep tabs of

I only use django and have never-not used migrations for a project. Thanks god for South. http://south.aeracode.org/
My understanding is that the union contracts are harder to roll back than normal spending because they are legally binding contracts. Even if they got a 2/3rds majority in the Democrat controlled legislature to repeal union benefits, would they have the legal power to do so?

And is the 2/3rds vote on everything, just budget related items, or taxes? I hear the complaint about how hard it is to raise taxes in California alot, but California has a high tax burden.
Ask HN: Good enough vs excellence -- which do you favor?
Simple enough question: would you rather work at a company that:

A) settles for "good enough" with rapid iteration, or

B) one that demands excellence but takes longer to for each iteration?

I favor B... but it seems that A is gaining strength these days. It's a worrisome trend to my eyes.
What are "the feeds of those who Liked something" - mixed in with the Status updates of my friends? I think that could be a big deal, and also make people think twice about liking stuff. Or rather, they'll probably not make a connection and just get annoyed at FB.
I believe you'll be able to buy the iPhone 4 without a SIM-lock in Canada direct from Apple:

http://store.apple.com/ca/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...

Then you can stick whatever SIM card you want and it'll work. Unfortunately, you'll be stuck with paying a lot at the beginning for the phone. It's also possible that you can get your carrier to unlock it; I know some UK carriers will.
That, to me, is the real point here. You could not imagine a state or country with more going for it. Farming, the technological and entertainment hubs of the world along with a climate that produces idealic beaches, snow covered mountains and an ideal enviornment for theme parks (little rain combined with mild temp).

California should be studied as what not to do because the fact that it has become so screwed up is almost beyond belief

Edit: I forgot shipping. One whole side of the state is along the pacific and we're the closest landlocked state to Asia where all the cheap goods are made
Could you point out where they are factually wrong? I don't want to be misled into believing false information. Thanks.

Or, if they are not factually wrong but misleading and biased in their presentation, could you point to an alternative analysis that shows California's union obligations to be reasonable?
Why is that hard to believe? We haven't kept it a secret that GitHub makes millions of dollars a year.
Ask HN: negotiating for vacation instead of salary?
Have you tried doing this? Did it work? Is this even possible at big companies, where people get X weeks of vacation to start, and then Y weeks of vacation once you hit N years of experience?

Am I even asking the right question? Should my question be “what companies have generous vacation policies?”
Why do you say "INTL" in the headline? It's only one letter shorter than the complete name of the company and the stock ticker (if that's what you were going for) is INTC.
Quote: "more and more we’re seeing bottom-up adoption of technology displacing top-down deployments"

To employ a passive-aggressive Wikipedia edit: [citation needed].

I actually do agree that Enterprise has some really interesting problems, and they are actually pretty good at coming up with solutions that make you go "Huh, that's actually pretty cool." It's just that they're so customized, buried so deeply in the corporate system, you'd never know they were there. Some of the message queue systems I've read about are quite neat.

But when I worked for an Oracle vendor, and at other IT companies around me, it seemed that technology adoption was entirely driven by top-down deployments from old boys clubs and salesmen that promised everything. Remember that old Dilbert strip where the salesman comes in and tells Dilbert he promised feature X, and Dilbert replies it doesn't have feature X? Happened to me too.

If there really is a sea change where clever engineering guys can dictate their software deployments, and not middle-management/sales who complain they just spent $X million on Y, so you'd better use it, then the market does have the opportunity to open up in a cool way. I just want to see more evidence that the market is how he claims.
What bug tracking systems are you basing your concept on? I'd love to know what you've not found in other systems that you are wanting in yours. Knowing, explaining and the demonstrating the differentiators is often the foundation for getting a new project off the ground in a niche where there's plenty of competition (e.g. Chrome).
Interesting. Both are great frameworks. My thoughts are:

I like how django lacks all that directory structure and you can easily use a single file for your models.

Django templates are way more powerful and safer than erb / haml, etc.

I wish there was a port of django templates in ruby. If so my preferred environment would be sinatra + datamapper + django templates.
+1 agree, with caveats. exercise definitely. MJ isn't for everyone, I'd expand the prescription to doing something that allows your mind to wander. You get this anyway with any sort of solo endurance exercise.

MJ definitely helped me get through some tough classes in college, though I treated it like dessert: I'd do focused, clear-headed studying first, then come back a day later, smoke a bowl and kind of let my mind wander all over the material. Not sure whether the altered state itself helped, or if it merely acted as the proverbial spoon full of sugar to get me to study more. Whatever the mechanism, I felt it was a boon. YMMV of course.
Sound as if your mind is in another place. Your mind is on vacation and you want to get it to work again. Unfortunately it refuses to do so and you are in this situation.

Speak with your mind as with a friend and try to convince it that today is not a holiday. You need to order your life, to have a plan for the future, that will give you the strength for today.
We see this in the UK: legions of unemployed graduates, yet you can't get a plumber or an electrician born here anymore: they all come from Eastern Europe, and thank God that there are some countries where they still respect tradesman otherwise we'd be in a lot of trouble when our houses fell apart...
When Will iOS 4 Hit the iPad?
Dana's a girl's name. Have you not seen Ghostbusters? Easy mistake to make.
> Because the fact is, coding may not be hard, but coding well and being responsible for the software infrastructure of a successful project is hard and isn't something you can pick up overnight.

This might be a good place to point to Peter Norvig's essay Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years -- http://norvig.com/21-days.html
I have the same issue, but instead I just blocked all sources of distraction and replaced them with a message reminding me to focus.
Try Rescuetime's focus time. Warning: it is a little broken on Mac with Chrome.
Once or twice a month, I keep all accessories at home and just head out in jeans/t-shirt, carrying some amount of money. Not carrying your phone/watch/wallet gives a different sense of freedom and the surroundings.
It's also the rare twenty-something founder straight out of college in the Valley who knows anything about double-entry general ledger systems or what CIOs of Fortune 500 companies really spend time worrying about

That's a great point. Any ideas on how you might start educating entrepreneurs to know about these pain points? It seems that by the time you've seen this stuff, you're already at a point in your life where you require stability rather than living on ramen in a scrappy startup.

I wish I had an answer myself.
Going off on your own to solve an enterprise problem in startup mode may be sexy, but that is far from the typical image associated with enterprise software.

When I hear enterprise software I think of all the usual anti-patterns such as big design up front, a smattering of bike shed problems, having to integrate with legacy crap, arbitrary deadlines, no incentive to avoid technical debt, division of work in teams that do not communicate, ivory tower UX / architect / usability people, etc. etc.

Definitely not sexy, not then, not now, and not in while.
At least as far as the taxes individuals pay (adding all the various kinds together), the anti-tax Tax Foundation seems to think that CA's taxes are a bit above average, but not hugely so: Californians pay 10.5% of their income as state and local taxes, versus a national average of 9.7%.

Source: http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/335.html
Sorry not sure what you mean.

Do you mean explain what a line, bar & pie chart are good for?
By Winer's logic, shouldn't the iPad also support Java, Silverlight, Realplayer, Shockwave, Windows Media Player and Quicktime? There's definitely useful information locked into each of those formats as well.

Arguing that browsers should support plugins because they might be necessary to display useful information is a really slippery slope, and would be a wonderful way for Apple to get stuck in business relationships with notoriously incompetent companies like Adobe for little to no actual benefit. I'm not convinced that there are a significant number of people who would let the lack of Flash influence their decision to buy an iPad--certainly not a significant enough number of people for Apple to cede a portion of control over their platform to a company that has repeatedly demonstrated a complete inability to make Flash work on mobile (or really, any) platforms.
You could look at the source, but chances are these elements are part of the 'secret sauce' and the exact parameters in service on the site may be different from those in the source.

The only person that can answer this is PG, but the ingredients are apparently average score in the previous 'x' comments by the same poster, points on the comment, age of the comment.
Well, I started keeping my own books with a pencil and paper when I was fifteen, and I started paying sales tax to the State of Ohio not long after. Suffice it to say I got an education in bookkeeping pretty quickly. I'm not sure I'd really recommend the same to any fifteen-year-old, but enterprise software is one of those things that is much easier to understand if you've run an enterprise before.

As for what CIOs (or CFOs) are thinking, you've got to talk to them. They (or if not them, their subordinates) belong to membership organizations. You've got to join them. It usually costs a lot of money.
Brilliance of Haskell's Maybe type and the Value of Static Type Checking
I favor the company that chooses the option that is right for the circumstance and for their customers (internal or external), not the one that chooses A or B dogmatically.
Agreed. Was hoping this article would give some advice on how to penetrate the enterprise market. Its much easier to grow in the consumer space than in the in enterprise space.

It seems that the hardest problem is getting the first enterprise buyer. I wish there were more articles discussing this valuable step.
Only 0.3% files legal on BitTorrent report is bogus
The difference is that it's perfectly reasonable to prompt your users to install Chrome Frame. After all, it's just a browser plugin like Flash. It's a very valid solution, whereas installing a VM, for most people, is not.
Only... Google Frame would take my grandma a second to install, and you don't need an additional license.
> But the fact that they need 2/3rds of the vote to get anything done combined with special interest money has made it impossible to repeal this well intentioned system that simply doesn't work. Because doing so would require a cut in the budget for said program.

Repubs are just under 40% of the CA legislature.

The stereotype is that repubs would cut any budget, so you're most of the way to a cut without any Dems.

The 2/3 req means that around a third of the Dems have to agree to a cut.

A majority reqt means that around one sixth of the Dems have to agree to a cut.

In other words, the reason that CA doesn't cut things is that so few Dems are unwilling to do so.

The reason that CA's spending goes up is that all of the Dems want it to go up and they manage to find a Repub or two to go along.

Do you really think that letting Dems pass a budget without any Repub votes (and losing some Dem votes) would result in lower spending?
Huh, that link is now (or has been all along and I didn't notice because my browser was pulling up the cached version?) redirecting to the regular, paginated, version of the article. Does anyone know how this is done (HTTP referrers?) and/or how it can be circumvented?
Threaded vs Evented Servers
256 colors was actually pretty high-end, and basically the turning point for PCs. I fondly remember what some of the non-PC artists could do with limited color palettes… (What was the name of that odd 64-color mode again? Half-bright?)
If you enjoy this style of art, there are some incredible people to be found here: http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixels/new_icons.asp?ob=rating

I especially like this guy: http://www.foolstown.com/
Ok, I've added it to the overall CPU list: http://pcpartpicker.com/partscharts/cpu/overall-list/
My guess would be, at the September press event when they announce the new iPod touches (Camera + High Res Screen?)
They don't want to, because they think it's beneath them.

For good reason. The opportunity cost of settling for a $20k/year job is very high, especially if the job is in a distant city from your hometown. Sure, you can save money on housing by moving a thousand miles to OKC, but you can't save money on plane tickets. So you aren't going to see your family very often -- better use Facetime.

(Incidentally, does AT&T have special OKC rates, or does my iPhone family plan cost $100/month in OKC just as it does everyplace else? For a $20k/year earner $100/month is 6% of pretax salary, so better not use Facetime after all.)

If an entry-level job on your desired career track opens up in your hometown of Atlanta, you might have a hard time landing that job when you live in Oklahoma City, make $20k per year, and have four years of "lifeguard" and "childcare provider" on your resume. It is notoriously difficult to get two days' time off from your food service job to travel to an interview, even if you can afford to do so.

But don't worry. Contrary to popular belief, people's hopes and dreams and lifestyles don't shatter instantly: The shattering happens in slow motion, over months or even years. Eventually, if the economy doesn't get jumpstarted, the new college grads will lose hope and realize that their best alternative is to work as a lifeguard or entry-level librarian, even if they have to move to OKC to do so. I hope OKC has a lot of libraries and swimming pools. Is there a library industry out there, making more libraries? Are they building more houses with pools, to go along with the surplus of houses we already have?
The useful information is not only that you like an object, but if you want to receive ads for objects "similar" to that one, so they need a way to know how specific are you about your object. If you want a generic object give 0 as specificity level, if you are very selective put 90. If you are only interested in this particular object and not in any other put 100. Just an idea.
Read "Pragmatic Thinking & Learning" by Andy Hunt.
You can get 3GB/month for 5Euro with 3 (Tre): http://www.tre.it/public/scheda_opzioni.php?id=22&idOF=1...

And you get phone calls at 10cents/minute too and free data roaming when you visit any other country in the world where 3 is also available.

That's way better than Wind or any other competitor out there.
Overall, on a per capita basis, the state is ranked as having the 6th highest tax rate in the nation by the Tax Foundation (10.5%) [1].

Most California voters apparently want it both ways: spend a lot on services, public employees, prisons and the rest without raising enough money to pay for them. Almost nobody seems to care that this is completely unsustainable.

Oh, and our next governor? Yeah, it either Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, who already proved how ineffectual he is a governor, not to mention as mayor of Oakland, which has now gone completely to crap, or Meg Whitman who may have her heart in the right place but seems completely unprepared.

Sorry, as someone who has lived my entire life in California, I find this situation extremely frustrating.

[1] http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/topic/15.html
State GDP is a strange way to measure things.

For example, Google's growth doesn't cause a proportional growth in the demand for govt services. If anything, Google's grown decreases said demand through the economic activity multiplier. (Folks who benefit from that growth spend money, which employs people and so on.)
Have you heard that the suit is back?
Benchmarking LLVM & Clang Against GCC 4.5