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Ask HN: How to be an entrepreneur while mentally ill?
Hi everyone- I am currently working as a software tester in a big company but am interested in entrepreneurship. I have studied thousands of startups and have some ideas for potential businesses that I could execute on.

Unfortunately, my brain seems to be less resilient to stress and frustration than the average person. I wrote about some of my experiences in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1545808

I am currently taking Lexapro, exercising, eating a paleo diet, and practicing mindfulness meditation. However, there are still some constraints on my decision-making capabilities:
I am able to understand system administration, database administration, and many other aspects of IT, but coding has been difficult for me to grok the 100+ times I've tried to learn it. Also, I am afraid of people in general, which would have a huge impact on customer development and sales. One approach I have taken is to pretend that other people aren't real - like they are holograms - and as such I'm not worried about them judging me. I'm not sure if that approach is sustainable though.

If you have any advice, experiences, or stories about succeeding in business while having mental problems I would be really interested in hearing them.
Maybe is not built into Haskell. Haskell has syntax sugar that turns do { x <- foo; bar x } into "foo >>= \x -> bar x" for any Monad. Maybe is just a particular instance of Monad that is included in the Prelude. But you can write your own that is exactly identical in every way.
http://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/glycemic-index#values

I'd say average. Bananas don't have an high GI either, it seems.
1.25 Billion Key/Value Pairs in Redis 2.0.0-rc3 on a 32GB Machine
Ubuntu from Dell was only there to put a little pressure on Microsoft (probably to call their bluff).
Review: Chrome Canary - More Than One Browser Instance
It's also the best the author could do without wasting hours
(days?) of his life only to support a broken browser that is probably not even very widely used in his target audience.

Personally I'd have preferred a blunt "This page does not work in MSIE", but I understand that's still a risky thing to do, despite the market share figures having improved somewhat.
I don't believe there is an innate zero-sum bias. Why would humans be hunting in groups 200,000 years ago if we evolved to be zero-sum thinkers?

I find too many people on HN use the zero-sum bias argument against everything because Paul Graham said so.

Some resources are zero-sum, and remain so through the last century of technological progress (which has seen most of mankind's improvements). Land ownership (especially coastal properties) is ever diminishing. Cities still fight over water (desalination is expensive). Oil, a new zero-sum resource, has been the cause of many wars.

It is only in the utopia of software development (where duplication is cheap), that people are blind to this. If the population ever outstrips availability of crucial goods like land, water, or food, you will see your software and webapp sales plummet to 0 no matter how hard you work on it.
What I'd like to know about the two-slit experiment is how much apart those slits are from each other, and where is the photon actually targeted at? Do they aim at the middle or what?

Edit: After thinking a little bit, they just shoot them at random directions so it's like sending photons in serial instead of parallel, but in serial mode the photons shouldn't interfere.
From Mark Ferrari's website [1]:

"Perhaps some new internet tool will come out that allows us to show these old drawings to you in motion. ... Not this month though. Sorry."

Someone should tell him...

[1]: http://www.markferrari.com/gallery/digital/game_art/
Well, if Mr Gates charges me 500 rather than 400 then well his gain is my loss. So too if he pays me 11k rather than 12k, keeping that extra k as profit for himself, his gain is my loss.
>attacking idiotic companies who have nobody who understands basic security

Often, it only takes one idiot.
It was always really half-assed. I bought one of the Ubuntu edition laptops a couple of years ago, and on the two occasions I spoke to Dell's tech support (for hardware issues) they had the machine down as having Vista and they had no idea what I was talking about when I tried to explain that I had bought one of their machines with Ubuntu.

A properly configured Ubuntu installation absolutely beats the pants off Windows for typical netbook tasks. Fast, stable, no viruses, no freaking installers adding crapware and "toolbars" to your browser. All the software you could ever need on a netbook: Chrome, Rhythmbox, VLC, Skype, Spotify, OpenOffice (if Google Docs doesn't do it for you).

I don't know why they've dropped it, why they never gave it a proper shot. They could have really set themselves apart from the sea of netbook manufacturers. I'm waiting for someone to come along and happily eat their lunch.
It's block for me too.
Of course we should dignify the argument: the Flash plug-in is a standard used billions of times a day by millions of people.

It's only asinine to pretend it's not a modern standard by reducing it to "just a plug-in" because it's unpopular (and virulently envied?) on this forum.
" Evolution is not related to zero-sum games"

Of course it is. If the deer does not run faster, the cheetah will have him/her for dinner.
Used to be. Honestly don't even remember my callsigns.

I became a Technician when I was in high school because I lived in NYC (went down to Varick street to take the test) but didn't know anyone who could administer the Novice test.

Built a small QRP rig but never made contact with anyone and lost interest.

A few years later I went back to get either my Extra or Advanced...who remembers. I did that more to see if I could copy code at the required rate than for any other reason. Actually I think my last license might be in the safe, I should take a look someday.

I was never that interested in being a ham and talking to other people; SWL was much more fun. I had QSL cards from all over the world.
Full data sets of WikiLeaks Afghan war logs
I think the assumption that coding will be a core competency & the company's success hinges on its quality is not necessarily true.

Think of betterworldbooks.com. I'm sure that code is very important to them. They probably have great programmers working there. But, going to campuses, exciting students and organising fund-raising book collections is probably more their core competency. Zappos needed great software, but it wasn't necessarily technical prowess that made them successful, their customer service seems to the the credit. There are many web startups which are e-commerce companies at core. AirBnB, from what I read, is an impressive startup, but the problems they solved to get it going where not primarily technical. They are taking advantage of opportunities that technological advancements have created and have big, important technological components to them (compared to restaurants, shops, dental practices..), but they are not pure technology companies.

Being an amateur level programmer (can code an e-commerce site) could let someone have a go at a lot of potential ideas. You probably can't be Google or Paypal but you might be a Woot! or something.
If you haven't read the book "Gödel, Escher, Bach" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach - you need to do yourself a favor and do so. It explores the ideas of recursion, logic, infinity, and so much more in one beautifully written book.
I grew up in a household with unlimited junk food & dessert supply, and when I was 20, decided to rebel.

The trick is simply: don't buy junk food. Don't buy it for at least 3 months, possibly forever. Keep it out of your house. Its easier to not buy it at the store, than not eat it when its around.

Once you've lived without sugar, salt & bad fats for a while, you stop craving them and its much easier to manage. If you need to snack, eat something with no flavoring - raw almonds or carrots for instance. Drink only water.

When I first made this change I actually went totally cold turkey on a 'no flavor' diet, where I intentionally only ate rice, boiled chicken, string beans, raw nuts and dried fruit for a month and only drank tap water. No joke. It worked for sure.

(Also chewing gum works wonders as well. You may just have an oral fixation)
What's with the fad of naming everything after tea?
Reading this thread is giving me the bug again :-)

I might just go into the basement and put together a simple 40 meter receiver tonight just to see if there's any activity there and maybe build a small transmitter later.

ISTR that the FCC went to non-expiring licenses. My last one is from the late 80's/early 90's. Anyone know what the likelihood is that I still have a valid license?
It might be worth asking about how easy it is to take unpaid leave. Some companies have no problem with employees taking off one or two weeks per year unpaid on top of their regular holiday. Or time off in lieu might be another option.
Django 1.2 has more sane if tags. No more need to use ifequal
I have the same problem (exactly) with another problem: If I start coding (or working on some projects of mine) I just don't stop work until something stops me (like dinner, extremely exhausted->sleep, a friend calling for coffee...)

I think the real problem is "How to get into that mode". It's simple:

- Be ready: Sleep well. Eat, Water or Coffee should be near your desk.

- Close all distractions. If you do web development, use another browser to navigate or block websites with rescuetime ;)

- Start with something simple. Much more simpler than coding. A to do list. Don't start with coding it's hard. Start with your to do list and get into the thinking mode that you used to get it when off-computer

- You start thinking, opening folders, testing, write a line of code.... and woups already 5 hours spent and you didn't notice it :)

Hope it's not Dementia, but a check is cheap (whatever it costs)
Website for Sale on Flippa: SurfPeople.net - Social Network - PR 5
Yeah, I mean a join with a timeout, and it is indeed not too much of a hassle to work around, but it's more the principle of not having an innate timed join in POSIX Threads.

The Open Group published their rationale for not including a timed version of join, stating, "the working group ultimately rejected [adding a timeout to] pthread_join() since both that interface and a timed variant of that interface are non-minimal and may be implemented as a function. See below for a library implementation of pthread_join()."

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/xrat/xsh_chap0...
Ask HN: What do I do with a weekend in SF?
I just graduated with a degree in Augmented Reality from a school far too far away from the valley. If I have one weekend in paradise, how should I go about meeting fellow hackers? Where should I go? What would you do?

Looking to talk to people about a brain-game startup, complain about Zynga and get a feel for the place in general. Greener than green over here.

(first post)
caveat: GEB might make your brain explode
On the internet, too?
Not axioms. Axioms don't need a basis in reality that's what I'm saying. I require something more stringent than a set of axioms for a belief system.
I wonder how much money they're getting from Intel for this?
Oh, ouch. The author for that number-pair also wrote "Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes", "Why Men Lie and Women Cry", and "Why Men Can Only Do One Thing at a Time and Women Never Stop Talking." (from your link)

Scientific-credibility nose-dive right there.
http://hackerdojo.pbworks.com/

If it's going on at the time: http://superhappydevhouse.org/
55k/year supports a family with two cars and a nice house in california? really?

median house prices in california:

http://www.dqnews.com/Charts/Monthly-Charts/CA-City-Charts/Z...

I guess maybe every teacher and their family could move to Sheridan?

55000/year average is a reasonable, solid salary for a teacher. its not extravagrant, it just gives them a hope of being able to maintain their family without needing food stamps.
> I don't believe there is an innate zero-sum bias. Why would humans be hunting in groups 200,000 years ago if we evolved to be zero-sum thinkers?

It would be just one of many heuristics and biases. Others, like the ones that make us help people who carry our genes (family, but originally, almost everybody in a tribe), are probably the foundation of cooperation and altruism of the kind you write about.
Not to downplay the serious symptoms you've described, but that's all a bit dramatic when the guy has described nothing more or less than Slashdot Syndrome.

When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
Most undocumented workers are paid under the table, and hence pay no payroll taxes.
The cause listed in the article (ingesting of the tire pieces) was not correct. The official cause was a lot more complex than that:

During the Concorde's subsequent take-off run, this piece of debris, still lying on the runway, ruptured a tyre which then burst. A large chunk of this (4.5 kilograms or 9.9 lb) struck the underside of the aircraft's wing structure at well over 300 kilometres per hour (190 mph). Although it did not directly puncture any of the fuel tanks, it sent out a pressure shockwave that eventually ruptured the number five fuel tank at the weakest point, just above the landing gear. Leaking fuel rushing over the top of the wing was ignited by an electric arc in the landing gear bay or through contact with severed electrical cables.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590#Flight

There are alternate theories as well (also in the Wikipedia article).
This happens to me when I hit burnout. I've solved it lately by using Toggl (http://toggl.com) to track what time I'm spending where. It's a lot easier to NOT tab over to reddit/HN if I look over and see myself "on the clock" for a given project.

I keep time tracking for time spent on distractions, as well, and after a few days of that number being bigger than I'd like, I started paring it down pretty dramatically.

Hope that helps!
This happened before, about 40 years ago. A whole younger generation was into marijuana.

Now they're running the DEA.
well it is still 2-3 od MB of weight. I guess you could strip it down easy enough, and package it. But if you are delivering a library - then it has to play nice with other libraries that may also want to use scala - if you really wanted you could jarjar it into its own namespace (!) but that would be pretty extreme.

If you write your app in scala, and unless you are deploying to a phone, it is rarely an issue (it doesn't bother me at all) - but Mirah as a drop in replacement for a java compiler, that is very compelling and something to watch.

Also - the fact that I use the scala libraries heavily means I need very few other deps myself - so for me it is a net win.
That's a lot to digest: childish && (week || biased) && troll? Is this subject really worth that much vitriol?

On what basis is a browser author obligated to support any plugin system whatsoever? I don't want an answer as to why Apple must...I want to know why any arbitrary browser vendor, in your world, should not be free to make that product decision.

Edit: I submit that if you cannot answer that question, having removed Apple from the equation, that it is not me who is biased.
What a snide, ad hominem attack on the man personally, and stuffed with vague claims. His most accurate sentence is: "I've been unhealthily obsessed with Friedman for more than a decade now."
This is an old benchmark, but http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux... (June 2010) shows BTRFS still has some weird performance problems - eg with Apache, 400 req/second vs 12000+ req/sec for EXT4.

The big problem with Linux filesystem benchmarks is that the filesystems are so tuneable the conclusions can often be better stated as "it is possible to tune file system X to perform badly" rather than "X is faster than Y".
Definitely; that's why I didn't take the JLPT 1 last year. I still need to rely too much on a dictionary when reading the paper or novels. The kanji aren't much of a problem, but my vocabulary isn't yet big enough to read in detail.

I've done a few previous JLPT 1 exams, and the vocab is the only place I'm lacking; I can usually narrow down the reading comprehension questions to 'one of these two', but 50% isn't a passing score. :)

Other than 'keep studying', any tips for helping me over the hump?
Obviously, the right choice depends on the situation. Companies should tend towards B if they already understand the needs of their customers or if they're in a slow-moving market where customers make big, infrequent purchases.

Probably it would be more useful if you described a few specific companies that you think release products too frequently. Then we could argue if they would benefit by releasing less frequently.

Keep in mind that the question of how companies should act to profit-maximize is totally separate from the question of what sort of company you want to work for. I'm only interested in the first one; you might not be interested in it at all.
It's not that funny...
Perhaps it is advocated for a lot of disorders because it, well, let me put it this way -- actually helps those disorders? To my knowledge, one of the reasons behind making it illegal was extensive lobbying from drug-corporations who were afraid of an easily-grown, non-addictive fun competitor.

For your second point, yeah, it's probably a good idea to research anything before you ingest/inhale/inject it. High-fructose corn syrup, I'm looking at you :)

Your example doesn't bring anything new to the table. I know people who function well in spite of playing World of Warcraft and I know people who temporarily ruined their lives playing WoW. Was it WoW's fault? Should we make WoW illegal? Should we make everything illegal because it might lead to devastating consequences?

In process of experimentation, I created two rules for myself:
a) You can't blame your fuckups on the drug, even if you were under the influence.
b) You don't have to mention that drug helped you, if you created something good.
Paul Tyma discusses some other myths regarding evented vs threaded servers: http://www.mailinator.com/tymaPaulMultithreaded.pdf
InfoQ: Neo4j: NOSQL and the Benefits of Graph Databases
It's amazing that the tech industry's three giants all do things totally differently and all make tons of cash.
Mentor list in Google documents
A couple of weeks back someone posted a link to a Google document where established entrepreneurs were entering their details and offering their help.

Does someone remember the link to the document?
Is this complete, or have they edited or omitted items that are at odds with the political viewpoint of wikileaks?
There's nothing I said that conflicts with the Wikipedia article. As someone that has seen a medical professional related to burning out, I can say with confidence that some R&R coupled with a change of pace, and focus can be very helpful in shortening or delaying burn out.

Next time I'll make sure to include elaboration, just in case someone misinterprets my brief statements with an official definition.
I'm certainly no expert on this matter but yes, certain foods do exactly that (like banana's).

I think the key to what you are describing is that you were exercising at the time - taking in something like a banana during that would actually do exactly as you describe - boost your sugar level when you need it the most, aka throw some fuel on the fire.

But again, I'm just a guy that has had tremendous luck with monitoring my GI and my hunger and have a few really knowledgable friends that have helped me along the way.
I guess I'm missing what's specifically monadic about it. Isn't it just an algebraic data type with two alternatives? In ML you declare the morally-equivalent "option" type as:

datatype 'a option = NONE | SOME of 'a

It's possible that the Haskell Maybe monad is doing some additional magic, but I didn't get that from this article if so (does it have something that lets you avoid manually pattern-matching on the two cases and/or using accessors?).
An entrepreneur can be anything from sending rockets into space to selling things on Ebay. Risk levels are different for all businesses. Selling on Ebay isn't necessarily stressful until you start trying to make a living on it. It's even more stressful when you have decided to live off your business and you start to come short on bills.

My advice. Give it a shot but don't quit your day job until your business is easily paying for itself as well as your personal bills. Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone though.
The Sad State of Open Source in Android Tablets
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge
A sneak peek at the inbox of a freeware developer
Measuring lines of code is valid. The only caveat is that you must be intimately aware of whose lines of code you are counting.
Food has gotten dramatically cheaper [1]. As far as housing, owner equivalent rent, not purchase price, is the relevant quantity. People certainly spend more on housing, but they also get more. Houses are bigger now, and have more amenities; for example, in 1960, about 80% of houses had flush toilets, today close to 100% do. I really doubt that health care available in 1960 is that much more expensive, though you can certainly spend a lot on medical treatments that didn't exist back then.

Elizabeth Warren's book, "The Two Income Trap" compares a median family of 1970 to one of 2000. She discovered that even though the modern family gets far more consumer goods than the older family (bigger houses, more cars, etc), they spent roughly the same or less on most major expense categories except tax (which went up considerably).

[1] http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/CPIFoodAndExpenditures/Data...
Ask HN: Any good advice for a new grad to join a startup?
I am a new grad from Purdue University majoring in Computer Engineering. In this major we have been taught a lower level perspective of computer systems; a bit of digital electrical engineering and software engineering mostly in C.
I made mistakes on my previous 4 years where I have only been giving myself to solve algorithm challenge problems on the web instead of doing real projects as I thought that it was more effective to score an interview.

I had no experiences with higher level programming such as frameworks, libraries and those technology abbreviations (ASP.net, RoR, Scala, etc). I learnt myself and from elective classes about Java, Qt on C++, Python, and C# even though I still do not feel they are strong enough for a job yet.

I would really love to join a software startup as I find it much more exciting and giving invaluable experiences. It doesn't matter if I work as an intern or a full time, as long as I can contribute.

I already found some of the exciting companies that really attracts me and I got phone interviews (I am still at Purdue and most of them are at the coasts area) from some of them. Each of them turned me down after some step(s) without giving me specific feedbacks :(.

I was wondering if fellows HNers have advices for a newbie like me on how to join a startup and really contributes.

Thank you.
If there were a single best language / framework combination then you would have no real choices because everyone would be using the best.
Apricot - a simple Hpricot Clone for nodejs
So if you have Dish Network, and the HD version is right above the SD version on the channel guide, you'll watch the SD version if the number is even?
ok.

Im not sure what your point is in regards to the topic at hand?
Handling Date/Times and timezones
It's a common design change in C dialects, but none seem to have really caught on. For example, Cyclone has both nullable and non-nullable pointers (http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/wiki/Cyclone%20for%20C%20Prog...).