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Perhaps this is just my just ringing my own bell, but I've felt like you for a while, but in a slightly different fashion. Personally, dude, I am very religious so I always have an outside focus that helps to keep me steady, not matter what, that sort of third thing that always matters in the face of any personal problems. For somebody like Gary Vaynerchuk, his "third thing" is his family.

I'm not trying to push the religion thing on you, because that's not your problem here, but what I will say that is that even though I have this other thing outside of coding and work and even family, I still feel (felt?) drained like you do.

After long conversations with my parents, and grandmothers, what I found the problem to be was anxiety and anxious thinking. That may not sound like your problem on the face of it, but here are some things I'd ask you:

- Do you find yourself constantly frustrated by your own limitations and imperfections?

- Do you have a hard time doing anything if it's not perfect?

- Do you berate yourself internally to such a degree that you are your own worst critic and that if you do anything wrong, no one needs to tell you so?

- Do you feel guilty for having all that you have and knowing that there are people out there who'd love to be you?

- Everytime you think of a new business/project idea, do you get all excited but then as you think about it more and more, you get turned off by all the roadblocks you'd have to overcome, until you gradually just fizz out and spend time on HN?

If this sounds like you in any way, then you're probably like me. I have no problem admitting (now) that one of the major reasons I don't get anything done is that I don't LET MYSELF. If you wanna talk personally about this, I'd be happy to be someone to talk to about this. My name is David and my email is at http://scr.im/daveslab (guarded from Spam Bots).

What am I doing about it? This program (http://www.stresscenter.com/mwc/), as cheesy as it looks, is truly, truly saving my life. It is a God-send for me and it helped my father and my uncle come to things they'd only dreamed of doing because of their fear.

Maybe I'm totally off the mark, but I truly hope this might help you. There are so many people affected by this but don't know it's name.
Perhaps a better question is "if the N1 failed, being promoted on Google's ad network, how good is Google's ad network?"
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, sunscreen does not prevent vitamin D from being produced, at least at SPF 15.

"There has been some concern that use of sun protection factor (SPF) of 15 results in vitamin D deficiency. However, a randomized trial in people over 40 years of age found that sunscreen use over the summer had no effect on 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels."

Source: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/3rduspstf/skcacoun/skcarr.htm
>starcraft 2 is a game that values practice is thinking out of the box more than anything else, I know far more starcraft players amongst startups/hackers than settlers of catan, or anything else.

I love it when people say games value thinking out of the box. Yeah! My Zerglings can beat a Yamato Cruiser right? Because they can like jump off of a cliff onto it... or something. Every game has a tiered structure of what works and doesn't SC2 is no different. At competitive levels of play there's only a handful of strategies people use, they'll work them selves out over the next month or so and then be set in stone unless people find glitches in the game that don't get patched like the original SC. SC2 is a game of rock paper scissors at the core. Every strategy game is.

>not only will starcraft 2 reiterate what a big deal video games are, it's going to shape popular culture, it's going to be played by millions of players each and every day for the next decade or so.

You know every other pop music group is listened to by millions of people some for even 3 or 4 decades! Example Led Zeppelin, so how come Led Zeppelin posts aren't on HN? SC2 is entertainment pure and simple, essentially by posting entertainment links it's going against the spirit of the rules. It's essentially cat pictures. And you know those are big on the internet which we're on, and that argument makes as much sense as your "on a computer clause".
If you haven't gotten any raises in three years working for the same employer, then you should look for a different job. I've worked at two fortune 500 companies and one small company and every one of them gives yearly cost-of-living raises at the very least.

It sounds to me like you need to learn to exert more conscious, intentional control over the things you do. It seems like controlling your bodyweight can be one of the most difficult challenges humans face (for those that have trouble with it). To lose weight you have to control two things: diet and exercise. If you can gain control over this, you will have made a huge step towards controlling other aspects of your life.

Check out http://crossfit.com. They're not after your money. You can get all the information you need for free, and it is by far the most sensible approach to general fitness I've seen anywhere, bar none. It's also the most time-efficient, which is another big plus. Diet is always a controversial subject, but their approach works well for losing weight.

If you can get this aspect of your life under control, I think you'll be well on your way.
Why You Are Unemployed. a video.
We'll work on communicating our product on the homepage better. We want just what we need from FB users, so we'll double check the extended permissions we request.

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My ThinkPad came with three styles to choose from. The original style, which I think you're referring to, did wear down after about a year. But it's easy and cheap to get replacements (and some backups are often included). The style I like, which is wide and flat like a mushroom top with bumps, doesn't seem to wear down at all.

As for the acceleration, like with any human input device, that's something you get used to, and it can be configured a bit as well.

I love my TrackPad. I won't buy a laptop without one. Unfortunately, these days, there are fewer and fewer available...
I agree (using Vim or Vim bindings for all coding work), but have you used the standard wireless mouse that comes with the newer iMacs? It has some gesture support on its top surface (like momentum scrolling) that I couldn't live without.

I'm just wondering if you think the trackpad is better than their mouse. I've only played around with it at the store. Worth the upgrade do you think?
Thanks a lot for commenting. Your comment was pretty insightful to me and validated a few of the assumptions I had made.

Although, it is highly unlikely that I will end up at a college which offers such a class (indian education pretty much sucks) I'll search OCW and iTunes U until I find something like that.

I want to play with abstract concepts like you've said, but I have internal problems which I need to overcome before reaching that goal. I can't sit down at stuff at any lengths of time like that until I am really engrossed stuff from my past comes up and I tend to get emotionally strained whenever this happens. I remember stuff that shouldn't be there in my mind in the first place and it is a constant battle to get stuff done.

So, is there any structure you use to get stuff done?
I don't know how it is for other people, but the tech sector appears to get really slow in the December-January and early July periods every year. So, more free time.
Just in case that wasn't a rhetorical question, no.

Skin cancer is as much a pre-disposition affair as it is induced by UV radiation, and people with far higher exposure levels are still not at a significant risk for skin cancer unless their genetic make-up is such that they are very prone to contracting it.

If you have extremely light skin, have freckles (especially darker ones), have red hair or if there is a history of skin cancer in your family better be careful though.

Otherwise, enjoy the sun but don't overdo it.
It Pays to Trust Your Instinct
I'm arriving to the discussion too late to make a fairly minor point.. but I do think that this blog post misses the boat completely on her dismissal of the fastest growing occupations for women.

"We are veterinary technicians not veterinarians, dental assistants not dentists, medical assistants not doctors. We like to believe we have evolved, but the data speaks to something else."

Utterly untrue. Women are not doctors? How on earth can she make a statement like this?

According to this site:

http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/charts1982to2007.pdf

"Since 1982-83, the total number of women entering U.S. medical schools has increased every year (in
fact, the annual increases reach back to 1969-1970). Women’s share of the matriculating class has
likewise increased. Women went from less than a third (31.4%) of all matriculants in 1982-83 to a high
of 49.6 percent in 2003-04. In 2007-08, women were 48.3 percent of all matriculants."

This data is a little old, I wouldn't be surprised if women surpass 50% soon.
As far as online resources, http://khanacademy.org/ has in my opinion, a knack for letting you into the underlying principles. They don't yet cover extremely advanced topics, but have helped me to grok some concepts that I has previously only had mechanical knowlege of.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059076
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The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking.
Figuring out yourself is probably the best thing that you can do. A lot of people have the thought that their potential is limitless - this is wrong and dangerous if you equate happiness with fulfilling your potential.

What helped me a lot is learning my personality type based on the MBTI model (or any model, they're all pretty similar) - study it and find out your potential compared to other types. This gives you a more accurate scale to view your potential, and a more accurate scale will give you a more well defined measurement of success.

For instance, personality typing predicts varying degrees of hard-workingness based on nothing else but your disposition. A lot of people can't accept this even though life itself seems to indicate it and have wrong expectations for themselves. This is very unhealthy if you put all your hopes here and can't manage to fulfill it.

I already wrote my thoughts on this here: therubyway.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/how-to-view-yourself/
The code handles concurrency the same way that redis handles concurrency. It's single threaded.
So, Apple trackpads are better in that they are more precise? Not being a Mac user, it's hard for me to understand what advantage a trackpad like this gives over any other third-party trackpad, other than the multitouch capability.

Please help me understand why people are gushing over a $70 trackpad (even made by Apple), when most people mock similar input devices costing over $30.
Tynt is the copy/paste company that can "protect" content by overriding the copy command in your browser. This opt-out keeps them from mucking about with it.
I hear that if you pre-ordered it from Gamestop, you might spare your free time for at least another day.
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Gee fijukati, želim sam živio u Hrvatska, tako da sam mogao kupiti vaš proizvod! Istočna Europa mi je uvijek uzbuđen sa svojim niske troškove života i to je početak kulture.
An interesting addition to that point is the fact that it's the unique combination of little sun + arable land that set the stage for whiteness to develop in northern Europe. Take northern Native Americans-- they had little sun but also couldn't grow grains and so got plenty of vitamin D through their meat-only diet. There was an article here on HN about this some time ago.
If that was the case then humanity would be doomed. The sun is good and we need it. Just not too much.
Style faster: Chrome/Safari extension to reload JS/CSS without hitting refresh.
Agreed - they seem similar (monocle can even use twisted's reactor). But then I have some personal issues with twisted. IMHO it's simply not well organised. Every time I wrote something, I had to browse through the long list of classes in the API documentation to find what I need (and wonder about how many kinds of reactors are actually needed, and why are they split across so many modules, and ...). The way the docs are written also makes it not very inviting for new users (some pages just seem to say "here, yield does magic").

I chose diesel over twisted many times, simply because of how it's organised, but then again sometimes I had to use twisted, since diesel didn't have some features.

Monocle looks nice to me. If it does the same things twisted offers, I'll choose monocle. Then again, that was a very subjective opinion.
i personally always thought that HN ratings and comment rates is very very bad, the ratings are an indications that most visitor are very main-stream , very main stream, original thinking and humor is punished and burried

comments should have never had a rating , this killed the site, invited karma collectors , promoted censorship and mediocrity

i hope PG can come to his senses and remove this misfeature

HN was a lot better before this feature was added
Are you arguing that because men are, on average, physically stronger than women, it implies that they are smarter or more analytical than women?

That's like arguing that because women have, on average, smaller feet than men, they are smarter or more analytical than men.
I am telling you. You will develop intuition, and the ability to derive proofs on your own, only after you spend lots and lots of time reviewing other proofs. Memorizing them and their techniques will accelerate your learning process. If you are ever in doubt about a technique used in a proof, study it further until you are confident you understand.
Youtube easter egg (Or Play snake on youtube)
Devs love the site too.

Congratulations Jim, Emily and everyone else.
Complete separation leads to ignorance. The better solution is to have summaries like yours available.
I'd be interested in email and invites, more than through a social network, give me a little more control over who can see my lists. Multiple lists may well be easier to manage at that point too.

I really like it as an idea though, brilliant.
There are different kinds of sunscreen (physical and chemical) and of course different strengths. 15 would be considered low in my social group (young sailors).
I'm just going to go ahead and comment here and say how much I hate newspapers trying to publish scientific information.

I began raising my own pigs last year, and one of the things I get back from the slaughter house is about 20 pounds per pig of fatback and leaf lard.

Do you know what the USDA has to say about the vitamin D content of pork lard? 2,800 IU per 100g.

So, it seems as though our consumption of animal fat in the winter time helps to offset the fact that the sun in the great white north is so rare. It would also help explain why Inuit and other far northern cultures don't die of vitamin difficencies. (i.e., our bodies are extraordinary machines and have developed ways to function optimally without relying on a single source of any one nutrient) It is only when we shuffle the deck and start eating a tropical, fruit + veggie heavy diet, in January that all hell breaks loose.

Of course, from everything I've read, it would also appear that pure corn-fed lard is so bad for you that the vitamin D doesn't matter. Best to eat pastured organic pork lard (oh, and plenty of fatty fish) in the winter time or move back to the equator.
Thank you for replying! It's always awesome to talk to you.

>>>I don't like the 'I am quite dumb' assessment you give yourself, everybody is born 'dumb', it's those that spend the time to educate themselves that rise above that and you seem to be willing to do so.<<<

You're right I am really sorry. It's just that old habits and learned helplessness dies hard.
A quick google search found this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%223-6+times%22+%22vitamin+d%...

My battery is about to die in the iPhone, so I don't have time to curate the list, but from a quick glance a couple of the sources from the google search look credible.
About a year ago, yes, that would have been good, but HN has sort of been overrun by a gang of douche bags since then, so no, try not to be funny.
I upvoted you for your explanation of videogame tactics, and then wish I hadn't wasted it after your pop music explanations.
Also it is important to keep in mind that the sun has a lower altitude over the horizon in winter (for europeans), you need more exposure then.
Agreed * 100
While Symposium actually goes deep into the subject of love, part of the point Socrates tries to make (or rather, Diotima of Mantinea via Socrates) is that humans have a deep desire to immortalize themselves by procreation, be it with arts, poetry, fame or life.

While on the subject, possibly Alcibiades I by Plato might be an even better read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Alcibiades
Your argument doesn't make any sense.

1) I don't think anyone ever claimed Apples was discontinuing OSX, just that it seems clear that it's taking a back seat, both marketing and engineering wise, to the iPhone/iOS line of products.

2) If Xcode did run on Linux or Windows, that wouldn't reduce the lockin between Xcode and iOS. The inability to write iOS applications in a higher level language and target different phone backends has absolutely nothing to do with XCode running on OSX, and everything to do with the iPhone developer agreement specifically preventing you from doing so.
You don't have to look at a trackpad to use it.

I think that putting screens on trackpads, keyboards, or remotes (you use them to control other screens) is a horrible idea.
Ask HN: Window management for Mac
Ok, I feel dumb.
I've put many hours into this and found nothing, yet.

When i was using Windows I had this little tool called WinSplit Revolution.

What it did was letting you divide your screen into how many and of how much size you choose "virtual monitors".
You set one time of you want to divide your monitor, then everytime WinSplit is opened the monitor is automatically divided into Virtual Monitors.

Screenshots: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=winsplit%20revolution&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1045&bih=499

I'm now using a 30' which i want almost always divided into 4 equal size "virtual monitors" (plus my mbp 13' those will be 5 1280x800 virtual monitors)

Now I've switched to Mac OsX and can't find anything that does just this efficiently.

I tried Divvy but I found no way to divide my screen into arbitrary "virtual monitors", i need a couple of clicks to select a 3x3 space on a 9x9 grid.

Before starting coding something like this can you tell me if you already know of some software that does window management like this?
but most importantly, its related to Hacker News because over 30 people have said it is (upvotes)

This article clearly gratifies people's intellectual curiosity. Just look at the great discussion it has generated.

Plus, I wonder how many people would have downvoted this to express disinterest. Flagging is extra work and pretty much pointless now, the only option is to ignore. There is no way to drown out a small, vocal group.
Sign up for a half iron man triathlon 7 months from now.

And most importantly, find someone else to do it with you that won't let you wuss out 3 months into your training.

Pay a non-refundable $250 for it and force yourself to be ready for it. Find someone to run with you once per week that won't let you quit. Work your way up to running 15 miles once per week. I started at 3 miles once/wk and now do 15 once/wk.

I highly recommend doing this; it is fun, and I lost 20 lbs doing it.
Monocle - an async Python framework with a blocking look-alike syntax
I like the idea that I can post a comment with insight that doesn't need to be a pun or meme. I've also become frustrated with the moderation that happens on reddit.
$150 is a good price. I see Android tablets from China for $100, but slower and less ram and not as good looking.

Since I already have a new smartphone, the tablet seems a bit lacking. Not Android 2.2, only 800mhz compared to 1ghz, only 256MB RAM compared to 512MB, only 800x480 res for 7" display. For the price, it's hard to complain if you are looking for one though.
>>>For me, the hardest part of Math is the Byzantine formula. My brain just doesn't look at them and go "oh, that's how it works." Instead, I need to translate that into some nice executable code (Python, etc).
I stumbled through Calculus not really getting what it was about. Physics on the other hand, was real world, here is the formula; here is how to apply it. That made it click for me.<<<

I know exactly what you mean. I can see stuff in physics and I intuitively know what is going to happen when I take a metallic hollow piston with air inside of it and place it partially in a magnetic field. It's observation of Solenoids and other stuff that allows me to do that, but I really couldn't do the same with math, and now I am trying to do that.
You're right about SC2 reducing to a game of rock/paper/scissors, just like chess is a very simple game (not to mention Go). Yes, this unit counters that unit, which counters this other unit.. but there are quite a few units in the game, and adding terrain considerations and building/tech options (and the list of variables goes on) you start to get the situation where you can develop quite intricate strategies.

The classical example from Starcraft 1 is Slayers/Boxer, the Korean player who played as terran when everyone thought it was completely inferior, and developed new strategies that made him world champion.

Sure, you can snicker at it being "just a video game", but it's fundamentally no different from any other game or sport.

Even rock/paper/scissors can become quite interesting with just two more options, see: http://www.samkass.com/theories/RPSSL.html
Interesting. Kinda like plancast events without firm dates.

From the title I was hoping for some kind of social analysis showing that people check in to foursquare locations where they wish they hung out more :-P
Pastured organic pork lard is substantially more likely to lead to trichinosis.
I may get downvoted for this, but the Big Bang Theory is a great example of "scientific faith", the prevailing existence of faith amongst people claiming to be scientifically rigorous. People who make the absurd claim that it is meaningless to speak of what happened "before the Big Bang" because there was no "before."

I've spoken with, and heard many professors speak of the Big Bang Theory as accepted fact, when in fact it is not, and not only that, but it has very serious, fundamental problems:

- It flies in the face of logical reasoning. Something cannot come out of nothing.

- The point above actually has a physical law. It's called the First Law of Thermodynamics, and the Big Bang Theory is in stark violation of it.

That's not to say it's completely invalid. There could have been a Big Bang, in fact it's very likely there was, but that doesn't mean it was the "start" of anything, other than rapid expansion, or, converting into mystical terms, a reincarnation.

The Universe will always be here. It has always been here. It cannot go away. It is indestructible and everlasting. The mystics understand this, and so does anyone who understands basics physics.
Mark Twain:

"For I knew quite well the tale was not finished, and I could not understand why I was not able to go on with it. The reason was very simple. My tank had run dry. It was empty. When the manuscript had lain in a pigeonhole two years, I took it out one day.

"And it was then that I made the great discovery that, when the tank runs dry, you've only to leave it alone, and it will fill up again in the time while you were asleep, also while you were at work on other things and are quite unaware that this unconscious and profitable cerebration is going on. There was plenty of material now, and the book went on and finished itself without any trouble."

-- http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec10/twai...