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Study: Standing desks could be harmful to your productivity and your health
How long is the train ride usually? I've never been to NY
Yes absolutely understand that. And I'm coming at this as someone trying to learn what the situation is--I don't have a preconceived notion of stimulant or amphetamine use as being pervasive. That's why I'm here--to learn. Thanks.
Physiotherapists have given me a variety of reasons why, but I basically can't bend over in the way they are suggesting.

> "Oh yes! In order to hip hinge properly, your hamstrings to have to lengthen," Shapiro says. "If you have tight hamstrings, they prevent you from bending over easily in that way."

My hamstrings are incredibly tight and exercise and daily stretching haven't helped. The problem is my entire biomechanics are wonky. I barely use my abs, instead putting the load they would usually do onto my hamstrings, tightening them.

The only solution is for me to get a specialist therapist and retrain myself on how to move, walk, run, etc. I work a traveling job, so that's basically not possible right now. On the bright side, I look totally normal in my movements.
Yes of course it can be portable!
> Also as someone else said, you need a way to compare apples to apples.

This is really important. For any company that does business with the federal government (even if it's only a small part of the company), they're required to keep records to prove that they don't discriminate in their hiring practices. The way almost every company does this is ensure that their practices are standardized and no candidate has any sort of different experience.

If they let this candidate have a non-standard interview, then hire them over someone who is in a protected class, they'd be opening up a TON of liability.
How much baby video do you record?

I have to imagine you're usage is an outlier here.
Wow, I’ve a lot of similarities to your story. Just yesterday I was out running errands and wondering where the f*ck did this dull, omnipresent anxiety come from? I didn’t used to have it either.

Don’t give up hope though— there’s so many causes for anxiety, low magnesium, inflammation, poor gut flora etc. Try as many things as possible, whether that be a silly self help book or meditation class.
This is a really interesting first use case for it.

For those that are interested in the price, this link is interesting.

"One kilogram of exotic glass feedstock can be expected to produce from 3 to 7 kilometers of fibers in under an hour in microgravity, under optimized conditions. At a nominal cost of $88K/kg, the launch costs for the preform and spool (estimated to be 2 kg) combined with the landed costs for the filled spools would be approximately $176,000.

The current low-end market price for ZBLAN fibers is $150/meter. Therefore, even at today’s lowest market prices, a kilogram of ZBLAN launched to space could be sold on Earth for between $450,000 and $1,050,000.

However, the real value of microgravity will be in producing ZBLAN and other exotic fibers of exceptional quality. Today, these custom fibers are sold between $300/meter and $3,000/meter. At current market prices, a preform launched to a fiber manufacturing facility in orbit could yield from $900,000/kg to $21,000,000/kg."

https://sites.google.com/site/cmapproject/case-studies/exoti...
yep, it was, and yes it's a mix. :)
I always thought "lifting with your legs" was just hamstrings and glutes, and it took like 3 months of daily yoga before I realized this all works quite a bit better if you use your upper back instead of lower back. Then I found out I have hip muscles, and life has been alright since then.

I don't know how many men age 20-50 that I've seen joke about "lift with your legs!" and then proceed to laugh as the subject just fumbles around worse than they would have, because they're not sure what lifting with your legs means either.

The really bad part about all this, is that without good posture and defaulting to "cashew-style," you're preventing your lungs from using their full capacity. Which I think makes people slightly oxygen-deprived, more sleepy and daydreamy, causing them to sleepily lean forward into their screen instead of taking a minute or two and finding some good posture.

I don't know how you can fix this either. Most Americans do destroy their lower back and then spend their rest of their life with a lopsided body, because they have no idea what good posture is, and it takes a long long time to actually fix the part of your mind that causes bad posture. You have to be willing to accept that your entire way of operating your body has been slightly off, for a really long time.
I haven't had any problems getting leads in NYC from SF. I don't tailor my resume in any way.

One thing to consider is that it's a bigger bet than trying to recruit someone that's a little more local. They'd have to fly you out and it's not uncommon for people to say they want to move, but then decide it's not for them after going through the entire interview pipeline.

Larger companies are more willing to take on this risk, so if you're only applying for smaller ones, that might be a reason why you're not hearing back.

Try this: find a recruiter at the companies that you want to apply for on LinkedIn and message them directly. Convey both your interest in working for their company and your desire to be in NYC.
ping me, my firm is probably looking to hire soon and looking for full stack engineers, we are based in NYC
I recently sent an email to Dropbox support, asking/begging them to let me pay for their service. But at a normal price for a lambda user.

Dropbox is the only cloud service that I absolutely love since it was released, the only one I really want to support... and the only one I am not paying for. I pay for iCloud and for Google Drive, 2-3$/month each.

As a normal user, I do NOT need 1 To of storage for 10$ a month. I need a few hundreds Go, and am happy to pay 2-3$ a month for those.

I understand there are reasons to focus on "Entreprises", but still... My money is just waiting to be taken and has been for years. This year, I gave up on waiting for them and started paying for Google Drive, and unloaded some old files from Dropbox to Drive.

I would just like the exact same features I've been using since years, but with a few more Go of space available. That's all I am asking for. And that's 25$ a year I would be willing to give Dropbox, instead of me being a free-rider since years.
Categorically Solving Cronspam
I get your point about precompilers. LESS, SASS, JSX and so on. But that's only one thing, my main point was "don't put executable code into your HTML".

I would say, btw, that a Template Engine is what you need, such as Handlebars. They compile stuff too. What is wrong with escaping? That is what you do when you dynamically interpolate stuff.

Of course interpolating stuff where it doesn't belong can lead to this:

https://medium.com/dailyjs/exploiting-script-injection-flaws...
Esther Gokhale's book "8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back" saved my back. I basically learned that I was sitting like an idiot for hours at a time, and walking in a manner that did not distribute my weight efficiently on my back.

I went from hand-wringing over my ability to keep backpacking and playing sports at 40 to wondering when or if I'll ever have to pack it in.
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Another possible hint: opening the link in a FF private window works.
That place is New Jersey. Mortgages for a real house with land for less than an apartment rent in SF.

I think California is also known for regulation and taxation.

Solid public and private school options. Lovely little towns every couple of miles.
Wow, this discussion is mindblowing. Working in software dev for 20 years, in Germany, and I have never seen any developer taking any stimulants. But maybe this is because only my first job was at a young startup, and I quickly learned that working 24/7 just isn't for me and I need a more stable environment.

Today, the way whalesalad and others describe the effect of Adderall sounds interesting to me, but I would never take the risk. I want to see my kids grow up, and I certainly wouldn't give this up just to be able to work more hours...
Ok, yeah, I guess that's personal preference then. I have only superficial experience with traditional MLs and am currently experimenting with ReasonML, and it just feels more intuitive and productive right from the start, and context switching is easier.

With regard to operator overloading, that's the number one issue I had anytime I looked for example at haskell, it's just incredibly hard to figure out what some <=$=> operator or whatever means, and also very hard to google, so for newcomers it's really bad language UI.
I'll contact you directly, and appreciate your candor. Do you think it's a European vs. American thing? That we tend to demonize in some ways the need for substances to help us in some way, whereas in Berlin, for example, no one cares? And they've schooled themselves so that they know how to use it 'safely'--whatever that means? surely taking this stuff in the long term has some effect on the body (not sure if the effect is necessarily degrading in some way, but it must have an effect, at least on the liver...no?)
I lived in London for a few years to work in finance (top tier banks as well as hedge funds). I haven't met a single person who takes any sort of stimulants besides coffee. I'm a software engineer myself and your world seems very different from mine despite having worked in the same city. Your normality looks completely foreign to me.
I wonder if Dropbox has the capability of entering the PIM space like G-Suite. I get the feeling that there's room for another custom domain email provider beyond the monoculture of Gmail. They had Mailbox at one point. Email is definitely a hard space to get into, but I'd certainly move my domain to it if the price is right and it bundled in a calendar.

Paper has been a huge change in the way my team collaborates on documents, between the very easy sharing and super fast interface. I'd love to see what they can do for email and calendars.
I've lost count of how many times I've googled a question, had the first hit be SO, and the top answer to the question be "Have you ever heard of Google, n00b"? (Thread locked).
What is Boston doing wrong? In the 80s thanks to the 128 Tech Row, it was on par with Silicon Valley as the top spot, then it lost ground and now NYC is considered #2? We have the highest concentration of collegiate tech talent, the same weather as NYC (obviously worse than SV), lower cost of living than both cities, and there's been a ton of investment in real estate for tech companies in the Seaport District. Too little, too late, perhaps?
Sorry if this is an naive question. If every large companies are doing it, why aren't there a standard open source abstraction library available?
I once saw him perform a recital, including some Liszt. After the recital, I told him I thoroughly enjoyed The Romantic Generation.

His response? "That one has the best jokes."
I can't find the video OP means but in this All The Stations series there's brief mention of his not being a 'Puffer Nutter' in this video:

https://youtu.be/sJmMa3UovW0?t=7m52s
I guess it's still work in progress, but they are probably aiming to achieve something in the direction of the scientific Python stack (i.e. Jupyter, TensorFlow and the like). Maybe starting with a subset of methods useful in ML.

It will be interesting to see how this scientific JS toolchain evolves. Would be fun to get a more feature-complete Propel ML working with Mike Bostock's Observable project:

https://beta.observablehq.com/
Or maybe your generation had it easier because there was less competition?

8.1% of China's population is still malnourished to the point of stunting[1].

It's only 2.1% in the US.

1. https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/
Probably not what you're looking for, but I've cut out anything remotely addicting in my life, including sugar and caffeine. I feel a lot of people in the software industry have the luxury of developing and improving themselves. Most people I work with exercise regularly. Alcohol can be regular in some offices, and people smoke weed, but I don't know anyone who I would consider an addict.
I don’t think we’re in that situation yet. I think the average person is quite surprised what can be found about them by Googling their own name (or user handle) and looking past the first pages of Google results. How many people assume that their familial relationships and all their past addresses is easily findable using one of the free people-search services?
Either way, we need much more efficient, much lighter shielding than we currently have. It’s just one of the. Any significant breakthroughs required to make trips to Mars (for humans) remotely practical.

Far more likely, if less romantic to some, is going to be a future of robotic exploration and mining. Once that’s well underway, sending humans on long journeys becomes far more feasible.
> IMO if you don't need the entropy

You almost certainly don't, but my default for any security related value is "properly random" except where the randomness itself might give clues. That way around is less likely to result in a "kicking oneself" situation in the future!
How does it deal with Spambots?
That was poor phrasing on my part. I didn’t mean it in the figurative sense, i.e. “she was practically throwing herself at me”. I meant that in the literal sense; she was invading my personal space due to being inebriated.
Noam Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics, and his theories hold that the principles underlying the structure of language are biologically determined in the human mind and hence genetically transmitted. The 1984 Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine and Physiology, Niels Kaj Jerne, used Chomsky's generative grammar model to explain the human immune system, equating "components of a generative grammar ... with various features of protein structures." Chomsky's work contributed substantially to the decline of behaviorist psychology. In addition, some arguments in evolutionary psychology are derived from his research results

I've read less of Daniel Dennet, but he has been influential in the theory of mind and the direction that some AI research has taken.

When I think of modern philosophers, these are the giants.

> Philosophy these days seems more about finding clever places to hide religious beliefs than it is about explaining the world as it is and answering questions in useful and productive ways.

It's funny that you mention that. While at undergrad I took a biology class taught by Robert Sapolsky (I consider him equal parts scientist and philosopher) where he philosophized on the origin of religiosity using scientific findings and research. Would you like ot know more: http://www.openculture.com/2014/12/robert-sapolsky-explains-...

They're not completely distinct fields of study, they operate on a spectrum as science and philsophy go hand in hand. The big questions in philosophy are somewhat neatly summed up in 4 questions: Who am I? What do I want? Why am I here? Where am I going? Substitute we for I, and then that pretty much sums up the questions science tries to answer.
I found CandyFlipping - First LSD,4hours later Molly, is one of the best combination for coding. It gives you a very strong sense of color.
A CDC researcher left work sick two weeks ago – then vanished
Funny story, so did mine. It was a nightmare. That was almost a decade ago. If you want an experience as bad on modern Android, you need 512MB ram.
Mine is 36 min to Penn station. Then add subway time + walk + train wait time to that for a good estimate.

Walking to my train station in NJ, door to door for me is 1hr 10min. Less than an hour if I drive to the station.
In general, the content that can be sent is defined as "anything that satisfies one's intellectual curiosity.
Yes, realized that in the last 20 minutes, when I went to look up modafinil. Do you think that the use of performance related drugs and stimulants are far more prevalent in the under 40 set? Or under 30? than among those working in tech that are over 4o or 50?
They're likely referring to this behavior on Windows:

> "Many Windows programs (including Windows Notepad) add the bytes 0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF at the start of any document saved as UTF-8. This is the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode byte order mark (BOM), and is commonly referred to as a UTF-8 BOM, even though it is not relevant to byte order. A BOM can also appear if another encoding with a BOM is translated to UTF-8 without stripping it. Software that is not aware of multibyte encodings will display the BOM as three garbage characters at the start of the document, e.g. "ï»¿" in software interpreting the document as ISO 8859-1 or Windows-1252 or "∩╗┐" if interpreted as code page 437, a default for certain older Windows console applications."

> "The Unicode Standard neither requires nor recommends the use of the BOM for UTF-8, but warns that it may be encountered at the start of a file as a transcoding artifact. The presence of the UTF-8 BOM may cause problems with existing software that can handle UTF-8..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Byte_order_mark
This makes some interesting points, but it seems ridiculous to say that Dropbox's IPO is "make-or-break" for Y Combinator. Make or break in what sense? That Dropbox's IPO will influence the opinions of retail investors about other YC companies? That seems very unlikely; retail investors are unlikely even to know Airbnb and Dropbox share that in common. Or does she mean make or break in the sense that if Dropbox does badly, it will affect the opinions of potential YC applicants? Even if it did, which seems unlikely, it wouldn't "break" YC, because as she herself points out in the article, there is already a big pipeline of successful alumni. Nowadays the path to IPO is on the order of a decade (11 years in Dropbox's case), and while that means a long wait till liquidity, it also makes the ecosystem pretty robust.
No, because you can keep your back somewhat vertical and squat too.
> You seem to trust that programmers will play by the rules, even if the compiler doesn't enforce them.

I've been trying to say the exact oppisite. C, C++, Javascript, all those languages provide ways to define abstract datatypes that cannot be circumvented (by "normal" code. Even Haskell has unsafePerformeIO). My latest argument was that people decide not to use those abstractions not because they are unavailable, but because it is more ergonomical or performant not to. The same happens even in ML, not all data is abstracted as an abstract data type.
That's totally exciting! Thanks to the author for enriching the ML ecosystem in JavaScript :)

I didn't explore the full API yet, but already seeing the plotting functionality for functions is a tremendous win for ML in JavaScript.

In case anyone is interested in doing ML in JS in 2018, there exists a larger article which I wrote a couple of weeks ago that tries to convey the state of the art of Machine Learning in JavaScript. [0]

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/machine-learning-javascript-web-...
Sadly they don't actually show every single station in the videos, but it's still a great series to watch nonetheless!
I find pants from manufacturers like KÜHL [0] are great for this. They're sturdy, look nice, and have panels that allow for a lot of flexibility.

[0] http://www.kuhl.com/kuhl/mens/pants/radikl/
I have had the misfortune of doing a few HackerRank tests where the problems were not prepared well.

For example, the correct answer does not appear in the list of available options, or where the problem statement is not precise enough to solve in an unambiguous manner.

There is no human I can talk to and ask clarifying questions to resolve the ambiguity because, you know, it is a HackerRank test!

After going through these experiences, I have decided that HackerRank test is just not worth the time. As a rule, I decline any request to take a HackerRank test citing my reasons as politely as possible. Surprisingly, more often than not, the recruiter is happy to setup a telephone round where I can talk to an actual human.
I pass no judgement and just wanted to remind people reading through this that not all techies are doing drugs.
Interesting! That is... really quite surprising to me. I don't know many people anywhere in the world who don't at least recreationally take drugs. I think perhaps we just inhabit different worlds. One thing I can promise you though, is that you do know people who are taking stimulants. They just aren't telling anyone :)
And if a hypothetical commune became dominant and an existential threat to the existence of a hypothetical libertarian society? The Communist Party of the Philippines operates as a parallel government in many respects, do you think that should be allowed? The Zapatistas?

It's misleading to say that it would be a-ok to start a socialist society in a libertarian society. It (like many aspects of libertarian analysis, in my opinion) ignores the reality of a political situation like the one described.
In my experience that’s dehydration. Modafinil is a diuretic, and appetite suppressant. Not only are you taking on less water because you’re probably eating less but your body is expelling water at frightening rates.
84%?
I think standing desks are great. I usually use mine for about half the day and adjust it to a seated position for the rest of the day.

I will say, though, that while standing or sitting, your posture will dictate how well that time is spent - it's pretty easy to mess up either one. If you stand with your shoulders back and the weight evenly distributed on your hips and back, it should be possible to stand for many hours at a time. If you sit, making sure you sit up straight and keep your spine curved naturally and making sure you get up a few times to keep your circulation going in your extremities, you should reduce most of sitting's bad effects.
it's also overly dramatic, trying to pin Y Combinator's future success on just 1 company's IPO.
I'd love to hear examples of how to do it right, without taking all my time. I'm genuinely interested in how to hire people without wasting their time or mine. I'd love to screen people with a day of pair programming or a 2 week paid internship, or whatever other good ideas are floating around. I can't.

You have just dismissed most tech companies. All the large ones (Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.) give coding puzzles as part of their interview process.

If you don't want to work for one of those companies, that's absolutely your choice, but you'd be wrong to say they have an entitlement complex or aren't the smartest.

> In my case because I have a bunch of open source available that they can just read.

I do read people's OS projects, but I simply can't do that for every candidate before I screen them, I don't have enough time. If the coding tests are easy, and you want me to see your open source project, then just ace the coding test and move on.

If you don't want the job, then don't do the coding test. It is your choice.
For all the same reasons it's used in tech--to enhance productivity? are junior faculty and post docs overworked or are the hours required of them kind of insane too?
Looking at the table of contents, it is a subset of PRML [Bishop 2006]. And I suppose it is more than 10% PRML. And the things contained in PRML but not in the monograph are still relevant I'd say (Kalman filters, ...).

[Bishop 2006] http://www.springer.com/de/book/9780387310732
Dropbox refusing to service customers wanting more space
Individual users of Dropbox cannot purchase more space beyond 1Tb. Dropbox is refusing to service these customers and instead tries to get them on a business plan. The business plan is x 4.5 more expensive requiring a minimum of 3 users. Worse still, DropBox spams individual users to upgrade to a business plan with popups using the DropBox application installed on their machine.

https://www.dropbox.com/plans