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Sugary water will catch wild yeasts from the air and spontaneously ferment into alcohol [1]. It's incredibly difficult to prevent its production. AFAIK, 5-MeO-DMT or "Meow Meow" don't magically appear just because you forgot to put a jug of apple cider in the fridge.

[1]: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Tej

Also, alcohol generally isn't that dangerous, unless people are driving and/or concentrating it via distillation.
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Doesn't really seem like that many thoughts. In fact, it was only 11,156 words.

I guess the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, the specific quality being "writing everything down." I don't think that's especially uncommon, though. I often scribble ideas in notebooks.

Or am I missing the point?
This should be a discussion about someone who had the conviction to quit his job and after repeated rejection turned an idea into a business. More examples would be helpful.
Real good information all in one location. Thanks.
How Much Math Do We Really Need?
eh, ask for the higher salary, and take it, unless you have a better offer. If the job ends up sucking, well, just look for a new one. Finding a job is vastly easier when you have a job.
Google's 'copied Java code' disowned by Apache
OK, I see the point now is to have some structure around your stream of ideas (also, to get them out of the back of your mind.)

FWIW, I really like drawing mind maps. Either on paper, or using a tool like FreeMind.[1] It doesn't scale to quite this level of inclusiveness, though.

[1] http://freemind.sourceforge.net/
Facebook app developers sold user info
Not only that but it was scheduled maintenance. Obviously, you like those to go smoothly but shit happens. Headline is very misleading.
Well, Cuil is actually a counterexample to the "funded" part of your statement. They raised a crazy amount of money considering their lack of accomplishment.

I think Lars could get funding from just about any investor in the valley, if he wanted to start a new venture. But Norvig said it best (paraphrasing): "If you want to accomplish interesting things, go where the data is." Right now, FaceBook has one of the most interesting data sets on the planet, possibly rivaling Google's. If Lars wanted to replicate that, he needs to build a product that's useful enough to convince everybody to give him their data. That's non-trivial. It's easier just to join a company that already owns the data and then figure out interesting things to do with it.
I think the same can be said about any field and discipline, not just academia. You gotta live it and breathe it to become the best...but it's all about moderation.
There is also http://jvi.sourceforge.net/
a netbeans module with vim like behavior.
Surprisingly, it has a lot of stuff.
I think libertarians under estimate the good that can come from regulation. Regulation can protect people before the bad thing happens. If the drug kills you, your family can take that company to court and get them shut down, but you are already dead and that sucks.

On the other hand, I suspect that over regulation by the US FDA has killed a large number of people by making it too difficult for new medicines to get to market.

Any choice in the prohibition/regulation debate is going result in some dead people. The goal is to find the point on the spectrum with the least number of deaths. I don't know exactly where that is, but I do feel over regulation is destroying Mexico and other parts of South America and we should move towards less regulation.
IBM launches cloud services for federal, municipal governments
Nokia Phones Get Official WordPress App
Interesting article in the March, 2006 issue of Wired
MeeGo is competing with less than free (Android) and at a significant disadvantage. It's worth trying; the stakes are sky high. But man is the deck stacked against them right now.
From the toolkits:
"JavaScript toolkits enhance productivity but often carry a significant memory footprint that may slow down your JavaScript application. When using a toolkit, try to reduce the toolkit’s footprint to just the APIs that you use in your application."

This somewhat hints to me that Apple will come out with a framework that allows more modular includes or compiles similar to closures system. This is somewhat a hit to jQuery's "all-in-one" setup.
"Montblanc Meisterstück Le Grand Traveller"

Snark at its finest. When it takes three different languages to name your pen, it just begs for a good mocking.
Related reminder: AWS free Data Transfer In has ended effective today (unless it gets extended again).
That's why I make sure to throw in a !!!!!!!!!-e^(pi*i)!!!!!! every so often.
That's very different from Twitter's official "promoted tweets", and the prices are probably not comparable.
This is okay, but what would happen if someone writes a popular flash client that pulls data from a site using that blackhole.php?

The clients could access the data once then blocked out forever?
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Nicotine and the increased cholinergic activity it causes have been shown to impede apoptosis, which is one of the methods by which the body destroys unwanted cells (programmed cell death). Since apoptosis helps to remove mutated or damaged cells that may eventually become cancerous, the inhibitory actions of nicotine may create a more favourable environment for cancer to develop, though this remains to be proven.

Also women who use nicotine gum and patches during the early stages of pregnancy face an increased risk of having babies with birth defects, according to a study of around 77,000 pregnant women in Denmark. The study found that women who use nicotine-replacement therapy in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy have a 60 percent greater risk of having babies with birth defects, compared to women who are non-smokers.

Nicotine is a very powerful constrictor and decreases the flow of blood to the periphery of the body. It has been measured and found that there is a 29 percent blood-flow decrease to the thumb after smoking two cigarettes.
If you're good, you can get a job in a matter of days. There's plenty of hiring out here all the time. We can't hire good programmers fast enough.

I moved out here over ten years ago with pretty much no place to live and a small contracting job. My only regret was waiting so long.
Regarding the relative danger of alcohol, David Nutt has just published a new study in The Lancet.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/01/alcohol-more-h...

"The maximum possible harm score was 100 and the minimum zero. Overall, alcohol scored 72 – against 55 for heroin and 54 for crack. The most dangerous drugs to their individual users were ranked as heroin, crack and then crystal meth. The most harmful to others were alcohol, heroin and crack in that order."

Although, I feel these scores are somewhat dependent on the relative prevalences of these substances. If we had as many meth addicts as alcoholics in the UK the picture could be somewhat different. Yet there's no denying that alcohol is a relatively evil drug.
>I am wondering how this will affect developer friendly hosts like Linode.

I don't know... but I got a whole lot of signups after posting on the other thread about this, so I suspect it will have less of an impact than I originally feared.
JIRA.

It's the best bug tracker around. The only downside is that it is so configurable people will start using it or non-bug tracking things, which doesn't work well
Alcohol isn't dangerous? Compared to what? I'm a pretty conservative individual, and I've come close to dying at least three times in my life before I realized how lethal alcohol was. Luckily I had friends around me at the time - but I could easily have either overdosed or died choking on my own vomit. Many, Many others haven't been so lucky.

And, have you seen what a lifetime abuser of alcohol looks like around 50 (if they, or their liver, survive that long).

Seriously - anyone who argues for legalization of alcohol because it's "safer" than something like marijuana doesn't have much of a leg to stand on.
I meant "work out"
Isn't it sort of silly to compare manufactured products to labor talent?

Like... that you can somehow craft a process that will take any given human being and make them into an excellent worker, free from abnormalities and flaws?
This guy knows everything there is to know about sem. I also know Brook personally and he is a very decent human being.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brook-shepard/8/158/b17
Universal gripper bests robotic hands in adaptability
"And then you've got to bang your head on the problem for years, without being distracted by the temptations of easier living. "Life is what happens while we are making other plans," as the saying goes, and if you want to fulfill your other plans, you've often got to be ready to turn down life."

Eliezer Yudkowsky - http://lesswrong.com/lw/qs/einsteins_superpowers/
Innovative Product Launch (iPhone 4 gidget)
FYI, your link is dead. Here's another source that ought to be stable: http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/tej.html
Hacker News Hacks Self
Agreed, however the article is about adoption of cloud services. Hopping on temporarily for extra capacity doesn't seem like the kind of adoption they are trying to encourage.

The other problem is that if you run a mix of in house and out of house services, the latency between the two sets of servers may be too high to be of much use. Say for example your DB server is on your network, and you need more capacity on your web servers. You could fire up a few extra EC2 instances and set up a VPN link from them to your DB server, but most likely the latencies are going to be too high to be useful. So cloud services aren't necessarily all that useful for temporary capacity either. To some extent it's all or nothing, at least for web services.
I mean the Americans feel threatened by cheap Indian labor and so set up protectionist policies to stop Indian workers having access to their economy.
All this does it force the Indian economy to grow to the point where the consumers for Indian goods and services are Indian - and the same for China.
Android Takes First Place in PCWorld’s Top 100 Tech Products in 2010
> "I was flattered, but also alarm bells went off: It's great to be offered a job without even applying for one, however, I am afraid that if I go back, I will continue doing the same stupid work I have done before, even though I now have Masters Degree and shifted my focus considerably"

>"The founders are leaving the company"

Given the founders exit, it is much less likely that your growth will go unrecognized.

Good candidates are offered jobs without applying everyday.

Talking with the suits about a new role would be the place to start.
There isn't a "Buy this car" button per say. What we do is allow the consumer to "schedule a pickup" once they are happy with an offer. This allows them to go down and test drive it and is non-binding. It does however, lock in the price they've negotiated online.
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Just about every shared host is under attack at all times. Servers where thousands of people run old versions of widely used open source software (blogs, CMS's, contact forms, etc) are such easy targets for exploiting known security flaws.

Aside from not using shared hosting at all, at least don't use shared hosting provided by a domain registrar. The combination of supporting millions of customers and hosting not being their primary business means hosting MUST be treated as a commodity for them to offer it at all. They're not going to have the people bandwidth to help customers clean up their sites after they're hijacked.
I'm not porting existing apps, but I'm using this as an opportunity to start a new one on a fresh system with a ton of tools available.
Regarding Alcohol:

"When drunk in excess, alcohol damages nearly all organ systems. It is also connected to higher death rates and is involved in a greater percentage of crime than most other drugs, including heroin."
My fear is more how this will affect others already on AWS. More network latency issues? More EBS latency?

Even though it is small, a large number of small users could only add to the problems others are feeling.
I'm not saying I agree that Japanese products can't be better than another country's, but... isn't crafting a better production process the result of labor talent in the first place?
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"Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously."
You tell me what's conflicting in my feelings because I'd be curious to know.

On the other hand, anyone who feels they need to downvote me because I expressed feeling felt a bit troubled by their revelations about the way they pop pills to improve their programming skills is maybe downvoting me to feel better about themselves, don't you think? I mean if YC's majority opinion is that pill popping is OK, AND/OR that anyone disagreeing should be downvoted, I think I want nothing to do with YC. I surely hope it's not the case. Now tke shots at my karma all you want!
Whitelisting these user agents ensures that anything claiming to be a major search engine is allowed open access. The downside is that user-agent strings are easily spoofed, so a bad bot could crawl along and say, “hey look, I’m teh Googlebot!” and the whitelist would grant access.

How many of these so-called "bad bots" already do this sort of spoofing? Would usage of these techniques only encourage such behavior?
Check-in bag cost to increase
It would be great to have my own Linux box always available from anywhere without having to have an extra tower under my desk, but I can't let myself get hooked on it. Even a micro instance, after the free year runs out, costs a decent chunk of change. (Not expensive, just more than I'm willing to pay for a box for flights of fancy)
Cigarette smoke has a number of carcinogens in it. While nicotine itself is not known to be a carcinogen [0] it does inhibit programmed cell death [1]. Thus, nicotine promotes carcinogenic activity in the lungs and in other bodily tissues.

Interestingly, THC seems to have the exact opposite effect promoting programmed cell death rather than inhibiting it [2]. This may lead to a low risk of lung cancer when smoking marijuana as compared to a high risk of lung cancer when smoking cigarettes [3].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Toxicology

[1] http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/79/1/1.full

[2] http://www.jci.org/articles/view/37948#ABS

[3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05...
Have police lost the ability to control the streets?
MDMA is not safe for long-term use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA#Chronic_use
A few bad ideas here:

1) Blocking by IP address. (AOL and Universities come to mind.)

2) nofollow links are followed by search engines and users alike. (display:none is ignored by some text-based browsers that ignore CSS.)
Any comments on relationships?
Yes, and I change them ALL THE TIME. But I see this as a really good thing. I find life is easier when I know where I'm going, and I don't mind so much if it's in the wrong direction.
So J Allard (that Xbox guy) was actually Smiley Allard.

That gives quite a different impression.
That's the beauty of the web combined with search engines. An inbound link allows crawlers to find it and index it, then if it is needed in the future, it will show up in a search result.
Career Shop : Reducing Student Essay Writing Stress – 5 Top Tips
Let’s face it, when it comes to writing essays, dissertations, thesis chapters or submitting coursework, even the most organised of us will come face to face with that last minute essay panic at some point in our lives.
I've "experimented" with Facebook ads and found they work very well. I'll be using them again (and I'm not the only one).

The targeting is really good, the ads are cheap, and you can choose CPM or CPC. What's not to like?

(I think you'll find that a lot of people who say things like this are also the kind of people who can't believe people click on Google ads.)
This is one of the more innovative product launches I've seen. Simple product, transparent goals, design-focused team.

The trifecta
It sounds like I'm not cut out to be an entrepreneur because I wish to actually create value rather than just skimming.
how does that compare to something like Sendgrid (that is awesome btw)?
Thiel Fellowship applications are out
Demo of WebM Running on TI OMAP 4
I was pleasantly surprised to see an indie search engine developer introduce another search engine. If you don't mind me asking, are you involved with blekko at all or just testing it out?
Keeping the conversation within the domain of the current article, there is no policy goal to mitigate harm from recreational drugs. If a drug makes people feel good it will be outlawed whether it is completely harmless or very dangerous. This has the side effect of pushing some people from relatively harmless but illegal drugs whose effects are well understood to potentially harmful new drugs that are not yet illegal.

No lives will be saved by this policy, which isn't surprising since the goal is not harm mitigation (despite the rhetoric of government officials) but keeping people from consuming psychoactive substances that make them feel good.

Are far as FDA regulation vs. liability is concerned - you cannot outlaw the production of drugs which will kill some people. All you can do is provide incentives for drug makers to research the risks of their products as thoroughly as possible. Drugs are still approved by the FDA that kill people despite the fact that the FDA approval process is stupidly expensive.

There is no perfect world. The goal of policy should be to reduce risk in a cost-effective way. Harm reduction should be balanced with the corresponding damage regulation does to life-saving medical research. After we weigh various policies we may find that the status quo is suboptimal.

As rational people we should keep our minds on the right trade-offs and the right metrics. Many people are comfortable with the idea of a regulatory state regardless of its effectiveness - it makes them feel safe. We should not let these emotions of safety influence our thinking overmuch.
HTTP and HTTPS are end-to-end, care to clarify what you meant by "at every hop"?
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)
Please lead with the positions' locations.

--edit--
And make it clear if working remotely is a possibility! (thanks cperciva)
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It's funnier when you read this first:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/26/13-inch-macbook-air-review/
Oracle doesn't understand 'community'
If you think of it as reference material, then sure. But if you think of it as art or history or philosophy, consider this example. If you record every minute of your life on video camera to preserve it so you can remember it all later, ... when exactly do you plan on watching the 80 years of footage?
Can someone suggest a good AMI to start off with?
You're not going to find much cheaper than $14.60 (the price of keeping a micro instance running for a month.) Rackspace Cloud's 256MB RAM instance is $10.95, and there are probably a few random VPS providers here and there with cheaper servers.
No, because the text really should be that a.some_function() is transformed to a.__class__.some_function(a). There's no way to get to the function except through dots or circumlocutions like 'getattr'.

There are some exceptions which make the above only an approximation. For example, if 'some_function' happens to be a function bound to the instance rather than the class. (def spam(): pass; instance.spam = spam; instance.spam() ) The result here is not the same as instance.__class__.spam(self) .
All the people I know who work in M&A say that 90-hour work weeks are common.
If they can't control and protect private property from a group of ravers, how are they going to protect the public and property from real criminals?
No. I am not going to answer the question and escalate a debate over whether certain information should be kept from children into a debate on what is an appropriate age for children (or adults) to engage in particular sexual practices.
TechCrunch is awful. Why does anyone post this crap on HN?
Sir, you get an A in my book just for the effort!

I've been looking for a way to get a small guitar recording studio going at home, and I got so frustrated with Cubase messing with my audio card that I sort of "gave up". Nobody writes low latency drivers for Windows, in fact, they've seem to have given up on real time recording. (Disclaimer: I'm still on Vista)

I will definitely be giving this a try as soon as I get home!
Here's my take on an Ubuntu 10.4 AMI that fits in the free 10GB EBS allowance.

http://guru.gg/aether/ubuntu-10-4-amazon-aws-free-tier/

tl;dr The default AMI's for Ubuntu take 15GB which will cost you $0.50 a month. This is a quick hack to get down to 10GB.
not sure what your needs are - for me I wanted the ability to install apache/php5.3 and I was able to do that "out of the box" w/ the first 32 bit ami image w/ sudo yum install httpd.i386 php.i386. I was pretty stoked about that!
Sorry, the technical errors were more glaring to me than spelling.
http://www.lowendbox.com - a number of providers are a little shady on there but there are some gems where new VPS providers want to sell loss-leader instances to get traction.

You can occasionally get deals for ~$15/year for a *nix VPS, and certainly find something usable for ~$8+/month.

EDIT: I wouldn't run anything in production on these boxes, but they are great for dev machines, VPN/SSH proxies for securing open wifi traffic, remote shell, etc.
Expect Paypal to take your money. Paypal basically screws sellers when there is no physical deliverable. Bizarrely, you would have a much better chance of keeping your money if you FedEx overnighted the client an empty envelope and then could give Paypal that tracking number.
Ask HN: Making Money Online as a Teen
I've got a month to start making around $1,000 a month online. I'm 17, and basically need this money to bootstrap my life.

My skills include: HTML / CSS, Photoshop, Ruby / Rails, Photography

Any ideas, tips, or stories? Thanks.
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It comes down to how widespread this kind of thing becomes (and the worse the economy, the more likely to be widespread).

This is a bit like 1968 and around then: global, largely youth-based actions. Police can respond to isolated incidents but not to lots of them at once or all around the same time. A novel twist this time around is how many municipalities are meanwhile firing cops because of the lousy economy.
TheBrain got close and then managed to stuff up the UI for the past 400 years or however long it has been around.

FreeMind is nice but it starts getting ugly when linking between subtrees.

I guess this is the spot where someone says,"semantic web!" and invokes Husserl.
If your site becomes popular this could become a target for trolls. Eg. in some forums trolls will post a fake link to a logout page, this is why sites should use POST or private keys for logging out. If you implement this blackhole it will become a much more serious target.