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As vtail said, professional help is the long term treatment. If you need a quick fix, shrink your mind down to simple tasks using internet drugs: cuteoverload, reddit, hulu, tvtropes, HN, plan a trip to japan (doesn't matter if you even go), http://symphonyofscience.com/videos.html , ...

For me, two things help: reminding myself nothing matters as much as I think it matters and setting a medium-term goal. Our decisions can be anything and it's fine. The world--universe--is a big place. Take risks. Nothing worthwhile is judging you. So, build something new. Meet people. If you make a fool of yourself, it doesn't matter at all. Let other people wonder why you're impervious to their hostility. You've seen the truth. In the grand scheme of things, we can't even be seen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field

The world is yours to do with as you please. Take advantage of it.
I'm sure the cops have better things to do with their days than pull over people talking on their cell phones.

On the contrary, I think the cops should be busting people left and right for that. First of all, driving-while-cellphoning does create a genuine risk for other road users, not just the driver - I live in SF too and entirely agree that drivers here pay no attention to the law. Second, if drivers become aware that chattering or texting on their phone imposes a real risk of being busted and ticketed, then if anything it's likely to make them more cautious about other aspects of their driving.

I think you're looking at it from the perspective that if the police are busting cellphone users, they're not chasing reckless drivers; but that assumes a flattening of both geography and time. As it is, if a cop is there to see you using your cellphone while driving, there's no logical reason to assume that ignoring you increases the cop's chances of detecting other kinds of illegal driving. Usually police are assigned to particular duties, so if a cop is on the traffic beat it's not like s/he is being diverted from investigating murder or robbery by pulling someone over.
I see exactly what you are up to and i love it. I'll give more detailed feedback shortly but BRAVO!
If entrepreneurs are any good, they destroy jobs. If you think about it, you don't really want a job as an end in itself. You only want it because the value you create can be traded for other goods/services you want.

If we want 100% employment, we need only have a government ditch digging program. We'd be no better off for it.
There are specific video materials prepared for psychiatric nurses on how to communicate with people who have delusional belief systems or other problems with thinking.

http://www.psychiatricwellness.com/videos.htm
This whole subthread is based on "things Louis CK said". Regardless: it's doubtful, given how well his tours seem to do, than Louis CK is anything less than "pretty wealthy".
If they are filtering on IP and you're not paying for a static IP address, then Cox's DHCP server could have given you a new IP address that matched someone else who had been banned. Not out of the ballpark of possibilities when IP is used for selection / banning.
Snopes tries to combat this by having fake stories as well. They are all segregated into The Repository Of Lost Legends(TROLL) section of the website though.
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I agree with most everything you've said. Also, the local PD has put up one of those feel-good-do-nothing 'BUCKLE UP IT'S THE LAW' blinking signs about 0.2mi from my driveway, so I've made a routine of preemptively shutting the car off and unbuckling just because I can.

However, just please be aware that not wearing a seatbelt can easily turn a 20mph walk-away accident into a fatal one. Despite the stupid laws surrounding them, buckling up isn't a bad habit to develop.
Looks nice! (And a lot easier to use than godaddy)

I'll be creating an extra domain tonight and pointing it towards my webapp. If all goes well I'll look at moving my other domain registrations over as they expire on godaddy.

Only downside would be the price seems a little steep compared to the typical godaddy pricing with a coupon code...
Honestly, this is just making me spend less on Steam, since I know most of the cheaper games I'm interested in will end up as HIBs sooner or later, complete with Steam keys.
Bluetooth 4.0 LE - Non-paired communication in the 10s of meters range. Very low power. 250kbps or so max speed.

It could be useful for easily interacting with devices, e.g. thermostats, exercise monitors, televisions, cars…

There don't appear to be (m)any devices using it now. But it is in the phone, waiting.
That's every financed startup, regardless of whether the company gets a spectacular valuation or not.

This point feels pedantic (sorry), but it's worth pointing out that underwater employee options aren't some weird corner case. It's the common case.
And it's a pretty good spread, too, maybe the best yet - the last few bundles & mini-events have been a bit lackluster, IMO. But that's just IMO.

If you've never played it, Cave Story is one of the best platformers ever, and you must play it if you are a gamer in any sense. The original is available for free (though you might have to English-patch it), but I gather CS+ is a pretty good port.
Where are they going to get the support workers for the ship? (Cooking, cleaning, crew, etc)

Why why why is it better to buy a ship, retrofit it for office style work, then ferry a bunch of people to and from it every day rather than just use telecommuting?
Some things that are not possible yet (though it would be super cool if they were on Apple’s todo list):

- iPhone to iPhone CoreBluetooth communication

This is a killer. All of the ideas suggested in the article would require custom built hardware- if we could do user-user connections then I think a lot more would be possible.
Uh, yes?

As a rule of thumb: you can't take a VC round expecting to exit for $5MM. If you're looking to exit at $5MM (which is totally reasonable, in fact more reasonable than shooting the moon), you're looking to bootstrap.
User Yammer. It will work well for you. Think it as replacement for both email and chat.
Some people I have known got to the point where they've tried calling those hotlines. Their feedback is that the hotlines were not useful at all and just made them more frustrated. Perhaps there are better options?

Since this is posted here I'll assume highly intelligent but depressed people are the target audience. Do we know that methods used at hotlines work on all categories of people equally?

When I was in high school several decades ago I knew a girl that had seriously attempted it a few times. One day I brainstormed with her on more interesting ways she could do it. Some quite flamboyant, which required drawing diagrams. I got in trouble for having this discussion with her. But she stopped trying and later told me it was because the conversation she had with me was the first time someone had really heard her talking and treated her as an individual rather than just try to stop her from being depressed because depression makes the fake happiness society uncomfortable.
True. I was painting with somewhat of a broad brush there.

Although, you could say that hermits are just extreme members of the type B personality, and that they need far fewer people than others. I'm not sure that even the most die-hard of hermits would need zero other people, so my general point still stands.
blah blah blah. I happen to DISAGREE that "The insinuation that it's all just done for the grant money". The insinuation is jokes. Hence the lack of a sense of humour. The original objector didn't just not like the TLDR comment... he didn't get it and read into it way too much negativity. And I happen to think he was wrong about that.
Nothing out there "just works" when you are at Facebook scale.
What people aren't saying is that getting to the edge of space is only about 10% of the work of getting to orbit.

Simplistically, potential energy is mgh. g is about 10, we want to get to about 300 km, which is 3x10^5 meters. So potential energy per kg is about 3x10^6.

Orbital velocity is about 8000 m/s, & KE is mv^2/2, so orbital energy per kg is 8000^2/2 which is 32x10^6 which is around 3x10^7.

Orbital energy is about 10 times just getting high enough.

Sub-orbital flights are a good start, but getting into orbit is much, much harder.
Yeah! Google should start firing their top talent every five years too so the rest of the tech industry has a chance to hire them.

Because that makes about as much business sense.
Wouldn't it be better to forgo the ban on hands-free devices, and instead just direct the police to pull over and ticket people who are driving recklessly? Scanning for cellphone emissions sounds expensive and, as you said, labor intensive. I'm also not sure if that's currently legal.

I suppose I don't want to see the police patrols spending all of their time trying to enforce a ban on this one source of distraction. Instead of ticketing people for engaging in one behavior which makes them more likely to drive recklessly, just go after the people who are driving recklessly.
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I wonder how hard it is to teach it new languages.
On the latter point, that's a pretty major dispute in philosophy and mathematics. The axiomatic Hilbert-style approach probably has the upper hand in mathematics, but a Russell-style logicist approach that sees foundations themselves as subject to rational analysis is still a major position, and among philosophers, the idea that axioms are arbitrary and rationality only applies past that is probably the minority view (though existentialists hold a view somewhat like that). Not that that's necessarily practical advice.
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This might be getting less interesting to the general audience, so we can take it offline if you have any more questions. I'm my initials (Keith Michael Adams) @ fb.com.

The static compiler that preceded HHVM was started in a different time; it was 2008, and the JavaScript wars were just getting started. Conventional wisdom (to anybody who hadn't worked on Self in the late '90's) was that running dynamic languages fast was just kind of a lost cause. Since the static compiler was started earlier, and was inherently a more tractable system, it was done sooner. This is something that is hard for a lot of systems people to accept, but software has time value; even if HHVM ends up being faster than the static compiler, without the two years that HPHPc has been providing 2-4x improvements, Facebook would have been less able to make products. And keep in mind, the static compiler is beating our jit at most benchmarks at this writing; improving on it will take some doing.

The only optimizations we're doing are those that bottom-up type inference makes possible; so, we can generate code that knows that strings are strings, arrays are arrays, ints are ints, doubles are doubles, etc. This doesn't sound like much, but avoiding the double-dispatch on things like $a + $b is significant. We're still using the static compiler's front-end, so all of the things it can do (e.g., CSE, constant-folding, deduplicating identical data, compile-time binding of functions and methods) we hope to "inherit" when running in production mode.

PyPy is a very interesting project, with a beautiful approach. I'd be very, very curious to see what an HHVM interpreter written in RPython could do under PyPy. Unfortunately PHP is not scheme; it is a big language, with many non-orthogonal parts, so it would be a significant effort to answer this question. If I were starting over today, I'd take a much closer look at the PyPy approach, but that is just my opinion.
Apple has just revamped their hardware partner program, supposedly providing easier access to BL4 chipsets. Other hardware makers will certainly follow. I bet (and hope) this will be bigger than RFID.
Recently it's been suggested that more women should create startups, that actually everybody should.

This post suggests to me that maybe it's not such a great idea after all.
Thanks for your kind words!

I've thought a lot about the interesting ways to break projects down into things like that, I really like that test case idea. I'm also looking at integrating tightly with github, so that a commit could flag an action on Gun.io, there could be a post commit hook with .BOUNTY files, things like that. Really I'm just waiting to see how people use this iteration before I work on the next one, though.

Just out of curiosity - what did you learn from Enjyn? Would you consider it a success or a failure? What would you have done differently?
No, the point is that even if you ban it in order to protect "everyone else", people who insist on being unsafe will find new ways to do so regardless of the law. Banning behaviors is only effective if the ban is actually observed by the people who are most likely to cause the behavior you're trying to ban in the first place.

Edit: And yes, I agree with your last point about a PR campaign. Personally, I'm not convinced we should go about banning every little behavior (especially in cases like this which are effectively unenforceable) but instead spend the resources on education about why a behavior is undesirable, uncool, dangerous, etc.
Hey, no worries. I think it's worth asking people to think about the people they know and ask themselves "when's the last time I had a good/meaningful conversation with that person?"

That's the flipside to your post i think. It's not enough to tell those in despair "don't give up hope". We should reach out and find out how those around us actually are.
What exactly does he mean he's never seen a check, he does TV specials for free?
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> It costs less to hire an army of PHP devs and a small team to optimize PHP, than it does to hire an army of Java developers.

Is that what Facebook is doing? Everything I've read about interviewing and getting hired at Facebook leads me to believe that they are not hiring an army of cheap PHP developers.
Ask HN: Are we getting to the days of paid social media advocates?
We have had multiple stories on HN about someone getting their account closed by PayPal, Amazon, or Google. Many of these stories are resolved by being spread on social networks until someone from the company notices and looks at the problem or a reporter asking the company PR which then gets resolved by support. If this is the new way to get support will there be space for people / startups that act as paid advocates for users? It seems like we have some websites like this, but they are all coming from a news angle in the tradition of a "consumer reporters".
Whenever I find myself having similar thoughts I reread Willa Cather's story, "Paul's Case", here's the relevant part, the very end:

"He stood watching the approaching locomotive, his teeth chattering, his lips drawn away from them in a frightened smile; once or twice he glanced nervously sidewise, as though he were being watched. When the right moment came, he jumped. As he fell, the folly of his haste occurred to him with merciless clearness, the vastness of what he had left undone. There flashed through his brain, clearer than ever before, the blue of Adriatic water, the yellow of Algerian sands."

Think about the "vastness of things left undone": Have you chatted with a homeless person in winter? Have you read Anna Karenina? Have you watched The Kid? Have you traveled to a foreign city and got completely lost? Have you held the hand of a starving child in Somalia or at least looked at a picture of her and wept? Have you written a letter to Santa? Have you kissed every (and I mean every) square inch of a woman's body? Have you sneaked in and slept among the ruins at Machu Picchu? Have you fallen in love with a woman who's monolingual in a language you don't speak? Have you tried to understand general theory of relativity? Have you tried to explain GTR to a bright 9-year-old kid over coco?

I could go on. These are all the things that come to mind that I haven't done. One day I plan to do at least some of them. Think about this.
NY Times re:Caltrain, really really sad story.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/us/engineers-face-horrible...
Why do founders and VCs get different stocks? I just do not get this logic. I am fine with you getting your money out first, however if that is the case, you shouldn't have any sort of vote on the outcome of the company. You should just be a silent partner.
>joked about how much more money he has than everyone in the entire room

When comedians say things like this, it's almost always about manipulating their perceived status relative to the audience. That's why you'll see him say the opposite in other situations. It's all just playing games with status. To make different bits work, comedians either need to be perceived as higher or lower status than their audience, to garner the sympathy/revulsion needed to make the surrounding material come off properly.

EDIT: came up with a better way to state this: sometimes you need to be the underdog, sometimes you need to be an alpha-asshole.

Here is the superb Stewart Lee talking about this issue in a recent interview about his new series, which is mostly his standup:

What was Chris Morris's input as script editor?

"He really helped fix a particular problem. I noticed reviews saying that I was arrogant and condescending. I thought, 'That's interesting because it doesn't feel like that live'. In the room I'm able to fabricate some kind of struggle whereby the gig isn't quite working. I'm a lower-status character, so when you criticise someone you don't do it from a position of authority or strength - it doesn't seem arrogant."

How did Chris fix that on screen?

"I wanted some sort of device that would lower my status or make me appear to be under pressure. I spent days on end talking to Chris about different ideas to get that to work. We ended up with Armando Iannucci interviewing me throughout the series in a hostile way - criticising all the material and my role in the programme. That's cut in with all the stand-up and it works really well."

Here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2-qqtvsNDI

Very few people can manipulate a room like Stewart Lee.
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Startups are risky to begin with, but raising a big round shifts the risk from founders to employees.

Based on the emails I get from recruiters bragging about how much money their companies have raised, it's clear that most engineers don't understand this, even if it's obvious to founders.
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The FB effort is this one:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397551,00.asp

And your point about it not being easy to tell is very true. This is why the thought about the virtual chaplain. People would hopefully carry enough real-world positive thoughts about chaplains into their virtual dealings to feel comfortable "talking" with an online chaplain. If a community had a designated chaplain, that person would be known to the other members of the community and anyone with issues would be encouraged to have confidential communication with that person. (Chaplains being licensed religious ministers are usually permitted by the law to keep the contents of conversations private ... except in a few very specific cases such as child abuse mandatory reporting situations.)
I agree with you but youre going to upset a lot of people with that. They're going to demand you show them scientific studies and hard proof. Even if you did it wouldn't be good enough for them.

This belief in polyphasic sleep reminds me of a guy I used to know who was a huge conspiracy theorist. He used to tell me that you could build a perpetual motion machine and generate unlimited energy from home and that he was doing it. I tried to reason with him and let him know that stuff was bunk but he never changed his mind despite his machine not working (for which he made some dumb face-saving excuse about not using the right material or something). No matter how much evidence and reasoning you present someone with beliefs like this they refuse to change their mind. The absence of evidence is not evidence for something.

We know polyphasic doesn't work not only because of all the failed attempts and what you talked about in your comment but also because of what we know about how the brain and human body works.
Off topic, but I can't resist: the (a)eolipile is one of the coolest objects in history. It is literally the first steam-powered machine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile . Its invention suggests that perhaps if things had gone a bit differently the Romans could have made steam power practical 1400 years before the Industrial Age.
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Glad to see that http://wastm2released.com/ was updated to reflect this announcement! Congrats on being so close Allan!
Usually Apple would use this kind of API to actually power some cool feature. Wonder why they didn't?
You're right. They completely re-wrote TextMate in the past couple months.
Most people do not insist on being unsafe, and will avoid behaviors that they are told are unacceptable and have concrete consequences.

Getting a ticket or even going to jail is a lot more concrete for most people than accidents, which happen to other people.
Sometimes static compilation is the only way to get certified on certain devices (iPhone, Xbox, Google's NativeClient, etc.) - e.g. places where dynamic compilation (jit) is not allowed (security, or other reasons).
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That's very interesting, as I've always thought it was bootstrapped by Wolfire games. Serious question - why does this need funding?
That link says absolutely nothing about the US or CIA possibly counterfeiting UK pound coins.
This is hugely useful Seele. I'd pay money for it. In fact, if you have a PayPal/WePay/Square account I'll send you some money right now if there's a way to import & export data.
Obviously since you posted this 21 minutes ago I haven't exactly had the time to get into it seriously, but reading that inspired me to check out Learned Optimism and just reading the first chapter it speaks to my personal struggle. Thanks.
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