skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are definite negatives to hanging out with drunk people. But, they don't really go away just because you're drunk, too. People are still bad at conversation, you just start to not notice. If your primary intent is just to be sociable, that probably solves the problem, but if your intent is to actually talk about something, it's just avoidance.

My preferred solution is to hang out with other people who are also not drunk, but still intent on partying. My freshman year of college developed a saying that I really should've started using in high school: "The Best Things in Life Happen When You Could Be Mistaken for Drunk, But Aren't."
Are you sure? Most companies here offer "unlimited" home Internet plans that are still capped.
Yeah, a taste thing. Or the social crutch that having a glass of something provides. Something to fidget with, use as pauses in conversation.
Don't forget that around a hundred years ago, alcohol was pretty socially unacceptable.
This "blogspam" as you call it informs that in 2008 the German government was against Google Chrome, something that isn't mentioned in the post in the Google Chrome blog.
I've found Jeff Atwood's article on the topic to be the most useful selector of when what license is appropriate: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-...
I unlike you, took the pragmatic way (without quotes or Unix). Email is part of my life and I don't want it going down.

I don't spend time configuring servers, updating packages, guaranteeing uptime. My email is federico@mheroin.com, and I write it everywhere. I still don't get any spam. If I need an alias I just append characters to the email address and I don't have to fiddle with anything else.

I can get it quite happily through IMAP using Emacs or the client on my phone. I can search for past emails in seconds without worrying about the space they consume. I can share my contacts and calendar appointments with one M-x command.

I'm curious about your setup since Debian/Postfix/Mutt are not enough for POP3 or IMAP. How do you access your email from other devices (phone, table, etc)?

I hate Gmail, with passion, but Google Apps is the easiest way to keep all my email working without thinking about reliability/installation/etc.
If they are suppressing the median for your job in that location then they are.

If its a very expensive place then your not making "good" money everything is relative -) and ok we re probably all better of than some black single mom in some decaying Rustbelt city it doesn't make it right for your employer to beak the law.
Motorola wants 2.25% of Apple's sales in return for FRAND wireless patents
For non-software products that you want to share, use Creative Commons licenses.

That selection in itself isn't easy, which is probaby why they have a page dedicated to that decision: http://creativecommons.org/choose/
True. Everybody who drinks a glass of wine into doesn't have a drinking problem.

Really, what I was hoping to suggest and perhaps have done a poor job of, was encouraging people to try and find those things that they get from alcohol without it. ie, Could you find a way to relax for your reading without a glass of wine? If you could find that place without anything external, but thoughts are that would be a pretty great skill to have all the time.
I'm really surprised at the level of hostility in these comments. I read this not as a preachy, "do this or waste your life" type post, but as a reflection of one man's experience and the very positive outcome that this lifestyle change had.

Maybe it's not relevant for some people - if you're not the kind of person who parties and gets drunk regularly (where regularity is obviously subjective) then clearly his experience may well be irrelevant. On the other hand, if you are, maybe you can try it - maybe it won't work for you and maybe it will.
Sartre's relevance or value depends on the relevance or value his arguments, not his age or affiliations or sex life. It happens that I think he was full of steam, but it wouldn't make him any better simply to be a woman, or young.
Well, you did say, "Like with most things it's easy to slide down a slippery slope. One glass of wine turns into two and then you've polished off the rest of the bottle," as if you automatically assume others can't control their drinking.

As for the "confidence/happiness" that drinking brings, I wonder if you're not projecting again. Personally, drinking doesn't make me any more confident. It doesn't make me happy in and of itself, though it can help to reduce stress. And there you're talking about "needing the alcohol," as if appreciating the effects of something is "needing" it...
If I enjoy wine, why should I substitute it for something else? I don't get what is so inherently evil about alcohol that I need to find an alternative immediately or why it would be beneficial for me to find an alternative.

This was partially in response to this:

"And the buddhist in my fully appreciates a moderation / middle way approach...But what is that glass of wine getting you? Is it strictly a taste thing? Is it the antioxidants? My guess is there are comparable things that would be you those same positive results of a glass of wine."
What is the best gaming console?
What do you think is the best gaming console?
There are plenty of studies that show alcohol is good for people in moderation, unlike smoking. Your friends father's views on alcohol will not happen. Prohibition was a massive failure in the U.S.

In fact, people who drink live longer than those that don't: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2017200,00....

Even heavy drinkers outlive those who abstain. Let that sink in.

The big issue with drinking isn't what happens to one's body, but rather what drinking causes some to do -- drunk driving, rape, assaults, etc. The biggest scourge from drinking is that it causes some people to do terrible things. And while heavy drinking can cause issues with one's body, that pales in comparison to what a drunk can do to others.
The kids who grew up in the 50/60's and thought "this sucks" are the ones who "fucked it up." Apparently they were the super majority, having grown up in 80/90s I'm fairly glad they did too.
First, I agree with people pointing out that alcohol doesn't have to be for getting drunk. At the moment I have three near-empty boxes of beer (bottles), six part-drunk bottles of whisky, and a few empty wine bottles. None of that alcohol has been consumed by myself or anyone else to the point of being even buzzed, yet alone drunk.

However, I do enjoy getting drunk. I've never drunk so much I threw up, or fell over, or hit anyone, or... etc. But yes, when I'm out with friends or colleagues we will happily enjoy a night with much alcohol flowing - enough to be classed by the UK government as "booze drinking", at least.

I sometimes do or say something I feel embarassed about afterwards (most recent example was a conversation about poetry with a London taxi driver at ~5am), but nothing I've been ashamed of.

Sure, I can have fun without alcohol. Sometimes I do - certainly I've never had the thought that being drunk is a requirement for having fun. It just provides a different type of fun. Different things make you laugh, you have different conversations...

Obviously these things vary for different people, I've known people who I don't want to be around when they're drunk - but also plenty of people just like me.

edit: Just read the first paragraph of this comment and thought "I wrote that myself and even I think that sounds like an alcoholic in denial". When I'm out and drinking I'll drink a lot, when I'm at home I'll have a glass or two over an evening. If I tried to get drunk off the whisky I have at home it would be a really expensive night.
Well I would disagree they don't have rose tinted glasses and will call out the emperors new clothes when required.

Ive seen plenty more spun for SEO linkbait on here which are gaming the system to post articles with tons of affiliate links for hosting companies
Not necessarily, there's some manual work required for updating to the next year's vehicles...
yeah, because 500 years ago we were also smoking and only figured now that it was really terrible.
on the other hand, 500 years ago we were also drinking and we've still no clue how alcohol is!

oh uhm, actually it appears we do with great details. Damn.
I tried to outline some of those things in the post... ie, getting your friends on board so they don't make the non-drinking an awkward issue. Drinking something else as a social crutch. Give yourself permission to act a bit silly, just go along with the other people around you.

I'm not saying it's an easy thing. But if you can get to the point where you can be just as fun,happy, charismatic sober... You have that ability anytime you want it.
My 100% honest opinion... there isn't enough value at present to warrant a paid plan.

Your platform looks nice, but I think the business model that drives it will need to be rethought.

One of the issues here is that the problem you're attempting to address has already been solved.

The technology barrier to self-publishing is already low enough. No disrespect to non-technical people, but if you can't figure out how to set up a Tumblr blog, then there are larger issues at hand.

In other words, you can keep lowering the barrier to self-publishing, but eventually you're not left with much of an actual business. I think criticsquid's reply said it well; there's a huge difference between simplicity and lacking in features.

I think one direction you might look into is selling yourself as a discriminating/curated blog platform, much like The Deck did with their curated Ad Network for the creative industry.

At any rate, you need to add some value here. At present, I just can't (personally) see any reason why I'd choose your platform over the other options.
Accidental espionage: how iMessage conversations end up in the wrong handsets
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3551420
Maybe in some Protestant circles, but in many parts and communities of the country, that was never the case. Catholics, Jews, Germans and some other immigrants 100 years ago were very much into drinking, as it is part of their culture.
"[...] my guess is that it's at the analogous level of a waveguide."

In the field of fluid dynamics, it is referred to as a check valve. [1][2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_valve

[2] http://www.spiraxsarco.com/resources/steam-engineering-tutor...
Brilliant! Thank you for sharing the post and code. I'd be interested in hearing thoughts on how to make it searchable. If you don't index, searching will take quite some time. I guess the best thing to do would be to index each e-mail (keywords?) before it is encrypted and then encrypt the index itself as well. There is a problem with the keyword approach though - if the index encrypts the words but the "link" between message id and encrypted keywords is not encrypted, then an attacker who is in posession of one or several other message bodies in plain text can see correlations between the content of known and unknown message bodies.
Thank you. That was how I meant it... simply suggesting a hack to my life that worked out really well for me.

The hostile reaction was a bit of a surprise.
You often have to trade off security for convenience – for me, NoScript is too inconvenient to be worth it, because so many sites silently break when JavaScript is not available.

I sometimes dream of a browser that would just fetch the page content and no extra other resources, showing it like Instapaper. The reality is more complex: images, css, CDN's, dynamic content, ...

RequestPolicy realizes the most important part of that dream: not telling Google, Facebook and a host of obscure tracking companies about every website I visit.
If there isn't much that you are worried about losing, you can just save a local copy from your browser. I only do that with a few per month, but it works fine with no extra fiddling.
yeah exactly! its because you see they're french so they do it right!

no one else tell their kids to say "thanks, please", and no one else dares to say no to whatever stupid things kids might want!

Exactly. Only the French educate their children.

Guess what. Half the people don't educate the children, half of them do. Or maybe it's 2/3. Who cares. The point is it has strictly nothing to do with being French.

(I'm French.)
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Because if you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to fear! Yay!
There's a 3 gig plan for $30 and he's being throttled at 2.1G. I think he makes a good point. Are 3 gig plan users also being throttled when they hit the "top 5%"?
I like to drink. I love the taste of a good bitter beer. I love trying different kinds of scotch and wiskey. I've had some of the best times just drinking with friends. Everything doesn't have to be a soul searching adventure.

I don't get wild and belligerent when I drink. So there's definitely no need to be that way sober.
Exactly. I guess some people just don't understand that there's a big difference between boasting about how many shots of vodka you had last night and chilling with a beer or two.
Check my name. I KNOW companies know more about this person than he thinks. How do I know this? Because, once, a long time ago, I wrote browser fingerprinting software for a security company that then spun it to be used for nefarious purposes (I say nefarious, but really, it is nothing more than what Google and FB do today). That was when I left.

The point being, it is really, REALLY, hard for someone to be invisible while browsing the modern internet. There are very few things you can do, but there are some things.

1. Install adblock
2. browse incognito
3. browse through a proxy (creates noise)
and, the most important
4. use a plugin that randomizes queries to its components.

For #4, I don't know of any out there that do this effectively so I wrote my own.

The big take away from the article is that "nothing is stored locally"...well, most companies haven't been tracking that way for a long, long time.
Light alcohol consumption has been shown to have a beneficial effect on health. I'm not sure where this doctor is getting his information from, but in terms of stress relief, a couple alcoholic beverages a week does not appear to be utterly distructive to the human body.
I'd suggest something different. Reduce the value of throwaway logins by making it impossible to comment for, say, 40 days. We can then modulate the quarantine period according to the level of hostility present on the site. Of coursesmart, flagging and hellbanning remains as usual.
Obviously this story has nothing to do with alcohol. It's just some kind of deflection.

It's about he had a cancer in the eye, realized life's short, cancer got fixed and he lived his life the way he actually wanted but never dared to.
[snip]

Whoops! Apologies.
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@rhizome:

Please return to sticking your head back up your ass and pretending that what you do on Rails is actually "coding".
That depends.

Salary increases are frequently based on your existing base, so doubling salary in 1983 probably translates into an increased income stream since then, which would amount to a fair take (28 years of 100k income is $2.8 million).

Presumably there have been other stock options since.

If some of that income was saved and invested, there'd be some return on that as well. The Dow and NASDAQ are up about 1100% in this time (MSFT is up 29,900%). Interestingly, S&P 500 is up only 817% (greater diversification doesn't mean better returns).

As with most financial comparisons, there are a number of things to consider. On balance, selling his soul to MSFT in 1983 would probably have been the better move.

Coulda-woulda-shoulda's a tough game to play.
A simple example of using libwebp in iOS.
I've done this a couple of times and it isn't helpful for the discussion, but in my head I was picturing a certain kind of people... those who are going out to bars / clubs regularly. Those that are drinking the 3+ drinks. To say most people that drink do that isn't probably true. But most of the people out in bars/clubs "partying" I would say are the people who are going for buzzed/drunk. And they don't have to be in college.

And I just drink water at dinner, but that's because I really like water. (some nutritionalists would actually suggest drinking a lot of anything while eating a meal is actually hard on digestion.)
This article tries hard to give coders a warm, fuzzy feeling about how important they are.

As a coder working on a startup, I can tell you one thing I've learned: coding (at least for me) is not the hard part. If your dream is to be an entrepreneur, here's my advice: learn to code and learn to sell, or find a great cofounder who knows how to sell.
Thanks for your suggestions, guys.
The author comes across as projecting, having social issues, and obsessing on "achieving" juvenile behavior (not to say I don't engage in juvenile behavior, but it comes naturally). Flagged.
As his co-founder, I can assure you he doesn't push his "policy" on anyone else. Far from it. It's more a philosophy of being present for every moment, and living life to the fullest.

And pretty sure he was the one that bought a bottle of champagne for our team to celebrate the end of our adventure through YC...just he didn't drink any.
I'm not sure I follow the author's reasoning. It's also possible to have a great time without consuming meat, without having sex or even without including friends in the activity. So what?
How do you take away anybody's freedoms without coercion?
Just speculation, but I have the impression that alcohol "problems" are a larger problem in countries where the age required to legally buy alcohol is rather high.

In my home country (Austria) I could buy alcohol at age 13 without any problems. No one would ask for an ID. I think nowadays they are a little bit stricter, but you are still legally allowed to buy alcohol once you turn 16. Once you turn a little bit older alcohol isn't that interesting any more. Of course, you'd still buy a beer (or more) if you're partying with friends, but getting totally wasted is something teenagers would do.

I've moved to the US some time ago, and here I have the impression that even people in their late-twenties get regularly drunk just "because they can" and are "allowed to do so". Seems they just never learned how to use alcohol responsibly while they were young, and at some age it's too late to learn it.
of course, every such decision needs research and reading. Nothing is easy :)
I recommend the use of cannabis
Fanotify was merged but disabled in 2.6.36. It was enabled in 2.6.37.

https://lwn.net/Articles/421638/
As far as IDE's I have found JSLint in jsfiddle.net (http://jsfiddle.net/shaydoc/geQvz/) handy, else I've just got reacquainted with the javascript way and been developing in notepad. Google Chrome has fantastic developer tools as already mentioned! debugging is a sinch and console.log is brilliant!

Framework wise, I am loving http://Knockoutjs.com, its an MVVM design style, similar to the pattern frequently used for Silverlight development, and its got great tutorial and support on the site. I particularly like the Knockout mapping plugin as it will automatically map JSON into a ViewModel, sweet!

Checkout the author Steve Sanderson's blog also, well worth reading : http://blog.stevensanderson.com/

I have been getting familiar with http://amplifyjs.com which simplifies ajax request management and client side storage, as well as a publish/subscribe messaging.

Also recently stumbled upon http://xuijs.com/ which I intend to get more familiar with!

Good luck with your ventures in javascript!
I really didn't intend to say drinking or not drinking was right/wrong for everybody... just trying to tell my story and what I've found worked well for me.

I would love to know what the beer/whisky/wine brought to your time with your friends, it it wasn't for getting drunk/buzzed? Honestly curious.
Big, big difference. If someone gets drunk at the same table as me they aren't doing me any harm, as long as they don't attack me, or drive me anywhere - that's a long way from sitting next to someone puffing away on a cigarette...
I'm not sure. I've started taking a break from alcohol recently, and while I'm not sure I'll do it forever I am loving the side-effects like more disposable income, general feeling of healthiness after a night out and such. There's lot s of reasons to consider stopping drinking other than serious health issues or alcoholism.

And this is coming from someone who really enjoys good whiskey and local ale, so I really do miss the taste.
TPM-backed SSL
Gmail POP does not deleted mail as you read it. I have a POP client on my Mac that output pulls Gmail as a backup of my webmail. Nothing gets deleted.
Thanks for writing this. I've felt the same way for pretty much my whole life, and I'm glad there are other people who feel the same way. It's a much better investment in yourself to be comfortable being your best, most uninhibited self, without sacrificing mental clarity.

That said, I did hear one argument from a friend once that made me understand drinking a little more. When you drink heavily with a friend, you're in effect saying that you trust that person enough to see you without full control of yourself. It's a more intimate interaction as a result. I half buy that, though I still avoid alcohol.

The most important thing to remember about all this is that there really isn't any judgement involved. When I'm hanging out with people, I want them to be fun and uninhibited. If that requires alcohol, that's fine. It's a personal choice to increase my own happiness, not a judgement of anyone else.
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I know plenty of people who smoke pot. Despite this fact, in light of national legislation against it, I don't consider it to qualify it as "socially acceptable".

Anyway, the point is that alcohol has waxed and waned in popularity. For every article I read about binge drinking related problems, I read another about the benefits of moderate alcohol consumption. I expect our current trend of binge drinking to fade, for awhile, but I certainly don't see alcohol consumption in general going away, ever.
I agree. I wrote a security layer for a sports video site to detect shared passwords by creating fingerprints of clients using every signal I could get hold of.

However, the point of the article isn't "do not track", it's "consume without personalisation".
I'm guessing you didn't even bother to open the link. It addresses just that question right at the top of the page!
If you email anyone ever, or use any ecommerce site, your email hits the spam databases when they are compromised.
The study I linked to controlled for that.
Uhoh. I bought you a bottle of champagne and suggested you drink it... guess that was a little pushy.
Thanks for the reply. For some reason I am getting more inclined towards Amazon. Wish it were simpler though, or that CloudBees was cheaper.
Like I said, they enjoy articles on children, Bill Murray, lolcats, and politics. We should really post more of that stuff.
I can start a fire by rubbing two sticks together, but I'll still bring matches to a campout.
That is why I made as much noise as possible about the (IMO) abusive throttling practices of my previous ISP. Don't take this cr*p lying down, call them and tell them youre unhappy, ask them to disable it on your connection (they won't) and when they refuse, demand to speak to the supervisor. Rinse and repeat. Make it cost more to throttle than it does not to.
We do stay for a long time at the table. At lunch it's usually 1 hour (even at work) and it can be much longer in the evening, 2 or more hours maybe if we're at a restaurant.
When I'm at my parent's house, it's never less than an hour. French people tend to talk a lot when at a table!