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Get out of the company. Find yourself something laid back where you can see your family as much as you would like. Sounds like you have the resume to push telecommuting during hiring negotiations.
I started using the right Alt & Ctrl keys after my left hand began feeling strained from the Alt/Ctrl + Number routine. I actually removed the left hand Alt & Ctrl keys from the keyboard to discourage myself from using them, and after about a week, I had basically learned to use the right side keys without any issue (plus my hands feel much less strain).

The only time I continue to use the left hand Ctrl key is in conjunction with the mouse cursor - I use a ThinkPad, so it's difficult to control the trackpoint with the same hand (my right) as I use to hold Ctrl.
I was under the impression that Christian teetotalism, at least among the predecessors of present-day social conservatives in America, became much less common after the prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. ended. I guess that's not the case. But there are certainly lots of people, many but not all being religious Christians, who define alcohol as something other than a drug (as can be seen from the phrase "drugs and alcohol," which in my view is even harder to defend than "humans and animals" or "doctors and dentists," but I digress yet again...), which allows them to drink while simultaneously criticizing other recreational drug users. Oh the wonders of cognitive dissonance.
http://dalrock.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/charles-lindbergh-an...
You could probably do this with some cleverness using Keychain or a custom URL scheme that an app with ads will only respond to if they have some ads cached. I'm not 100% certain on this though as I've done very little with iOS.

On Android this is obviously much easier. Just use a content provider as I mentioned above.
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I was in the same boat, dying to get production use out of my transformer and only drag out the laptop for heavy development.

Although this look like a great app, I could not be more pleased with Terminal IDE. Open the app, "start the system" and you have yourself 4 linux terminals with a serious amount of functionality. I keep my tablet unrooted for google play movie use, and do not even notice while in the terminal. You may want to give it a try...
It's not just that - it seems there's this idea that we should actually be optimising these interactions out of our day, which I disagree with.

Perhaps if you think about all the mom and pop stores in many us cities closing and being replaced with generic chains its possible to understand some of this behaviour.

"I want to walk into any Starbucks and they must know my name and produce my chosen beverage".

This seems like a perfectly reasonable response to wanting to 'personalise' a large chain now that all the small and personal mom and pop places are gone.

From my perspective though, I can't wait to get back to my home city where I don't have to go into Faceless Mega Brand stores. I want to go back to my favourite coffee place simply because they know my name, what I like and we get to chat. For me, having my coffee shop try to predict what I want so it can optimise out 30 seconds of my day where I chat to the owner and have some human interaction will actually make my day worse. No thanks.
I actually found myself quite liking the MIDI files....
Or you can just push escape before the article hider finishes loading.

Or you can write a greasemonkey script that fixes it automatically.
Is anyone here already working on an easy to customize template for these guys to build websites that easily charge for DRM-less shows?

I remember last time someone linked to something similar, but they had DRM and draconian payment methods (no paypal etc).
Where do you have that 52,000 millirem (i.e. 520 mSv) number from?

Doesn't that completely depend on the thickness and material of the walls of the spacecraft? I.e., isn't it just a question of making the walls thick enough?
In other news, a one-way trip to Mars only costs $50k. If you don't make it, you can sue for a refund, but you have to sue in Martian courts, which won't be set up for a few more decades.
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How is he going to do the landing? Human manned craft are going to be too big for bags, and the atmosphere is too thin for parachutes to work. Landing on thrusters is somewhat fuel heavy (so to speak).
"...alleviating climate change would actually create new work..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

Not to say that the window should simply be left unrepaired.
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I wish the political discussion wasn't framed around climate change, but instead was just framed around reducing pollution, improving energy independence and (eventually) improving efficiency. That is easier for the public to understand, a much more palatable claim (instead of a "the sky is falling" An Inconvenient Truth-type claim), and difficult for anyone to oppose ideologically.

Any time there is a change in models or predictions discussed in the news regarding climate science, you see conservatives mocking it and at the same time almost praising oil drilling and fracking. It is just so bizarre. And I imagine all this politicization has to have a negative consequences for the field (not to mention the planet and the things living on it).
Graduating (PhD) soon and wanting a lateral move. Where could I fit?
I'm coming near the end of a PhD in economics, and looking for advice. I have no desire to teach at a university (that market is over-supplied). My skillset really lies in consulting, coding, mathematical modeling, and statistics. The job market coming from economics graduate school is kind of interesting in that the expectation is a full year will occur before a job is found.

I love the tech world, and follow it fastidiously. I want my career to be involved in it, either as an outside researcher/consultant or as a producer.

My question is: in your organization, where could you use a person like me? I'm curious as to the opinions of both startup entrepreneurs and mature company managers.

Much thanks for the advice! I'm a long-time member of the hacker-news community (even though I don't always have much to say) and I always appreciate the wise words I read on here.
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Hey, how's that state budget doing (http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2010/bud/fiscal_outlook/fiscal...)?

And those friendly gun laws? And quality police force?
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Robert Zubrin published a detailed plan for generating rocket fuel on Mars several years ago. His book "The Case for Mars" is a good read.

Such a technology really is a game changer for the economics of the mission. And you can send your robotic fuel factory and make sure it's working before you commit to launching people.
> They say drinking enough to feel drunk is much worse for your long-term health than a moderate dose of recreational powder cocaine.

Then "they" are proffering dangerous medical mis-advice that you should probably not be repeating on a forum.
If you had to raise $500 by tomorrow, what would you do?
I've been thinking a lot lately about the nature of money and work. I've lived without credit since winter of 2007, when I ran out of money after trying to do my startup for 2 years. The only thing I've charged since then was getting my wisdom teeth out (which shows the unfortunate decline of job benefits like dental insurance). I did the day job for 3 years but have since been living on eBay/PayPal and designing apps. No matter how small a sum of money seems, if you don't have it, it can feel very large.

So my question is, assuming you have no credit, can't get a loan from friends/family, have no assets to sell, WHAT WOULD YOU DO to get $500 by tomorrow? Amount chosen because it's more than day laborers make, b̶u̶t̶ ̶l̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶p̶a̶y̶d̶a̶y̶ ̶l̶o̶a̶n̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶c̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶g̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶o̶f̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶i̶n̶c̶o̶m̶e̶. (edit: excluding payday loans and loan sharks)
The screencast covers a lot of things, including workflow, key bindings, and tweaks to OS X to make you a faster developer. If you save ten minutes a day, you'll have made up the cost of the screencast in a day or two - which, in my opinion, is well worth it.
It seems to me that this is another case where association does not equal causation. Just because both the economy is bad and climate change acceptance is low, does not mean that one is causing the other, no matter how strong the association.
Fully support the artist and the idea. Gave them my $5. I won't have starbucks tomorrow.
I totally understand where you're coming from. I'm not as successful as you, but I can relate. I'm single, 26yo, sr front end engineer at a company that was just acquired as a direct result of a project I pitched and worked on. I used to spend 12+ hours working every day convincing myself that I was passionate about the project and didn't care too much about it eating into my personal time.

I'm still lost and fairly unhappy on most days so obviously I don't have much figured out. The only thing I can suggest is that you need to discover your hobbies, and it cannot be anything work related. I love to draw, design, sculpt, etc; I even got a full ride for art which I gave up and paid for an engineering degree. After working for a year, I managed to convince myself that programming was my hobby and left no time for anything else.

Recently I have committed to an 8-9 hour work day. I give myself time to draw and to read and I've been happier since. The hardest part is to allow yourself to work less and take those vacations, to recognize the little things you've always wanted to do and actually follow up with it... like work remotely for a month in a random city, take a glass-blowing session with your girlfriend.

You probably don't nee d a permanent break from your career, just a better balance in life.
Hey isn't that my website?! (Joke)

Well, mine had #0F0 for the background color and some copy/pasted javascripts (i.e. clock moving with the cursor). But yeah, pretty much the same style :) Must say that I did improve over the years.
Heh, am I the only one who actually WENT to that tour?
I just purchased it. That was simple as possible (enter e-mail in box, redirected to PayPal, redirected to page with stream and download buttons). There's a streaming limit (3 views) and download limit (5 downloads).

The download is hosted on Amazon S3 where I'm barely getting 500k/s. The stream and download limits would then limit his delivery costs to ~$1.50 per customer with S3's bandwidth pricing. PayPal is taking out $0.41. He could be getting as little as $3 of each $5 for the special.
I did not write "insane". I wrote "inane", which was not a typo.

It's nitpicking to argue about the definition of words, especially when the usage you're criticizing is a widely accepted figurative use.
It seems like it would make daily budgets trickier since not all ads would be shown, and not necessarily on the same day they were served.
This (fact-based news) has been at the back of my mind for a long time.

If you stick with it and it ends up working out, this could be the start of something really interesting.

What are your plans to monetize? It seems that the NPR model works somewhat, but maybe there are other ways.

I worry that the market for nonsensationalized news might be small, but again, you have NPR as an example, so at least there's a niche. Worst case, this could probably work as a hobby, facts are useful in that once you put them on your site, they don't have to be updated much.

Good luck.

Edit: minor point: sources could be clickable.
the amount of storage you use and need grows over time, so this may be a hard dream to achieve. If I look at how much storage I require now compared to just 10 years ago, it is more than quadrupled. I expect that trend to continue.
There was an article posted here 1 day ago that explored to great lengths why SVG for scalable icons sounds good in theory - but does not work well in practice. And why icon fonts are the way to go for now.
See here: http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-...

Key point: SVG icons don't actually scale that well because SVG lacks hinting.
I have the same issue with the original linked example using Chrome on OSX but do not have the trouble on the advanced.html page.
Works better, but it has its share of weirdness. Just by clicking around on a "lorem ipsum" text it seems to work okay in Firefox (beta) and Camino (i.e. two Gecko versions), not at all in Chrome dev (clicking on italic/bold/h1 won't change anything) and if I select a line in Safari to make it a headline, it also applies the transformation to the following paragraph. If I then click "h1" again, everything is back to normal. A third click then works as intended, i.e. only the selected line is turned into a headline. From then on, this line works normal, but the whole game repeats itself if I do it with another line.
Given what I can do in notepad, this doesn't quite do it for me. Yes, notepad is not what-you-see-is-what-you-get, but it doesn't take that much to create a HTML repel and that followed by alt-tab allows me pretty much every thing I want. I am uncomfortable with 'some one else's idea of a good time' when it comes to feature selection---no <hr/>? Etc. Good idea in general, just not for me, not yet.
Android has a “where did my battery go” UI to provide that incentive.
Death can result from a blood alcohol content of 0.4%, so yeah you might want to consider its toxicity.

Ever had moonshine? The old saying "it'll make ya go blind" is based on the improper distilling by amateur moonshiners, but not because of the equipment they use. Methanol has a lower boiling point than ethanol and as such will vaporize first, but some distillers don't remove this and other harmful compounds properly. Methanol is incredibly damaging to the optic nerve, so even in small amounts it can destroy eyesight over a period of time.

If you really want to be freaked out, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_consumption_and_health
ok I am excited for this. Looks great and is super clean. If you could add support for predefined styles in the drop-down along with links and simple image insertion it could handle 90% of my wysiwyg needs for projects.

Of all the wysiwyg editors out there it seems that most are just too bloated and the lightweight ones are just too "ugly".
Now that is quite an amazing site. I'll definitely be checking it out again.

BTW, a minor correction. From the "Instant Tour":

> The right column of any Summary tab is facts, the left is analysis.

I think you got "right" and "left" backwards.
Right now yes. I had no idea who he was before the story showed up on HN. I'm sure I'm not the only one who got to know him because of his stunt.
It'd be cool if it could say, show the data for all weekends at once, skipping over the weekdays.
Looks promising! Might be an interesting additional editor candidate in Create (http://createjs.org/). Though, Create is MIT and the wysihtml5 library used by this is GPL, so the licenses are not compatible.

Currently we use Hallo (http://bergie.github.com/hallo/) by default, and Aloha Editor (http://aloha-editor.org/) with bundled integration.
Should be obvious but put it up on Reddit too, free marketing. Though it's kind of pot luck whether your submission will draw attention, although somebody else might copy your submission and that may get better attention. And hey who cares? As long as it climbs, no reason why it couldn't see the front page.

Also Android plox. Or browser based version at least.
It seems like youtube or vimeo is missing a really big opportunity here.
Related question from a different perspective: HOW DO I MAKE MY CEO TAKE SOME TIME OFF?

I'm not a confounder, but the CEO-founder is a friend and hired me on as soon as he cleared his A-round funding. (We've been confounders before on a project that flopped and he knew I wasn't in the risk position to be a dayjob-quitting early employee this time.) He's a serious workaholic -- claims to enjoy being so -- and the company is doing very well. That said, he's CLEARLY burning out.

He's talked for the last year about taking some time off, but between the birth of a new child, fundraising, strategic partnerships and the continued burden of success, his "week in Florida" kept being pushed off, shrunk to "three days in Florida" to "a day off" to "I'll take some time after this next funding round. Maybe."

Setting aside the fact that he's my CEO (and a ragged chief exec is bad for everybody), he's also a friend. I don't want to see him burn out. This will almost certainly NOT be the last company we work on together, and I'd like to see him survive -- mind, body, marriage and social circle intact -- past our current endeavor.

So, again, how do I convince my workaholic CEO to take some time off?
Sorry to be pedantic, but if you're using a free operating system, which I assume almost all of us here are, you are almost definitely not using a "UNIX"(tm). A high success rate with ./configure; make; make install; does not mean you have a "full-featured UNIX"; more than likely it means you have Linux, which diverges from traditional big iron Unix OSes in some fairly significant ways.
No! I saw it here in Toronto and it was hilarious.

Just bought it for $5 to re-watch!
College student looking for some advice on small business
Background to my background:
I just signed up for this site today, aka about an hour ago and I seem to like what I see. Hence I'll ask for advice here since it seems I won't be flamed and the site's subject matter seems to be agreeable with my problem.

Background:
I'm a sophomore at UIUC and at the end of last year, (end of spring 2011) I began doing statistics for the Illinois tennis team. Long story short, a year later I developed it into a product that could potentially be a service for many schools across the country.

What I want to know is what kind of advice do people here have for someone who just finished coding what I suppose could be called a "startup" and is ready to go into the open market. I'm not looking to make millions doing this, but with some conservative estimates it could hopefully pay for my tuition. I suppose what I'm looking for is advice as to what some of the major pitfalls of a small business like this might be.

Thank you much for your advice.
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I have to agree about the wiki-ness. Wikipedia is the "weird one", not EmacsWiki.
I signed up so that I could post that I strongly agree. I'm the CTO at a startup that depends way too heavily on me, and I use Tai Chi to stay sane. Tai Chi is about a lot of things but the part that keeps me sane is the meditative aspect of running my body through a "program" of movements, which requires a specific amount of attention. If your mind wanders during a Tai Chi form then you'll screw it up. And if you focus too MUCH then you'll also screw it up. So Tai Chi becomes a tool for practicing the mental state known as "flow".

Aside from it being a form of moving meditation for the mind, it helps the body, especially for a tech nerd. I began studying Tai Chi, I came near burnout partly because my body was always in a similar posture all week. I developed RSI in my neck and my shoulder from constantly tensing muscles to use a mouse or trackpad. If I worked through a weekend, or two in a row, then I might spend 20 or 30 days in a row with my shoulder tight. Tai Chi is not intense exercise, but it moves all of your muscles through their full range of motion. Simply having that "program" that I can run with my body eliminated my RSI. Even though I still have to spend way too much time at the keyboard.
> somewhat depressed all the time, easily irritable

It took me several years to pin it down, but in my case getting more sleep completely solved above problems. Try and take a full day off and sleep in. Pull full 9-10 hours of sleep and assess if your irritability level is the same or not.
This is the best review of the new iPad (3rd generation) you'll find anywhere.
>>>redirected to PayPal

Which allowed you to buy it -- for now. See, there's a weak link in that chain. Just two weeks ago there was a huge uproar over PayPal rejecting payments for books they unilaterally and unjustifiably deemed "offensive."

And they can do that to any comedian too.
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Machine Learning in SaaS paradigm
You Can’t Occupy This
Adding links and images is next on the list. wysihtml5 supports it, I just need to update the UI
To be honest: I really don't know. Are economic sanctions in the interest of the Iranian people? Or the people in Syria?

Hopefully it can prevent that the situation gets even worse. Or that those in power become even more powerful.

Note that it takes more than prosperity to become a democracy. It certainly helps, but there are more factors at play.
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Having experienced it myself, I tend to agree with the general point that getting started with Emacs is not helped by the online resources available.

However, I don't think it is constructive to wish that EmacsWiki would die in order for something better to come up. We are all free to start another wiki, built on any cms we prefer, and if MediaWiki is your choice, go for it. Assemble your moderators, make it better than anything EmacsWiki has provided to date, and you'll be the darling of the Emacs community. That would be constructive. :)
Why would you need to be a programmer to make a SVG symbol/glyph? All vector-drawing programs can export it these days. I think creating a font is more difficult.

Having said that, fonts do have some properties that can be advantageous for black-and-white icons; for example, automatically coloring with the text color and style.
True, Kevin Smith also turned his podcast with Scott Mosier (smodcast) into quite a money-maker.
Good idea. What subreddit would you post something like this on?
Pixel hinting. The desired icons in this case are small ubiquitous monochrome glyphs. Text fonts and font renderers have already optimized that specific use-case tremendously - so why not plug into that.
So can any payment processor, direct or third party. Right up to the top, with Visa and MasterCard declining to process for Wikileaks. Your point?
I think that's a very American thing? Never encountered it in (Central/North/East) Europe.
"wise to support github"?

What does that mean? Github is not some function/feature that you support?
I was thinking about the part where you check the cache with if (!$found)

On that note, I adapted a rule of an open source project (can't quite remember which) that said to never use !$var to validate your data. One should always use isset($found['args']) or empty($found['args']) or for example is_array($found) && count($found) > 0 to check.
I understand your concern, but I don't see how that's any different than any other country for the last few thousand years.

If anything, people probably drink less these days.
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Apple to make available the new ipad in 25 more countries.
My high school teacher put Ender's Game on our recommended reading list. I think I was about 14 or 15 at the time. It was the first science fiction book I read, and I loved it. I don't really remember that much explicit violence. Sounds like the parent is having a bit of an overreaction.