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Marpac Sleepmate can help with this. I've been using one for about five years. Occasionally I go to sleep without turning it on and invariably my sleep is interrupted by noise from outside or another room.

http://www.marpac.com/
The situations are similar not same

Unfortunately, the Chinese govt. is not the same as the US govt., w.r.t how it treats its own people. So appealing to their govt. will not work. Appealing to Apple might?
Inside story of the Benghazi consulate attack
I don't see it as a wholly bad idea -- sometimes things do click. I think it certainly depends on the people involved.

I've thought about applying as a solo-founder (knowing the caveats), but may just continue to use my spare time to flesh things out and target Spring 2013. Assuming a wet winter, that is a good time for getting some serious coding done -- less distraction to want to be outside.
Now that is a well-written article. The bookend plays on words are just smart enough to not be cheesey but rather make the article especially memorable.
I'd like to write a program, which uses Quantum Electrodynamics to simulate an electron in the presence of a point charge (ie. an hydrogen atom).

Next, I'd like to run two instances, put them in the same space and see if the simulation spontaneously forms an hydrogen molecule.

I'd then like to add a second electron, and see if the result was an Helium atom.

Keep adding electrons until the simulation can do 6 and 8 electrons (carbon and hydrogen).

Now, I'd like to put all three types of simulated atoms (H,C,O) in the same space and see if the result is organic chemistry. At this point, additional optimisations might be necessary, maybe along the lines of starting the simulation by computing simplified models and using those where full accuracy is not required.

I'd then like to continue building the system up, adding optimisations as necessary. Keep adding atoms, and seeing if ever more complex molecules result. Extend to atoms with additional electrons as required (eg. need to add Nitrogen for DNA bases).

At some point, custom hardware would be required. First GPUs/FPGAs, then custom silicon, and whatever else is state-of-the-art at the time.

See how far the optimise/extend cycle can be pushed. Amino acids, DNA, proteins, cells, organs, organisms?

Who knows how far it would get? It might remain an interesting toy, at the 0 level. The closer it is to simulating a human, the closer it is to an 9 or 10 on the "Yudkowsky Ambition Scale".
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I've heard Steve is an amazing teacher.
I agree, it would be amazing if some forward-thinking recruiting firm went by your codeacademy score, stanford online course mark and SO rep.
MN tech inventor pursues breakthrough in addressing the I/O bottleneck
Remove undergarment. Pick at its fabric until a loose thread emerges. Pull the thread out as far as you can.

Then, wrap the thread around your roundest finger or other body part as many times as it will go. It should be possible to tell what quadrant was reached by the end of the thread. E.g., if it ended up closest to the top of your chosen body part, that's 00, the right side is 01, the bottom is 10, and the left side is 11.

That's two bits of reasonably-good entropy per thread. Repeat until your underwear is gone or you have the desired number of digits.

Another idea: spit on the wall and count the number of heartbeats it takes for the spit to run down to the floor.
Submissions need not be tech or startup related -- http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think the issue is so much that he used one of these drugs once, it's that he used each of them once, and initially on a schedule so compressed that it left nearly no time to purge and recover.

And while many of these drugs may be available with a prescription, I'd be surprised if any doctor worth his oath would prescribe this kind of sequence of drugs. (To say nothing of the fact that lasting side-effects with prescription drugs is more common than it ought to be.)
Watching a massive stream of app notifications fill up my Facebook account until I finally got the last of them blocked convinced me that I'd never want to enable any app.
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Primary care doc here. I have seen quite a few of these drugs started in acutely psychotic patients, post-operative trauma patients, chronic pain patients, etc, etc. These portraits strike me more as visual expressions of the preconceptions a layperson has about a variety of meds. People come in with all sorts of preconceptions about what they're going to get out of a prescription. Part of my job is getting them from where their preconceptions are to where they need to be.

Have I taken all these drugs? No. I've taken a few ambien on trans-Pacific flights, I've had some opioids after surgery. I've dealt with patients taking them or seeking them. Some were sick. Some of them, really sick. Some are 20-year-old grocery store cashiers with low cut shirts and miniskirts, all dolled up, trying to score some xanax on a Saturday for the next rave, pissed when I disappoint them.

My favorite is cephalexin. It's an antibiotic. Most of the side effects are associated with the molecular biology of bactericide. That one verges on pure farce.

Another one that makes my spidy-sense go off is the wild divergence between representations in response to opioids. They're just not that different, especially when compared to the differences with other classes psychotropics in the set.

If some random stranger came up to me on the street and said they had a plan like this, I'd probably say "It's a free country. If you're asking for medical advice, come to my clinic."

If my kids came to me with this plan I'd probably say "You are taking non-zero risks with your one-and-only brain, liver, body in general, and you will learn nothing the world doesn't already know. If anything, you'll cloud the picture. I strongly urge you to avoid drugs unless they are medically indicated.

"If you want to get high, come to Del Mar with me on Sunday at 8 am and we can swim with the dolphins. Or run to the top of Black Mountain or run from the Noe Valley to the top of Twin Peaks. Or go rock climbing, or ride a bicycle from Ramona to Borrego Springs and we can stop for apple pie in Santa Ysabel. These drugs are a pale comparison."
I just looked into the matrix
Very true. it's too bad though. Some of the best programmers I know were self taught or are electrical engineers
I think a good C programmer should have a grasp on how assembly works. This can come in incredibly handy for debugging weird errors. Yes there are bugs that are weird enough to only become evident in assembly code. An understanding of assembly also makes memory management and pointers in C so much more understandable. Also, assembly reveals quite a bit about performance: Less instructions == faster code. Then there are some platform-specific things that aren't available[1] from C (at least the standard library) like SSE or MMX instructions. These can give you a big speedup (think of it as "micro-parallelization") if used correctly. Some things in glibc (mainly in string.h) are implemented using them, but as far as I know the standard library doesn't provide an interface to them and the compiler usually isn't smart enough to use them when appropriate. So if you're trying to squeeze the last bit of performance out of a program you'll often have no choice but implementing a bit of assembly code as well.

Concerning architecture: One might argue it's not neccessary but I think a good C programmer should at least have scratched the surface here. No deep understanding, but a bit of an overview of what's going on. That is - I think - the point where it no longer concerns you as a programmer. Architecture and Assembly really go hand in hand, since every architecture comes with its own assembly code (yes I know, some assemblers are abstracting that away sometimes). That is why some things work faster on, say SPARC than on x86. It also helps understand the limits we're given and what "64 bit" really means.

Understanding architecture doesn't really help writing better C code, but it explains things the compiler does, since in a pipelined architecture, the compiler will arrange assembly instructions, so there are as little stalls as possible and therefore gaining performance.

[1] I might be wrong on that though. Please correct me if I am.
With iPhone 5, Apple is out to prove it's still the king
Korea is a developed country and does provide good working conditions. I think Samsung phones are Made in Korea? Not sure though... they might be "assembled in Korea"
The article seems to suggest that with fonts.googleapis.com, the font is served from common domain and cached for 1-year (by default). So, all sites using the same font inclusion logic may have to load from cache quickly. Am I missing anything here?
The article actually says he says he will give 90 pct of his money away. This is not the same as having done so.
Fuck. That. Sense. Of. Certainty. [And you oughta get smarter, drug using friends...]

As a lifetime computer user, I had an undeveloped sense of the value of human interaction. A few rounds of Ecstasy with friends showed me that there was something deeper to be explored. Did I know that the experience was due to the drug? Of course. Did experiencing that closer human connection, even if transient, make me a better person? I think so.

Also, as a lifetime computer user, I live in a world of certainty: 1+1=2; algorithms work the same way every time; my computers only do what I tell them to do [har har] and don't talk back. A few rounds of mushrooms shook away that blinding certainty. It turns out that I can see vastly more shades of green than I knew, that what you think of as depth perception is but a shade of what I saw then, that your visual center can be seriously and awesomely tricked, that you can close your eyes and spend hours watching Escher-like images unfold and evolve. Does it matter that I've seen a shade of green that you probably haven't? Not directly. Does it matter that I'm not blinded by certainty as you are? Definitely.

Obviously, I'm not advocating Mr. Saunders' methods, but there's more nuance in this discussion than your comment reflects.
“Manufacturing Depression” and "The Emperor’s New Drugs”: On Psychiatry
hm, a little bit about the charity part : http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/02/08/manoj-bh...
I don't get all the anger. Most popular writers are opinionated, and talk to their "crowd". If Uncle Bob (or Joel, or Jeff, or DHH) had to preface all discussion with "does not apply to people who do scientific programming, make games, or Albanians" we'd probably end up missing most of their points. It seems you understand the writer's context, so be happy that the answers for your neck of the coding woods are different.

Similarly, many posts around here are targeted at people in (at least) the US, often California, and usually SF or the Valley. I don't post "Noooo! It doesn't apply to me because I live in South Africa!" every time, because I understand what the context is. Something doesn't have to be universally true for it to be true in its context, and often useful for us outside of it.

In any case, thanks for the alternate opinion - it's good to be reminded that there are universes outside of ours.
This article hits a nerve right now. I get ping'd daily about opportunities. In general, I politely decline. Why? Evaluating priorities.

I have a full time gig that allows me an insane amount of flexibility (60% at home, flexible hours when in the office to avoid traffic). The time not commuting and lack of stress allows me to work on personal projects. I like the group I work with, the fact that we are a mix of product and research, and that we all collaborate well through a mix of communication -- in person, email, Skype, etc.

Recently, a company I previously interviewed with, liked, but turned down, made a very generous offer -- probably 20-30% over my current situation at the cost of flexibility and working at home. It was technically more interesting and challenging than my current job. I thought about it and was going back and forth.

My wife came to the point -- are you willing to give up your own projects and 6+ hours of commuting a week for the $ difference? Calculate the hourly rate just based on how much more you are commuting.

She was right. Opportunities need to be weighed against what you want. Sometimes having a third party for a bit of reason helps.
Interesting. Thanks, both of you.

And: it'd be kind of awesome if modern boy bands had to pay their dues playing adult clubs, first. Shame that isn't part of their legacy.

Edit: I should add that I think there's something to be said for the idea of hitting that sweet spot of timing where you're not the first to do something, but you also didn't come along after everyone and their dog did it. Executing well just as the relationship between the category and a much wider audience reaches a certain viability. What springs quickly to mind–forgive me that these aren't defended, or if they're just lousy examples I'd retract upon even a little bit of thought–perhaps Facebook, Nokia's early-2000 phones, the iPhone, the iPod, Rock Band, and so on. Not the first in the space, but they executed well enough (often even better than that; I'm not saying all of the above executed only well enough), just as the category was finally becoming mature enough to fan out beyond its original market, with the product even perhaps hastening that expansion by virtue of the quality of execution.

That is to take nothing away from the strength of the product, but the strength of the product also shouldn't take away from the effects of ideal timing. I think many die-hard fans of anything would have a knee-jerk reaction to saying that lucky timing played a big role in that thing's success, but it's probably reality, and should also be OK to say without people assuming you're denigrating the thing in question.
> R* and kd-trees are preposterously slow on the JVM compared to the old libANN C++ library, or naive kd-tree implementations. Factors of 100k to 1E6. I may be wrong, but I’m guessing trees confuse the bejeepers out of the JVM

Is somebody here knowledgeable enough to comment further on this? May this be due to excessive allocations and indirections? (It was also one of Bjarne's objections against Java.. composition of classes is always by reference.)
Walk around the room, counting up from 0, until you cannot walk anymore. Convert that number to binary, and take the middle X bits, where X is the required level of entropy.
My calculus classes actually have made me a better programmer. Depends on the problems you're facing though.
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I wasn't trying to sound profound. Had I been, I probably would have said I was "more popular than Jesus."

But, thanks for the feedback, anyway. I've been trying to simplify my life, so being called a simpleton means I must be doing something right.
gcc -S is usually preferable, since you don't get all the code produced/included by the linker to get the thing running.
>My guess is that's just how slim people tell fat people that laziness got them fat and so they should do more exercise, i.e. people that never suffered from a certain condition giving advice to people suffering from that condition.

Actually, it appears that diet, and especially simple sugar consumption, is the main driver of obesity, per, for example, Gary Taubes's book Why We Get Fat.

It is highly unlikely that people have evolved to be much fatter from 1950 to the present. So the solution has to be somewhere in behavior/environment.
Rogue feature: Docking a folder at the edge of the screen
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It also allows for pages that were generated and cached before changes were made to still have resources, as well as other cases where you might have divergent sets of resources (split tests, rolling deployments, etc.)
businesses that are rentseeking because they have a phone number or address yet the actual work is done by a group of people who are typically independent contractors and are paid only a small % are eminently ripe for disruption.

there are hundreds of industries like this. black car service - the drivers are independant contractors. mechanics, too. there are many more.
So ... what's the good of local storage, then...?
Interested if anyone had any thoughts on Prior Knowledge's predictive DB, Veritable.

https://www.priorknowledge.com/
Have you ever used tasks or the TPL?
Because you do not see it, nor experience it, it does not exist. Okay then.

If you ever sunk into a deep depression and then got out with perfectly working medication you would see for yourself very clearly. But such is life.
Clearly, you are unaware that Python runs on every operating system.

I've been developing on Windows since 1.0. Windows 8 is a huge steaming pile of camel dung, in my humble opinion.
I guess I'm the idiot for thinking this was about the actual big bang theory. I'll move right along...
To Know If Your Career Is On The Right Path, View Your Business As A River
Yes I went full barrel, yes I'm being hyperbolic, no I don't care, and no it's not interesting to me that they did a good job keying their full-bleeds.

"Overboard" is a municipal website that has potent imagery of fully armored police officers pointing semi-automatic weapons at ten mugshots of wretched looking "Most Wanted" minorities. This force-glorifying, hostile, divisive, and stakes-raising imagery is being used to portray and shape the role of police in America. It's not acceptable.
Perhaps OT, but, if you're interested in this stuff, a fascinating, non-visual, academic/scientific-anecdotal [?!] treatment of similar stuff is in the wonderful PIHKAL: http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal.sht...

How can you not love a drug report like (for DOB):
This was a complex, but a very good day. It involved making a large pot
of chicken-vegetable soup, and listening to H.L., my favorite Saturday
morning fundamentalist Christian radio preacher, bless Tim.
underlies the fact that state is chronically underfunded compared with DoD...regional commands tend to conduct their own diplo missions w 100s of millions of discretionary funds
Unless you work in an all windows environment :(
Good question. I realized I was a bit vague about that, though I suppose both have crossed my mind. The former would seem to beget the latter, though.

In terms of the two major songwriting talents in the same band argument, that's pretty interesting, and, as the thread you inspired amply demonstrates, is a pretty interesting way of looking at a number of bands, and even seems to have examples in non-musical endeavors.

I wonder how much of that's due to just having two people who can generate more good ideas than one, how much is an undefinable chemistry between the two, and how much might actually because there's a good amount of self-regulation that occurs that way: if I were a songwriting genius, I'd possibly (probably?) be pretty unresponsive to taking criticism, but if I respected the crap out of the songwriting talents of the person making the critique, then that'd be a totally different dynamic.
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No .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoBwR9KEGUc&feature=plcp

Source:

http://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/zqu3o/trailer_of_t...
Respect. But the Indian media is a huge circlejerk. If a scientist / businessman makes it big, they will try and find an Indian connections (e.g. his parents lived in India / he visited India and that changed everything).

The Indian ecosystem itself is crushingly bureaucratic for any entrepreneur to survive. We are at 132 here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index even below our neighbours.

The same guy who struggles in India, migrates abroad, does well and back home he is celebrated. Search the web and you will see a hundred examples of this.
So, I've never cared for most of their songwriting. A few exceptions, but, for the most part, not so much.

I heard a song of theirs once in the late 90s, and thought, "holy crap, this sounds like it was made 30 years later," in the same chronologically impossible way that some Can "sounds like" some Radiohead.

I haven't even thought about that since then, but your comment reminded me of that, and I think you're onto something. Whether they were ahead of their time production-wise, or just highly influential, could probably be argued to death, but there's no denying that Beck wouldn't sound like Beck were it not for the Beatles.
Jim?

> Opportunities need to be weighed against what you want.

Yep. Sometimes the negatives can be outweighed by some strong positives -- a 30% increase might be worth more than 6 hours/week on the road to you (the general "you") or it might not. Sometimes, corny as it sounds, sitting down and writing out the ol' positives/negatives list helps.

It's also really about what you want for your life. Do you want to build a startup? Do you want to work at a huge company? Do you like time for your own projects, or is a great day at the office all you need?

> My wife came to the point -- are you willing to give up your own projects and 6+ hours of commuting a week for the $ difference?

That calculation ignored the quality difference of the new job, which circles back to the /. post. How do you quantify that? What value and weight does it have in your calculation? If the quality of work + environment + coworkers was sufficiently better, what difference would that make on your calculation different values of "sufficiently"?
This has got good commercial potential, not just as an app but also as a Guitar Hero type game played by groups. Keep it simple and ensure it can generate "immediate gratification" and you're onto something big.
> If we are to preserve the Enlightenment values...

Which ones? If you want these people to become civilized, you have to reject at least one value that masquerades as one from the Enlightenment: self-rule and self-determination. These people must be subjected to the rule of law, it will not spontaneously emerge even if we set up the structure for it and create for them a government with a constitution modeled after our own. Bring on another round of colonialism! We would also have to step it up with the manner in which we deal out punishments. Apart from the 2003 invasion of Baghdad by the US (and that's really stretching it), we haven't fought with our "gloves off" for a long time. That has to end, too.
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The part where the two actors are heavily armed police and a box of mugshots of minorities stamped MOST WANTED.

Edit: Also it's worth noting that as of several weeks ago this was a much more elaborate site. It's been significantly toned down since.
Oracle and Apple Struggle to Deal with Java Security Issues
Well, that's the problem with living in a democracy. If most people only feel comfortable when the legislators and judges are fellow Christians and the schools teach creationism, then that's what you're going to get, and depending on your interpretation, maybe that's what you should get.

Not quite. We live in a constitutional republic.

Next, creationism isn't science. It's justifying a bible story as where people and the earth came from. Many (if not all) religions have creation stories. The christian story has been perpetrated as some sort of pseudo science garbage that one does not need to prove to teach.

So, just to understand you: Because I don't try to shove my beliefs down others throats, it is my fault that others try the same to me?

Perhaps the reason you feel so accosted is because you are don't see proselytizing as important, and consequently, have no support because your fellow believers are so few.

No. I have my unique set of beliefs. And in certain cases, I have proof. I can't demonstrate that proof, and I don't really need to. I'm probably the only person on this planet to have these very specific set of beliefs.

Why does my belief have to be challenged? I don't questions yours: I only say "Keep your practices to yourself, unless somebody else asks."
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