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> What a fascinating and engrossing read. Thanks for sharing.

An amazing, gripping story...and then I read a thread about Who hates on other platforms more - Android fans or Apple fans?

Here's a free idea, assuming it hasn't already been done in some form: In a Twitter-like interface, people with first world problems type in what's bothering them (eg "Didn't get an iPad for Xmas - my parents suck!") and when they hit submit, an algorithm returns either a brief story, picture or video from less fortunate countries that neatly correspond to their problem (eg, picture of a child begging a guard for something to eat).

It would be a great place to help us get over the little things that bother us more than they should. Seems http://www.firstworldproblems.com is already taken.
Responsive web development is very hard. It's easy to get a firm grasp on it, but sometimes can be a struggle determining what happens to a footer or sidebar on a small screen. Another issue is scaling down a desktop site for a mobile site merely hides things, it doesn't reduce page load times or page weight. I think responsive can work well for some sites, but if you're hiding a lot of content for mobile users a mobile site is best. Mobile Safari will still load an image regardless of whether or not it's hidden, same with scripts and stylesheets you might not even be using on a mobile version of your site.

People often forget a 300kb image on a desktop site is fine, but making your site react to the width of a screen you're shrinking the image down but the file size remains the same. A 300kb image on a mobile site via a 3G connection times two or three can spell disaster for some people's data plans especially if they're close to going over.

Also a handy thing to remember with the target divided by the context is to multiply it by 100 to get the actual percentage value. I know you can simply move the decimal over two places, but that eliminates the step and ensures your calculations are always correct. So the final formula becomes: target / context * 100 = responsive percentage value.
They don't. Open a support request.
This article is an obnoxious meander. It is an "anxiety" blog for heavens sake, not very productive.

Getting care for the elderly is nice. Modern medicine is a mixed blessing, where we live long enough to get old with alzheimers and cancer.

Make the most of the years you get, the last one will be bad no matter what you do, unless you die of a heart attack during sex.

And set up your grandparents with Skype or FaceTime or Hangouts, the joy it brings them is beyond measure. Nothing is better for the cost of a device and Internet connectivity.
The conduct of the war in Vietnam makes it easy to laugh at the notion of "containment", but it made a lot of sense to a generation who had just witnessed the slaughter of WW2.

The Soviets had no warm water ports on the Pacific, and Vietnam was smack the the middle of key US allies and strategic trade routes for rubber and oil. It was a strategic place.

That said. This isn't an excuse for the insanity of US policy in Vietnam from 1945 onwards.
Eldredge tie knot
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Damn it, you can't just say that; there is math involved! On the one hand, you have the evolutionary cost to yourself: if you die, then you can't have any more children. On the other hand, you have the evolutionary benefit to your close kin: they have access to more resources with you gone. This benefit is weighted by how closely these other people are related to you. A rule of thumb is that you break even if you sacrifice your life to save the life of two siblings, four nephews/nieces, or eight cousins.

Do you really expect that a get-depressed-and-die instinct would reliably result in at least that much benefit to someone's close kin? If not, then you don't really expect such an instinct to evolve by kin selection.
I host a whole range of applications on a single dedicated server from OVH.com. $40 a month.

It hosts email, various domains, static, non-static, Python, Ruby, Postgres, MySQL ... and I don't pay a cent more for each of those services.

One of the sites I host on there has been Reddited and it didn't even break a sweat...
On the contrary, this conversation is essential for mental health.
I don't understand this. We are caring for my grandfather in his home precisely because we cannot afford the astronomical cost of a nursing home (around $10,000 per month).
Annoying pedantic guy here, I think you meant "cue" instead of queue. Extreme libertarianism isn't about waiting in line. That's extreme socialism, Soviet-style.
The one does not imply the other. Becoming a criminal is a bad idea (and rtdsc probably knows this and was engaging in hyperbole out of justified frustration), but becoming a martyr is also a bad idea. If you find a security flaw in a system you don't own, the best course of action is to ignore it and get on with your life. This is something every bright young hacker needs to be made aware of.
I'd like to point out first that this author has an awful attitude, and I'd also like to point out that his opinion about the "flattened bell curve" of life is factually incorrect. Most studies show a linear improvement in happiness during the twilight years of life - http://www.economist.com/node/17722567 - it is in face a U-shape, the opposite of a bell curve.

Don't let depressed assholes like Tim Kreider affect your outlook on life. You'll note that he, at age 45, is right next to the statistically lowest point of self-reported well-being. One day he, like his Mother, will learn to enjoy the good things in life and not look so morbidly at his pending doom.
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Childless adults save a lot of expenses, that money should be invested in golden-years care, not squandered on fancy vacations followed by a demand for an extra share of handout.
Major props to Mr. Chen. Just because we think Silicon Valley is the hotbed of innovation doesn't mean it isn't happening elsewhere.

In fact I'd wager that a large part of the silicon valley culture is getting set in their ways and not willing to experiment with truly disruptive ideas.
Like I alluded to in a previous comment, in this particular field the experimental feedback loop is short (often <24h). This type of peer-replication has led to the retraction of at least one paper in a highly prominent journal (JACS): http://totallysynthetic.com/blog/?p=1903 . So the potential to make a dent is there, for this field at least.
Too much government interference right now for that kind of thing to bear fruit. We need radical research not the slow meandering kind that the FDA allows us.
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The world doesn't have to be like this. Not anymore. It's too late for my little brother - but Kim Suozzi made it, and it's not too late for you, or any of your loved ones who are still alive.

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Cryonics
VPS and Dedicated Servers certainly work and are usually going to be more economical, but then you are going to have to deal with all of the setup/maintenance tasks that Heroku abstracts away from you.

I'd venture that there are far more people using Heroku for its easy deployment and management than its ability to scale quickly and easily.
I was thinking about this earlier today and how helpful it would be to just not worry about deleting CSS I didn't need. Nice!
In all honesty, Hacker News is the last place I would be looking for advice when it comes to serious matters like depression when there is a life potentially on the line. If I were you I would seek the opinion of a psychiatrist or doctor who can help you better understand the illness and provide the best course of action for helping.

The best thing you can do in your situation is be supportive and patient for your fiancée. I hope everything works out for you. Has your fiancée seen a medical professional about their depression, if not, I strongly advise you get them to a doctor ASAP.
You can explain it any way you want but it's still a product that's meant to take advantage of an ignorant audience plain and simple. Any person outside their audience knows where and how to get the software they want. There is no use for IM's service outside of the ignorant mass of computer users.

Consider another angle on this software: it is a direct contributor to the daily stress of IT people and the "computer person" found in many families.
You need to find better friends. There is a class of people who pour love and care out of themselves. Most of them aren't startup millionaires, though. (Some are.)
I'd hardly call it being suave by trying to pull off the Elredge while being on a job interview. It'd be way too flashy and distracting. Might give you a good ice-breaker but lot of people might end up frowning upon being so zany at a job interview.

A navy suit with a white shirt and a navy tie is suave enough.
Death may be inevitable, but there is life to live yet.
Best thing to do is provide the logs and see if it is idling.

I agree though that if you are hitting the damn thing every second it shouldn't go idle.
This is more likely to make you look oblivious and foppish rather than suave. Looking "suave" comes from adherence to classic dress. Stick to a four-in-hand knot.

If you're trying to "disrupt" tie knots, go for it, but most people will think you look silly.
GP means that each email is under only one folder in IMAP. In Gmail it's possible to have multiple labels on a single email, and this is not at all elegant to hack into an IMAP view.
While this is an interesting knot (and definitely a conversation starter at get-togethers) I don't think it has a spot in the workplace. It's oversized, generally tied sloppily, and altogether gaudy.

From that icon of male fashion - James Bond never trusted a man who boasted a Windsor Knot; "It was tied with a Windsor knot. Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad." -From Russia With Love

Replace Windsor with basically any knot other than the four-in-hand, and the statement still rings true.
I think this article is great, but what is better is the discussion in the comments.

From what I've seen we have supportive people who are curious, and people that have had darker days.

if you came here looking for something yourself, some glimpse of hope, just read the comments. Many people here suffered, and they found a way through it. You can too. Hang in there, you will get through it. Just keep fighting. Its worth it
For more of this sort of thing:
http://www.reddit.com/r/FUI
(that's short for Fantasy/Fake User Interface)
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Just like novelists, there probably aren't any great fourteen year old developers. Just some are are less bad than others. And some who have a higher ceiling when it comes to developing their talent.

Any critic worth a listen can tailor their message to their audience. Some messages which make sense for a fourteen year old boy don't for a forty-four year man - e.g. "stay in school."

Children are not miniature adults.
Exactly! If it's not worth playing, it's not worth doing on your free time. When you learned Perl and Php, wasn't that kind of play also? Maybe it's the Php rotting your brain.

Now, learn some new programming language (see some options at http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Language_Comparison_Table) and start playing again!

Also, write down ideas for projects that you would like to do. It might wind up longer than you excepted very fast... and as bonus, you'll get to learn new algorithms, programming paradigms and so on.
Those that would notice it would appreciate it, those who wouldn't appreciate it likely wouldn't notice it. I don't agree that it's "zany" at all.
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When (not) static typing matters
I have been through a lot of articles about static vs dynamic typing.
For me, static typing makes lot of sense when your language encourage you to create lots of new types (mostly classes/OO languages), because when you are working with such an API, static typing makes it clear about what a method takes and returns (and what those types represent) rather then going though documentation which hampers productivity. Static typing in practice is more about understanding a program/API rather than some academic "prove them correct" theory. Python, which encourage a lot of OO,class based programming including its so called frameworks is a not a good candidate for dynamic typing, coz every time you wana call an API you wonder what "object" it would take and what that object will have inside it including its base class etc etc.

On the other hand if you have a language like Clojure, with some basic types like vector,set,map, few other primitive types and "function type" (and if you don't create new types with deftype etc) then dynamic typing is preferable, because you know what all the function will be dealing with these types only and that info can be encoded as meta data on the functions itself (or comments if you don't have meta data facility in your language).

In end I would say if you create a lot of new types, then static typing is good and if you use some basic set of types (which are enough to represent any info/model) then dynamic typing is the way to do. So rather than discussing which is better, we should focus on which path we want to take while programming.

Let me know if this make sense for you guys.

Thanks.
I can't seem to find license agreement anywhere for the PSD's. Is there a license agreement so these PSD's can be used?
We certainly start to come to grips with our own mortality as we age. At 28, I'm having thoughts and concerns about illnesses I never thought I would, even though I'm certainly more aware of what I put into my body than I was just years ago.

I remember a conversation with my mom a few years back, where she started with something like "If I had died a few years ago." That was unfathomable to me because the thought of losing my parents is something I've always wrestled with and my mom is still very much youthful and carefree despite her advancing age.

Its a great piece that highlights the fact that at sometime we can and do come to terms with the fact that we won't be here forever. It's a sobering thought, but one that gives us perspective on life about the things that matter. In addition, realizing that we are mortal makes us want to leave behind a legacy, whether its a family, a product, or a book, we all want to be remembered for something.

I think we all come to this realization at different points in our lives.
If you want to be unique, go for it. I, personally, don't find it that appealing but I can see the appeal. I don't recommend you wear it to an interview but if you want to stand out, I don't think many people have seen it.

If you'd like a 'different' knot, this one interests me as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA-n2xkYX6s

I'll stick to the double windsor, but that's just what I'm into.
Apps with > 1 web dyno are not idled. Please do open a support request if you think your app is being idled incorrectly.
While I think the Eldridge knot linked above looks terrible I can strongly suggest me value of a good suit (vintage is fine) and a properly tied tie (four in hand for me, thanks) as a way to punctuate monotony at work.

I have dressed up just about every Friday (fancy Friday) for the last few years and enjoy it a lot, even if it is a ridiculous hipster affectation.
1. Really confused why this is on HN. If I were a mod, I'd remove.

2. From a sartorial standpoint, no one should wear the Eldredge knot, ever. From Reddit:

"I understand that a lot of people think it looks cool, and it'll attract a lot of attention, but not in a good way. You won't be that guy who's really well dressed, you'll be the guy with the funny tie knot."
Very cool. Great job!
Now the Trinity on the other hand, this is a bit more zany: http://agreeordie.com/blog/musings/553-how-to-tie-a-necktie-...
The Eldridge is too unorthodox to go unnoticed, even by people who don't tie ties.
>It seems much more likely that PR's advantage, if they have one, is in miniaturization technology

Part of the miniaturization could be from not including multiple redundant, hardened systems.

If you have 3 smaller satellites that are 90% reliable (for a given time frame), that vastly trumps 1 larger satellite that is 99% reliable (assuming similar capabilities and overall weight).
The most important thing I learned about depression is that it snowballs in both directions. Big tasks and big goals loom even bigger in your head, especially when you spend all your time in your head, dwelling. Don't worry about those sorts of things right now. As long as the whole 'starting over' thing is a shadow in your head, it will stop you from taking the first step.

Focus on something small and achievable, and achieve it. Even if it's just goddamn FizzBuzz. Reverse a linked list, and messsage one old friend on facebook to have lunch. That's it. Just do something small. It cuts off the downward spiral, and establishes momentum in the right direction.
It's meant to highlight how ridiculous the Colonel's own request was.
It is too late for us, but spare your friends and especially your children. We who search for all the answers suffer when find the unanswerable ones. The minds who are lucky don't encounter the darkest questions of life, and we should let them be happy, and help protect their innocence.
> I find the American approach to the elderly a bit bizarre.

It is messed up and you are right it is cultural and also financial. Here are a few reasons I can think of:

* The sense of independence and individualism, be self sufficient, don't depend on other, keep to your own business.

* The health care system is messed up. Having health care tied to the workplace is all kinds of fucked up. Not being able to add parents as regular "dependents" to the health care plans is also messed up. I would expect these from a developing country not from US.

* Increased mobility. Jobs become more transient and families are moving more, sometimes across country. Now the elderly parents have a hard choice, stay in a place they know and have friends or follow the family of the child (who now has to support and provide for a large extended family).

* Living quality expectations. The idea that "if you make this much salary, you fit in this social group and are expected to have this standard of living". Like say someone making $50K taking care of 4 elderly people and 2 kids might have to scale down on the food they eat, vacations they take, type of cars they can buy, parts of town they can afford to live.
The music player blocks all the time.

Connected to AirPlay, and you hit 'play'? Good luck if there's any kind of network problems, because it's going to freeze your music app for 10 or 20 seconds until it either works or times out. Everything to do with AirPlay is snychronous, which is a big no-no when most operations seem on the order of seconds...
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Because it's damned interesting.
The decision is usually made to let them go on medicare, which then starts to liquidate their estate until it is gone and then they start paying from there.
Ha, I cracked up when they said they had to repaint all the train cars because they were covered with graffiti. They didn't have a problem with the graffiti itself, the problem was that they couldn't get copyright clearances from all the graffiti artists!
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A giant fireball erupting from the bomb? Or random stuff around the blast catching fire?
Like most technologies, Datomic builds on ideas and concepts that already exist, and would find it hard to set itself apart by simply latching on to a single idea or concept. So if it were "just another" graph database and nothing more, I'd agree with you.

However, Datomic puts together a whole host of other concepts - data immutability and all its resulting benefits; separation of query, storage, write, coordination (with carefully considered trade-offs); Datalog-based querying in place of SQL; in-app access to data with a great solution for the string concatenation hell that we've all gone through trying to juggle our SQL, and the list goes on.

I don't think any of these individually make Datomic special, but collectively? IMHO, outstanding!

Edit: For those interested, we have a new Datomic Community on G+ where we have collected a number of links to Datomic resources and videos: https://plus.google.com/communities/109115177403359845949
Everything I learn about the world makes me hate it more. But a lot of people seem to love it --it must have some redeeming qualities, right?

Answer: Yes, depends on where in the world you live.
The UI looks clean. You can market it something like "can you cut my rope?" :)
Children can, in child-appropriate ways, understand that death is a part of life. Just today, my five year old daughter pointed out a dead fish floating in a tank at my local fish store. It was neither traumatic nor funny, it just was.
It's not even well-accepted amongst the likes of styleforum users who are all across the sartorial spectrum. I remember reading a comment once that went more or less like "Use a green tie and it looks like an artichoke".

A windsor / double-windsor / pratt / four-in-hand are perfectly acceptable tie-knots, depending on the tie.
I wonder what it would come to with room and board subtracted. Considerably less I'm sure.
Not if we learn how to reverse entropy!

(http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm)
I've seen the following happen way too often: from a young age, kids are told they are child prodigies and maintain top status in high school. Then they enter college and meet people who are more intelligent or proficient and can't seem to accept the reality of the situation.

As an example, there was one section of organic chemistry for freshmen, and to get into that class you had to have a 5 in AP chem and pass two exams. I saw many of my classmates (Columbia) who were genuinely taken aback that they weren't the top of the freshman class -- and many of these self-styled rock stars never heard of the IChO!

It is better for long term growth if kids are humbled at an earlier age than to be shocked much later in life. And holding back criticisms now really does a disservice later in life.
Yes. Sad to say.
I'm always suprised by the inflexibility of window managers. I would imagine we should be able to have something similar to this by now.
Life-extension as the pursuit of the every-man: " The mortality rate is holding at a scandalous 100 percent. "

What are YOU doing?
Please encourage he/she to get professional help and you may want to consider talking to a professional yourself. When a partner is depressed, it definitely takes its toll on the other.

Unfortunately, as you probably already know, you can't snap someone out of their depression. I've found that you have to be responsible for your own happiness and that happiness is a choice. While it's admirable that you are trying to help, there's very little you can do and it all comes at a very high emotional cost.

Best of luck.
Thank you. I'm glad someone pointed this out.
I love reading comments from you style tryhards as if you are all CEOs of major uptight companies. It's really funny. Let me tell you what REALLY happens when you wear a tie like this to a job interview. A. No one notices. B. Someone notices and says "interesting knot! Where did you learn it?" conversation starts. If B, then they remember you as the guy with the peculiar tie knot. You know what never happens? "What a smug little hipster prick, I will never hire someone who wears such a gaudy knot!"
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If there exists such a thing as group selection. This is not entirely clear and many biologists remain unconvinced about that theory (Richard Dawkins most notably).
service returns quick & short JSON responses and huge number of users are going to hit it. So basically there are going to be enormous concurrent connections each returning quick and short json response. No heavy work by each connection, just that there are too many.
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Agreed^