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Joseph, that is a very reasonable response, but it's a non-answer, in my opinion.

Literally everyone has done stupid things to look cool or be accepted by peers, especially in those insecure teenage years. And most people enjoy things that feel good. That's why we like orgasms, sugar, and salt – among other pleasures.

The problem with chemically addictive substances is that a few bad/ignorant decisions, made in those nearly universal pursuits of fitting in or feeling good, can change the chemical makeup of the brain and create a physical dependency. Addiction means you need the substance just to feel normal.

So yes, obviously, self-destructive behavior can be a coping mechanism for pain or helplessness. However, addictive substances like nicotine and opiates are often experimented with by people who have no special emotional pain (beyond the universal human pain you mention), but using the substance creates a hole, i.e., emotional lack, that can only be filled by the substance.

That's why cigarettes, heroin, etc. are so dangerous, and categorizing all addiction as "inner pain" the subject needs to work through is naive, in my opinion. Often the only inner pain is that caused by the addictive substance.

That said, I don't disagree with gesman's general premise for the psychological component of addiction; I just think it's overly broad and dangerously dismissive of the destructive power of addictive drugs.
Companies can verify academic credentials through third party services or the school directly. That's the whole point of credentials.

In programming it is very difficult to verify expertise. Programmers, especially self taught programmers, are usually very myopic. Someone will learn one technology, and then they determine a candidates overall expertise based on knowledge of that one technology. The problem is they've built up their entire ego based on learning just one thing and even got a job as a rails hacker or a javascript hacker or whatever. That person thinks that they know how to determine expertise: just ask a bunch of very specific rails questions. In reality there's a huge range of necessary expertise such as problem solving, debugging, interacting with people, using other languages and frameworks, databases, testing, operations. But the ego takes over and says, "I'm an expert in html, therefore html is all that's really important."

Now you might say that if the interviewer finds someone who can do the specific skill, what's the problem? The problem is that in a larger company, that one skill is a dime a dozen. How is the candidate going to stack up when there are 400 rails hackers that can also do lots of other things. As soon as its apparent the person can only do rails and is kind of dumb about other things, that's inviting huge criticism and job peril for the interviewers. Small companies can enjoy their ignorant bliss.

The other class of interviewers are hiring managers who's egos are by their very nature amazing experts in all fields and technologies, but who's brains know absolutely nothing about software.
FYI there is no company named "Research In Motion" anymore. They've changed their name to Blackberry.

http://stream.wsj.com/story/research-in-motions-blackberry-1...
Can you install apps without a gatekeeper on Blackberry 10? Like you can currently do on OSX, Windows, Android etc?

How was this in previous versions?
Talk to them - most developers aren't remiss in telling you what's wrong.

I'd almost go further and say if you don't know without asking you've got an issue. I can tell you how happy or otherwise 75% of the people working for me are and hazard a decent guess at the other 25%.
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I am actually one the fence about whether that post (as part of that whole site) is supposed to be satirical. It seems like a very bloated or "blimpish" stack. So I assumed it was all tongue-in-cheek.

This is like pop-music. There's no way to tell what is exaggeration.
"THIS!", as the kids say.
I agree people never evaluate the function early enough, glad I'm not one.
There are certainly ways to simulate fish oil with biologically inert ingredients.
I tracked my learning performance over two years under a range of conditions, including trying a treadmill desk. I found at 1.2mph my error rate (compared to sitting) was 50% less, and I could comfortably study for 2x as long. The trick is to keep the speed quite low, and have your PC at a comfortable position. I now do all my work this way, with an adjustable desk, which I put in sitting position only an hour a day.

More details on my experiment are in this talk I gave last year: http://quantifiedself.com/2012/05/jeremy-howard-on-language-...
I made my own ( http://imgur.com/a/BczGu#26 ) and it's great to work at. If you're buying one, I'd recommend picking a good desk without the motorized bits. Instead of getting something that goes up and down (so you can sit at a normal chair when you don't want to stand), get a tall stool for when you want to sit.
So, is there anything that could be said to be biologically inert in any and every scenario?
South American here: I have no idea of who David Koresh is or who the Duggers are.

Fanatic Christian fundamentalists are everywhere, and this family fits the stereotype we have perfectly.
My reasons for being excited:

1) Physical keyboard in the Q10

2) No Android, no Google

3) Hardware and software made by the same company

4) No Samsung/HTC/etc crapware customizations

5) Hopefully more top-down design and app store curation ala iOS

6) My Bold 9900 feels expensive; most Android phones I've played with feel cheap and plasticky

7) LTE, which the otherwise interesting Nexus 4 doesn't have

8) The BB10 UI looks less like an art school project than WP8
70k Apps on the New Platform. I am very impressed by this. They mentioned all the popular apps that have come onboard.. but I didn't see a mention of Instagram. That resonates with the young crowd. Instagram should have been in the Keynote pitch!

Never the less, this could have gone horribly wrong, but I think BB did good today.

edit: I hope the iPhone does something similar to Peak. Which I thought was a lot more intuitive than double-tapping the home-button, switching apps, then switching back.
Why do you change the title when you post it here to be so provocative and arrogant? Linkbait?

"Why you need..." just sets you up for a negative reaction such as "who are you to tell me what I need to do?" and "what makes you think this is at all relevant to me?" and "what arrogance to think you have all of the answers for everyone"

The actual post you are linking to has none of the presumptive arrogance implied by the "why you need" titling and reads like quite a reasonable discussion of choices the author made that made sense for their particular requirements and environment. None of it applies to me and my situation, but I can read it with a much more open mind that I was initially inclined to based on the "why you need" language.
The fundamental problem with virtually all attempts to innovate in the email/messaging space is that the bar for an MVP is incredibly high. So you either have to layer on somebody else's work (GMail, Outlook) and end up strategically hampered and at best aqui-hired, or you have to slog through years of work getting your own stack to MVP level. Mail/messaging is fractal in nature: the closer you look, the more detail there is.

And we've learned over the years working on Inky (http://inky.com) that users simply, positively, absolutely will not accept a mail client that's not MVP in all the expected areas. If people can't use your mail client as their primary mail client, they're not going to use it at all. This makes delivering incremental improvements like turning the inbox into a task list very difficult -- impossible, in my view, which is why we've created our own complete client stack.
I really wish people would stop speculating about the 787s problems. Yes, it has had serious issues. But why is the author qualified to talk about them? From his bio, it's not clear that he has any aviation experience, and he doesn't appear to have any inside sources.

The article is littered with phrases like "My hypothesis is that McDonnell's mindset from its defense work — minimizing the amount of capital put at risk during R&D — was applied to the 787" and "But, in this instance, it wasn't so much the outsourcing, as it was the decision to modularize a complicated problem too soon". How can the author make such brazen claims without having talked to a Boeing engineer or visited the factory? I assume if he had done either, he would have noted it in the article.

Only one type of person is qualified to comment on the problems: a person working at Boeing, or someone talking to him/her. Otherwise, we're just playing the Apple rumor game, piecing together tidbits of supply chain data to come up with the conclusion we want to hear.
is this like saying: we use the metric system (small print: but our 0 cm point starts at 50 cm)?
Boeing is in the government contracting game. They're the second biggest military contractor after Lockheed.

Military contracts are low risk for the contractor because the government absorbs all the overruns, but relatively low profit as well since the contracts specify the amount of profit the company is allowed to earn.

Boeing's huge military contract business is good, steady money, but the commercial aviation business is where they take the lion's share of their profits.

That being said, it seems like both Airbus (EADS) and Boeing are profoundly dysfunctional organizations that are really incapable of doing anything without consuming enormous resources. I wonder if both of them have the "military contractor" mindset built into their corporate culture, and that's why their commercial projects are a serial set of disasters.

I think A&B are lucky to have each other as competitors. If a lean, hungry company ever entered the market it'd wipe the floor with both of them.
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Mailing lists can approach a higher level, but a lot of the great dialogues of history happened when people would write full-out letters and essays of their own in response to each other.

The closest thing I've seen to this online is when bloggers disable comments but keep trackbacks turned on. If you disagree with someone's blog post, write your own blog post and use a trackback to link it so there's still a conversation. This raises the bar for a few reasons. First, no one is going to keep a blog that has nothing but middlebrow dismissals or bad jokes, and if they do, no one will read it. Second, blogs have more of an identity and a reputation, so the author has stakes in the game greater than that of a disposable HN or Reddit account. Third, you can selectively follow a network of bloggers and if someone's a bozo, you just stop reading their blog instead of having to wade through their comments. Fourth, your responses on your own blog are more likely to be substantive because you have to make it worthwhile to your own blog's audience as well--introducing an issue and expressing your dissenting take on it can be worthwhile, but your standard drive by comment is not.
Ask HN: What Mobile Apps do You Frequently Use, Why?
It'd be really interesting to know which apps the HN community have/ use frequently on their phones.

I'll give it a go first:

- Fantastical: Calendar on steroids

- Evernote: Note taking

- Dropbox: Easy access to all my files

- Kindle: Read books while commuting

- Reeder: Stay up to date with my RSS feed

- Trello: Used to manage my todos (I have the following board: doing, to do, goal, done, icebox)

- Clear: Awesome todo list I use for things that don't belong in Trello, such as groceries

- MapMyRun: Track distance/ time for when I go jogging

- Skype: Chat with the family that lives abroad

- i-Qi timer: Time I use to wake me up from Meditation

- Daily Goals: Track and measure small daily goals (read, call a friend, stretch, floss, etc)

- Spotify: Music on the go

- Audience: Awesome Google Analytics app

- AdSenseHQ: Keep track of my Google Adsense Revenue

- Embark NYC: NYC Transit app

- Groupon: I only use it for a daily deal this great nearby indian restaurant has :)

- Dictionary: Comes in more handy that I'd like to admit

- Google Maps: The name says it all

- 500px: Used whenever I need to see something visually appealing or need some inspiration
Brilliant. This is something I have wanted to know for many years.
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For an example of making Pong using FRP, check out this: http://elm-lang.org/blog/games-in-elm/part-0/Making-Pong.htm...

It's not a very long read, and it will help make FRP more concrete with a practical example.
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Nothing new in terms of corporate strategy. Will.i.am and Intel[1], Lady Gaga and Polaroid[2], etc.

[1] http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/01/polaroid-and-lady-gag...
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And how do you find out your passion is a passion?

So, this article may be overly facile (I agree with you that it is) but that doesn't mean he's entirely wrong, even if he's only right accidentally.

There's quite a bit of research into expert performance that shows that passion isn't in-born, but developed, and developed through hard work. The initial steps of most careers (even passion careers) are completely unenjoyable. Yes, maybe you are born with a passion for it, but that's very rare. Most people aren't born with an innate passion, not even most who eventually exhibit expert performance.

Most people come to be passionate about what they do well in, and you can't do well until you've gotten over the vicious first humps. What gets the non-born-passionate over the humps is simple dedication.

You might enjoy the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. Or, for lighter reading, Kathy Sierra's blog/conference talks, which are based on a lot of that same research but much more fun to listen to.
If I knew that I was going to live off somewhere remote for the next 40 years, a handful of hemp seed and the knowledge to weave would be one of my essential requirements. Well that and Jessica Biel.
2C with driving wind and rain is fine once you get in your tent. -35C, not so much.

One of the hardest things to deal with is condensation and sweat - anything even remotely damp (socks, sleeping bag, boots, gloves) will be frozen rock solid in the morning.
There probably is no "easily" or "quickly." Here are some ideas though:

FIRST: You need to put a little time into your elevator pitch. Try to compress 50-60% of what the app does into an easily digestable 1-2 sentences. EG Makes event RSVP a game for attendees and tells organizers interesting things about them. Then try to make your landing page/home page add another 20-30% in an easily scannable form. EG (1)a screenshot of an attendee getting points for an action and (2) a screenshot the analytics dashboard.

Try showing it to people for 5,10,20 seconds and then quiz them on what it is, how it's for, what you do with it. etc..

It sounds like you're asking more about how to get it in front of potential users. This is inevitably hard and/or expensive because its competitive, not a hurdle. You'll need to beat all the other people trying to get their attention.

Adwords-ish campaigns. Does the product solve a problem that people could be looking for a solution to on Google? If someone is Googling "free online rsvp", is your app a solution to this. Are you an alternative to "Joomla event registration"?
Start here: https://adwords.google.com/o/KeywordToolEnter You'll need to figure out how much a new user is worth to you and be willing to pay it..

Pick up the phone - Are you targeting conference-like event organizers? They are in high demand. Your best chance is probably old fashioned sales.

Build marketing into the product somehow. EG Can attendees (or maybe speakers or exhibitors if it's for conferences) use it without the event itself signing up?
Same here except I've been doing it at work.

I suffer from chronic lower back pain due to a herniated disc, and never has my back felt better since my injury in high school. Sitting is absolutely terrible for it, and standing, while an improvement, leads to poor posture because I found I would lean on a particular leg for too long, and muscles in my back would get unevenly strained.

I walk between 1 and 2 MPH all day long. I find it very easy to do all computer tasks while moving. The only time I stop is when I need to write something down on paper, which I can't even do well at the lowest setting of 0.4 MPH.

It is a bit tiring, but in a very good way. My two "breaks" are sitting down with my team for lunch and then sitting on the couch for a little while after I get home. I did not work my way up slowly as some people recommend; I had been using a standing desk for about a year and I just dove right into the walking because I prefer it to standing even when I'm a little tired.
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There's also the aspect that in arranged marriage societies, the purpose and expectations of marriage are different. There, marriage may be an institution for the creation of a stable family for children. If Western love happens between the married couple, then so much the better (this type of love may be catered for by the married people having affairs). But don't presume that marriage has a universal 'love' basis. It can be more like forming a partnership to build a business. Imagine someone from another culture telling you that your startup was a sham because you didn't love your cofounder(s).
Try a service like IntenseDebate or Discus.
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Ask HN: I'm selling http://thank.st
Hello everybody,

Some time ago I started a spare-time project, Thankst, to give and receive thanks online, so you keep a log of the people that have helped you over the time.

As I don't have time to work on it - I have started two startups and as I'm 17 I'm still in high school - I want to sell Thankst.

The package includes:

- The backend that manages users and thanks. It also signs up all user's friends automatically. It creates profiles on the fly for users founded using the search box that are not signed up. It uses Facebook search so you can thank virtually everybody. You can also invite friends to sign up to Thankst. All the backend is optimized using cache. The database has currently 5200 users with 160 thanks given. It uses AppEngine.

- The frontend is optimized at most so the AppEngine costs would be minimal if used by millions of users.

- Mobile frontend that can be accesed using http://www.thank.st/?m and works on any mobile browser.

- iOS app, which implements all the functionality plus a unique one: Send messages along thanks. It works perfectly and was crafted and coded by one of the best Spanish iOS programmers, Jorge Izquierdo.

- Android app, that implements viewing profiles and thanks given but right now search and thanking don't work.

- The API, used by the frontend and apps.

- The Thanks button, that works similar to the Like or Tweet buttons, but for giving thanks.

- Facebook app, which integrates into Timeline and sends invites.

- thank.st, a short and cool domain.

If you are interested, please let me know at: meATluisivanDOTnet
Here's the treadmill desk I made last summer http://codhisattva.tumblr.com/post/37133702658/the-walking-d.... Really practical for me and productive. I find I can work at 2mph and type and read just fine. Although I do have to slow down or stop to type on an iPad or iPhone.
Calcium, surely..
Cellulose as well? Dicalcium phosphate is also a common tablet filler, though I don't know if it's biologically inactive.
Reading the title, I equated preventative medicine with public health work, but reading the article it seems that this isn't what they meant.

I'm not particularly surprised that the kind of treatments and screenings that they're talking about here are not cost-effective, they mostly seem to describe giving extra drugs to healthy middle class people for no particular reason.
Related link:

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There is one very shallow lake here in town that touches 50F on the hottest days. We swim in it for hours, happily.
It has antacid properties.
Musk probably isn't screwing around. I've been reading comments but no one has mentioned it: Who's to say he doesn't have access to one of the grounded 787s? He could have flown his MIT friend over to take a look with him and torn one of the batteries apart. He's the type of guy who could personally know the owner of a 787. Without schematics, he can tell a lot from the work Tesla has done. He could probably even see a near exact configuration they already tried.
I tried to develop an epub reader app for BB10 using their HTML5 webworks toolkit. I know it is probably not the best platform for this given the XML work required for the format, but I couldn't get past the "open a file on the device" step. A quick look through their developer forums showed a lot of people with the same issue.

Oh, and I'm also not experienced with developing apps for any BB platform so I admit that I'm definitely part of the problem.

That being said, I'm rooting for them. The space needs a third player. They really need to figure out simple things like this though.
I'm glad it's working out for you :)

It's not for me. Programming has been a passion of mine all my life. I practically learnt Python all by myself, in my own time.

Thing was, people have been telling me that I shouldn't do this, that nobody values tech skills, that I should focus on my 'soft' skills, that programmers in my country are doomed to be lowly-paid wage slaves.

Turns out, they were right.
Can you smell the desperation?
I got some great standing shoes (normally for nurses chefs), and a standing mat (normally for kitchens and workshops). Once i had both, I could stand all day and have no fatigue.

I've been standing for about 18 months now, and I've lost weight, and have much more endurance and energy playing with my kids.
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I would love love LOVE for someone to come out with an inclined treadmill desk that generates electricity from all that walking.
STUPID ARTICLE.

PASSION GAVE ME EVERYTHING.
FUCK THE AUTHOR, HE JUST FAILED.
One benefit of a stand up desk, from my experience, is that it helps battle grogginess. Since I started using a stand up desk, I have rarely had any mid afternoon, post-lunch fatigue.
Bingo. This was even covered in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, of all places
Jitsi is one.
Too bad it's in Flash. Can't it be done in HTML5?
Probably not, but disclosure of placebo ingredients would be enough to determine if it was a wise choice for a particular study.
A battery on fire is not necessarily an indicator of a problem in the design. It could be a manufacturing, software, or maintenance defect. It's too early to jump to conclusions. However, unless it's a maintenance defect, it's almost certainly an indicator of a flaw in quality control and verification.
Congrats on the MVP.

I don't usually watch videos until I have an idea what the product is so I kept scrolling and finally saw the "Easy as 1-2-3" graphic. That made a lot more sense to me. I'd suggest putting that before the videos.
I've changed a flat and then completely failed to remember a week later whether it was on the left or right side, so I guess I would have been in some trouble.
I don't think time is a good metric as some people are faster than others, but the impact of what they do matters more. Also, a "rockstar" designer or developer is potentially worth more than a novice. At the end of the day, there is no easy way to quantify things (yes, I know -- a non-answer) but things will be a lot easier if you both feel as if you are getting your fair share.