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You procrastinate because you have an unpleasant task that is not internally motivated. A part of you hopes it will go away, so you delay starting. Only when time is running out do you realize you need to get on it. The trick is to find something you would do on your own time.

IMO, a hobby merely helps you spend the time you would have wasted procrastinating.

You are at a golden age where you can choose any path. Don't procrastinate on that. One day you will have to spend all your waking hours working to pay the bills, and changing course then will be doubly hard.

Though, by all means find a hobby, because that teaches you more about what you'd like to do.
Similar thing happened to me, but with a much happier outcome. I lived in Iowa, moved to Colorado for a few years, and now I'm back in Iowa. I received a letter that I owed estimated taxes plus interest and penalties and... Ignored it. Then, 6 months later, I got a bill with the email address of the Iowa IRS agent.

One friendly email and four days later, her response was:

Thank you for your response to the Department’s billing notice you received for no record of an Iowa individual income tax return on file for tax year ending 12-31-2005. Per review of your 2006 Iowa return I have verified you claimed a part-year Iowa credit therefore please consider this matter resolved. I am in the process of revising your billing to zero. You may continue to receive notices until our Accounts Receivable as officially cleared the billing.

If you have any other questions please feel free to contact me directly. Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
And I think it's one of the problems with OOP - it's too easy to create class that have 20 methods and 10 parameters, and too hard to refactor it into smaller classes once you have it in such state. You start with simple - domain related classes that have a few methods and related state. Then real life happens and you end up with such monstrocities.

It's much less convenient to work with function that takes 30 arguments, so nobody write such functions - you just divide it into smaller parts. And it's much easier to refactor when most of the code don't need to deal with internal state, and when you can use closures.
> But in the land of Gladwell there are no liars.

Could you elaborate on that?
might be worth trying. however, i'm still not convinced the presented use-case would be useful rather than just cool.
Most of this stuff is easy enough to produce in a controlled, safe manner. There are suppliers for medical-grade cocaine, for example, as it's used in a small set of procedures.
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Despite numerous older studies showing that psychedelics have positive effects in a number of medical cases, there is a very big "anti-psychedelics" climate in the US right now, making it harder to go further with the existing research.
None as recent, but here's one more:

On October 14, 2008, Apple lowered the price of the base model MacBook, from $1099 to $999. It upgraded the Combo Drive to a SuperDrive, but that was all.

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-...

So yeah, it's pretty rare for Apple to lower prices on existing Mac models.
Is Play framework on the roadmap too?
The price is a pretty big barrier to entry. I understand why, but an eval option would be nice.
The first version of Photoshop was written in Pascal?!?
Ahhh, karma accrued and lost, the perils of taking a contra-Apple stance.

Sorry, ditching Apple's BSD for a "real" Linux distro ranks as the 2nd best developer decision I have ever made (the 1st being switching from Windows to Apple).

To put in perspective, just picked up a Dell Precision Series M4700:
3840QM
K2000 2GB graphics
16GB (could go 32GB if I ever need it)
256GB SSD
256GB mSata
bluetooth, webcam, backlit, etc.
$1,700

Comparable MBP would be at least $3K, no? Picked up a pair of Skullcandy Aviators, Google Nexus phone, North Face laptop bag and I still have a grand to go before I get to MBP price tag.

Shit, guess I'll use the remaining grand to get my flight to France, spring surf season just about to begin ;-0
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Whenever I think of our society's relationship with death I remember a documentary I once saw about an aid worker who travelled with a nomadic tribe in Africa for a while.

During her stay one of the tribe's elders decided she had had enough and told the tribe so. They started their ritual and held a feast for a day or two where everybody peacefully said goodbye to the old woman and on the morning of the third day the tribe moved on and left the old woman behind in the desert to die in peace.

However the aid worker couldn't accept this. The woman was still alive! She could go on for at least a few more weeks, maybe even months! So she frantically ran back to the tribe pleading with them to let the old woman live. The tribesman were confused and tried to calm the aid worker down. It was all good! They had said goodbye and she had led an amazing life!

When it became clear she couldn't convince the tribe of the error of their ways, the aid-worker went back to the old woman and stayed with her to comfort her until she passed away.

The aid worker never realized that she was the one being comforted.
The order requires a cumbersome series of reviews by the Attorney General, the Chief Privacy Officer, the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, including annual revisions, and limits all new (internal to fedgov) provisions to all existing privacy regulations throughout every agency of the federal government.

But, sure: the 1-day-old EO has not "undergone any public technical rights-based or privacy reviews".
Who is that? I've never heard of her up until now.
Why not just link directly to the Pixelapse website? Does TechCrunch deserve to be a middle man for every startup?
psilocybin != LSD

The modern study written about in this article uses psilocybin, not LSD.

They are entirely different substances, with different effects.
Sure, but that was my mistake - I meant CS more general, product/project development way. And looking from this point the two are pretty much involved. Also in this context the development maybe starts to look a lot like a design.

Also recently I come to think that the graphic design (or any form of design) is actually far more scientific that I would think it is. For me it looked a lot of like magic in the beginning, but the more I learn about it, the more I think its pretty similar to development. On the basis level they are both about process, best practices, operating under constraints and of course logical thinking. And on top of that its just a matter of taste.
I think this article discusses the issue fairly, but only if you read what it actually says, instead of just reading one or two sentences and guessing the rest.

Google doesn't claim that GFT replaces epidemiologists, and epidemiologists agree. And the article didn't say otherwise, if you actually read it.

Google, and the CDC, and the article, agree that Google returns data much faster than the CDC does, which is a service of some value. Similarly, Google can sometimes give finer-grained geographic resolution.

Everyone agrees that it would be nice to know about flu trends in countries that don't have good epidemiological analysis. GFT helps with that.

The article isn't saying that GFT is useless, nor spreading FUD, nor is it anti-strange-new-technology. Nor are the epidemiologists saying that. The article is pointing out that GFT this year didn't do as well as it has most years since its inception, and that the modest-but-proud claims of the GFT team are pretty much exactly proportional to GFT's efficacy, rather than being false modesty.

Note that there are other Google Trends published, many with similar benefits and faults. For example, Google's guesses about unemployment rates are released in real time, but are presumably accurate than government reports. That's a tradeoff.

tl;dr: GFT is useful but not miraculous, and if you read the article carefully, the article says that.
"You could argue that the IETF has become everything the ISO working groups used to be, and that 'rough consensus and running code' is long gone."

Yes you could, I was there in the trenches trying to urge them not to go down that road. I really lost it when we had gotten Sun to release all claim to any rights to the XDR or RPC code libraries so that IETF could endorse it as an 'independent' standard. There were enough implementations out there, a regular connectathon which tested interoperability. Paul Leach, who made it his life's work to prevent any sort of standardization of RPC, successfully rallied Microsoft to overwhelm the otherwise rational members of the IETF and de-rail that process. It was so blatant, and so petty. I remember telling Vint Cerf that I marked that day, and those events, as the death of the IETF as a body with any integrity. Many working groups soldiered along and did well until they became 'strategic' to some big player, and then their integrity too was ripped out of them. Sort of like that movie 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Very sad.

Over the years I've toyed briefly with starting a new networking working group.
Lars Rasmussen AMA
It is basically heading toward what jQuery did for JavaScript on the web.

See http://ejohn.org/blog/webkit-is-the-jquery-of-browser-engine...

from jQuery's creator.
Wow, that's really similar with very similar approaches. The internet is a great way to find out you're not very original. I'll add a link to that project from mine.
"If an individual, an entrant must be a citizen of or permanent resident of the United States". You have already lost 96% of contestants who could have contributed.
Retina macbooks don't have a long-standing pricepoint.
Ooh ok, not yet available up North - hoping to be there by summer.
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I do not know what you mean by "making it harder to expound on the existing research." Maybe expound is not the right word?

EDIT: I understand now. Thanks for being decent about it. I'd love to know what clown downvoted me for not understanding your choice of words.
Yup, you are correct; the text of the order specifically mentions cyber threat reports.
Violet Blue is a sex writer who is probably most notorious for getting kicked out of Boing Boing. Under ZDNet's masthead she's probably best known for the series of posts she wrote about a "booth babe" at a conference (and her low-cut shirt) that turned out to be the lead developer of the product she was there to represent.
I tell you what, I'm not driving anywhere near "Medical LSD Dispensaries" :-)
KC schools aren't even accredited [1], and the Fiberhoods are all in the ghetto.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/us/kansas-city-mo-school-d...
Ok, im viewing your site from an 11 inch macbook air. Things to consider: the email input should be above the fold. I should see it as soon as I land on your page. Instead of saying "Enter Your E-Mail to Request an Invite" you could put "Claim Our Early Adopter Badge", something of the sort. The logo is too big and should be higher, in order for everything else to fit. I would rearrange the copy of the main message, making it say Hire a Neighbor before the other part. That text could be smaller and with a cooler font. The image of the map on the phone should be clear and have the proper dimensions of an iphone app.

All of that said, your landing page should not be your MVP. You'd do well to make a mobile site that looks and feels exactly like your app would feel. Then the demo for the startup weekend could be a video showing you navigating through the mobile site.
I think Salon's editor messed up the title of the article (and, by extension, the HN title). The article describes recent trials for psilocybin and MDMA, not LSD. There were certainly LSD trials in the '60s but if there have been some recent ones the article doesn't mention them.
The Amstrad CPC 6128 had an 8-bit Z80 CPU and would only access the first 64KB of 128KB of RAM, even when restarting.

Somebody had the idea of using the second 64KB as RAM disk to story an exact copy of the main RAM, which would survive a CPU crash, which made it great for development.

To this day I do not know why they put 128KB on a machine with an OS designed for the older 64KB models. I suspect it had to to with legal reasons (lower taxes for higher memory models?). The fact that it also ran a rather dated CP/M might also have been a factor.
Have you heard of "The War On Drugs"?
Presumably because we live in such an anti-"drug" climate that taking on this type of research could have a presumably negative impact on their careers; not to mention the extra effort to get something like this approved.

I don't think the general cultural feelings surrounding hallucinogens has changed so much since 2009?
Bold paragraph text... awful.
Just make sure you do not do something silly like publish a book on how to make drugs using easy-to-find supplies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHKAL
I agree with this last part. Pharmaceutical patents for example come to mind. Those are clearly not software/methodology/business process patents though - I don't think recognizing them would be difficult.
If anyone's interested in this topic, I highly recommend: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Mea...
Apple's Watch could be past the experimental stage
Violet Blue is a sex blogger. Tangent to this, she has an interest in internet privacy and gets involved in those issues from time to time.
I've rented servers for high-traffic websites with no income for years. If it's something you love to run, and you can afford it, then it's just the cost of your hobby. Not everything is a business.
This was a very nice clarification; thank you. I think your point to look at this 'in terms of the programming principle' identifies the truth that Yegge is getting at, the functions should be first class, without the clutter of the English metaphor.
Poor word choice on my part, edited for (hopefully) the better. Much appreciated! :)
She has the same engagement with internet privacy that your average HN commenter does, with the added benefit of financial incentive for generating rageviews.
This is incredible! I only wish it were a little easier to do on the fly.
Not necessarily. How hard would it be to find an American person to collaborate with who can represent the group?
LayerVault just has one plan: $24/user/month with unlimited storage and projects. Pixelapse seems more flexible with a free plan (1GB storage) and pay plans starting from $19/month (20GB) up to $149/month (100GB).

Not sure how they comparefeature or quality wise but Pixellapse's pricing plans might be serious trouble for LayerVault.
A lot of bad trips are caused by anxiety. This anxiety can come from: societies view on drugs, the person thinking they are going to die, the legality of what they are doing, lack of a knowledgable trip-sitter, to name a few. I think taking a psychedelic in a setting as described in the article will help remove a lot of those common triggers to a bad trip.
A lot of social and regulatory barriers stand in the way of any medical researcher who wants to use MDMA / mushrooms / LSD and other hallucinogens to help people with end-of-life depression and psychiatric issues.

They are to be complimented for persisting in the face of such obstacles.
One friend of mine has made it his mission to improve the way we look at death in North America even and has even worked at a funeral home and in a morgue. He is currently writing a book. If anyone is interested his website is http://embraceyourdeath.com/
How was she being comforted? By gaining a new perspective on death? I'm not sure that, if I were the tribe woman, I would have wanted this aid worker around in my final weeks.
Expound is the exact right word. Dfc, are you a troll?

expound |ikˈspound|
verb [ with obj. ]
present and explain (a theory or idea) systematically and in detail
managed to avoid pretty much any fees by following the guidance of very helpful employees

If their fee structure is so complex you need help from employees to get around it, they aren't "great".
http://kivy.org/#home
I'm curious to know how you think Crashalytics is a mediocre solution.

I run AppBlade (a tangentially competitive service which offers open-source [PLCrashReporter based] crash reporting for enterprises) I have customers that opt to use Crashalytics when closed-source isn't a show stopper and have huge respect for Wayne and the team.

From what I understand they use Mach Exceptions which are the hairy/scary holy grail for exception reporting in Darwin. Mediocre is using signal handlers which the rest of us mortals do.
removed?

EDIT: He is not scheduled until tomorrow, according to the sidebar.
Still does not prevent revision pruning. For personal use, this is very rarely a problem. For anybody with Google Apps for Education or Business, it's a pretty frequent issue with (AFAIK) no real or good solution:

https://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=95902
We live in a political climate where it is considered acceptable to have teams of soldiers attack civilian homes if there is even a suspicion that they are producing, transporting, or distributing the drugs described in this article. Our politicians firmly believe that propaganda promoting such approaches to drug policy should be forced down the throats of grade school children, and that those children should be asked to report their parents' activities to the government in the name of enforcing drug policy. That is a pretty rough political climate for a researcher investigating positive or medical uses for those drugs. There is also the issue of having to be careful not to tell the public how to manufacture these drugs in their kitchens, as Alexander Shulgin discovered after a team of soldiers attacked his lab.
In the Navy, your career is over if your ship goes aground. Even if it wasn’t your fault. The lack of justice for the one guy is way more than made up by a greater justice for everybody else when every captain makes sure their ship doesn’t go aground.

Unfortunately, non-fiction writing is a system entirely built on trust. The system may be unfair, but Jonah Lehrer violated that trust, and now his career is rightfully over.
I moved to Austin in 2011 and have worked here since 2012. I'm going to make sure to do this at the same time I file my tax return here. I don't want to give California the chance to retroactively change what I owe. Thanks for the advice!
Best idea I've heard this week. Someone, make it happen.
Times change, IIRC Chrome suffers the same problem.
http://www.rubymotion.com/support/#faq

Discount for students/academics.
Australia and the US already have a free trade agreement: http://www.austrade.gov.au/AUSFTA/default.aspx
What’s the deal with Startup Act 3.0?
SLAs? Support? Consulting? Tangental services? Same way Google Analytics does, they're getting their foot in the door with a lot of enterprises.
Love seeing the rise in interest in psychedelics posts here. I have always had a strong interest in 'entheogens'. Its hard to write about such a subject matter due to their powerful nature. All I can say is early on it was about fun and partying, but over time the lesson I learned was they are powerful tools not to be taken because you have them but instead when you need them. Lately my interest has been in ayahuasca. Seems from what I have read its more of a healing tool.
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From the iPhone 5 teardown: "The battery comes out with a bit of prying once the front panel is removed." And there are no warnings that you shouldn't remove the battery and that to replace the battery you will need a whole new back assembly.

And I guess that's ignoring the fact that phones are expected to be hard to take apart whereas iFixit complained loudly about the non-repairability of the iMac. http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2544...
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Ask Umberto Eco http://books.google.co.uk/?id=2sDMxqbibS0C
Thanks for the question, nanch;

I noticed Dan Grossman posted a link to Helpjuice.com

I'm the founder of Helpjuice.com, if all you are looking for is ONLY a faq/knowledgebase, then I'd suggest you dive into Helpjuice.com deeper.

However, if you're also looking for ticketing, fb+twitter support, phone support and all that other good stuff, some of ou competitors might be a better fit.
Interesting how they're using synthetic psilocybin, maybe for control purposes, but I thought it would be easier to obtain it from the original sources
The 80s were a crazy time. Hardware was dropping in price in a way no one expected.

I remember reading an interview with Nolan Bushnell about the Atari 2600. He said by the time it launched, RAM prices fell by 80%. They could have put in tons more RAM, but during the design phase no one saw it coming, so they designed with expensive RAM in mind.

He also complained about his parent company's hesitation to see newer models of Atari 2600s with newer equipment. I guess they thought of it like an appliance. You make one, it lasts 10 years, and you buy a new one when it dies, like a washing machine. The ultra-fast pace of technology threw a lot of old world business ideas out the window.

I suspect that Amstrad was in the opposite situation. The hardware got so cheap so fast, the software guys couldn't keep up.
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That is a pretty nice response, even if it is a bit snarky :-)

I don't think you, Daniel, would do well there. When I was interviewing people at Google I would always try to remind the candidate that whether or not the interview proceeded to the offer stage said more about the people who interviewed them than it did about the candidate's capabilities.

I like the refer.ly question because it allows the candidate to talk about something they are passionate about, or have thought deeply about. I'm not sure that it informs on their organization as much as the interviewer would like.
Why not indeed: https://www.pixelapse.com/ - especially since TechCrunch have a broken link, and pixelapse haven't thought to redirect it.
Maybe your usage has outgrown camping out in coffee shops...
Too bad it's paywalled. Would have made an interesting read.
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I'll rephrase: picking and choosing true anecdotes in support of a specific thesis, while leaving out other true anecdotes that don't support that thesis, isn't (in my book) that different from making up anecdotes.

I'm not accusing Gladwell of ever "lying"; I have issues with "anecdotal evidence" which deserves its bad rep, and on which Gladwell (and many, many others) built their whole careers.

I think Lehrer is early.

Some time ago, lies and distortions that are routinely used today in fiction (TV, film, even novels) would have been considered unbecoming and simply unthinkable. But nowadays, what would be unthinkable in fiction "based on a true story", would be to stick to the facts.

But journalism is also fiction; the very act of reporting isn't neutral, it creates a new reality.
I completely agree. I think a common misconception is all psychedelics are the same - but last different times. Definitely not the case. They may share common characteristics but definitely have a personality of their own ;-)