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Yep, see a therapist and talk about this. Any therapist. The important thing is to mention this to someone in real life and get the ball rolling.
Language - Python

Framework - Flask

Database - MySQL (since I've learnt about it from my university)

Hosting - AWS or Webfaction

No particular choice of infrastructure. Since I'm learning to build a web app from scratch, I'll tend to focus more on getting various pieces together.
Op wat moet je letten bij de keuze van de beste handmixer?
This reads like a thinly disguised ad to me.

"We all know that Google's stuff is excellent. Now, here's how we're doing the same thing..."
All of those "type" of startups should have the word 'Another' infront of them make it more appealing to the comedic crowd. chuckle
To be clear, drugs may not be necessary, and even if drugs are an option, they aren't the only option. There are a lot of ways one can address their mental health issues--with the assistance of a trained, professional psychiatric counselor--that do not involve drugs.

Years ago, I had some anxiety issues that I needed help to get through. But it took my sister convincing me that drugs weren't even the most likely result before I went to see a counselor. My issues weren't serious (night-time, work-stress-related panic attacks), but they were becoming disruptive to my life and I feared getting drugged to numbness like half of my coworkers.

My counselor did not even bring drugs up, actually told me to quit my job. I did, and though the next job had even more demanding bosses, I had the perspective necessary this time to not allow me to stress about it quite so much.

There is nothing that can hurt you about going to see a counselor or therapist once. Most health insurance companies have very discrete phone lines you can call to find a mental health professional. The therapist will talk with you and discuss what you want to do. That's really all they are there for. Most of them are capable of meeting at pretty much any time of day. If you don't have health insurance, there are a lot of therapists that do pro bono work over video conference. You won't get drugs forced on you if you don't want them. You won't get anything forced on you if you don't want it.
Dear god, how you feel about Singapore compared to Canada is exactly how I feel about Canada compared to, say, an European country. If the comparison holds, then Singapore truly sounds like a wonderful place to survive but a dreadful place to live...
But on the off chance there's some loophole in Russian law (or the laws of some country he passes through in the future) that makes extradition to the US for tax evasion particularly easy, filing and paying his taxes may be worth the cost and effort.

Or if by some long shot some future president pardons him, he'll be glad he paid his taxes.
I suppose an autonomous robot with good AI that requires an operator to log in over SSH and punch Y before every shot would qualify as non-autonomous.

Of course, monitoring each shot is very tedious, hence:

UNITS="wastelayer merciless thunderdeath"
UNIT_SIZE=4096
for UNIT in $UNITS; do
for I in `seq $UNIT_SIZE`; do
yes | ssh operator@$UNIT$I epclient
done
done
As a German who lived in Britain, this is how I felt about Brits :D

It's a neverending circle..
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Thanks for the answer, it makes very clear. Can I also ask how one learns about the latest best practices? I have come across many of these just by reading websites on the web.

Do most people learn these by reading books, reading about other people's mistakes or security blogs?

Or just the obvious, https://phpbestpractices.org/‎?
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FoundationDB provides real ACID transactions and external consistency, and definitely does NOT rely on clock accuracy for soundness! (Google Spanner, which we are often compared to, does use a trusted clock, but Google went to extreme measures to make it accurate, including installing atomic clocks and GPS hardware.)

As for how, it's a long story. At bottom we rely on Paxos for consistency across failures, but we only actually do Paxos when there are failures. (We use less costly synchronous techniques for replication in "happy times".)
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I'm sorta the same. What helped me was my partner.
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Are you kidding? It's a horrible presentation. All that scrolling to present what could have been easily shown on a one-page bar graph.
This wouldn't actually solve the problem. At best it's one way to hack around one of its symptoms - and a much harder one than just packing lunch and laying out the clothes. Not to mention that right after a lot of exercise is a terrible time to sleep.
Continuous integration, DNS and what we did after Zerigo hosting went down.
He talked about inter-project conflicts due to injecting money into the system, but I think the intra-project issues are the bigger problem. Suppose the head developer receives $10^n for fund raising. Does this encourage or discourage other potential contributors from working with the developer? We've mainly been participating in a gift economy: You've given to me; I'm happy to give back to you. However, if I've got a big feature that I can contribute to this newly funded project, might I hold back since I'm not going to get a cut of any of these funds? The problem seems exacerbated as the funds grow larger.
I second some of the other comments who suggest seeing a doctor. I'm assuming the author is a student, since a degree is specifically mentioned, and in that case, most campuses have a central service for health issues and/or psychological issues. Many also have "helplines", which can be called anonymously and might be able to give further advice depending on the locality.

Worrying (or, more generally, anxiety), panic attacks etc. are not uncommon in universities, so many places are equipped (and used) to offer help. Make use of the facilities available!
Neither of those browsers supports HTTP/2.0, so that's moot.
Got a demo/screenshot of the webmail interface?
There is a difference between using a chemistry set to learn something about the world through analytics and creation/change of matter, and to play around with it.

I agree with csmuk wholeheartedly that it is the supervision that counts. A chemistry kit can be a great learning tool, but it is not something that should be taken as a toy to play around.

We all play, make mistakes, and learn due to those mistakes. But with chemistry those mistakes could show in the form of a hospital visit, chemical pollution, or long term poisoning. I had the fortune to survive an explosion in a lab unscathed, and I will not forget the day I saw my collegue burn 2 meters from me.

Proper training in chemistry is important for reasons of safety and for scientific understanding and reasoning. But let us face it, most people do not like chemistry at all in school. But blowing stuff up and making drugs a la Breaking Bad is cool. When I read the words RDX, CCl4, conc. H2SO4, Methylamine - a bit of TiCl4 perhaps - etc in this thread I imagine the kid with sparks in his eyes who wants to blow stuff up on new years eve.

So, how can one include proper attitude towards the materials inside this Chemistry Set without proper supervision?
Imagine a system similar to Lavabit's, but with PFS.

The FBI demands the key so they can spy on one user. I'll give them the key, ban the user, and continue with a new key. The government then will have no plaintext of anyone's comms on my server.

If they demand the new key, they'll have to have a warrant for another user, and we'll repeat the above process.

If they object to the particular users being banned, or order me not to ban them, I'll shut down the server, and object in public based on the 13th Amendment [1]. They're entitled to take over the server if they want, but they're less likely to get away with compelling innocent citizens to actively perform services to help them deceive third parties.

1. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Yes. He should just use the 'train button' to mark the current position and interpolate to the 'trained positions' on run.

I think this is how the Baxter robot works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXOkWuSCkRI
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See http://blog.neo4j.org/2013/11/why-graph-databases-are-best-t... on how to use Neo4j for the mentioned Diaspora cases (Neo4j was actually proposed back in 2010 to the team). Comments are very welcome.
On the docker without AUFS point - we also got docker working rpi using the device mapper instead, so it's very possible :)
Amazon's integration with Facebook (auto-opted in)
This is a really good suggestion. I need to remember this when I'm in my poor-working moments.
... while setting up huge MySQL installations with a
dozen+ replicas ...

If you're careful about your function calls, sure. Include a UUID() or SYSDATE() in your INSERT statements, and the replication goes to pieces as the function calls are run separately on each slave (with differing results).
Self-selected teams while good from that perspective actually have a huge downside: politics and pleasing your friends.

Next thing that happens is people start choosing members based on how much comfortable they are (which doesn't translate into technical skills and delivering stuff) or start talking to each other, trying to convince people.. this sucks!

While it might work for small companies with not much variation in technical skills and sociability between employees.. for anything else it's kinda hard.

Plus, that initial list of 2-3 employees that start talking and picking others was selected by someone, wasn't it? And the list that they can pick from was also selected, no?

I think if you need a team of 10 and you have 30 possibly good candidates within your company (and they are all available to move to your team).. sure, why not. You as a manager already pre-selects a bunch of people and then let your team members filter it even further.

But putting that responsibility from the beginning solely on the team members.. I guess that's risky. But anyway, how often does that happen?

If we are talking about selecting 1-2 people for a already formed team than fine.. of course other team members should do it (but that's mostly the norm in a lot of companies.. the manager/tech lead runs the resumes through people he/she trusts, ask them to participate in interviews.. no big difference there).
If I remember the runtime efficiency of prolog correctly, you might just have to wait :)
The interesting thing about this chart is how unprofitable manufacturing is. Foxconn's profits are less than $3 billion on $115 billion in revenues (and $50-$60 billion in assets). Google has 3x the profit but less than half the revenue. When people ask why manufacturing has left the U.S., this is the reason why: it doesn't offer very good return on capital.

On the other hand, Foxconn provides jobs for over 1.2 million people, while Google employs less than 50,000. Also relevant to the debate about manufacturing.
Gonna remember that the next time I wind up in Manila or Milton Keynes or Chernobyl or Dhaka..
That reminds me, there's actually a funky old Microsoft skunkworks project that lets you query CSVs and Apache logfiles and all sorts of stuff via SQL: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2465 I have no idea if it even still runs on current windows versions.
I don't think this should be taken hardly. A lot of people (from what I've seen) complain about go fmt doing things they don't like (bracing structure, indentation, etc.) For me it was no big deal since my bracing "standard" (what I did 90% of the time out of luck) is almost the same as go. And most people complaining just don't try to (ehem) go with it: once you are used to seeing your code neatly formatted automagically, always exactly the same, you start to see how neat it is. Also, being able to read other people's go code without hiccups is awesome.
Proxies don't have to be transparent. Non-transparent forward proxies that I set up and choose to use are very handy because I get a direct performance improvement out of them.

As an aside, I hear that in much of the more distant parts of the world (Australia/New Zealand) transparent forward proxies are common amongst consumer ISPs to help with their high latency to the rest of the world.
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> "Go to the Mall" or, "Take my kids to tuition".

The impression I've gotten about Singapore is its like a hyper urbanized American suburb. The vast majority of people silently love the American suburb, and a small extremely vocal group loudly hate the American suburb.

So thats how you end up with discussions like this, where you're really hearing very local burb vs downtown mumbling and declaration of membership in one local faction or another rather than an actual discussion of Singapore.
Yes. Happy user for just over 10 years (if memory serves). I remember a couple of outages back in the early days, but since then it's been rock-solid, AFAICT.
Thanks everyone, these are really helpful comments. I work the best in the mornings, so I'm adding a suggestion to my own post: Figure out when you work the best, and use that time to your advantage. Work with colleagues during your toughest times and motivate each other. Tackle administrative tasks when you're not at your best.

Now I'm going to take my own advice and get off HN.
"If you disagree, write code."

Love this.

Also nice application of Monte Carlo simulations. They're great for thought experiments.
At that age, we can hope they do not have yet the same attitude as in this strip: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2013/11/12/la-feature-que-lon-....
I'm 90% sure you can't disable someones SSL certificate once they have it. Which is why most of the time it takes a bit to actually get it.
I could; I don't like the idea of multiple versions of a standard being necessary, though. Why can't the newest version support all reasonable use cases?
The one reason for doing a code review
Robot Suicide? Seriously?
This free e-book 'The Flinch' might help to put things in perspective. "What are you afraid of? Here's how to find out."

http://www.amazon.com/The-Flinch-Julien-Smith-ebook/dp/B0062...
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I agree. I recently signed up, and wanted to use my own domain. I could either go for the highest level or personal account, with way more storage and transfer than I need, or get a "family" account with only one user, which felt like cheating. Pondering these options caused me to hesitate for a month or two before signing up.
I have been using Fastmail since January of 2005. It has been rock-solid for virtually all of that time, save for a single prolonged outage many years ago (they have since rearchitected).

The web user interface is clean, effective, and comes with a complete set of keyboard bindings. Searching is fast and flexible, as is folder manipulation.

I'd like to see some improvements in the spam filtering, but am otherwise very happy with my paid account.
All I can find are screenshots of their old web interface. They've made a lot of improvements recently; better customer support, a much faster server, and while the interface isn't 'purdy', it's better. More upgrades are on the way too, I've been told.
your blunt thoughts are well received.

It's true that if we see the purpose of life as arriving slowly at death, we'll do some really wacky stuff. Like spend every last dollar trying to grasp for anything that will keep us alive.

That's a worldview issue though and a big one.
It could be argued that perhaps it is not such a good idea to base money on debt. But it has managed to get the job done, largely because people can still be expected to pay debts in full. This expectation largely holds because the system is set up so that paying in full is by far the most attractive option.

The thing about your system is that under it, paying debts in full doesn't make any sense. You could just hold out for a settlement, pay far less than what you'd borrowed at that time, and leave the creditor holding the bag for the rest. When paying in full doesn't make any sense, lending doesn't make any sense either. When lending doesn't make any sense, then a system of money based on debt is doomed to collapse.

One possible way to mitigate this is to set it up so that the debtor earns the legal right to first refusal when, over the lifetime of the debt to date, an amount of money equal to the original principal (or maybe the principal plus some multiple of the APR) has been paid into it. That would prevent the worst abuses of first refusal, because you don't get it until the lender has at least recouped its initial investment. But it doesn't completely solve the problem.
Here are some good papers, there are lots more, but a small primer on what I am talking about.

Bottom line is this, I was replying to the response to this comment "More people living doesn't necessarily mean people living better lives. In a finite world with limits to growth, relaxing one bottleneck only leads to the next bottleneck." that said "this doesn't even make sense"

I'm showing that it does make some sense, though there is plenty of room for debate. I think too many people misinterpreted his comment for Malthusianism.

Here are a few papers on the matter:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1846696/pdf/brme...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3586590/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1811054/pdf/proc...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1332674/
I definitely don't speak for anyone but myself...
However, some of us have been using Fastmail for several years, as even before Opera took over, Fastmail was a mobile friendly service, pre iPhone era, so we like this service regardless of their physical location.

Powerusers who value their privacy will have already taken steps to encrypt their communications before sending into the wild.

Then there are those whose accounts are free because they joined up back when free accounts were available to all; those accounts are still free! <(;-)
Care to elaborate? I do not think you will get a warning if the MITM is done with a certificate signed by a valid CA, even if you have approved some self-signed certificate before for that site. At least I have never seen this in any browser.
I don't see anything wrong with the steps he/she has taken to be prepared for the next day. I don't think it should be enough to keep you up at night, but if you feel better about yourself having prepared before bed, simply make that a part of your pre-bed routine.

The other worries are indeed needless ... I'm an introvert so I'm naturally more withdrawn from my peers/colleagues/etc, but I could care less about what people think of my hair/clothes/etc. If you're clean, somewhat groomed and not wearing outlandish clothes, you'll simply blend in and no one will consider those "externals".

As an aside, people who know you probably would look past the externals anyway.
It helps to learn techniques to calm the mind and at times, completely shut it off. I'd recommend a good book on meditation. This might sound like a cliche. But, it doesn't hurt to spend half an hour for a few days finishing this book and see if that changes anything for you. http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-practical-guide-peace-fran.... Or you could browse around for books on similar topic and find one that appeals you.

It is helping me reduce my stress levels.
> (the media and hollywood seems to view it as morally wrong)

Their advertisers have a certain preference for how you spend your money. And suburban land developers are not exactly known for buying advertising on TV and product placement in movies. Its not a moral thing, just follow the money.
Related, from earlier this year on patents expiring: http://qz.com/106483/3d-printing-will-explode-in-2014-thanks...
Caste system seeded hatred and rolled-out sadists/savages in India.

What makes you think your parents/your children/your women/your houses/your properties are safe from sections of society whom you've abused for thousands of years?

Google "jyoti singh pandey".
Markets, particularly unregulated or opaque ones, are often subject to volatility, exponential network effects, irrational exuberance, etc, and the most common excuse for that is 'this time it's different', which is your argument and that of the OP. Often, the explanation is just that crowds follow each other and/or those with a stake attempt manipulation.

As a store of value, gaining value exponentially is a sign of danger, because it is clearly unsustainable, even in the short term. While it gains though it seems a one way bet and lots of people will take it, as they did during the south sea bubble, the railway bubble, the dotcom bubble, housing bubbles, tulips etc. Each time it was different, and we'd achieved a new paradigm where old rules no longer applied (and in some sense in each case this was true, but people got carried away).

As a currency, volatility over hours, days and months is deadly - who wants to transact in a currency when you can't tell what the value of what you hold will be tomorrow or later today?

As a currency, gaining value rapidly all the time is also difficult - who wants to transact in such a currency instead of just holding on to it and spending other currencies or bartering? It becomes more an investment than a currency (see gold when paper money is available).

Still it's an interesting currency and I certainly wouldn't discount it (though it has not taken over the world just yet!) - just wary of irrational explanations for its huge rise in value over the last few months.
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A lot of things are hodecoded into chrome/chromeium. For example the font types and sizes of the tab area. Their browser is practically unusable on a 4k monitor at full resolution.
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That's excellent news. I was bumping up against the 8GB limit on a Superior family account, and they sheepishly couldn't give me any more storage. Now I've got 15GB, and an option to get 60GB within my family account. (I run email accounts for my less technically inclined family members.)

It does seem like buying themselves back from Opera has been a good move for customers.
I'd definitely go with AWS for deployment only because if you never signed up before you get a micro instance for free for a year in most cases.

This gives you an ability to deploy multiple toy projects without having to fork out $5-10/month which isn't a ton but it's still an expense.
This is helpful. Thanks for your thoughts.
The kids who grew up with this kind of chemistry sets in the 1920s to 1960s were the kids who grew up to be the scientists and engineers who built the internet, landed on the moon and split the atom.

When I was a kid, as a part of my education I learned how to use a band saw, did chemistry experiments and learned how to weld with MIG and solder with an oxy-acetylene flame, even do some radioactive experiments. Yes, there was adult supervision but only one adult per 15-20 kids.

This was less than 15 years ago, and during that time we've seen a huge shift in the mentality. One lost thumb was deemed acceptable if the rest of the kids learned how to use the band saw. These days kids live their sheltered lives and are not exposed to dangerous situation they have to learn to deal with.

Technology is getting more, not less, complicated and learning to deal with the basics - like chemistry, electricity and radioactivity - at an early age will become more important, not less.

The world out there is dangerous in many ways, learning to manage risks and deal responsibly with dangerous materials and tools is an invaluable skill.

PS. I, too, would like to have this chemistry set but unfortunately they can't ship it outside the US.
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