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Regular HN user here; throwaway account.

I'm a regular user of cannabis (I smoke everyday after dinner, around 9pm or so). I frequently watch math/CS lectures, write code, and read technical books when high.
I find that it helps me a lot both with focusing, and with creative thought. Ideas flow more easily, bits of knowledge connect on their own. I've most certainly gotten productive work done while high. Recollection is not too much of an issue, but I recommend heavy use of a notebook to keep track of what you're doing, and so that you can refer to it the next day.

I've never used drugs other than weed/psychedelics, mostly because I find that stuff nasty and stay away from it, so I can't comment on that. It's close to impossible for me to get anything done during a shroom trip- however, when the trip ends, I enter a phase of extreme lucidity and am able to focus in a way that I've never been to sober.

Relevant details: I am a cofounder at a small but growing SF tech startup. I also believe I have Asperger's (I've always been that super weird kid) & ADD (I have a really hard time focusing and sticking to a single task, and the feeling of extreme focus and lucidity I experience at the end of a shroom trip feels to me like it should be the way my brain should always be), and that my brain chemistry behaves in a very atypical way with such substances (my gf has remarked several times that I am way more lucid and coherent than anyone else she knows on drugs) - I am currently in the process of getting those things professionally diagnosed. I've gotten my IQ assessed as a teenager, it was in the ~150 range.

Finally, the bay area is super open to that. I regularly smoke weed and talk CS theory/math with friends who work at large famous tech companies, and a certain subset of employees at a well known large tech company with a knack for design absolutely love the Ploom Pax [0].
[0] http://www.ploom.com/pax
Well, I know what I'll be doing right before Thanksgiving dinner :)
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There's not a single word of admittance of any problems Yahoo mail has other than mentioning one missing feature. If I were an employee, I'd basically be thinking that my feedback wouldn't matter because they haven't made any effort to prove that they know what common problems are and therefore can actively work on a solution.

Granted, that's how I feel about most "give us feedback" forms. I'd feel a lot better if they listed a few things that actually came out of the suggestions, or things that were popular from that suggestion form that were changed using some feedback (frequently devs actually already know whats wrong and feedback can just be for a little prioritization, but there's nothing lost in giving the userbase a pat on the back).
Well one example is that bug that caused a panic on a certain date (I think it may have been leap year related) - machines just die then. Only way to recover from that would be some neat reboot system that recovers the data from RAM. But, all systems have dataloss, so this problem affects any main-memory system.

You may get more volunteers by publishing a paper outlining the core concept. I clearly remember reading things like the H-Store paper, or the Dremel paper, and saying "damn, this makes sense and is really cool". Implementation details can be worked out and engineering approaches tried. But the underlying concept should be clear.
Just confirmed on webcast but even before the launch window only extended to 6:43 EST, not enough time to reset the countdown.
No, it's an excellent, beautiful place. Because it has no government, and therefore must be, by libertarian definition. Don't you understand? There is no Somalian FDA - which means all you have to do if you want to consume safe food or drugs is to enlist a local food and drug testing company to test things on your behalf. Perfect capitalism! No government interference!

And yet libertarians don't move there. It's baffling. Every single U.S. libertarian talks a great game, but not one of them is willing to put their money where their mouth is.
Oops. It seems I got carried away.

> There are both really good and horrible Frequentist and Bayesian statisticians.

Yeah. If I had to choose between Fisher and Anonymous Bayesian, I may chose Fisher.

However, unless both kind of statistics yield the same results (I don't think they do), then at least one of them is bogus, by application of the non-contradiction principle. So, while I can imagine there are good Frequentists Statisticians out there, I insist that frequentism itself is bogus.
This may sound silly, but ElementaryOS has revived my hope of a usable Linux desktop. And then some.

It stays out of my way completely. And when I need it, it's intuitive in use while looking beautifully. It's simple, but complete. Solid, for most parts.

Sure I have my gripes, and I've had to change my workflow a little, but the design and the 'out of your face' mentallity makes it worth it.

Compared to XFCE, for me it is far more focused and complete. It feels like a whole. Compared to GNOME, it does not try to reinvent the wheel, but it is not afraid of change either.

These guys cannot get enough good press.
In addition to what Josh says, in ambiguous situations, we will begin CPR or other life-saving measures whilst efforts are made to obtain/ascertain. We can always discontinue these efforts - on the other hand, delayed starts of such measures are more likely (if they result in survival at all) to end up with exactly the kinds of situations described here, brain damage, serious side effects, and the like.
I've personally started removing myself from google services one baby step at a time. The whole spying and g+ thing has really left a bad taste in my mouth. They just don't seem interested in not creeping me out.
Even with Flash it's not the greatest video streamer. On Firefox on Linux it kept freezing every 5 or 6 seconds.
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Flash or h.264, apparently, the video works fine on an iPad.
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> At this point in your life, Outlook may be familiar, which we can often confuse with productive or well designed. Certainly, we can admire the application for its survival, an anachronism of the now defunct 90s PC era, a pre-web program written at a time when NT Server terrorized the data center landscape

I don't get this sentiment. I know plenty of people who are very productive with Outlook and see no reason to sway them away from it. In fact this is why Office 365 is killing it right now.
The "confirm flight computer is not in start-up" call is part of the vehicle safing process after an abort or hold is called. It is heard immediately after any hold or abort during the terminal count. This does not indicate the cause of the abort.
Yes, I've heard this before. But I do find use for semicolons, and I appreciate their use in works by other authors. Kurt Vonnegut is (was) not obligated to use them.

And I've never been to college.
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Had to look up what that was about. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_100#Floppy_disk_drives, they could do away with one drive motor, with only a 'minor' disadvantage: "Of note was the single motor used to drive both disk drives via a common spindle, which were arranged one on top of the other. That meant that one disk went underneath the first but inserted upside-down."
For the record, that was Ayn Rand talking about (one of?) her favorite serial killers, who became the basis for a character in an unfinished novel, about whom she wrote:
"[he] is born with a wonderful, free, light consciousness -- [resulting from] the absolute lack of social instinct or herd feeling. He does not understand, because he has no organ for understanding, the necessity, meaning, or importance of other people ... Other people do not exist for him and he does not understand why they should."
Please note that while the blog post is new, this happened a couple of years ago. I'm open to answering any questions you might have.
> Actually, there's precious little that an application can do if a memory chip fails, or if ECC gets too many corrupted bits.

That's where replication and (distributed) consensus comes in, usually at the application level.
Redundant components and pathing, properly implemented and managed, are what allow enterprise storage arrays, mainframe clusters, Tandems, and the like, to operate 24x7 for years on end. Their myth seems to work.
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Entertainment during Thanksgiving dinner. :-)
Is it? Fundamentally this is just a search problem. Pair up 23andme with a dating site and match only people with below certain threshold of possibility* of an offspring having genetically inherited diseases.

* Let's say on average you have 10% chance of having your child inherit something bad. If you show only partners that have this value halved over time you will see a positive trend.
The same could be said of Newtonian mechanics. It did not stop it from being completely dead by the 1930's.

Both Newtonian mechanics and Frequentists statistics are approximations. Which makes them both useful, and inaccurate (how inaccurate depends on the situation at hand).
This email does make me cringe, but I think Yahoo is certainly getting a slice of the best and brightest from new college graduates. I was interviewing onsite recently and everyone interviewing there were from some of the best schools in the country.
There are buildings that are in both Canada and the USA. I'm not sure if there are any houses like that but there might be. The two places that this happens are near the Pacific coast, and the border between the province of Quebec and several US states.
That's what eugenics is, at its core. Whether or not one imposes beliefs of eugenics on others is another matter.

"the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)"

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eugenics?s=t&path=/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
I especially dislike when there isn't a close button but rather a text link somewhere on the promo.
This is no different than laundering cash, except that there is more information about the actual transaction flow.
The submitter is doing this. The person representing BIPS on the forum is speaking in terms of Bitcoins. Probably makes it easier to downplay because even the most avid bitcoin users perceive it as a secondary currency.
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For those of us who aren't laughing, how does the intruder bridge the air gap?
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If it were just luck then the companies rejected by YC should statistically perform as well as those selected for interviews which should perform as well as those offered spots in a given batch.
A terabyte of RAM is pretty cheap. Around $12K for the RAM. Last I quoted out a system for VoltDB, the total cost (complete servers with CPU, disk, RAM) came to ~$17/GB to $22/GB.

If you actually have transaction processing at this scale and need that performance, the RAM cost is not a major issue.
But if the information is "here are other people you might be related to", it's not your information; it's both people's. I just don't understand how that can be revealed to you first without being unfair to the person on the other side of the coin, or why it's such a big deal if the reveal doesn't happen at exactly the same time.
You've rather blatantly cherry-picked those figures, why would you use the figure for 300m in-stream Google+ users, rather than the 540m figure? Even that is an underestimate, because Google serves ads to many more people than directly use its services.
When I got my driver's license last year I had to go through some education on driving risks, and they showed us some cars that had been in actual accidents. The main takeaway from that was that you really, REALLY, want a car from this side of the 2000's. There has been a tremendous amount of work put into safety features in the last 15 years across the board, and you SHOULD take advantage of that.
Sometime in the last year or two I saw an old Barracuda in the local Whole Foods parking lot. Don't know the model year.

Which motor do you have?
You misunderstand the point of my post: it's not merely that this user was driven away, but that the community moderation has run amok on this post over a simple, and easily resolvable problem. There is no reason why:

1. two high-rep users should've engaged in a rapid-fire edit war with a new user

2. the question deserves a -35 score

I'd also argue that there was no reason the user should've been given a 15-year ban (really, 15 years? Even if one concedes a warning or a short-term ban wasn't enough, a month or even a year wasn't enough either?), but I'll agree to disagree on that.

This should be held as an example of what not to do, because this level of overreaction by the community in moderating a single bad post is what drives people nuts with Stack Exchange. It's not necessary, but because of the way moderation is structured on Stack Exchange, it's so damn easy to do.
The difference between CT scans and 23 and Me is that CT scans have been tested and the rate of false-positives and false-negatives is generally known. In addition, the manufacturers of CT scanners are making claims based on this data.

What the FDA is upset about is that 23 and Me is making claims with no scientific basis. Sure, they are measuring gene's known to be associated with certain conditions, however, their tests have not been validated. That is the kicker.

The funny thing about this is that HN is notorious for its hatred of the pharmaceutical industry. If a drug company ever did what 23 and Me did, it would have been raided by US Marshall's and had it's door chained shut. The FDA has been incredibly patient with the company so far.

Take a look at what pharmaceutical companies have had to put up with: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulat...

A simple ad that suggests patients might do better if they switch to Effexor XR, which, in fact, they might. The FDA sent a warning letter because the ad "contributes to the impression that patients who have failed previous antidepressant therapy can expect improvement when switching to Effexor XR when this has not been demonstrated by substantial evidence or substantial clinical experience."

This is not regulatory capture or anything of the sort. Pharmaceutical companies have been putting up with the high evidence hurdle for the last few decades. What makes 23 and Me think it can play by different rules?
I use it to keep track of the current BitCoin values on Coinbase.
I disagree that GTK is an example of what NOT to do when designing interfaces. But anyways I just mentioned GTK as an example of GObject usage, which was my original point.

GObject is independent of GTK.

Also here is the link for the introspection tool that generates bindings to other languages: https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GObjectIntrospec...
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Dogfooding your own products is a sufficient reason.
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I think the performance question is the one I am most interested in. Go seems to boast about its speed and efficiency. I'd be curious to know your results in the future!
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Do you have any benchmarks between go and node? I'm so curious about this.
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Here's something I don't get about some high-risk sports: is the feeling you get doing that really irreplaceable? Aren't there a ton of other things which given some time would be just as fun?
Are those statistics for startups or Fortune 500s? Because the way I see it, at a small scale you are much more in control of your own destiny simply due to high agility and low communication overhead.
"with the confidence of a T-Rex born to yuppie dinosaur parents who fully bought into the illusion of their son’s utter uniqueness because the big-mouthed, tiny-armed monster infant could mimic the gestures of The Itsy-Bitsy Pterodactyl." - This is trying too hard
Why do you consider it wrong? It seemed almost ideal especially expressjs when breezing through the dev docs
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Strange, I looked for your intelligent comments, but found nothing.

Have you taken the 23 and me test? Seen the results? Are you adopted and know nothing about your families medical history? Have you ever been misdiagnosed by a board certified doctor using an FDA approved test that costs thousands of dollars? Ever use webMD to self diagnose a condition that nearly killed you?

So you have something intelligent to say, great, tell us. Maybe include some experiences that inform your opinion so we can better understand where you're coming from.
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Cute memo.

And it demonstrates an utter contempt for their internal users. Instead of a vaguely condescending email scolding, I would suggest they sit with resistant users and understand why people haven't switched. It may uncover genuine insights that can be addressed either in the product or in the communication. This is a terrible way to run products.
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I figured people on HN weren't afraid to "View Source" ;)
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I've been casually looking for confirmation of that one way or the other for a few months now and my google-fu was not up to the task - and reading the ACA isn't really an option either, because of length and my own lack of domain knowledge.

Do you have a definitive citation spelling that out (and any possible loopholes)?
Just curious if you know what class of people you're making fun of when you use the term "derp".
I'll consider this--meantime, will you please follow me on Twitter and/or sign up for the newsletter, so that you can be informed when the document is ready?
It seems to me like whenever people talk about remote work, they always talk about having super rockstars, the top, best coders they can find, and only them. I'm not there yet, as I'm just entering the phase where I am stopping calling myself an entry level coder. Being able to do this however is the reason I got into coding. Is there anyone out there who's not an absolute genius hacker who is working remotely and doing well?
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Well, this is an internal memo beating the drum to get their own people to use their product. It's not all that surprising that it isn't a fair and balanced discussion of Outlook's pros and cons.

EDIT: Come to think of it, this is an interesting attempt at manipulating people. He claims that Outlook is an outdated piece of technology straight from the 90's and literally paints the picture of a dinosaur. Tech people - who are probably the main target audience for this memo - oftentimes take pride in being in the know about the latest technologies and invest quite a bit of time and effort in being on the bleeding edge. Those paragraphs are actually an insult in disguise designed to get people by their pride about being behind the times.
> When both husband and wife have specialized jobs

There's a name for this, which I first heard in academia, regarding couples who both hold a Ph.D.: "the two-body problem". It was usually applied when both sought academic jobs, but the concept applies to any sufficiently specialized hiring criteria. Pretty much all the solutions and compromises that you might imagine can and do happen. Being apart is pretty strenuous on a relationship, but some folks manage it for a time. Sometimes universities or other employers will hire both on simply in order to get a star candidate. Some manage to "solve" the problem -- landing satisfactory co-located positions on their own merits.
> configured properly.

... and there is where it falls apart. Sooner or later, "someone" is going to do something Incredibly Dumb that is going to take down a lot of nodes.

If you are betting that you can just add enough redundancy split brain can't happen, I have to question why I should take you seriously with important data.

(It also indicates to me this is going to be ludicrously expensive to set up though, but that's another issue)
That's what he said, probably he was a bad programmer too.

We also hired a PhD and the guy couldn't write code to safe his life, he, of course, applied to the programming position.

It made me sad he complained about us using an editor and not a IDE. Real life is very different than school, very different.
One important thing to keep in mind for those who run their own mail systems is that you'll want the A and PTR RRs to match up or you increase the chances of your messages being considered spam.

In addition, you'll want the name used by your users (e.g. "mail.example.com") to match what's on your certificate or (at least some) mail clients will throw up errors (just as browsers do).

Multiple mail servers used by different users? nginx can proxy POP3, IMAP, and SMTP as well, so everyone can use "mail.example.com" and get routed to the correct backend server.
> Regarding CAP, I think that given redundant cluster interconnects, redundant managed power, odd # of cluster managers for quorum, all mean that split brain is just about out of the question, configured properly.

Failure is never out of the question, you either plan for it or you suffer from it. CAP applies.
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> For those of us who aren't laughing, how does the intruder bridge the air gap?

Waits until you plug it back in.

Chances are they have more time than you do to play the game of attrition.
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Not often...still see more than few old beater late-80s Mercedes (Can't kill those old 300Ds)/Honda Accords and the like. I since this is mode or less the deep south K5 Blazer's are not exactly extinct either. 25 years ago is 1989 model year at this point.
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Adams equally condemned all involved. If someone tortured your father in the traditional sense, it would not get them off to say "I was doing it for hire" nor would the hands be clean of those who paid the torturer.

I see nothing inconsistent about holding all parties involved responsible.