skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was 17, after a good night's sleep and a good breakfast, I smoked two bowls and then went to do an intelligence test (a real one with supervision, which took several hours to do).. scored 142 out of 145 possible for that test, during which I finished a set of 50 logic puzzles which wasn't really intended to be finished (the idea was how far you get in 5 minutes). I never dared to take another test since then, there is no way that is my actual IQ; I had a good day and was "in the zone".

But I also tried to smoke continuously, and that did not work out well for me. I think it's like a glass of wine can be nice, but being tipsy all the time is not, not to mention being really drunk. I would say, don't spoil this wonderful plant for yourself by abusing it (not to mention the temporary damage you can do to yourself with it). I think it was George Carlin who said he writes his material sober, but then smokes a joint to make the finishing touches. I can see how that makes sense, but I don't know how much it applies to programming. This is for you to find out, carefully.
Use a modern WYSIWYG -- SquareSpace? -- and drop in KISSmetrics and GoSquared.

But honestly, a startup is just as much about the team and the development of the iterative product w/r/t the given market. Certain products need to take a certain amount of time for the given market to consider it viable, like security software... That's what software maturity and versioning is all about.
For a great bit on the benefits of rec use of weed, YouTube "Joe Rogan on smoking weed". By far the best take on the modern advocate.

My personal take is that its both a tool for self examination and insight, yet also promotes play. Used with good intention it can be super powerful in getting your shit together and loosening up too. Used as a distraction it's no different than needlessly checking social media, watching too much porn, lottery tickets or cheeseburgers.

If you haven't smoked in 5, 10 years. Try it again with a close friend and go baked to the movies, go eat somewhere awesome, and go back to the house and watch that pink Floyd DVD. Post your trip report in the comments. :)
It's like switching from real orange juice to Fanta. Some people won't notice, and some people will like it better.

The problem with Android isn't the OS, it's the stupid number of hardware configurations possible that make fine-tuning the application to the screen virtually impossible. Most applications, even the best, are still rough around the edges compared to their iOS counterparts.

If you want tweaking and customizing, Android is the only way to go.
Microsoft connects PCs, phones with new Solitaire, Minesweeper and Mahjong
I think I've collected about a year's worth of content from that blog post and its links. So much for 2014!
Yes, but these moments were usually followed by an all-nighter. This is my first time hearing of hypomania, but wouldn't the fatigue just be a side-effect of sleep deprivation or the followup of exhaustive mental effort?
Ahem, the same question seems to have been posted and deleted from a different account, which I know courtesy HN Notify. Others may have gotten similar notifications. Let's say the other account name has something to do with server-side javascript.

snoop_a_loop, if you are serious about protecting your identity with regards to this thread, consider deleting it immediately.
I've seen a lot of articles stating that when you're tired the mind is more 'creative' irrespective of drug use. If pot can be used as a responsible tool for 'creativity' its one thing, but I've had childhood friends that have smoked heavily since they were young and are literally in a permanent state of arrested intellectual development.
As mentioned in the video I linked, I've got an extended warranty for my X1 Carbon, so I will just hold out and see what happens. Maybe I'll buy a couple of T420s's (the last of the T line with the proper keyboard) and make them run for another 5 or 6 years after that. I definitely don't need the latest hardware, given the sort of dev I'm doing on my laptop.
And where was the "terrible science"? Requiring "humbleness" in posts seems to only apply to other people's posts, apparently.
>If a power loss causes the flash to scribble on the wrong SSD location (e.g. the tables that keep track of good and bad blocks), the SSD "dies".

The problem isn't that data is corrupted in the flash, the problem is that the devices' own firmware (the SSD's embedded controller, which is a tiny computer in itself, "boots" from that) is stored in the same memory used for data storage. They could've gotten around this by not storing the firmware on the actual NAND used for data, but a separate device (or kept it inside the controller itself), so any power loss may cause data corruption, but not render the SSD completely unresponsible and inoperable.
In terms of responding seriously to someone actually asking for code to sort a list, I completely agree with you. My impression, though, since this is on the Code Golf section of Stack Exchange, is that this is purely hypothetical. It's a challenge to come up with the most evil answer to the question, not as a serious answer to someone asking it but as a puzzle.
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> I think technology is the enabling factor behind the tiny house movement.

Not totally, as others have mentioned our grandparents generation lived tiny as well.

Technology allowed us to consume big but yes it'll allow us to go back tiny again by consuming efficiently.
I don't have a problem with it (when I finish school I'll probably do that too). But it is a crutch. That said, feel free to use it until you feel like you no longer need to (or if it becomes counter-productive), just like a real crutch. Same applies to caffeine, adderall, cocaine, opiates, sugar, anything. If it gets to the point that you need help (fairly uncommon with pot, but it still happens), don't hesitate to get any.

Responsible drug use includes knowing how people respond to drugs, and knowing how you respond differently than other people to drugs...
- ChromeBook.
I switched to Dvorak years ago. I went cold turkey. Stuck a keyboard layout below my monitor and didn't bother relabeling the keys. Also taught myself how to type correctly while i was at it. It was two weeks of brutally slow typing, but it was worth every moment. I'll never go back.

Downside to Dvorak is that it was based on english language, but programmers type a lot of characters that are really rare in english: {}[]/;<> etc. So, those end up being a little less optimally placed than you'd want them. That being said i would strongly recommend against anything more exotic than Dvorak, because it's very close to optimal, and when you go to any computer you know that you won't have to download and custom-install some layout to be able to type anything. All modern OSs come with Dvorak on them. You just need to go to the settings and turn it on.

One of the upsides to Dvorak (besides a great excuse to learn to type correctly) is that it's actually much more ergonomic. When typing English you're typically alternating hands with each keystroke. That combined with less weird finger movements left me with far less wrist strain.

As for speed, I'm back at 83 WPM.

Would I recommend it? I love dvorak, but I suspect that more important than it is knowing how to type correctly. If you're serious about the health of your wrists and willing to invest in keyboards that are actually ergonomic (like the Kinesis advantage) rather than keyboards which do some actively bad things and slap the "Ergonomic" label on them (Microsoft Ergo) then yeah, I believe that investing the time in switching to Dvorak is a worthwhile addition to help ward off carpal tunnel.
My sister, who lives in midtown Manhattan, lives in an apartment smaller than this place. If you're downsizing from a bigger place, you basically get rid of everything. I have 30+ wine glasses in my condo in Chicago. My sister has two.

The other thing that happens in a tiny space: you end up buying quality. You will wait to find "just the right desk lamp" and then pay a premium for it.
IBM/Lenovo has been doing this with their wireless cards, I wouldn't doubt Apple on this either. But instead of it being a whitelist it could just be they decided to strip out support/detection for all other members of the CPU family.
I'd hesitate to clump in alcohol and weed with tobacco use. Tobacco use is tied directly to increased risk of cancer. FWIW, there seems to be evidence that inflamation is a factor in some cancers: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994795/. With alcohol, there have been studies that show consumption actually lowers stress and improves health.
The OP is asking about 8 different questions...

Lets unpack some of them...

Will VCs be more likely to invest if they know you're a pot smoker?
Unless they are also a pot smoker probably not. Pot is associated laziness.

Will VCs be more likely to invest in your crazy idea you had while high?
If they don't know you had it while smoking pot then probably.

Is smoking pot good for writing bug free boiler plate code?
Not in my experience.

Is smoking pot good for making revolutionary breakthoughs by approaching the problem from a new angle?
Possibly.

Can you endear great engineers who smoke pot by having a 420 friendly culture?
Most definitely.

Realistically, if you want to smoke pot then smoke pot. Your startup is a lottery ticket, smoking pot doesn't change the odds in any significant way. The asking for permission attitude seems more detrimental than pot smoking ever could be.
This is fine in a warm country, or in a place where you're going to be in or out of your house all the time. Living in a cold and/or isolated place, being cooped up in such a small area would be unhealthy, you need to move around much more as a matter of course. Particularly if you're working at home, you'd have to be very proactive to avoid serious impacts on your health, because your lifestyle would be almost inherently sedentary. Exercise is not just doing a certain amount of cardio each week, you have to have movement interspersed throughout the day.

I reckon you could have various different 'pods', though, rather than a standard house. A small space like this, then an isolated office room five minutes walk away, perhaps a cafe/communal eating area somewhere else ,and so on.
I think Lenovo still makes quality products, I'm currently using their x220 (with Mint). I suppose it's possible that their newer models are worse, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. The x1 carbon looks like a cool machine to play with.

I wouldn't bet on Dell, and HP ever getting back to their glory days, but I wouldn't count out Lenovo, Samsung, Google, and Asus (Asus zenbook prime, looks amazing).
You sound hysterical.
Remember when they called it "exponential growth" instead of "a derivative of Moore’s Law"?
I'm pretty sure Apple can't "fix" this since Intel doesn't offer Xeons in BGA.
Use PlayOnLinux for League, the client is easy to set up and works well.
So what about that Linux client...
Does Haskell need macros? [2007]
- The Alchemist
Once you have that figured out, try to conceptualize Kelvinbyteohms aka Kelvinbytes per Siemens!
Can you post a windowed version over say the last 3 months? Some of those accounts are very old.
All those books and he still hasn't read A Fire upon the Deep! I recommend anyone with even a passing interest in science fiction reads it.
So retarded, seems my post got flagged. Mysterious dropped from the front page to page 3. Not sure why, there is some great discussion and feedback here. My biggest complaint about HN is that its not a true democracy, there are a few with god powers that influence all the content.
I think I saw this first on yahoo.com, but once on npr.org, top of hacker news!
I'm in a wheelchair. Brand new houses built with stairs make me sad. I've often thought I'd love to work with an architect to design accessible houses: it's not just for me, anyone with limited mobility or energy would benefit.
My wife and I live in a ~720 sq. foot loft we built inside of an airplane hangar. The story is here:
http://www.makingthishome.com/hangar-loft-remodel/

We really love living in smaller spaces.
I'm looking forward to when you transition to a Bitcoin price guide.
This site appears to overestimate the security level of a password.
> just look at Iraq for the effects of "rescuing the entire country"

I don't know how to tell you this, but in the case of Iraq it was never about that.
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HN voting is a trivial example of selection bias. If frontpage was determined by a random sampling of the user base (weighted by karma or age if you like), instead of whoever may go looking for the post, it would be more fair. One of the reddit devs suggested something like this recently, putting a New post on every page.
If you're interested in learning more about this, I highly suggest subscribing to Kirsten Dirksen on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDsElQQt_gCZ9LgnW-7v-cQ

She publishes new videos every couple weeks or so and is intimately tied into the tiny house movement.

She also covers things involving alternate ways of living, diy, etc. Lovely person.
Dell XPS13 Developer's Edition would be a solid choice.
I think they substantially underplayed how much the large tech companies are doing to prevent scam ads.

The evidence I have to back up that point is the case of "google charged the advertiser more" for it being somehow lower quality. That appears to me to be a very biased interpretation of how Adsense charges to maximize ecpm. Googles algorithms know that click through rates are low so they increase the price, the algo doesn't know why the click through rates are low.

The article also spent about zero time discussing how they fight spam and only said the companies say "we remove bad ads as fast as we can."

Judges throw out cases like the woman mentioned who got scammed because the preponderance of evidence is in favor of the company acting with good faith, not because they have a vested interest in perpetuating large internet company profits.

Further, the article plays fast and loose with the distinction between "our network is enormous, we do everything we can, but can't feasibly prevent every single case of spam" and "we don't do anything about spam."

By jumping between "every single case" and "anything" the author paints a complacent picture out of behavior that is anything but.

If that article left you newly strongly supporting internet regulation, I think you got scammed by the author.
Chrome extension that adds "Quick Buy" buttons to Steam Marketplace listings
You just prompted me to Wikipedia the AE-1 (my father had one). Apparently it was made for eight years. Hard to imagine one model of camera on the high end of consumer market being made for 8 years today. Camera technology was amazingly stable till about the mid 80s, when uprocessors coupled with sensors started driving rapid progress in AE, AF, and of course eventually digital imaging.
And he's tradin in his Chevy for
A Cadillac ack ack ack ack ack
You ought-a know by now
If he can't drive with a broken back
At least he can polish the fenders
TCP is only complex because of all the optional bits for performance tuning, but if you are only interested in size, look on the embedded side. The actual core functionality is much smaller, and I would even go as far as to say that a lot of the widely used open-source TCP/IP stacks obfuscate this with their added complexities.

E.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIP_(micro_IP)
Hm. I suppose that said it doesn't "go without saying." I'll recant there and say that I think leisure-lunching is, in my view, a kind of "crutch." Nourishment is essential, leisure is not.
I'm probably so serious because it seems like so many other people are so dismissive :)
False premise: something being forkable does not make it free. Perhaps the derivative is free, but this article wasn't about running the derivative, was it?

Also, your last paragraph pretty much backs up my original point: if you're going to stand on your high horse of software-freedom and write about how great it is, you better go all in. That Dell is running proprietary software; at the firmware level in the least, but probably with binary blob drivers. Oh, and the article doesn't mention (nor you) about how you have to opt-out of third party sharing of your desktop search results with Amazon! That's not freedom respecting, so please don't try to divert attention away from these very valid points with arguments about how something is forkable.
https://support.littlebits.cc/entries/22214903-Are-littleBit...

"To be clear, other intellectual property rights such as design elements like fonts, white soldermask with purple silkscreen, logos, as well as the modular connection system (including the connectors and the connector system) are reserved by littleBits Electronics, Inc., and we have a number of issued patents and pending patent applications related to our proprietary magnetic connectors and our system of electrical circuits."

Essentially, littleBits are not so open source after all; a corruption of product industrialization by depreciating the value of what it means to be open source, a trend emphasized by Makerbot Industries.
The Thinkpad T440s I just got is great, 14" 1080p IPS matte display, though on the forums there is apparently some talk of there being two different panels where one of them is significantly worse than the other. As a first time Thinkpad buyer, I'm completely in love with this machine. It only took two days for me to become unable to use other laptops because I kept trying to find the trackpoint, lol.
Believe that your high can come from coding stone cold sober. I can get so freakin high from rockin on some awesome shit. I'm poppin tictacs wih spearmint gum. Last I checked? (never) they don't cause short term mem-loss...
As for start up stress - that's part of the gig you pay for trying to make a go of it. You need both of these to get through it: Fucking good friends and/or employees who have your back & seriously long term vision. Believe in what you're doing and you will succeed.
See now I had an AE-1 as well, which I no longer have but boy (for nostalgia) I wish I did. I don't even remember what happened to it. I loved that camera.

But I also had smaller cameras. And I would take the cameras everywhere and enjoyed doing so. I also had a darkroom.

That said I will agree that often I was the only person with a camera.

As far as not taking it skiing well it wasn't waterproof and I don't recall if you could find an inexpensive waterproof housing for it or not. Agree you wouldn't take it to a club or on a date but that was more a cultural thing than because of the size of the camera.

I mean if you had a tiny minox camera you wouldn't have taken that to the club or on a date either, would you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minox
Oh. Ok. Yes, it's worth going to the trouble of reading into exactly why this is the ruling. I am in fact playing armchair judge. I wish i didn't have to, but i've lost faith in my judicial branch on these matters.
I have a Thinkpad T440s with the new trackpoint/lack of buttons, and while I am admittedly a new Thinkpad user, I find the Trackpoint excellent and completely natural to use. It was a little awkward for a day but I got used to it really fast. In comparison, I think the fact that the touchpad depresses makes using the touchpad part more awkward, but it seems perfect for the Trackpoint to me. You do lose the benefit of being able to feel the button boundaries but like I said I got used to it pretty fast (I had been playing with my roommates' Thinkpads before this which is why at first I was confused about the middle button). Actually, the funny thing is that since the action is pretty close to the keyboard, the main issue I had at first was that I kept hitting spacebar instead of the clickpad but over time my thumbs began resting over the right spot.
When I lived in New York, literally 100% of my local friends used wash-and-fold and owned nothing to take care of clothing.

Not to mention: don't have cars...
As long as there are things like SeaBIOS, there is no need for UEFI.
Have you looked at minipod speakers? They are quite impressive in form and function.

http://store.podspeakers.com/product/minipod-mk2-106/ or
http://store.podspeakers.com/category/smallpod-18/
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I've been posting all over this thread because I love my new T440s, so it looks kind of funny, but for me as a new Thinkpad user the clickpad as trackpoint buttons was really easy to get used to. I think it's actually worse as a touchpad, but as a Trackpoint I don't think you lose that much. I'd say give it a chance, I think they have a 30 day return window and I'd say you should easily figure out if you like it or not in that timeframe (you should verify the return window though, this is just what I'm remembering).
Whoever's down voting Brakenshire is down voting the truth. There are actual studies that show the point[1].

1) and since I am 7 hours away from my office, I cannot point them out right now
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This is my take: if it works for you, and you like it, then go for it. Some people, like you, obviously like ThinkPads, some people like Dells. We're all different and we have different tastes. We should respect that.

My issue with the article is how the author prepositions the argument for her computer with "Apple didn't fix my laptop to my liking, so I got a Dell and now freedom!" The difference in freedom between Apple and Dell is nil, and I'm arguing that the difference between OS X and Ubuntu is worse because at least OS X doesn't ship off your desktop search results to third parties or show you ads in the results.
I think one thing has to do with the fact that you can find a lot more detailed information about Unix-like OSs than anything else (e.g. Windows), and the general principles being available on over many vendors/variants also makes it a more "generic OS" instead of e.g. tied to Microsoft.
this is one of the most contentless, vapid articles i've ever read.
> apt-get to install practically any open source software in the world is one.

But I can do that with fink or macports too. OS X is almost FreeBSD with a custom UI and kernel. There is almost nothing (except Linux-kernel level stuff like LXC/Docker/cgroups) that I can't do on OS X that can be done on console Linux. If I really need Linux, I have Vagrant and Virtualbox. Same with X11 apps, though they feel pretty clunky on OS X.

But then, I have all the capabilities that are _better_ than the OSS counterparts: Photoshop, Office, Messaging, Netflix, great GUI and media integration.

I'd also suggest that GUI IDEs like those from JetBrains or editors like Sublime Text are pretty sweet relative to a console-centric toolchain (but I can do that too on the Mac).

Everything you say about open source, of course, is true, but keep in mind OS X (Darwin) from the knees down is also open source; most of what you say applies. It's not "open source vs. proprietary", however, as that's a Stallman-esque view of the world that isn't really congruent with the BSD approach.

I'm not the OP but in summary, I love both Open Source and the OS X experience, to me it's not an either/or proposition, which seems more political than practical.
Says who? I'll give a wrong answer if I so please.