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Pot should be recreational, not something you need.

It is an outlet for stress and the never-ending wall
of burden. Development and startups are evolving so
fast, and it often feels like you are never adequate.
You always need to be learning and using X new language
or technology.

I ran my own tiny business for a while and the "always on" syndrome was definitely the toughest aspect. Felt like I should always be doing something... 24/7/365.

It was very tough to disconnect my mind from work. It was exhausting and very tough on my personal relationships! I feel you there.

Thing is, pot is only ever (at best) treating your symptoms. It's not fixing any of the root causes of those symptoms, the things that are making you feel like you need to be always on.

1. Exercise, a good diet, and sleep may seem boring as hell but those are really how you strengthen your mind and body to deal with stress.

2. Also don't forget to feed your soul. Meditation, prayer, whatever works for you. I'm an atheist and there are lots of ways to meditate that don't involve believing in the supernatural.

3. Adding some structure may help with the "always on" angst. Make Wednesday afternoons or Sunday mornings (or whatever) the time when you play with new languages, so you don't feel like you have to be doing it 24/7.

4. Have a good note-taking system (moleskine, note app, whatever) so that you can record thoughts and to-dos, rather than having 50 things bouncing around in your head that feel like they need to be acted upon immediately lest you forget them. "Getting Things Done" is big on this; it's worth at least skimming that book for ideas because even if you don't adopt the whole system there is some seriously good shit in there you can poach.
Has anyone ran into any limitations with Stripe or Braintree?
My point is that entrepreneurs can get into jams inadvertently.

If you raise $2m or $3m on uncapped, no-discount notes, you basically need to turn that into a $10m+ pre-money company upon raising your Series A. If you raise $4m or 5m+ seed, it gets even harder. And this is assuming no cap or discount, which is unlikely.

You are correct that Series A rounds are usually not smaller, in which case if you raise several million seed on uncapped notes and cannot leverage that into a much more valuable company, you'll be unable to raise a Series A.

This is all manageable by the entrepreneur, but it's important to make sure you understand what's happening and where the risks are. It seems a lot of entrepreneurs don't.
"There is even a culture of providing adderall to employees if they want."

Wouldn't that be putting the company and its management in a very risky situation? Distribution of controlled substances carries much higher penalties than mere possession. If a disgruntled employee calls in an anonymous tip to the cops, they might end up with a bunch of heavily armed cops kicking down their office door. Not so great for productivity...
Have you ever known someone who uses marijuana medicinally?
does this project have a page?
10 milliseconds is far too long to wait for a write in application code.
Interesting, though I'm not sure I'm up to a year's worth of daily meditation on my death.
Take a look at this:
http://www.cubeproject.org.uk/
Genius use of space.

Saw it on a great UK TV show called George Clark's Amazing Spaces, where there are lots of brilliant creative ideas.

Edit:
Link to a brochure with a nice expanded drawing:
http://www.boltonbuildings.co.uk/PDF/Cube.pdf
Using Vim's paste mode with the system paste command
This is basically a mobile home, which has no foundation. As such, there is nothing in the design which is not easily re-built to your spec. The design is inherently modular. When you are dealing with a 200sq ft living space, its best to have it tailored to your own needs, and not a random or lowest common-denominator-based spec. The common areas, however take on more importance in a community or non-remote setting ans thus are the relevant areas to consider from an architecture perspective.
Investment decreases your risk. Before investment, you have a 50% shot at zero or negative ROI. You have a 35% chance at salary-level return. You have 14% chance of a low multimillion dollar return. You have maybe 1% odds at a very high return -- if you've got a business model this good, you'll be fighting funded businesses too.

After investment, you have 95% odds of salary-level returns. Investment lets you pay yourself a salary. Your odds of low multimillion dollar return go to vanishingly small -- maybe 1% -- unless you're really at the edge, it is either eaten by liquidity preferences, or bigger. Your odds of very high return jump up to 4%.
not the op but it's prob because the gawker version is doa'ed
I'm using a Thinkpad X230 from 2012. I have absolutely no compatibility issues on GNU/Linux.

Mine has Intel WiFi, which I think is recommended.
Should be retitled "Architect randomly decides to build a single-wide trailer home"
I (and many other Linux users I know) would strongly recommend Thinkpads. In addition to generally working well with Linux they're pretty well-built machines. Everything about my T420 just works out of the box with Debian Wheezy (disclaimer: I don't have a fingerprint reader or camera so I don't know how well they would work; but WIFI, Bluetooth, SD card reader, and smartcard reader all work).

Also. http://www.thinkwiki.org/ is a very good resource for running Linux on Thinkpads (though everything worked so perfectly with my T420 and Wheezy I actually never needed it!).
Looks weird to me...
Does anyone have a System76 Galago UltraPro? I'm planning on upgrading my T410 (which was/is great) but I now need something with more than 8GB of RAM.

https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/galu1
Both are judgemental, actually. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be heard. Non-violent communication skills will tell you pokesmot is probably blaming brc for his own feelings about smoking weed. I'm implying he smokes from his username.

What is the evidence pokesmot is blaming himself? Notice he is "quoting" brc using the quote symbols, but brc didn't actually say what is quoted. NVC will teach you to read things like this as a feeling/opinion held by the person who is "quoting" someone else. When you are saying something contentious, you are are either blaming yourself or you are blaming the other guy. Given brc didn't actually say what pokesmot said he said, I'm going with the former: he's blaming himself a bit. This leads me to thinking it's not beyond us to consider we might feel a bit of fear ourselves if we consumed more than a moderate amount of pot in a given week and then someone comes by and said "don't kid yourself it's making you better at work".

Ironically that last quote is also a blaming statement. The logical implication of that statement is, if I smoke weed, I won't be better at my job, especially if I do it regularly. The won't is derived from the negative fragment 'kid yourself'.

Anyway, I agree with both of them! Don't smoke weed with the expectations of becoming better at work. Making casual blaming statements affects all of us. We should all try harder not to do it!
Somehow most people living in dense cities make do with a small amount of space. For example it's not uncommon to find 300sq ft apartments in Manhattan. Some people even manage to raise kids in such space. Look at places like Hong Kong and similar where small units are the norm and yet people seem to be able to live with the issues you mention.
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I had (and still have) a Minox. It would fit in a pocket, and I'd take it many more places.

Running it through airport security checkpoints was always entertaining, as the inspectors would never believe it was a camera, and figured I was up to some sort of deviated preversion.

Unfortunately, it took crappy pictures.
HP Elitebook 820 works pretty well. Asus Zenbook UX21 works acceptably. But tellingly, after the news about the X60 last week or so, I decided to ebay an X61 and stuff as much RAM and SSD in it as possible. The X31 remains the greatest Linux laptop, the greatest laptop period, I've ever owned, modulo some graphics driver problems. I would like to see something with the build quality of these Thinkpads, coming with Linux pre-installed.
I probably phrased that incorrectly. I definitely think that you should have validation logic at the database level. I've had a couple of major issues in the past (while still learning web dev) where lack of indexes/constraints has pretty much ruined my database when I tried use them in production
it's not mysterious at all, it's the "controversial" filter - it got more comments than votes.
I accidentally posted that with my other account. Yes - http://hackernewsletter.com
Yeah, Gawker's summary is insta-banned.

Apparently Hacker News is not the place to discuss Paul Graham saying intellectually lazy, ignorant, sexist things. Who would have thought!
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Just to provide an alternate opinion I've been using a HP envy 14 for school (lugging it around on transit, to LAN parties etc...) and it's held up absolutely fine.
At leat on mobile, android seems to suffer from high latencies
Is there a reason browser-based doesn't work for you? I moved to gmail only a few years ago and haven't looked back.
I'm away from my computer right now, but I'll post something like that in a day or two.
Nokia pulls outdated Here maps for iOS citing compatibility issues
The subreddit /r/tinyhouses has lots of this sort of thing, and is a pretty good collation of various blogs and articles on the subject, with some pretty decent conversation.
I think it's more that all of gawker's content is doa'ed
Valleywag posts have been automatically killed since 2008: http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/11/hacker-news-considers-banni...
That's kind of disappointing.

Why is Mt. Gox in Japan at all, then? Is it simply because of the popularity of trading card games in Japan?
thx. is there an article on the aforementioned data?

(oh, and I submitted a link to your newsletter. maybe we can get it on the front page!)
>Providing a thorough, quality answer to a troll question won't help advance that troll's career, they will pay the price later, for sure, when their intellect is on the line.

This what would happen in an ideal world.

In reality though it's orders of magnitude easier to check credentials than intellect (provided it's even possible to do the later). In many situations, if you go against somebody with credentials without credentials of your own you won't even have a chance to have a battle of wits (like applying for a job that requires a degree).

And cheating will get you credentials most of the time, it's not like universities check every graduate's intellect before issuing them a diploma. Otherwise cheating would not be such a big deal in the academia.

So yes, helping stupid people with their homework will advance their career. Might not to the level of Google's CTO but to the level of the guy who codes healthcare.gov or the DV's "random number generator" or Toyota's ECU or any other example of crappy code that has a good chance to interfere with people's lives. Please don't do that. If you don't want to troll them - just don't reply.
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Please, could you test your camera? Almost all USB webcams use the "uvcvideo" module (and built-in webcams use USB in most cases), so it would be noteworthy if your camera _didn't_ work.
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"In 1995 no one cared"

I'll take that thought one step further. The sound of an "ugly" teletype banging away line by line with a "basic" program was actually quite cool. Later on I thought I had it made when I could find a green crt that wasn't all beat in the school computer center. [1]

[1] Used one of these at Wharton:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/pdp10.html
The AE-1 really hit the sweet spot of design vs cost at the time. I used it for 25 years, finally replacing it with an Elf because the Elf fit in my pocket and took far better pictures than the Minox (but I still dusted off the AE-1 for the quality pix).

The Elf lasted about 5 years before I bought a digital camera, and that was the end of film for me.
Some people live without a home at all. That doesn't mean it's a healthy way to raise kids.
The "mbuf chain stupidity" refers to the way memory buffers are handled in the kernel. His implementation uses 'pbufs' to store a single packet contiguously in kernel memory. This is in contrast to BSD[1], where a packet could span multiple 'mbufs' which were 'chained' into a linked list.

You can "man 9 mbuf" on your nearest BSD derivative to glean a bit more information about what he is opposing. Today's mbufs are not quite the same as they were back then, but the parts that he hated are still there :)

[1] "my kernel looks nothing at all like any version of BSD"
I have always been a fan of the idea of splitting up California: More senators means more people looking out for my interests (relatively). I'm always jealous of those little states who have 2 senators, but are smaller than San Diego county: Alaska, Wyoming, etc.

Shoot, Puerto Rico's population is bigger than 22 states, and those Puerto-rican US citizens don't even have senators.

How to split up California's assets and debts is a big issue.
"Surely you're joking mr Feynman" is where most of us read about it.
T420 and X220 built-in cameras work on Ubuntu 12.04 for me.

Using the fingerprint reader requires adding a ppa and installing a package:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_integrated_finge...
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No prototype there my friend, that's the real thing, although a few builds out of date. I recorded it in the iPhone Simulator using Quicktime and then turned it into a GIF using photoshop.
Can someone point me to a law review article that covers how characters can be copyrighted? I understand that the text of the book can be copyrighted, but characters? That seems like a stretch.

How does fan fiction exist at all? Authors have the legal right to go after fans, but choose not to? In this legal climate, I highly doubt that.
On my system the webcam works without any fuss.

I use a Thinkpad T430 with Debian unstable. All hardware works as intended. I purchased mine with the Intel wireless, and that requires a non-free firmware blob. Optimus works, but if there are issues it can be disabled in the BIOS.
What's a better screen for reading?

One with reflections on it, or one without?

This is no laughing matter for programmers who stare at a screen for hours.
For an alternative to Cygwin, take a look at GoW[1] and ConEmu[2]

[1] https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki
[2] https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/
Here's the most apt analogy regarding "transfer of some property": The police aren't allowed to search a package without a warrant, but the USPS does photograph all U.S. mail (160 billion pieces), and sometimes provides that information to a police investigation.

After all, what's on the outside (the metadata) is public.

But in general, the owner of your apartment complex cannot give police permission to search your apartment, and the owner of a storage facility cannot give permission to search your items.

(As an example of advices for the latter, read http://www.selfstoragelegal.com/articles/misc/police.asp , which tries to walk the fuzzy line of being nice to the fuzz without bending any consumer protection laws that far.)
I'm trying to move away from Google services. I've had gmail accounts a long time, but am moving towards self-hosting.

Such services can be alright for low-use personal email. Where they break down and where Outlook excels is high volumes of mail.

I've had jobs where between automated emails from server monitors, lists I was on and the high volume of discussion we had dropped 900-1200 emails in my Inbox every day. Outlook is the only application that makes that manageable...and I can save all of my mail and quickly search and access all of it.
I wasn't aware classic MacOS worked that way. The "sockets-emulated-over-STREAMS" was the standard way of doing things in SVR4-based UNIXes. In the early-to-mid 90s this gave them a poor reputation among early web admins since they just didn't handle high rates of connections as well as BSD or even the early linux stacks.

In the case of Solaris, this was largely fixed in the 2.6 release where they went back to a sockets-based stack and ran the STREAMS stack in parallel. (Actually this was originally supplied as a semi-supported patch to 2.5.1 since the scalability of the network stack was becoming a critical issue at large customers) Many of the OS-supplied services (like rpcbind I think) still used the STREAMS API but the 99.9% of external software that used the sockets API now had a fast native path to the network.

As far as I'm aware this is still the state there today, with STREAMS probably still existing for compatibility but basically ignored by everyone.

There were some interesting things Solaris did with STREAMS.. for instance telnetd and rlogind would just push a kernel-land module that would copy data between the pty and socket. This way you didn't have to make the kernel->user->kernel->user transition on every keystroke. In the heyday of shell accounts this was terrific. Of course these days CPUs are so much faster and everyone uses ssh anyway so it wouldn't be a useful optimization.

STREAMS was an interesting experiment, but I don't mourn its passing at all.
Thank you everyone for the suggestions and insights.
After contemplating with the choices i have decided to go through with restructuredtext, and pickup latex bit-by-bit to incorporate scientific parts (it turns out you can do some inline latex in restructuredtext).

here are some factors that drive my decision:

- i can start writing content right away without much initial learning

- rst can be read/revised by my other peers with more ease than full blown latex document.

- i can use latex parts (equations, typesetting, etc) inline with rst, and i can learn latex bit-by-bit on the way

- there some libraries/program that can make attractive presentations using rst (http://regebro.github.io/hovercraft/#/step-1)

so i will use rst and learn latex on the way.
Implementing Minecraft in Mathematica
Oh no, a downvote without any arguments attached, how intimidating! Here's an idea, don't just take the empty rhetoric at face value, also look at what actually took place. But don't insult my intelligence with this nonsense.
Look at Plan 9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
"Whipping out the AE-1 was all OMG he's got a camera!"

Agree 100%. And that's interesting because I find that to be the case today and why I use an rx100ii (excellent camera by the way) vs. using a large DSLR.

I can do so much more with the rx100ii simply because it doesn't scream "I'm taking a picture". And taking video clips
obviously (which rx100 does a great job with) is possible in places you wouldn't even think of taking a larger professional camera regardless of the weight or the size. (That's the "cultural" part.)

http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Sony_Cyber-shot_RX100_II/

One thing I will tell you though is that using an iphone to take videos is great on the sly. Most people if you hold the iphone correctly don't even realize you are shooting a video. (Next to your body and if nothing special is going on.) So you can get things that you would never be able to do with something that looked like a camera. What would be even better is if you could somehow disable the display (black it out) while you are shooting.
> If using a distributed system with (semi-)synchronous WAL replication is not an option and losing incremental data is not acceptable, use redundant power supplies.

Also be sure to plug each redundant power supply into a separate UPS, and avoid equipment that has redundant power supplies on a single feed. UPS failures are a bear.
Ask HN: What new skill do you want to learn in 2014?
I want to learn Objective C and how to make iOS apps. How about HN?
Audioengine A5 + Audioengine S8 + Nuforce Icon HDP is my current rig. Can't be beaten in its price bracket, IMO.
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Spivak's Calculus starts with a set of 13 axioms which characterize the real numbers and then derives all the results you're familiar with in calculus. It's rigorous in the mathematical sense, so if you've never worked through a rigorous math textbook before then this might be a good start since you're familiar with the underlying material.

Here are some exercises to give you a sense of the flavor. If you find these exercises trivial then the textbook might not be for you. If you find them hard, well, welcome to math! :)

These are all before we get to any "calculus." Here "function" means a function of the real numbers.

1. Let f be a function that satisfies the conclusions of the Intermediate Value Theorem. Prove that if f takes on each value only once then f is continuous. Generalize this to the case where f takes on each value only finitely many times.

2. Prove that if n is even, then there is no continuous function f which takes on every value exactly n times.

3. A set A of real numbers is said to be sense if every open interval contains a point of A. Prove that if f is continuous and f(x) = 0 for all numbers x in a dense set A then f(x) = 0 for all x.

4. Find a function which is continuous at every irrational point and discontinuous at every rational point (and prove it as such)

Spivak's Calculus is used as a first-year calculus textbook at lots of schools, so if you find the above even a little challenging or strange-seeming then I'd recommend going through the book.

The last chapter of the textbook is a rigorous construction of the real numbers from the rationals using Dedekind cuts (referenced in the first link).
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[Video] Let's Enhance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
Some books with crunchy code
Microsoft seems to be sad state than it appeared before. 2 of top 3 laptops during holiday season on Amazon are Chromebooks:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-ne...

Holiday Best Sellers (Amazon.com only):

Laptops: Samsung Chromebook; ASUS Transformer Book; Acer Chromebook
My wife and I live in just under 200sq ft. No way we could do it if we weren't mobile. We would drive each other nuts. Warm enough weather that we can keep the door open is preferable.

Just spent the last month in the middle of San Diego and now it is out to the desert.
T420's / X220's are the last generation to have 7-row keyboards and also available with IPS screens. The newer generations have 6-row chiclet keyboards with neutered TrackPad buttons. Despite using a rMBP daily for work, the old ThinkPad keyboard is home for me.

In their quest to become MBP replicas, ThinkPads lost their distinguishing features. Now that I've resigned myself to carrying a mechanical keyboard at all times (HHKB), I no longer choose a laptop based on one. I am now exploring alternative laptops after being a loyal ThinkPad customer for 7 years.
If you designate it as a foreign key in the schema it'll just use the PK index even if you don't join that table in at all? Wait, how does that even work? Does the PK index include the foreign key rows then? That's an awesome feature.
No, this is weird...
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