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> Do you use an alarm clock to wake up? If so, are you sure you're not sleep-deprived?

Originally for a few months to train me into it. Now I wake up automatically at a few minutes to 7 :)

I never slept much before anyway - 7 hours is the best I have slept for years. I cant physically sleep for more than 8-9 hours (I will always wake up - tried it :))

Weekends I wake up at 8-9am (I make that a bit flexible; basically just rely on my body to wake me up when it feels like it) and the lie in is a great "weekend feeling" boost (part of feeling a lot more positive).

> What do you eat for breakfast? I'm usually hungry within 2-3 hours after eating cereal, oatmeal, or a banana.

Cereal. Then either a bacon sandwich, or a boiled egg or a bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon. I eat a BIG breakfast and lunch but a small tea.

> Where do domestic tasks fit in? Weekends only? I can't cook, eat, and do dishes in half an hour, and if you're cooking fresh vegetables, waiting a week between grocery trips seems to be suboptimal.

I do have a slight confession here: in that I live at home (an annoyingly necessary arrangement for the time being) so my family shares the cooking. I cook maybe twice a week and those are my 10hr days. Chores I do in the morning before work - im less than 10 minutes walk away so I basically have 2hrs for "doing stuff" in the mornings. Other domestic chores give me my breaks

I pick up fresh veg on my way home every few nights (and because I only live 10 mins away I have an hr to get home, do chores and chill till I start to work again).

Actually the last few weeks i have been slipping. Prior to last week I spent a month on standard 8 hour days and (unusually for me) a lot of time in bed due to a tooth and ear infection. It's been really useful to find I can get back into my rythm really quickly again :D The onyl downside is I felt awful those few weeks of illness - more so than I should have. I think I was actually "crashing" because of being out of the routine (a doctor friend has confirmed this is something he has seen before) so some of the caveats as with the drugs apply! I suspect my recovery was extended substantially because of feeling like I did. Which is something interesting I need to explore.
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

- Commonly attributed to Mark Twain, but he never said it. Who knows who did.
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GPush: iPhone Push Notifications for Your Gmail Account
I use Amarok for my music needs. The feature I enjoy most is the Now Playing playlist in a split window with my music library. I can add whole playlists, whole albums, whole discographies, or just individual songs.

Another feature I would like to see is some sort of network control... I am frequently on the couch with my laptop, and my desktop is playing music. Or my roommate wants to queue up a song. What I finally did was use Amarok and VNC (with a java web client) to let anyone log in and update the playlist...)
To reiterate other sentiments on this site: don't. Just. Don't. And if you're going to do it, get a prescription for Adderall. A physician is a valuable resource, even if you have to go out of pocket. Your average street dealer is guaranteed to sell you cut goods, even if he didn't do it himself. Plus that street dealer won't cut you off if things go pear-shaped.

Read Erowid. You'll see that it just changes your brain's chemical balance slightly; it doesn't change you any more than you change you. In the case of speed, it'll push you toward being a clenched-up asshole who gets OCD about stuff. A lot of young academics / independent programmers are already that way without speed. Carefully weigh your choices here.

There exist other options, as well, all of which I recommend. Physical activity changes how your noodle works. Group therapy (or, not that I'm into it, religion) might change your brain's chemistry. Probably the most-mentioned factor, diet, has a huge impact on how your brain operates. If you aren't considering these things before putting drugs into you, then you're probably not making a rational decision.

The downsides of pumping yourself full of speed are: you will jettison your girlfriend/boyfriend if you have one, your heart muscle will work overtime, you will have less energy (but be awake for longer) and you'll gain a bit of weight once you get off the stuff.

On a related note: jeez, kids these days...
I'm not a huge fan of the iPhone's closed nature, but I think most of what you said above could be considered arguments in favor of it.

For example: yell at the hardware manufacturer instead of the software developer; yell at the app developers; if you need that functionality, go buy a 3rd party app; it's slow because of OS implementation details; it doesn't work as you'd expect it because of implementation details; Google's own apps work relatively well.

Users don't care about why something is slow or broken (from their perspective). They shouldn't have to care. They don't want to go find an app in the Market for basic functionality, and they don't want to write a Perl script, either. Apple gets this. I hope Google and their partners will some day.

Users don't want answers to these questions. The list of questions you replied to was a rhetorical way of saying this: the iPhone user experience is far superior.
I think you are right on. This is how fiber optics gained their foothold in the communication space. Coax was reaching its limits in terms of transmission amounts and cost of improvements, but people were skeptical of switching over to an unproven medium due to the many different technologies that had to come together to make it work (fibers, lasers, semiconductors). It took many iterations of fiber technology and many years, starting with "large" graded-index fibers with laser-based repeaters to get to tiny single-mode fibers with optical amplifiers.
> as an undocumented immigrant you'd have extra problems if you get into any trouble with the foreign authorities

Pick the right country and that's not a problem at all; a couple of strategic bribes can get you out of trouble in most of the world.
Etsy is a fanciful/artistic version of this RFS.

http://www.etsy.com/
I'm pretty sure they're doing just that. Ethics seem to be pretty high up in PGs value system.
My impression is that Lego bricks are engineered to very precise tolerances (see comment above re MegaBlocks); I wonder how close RepRap could come to the standard of a real brick.
To get more credits you're supposed to list stuff and use the site (on the premise that you will use it more in the future if you've used it once before).

But don't bother, see above.
Shameless self-promotion:

My YQL talk: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/4620

My e-Gov talk with the fine folks at the City of SF: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/4607
it is about user experience, not about style.
There goes the neighborhood. I'm not sure what value MSNBC can bring to Everyblock, except, well, cash. And they're not going to pour money into an operation without the expectation of return on investment, which they'll want sooner than later, and which - call me a cynic - will inevitably lead to a reduction or outright elimination of the original staff, and dilution of the effectiveness of the original product/application.

I do hope that in a few years, someone can point me to this post and tell me I was being too cynical, but the pattern seems all too familiar. It was nice while it lasted.
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Yeah what exactly are the charges? I'll I noticed were insurance fraud, and possibly identity theft (from someone who presumably wasn't at all hurt by it), plus the theft from the company. Sometimes I wonder if the punishment is a function of how hard the authorities worked to catch him and how angry they were at his antics. If he were caught the next day (even after committing all the same crimes) would he have still gotten 10 years, or a slap on the wrist?
I find that every computer language does one thing best (ML with pattern matching, Tk with quick GUIs, Perl with text, Python with object orientation, Java with .... never mind), but in most other respects falls short of some other computer language. The more languages I know, the more salient their respective shortcomings become, which makes me hate them all. So I sympathize.
I too enjoy thesixtyone.com. Its a great site. Though because its a basic "Digg" for indie music, I do think that it can use some improvements that will take it to the next level. I will be sure to let you and others know when my ideas are implemented. Hopefully I can get Ycombinator to take them on. Hail to Great Indie Music!
For sure, but there's a difference between finding and prompting ethical companies and specifically seeking out companies that have a bottom line that's not just financial but actually has measurable social or environmental impact as well.
Ok, imagine 12 hour transatlantic flight. What is about what you did — you flew across Atlantic. Then ther is the how part — it can be either in economy class with no legroom, crammed between to sweaty, drunk and snoring gentlemen or it can be in private jet.
Is the difference between what and how any more clear now, or is is still vague?

Update: I do not say that Android phones are economy class and iPhone is private jet. The point of the above is to explain what I meant by difference between what and how.
Does anyone know if this has a Push/Subscribe functionality? Machine-oriented twitterpedia is too good a buzzword not to have an implementation somewhere..
Why I Love Pittsburgh Startups
Okay, I might be a bit biased. But Pittsburgh is great!
Betsy, my trusty 6-year-old T41 died on me today. She wasn't much of a looker, but she was built like a tank and always did what she was told. Betsy gave me a good scare on a couple of other occasions, but it always turned out that she was just looking for some good ol' love and attention. But this time was different. No sign of life. Completely unresponsive to my various attempts to woo her back. After attempting fuel her with life-force through every orifice, I finally gave up. She was dead. Dead like a brick. Having completely given up hope, I proceeded to salvage pieces of my heart and the many memories we had made together. Curious as to why she may have chosen to leave this world behind, and me along with it, I turned to my old flame, Bertha. Bertha is old, loud, lazy, and most of the time she just sits there. She was good at Googling, though, which is why I liked using her. Especially angry Googling, as in this particular case. As usually, she gave me satisfaction. She blogged all over me. But this was a particularly satisfying blog, since it made me think of Betsy. I have attached a link to it above. Excited to try it myself, I ran back to Betsy. And would you believe it, it worked! Betsy is back to life and purring like a kitten.
Any reason why'd they publicly report financials despite being a private company?

"The company is not publicly listed but has published earning reports since 1997."
Users don't care about why something is slow or broken (from their perspective).

This cuts both ways. An iPhone user doesn't care why Apple rejects good apps from the app store. An iPhone user doesn't care why his phone can't vibrate when someone uses his name in a tweet or pings him on IRC or talks to him via GTalk. An iPhone user doesn't care why his phone can't turn its ringer off during appointments, and set it to "ultra loud" when he is in his house.

Sure, Apple has technical explanations for all these things, but it doesn't make them go away.

It is all a matter, right now, of trading one set of problems for another. "Is iTunes sync worth not having Google Voice?", and so on.

Nobody is claiming Android is perfect, but it is important the keep in mind that Apple is not either.
How long will it take my website to appear at the top of search results?
ALSO - to be clear, this is the right thing to do for your business... not just the right thing to do for looking good in front of the YC panel.
I don't believe you. Prove it.
That sounds like a bug.
I would suggest that writing:coding::reading:computer-use. Arguably, we already have an appropriate term in "computer literacy."

That is, I agree (assuming "coding" is equivalent to "customization" or, perhaps, even "confinguration") that we're rapidly approaching computer literacy as a required required skill, if we aren't there already.

All that said, I disagree that it's easy to imagine a world where programming is a required skill, nor even that programming is a skill. Rather, it is a combination of talent and skills.

Programmer:computers::novelist:books::reporter:periodical.

All that said, even if everyone could program, that wouldn't make them all equally successful, so my self-worth would not be affected. Besides, I consider myself a sysadmin, not a programmer.
SnapTalent (YC W08) Shuts Down
That is fairly standard in an auction site to not see the underlying highest bid.

But I can see how it is annoying that you have to pay first before you know whether you win an item. They should change that some how. Maybe auctioning is not the right format for a psuedo-virtual currency.
FluidDB launches
Is it any different to the police asking your neighbours, or the people at your local coffee shop, whether they've seen you? I don't know if Amazon has any legal obligation to tell the police about your activity, but as far as I know they don't have any obligation _not_ to tell the police about your activity either (someone who's actually read the Amazon privacy policy might be able to correct me on this).
You should not put a price on your hour if you're developing a product. Since if you do the math afterwards, then your hour is worth pretty little.
>That's a fitting statement in a thread about the demise of philosophy. If you go to any lab, they'll tell you they're trying to come up with an accurate model, or trying to create structures with a certain known function. Your name for the process & opinions about it are irrelevant. It should be empirically clear what is happening.

I can't make sense of any of that, or see how it is relevant to what you were quoting from my post. Are you suggesting that logical positivism is correct, or that it's ok for scientists (and for you) to ignore the philosophy of science, or something else? Vague references to "trying to create structures with a certain known function" are just impossible for me to interpret without some explanation of what they're supposed to mean.

>We did chemistry for a long time without an atomic theory, just memorizing which chemicals should be mixed with which. Of course it was rudimentary, but there wasn't a way around that.

Again, this seems completely irrelevant to the statement you've quoted. You're confusing a knowledge of how a method works with a knowledge of how chemical reactions work. The chemists methods were (typically) scientific and rational, even though they did not reach a good understanding of chemistry using these methods for quite some time. You seem to be saying that deciding between theories by a coin toss would be scientific if it turned out to be effective (which it might, in principle). But surely effectiveness is not the only criterion we apply. We also require the methods used to be in some sense rational, although (as you would discover if you bothered to read the philosophy of science instead of sneering at it), it is very difficult to figure out exactly what this means.

>They are statements about what people think people should do.

I don't agree, I think they are simply statements about what people should do. Certainly, if our brains were different we might have different moral beliefs, but that does not imply that those beliefs would be equally correct. (One can imagine a scenario in which everyone has brains which cause them to think that squares are circles, but that wouldn't imply that facts about geometry are merely facts about a consensus of human thought.) I'm not sure what you mean when you say "this is also empirically true." Are you suggesting that it has somehow been /empirically/ established that moral statements are statements about what people think people should do? I don't see which empirical facts about the brain could adjudicate between different positions regarding the nature of moral statements. I am curious, though, why you are so sure that moral facts must be reducible to physical facts. There is no reason whatever to think that this is the case (and though you persistently assert that is is, you never bother to provide any), but this idea really seems to have captured your imagination.
As the current high bidder (but knowing full well that I'll get outbid before the end anyway), I was also a little surprised by the fact that my "full" bid wasn't used but rather only the amount needed to beat the highest bid by a bid increment.

That's exactly how ebay works, so I didn't find it all that shocking, but my honest expectation was that it would show my full bid.

Anyway, I suspect there's a lot of returns coming in the next week (for all but one of us... :) )
Your product could save your customers 1000 hours of their time over what period of time? Is it a savings of productive time or leisure time? The number sounds hand-wavey.

Someone might tell you that their time is worth $100 bucks an hour (for example), but I think you'll find there is no way they'll pay nearly that much to save that hour - unless you're talking about automating a very unpleasant task.
I'm sure the SnapTalent guys started working on something new before even posting that good-bye
whoa! I never heard of "classic." What is it, and how did you find it?
"One of the more touted elements of the 2007 law went into effect in July 2009. Known as the Income-Based Repayment program, it caps the monthly payments on federal loans at 15 percent of a graduate's discretionary income. What does that mean for the bottom line? Say you're a recent graduate with $30,000 in federal loans and a starting salary of $25,000 a year. Previously, your monthly payments would have totaled about $345; now they'll be around $110, according to The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), a nonprofit focused on affordability issues."

I have not seen a lot of other reporting on this law change, so that was interesting to know. There is still the issue that total student debt shouldn't be very high in a dicey economy. By current observation, some college degrees in some subjects from some colleges don't provide a positive return on investment.
BTW, you're wrong about the contacts thing. A config option will do exactly what the OP wants.

(But thanks for answering the other questions. I am glad I am not the only person who likes Android :)
I don't know why people don't like the summer weather in San Francisco. Sure, if you live on the ocean side or in Pacifica it can be foggy and cold but in other parts of the city like the Financial District, North Beach or the Mission it is really comfortable most of the summer (high 60s, 70s and sunny most days). If you like super hot weather then you just head down the South Bay or over to the East Bay and you can get plenty of 80s/90s throughout the summer.
Truth be told, we thought it looked weird, too. We don't use "webBeacons" or anything weird; just cookies. Google drops a few cookies for analytics, too, but that's it.

I'm going to go over the privacy policy today and make it reflect the reality that privacy, security, and ethical business practices are at our essence.

Since you read privacy policies closer than we do, could you recommend a good examplar of a friendly, non-legalese privacy policy?

Thanks for the feedback!

[Edit] I removed the weird WebBeacons reference, simplified the language, and added an additional message at the top. Does it feel less shady?
All through this article I was thinking along your same lines. I mean, this guy's a bit of a moron. Who in their right mind changes their identity but then reunites with their family who are all still going by their real names? Especially when he knows there's a manhunt.

Oh, and he was willing to fake his identity but didn't bother trying to print out some fake school transcripts for his kid (Which themselves are usually printed on a regular consumer printer).

Anyway if this guy can make it over a year I'd imagine a reasonably intelligent person could probably get away with it.
It may be standard, but it isn't proper to say 'high bid' when it isn't the high bid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_bid

In a normal situation that would not matter because you would hold on to your money. In a pre-pay system this is total nonsense because you are paying first to pre-pay for your account (on the one item that you may be interested in) and afterwards you bid using your credits. Because of the two stage nature of the process there is now a ratchet, you've already paid your money, now you find that it was useless.

Major design flaw.

The bidding is normally decoupled from the actual payment, by moving the payment up-front the whole thing breaks.
HN is more than 34 people.
What a coward - he racks up $40,000 in personal debt on his corporate account and then puts his family through the agony of mourning his death? Such a disgrace.
Being a New Yorker who wants to do the exact same thing that Zed is doing now (not because he's doing it, of course), it does interest me somewhat.
Google were always going to have a tough act to follow. What Apple have pulled off with their platform is nothing short of amazing: but they have used technology they had, and adapted. Google is inventing a lot of the stack, and aren't rolling out on a single device.
check out this guy:

http://www.extent.nl/

Unfortunately he is no longer, but he was one of the nicest venture capitalists out there.
Twofish is looking for a Sysadmin
http://www.twofish.com/jobs-linux-systems-admin.html

(Clickable link in the comments below)

We're a growing company focusing on the virtual gaming space, specifically in providing reporting, payment, economy management, items, and a long list of other important things to our customers in a tidy turn-key package.

Because we're growing, we've got a lot of projects coming up, and we're looking for a sysadmin with decent Ruby or Perl skills and experience in centralized configuration management via Puppet, CFEngine, or a similar system.

Our main office is based in Palo Alto.
Sumon and crew will be successful at whatever they do next, there's no doubt about that. By giving the money back to investors and being fully transparent, they've also shown that they're classy and full of integrity. Seriously, mucho respect for this move. Curious to see what they do next.
Dataflow programming is exceptional for GUI programming, although I've never tried using it in a large application.

This style of programming does its best if it has support from the underlying language to enforce consistency. Without it, it's just too easy to get the program into an unconsistent state.

I'm aware of only two implementations providing dataflow programming: Cells for Common Lisp and FrTime for PLT Scheme (but I've actually used only the former).
Clickable link: http://www.twofish.com/jobs-linux-systems-admin.html
(Almost) Introducing 37signals Accounts
The latest Hak.5 episode (The Content-Free Episode http://www.hak5.org/episodes/episode-526 - Skip to 9:30) has instructions to fix this.

Hint: it's a MiFi http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/05/13/verizon-mifi-2200-r...