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I worked at startups for 10 years and the only thing I got out of it was 50 extra pounds of bodyfat and an anxiety disorder. One of the best things I have done for my health is getting an easy, but high-paying quasi-corporate job and reducing the number of hours I spend at work. Sitting in front of a computer 12 hours a day is bad for mental and physical health. It can't really be compensated for by switching to diet soda and 30 minutes on the treadmill. My goal now is to continue to recuperate and lose 20 more pounds and save up enough money to do a complete career change. I'm not sure what yet, I'm trying to figure out something where I can use my mind but also not be chained to a desk all day.

That might be a tough pill to swallow for the hacker news crowd, so here are things I did to fix my health, and lose 30 pounds while I was still in startup mode:

- pilates fixed a lot of back and flexibility problems

- break up the work day in to two halves. between those two spend an hour walking or working out at the gym

- walk, bike or skateboard to work. My job is 4 and a half miles away.

- swimming

- sprinting at the track

- I tried to stand up and do work whenever possible.

- Used one of those swiss exercise balls instead of an office chair

- avoid the typical beer & pizza binges after a release

- avoid eating all "office food" (chips, pretzels, candy, soda, etc)

- cut out sugar and most refined carbs, except for special occasions like when grandma bakes cookies. but even then, only eat a couple and give the rest away.

- eat salads, berries, almonds,lean meats, egg whites for most meals.

- started drinking seltzer. I love carbonated drinks, but most of them are bad for you. Seltzer is great, it's just carbonated water. Now I don't drink soda and drink about 1/10th the amount of beer I used to.

- bought a blood sugar meter. It turns out with all the carbs and sugary stuff I was eating I was making myself pre-diabetic. After 2 months with limited carbs and no sugar, my blood sugar was down to 70-80. (instead of 100-120)

- one day a week don't use the computer at all

- weekends try to spend at least 8 hours outside, cycling, biking, walking around

- make friends with people outside of internet messenger

- spend less time on hacker news!
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I think the community seems so large here because it's hard to identify people and their patterns, everyone seems so anonymous. I think this is easier on forums where people have avatars. Keeping with the minimalism of HN, maybe a small signature icon could appear next to people's names. A 10x10 pixel image with colors randomly picked upon registering. Maybe not the best approach, but I'd like to see something that would help identify people. The mind can pick out patterns of images much more quickly than text.
You do realize that you might have just gotten lucky in the genetic and metabolic department, and that others who might not be so lucky in their genetic makeup do need to work out 5 hours a week (or more) to get the same results as you?
I love the perl6 community, and I love the work their doing, and I love perl. However, I don't want to work on perl, I want to work with perl. I can't wait for Perl6 to get stable!
Here are a few guidelines I try to abide by:

1. Always eat breakfast

2. Don't eat past 9pm

3. Get 7 hours of sleep

4. Walk 30 minutes a day

5. Shop for food on the outer walls of grocery store

6. Drink 60oz of water a day
That's awesome. I would kill to see him live. Out Cold, though a bad movie, came out when I was in 7th grade and my friends and I loved it. Especially Zach. I've been following him since then, and although I'm glad he's getting recognition, I'm disappointed that I probably won't get to see him do standup live anytime soon. Every chance I've had fell through.
Latest research shows that oxidative stress that results from cardiovascular exercise is the kind that is most beneficial to physical and mental well being. So I usually go running during the week but I don't stick to a schedule or a minimum distance quota. Listening to how your body responds and acting accordingly minimizes damage and improves recovery times. Since my goal is to improve overall well being I've found that this kind of setup works quite well.
I agree on the second point but I think once you've hit the Oprah show, you qualify as mainstream.
I await the day when Apple sues Christianity, Islam, Judaism et al. for featuring an Apple with a bite out of it in their origin story which is in clear violation of Apple's established trademarks.
No, the usage above is correct
If I could figure out how to short sell these beasts

Go to a farmer, say, "Let me rent your Alpaca for 100 dollars per year", then sell it on the open market for (whatever) 1000 dollars. Then, wait for the prices to crash, buy them back for 50 dollars. Profit. That's what short selling is. Warning: One Alpaca could just as easily bankrupt you.
I wouldn't say "no coffee" is a paleo thing.

Also, I would say experiment with dairy. Dairy makes me feel great. Full fat yogurt is a fantastically cheap and healthy central component to a meal if it agrees with you (I think ethnicity is relevant here). Yogurt has minimal lactose. So what if cavemen didn't have it.
Please no.

HN has its shortcomings but lack of avatars isn't one of them.

The quality of the postings here is of a way above average level compared with that on other sites that offer a way to discuss links related to programming and surprisingly wide area to the left and right of that.

Avatars are for people that don't want to read, the usernames are more than descriptive enough, and offer everything from mechanical fishes to Daniel B Markhams, so no lack of expressivity there.

The only people that would use avatars (I think) would be those that are normally found in troll territory.

I think that HN really rewards the time you put in to it, by loading up HN with more bells and whistles the quality is not going to go up.

Less = More.
That would be huge. Thanks!
both very useful! I never used CTRL+3 before, I always intend to research eclipse more thoroughly but never get around to it
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PG would weigh in at 47.7 points per day. Not that it matters, but just in case you're curious.
Apple: some of the whiniest bitches on the planet. "No, you can't use our trademarked glossy chat bubbles in your $5 iPhone app! We own rounded rectangles with gradients! The ratio of people to cake is enormous!!"

Seriously, as a longtime user of trendy/overpriced Apple products, these stories piss me off and "erode confidence" in Apple as an honest and aboveboard company. The more successful they become, the less I like how they comport themself in the marketplace. Nothing wrong with defending your legitimate trademarks, but this sort of shot across the bow really makes Apple seem, on the whole, like a gaggle of paranoid hubristic geek bitchmongers.
I've been looking in to relocating recently; the area between San Fransisco and San Jose has been high on my list, but I've always been a little put off about the fact that it's hard to find any balanced discussions about what the quality of life is like there. I get that it's the #1 place for a geek to be, but I'm taking my wife as well and she's not a geek at all.

It's nice to see someone talking a little bit about the area without all of the gilded verbiage.

(Of course, #2 on my list right now is Portland, and I'm finding myself having a similar problem with discussion about that city right now as well ;))
I moved to SF a few weeks ago and so far have found this to be a fair assessment. That said, I think this city suits me better than it does Alex and I have every intention to stay.

Any HN people in SF that would like to have a pint and clue me in to the city would be very welcome!
Well, it was only ~5-10 hours per weekend 2 weekends in a row, and it was in the name of making stuff easier for my team for the future. In general, I like my job.

And I actually got out on my bike the past two weekends without working, got some computers built to hopefully find their way into the homes of school kids who need something simple at home, and I'm about 18 chapters deep into Snow Crash, which I feel REALLY BAD for putting off for so long. Never read it before.
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Alex Payne doesn't appear to see the connection between one of his good points:

"San Francisco boasts superb weather. ... There may be some fog, or a bit of rain from time to time, but most of the time it’s sunny and hovering around the high 60s to lower 70s."

and a closely-related bad point:

"the sight of homeless persons in varying states of dishevelment".

If you're homeless, being so in a spot where it's nearly always comfortable to be outside is perfectly sensible. It's not surprising that there are fewer homeless people in areas where it snows and freezes.

His link to http://emptyage.honan.net/mth/2009/07/are-you-going-to-san-f... is well worth following, particularly for the good advice:

"If you're moving 3,000 (or even 300) miles to live in San Francisco; live in San Francisco. And by I don't simply mean that you should not live in the East Bay or the Peninsula or Marin. I mean live in a part of the city that your great-grandparents would recognize as being San Francisco. Somewhere that was entirely residential, and all of the homes in your neighborhood existed, prior to 1915."

The old neighborhoods of San Francisco are wonderful, with considerable village character, nothing like living in SOMA or the Tenderloin.
Exercise: Cycling is my default. I enjoy it and happen to live in a great place to engage in it. I try to do short rides on week days (~30 miles) and longer rides on weekends (~70 miles). In two weeks I'll be doing my first century ride. Besides cycling, I play Ultimate at least once a week, goto the gym 3 to 4 times a week, rock climb and hike when I have time. At times I throw into my regime some running, tennis, or soccer. Essentially, I try to be as active as possible.

Food: I eat mostly vegetables, rarely red meat. Typical meals are: Breakfast (2 egg scramble with pepperjack and salsa; with some juice), Lunch (sliced turkey, pepperjack and a tomato on whole grain bread, with some fruit), Dinner (usually some sort of vegetable stir fry, pasta vegetable combination, or rice and beans with vegetables). Between meals I either eat some fruit or some cereal or granola with soy milk or yogurt. Throughout the day I drink lots of water and usually some juice.

Caffeine: I am in love with tea my default being loose leaf jasmine green. Coffee is a rarity. Red bull is never an option.
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It's true I've never been fat, but the changes in my health and body composition as I shifted to eating this way were undeniable. Likewise my health also improved as I phased out a distance biking habit in favor of short, hard lifting routines.
> Demand a full body picture of anybody purporting to give lifestyle health advice

Indeed. So ?
did anyone else get the irony of "flipping is good" as the title to an post full of alternative f-words..?
"One reason that the iPod/iPhone and iTunes have been successful is that they work so well together."

So wouldn't it follow, therefore, that a competitor would be less successful if their product didn't work as well with iTunes? In this light, Palm's strategy makes perfect sense. All a user has to understand is "it works with iTunes." Forcing people to install a separate sync app makes for a more confusing experience for a good segment of customers, and regardless is an extra hassle that Palm has removed through their sync approach.
I lived in SF for 5 years and recently moved to NYC.

SF is dirty in the gross parts, but it's not as dirty as places like Chicago, NYC or even Paris. It just so happens the dirtiest parts of SF are where startup people work and hang out: SOMA, Tenderloin, the Mission. The level of dirtiness in these areas is so off the scale (one regularly steps over human poo) that it warps one's perspective as to how dirty the city is in general. In contrast there is a layer of garbage and grime everywhere in New York City. So much so that after a day of walking around in the summer, you can turn a white handtowel black just by wiping the sweat off your brow...
I'm living in the East Bay rather than San Francisco, so I wasn't quite cheating by ignoring the disclaimers. Overall, it felt like a pretty good assessment.

"What sickens me most about San Francisco is not its dirt, or its large homeless population, or its questionable safety, but that locals and the city government seem to accept these circumstances."

On the good side, he didn't really go into the outdoor advantages (nearby access to mountains and ocean, in town trails and bays) but he's got a good handle on the downsides.

Perhaps the reason that San Francisco is so relentlessly progressive in its politics is that the residents can all see first hand the divide between the rich and the poor?
Run. (a la Merlin Mann: Most Days.)
So does disqus
I second 99designs.com.

In fact, I will go so far as to say this: most design projects should begin with a contest at 99designs.

There are reasons for this: you get to see a large sample set of competing designs rather than being restricted to whatever designs the neural pathways of your dedicated designer can come up with. You go with 99designs in order to see 100 designs (or 500) sitting on a page. After that, you take one or two designs and you run with them. In my opinion this is bar none the most effective way to start any design project. Make 99designs.com your first step as it gives you a breadth of design options. Then choose one and work on depth and polish.
As someone who will (relatively) soon be graduating and choosing a city to live in, does anyone have similar reviews for New York, Chicago, ect?
That's right. But on nVidia ION platform limit is 4Gb.
It boggles my mind that NO ONE has mentioned that a CORE module of Drupal that is simply not switched on by default is Syslog. So what if the CMS logs to the database by default? If you know better, switch that off (you have been able to do this since V6 started using dblog and NOT Watchdog) and log using Syslog. Come on people, wake up!

Check these:
* http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/syslog
* http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/dblog
Weka and mallet sound like excellent excuses to learn Scala or Groovy.
I ride my bike to work, and have been for the last 3 years. I lost about 50 pounds quickly (I was about 250 at the time) and then kind of hit the wall around 190. I'm still fat, but my lungs and heart are in great shape. My round-trip is about 29 miles, but I also have several multi-mode options that involve mixing bicycle and bus, shortening the bicycle part of my trip to anywhere from 2.7 to 7 miles each direction. This time of year, it's not uncommon for me to ride to the bus on chilly mornings and soak it up with a 14-15 mile homeward ride.

At this point, I'm suffering from T-rex syndrome. Massive, muscular legs, good overall health, and very little upper body. I started 100 pushups a while back ago, then dislocated a shoulder. I'm about ready to start it back up again. Pushups were really working my core and arms. Cycling and pushups seems like a good start at full-body workout without a gym membership.

Oh yeah, and watch what you eat, I guess.
It's great that people are looking at Google's tech as a source of teaching material. But other big companies have equally interesting tech, some have been around longer...yet it can be very hard to learn anything about what they do...
I'd say that LA has many of the same issues. Most of LA is very dirty (though a few of the most touristy areas are very clean). If nothing else the air quality alone is reason enough to consider it dirty.

Public transportation in LA is worse than San Francisco, especially once you need to get out of the core of the city. San Francisco has BART and Caltrain which make traveling between the city and most of the nearby regions pretty convenient (though the price has been climbing). Within the city, the bus has served me pretty well. Especially with nextmuni.com to tell you when the next bus will actually arrive.

I've never had an incident on a bus in SF (admittedly I haven't been here long), but when I lived in LA I rarely took the bus without having to deal with someone who was truly crazy. And LA traffic is so much worse than San Francisco, traveling by bus makes that much less sense.
I dunno. Some of my most fun runs are when it has snowed outside and you have to leap over snowdrifts.
I'm working towards triathalon. I got back into running exactly a month ago, and ran a half-marathon last weekend. This weekend I went swimming, running and cycling at the gym both days. I've had to teach myself swimming and Sunday was the first day that I felt like I had the breathing in some form of control. It's fabulous to be so in the habit that it's easy to go. My trainer advises doing big stretches, biut that keep heartrate low.

I'm spread very thin at work between support, sysadmin and development. I do my best work on focus stuff (development and production sysadmin) at strange hours after several cups of tea, and am unhealthy on this count.

The food advice I've seen elsewhere here is good. Avoid sugar and starch (chips are tasty but terrible), always have breakfast. I used to be one of these geeks who didn't have breakfast, I've no idea how I survived. Some food in the morning is critical. Vegemite on toast (it's popular in Australia) is a killer breakfast - easy and consistently good.

UK have deals at the moment to get cheap bicycles through work. Also everyone's broke, so gyms are less busy, which has worked out well for me.
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There you go, wiseguy.
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HN cyclists: How about a new cycling forum?
I've been cycling for a number of years now (~150 miles/week these days) and have been getting a little annoyed with some of the existing cycling forums out there.

I pulled a little something together over the past few days (yay, for open source stuff!) and, if you're interested, would love to have a few HN'ers help me build a better cycling community.

Any takers? http://www.paceline.cc

At the very least, would love some feedback on the idea, the features (or lack thereof) or anything else you think is relevant.

Thanks!
"There is, I’ve found, precious little to do here, particularly if you’re not inclined towards sports or the outdoors."

While I don't necessarily disagree with this point, I think it's a shame if you don't explore the sports and outdoors opportunities near SF. Twenty minutes by bike can put you in the hills of Marin County. A few miles to the west of the City will bring you to Ocean Beach. A short car ride to the south gives you access to the vast forested area of the peninsula, notably Big Basin State Park. A few hours in a car can get you to some of the most beautiful places on Earth, including Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, and Big Sur. Hike, backpack, ski, surf, sail...

The road cycling in the area is world-famous. There are several tracks within a reasonable distance if club auto racing is your thing. Heck, there are even a few ice arenas in town on which you can play ice hockey.

In short, there is plenty to do (if you like sports or the outdoors).
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Apple cannot go back an update every previous iPod in existence. So at some point, the Palm pre will respond exactly like some existing iPod model and Apple won't be able to do anything more.
Playing the game isn't dumb -- or rather it's no dumber than any other card game, and smarter than most.

Buying and collecting the cards is the dumb part.
As much as I agree with you that this probably isn't much of an infringement, I do know that the job of the legal department at companies like Apple is to jump on every single instance of a trademark that might even remotely infringe on Apple's own trademarks. As far as I'm aware, sometimes Apple (or [insert big company name here]) may not even think it's very much of an infringement -- they may just make the application to cover their asses. If they didn't pursue every potential trademark infringement, they could find themselves in a world of pain ten years down the road.

I think it's important to make a distinction between Apple, the company that ships those shiny insanely great products, and Apple's legal department, the people whose sole purpose is to protect, above all else (even at the price of looking like d'bags), Apple's ownership of Apple's stuff.
Hard to tell one anonymous person from another.
I thought his complaint about a lack of things to do on a Saturday was odd. He says there's a decent cultural scene and he's not into the sports/outdoors.

I'm curious what he would expect a city provide?
"I was able to negotiate for a 10-year-old girl for cleaning and cooking, permanent possession and sexual favors. What do you think the asking price was?

TM: I don't know ... $7,500?

BS: They asked for $100, and I talked them down to $50."

This fails the smell test for me. at $1 per day for food & shelter, he can buy her for less than it would cost them to keep her for 2 months.

Most likely, he was being scammed in some way. They were probably planning to rob him and had no intention of selling the girl.
UnderWater Hockey and Salamander Wrestling--the new twister! http://salamanderwrestling.tumblr.com

edit: used to be 4-court roller tennis with our dog on defense. my husband and i love to make up games. activity keeps my energy and spirits up, makes it easier to focus. plus, the walks are useful for us to discuss and plan for our startup. walking around is a great way to pull your thoughts together and be more creative. same with taking a dump or shower ;-)
Reddit's an odd combination. Certain subreddits have notorious characters: There's S2S2S2S2S2, and MercurialMadnessMan, and RedDyeNumber4, to pick a few from memory, that appear in places like AskReddit or SuicideWatch. There are certain people notorious for certain memes, like P-Dub, and there are the famous troll accounts like 911was_an_inside_job, and there's karmanaut, who in 3 months built up more karma than anybody else on the side. There's also the redditjetblue community, which is where I think the "celebrities" are.

In communities like /r/funny, however, there are enormous masses. Some names stand out more—I wonder if my alias there does—but that's more subjective and less of a closed-off community.
Palo Alto and Cupertino are nice.
Where do you get the points for comments alone?

Karma accumulated for posting links is almost completely meritless due to the way the site discourages editorial, is built around multiple-submission, and then gives the karma to the first past the post.

Feature request: Make the primary karma count reflect comments and text posts only, making link post karma a secondary figure.
Jesper addressed this in the IRC channel. Basically, the traffic was not actually reaching the box, it was just saturating the available bandwidth to the EBS store. Moreover, since the attack was against EBS and not EC2, I'm not sure that you could actually get any monitoring in place on the volume.

I'm kind of surprised your first assumption is that they have no monitoring in place. I like BitBucket, so I'm biased, but I can't really see anything about this instance that would make assume it was caused by some sort of incompetence on their part.
Perhaps, also the connection between: " It’s entirely possible to have a bad meal in San Francisco, but to do so is entirely your fault: Yelp and other social recommendation services are better represented here than anywhere else in the world, and a suggestion for a good restaurant is always just a couple clicks (or taps) away."

and: "Enormous competition for limited resources. You will wait for everything. The better a thing is (food, coffee, a nice place to sit), the longer you’ll wait for it. When you finally get what you want, you’ll be crammed in with others trying to enjoy the same place/thing, diminishing everyone’s enjoyment."