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> The 4 months of “hell” were really not that bad looking back at it now. All of this taught me a great lesson in humility and resourcefulness. It also taught me to be kind and loving to your fellow man all the while making sure to “pay it forward”.

But it didn't teach them to save a year's living expenses so they'd never get into this situation again? I wonder what is protecting them from becoming homeless if they fall on hard time again -- probably nothing. With that said, this was a really engrossing read and should reinforce the idea that responsible spending is absolutely key to a comfortable life for those of us who perhaps don't appreciate our nest egg of savings quite as much as we should.
Another kind of abuse could be to store huge chunk of data per key. Even with 10,000 keys if each key stores a 50 MB JSON blob you're storage cost could go up quickly.
I've learned my lesson when it comes to debt loading. Now if I can't afford something, I simply don't buy it. I don't even have a car note or mortgage. Everything is paid for in cash or I simply go without.

I'm glad you enjoyed my post as much as I did writing it.
Well... yeah. What do you want, it's trying to explain by analogy. If it used OCaml it'd be "ocaml modules are simple, they're just like ocaml modules" which is... unhelpful. They could have used C but then they'd have to implement a singleton pattern in C first at which point thats like a dozen things to explain.
I'm still with the side that thinks Marshmallow is the best option. So well known and simple, easy to brand/market and I really want to see a marshmallow Android bot.
No offense but I feel like this should be said, and is a major problem in a lot of engineer companies: CEO's or Directors must do their own hiring & firing. Any company that is hiring their own boss is in for trouble because that person would have no real authority.
"He was an example of living to who you could be regardless of what was broken inside of you or what was "missing.""

This is a wonderful legacy and i just love the way you where able to describe it on one sentence, thanks.
Lack of convenience is a major hurdle to eating healthy, however I'm not convinced that a highly-processed food supplement like Soylent is the best way to do it.

I have found that pre-packaged salads from Trader Joes are a decent tradeoff between price, quality, and convenience, at least for fast lunches and dinners. They are well portioned and easy to supplement with other ingredients like additional meat. Plus (most) salads have the benefit of low sugars and carbs which after a while will help cut cravings for less healthy foods altogether. The downside is that they don't keep for very long so you still have to make a trip to the store every few days.
Quite the contrary. The whole homeless experience has taught me to save every penny I can in an "oh shit" or "emergency" fund. These days I'm well protected and typically have 5-6 months worth of expenses in case the bottom drops out again.
"those apartments only have an effective 10-20 year lifespan"

Economical or political crisis hits, and they'll have to live in those apartments for 50+ years. We've been there already.

How do you build an apartment block these days anyway so it just lasts 20 years? With modern materials it's a bit unexpected.

It's a royally crappy idea anyway. Imagine selling one of those apartments to a person aged 40, who then promptly retires and have to live 20 years in a crumbling home or lose one and go homeless.

Apartment is supposed to be a solid investment.
Microsoft - yesterday's technology, tomorrow.
If you disable Javascript you're left with a blank page with just the blinking eye in the middle.
Glad to hear it. I wish you all the best.
Where is this mantra you speak of? In the post at least, he was speaking of what John Nash believed.
Small note: non-exhaustive patterns are an error in Rust, not a warning.
Thanks for the feedback.
In regards to the "font", that was actually done in photoshop. It's meant to look a bit pixelated and "off". But I'll probably tweak it to clean it up.
SICP, in part because it's not entirely functional and so it goes on to explain the issues that arise with mutation.
The hospital will care when it gets sued.
In 2008 no one could get a loan, selling really wasn't an option.
This is an issue with all providers, though. It's not specific to just DO.
IMHO if cooking or ordering food is "taking time away" then, well, you need to evaluate the whole picture, maybe you need to improve in other areas, plus, you are not going to get to me to sign a check serving soylent as dinner, sorry! Dinner is more than a meal.
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Liquid foods are pretty terrible in regards to appetite control since you don't feel full for quite as much time as with solid food. Something to consider once your maintenance calories drop and you have a harder time losing weight.
Things that strike me as odd about this story--and yes, odd things do happen in dire times, but still.

1. Why didn't the author just pawn the Glock? There are many shops here in Houston, and you should've been able to get a few hundred for it.

2. Why wasn't the rent being charged to the house letters enough to cover at least the 1,500/month mortgage?

3. Why couldn't the author stay with a friend?

4. How did HPD not shoot the author? Harris County is pretty good at that. :(

It's a helluva story, and I'm glad the author is on the other side of it now, but wow.
~

Some questions:

Were you by the Galleria, or in SW Houston? I'm getting it was SW Houston, maybe on Holcombe/Belaire (that being like one of the only two B&Ns around at that time)? Was the gym the LA Fitness on Wesleyan by chance? Was the movie theater the Edwards on Wesleyan, or the Angelika (I think they hadn't closed down yet), or what?

EDIT:

The hivemind clearly doesn't approve of trying to learn more about the situation. So it goes.
I've been trying the 1.4 mix this month. It's maybe a little more fiber than I had been eating, but I haven't experienced any gas or discomfort.
"if he started to take into account earth quakes in New York I might question him."

Earthquakes do occasionally occur in NY:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/new_york/histo...

Even if there's only one earthquake in NY every 50 years, you want to make sure that when one happens, skyscrapers don't collapse and the Indian Point nuclear plant doesn't dump radioactive waste into the Hudson.
I think that sort of excellence is born from resignation to "brokenness". Many many people waste their potential trying to fix the things they think they're missing.
Of course. The weakest link seems to be customer support when it comes to security.
A new approach to uptime monitoring with Grails
iMessage can work on a Hackintosh. Works on mine. It does take effort to make iMessage work though.
A $20k poverty threshold is for a household of 3. For 1, it's a little under $12k.

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/15poverty.cfm#thresholds
I've been meaning to give Soylent a try, currently I am in a pretty bad fast food habit. It's just so convenient! I really don't feel like standing in line after a day at work. Why aren't there any healthy fast food chains? Seems like there would be plenty of demand, is it just too expensive? Too hard to keep things fresh? Or preparation takes too long? I don't require too much, just a drive through Subway would be a great start.
Yeah it's a typo, I'm not sure how to type braces with the top or bottom missing however :p
There is a culture of not wearing the seat belt as a sign of trust.

When I was in Egypt, I'd get in the cab, wear my seat belt and the driver will look at me weird. "So you don't think I can drive?"

A few years later, the police started enforcing the law and most cabs didn't even have seat belts. You would get in and find a sort of belt that doesn't even tighten, hacked together only to circumvent the law.

Not to say that in the US it is any better. If you wear a seat belt while in the back seat, you are considered weird. It is a stigma that is not easy to get rid of especially for the younger generation.

Side note: I do get some dude yelling in English too. So yes, it is irrelevant.
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A remarkable article. I have no real interest in boxing or photography, but this was fascinating and thought provoking.
Seems to be powered by Ace: http://ace.c9.io
It all comes down to low interest rates. As long as rates stay low, the bubbles will build.

Fred Wilson wrote a good piece on this last year: http://avc.com/2014/03/the-bubble-question/
"Modern materials" doesn't necessarily mean the most durable or well-suited to the task. It typically means cheap to produce (therefore readily available) and visually... acceptable.
Worked now, thanks! By the way, with this many haters you know you must be onto something good...
The customer account statements for Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities were notoriously old fashioned computer printouts. [1][2] There was some coverage with a former client, I can't find now, where he even talked about the appearance of the statements encouraging trust.

I wonder if Bernie Madoff researched it, or if it just came with a con man's intuition.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/madoff/financial/

[2] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/a-look-at-madoffs-tra...
Mobile in the Purchase Journey
It's one thing to say you would rather spend time chatting and enjoying food (so would I), but it's quite another to say something is wrong with someone who disagrees.
Even if any given developer doesn't use it as a primary development language, then as something they need a little bit of to do something in a browser, so I'd bet most programmers have at least seen it. And even if you've never seen Javascript before, it's superficially similar to C++/Java/C# so you can kind of make sense of it in simple examples like this.
Thought the same thing. I have no idea why there's none.
There is a persistent short-term mentality though. When the economy is doing well, and people see others taking risks and getting rich, people forget that one day it won't.

Also, popular culture is very focused on the idea of having lots of "stuff", which leads to people spending more than they should.
>Is Ember the cool JS framework now?

My casual following of various frameworks (through HN and Twitter signals) seems that ~12-18 months ago Angular and Ember were duking it out for current "cool kid" status with Angular seeming to edge Ember out. But framework trendiness comes and goes like seasons of American Idol (or maybe Eurovision) and ~6-9 months ago React took the top spot for now.
These are the reasons I advise using Haskell for startups. If you make everything validated (or much of it) at compile time you can move very quickly.

There's also the feeling of the code writing itself. In some places you can literally put in different functions until it typechecks which is great for exploring a problem domain.

In the future I hope to be able to recommend Idris as well.
Max value is 64kb
Are there cross-cultural studies of this effect? If you are wrong, trustworthy fonts will have the same set of properties in cultures with similar alphabets. Pair of cultures which rate trustworthiness of fonts differently despite sharing the same language and alphabet could prove you.
Ha. Nice. Thanks guys
MapQuest still exists
Show HN: Fmpool – Efficient Free-List Memory Pool of Fixed-Size Objects in C99
Which problem do you think is NP but is not NP Complete?
>cryonics [has] much fewer doubts about the preservation of the necessary information

Could you say why you think this? Were you convinced by the experiments done by the Cryonics Institute or Alcor? I haven't been able to contact a disinterested neuroscientist willing to take a serious look at that research.

>just a few days of political, economical, or technological instability can easily wipe out every cryo-preserved brain in existence

Political, maybe, if the the legal status of patients changes so that they are required to be thawed. But why economical or technological? I think I read somewhere that it would take like a month or something for the liquid nitrogen to evaporate enough for the patients to thaw.
Isn't the goal to see that all have their rights, though? Certainly the travesties of justice that many African-Americans suffer daily are at least on par if not worse than getting a store trashed (having your livelihood destroyed, vs. having the opportunity to make a livelihood proscribed, and occasionally your life taken by bigoted cops) but that doesn't diminish or justify reckless and lawless destruction.

Our society spent centuries creating and maintaining the status quo of a class of people with nothing to lose and no way for most to be invested in that society, so it is harder to blame, but still the rioters aren't blameless, they did choose to do what they did.
Wow didn't know those existed, thanks! I think I will try Backblaze :)
Thanks. Great advice. What are some of your favorite blogs now?
> programmers writing dark patterns on LinkedIn, the correlation tracking on Facebook, the dynamic ticket pricing at airlines, etc.

are those jobs really dilbert cubicles? i really have negative sympathy for these people's essentially first world problems and a backlash against them is inevitable, and in my opinion welcome at this point.
Just wanted to add, out of my butt I think the point not explicitly stated is, if you can prove P=NP then I think it means that you can also mechanically transform polynomial checking algorithms into polynomial time solving algorithms.
Reminds me of the Higgs boson announcement, which was surprisingly delivered in comic sans:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-com...

I suppose the context kept the font choice from detracting too much in that case!
Thanks CyberFonic. I like the idea of solving problems and demonstrating the value. That seems to be a common theme.
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Yeah I think this is true: most people would probably (initially) trust a paper using Computer Modern more than one using Times New Roman.
I wasn't clearing 100k I was grossing it. After taxes and overhead it was more like 50-60K. But I understand where you're coming from. I had just started making really good money and my expenses were pretty much equal to my intake. I've since learned to not live beyond my means and am much more frugal in my older age. (38)
It is an antagonistic relation. Cultural preferences influence the selection which influences the genetics, while genetics influence cultural selection. Genetics have a negative feedback on culture, the culture can only develop as much as the genes allow, but the culture has a positive feedback on the genes (sexual selection).
Unfortunately someone submitted it very early on and we didn't get much of a lift. Maybe we can submit again when we launch the app
Can anyone suggest further reading on the topic? Anything from Computational Papers on P vs. NP to "Computation Complexity Classes for Dummies" is fine with me.
Each pouch (one days worth) is 4 servings at 500 calories each so it's not that difficult to over eat when using Soylent as a supplement.
What I learned firing 100 employees and losing $1.5m
I agree and that is in part because you can "guess" what those effects will be but its not possible to say definitively they will or won't be produced.

Assuming 280M adults[1], $200 a month, per person, would be over 672 billion dollars a year if I did my math correctly. So you have to take that cost and figure out how much crime and welfare expense would be removed from the system.

I think most politicians assume that no entitlement program is ever successfully removed from the system so they would just add it on to the annual budget in full. So it makes it a hard pill to swallow. The Department of Health and Human Services is only $961B [2] and a big chunk of that is the institutes of health, the FDA, etc.

That said, I tend to agree that if you set the amount high enough that it can drive a services market at the BI level then you convert an inefficent fiat economy into a more efficient market economy for basic human services.

[1] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

[2] http://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/budget-in-brief/index.html
Thanks. I think we can do a better job of communicating the value prop. Here's what we have so far http://www.happyapps.io/

Maybe not very clear. Working on it...
For native apps? Yes, I think web tech sucks immensely compared to Silverlight.

Unfortunately, the XAML everywhere people lost at Microsoft, so we're stuck with half-baked, kludgy and limited solutions like atom/electron/node-webkit for building cross platform desktop apps. XAML everywhere (Silverlight) is so much more precise and it's compiled. I would have preferred that they continued developing Silverlight at least as a means of building cross platform desktop apps, but I understand why they don't want to expend the energy.
Thanks. Great post
It amazes me that Ember is not more popular than it is. Still, I can't complain -- it doesn't seem to have slowed those guys down in the slightest.
4,000 years of world history
hahaha same here.. a bit annoying
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See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-intermediate
Doesnt the english language consist of 500,000-1,000,000 words?

* http://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq/total_words.htm
Great advice. I always carry around a couple of pairs of ER-20's. They're really cheap, they work well and they last a long time.
There's a difference between quirky and random, and just plain random.
Such sad news, it almost feels like it doesn't do the man justice to go like that. Even worse it was with his wife.
Chipotle is good. A burrito bowl with black beans, chicken, lettuce, salsa, guacamole and cheese is 660 calories with ~50g of protein.
A little background on the Portal to Portal history:
Ore miners unions tried to get compensated for the time they were in the mines (passing through the portal). At the time, they were only paid once they reached the rock face deep in the mine - not the 3 to 40 minutes it took to reach the face.

http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context...
>are those jobs really dilbert cubicles?

Yes... that, or open office plans with Dilbert bosses. Direct your backlash at the corporate management, not the programmers. Many of the software engineers already feel bad and would like to do something else (start their own company, whatever.)

However, they have $50k-100k in college debt and avoiding the programming jobs that reprice airline tickets doesn't make that debt disappear.
This is just a suggestion, but if anyone else encounters a circumstance like this, the best (counterintuitive) thing may be to go to school online. In the US, federal financial aid will provide you with cash for living expenses. There are several open enrollment online schools (here's one [1]) that are cheap enough for you to wind up with about $4-$5K/semester in cash for living expenses. It's not alot, but you can pretty easily "attend" classes online part time while you try to work yourself out of your situation. You get the "credit balance refund" about a month after classes start each semester, but many online colleges have "semesters" that start every month.

While not homeless, my sister came to a crossroads in her career and is now doing this exact thing. The extra $10K/yr basically pays her rent, she is still able to work full time, and she'll have a degree in a field she actually likes at the end. If OP suddenly had $5K in the bank, his road to recovery wouldn't have been nearly as rocky.

[1] http://www.apus.edu/
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What I get from this article is that OCaml modules are sort of like browserify modules or ECMAScript 6 modules.

Cool... I guess?
It was through the movie A Beautiful Mind that I came to know about the man that is John Nash. an inspiring talented guy who is will be sadly missed. I have been guilty of not wearing a seatbelt in a taxi a few times before, as many others seem to point out there is this socially accepted practice of not buckling up in a taxi and I have no idea why.

If there is one thing we should take away from this highly tragic loss it is: seatbelts save lives.
You're glad about more people learning OCaml... but make fun of attempts to help people learn OCaml by comparing it to things they might know already?
I think the takeaway from this is that people associate "odd" fonts with different things (but rarely professionalism), which makes them scary to use in a professional context. Similar to how most of us are "afraid" of wasps because we've had previous bad experiences with them, most people have experienced out of the normal fonts in the wild, but most often in a joke, or on a bad internet site. This previous experience, like the wasp, is taken with us subliminally to the next time we see the font.

Standard fonts exist because if you use them everywhere, users are forced to evaluate the content, and not the font.

Speaking of bad experiences though, I tend to avoid Betteridge's[0] too.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
I prefer to do this - you run entire application stacks inside your container (where it makes sense), rather than run 5 different containers to support the one application. Particularly if your application stack is immutable, it makes deployment far easier than trying to coordinate multiple containers (and versions)
Ha. Great point. Don't think I have updated by HN profile since day 1. Just updated.

The app is http://www.happyapps.io/
Any chance you could put together a video of yourself explaining to people you were homeless? You seemed to get really good responses from people, and I'm intrigued as to whether there was something special about the way you presented.
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." --Gandhi
Your intuition is very good, and gets very close to the heart of the matter.

I think that the true heart of the hypermedia approach is actually "how do I deal with change over long periods of time in a scalable fashion?" Everything else flows from this. Exposing behaviors instead of data is one facet of the approach.

> What should we be calling these things?

Which 'these' are you referring to?
And that is a great lesson to learn in your 30s rather than your 40s.Being mindful about what you spend your money on will change your life.

Not to be critical, but to use as an illustrative example from your own life, you started your challenging period owning a Nissan 350z which got 12 mpg. If you had made exactly one different decision, buying a Honda Civic instead of that 350z, and everything else was the same, you would have hit that point with a car that got 35mpg and an additional $15,000 in your bank account.

So from a learning perspective, at the time you made the purchase of the 350z, thinking about value versus cost versus future expense, knowing what you know now do you make the same choice? I am not a fan of dwelling on past decisions, they were made and they are done. But I am a huge fan of learning as much as I can from the lessons life teaches to insure I am getting full value out of that education.
This was sad for me to read, because it was completely avoidable with an emergency fund and failing that, credit cards.
It doesn't have the same nutritional profile, though. Jake Shake Original seems to adhere to EU recommended daily allowances (except for protein, which they've jacked up hilariously high), while Soylent has developed their own thing.

Not sure which one is better. They're probably both pretty healthy, but they're not interchangeable.

Anyone with more knowledge on the subject who can comment on which one is healthier?
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/check-logjam-nmap/
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