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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Do you wake up with anxiety?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: What do you have to do at your company to get promoted as an IC?

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www.biorxiv.org 6y ago

Reversing age: dual species measurement of epigenetic age with a single clock

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What is the software architecture at your company?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Are you a programmer with Parkinson's?

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www.npr.org 10y ago

'Body Hacking' Movement Rises Ahead of Moral Answers

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newsroom.fb.com 10y ago

Introducing the Facebook Sports Stadium

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newsroom.fb.com 10y ago

Facebook Search

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mobile.nytimes.com 10y ago

Amazon Challenges Etsy with Strictly Handmade Marketplace

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www.facebook.com 10y ago

Facebook Reactions

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www.hover.com 10y ago

7 Oldest Still Functioning .com Sites

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: How much time do you spend with your spouse or partner?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Do you take anti-depressants?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: What Is HN Learning?

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

The Mother of All Demos (1968)

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seanwes.com 11y ago

Talent vs. Hard Work

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www.npr.org 11y ago

Parts of Social-Sharing Site Reddit Go Dark in Apparent User Revolt

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www.npr.org 11y ago

In a Dutch Town, a Glowing Bike Path Inspired by Van Gogh

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: App ideas for the Thanksgiving holiday

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www.bbc.com 12y ago

Can meditation help prevent the effects of ageing?

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www.amazon.com 12y ago

Amazon 'Fire Phone'

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?

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apps.npr.org 12y ago

The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever

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m.bbc.com 12y ago

Researcher Creates Holodeck With Occulus and Kinect

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blog.pickcrew.com 12y ago

Feel Like an Impostor? You’re Not Alone

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www.bbc.com 12y ago

The surgeon who operates from 400km away

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www.npr.org 12y ago

FDA Dangles Golden Ticket to Spur Drugs for Neglected Diseases

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design-tool.herokuapp.com 12y ago

Heroku Design Tool

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: How do you deal with inferiority complex?

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www.npr.org 12y ago

High-Tech Maker Spaces: Helping Little Startups Make It Big

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Curious what went wrong.

The few microservices we've built so far have been good at taking some load off of the monolith and its database, as well as at making sure that if the micro service goes down, only a small part of the customer facing app will be affected. The monolith and majority of the app would continue to function.

Thank you for sharing your experience. It is encouraging to read about others in our field coping, and coping well with Parkinson's. Moving to more managerial type positions does seem like a good idea.

You are getting psds of iphone's own user interface...so that you can then put the mock up of your application inside it for say client presentation or to see how your app's design looks on the iPhone or to see if your app's design meshes well with iphone's aesthetics.

what if Uber/Lyft etc let you lend your car to drivers? So instead of sitting in the parking lot, an uber driver could be driving it. Uber/Lyft could background check the drivers. I wonder if it will be worthwhile for them to provide insurance against theft. The driver would also need to be added to your personal insurance I guess....the insurance companies might eventually come up with plans specific for this type of scenarios.

Nah, it means 'nothing'. :-( But I am looking to learn React + Flux. I am a frontend noob, mostly because the spider web of JS and CSS code (plus the tens of JS frameworks to choose from) ultimately drives me nuts. But, React and Flux seem to be less spider-web-y and appeal to a backend developer like me.

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When we sleep, our brains process the events of the day and pick out things to stow away in our long term memory.

Maybe as a side-effect of this processing, they also aid problem solving - after a good night's sleep, you are able to find solutions to the previous day's problems faster (than you would, if you hadn't had the sleep).

As we sleep, our brains clear away toxins that accumulate during our awake time. These toxins may be culprits behind neuro degenerative diseases.

There seems to be a correlation between sleep deprivation and cardiovascular diseases.

I don't worry about the number of lines of code. I do worry about lack of clarity, readability, maintainability, clear flows of events. Unfortunately, hacked together fragile code that produces desired effect (as the article mentions) has been the norm at every place I have worked at. A serious source of job dissatisfaction.

"Moreover, during a tough self-control task, circulating glucose levels plummet, consumed by hardworking frontal neurons. And, remarkably, self-control improves if subjects sip sugary drinks during the task (with control subjects consuming sugar-free drinks)."

Then is controlling urge to sip sugary drinks a doomed enterprise?

But he does talk about apps with authentication, rating systems, shopping carts etc. These in my opinion represent a complex app.

I think it will be close to impossible to make the participants feel like it is 2003 by doing things like placing turn-of-the century magazines around etc. It sounds silly. It almost seems to be mocking their intelligence (I know that's not what they are doing). IMO, they should stick to just telling these participants to try and put themselves in the mindset they were in before they ever faced cancer.

I have the same thoughts. I know folks that are suffering from diabetes, and they drink soda every time I eat with them. And that boggles my mind. It's like they can't bear the taste (or lack thereof) of water. Or they are addicted to soda.

After moving to the U.S, I had more soda than ever before in my life, and that actually made me not like them anymore. Can't drink more than couple sips.

Reddit 12 years ago

The giving back to community approach would, in my opinion, be more deserved by a community like StackOverflow. I always feel grateful to and am amazed by the SO community.

Invest in think tank that will work on figuring out a model of governance/society that will ensure no one goes hungry, no one lacks healthcare, everyone has access to education/learning material in their chosen field, there is little or no income inequality - maybe a society that does away with money.

Nice. Some of the sounds didn't seem to work (like the typewriter).

I have a similar idea jotted down on my things-to-make list :) My idea is to create a library of sounds that are part of our daily life today, not necessarily things that have disappeared or are rapidly disappearing. Like a shutterstock of sounds :)

Received a 500 error when searching for a book.

Is this targeted at people in India? Wondering because of the .in domain. It is a really good idea for a place like India where the public library system is not that great. I grew up there and the way I was able to read books mostly was by borrowing from friends whose parents or grandparents had built up a collection.