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In Dijksterhuis 2004:

George Spencer Brown has famously said about Sir Isaac Newton that “to arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity. Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behavior of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is that one needs to know.”

– The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb

I purposefully don't listen to music when I walk places. I enjoy thinking and taking in my surroundings. However, I probably still don't think enough. Thanks for this article!

Side note: Please don't justify the text if you don't have to, it makes it harder to read. Thanks!
The Jack Kerouac quote is so fitting for the piece. Very touching and heartfelt story.

I'm happy to hear you've made peace with this experience and the ghost of your friend.
CoffeeScript compiles to JavaScript and it can run natively on V8/node.js (since V8/node.js executes JavaScript)...
Nintendo was trying to supplant personal computers before there were widely deployed personal computers to supplant! The Japanese name of the product known as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was the FamiCon, short for Family Computer: the power of a workstation harnessed in the pursuit of things other than work.

For the last few decades Nintendo has been the defining video game company in the US, but that is not their self-image. Look at what they're doing with the Wii or the DS: yoga trainers, anti-Alzheimers programs, dictionaries, cookbooks, exercise machines, and a little Mario on the side.
I have way more ideas for stuff to work on than time and energy to work with.
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"it doesn't look like the person reason their own article twice or did any sort of editing :(" reason?

I agree with you, the article does seems to show a lack of proofreading.
I think it hasn't caught on yet because there's no (last time I was around anyway) solid, decent, recommended deployment strategies.

It was once suggested to me on IRC to use only one instance of a node app because it's "non-blocking"... I'm serious: "why would you need more than one?".

Obviously you can deploy well enough using a monitoring app to keep up as many workers as you want, but compared to stuff like passenger it's just not mature enough.
I, too, take notoriously long showers and find them to be one of the best places to think.

In regards to your question about listening to music being considered consumption: I think it really depends what type of music listener you are, or what your particular motivation for listening while running is. Listening to instrumentals for the purpose of increased concentration is probably not the norm. Most people who listen to music while they run do so for the reason frederickcook stated: they'd be bored otherwise.

Or at least they'd claim it was boredom. Really I think it's the complete awkwardness of the absence of some sort of distraction, and it's just easier for people to say "I'd get bored" versus "I'd feel so awkward". However, on the other side of that initial awkwardness lies a new level of clarity. For me, the 45 minute mark on a slower-paced run is the only time I have better obvious-in-hindsight solutions than in the shower.

(that being said, working a demanding day job while planning my exit strategy into a startup leaves me no time to run...at a time in my life when I need that clarity most!)
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No kidding. I've been a Mac user since the early 90's, and even I would tell you that Apple's long term goal (even during the Steveless era) was to be the next Sony, not the next IBM or HP.
Here's an upvote, cause you made me laugh.
They are releasing an SDK soon. It remains to be seen how successful or popular it will be. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=100...

One of the biggest issues with it is that you have to figure out a way to get users to pay for their own bandwidth - this issue doesn't surface on other devices.
They have an evaluation version now so you can try it.
Yea, I had read that a while back.

"And of course there's another kind of thinking, when you're starting something new, that requires complete quiet. You never know when this will strike."

Thinking about this now, I don't necessarily know that time spent just thinking will yield anything useful, let alone completely innovative. I went running today and all I thought about was different ways I could have written this essay. I've just realized that when I do have these moments, this kind of thinking, it isn't by accident, or when working on something else. It happens during a specific time I set aside for it.
Congressional Hacks: John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi want to know what happened.
Don't artists often do things like this?
Airbnb (W09) hiring up to 4 engineers
Valve might need a few Macintosh and Linux engineers
Everything depends on the LoRs.. as the other reply said.
If a closed system ends up working better for some people, all I can say is... whose fault is that?
Rummy Canasta
Rummy Canasta is a game of both luck and skill. Not only that Rummy Canasta is entertaining, but also the game is memory enhancing. Since the objective of the Rummy Canasta game is to meld the online Canasta cards by picking up and discarding the cards, the player will have no choice but to study the cards picked up by his opponent in order to get ahead in the game. The game starts with 15 cards, which the player will attempt to make his Canasta melds with. In Rummy Canasta, the player will only be able to make Sets and not Runs as opposed to other Rummy games. This means that in the online Canasta game, online sets of at least 3 cards of the same value are acceptable compared to card sequences. Each meld made is checked to see whether it was composed according to the Rummy Canasta rules. Download the Canasta game software and enjoy!
"Next time you read a blog, stop afterwards and think about it"

Great... Now I'm stuck in an infinite recursion, thinking about your blog about thinking about blogs...
one would think, given the fact that Netbeans is the superior Java IDE as of 6.5 on.
The automobile has followed a similar trajectory. Early cars were 'open' in a sense. Ford's Model T came with a small toolkit that contained all the tools needed to repair it. Modern cars barely come with enough tools to change a flat tire, but that hasn't stopped people from modding. Now, in addition to boring out heads or swapping engines, modern street rodders can tweak the fuel-to-air ratio with their laptops and install large-bore fuel injectors.

Hacking is something that will always be around. The iPad may - if successful - usher in a new, possibly more mature era of computing, but people are still going to be hacking the new devices. Just because it ain't your daddy's '69 Camaro doesn't mean it can't be modded for the drag strip.
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I found the same thing through yoga, meditation, and showers. I didn't think all that much while actually doing yoga, but there was a certain clarity of mind that made it easy to go sit on a park bench and think out my problems much easier. At the pace my life is currently going, I have given up yoga and meditation. Thank you for giving me a gentle push to pick it up again (even if yoga, specifically, isn't what you were suggesting).
Here's a great article (from 2006) about how a theoretically smart guy fell for, and still believes, that the scammer to whom he lost tons of money were the real deal.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/05/15/060515fa_fact
Game consoles such as the XBOX, PS3 and now the iPad are always closed to help create a market and for quality of service for the consumer device that they are. The XBOX 360 is a bit more open than the others but I consider the iPad much like a console with a specific purpose. It may just even challenge the XBOX and PS3 as a game console much as the iPhone and iPod Touch have done. I wish they were more open but openness also kills a bit of the market and revenue possibilities. It sucks, but that is just the way it is.

Computers and hacker culture will still exist, they can pry that from my cold dead hands. But while I am at it I will make some money in the market that Apple is creating.
The "getting out the laptop" overhead is a killer for me. I will often go an entire weekend at home (when I have work needing to be done, etc) without switching from iPhone to laptop because I just couldn't be bothered getting out the laptop and firing it up. To be fair though, part of that's probably because my laptop is 5-6 years old, standby doesn't work and the battery life is average.
Someone has to write those apps.
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Well, that's sad. :-(
No, it didn't, the distribution of wealth just intensified. More $, more taxes.

The % of income paid as taxes by those people went down. As a matter of fact, people in the top tax brackets typically pay a lower % of their income in taxes than their secretaries.

EDIT: Also, where does this persistent myth that "half of all people pay no federal income taxes" come from? They do pay federal income tax. When I had summer jobs I paid income tax beyond FICA. When I made small money right out of college I paid income tax beyond FICA. I'm guessing it's the same story for you, as well. Poor memory?
Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World
The last internet archive snapshot was in April 30, 2008 but it gives a good feel for the kind of info that was there.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080430123942/http://wikileaks.o...

Some of their major scoops include:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080207141628/wikileaks.org/wiki...
LA and Chicago are also pretty bad. If you're curious as to what it's like being an ATT customer in a major city, it's like I'm being punished for not living in Real America. Service is much better in mid-sized cities as I understand.
I see your point. Mental rumination is, indeed, a form of production, and when I get home from my run, I reproduce that which I produced in my head into a paper or speech or discussion or whatnot. The essay is indeed weak in that it does not establish this.

Perhaps I should be more explicit by stating that producing through the act of thinking, excluding any other mental engagement, is for me somehow a deeper or more efficient form of production.

Thank you.
Don't buy it at the Toronto Airport.

Vendor there was selling 1/25 oz coins for $120 Cdn - that's $3,000 / oz.

It's not supposed to get that expensive until this time next year!
For me a drive wouldn't help a lot, unless I guess you live in a quiet area. I prefer walking where I don't have to devote any thought to avoiding other cars and following road rules.
Sigh.

1. Take a hash.

2. Start at "aardvark".

3. SHA1 the salt + aadvark.

4. Compare to the hash.

5. Repeat until "zymoscope".

It's so weird to me that rainbow tables have so captured people's imaginations that they can't comprehend other attacks to hashes, despite the fact that the brute-force attack I just described was the only way password files were ever cracked for the entirety of the 1990s. It's plenty fast.
This little article kinda stinks. I don't have personal experience with their networks in SF or NYC, but without a y-axis on those graphs or a definition of "Voice Composite Quality Index", I don't think you can really draw any conclusions other than they are improving over time. Seems like this guy is just looking for a reason as to why his service is shoddy.
At the risk of this becoming one of those annoying discussions between two people who really love yoga talking about how much they love yoga, I too find a certain clarity of mind through yoga. However, I do agree that it is a different kind of mental clarity, and that I do not find that I get the kind of insights from it that I describe in the essay.
I read Catcher in College, and thought the main character was an obnoxious little prig.

"Ok, so the world's 'phony,' you little snot, you want a sticker for figuring that out?"

I think it's a book you have to read when you're sixteen, and you're just coming to realize that life isn't all sunshine and ice cream. Then it has a way of really speaking to the core of what you're feeling.

But if you're not in that phrase of your life, the teenage self-righteousness of it grates too much.
I owned various Palm models for years along with folding keyboards. I could take notes in meetings and seminars with that setup without having to look. My typing speed on the folding keyboard was enough to max out the Palm III models. The iPhone keyboard doesn't come close to matching this experience and I'm highly skeptical that even a bigger onscreen keyboard will meet the same need for eyes-off typing.
I almost didn't upvote this in deference for those who are (understandably) sick of the iPad discussion. But it represents my viewpoint quite succinctly.

I don't support how closed the Apple platform is, but I think the iPhone OS is great for a whole range of computing. On the positive side its created a market for developers, without pushing out indie developers (like consoles do).

I certainly have sympathy for the idea of teaching kids to program on these devices, and how hard Apple will no doubt make that. While its going to be hard to get any kind of interpreter on the device, I'm sure someone will succeed eventually - and then we could well have a generation of kids who grow up programming because of the device.
This reminds me of the movie/book 'The Peaceful Warrior' by Dan Miller (... there's never _nothing_ going on!)

There are two distinct 'incubation' type behaviors that I have observed - one is the internal thinking that you describe in this essay (showers, running, walks, yoga, or just sitting on the edge of a cliff and looking at the world).

The second type of incubation behavior is a type of 'prattling on'. Doodling, drawing mind maps, morning pages, stream of consciousness, etc.

Mind you - mind maps can be used very constructively, but sometimes it's just a type of brain dump.

I find that the second type of processing is useful when my mind is so full that I get stuck in an idle loop: nothing useful coming out at all; a cross between analysis paralysis and broken record.
If they can be considered ideas worth working on (intellectually stimulating and/or financially rewarding), and you have the required expertise to make it worth following through with them, then that is an enviable position to be in.
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"As HN grows, there is more interesting content added to it. What if there was a way to get this content that would be interesting to you, with less of the pain?"

Then for the average user the front page would consist of mostly annoyingness.

A shared front page is a Good Thing. That's why PG never implemented the ability to hide stories a'la Reddit.

That said, this is cool from a technical standpoint. :)

Off the top of my head, you should display more stories, display their point values, have the link go directly to the article, and have a separate link to go to the comments (and list how many comments there are). If you can. Bonus points for adding upvote arrows.

No, wait, don't do that. Then people might use that instead of the main HN interface.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm not crazy about the name/domain either. I'll try and think of something.
In terms of making money I was thinking one text ad at the beginning of every email.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_Problem
There are a number of other metals that might not technically be 'rare earth metals' but they fall into the same category. Very strategic and rarely found in mineable deposits. I'm thinking specifically of gallium and indium both of which are used in solar panels. Indium is also an important component in flat panel displays.
I haven't really investigated, but I suspect that in the introductory math/phys/chem courses you'll find that variable names/values also change in various ways. So in keeping track of what's "different or new", you end up not needing just dependencies but, realistically (in terms of reader convenience, but also due to difficulty of parsing OCR'd math problems to determine which are 'isomorphic'), all the problems from the latest edition. Which might not quite be 'fair use.'

I am not sure about other courses like bio or psych.

Good luck solving the textbook problem, though ...
I disagree. I think the iPad is perfect for reading Hacker News and PragProg e-books and I can't wait to get one.
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Oh... kay.

Best part: "Our houses are designed to roll right onto a standard 53' semi trailer. With a good laptop battery, you won't even have to stop working! "
Glad you enjoyed, and I had a huge smile reading that quote. I'll have to go dig through my copy of The Black Swan to find that.

Sorry about the justification; I'll check to see if I did that or if Posterous did that.
Take-up smoking ;-)

It's good for meditation.
Wow. No javascript required, cookies turned off, just the browser cache and he will find you and hunt you down.
This could be defeated easily by a good, old-fashioned web proxy. Other than that, or blacklisting, there's no efficient way around it. Wow.
Greasemonkey script to remove iPad stories from HN
For convinience I also included the keywords "lisp" and "clojure" in the recommended version:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2196687/ybs-lisp.user.js

or you can download the ipad only version at:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2196687/ybs.user.js

Have fun!
All I could think of while reading the article was Monads
Thanks for the feedback. You know, I have somewhat mixed feelings about The Shared Front Page. For a small, cozy community there's no question it's the right way to go. And for a larger site, using things like hide functionality as a band-aid is a mistake as well. At the same time, there is a ton of exceptional content out there that we know we miss in the current state, so there's definitely room for an effective technical solution. In terms of this particular tool, I think you put your finger on it when you pointed out that applying this to the HN frontpage is a bit of a mis-application. Filtering 30 stories that most users have at least glanced at the title for, and hence have some familiarity with, down to 8 is not particularly interesting in and of itself.

The title of the article links to the discussion, and the URL links to the submission link. Without the underlining, that isn't as clear as it might be. The idea of the upvote arrows is clever, but then that might invoke "The Fury" aka The Ban and/or The Email.
One of my favorite quotes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=404402

Even if the public hardly knew you, we knew you through your work, and will always remember you through the characters you shared with us. Their insight and perspective will continue to remind those lost in adolescence, the adult world, or the nostalgia of innocence that they are not alone.

RIP
I commented on a previous post that I wouldn't read another iPad article, because all the ones I had read were tripe that bludgeoned the device for ideological reasons, or praised it because it's shiny.

However, I respect Joe Hewitt's iPhone work and other writings, so I checked out his article, and I finally got some real insight. This is certainly the best iPad article I've read so far. The idea that we need to re-imagine all of our current software with the capabilities of a large, responsive touchscreen is a good take on the release.

The only thing that worries me is the risk... what's the chance people don't buy these things? Apple has had a flop or two in its past, and even though I develop iPhone apps, I'm a bit leery of developing iPad apps.
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Especially Teddy. He was like this darker, fantastic exaggeration of Holden.
3G coverage also sucks in Arlington va, which is just outside of DC.
Hi all. I rigged Hacker Newspaper to skip any story which contains the word "iPad" (case-insensitive) in the title.

I've got that in effect for now and will remove it after the madness ebbs.

So if you want to read a version of HN with iPad references spam-filtered, here it is: http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/

Merry Xmas
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Ask HN:: Review My Webapp
I've had this idea in mind for about a year now and finally got around to doing it. I'd be interested in any feedback you have. Since I'm not really a marketing person, I'd be interested if you have suggestions on where to market the site. I am trying out Google Adwords but would appreciate any other suggestions. Thanks.
Please set them straight! :-)
I want one!

> Won't real estate expenses be far higher than for a generic cubicle farm?

Even if they are a bit higher, productivity must soar compared cubicle-land. It's shocking and kind of depressing how many tidbits float across those cubicle walls (my favorite this week: "my hair is so shiny today").
yes. one finger tap is single click, two fingers is middle click and three fingers is right click. All via synaptics.
Currently a poor CS student but I still donated 25 dollars. Wikileaks is one of only a handful of media organizations actually making a difference in the world; it needs to be supported.
Hard to say, because the other thing that happened was that the design was refined to have strengths that none of the competitors were able to match. The Nano was light, sleek, and nearly seamless, it had a bright, clear, colorful screen, it had superior sound, and an interface that is a pleasure to use. By that point, all the competition had was more disk space, a changeable battery, and maybe some other minor features that nobody really cares about.
Just noticed the same thing. Trying to make my RSS point to the comments page instead of directly to the article.
Thanks, bud; I'm thrilled to be back!
Chiming in to agree. I forget I'm not reading paper. Literally. I physically flip the machine all the time to get to the next page. 50 books in 3 months and I've never once gotten eyestrain.

I'm generally not a hardware fanboy, but the Kindle is to me as guns are to the NRA: if you want to separate me from it you had better be prepared to pry it from my cold, dead hands.
this just took me to my facebook home page?
I realise it is probably rude to ask this, but how old are you?

The reason I ask, is that you comment that this is a symptom of your generation's upbringing, but the reality is that there is also a simple age component in this.

When I was young, I used to devour books while commuting on public transport. Occasionally I would glance up at the older commuters and see them sitting there, staring into nothing, and would think "Gee how can they just stand there doing NOTHING". Now I am one of those people - given 5 minutes with nobody fighting for my attention I just sit there and grab the opportunity to think.

In other words as life starts throwing more things at you, the necessity of defending some thinking space becomes more apparent, irrespective of which generation you belong to.
Perhaps a simple fix at browser level would be to treat cached files with future etags like cookies, clearing or ignoring them with the same policy.

Its a genius trick though.
Heh. You know, there's probably nothing wrong with having a recommendation engine for Hacker News. After all, the frontpage is still the frontpage, so people can use the recommendation engine without it degrading the quality of the site, because most people still use the front page. This could be a great feature for power users of HN.

Of course, there's a problem if everyone switches to primarily the recommendation engine, but that's unlikely.

One thing, though. You should really display the points-to-comments ratio. Unless a submission seems very interesting, I'll usually ignore it if it has more comments than it has points. (That does not apply for "Ask HN"-type posts though.)