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Most of the responses here seem to be from the perspective of people in their twenties without any major commitments other than work, so for the sake of balance I'll throw my two cents in.

I'm in my thirties, married with a two year old son, and working 40-50 hour weeks for a startup, and spend all day Saturdays looking after our son so my wife has time to work on her PhD. Between that lot there's not a lot of spare time, but I'm also in the process of starting a side project I hope to grow into a business.

Recently I've finally managed to get a bit of momentum behind that. The key was to book a week of holiday from work, with the intention of building an MVP during that time. I didn't quite get to something I feel I could sell in that time, but I did make enough progress that I feel like its worth continuing.

The other thing that's working to my advantage is having moved house to be closer to our families. That means I now have 10 hours of train journeys a week over the two days I need to be in the office rather than working from home. Its not an ideal situation to work in, the internet connection is intermittent while traveling through the countryside, and sometimes I'll lose 30-40 minutes waiting for their to be a seat, but it does have the advantage of being a block of time that I can dedicate to it. You can get a surprising amount done in two hours when you focus on it. I'd go so far as to say if you can't make time outside of work, move two hours away from the office, and buy yourself an annual train ticket. Maybe I'll turn it into some sort of coworking movement, bringing together commute hackers.

The other key thing has been to try and notice when I'm wasting time, and to back out fast. There's no leeway for yakk shaving away four hours when that's half the time you have to work on something this week. I will say I have mixed success on that front, having recently lost a week to the decision I should stop using Bootstrap. Eventually I killed that branch, and got back to focusing on what matters, but it was super painful.

Finally, and the critical thing for me at least, is having a side project you truly care about. If you just feel like you should be working on a side project for appearance sake you'll never find the motivation to stick at it. My Github profile can attest to that, with a steady stream of things I spent a few hours on and then got bored of.

I'd love to hear from anyone in a similar situation, and maybe start a mailing list of people who want to support each other. If that's something that interests you, my email address is in my profile.
I wonder which compiler it was?
That almost sounds like a case of criminally corrupt city officials and police department? Shows how important it is to separate PDs from politicians to enable them act as independently as possible to just uphold the law.

"Suddenly, two months ago, we received a phone call from the city explaining that traditional parking companies were not happy with the way we were poaching business from them and that we had to slow down our growth. We ignored this warning. Ten days later, we received a phone call from the police department telling us that our permits had not been granted and they gave us a warning because we were operating illegally in most of our locations."
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Isn't it though? I thought the hard part was proving the minimum number of moves that can solve all possible initial states. Korf's algorithm and several subsequent improvements seem to be able to find the minimum number of moves to solve any given initial state.
This guy is several years out of date. A few years ago, in 2011, there was a rare earths shortage, made worse by export restrictions from China. Prices went way up. Then Molycorp got the old Mountain Pass, CA mine going again, with environmental controls even the Sierra Club says are OK. Now prices are back down, Molycorp is producing at a loss, and a big Australian mine is starting up.[1][2]

There's also been progress in making motor magnets with smaller amounts of rare earths, which has cut demand.[3][4]

So today we need less, there are more sources, and the technology to solve the waste problem from production is working. This is now a non-problem.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-22/rare-earth-miners-face...
[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelkanellos/2015/06/26/three...
[3] http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/NEWS/2012/_STORY/121120-02-e...
[4] http://www.ims.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Session7a_01_M...
Beautiful plumage, sir.
Taking this course right now. Just about to start Homework 2. Awesome stuff. I've laid out a curriculum for myself starting from this course and ending in ML expertise. :D
Site is down at the moment so I can't RTFA, but I remember my brother-in-law (PhD religious studies, Oxford) telling me this in 1997. So it ain't new news.
If anybody has a good course on Compilers except the old one that's on Coursera (which was decent but honestly the instructor wasn't amazing at holding my attention), that would be awesome. :)
Also easily fixed if the FCC makes messing with unmanned aircraft a felony.
Did these people not have lawyers? That's what I don't understand. The job of the police is not to help you understand the law. I suspect that the other valet companies had their lawyers send a letter to the police explaining the law and how Vatler violated it. If you'r going to operate in a regulated environment you can complain about it, or bring lawyers.
'The interesting thing is how do UPS/FedEx/USPS feel about this, considering that Amazon is aiming to "evolve" their business model?'

UPS/FedEx/USPS can feel whatever they want but there's not a darn thing they can do about it.
I still don't see why your analogy does anything but introduce additional complication. To me, the result appears no more nonsensical than in the original formulation - where it appears correct. So long as X and Y are chosen in advance - and independently - of my guessing, if I draw my reference R from any continuous distribution, there is some nonzero chance that it will fall between X and Y, letting me distinguish them in that case.
I knew that you used it on purpose; just tossing you a softball, that's all.
I believe the truck dispenser is the most likely scenario. I bet $1 on it.
Me too. I posted a comment on the blog about it, maybe the author will respond there?
My suggestion is a form of arbitrage and it's really quite doable.

If you live in a cheap country and earn money in a more affluent one, you don't need to work as many hours. If you choose to earn money in the local market, you'll end up replacing one 40 hour work week for another. Your Brazilian buddies likely work locally which is why they have similar time constraints as someone living and working in NYC would do.

You also don't keep a homebase in your country of origin because that increases your expenses! It really requires getting over the mentality that the country you were born in has to be your home; it doesn't.

I live in the center of Prague right now. I used to live in London. My expenses all tolled come to around 22,000Kč/month, although I could do it on less. That's roughly £600/US$850/€800. The number of billable hours required to maintain this lifestyle isn't much. I'm also vastly happier here than I was in London.

My suggestion is a method of abandoning a full time job if that full time job is getting in the way of more important goals and aspirations. Something has to give, of course, and cutting expenses in a way that isn't detrimental to happiness is one way to do it.

I acknowledge this advice isn't for everyone. It's like going to the gym: some people don't want to do it, some people can't do it, and some people won't do it despite good intentions. Also, not everybody can do it at the same time!
I think that the old joke about Emacs being an OS is actually very insightful. Living in Emacs is basically replacing most of your interactions with the OS (and in particular its window manager). Some, like me, find that Emacs as a pseudo-OS has a better approach towards productivity than your regular ones. It's opinionated - it encourages all "apps" (elisp scripts, basically) to conform the same text-oriented, fully customizable interaction patterns. And all powerful text-operating facilities of Emacs - navigation, searches, keyboard macros, etc. - can be used to interact with every "application". All the different modes and scripts in Emacs feel like a part of coherent whole, not separate apps. It reduces mental context switching tremendously.

You can get halfway there with a decent WM (xmonad, StumpWM and the like), but you still don't get the other half - unified and very powerful interaction, ability to tweak and instrument - and even combine together - applications, and documentation available at your fingertips. Living in Emacs makes me feel the computer is a powerful tool, not a toy.
A few relevant notes:

1) The OS X and Linux versions of Firefox have generally been slower than the Windows version all along, even before switching to 64-bit. Largely because gcc (and later clang/llvm on Mac) generated slower code at least for this particular codebase than MSVC did. This is also why the Windows release versions of Firefox are in fact compiled with MSVC, not gcc.

2) Most benchmarking done by the press is done on Windows, and most of the users are on Windows. Performance regressions on Windows do in fact matter more, both in terms of actual user experience and marketing/perception than performance regressions on other platforms. I wish that were not so, but it is.
Why is the Hanyu Pinyin standard relevant? It is not the source of official English orthography for Chinese names (and hey, if it was, xi'an would be just as wrong as xian!). I'll ask you for the third time what you think of 陕西.
Only in China. Molycorp cracked that problem when they restarted the Mountain Pass, CA rare earths mine. They had to deal with EPA regulations, California regulations, and the Sierra Club, and they succeeded. Now the price has fallen and they're reorganizing in bankruptcy.

Molycorp's new process gets rid of the huge settling ponds that used to be used, and recycles most of the working chemicals and water. (Recovering the water, instead of evaporating it, is a big win; they're on the edge of the Mojave Desert and water is expensive.) What comes out is a dry waste, which is basically what was dug out of the ground minus the good stuff. But about half their plant is resource recovery.
Really great idea. There is a long way to go here, but please keep doing this!
> And the implications for security would be huge because we would have to redefine what we mean by provable security, and then have to make some other arbitrary distinction. Is n^100 secure, but n^99 not?

That doesn't sound right. After all, there's already an arbitrarily smooth continuum between polynomial-time and exponential-time algorithms. See quasipolymomial or sub-exponential algorithms.
I would guess a majority of that traffic is going to be crawlers. It's probably more like a small fraction of 1% who are actually missing out.

EDIT: Looks like they covered this in comments. Even that doesn't convince me for some reason.
I finished Cryptography I in March 2012 and wanted to take Cryptography II ever since. Every time the announced time is close it gets pushed back by 4 months.
There's a reason the drone is made to land going directly down, vertically, once it reaches the destination.

If drones do get shot down, I'm sure Amazon will eventually deploy escort drones that sense where the shots come from. lol...
I work 40hr/week yet I have plenty of time to work on my stuff. Of course it would be much better if I could fully commit to my project but hey i still need money to sustain myself and need to compromise with reality. Anyway, sometimes when I really get into it I can even work more hours than my day job. In extreme cases, I would leave work at 6pm, get home by 6:30, take a shower and start working at 7pm. Work on my project for 11 hours until 6am, and go to sleep and wake up at 9am to get to work by 10am. I take nap during lunchtime (45 minutes to 1 hour). Of course I can't keep this up forever so I only do this when I am super motivated and can probably do it for a couple of weeks to a month at a time. But even when I'm not in this crazy mode there's plenty of time to work. Just doing half of what I described will give you 5 hours * 5 days = 25 hours per week, plus if you're really committed you can work all weekend 12 hour * 2 = 24 hours (for saturday and sunday), which adds up to around 50 hour/week. "Not having time" just means you're not motivated enough. Before you say "yeah right you can do that because you're some abnormal crazy guy, no sane person can do that and it's not even healthy" I want to tell you that motivation is not something people are born with. Instead of trying to wait till motivation finds you, actually start "doing" something and you will gain momentum and next thing you know you will be super motivated and don't have to worry about these things.
Wow, something from the Meaningness blog got onto the front page of Hacker News. I did not expect that.

I want to make a note of something here. The author is a practitioner. I don't know how he thought up of these things, but what he says here and in many of his other articles are worth listening to because many of the things he says here seem to come from practice on the cushion -- at least to me, he does.

It's the meditative experience itself that loosens up beliefs and opinions. When they arise and you pay attention on the cushion, things you take for granted get seen in a new light. Many of the deeper observations result from seeing things that you'd rather not see. What's ironic is that, for some reason, many folks in Consensus Buddhism will have these strange, adverse reactions to this very questioning of the core beliefs of Buddhism, even though the meditative methods taught at the core of Buddhist practices will open up the questioning process. If you're practicing correctly, you'll run through layers of personality and deeper into tightly-held beliefs and world views. Releasing and opening those are often one of the hardest practices. (But hey, you can take what I just said as the ethical posturing; I get that reaction a lot too).

This method does not apply to just Buddhist beliefs. It can apply to any belief system (religious, political, social, etc), including Atheism (Yeah yeah, atheism is an "absence of belief"; but not after you find out what beliefs really are on the cushion).

So, while the insights in this article might be interesting, even practical, I doubt you'll really get it's full potential unless you replicate it by sitting on the cushion yourself.

Just saying.
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This is an odd question since I'm reasonably sure GitHub predates the concept of Show HN.

Some projects aren't web-friendly.
What is a stateless user interface?
Most of the genes that can be mildly harmful must also be mildly (or more) helpful, perhaps in some other domain, or else they would have become far less prevalent over time.
Algorithms: Design and Analysis Parts 1 and 2 (https://www.coursera.org/course/algo and https://www.coursera.org/course/algo2) taught by Tim Roughgarden of Stanford. Tim's the best professor I've ever had either on or offline and he does a fantastic job explaining the concepts and breaking down the algorithms into digestible, intuitive pieces. His enthusiasm for the topic and the impressive algorithms is contagious and keeps the challenging courses fun and interesting.

Functional Programming Principles in Scala (https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun) by Martin Odersky, the inventor of Scala, is also excellent and a great way to learn and start using Scala and functional programming. Be forewarned though, once you get a taste of Scala, you'll have to be dragged kicking and screaming back to using Java :-).
This is mentioned in the first Crash Course World History video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&list=PLBDA2E52FB...
To be fair to Obama, it matters little what he does or does not want. He has no hope in getting anything really meaningful approved by the Senate before his term is over. It is just not going to happen.
I don't want to be a middle-party for most of the experience. I don't want to have your data about who you are visiting or when. I wouldn't want that data.

As such, I'd ideally like people to communicate over a trusted third-channel. We could provide them a proxy email, I guess to anonymize them somewhat, but seeing as we are already asking for social links, its somewhat moot as your real email should be easily searchable using those social media links.

Makes sense to have HackerCouch being referred on couch requests. I'll add a note and a pre-written subject/body on the contact email link.

I'll look into verifiable platform links and see if I can figure out something. Thanks for your inputs.
"Can the author prove that case (3): one is less than R and one is greater than R occurs with greater than zero probability?"

I think it falls out of the way you pick R. If you pick from a distribution with a non-zero probability everywhere, then for any specific (non-equal) X and Y, you've got non-zero probability integrating between them.
The time hierarchy theorem does not state that there are NP-complete problems that cannot be solved in polynomial time. If it stated that and was well-accepted, then there would be no P ?= NP mystery.
Accepting immigrants is a pretty good insurance against your civilization going extinct, in fact. More diversity, more innovation.

Sure, so the inheritors of my civilization might share like, only 99.95% of my DNA instead of 99.99%, but so what?
Are mormons allowed to drink caffeinated soda? I only saw one recipe in that article that was caffeine free.
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Working 1 hour every morning before breakfast worked out well for me. Important things to consider: 1. your life is more important than your side project, so don't prevent yourself from going out at night just to work on your side project, it's ok to skip days. 2. Don't screw around over thinking what you need to implement. Just make a list of small tasks and do them. It's incredible what you can get out of 1 hour with a clear goal and no distraction.

Edit: my work week was 60hr per week. There was no chance I could do anything at night as I was completely drained. Weekends were off bound too. I found that when you do as little as 1 hour a day, if you don't believe in the project you'll just drop it. If you really think you can get something out of it, you'll keep going and you'll get to some place good reasonably fast.
What exactly is the issue with having the HTML generated with javascript? You can still run "view source", overridden CSS or Greasemonkey on it...
Assuming that you have the energy to do coding after work, it seems like this is really a question about time management rather than about motivation.

One thing I'm trying right now and that seems like a good first step is to track what you spend time on every day. I'll give you an example. Right now I'm home for Thanksgiving, which is sort of a vacation, but I also want to be productive. Here's what I did today:

11:50-12:45 - Wake up, internet

12:45-1:00 - Work

1:00-8:30 - NFL, hang out with friends

8:30-9:00 - Quick work out, shower

9:00-10:45 - Dinner + work

10:45-11:25 - Break, clean up, shave, wash up

11:25-11:50 - Work

11:50-12:00 - Pats-Broncos OT

12:00-2:00 - Work

2:00+ - Relax, sleep

I don't know if that was the most helpful example given that I'm on vacation, but whatever. I've found that I spend a lot more time on little things like eating and cleaning than I'd think/hope (I'm a very slow eater).

Anyway, I think that having good data on where you spend your time is very useful. Both from a logical planning perspective, and from an emotional/motivational perspective.

Prioritization, motivation and efficiency are topics that are too big and too well covered for a comment of mine here to be useful.
Implicit casts are the worst feature of C, and C++ manages to make things even worse with implicit conversions by default. Marvelous.

I should create a new subset of C++ and call it C += 0.5.
"infinite uniform distribution (is that even a thing?)"

No, that's not even a thing.
That's an extremely strange assumption.

Smaller = less profitable? What? Why would you think that?
> What happens when you develop a tolerance to caffeine after prolonged use? Study doesn't really explain that.

I've seen a couple of studies on the effects of coffee/caffeine on alertness. They showed that initial usage produced heightened alertness, but the body adapts relatively quickly, resulting in lower baseline alertness and a need to use caffeine to reach an alertness level roughly matching (or often not quite matching) the original pre-caffeine baseline.

So: you start drinking coffee, you get short-term alertness, long-term you have to keep drinking it to get back to the alertness you started with before you started drinking coffee.
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Also, Algorithms, Part I and II (https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI and https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partII) by Kevin Wayne and Robert Sedgewick of Princeton University. They approach algorithms from a slightly different angle than Stanford course does and in my opinion they complement each other very well. I was very impressed by the lectures, practical problems, the autograder, and the 'Algorythms 4th edition' book.

p.s. don't expect any certificate of acomplishment for those courses though. I did them both close to 100% and they did not even show up in completed courses on Coursera. I guess it's the Princenton thing, and I came just for the knowledge so that was fine with me.
WELL DONE CHAPS! Hopefully this will push governments into contributions of equivalent relative magnitude - ie many times the 20 BN that ZuckerGates are valiantly contributing.
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Whether a solution is actually advantageous depends on whether your chosen number lies between your opponents choices, which are not defined. The author notes that if you select from an unbounded distribution, you can in principle have a nonzero (though in practice very small) advantage regardless of the opponent's choice.
> It's surprising that there isn't a bigger uproar over the fact that corporations pay a lower effective tax rate than people do.

Why? At the end of the day a person will make the profit, every corporation is owned by someone. So that person should pay the tax, not the corporation.

The only issue is the ability of corporations to defer the tax paid by their owners endlessly. If you changed that, you could get rid of corporate tax entirely.
Clean air from Evil Gates and Asshole Zuckerberg, I won't breathe it.
That cat is definitely on something
You can just choose an arbitrary starting L, and if the answer is No, keep doubling your guess until the answer is Yes, then just binary search from there. Or if you want to start with the maximum possible L, just start with the sum of all the edge weights in the graph.