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This sounds very similar to me! I've also been thinking about going for a PhD one day, or at least a degree. What was your field of study?

I don't know if I can think of any practical advice. But I'm in the same boat, and I think this can be a good quality if it means you are constantly thinking of new ideas. I also love starting new projects, and have even been able to finish a few. Recently I even posted an unfinished project on Reddit, which got a few laughs, and that's all I was going for.

If you're up for it, I would enjoy chatting about some of the projects we worked on, and countries we've lived in. I'm still looking for the perfect place on earth to settle down for a while, although I think I might have actually found it this week (New Plymouth, New Zealand).

Feel free to send me an email, my address should be in my profile. And we can also maybe work on some ways to mitigate the addiction to new things.
Surely filesystems are going to go through a massive change when SSDs push standard spinning disks into the history books? They must carry a lot of baggage for dealing with actual spinning disks, much of which is just overhead for super-fast solid state drives. Hopefully this will allow interesting features not possible on spinning disks, like better atomic operations.
And how can I be sure that a VPN service I have never heard about before actually does not log my data on the server side?
Specifically which framework? (And anybody giving you flak for using PHP is telling more about themselves than about you.)
IIRC I have seen this discussion before. And the answer was do a fsync. But for sakes of performance we want to be able to issue write-barriers to a group of file handles. So we know the commands will be ran in order, and no other order.
I am on similar lines, but i have a stable job .. (changed 3 jobs in the last 6 years). I quit my own startup because its boring. I cant stick to a project for more than a month.

Try working with a really growing startup you might like it. I was into infra for a while, the QA team, then development, then scaling dbs etc... Keep changing the role.

It is not just about the job. Try doing a course on coursera/edX. I do multiple courses across very different domains. I did Mathematics, biology, Electronics, then philosophy, Quantum computing etc. It gives you the element of "novelty" if the job doesnt interest you.
I have been receiving similar emails with warning in Argentina from years. The story is similar with very few details, and from country to country the usual variation is the name of the shopping mall were the events allegedly happened.

A few month ago the newspapers in Argentina begun to report some cases, but without any study that confirm the cases. See for example: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1738748-burundanga-la-droga-que-a... (autotraslation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=y&prev... )

I still classify this as a hoax.

On a related note, one problem with Wikipedia is that it assumes that the newspapers do some fact checking so they can be used as references, but they sometimes publish stories without any proofs like in this case.
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Looks like you have to adjust your mindset (definitely not easy but probably achievable) or, if you are confident enough, to adjust your career. For example you can write articles and do workshops/lectures.
Third option (more EU one than Swiss :) would be to postpone the decision.
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For ClojureCup this year, we have built an online dictionary for programmers where people share information (subjective or objective) in dictionary format.

Our aim is to build an online dictionary where people can share information about the programming world.

Since the judging period is in progress, we cannot make any modifications yet, but will start making it better by introducing much needed features like editing/deleting once the ban is lifted.

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I don't understand why this is a problem.

It might sound silly, but isn't it like asking why blue is blue?

If Gravity is a fundamental force, isn't it like a mathematical axiom? We can't really prove or explain it, it's just the basis for all the other rules.
Clickable link is at http://hacker-dict.com

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One of the naive assumptions that most of us make is that if there's a power failure none of the data that was
fsynced successfully before will be corrupted.

Unfortunately, this is not the case for SSDs.
Probably talking about Laravel.... I'm curious what you think not liking PHP says about someone?
Sounds like a good course. Link?
I've had to get up very early to deal with production issues at work (sometimes between 2-3 a.m.), and I actually find those hours very peaceful - just the hum of the heating/AC and my dogs' snoring.
You're unlikely to have a std::vector containing 2 billion single byte elements however.

Even being conservative, say you had a struct of size 24 bytes (e.g. 3 doubles x, y and z) then now you're up to 48G.

So yes, there are very few situations where you'll have meaningful data that would fill a vector indexed by signed ints without running out of memory first.
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Well, an obvious solution would be for manufacturers to design their products so that they actually last a long time. For computing devices, this means guaranteed software/firmware updates for at least 10 years.

In the case of routers, using dd-wrt instead of some proprietary firmware that doesn't even do the job properly would be a good start.
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Yes, I think passion and self-image are often tightly coupled.
Passionate people tend to project their ego/self-image onto their work.
I have a close relative who's being treated for ADHD - can confirm that she has certain activities into which she can be extremely focused.
The blog post does link to http://www.math.wm.edu/~leemis/chart/UDR/UDR.html

John Cook also has a nice diagram adapted from it (Clicking on the arrows takes you to the explanation): http://www.johndcook.com/blog/distribution_chart/
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> to 'How much insurance against climate change should we buy?'

What does it mean? To buy insurance from whom?

If you're asking about what is by many scientists considered to be a long-term safe CO2 level, then the answer is 350 ppm. Which we already blew through.
I think the poster was implying go wardriving or just find a place vulnerable to Reaver attacks or something and do it from there.

Though I could be wrong, of course.
I worry about Silicon Valley biotech startups
He evidently wants to present himself as The Most Interesting Man In The World.
std::sort requires random-access iterators, which std::list - being a list - can't supply.

std::list's iterator type: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/list

std::sort's iterator requirements: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/sort

All the different types of iterator: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/iterator

(This might seem like needless nitpicking to some; to me, it's more like knowing why you can't, say, seek on a socket.)
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Such a neat story! I think the history of the underground market for music, movies, and games is fascinating. I'd love to work on a book about it.
Besides r3bl's point, if the FBI had demanded a copy of the SSL/TLS key from them, as they did with Lavabit, their claim "we don't log" would still be true.

They also require a mobile number for account activation.
Medication is not the only choice. Although it's the one where you might see small results at the earliest. CBT and biofeedback are promising new treatments, but not mainstream yet.

May I ask, where this bias against medication comes from?
And then you drop your key and lose it. Or it gets ran over by a car or something. Now what?

I love my Yubikey, but I generated the keys on it on an air-gapped machine and wrote them to two DVDs and the Yubikey.

Unless you can get everyone to send you messages to encrypt them to both your main key and your secondary backup key you will regret not having backed up your primary key.
This idea to stalk customers in Facebook is scary, but why don't other companies (let's say the home appliances manufacteres) do the same trick? Is it effective only for some niches?
Well, GO BACK TO IT then. Seriously, you're going to need to make a real material effort to fix your problems whatever you do, and if you're unwilling to bite the bullet and muster some self-control to work on things like exercising your self-control then there is nothing anyone can do for you.

I'd guess you don't have a novelty-addiction problem, you have a problem where you're unwilling to apply yourself to hard things with long-term payoffs, and the novelty-addiction is what fills in the gap. Maybe there's some reasons for that (procrastination of emotionally difficult things in favor of mood-repair is a big deal for a lot of people) but you'll just need to deal with them.
Definitely something we'll do; later.
I don't understand. What attacker? (One who compromises the laptop?) Communication encrypted with which key?
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I will forever regret wearing glasses beginning in 2nd grade. Each year the optometrist gave me an increasingly strong correction until it finally leveled off around age 30.

This despite going outdoors nearly every day after school, and for many parts of the school day as well--it was a campus of many small buildings rather than the typical monolithic compound.

Quite possibly I could have had much better vision, had I resisted. But who knew?

It may be possible to correct it somewhat through exercises, but to get the eyes back to perfect vision is probably beyond reach.
AH, I didn't know Jobs was the son of an immigrant. It makes more sense now. Thanks.
Which is 1TB per person. Home supports 5 users so that's 5TB.

Even at 1TB, it's reasonably cheap online storage....
"IotaFS: Exploring File System Optimizations for SSDs"

Our hypothesis in beginning this research was simply that
the complex optimizations applied in current file system
technology doesn’t carry over to SSDs given such dramatic changes in performance characteristics. To explore
this hypothesis, we created a very simple file system
research vehicle, IotaFS, based on the incredibly simple and small Minix file system, and found that with a
few modifications we were able to achieve comparable
performance to modern file systems including Ext3 and
ReiserFS, without being nearly as complex.

http://web.stanford.edu/~jdellit/default_files/iotafs.pdf
Terrible advice...
One of the benefits of software work is its asynchronous nature[0]. Unfortunately, it requires a certain amount of trust that engineers aren't extended in these days of Scrum micromanagement. If managers could get past that, imagine the possibilities. Engineers could work on your product round the clock. Things would get fixed and progress made while you sleep.

[0]: Hardware isn't software. I can see where that might be an issue.
Somewhat anonymous... they probably have you on camera buying the phone (not sure if they link that data yet but it would be possible). It definitely would be better if Twitter wouldn't require a phone number for signup and instead block the actual spammy behavior.
What would a return to the gold standard mean?
Electricity and magnetism used to be considered separate phenomena, but then they were found to be two aspects of a single electromagnetic force.

Electromagnetism and the weak force used to be considered separate phenomena, but then they were found to be two aspects of a single electroweak force.

Progress can't be made if we just accept everything as-is and don't investigate more deeply.
My measurements were also with a limited subsets: integers, floats and arrays.

Depending on compiler optimization settings, you get from 30% to 1000x (yes, 3 orders of magnitude!) slower than C. Yes, technically that's not "dynamic" overhead, but from where I stand that's still orders of magnitude more variability and unpredictability (for reasonable values of "predictability") than even byte-coded Smalltalk.
I don't program much in C, or use direct system calls for files. Mostly I use Java.

Does anyone know if any of this applies to Java's IO operations. I'm sure you can force some of this behaviour, but for instance: The flush method on OutputStream, will it ensure proper sync, or is that again dependent on the OS and file system as described in the article for syscalls?
That would only happen if you do not know your key has been leaked. If you know the "laptop key", as this article calls it, has been leaked you revoke it immediately and do not use it anymore. It being revoked should mean that other people (whose clients download the revocation list) will not be signing new communications with your compromised key anymore.
> And then you drop your key and lose it. Or it gets ran over by a car or something. Now what?

You can't have both, I think. With a physical key your only concern is the physical security of the key. One should print out the revocation certificate, though.

I don't think many people lose their home keys or get them run over by a car. It's just a matter of making that a priority.
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Have you tried melatonin? Again doesn't solve the problem for me and still makes waking up difficult, but it means I can generally get to sleep by 1am with good sleep hygiene and keep it there a bit longer than a week.
But yea one night out and it all messes up.
I also use a sunrise alarm clock, that helps with morning waking especially in winter.
Again, none of these all solve the problem,but combined I'm having my first manageable year and not needed to take any time of work.
Is it so strange? If their engineering and security are poor, they wouldn't want that fact exposed by somebody outside the company. A reputation for poor engineering is the touch of death for a startup. Especially a bitcoin startup.
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It is certainly the google service that I use the most. In a decade of quite heavy usage I remember one outage of a 1-2 hours (with no data loss). To me this is the gold standard that the rest of us should aspire to. :)
This reads like an opinion piece based on the author's anecdotal experience, not a scientific peer-reviewed study. It's perfectly fine to write an opinion, but it's not the same as a peer-reviewed study of hundreds or thousands of test subjects.
Don't assume twitter, or any other gateway centralized websites, is trustworthy. For example, they could have been gamed into putting pressure on a selection of people, diverting their mind from their activities.

What I'm saying is that to consider the larger and deeper than the framed picture.
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Ugh, this is horrible if I have this right but not just photographers, think about film makers - that wallpaper in your documentary: copyrighted, those cars driving past: copyrighted etc. etc.
For most instances of "Johnny" I've seen, I disagree. I think the barrier to wide adoption of strong crypto is UX, specifically discoverability.

Learning GPG is really really hard. Testing an assumption takes lots of thinking and many complex commands, undoing something is hard or impossible and it's never obvious how to do it, and doing something wrong can mean disaster. It's not so much "pgp is hard to use" but "pgp is hard to learn".

This article is a great example. I think I've got a pretty good understanding of how public-key crypto works, but there's no way I could have put together the steps myself, I'm just blindly following the words of the Great Ones, Keepers of the Source.
One of the useful things about look is that it defaults to the dictionary. So if you weren't sure how to spell accommodate, you could type

look ac | grep date
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Couldn't you just get laser eye surgery?
>> tldr

Yes, is this a trend even among prestigious scientific news publications, to leave out the summary and force readers to skim through many paragraphs just to get to this rather simple and predictable conclusion? Poorly written article and I'm disappointed in Nature.
Right now I couldn't even imagine doing pour-over every morning. I struggle even just using my aeropress in the morning.
As soon as I open the page on iOS it redirects to an unrelated advert. This is why I use an adblocker on my PC.
John Gruber from Daring fireball is known Apple fanboy. I'm aiming to bee known word-count-dude.

This is 2701 words of Apple apologia. For freaking battery case. That's funny, but it's also signal that we are not really talking about battery case here.

For some reason people seem to need social justification to use Apple products. Which hints that they might be more about status than utility. Be honest with yourself people. That matters more than being honest to others.
The authors are well beyond PhD level. They are supervising PhD students and post-doctoral fellows.

http://sonnenburglab.stanford.edu/people.html
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This requires buy-in from both the interviewer/interviewee, as well as any other participants.

In general, you just need to take a few extra precautions.

- Situate each member in an room with minimal distractions and isolated from noises. If possible, go somewhere without pets - everyone loves pets, but everyone also knows that they have no sense of privacy, will make noise when they verily well feel, and in the case of dogs, their bladders know not the meaning of "Do not disturb". They're just doing what they do, but it's just an interruption that can maybe be avoided

- Likewise, avoid being too close to a window especially during the day - the sunlight may provide some really pretty back-lighting, but auto-color correction on a lot of web cameras will be constantly fighting with the sunlight should a cloud pass, shadows rise/fall, and so on

- A wired connection is strongly recommended just to remove the variable of WiFi interference kicking up unexpectedly

- Headsets are strongly recommended, or at least a quality microphone with the speaker having an earbud to isolate any possible feedback. Wired strongly preferred

- In a similar vein, fixed apparatuses are preferred (i.e., no in-line microphones like what you get with cell-phones). They tend to brush against fabric and make awful noises, or twist or turn

- Take some time prior to the actual recording to just sound-check and also get used to the tiny delays that often occur with interviews. 10-20 minutes is often good enough just as a warm up

- Make sure that all participants are used to speaking on video and through mics. There is a bit of an art to doing it right with video chat, avoiding either being too loud/blaring or too soft

- Finally, test whatever screen recording software you're using multiple times before the call and test it in a real call situation to ensure that there are no audio goofs. This can be part of the 10-20 minute test. It goes without saying, but you'll probably want to use a moderately modern machine that won't chug when recording, and also have enough space to store the recording

These are what we used for my workplace when we did Skype interviews and needed to record them for review later on.
I carry my Yubikey on my keychain, and I have definitely lost my home keys before. Only once, mind you. But it happens.

Anyway, I think it's very risky to rely on single physical item for your private key storage.
I suppose there must be some people who still find Obama-is-a-Muslim rabid warmongering neocons interesting http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/opinion/12luttwak.html
It's interesting and sad to me (here in the UK) that both the US and UK seem to be so short-sighted when it comes to repairing/maintaining and improving critical infrastructure.

I get that they aren't big flashy projects but you would think that when you have infrastructure that affects the lives of literally millions of people we could do better.

The Victorians here celebrated public infrastructure projects so much that they often organised tours of new projects after completion, which is one of the reasons why when you go look at Victorian stuff (even sewage works) they are often so beautifully finished, it was infrastructure as both art and statement.

https://thelondonphile.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/img_4714.... that's from a pumping station/sewage plant.

Also I can genuinely recommend http://thelondonphile.com/ I'm a Northerner in the North but it's a fascinating look at London and it's heritage, lots of places I want to visit.
Its like they're pretending Google doesn't exist, for fun.

Its kinda interesting reading the story of the Oct '73 cable cut or seeing the old route maps for the L-1 cable and the microwave reroute. Excavators dug up copper cable in the old days, long before they developed their well known taste for optical fiber.

Its secret in the sense of you probably have no idea of the location or routing of the wires between you and the nearest central office, but if you looked up at the phone poles you'd rapidly get the idea. Not secret in the sense of the world being run by a cabal of reptilian space aliens.

I found multiple references the bunker onsite got sold (probably for warehousing) but google maps hasn't been updated. The maps aerial view shows it covered in semi trailers.
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I heard that they were dropping hand grenades and bombs on people below before shooting other planes in the air.
"Just"? Lasik is not free of complications. From the Mayo Clinic:

As with any surgery, LASIK eye surgery carries risks, including: Undercorrections. Overcorrections. Vision returning to pre-surgery vision. Visual loss or changes. Astigmatism. Glare, halos and double vision. Dry eyes. Flap problems.
Not so much the chair, but I've just tried putting the laptop on the top of the bureau in the man cave (about 10 inches above the desk flap) so that I am looking at the screen at about eye height, and yes, neck is much happier.
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Dude, I hear your protests, but your attitude really does suck. Life isn't fair. The sooner you learn to be happy for others versus trying to keep score the more people will like you.

You sound very bitter. I hope you find what you need to cure that, but please don't pollute hacker news with your sour grapes. I'm sure there's a nice person underneath that veneer and I hope you can find a way to be that person more often.
I heard Gene Kranz[1] talk one day on the Apollo 13 mission[2]. And most people came away with the famous take away "Failure Is Not an Option" but I came away thinking how Gene was the calmest person I've ever met. I imagine in this high stress situation the best thing he did was keep people calm and focused. Too many managers fail at that task, it's hard to do right, but very valuable when it's done properly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kranz

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13
Computer science / network science (I am fascinated by complex networks / scale-free network properties).

Can't find your e-mail, contacted you through your blog form. :)
Agreed, and the interesting fundamental thing we discover this year sometimes has practical applications 30 years down the line.

The semi-conductor wouldn't have existed except for such fundamental work in prior decades.

I dislike the "well, that's just the way it is" response to our not understanding something (as do fortunately the smarter people than me scientists!).