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I too find GTD unsuitable for creative work, mostly because it doesn't handle open-ended, non-tickboxy tasks well, though I can't say that I was using GTD properly -- for example, I couldn't bring myself to do weekly reviews. Overall, GTD felt like it requires too much willpower to run.

Have you tried Mark Forster's Autofocus or Final Version Perfected systems? If not, you owe yourself a try. The systems, at their core, are very simple:

1. You have a long list of tasks (the same 'ubiquitous capture' principle as in GTD and other systems) 2. You scan the list for tasks that 'stand out' for you as 'ripe' to be done / worked on. This means that you're mentally ready to do these tasks. 3. Work these tasks for as long as you feel like. It's not necessary to finish these tasks. 4. After you've dont with a task, you either cross it off the list, or re-append it to the end of the list.

I found his systems much more tolerant of creative work, and much less willpower hungry. A downside of these systems is that they're not capable of handling tasks with start / due dates.

Also, regarding de-cluttering todo lists, I firmly believe that:

1. ALL your tasks and actionable thoughts must be captured in your system. 2. Your current todo list must only show items that you are ready to do right now, at the moment. For example, your todo list shouldn't show the task 'Vacuum the floor' if you're not at home. Therefore, there must be ways of de-cluttering your todo list that allow you to defer the tasks until your external (or internal!) conditions are more conducive to working on these tasks.

(I got fed up with the inability of most todo apps to do the above, so I'm working on my own todo app).
Read your post tomorrow. I guarantee you will laugh. I've been there.
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Is this actually a real problem or just an imagined one? Anyway don't couriers normally require recipient signature? If a courier left a package on my doorstep in NZ I'd probably complain.
A colleague who was present at a seminar given by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN to present the WWW told me that one person in the audience asked what could it be used for !

From my perspective it is the Mosaic application from NCSA that is really responsible of the success of the web. Unfortunately the people behind it don't get the deserved recognition.
Always found this problem quite interesting. In the UK, parcels are rarely if ever left on the porch. If you aren't in there's a few options: a) they deliver it to a neighbour and post a card through your door saying "it's been left at number X"; b) they leave it in a safe space (typically throw it over your garden fence); or c) return it to the delivery office for you to specify when to redeliver or pick it up yourself.

Can anyone shed any light as to why (a) doesn't seem to be used in the US?
If science could get those to work, the idea would pay for itself...

More seriously - science isn't just about papers. There are also conferences, conference proceedings, books, institutes, funding programs, research labs, industry collaborations, and awards.

Anonymity makes all of those hard to do.
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The solution is to not leave them outside a home. In the two European countries I have lived, if you are not home they take the package back to your local post office to pick up on your own time. Problem solved.
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"There is no API to pass a filename"

Use:

convertToString(filename, sourceStr);

and pass sourceStr.

You are right about how much boilerplate there is - though you can hide it a bit with helper fns and a few macros.
As other commenters from the UK have said, here you can't just leave a package outside someone's doorstep without a signature here. If the delivery company does this and you have no parcel, you just get on the phone to Amazon and tell them to send a replacement.

If theft is so common in the area and you can't simply reorder the product (for free) then surely buying some kind of secure lockbox is a better solution? Most courier companies will let you provide additional details like an entry code.
http://www.paket.de/paketkasten is the private home solution, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation is public
I guess they decided it didn't get a fair run and removed it from the dupe checker? That happens sometimes...
OpenCL bootstrap sure is complex, but there are many possible configurations. I think this library is too simple right now. As soon as you need to optimize host code, you need to rewrite it with default API. On the other hand, I'd love to use this, if there were more options available.
The not delivered slip has that option, but ive never had it used, but c) is often used. In suburbs theres really not much problem just leaving it by the door, in the city theres not really a clear neighbor. also, nobody else is home during the day, and if youre a delivery driver its probably better for your schedule to not deliver it than go searching for someone.
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(I'm not an admin. You probably want to email HN because they won't see the question otherwise.)

In the past HN had a fairly strict dupe-detection filter.

That meant that a lot of good stories that didn't get attention on the first posting didn't get reposted.

Currently the dupe-detection is much weaker than it used to be. A story that didn't get much attention on the first post can be reposted easily now.

HN tried an experiment where they'd email people and ask them to repost submissions, and give those reposts a small bump. That was a lot of work, so they only do that for "Show HNs". Now they do something like an auto-repost which resets the timestamp.

This means that sometimes you'll post something, and it won't get much attention, and a few hours later someone else will post the same thing and it'll get upvotes.

This isn't going to stay like it is. They're working on a better system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754760

>> We've recently started doing things to make the original submitter get the front-page slot more often

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753401

>> Invited reposts are mostly deprecated now in favor of re-ups [1], but when it looks like the submitter might also be the author (as e.g. with Show HNs), we still send them. It's nice for an author to know that their post may still get discussed, and it's good for HN when an author jumps into the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926

(A meta post, with links to previous discussion).
That list are the parts of the FP-1, which is an entirely different phone than the recently unveiled second generation. And a much cheaper one, even when it was new, so there is definitely no hidden self-assemble bargain. But things certainly do look good for repair!
>Primarily because people generally want to choose and talk to their attorney

Yes but why do they want that? The reason is not just some emotional desire for hand holding. The main reason is that AIs are simply not (yet) very good at language related tasks, and there is not nearly as much progress as the current bout of hyperactive AI reporting suggests.
I choose to blame Comcast -- with that backdoor in place, they have the resources to decrypt about... 300 gb/month per customer of traffic. Very interesting :D
I'm not sure why this has to be done in the font. Vim has support for conceal characters, which can "conceal" syntactic constructs into other characters, i.e., any Unicode code point. This works out pretty well in LaTeX documents for example, because you can see the mathematical symbols. [1]

One gripe I have though is that columns become misaligned when you have concealed characters or ligatures. In the source, \alpha is 6 columns and \beta is 5. Displayed, α and β are both 1 column. This messes up things like visual block insert mode, because the location of that column in the source and what's being displayed might differ. Should you line up the displayed version and make it look nice for you and those with the same plugin, or don't you?

[1]: https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc
The whole scandal with Brazil was a bit of a problem too. Although the Petrobras incident is a little fuzzy (the way they like it) as it's very closely tied to the state. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...
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There's a few benefits that a solution could provide: (1) protection from weather like rain or strong wind; (2) protection from nosey neighbors finding out about sensitive deliveries; (3) long-term storage for deliveries when you're on vacation; and (4) protection from theft.
What do they use?
and why wouldn't I use Stripe directly?
I'm pretty sure I have a copy of MAE on cd around somewhere - possibly multiple versions. If you really want it let me know and I'll see if I can dig it up.
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No, GPL software was not meant to make corporations happy. But to me, the spirit of open source software is, to make the software used and to encourage sharing of the source between developers.
Now, with all the challenges for corporations, GPL basically ensures that most developers of commercial software have to stay away from it and are forced to create a parallel, closed universe.
And you don't need the strict requirements of the GPL to keep software open. As we can see from the recent opening up of .NET, Swift, etc. even very large companies prefer the open source approach for their projects, as long as it does not exclude them from any non-open use.
The standard on Windows is to toss a bunch of .dlls in with your distribution. Linux uses package managers and tries to avoid multiple copies of shared libraries.
I'm trying out Atom, and ligatures in Erlang don't always render. For example, -> in the head of a function clause doesn't render as a ligature, while inside the function body it does.

EDIT: In developer mode I can see the -> is being rendered as two single character <span>s when in the head of the function. The solution is probably to fix it in the grammar definition: https://github.com/jonathanmarvens/atom-language-erlang/blob...
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Didn't know about this one. Seems like the storytelling aspect is pretty good. How long have you used it for?
> Primarily because people generally want to choose and talk to their attorney.

IANAL. It's been a thing for very many years (since the late 1980s) because people freaking love talking about law, and they seek advice from random anons, (and offer advice to random anons) over the Internet.

There are plenty of people who seek legal advice from other people on Reddit.

A lot of people have very little money to pay for lawyers, but need legal advice, and so they're going to want anything they can get.
It's sad that such otherwise smart people choose to stay at Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't yet realize it, but the would really would be a better place if it were to die. They did a lot of interesting things over the years, but their view of the world is so fundamentally out of touch with what the world is today, that they can't help but lose mindshare. They're still quite strong, as there's no alternative to them on the desktop (for most people), but they never quite gained dominance on the server (and continue to further fuck it up by introducing more and more bizarre licensing arrangements), their development environments and APIs look like a bad joke, and most decent engineers would rather have their balls/ovaries removed than code for the Microsoft platform. Nearly a decade ago, when I actually did develop for Windows, I asked a fellow engineer who coded for Linux why he refused to admit how superior C# was to Java. He basically said that he is not interested in chaining himself to any given platform. In the years that followed, I saw just how right he was.

So my message to Joe and other solid folks like him: there are tons of opportunities outside MS campus. I know large companies tend to make you believe it's a barren desert out there, but it's simply not true, and it's especially not true now, when job market is starved for good talent. Go out there, make the world a better place. Let Microsoft ride into the sunset.
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Lawyers won't allow it, I'm sure.
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> there is ample evidence that guns only turn the phrase "mass killing" into the phrase "mass shooting".

Not so sure about that. Did you hear about the following? A crazy guy with a knife might kill or seriously would a handful of people at most. With a gun the number of deaths is likely to be much higher.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/dec/05/suspect-custo...

>We don't talk about "mass burnings" when people are killed with arson or "mass poisonings" when people are attack with poison gas.

The phrase "mass poisoning" is in fact used, but in accord with the usual meaning of "poisoning" tends to be restricted to cases where poison was introduced into food or water. "Mass burning" is not used simply because English does not typically use the noun "burning" to refer to deaths by burning.
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I've used both BSD and GPL licensed software at work. I've never heard of anyone getting fired for that.

BSD - if you want your software to be used as much as possible, even if the user doesn't return the favor.

GPL - if you want corporations who benefit from your software to give something back. (also useful for dual licensing, so you can make money).
When it comes to my eyesight, why settle for anything but the best? Consolas is free as in beer to use. I just checked it into my dotfiles which I clone to all my machines.
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I disagree. The last version only had a message bus. Its an inversion of communication - instead of the Gateway knowing that it has to communicate to the other services, it just publishes an event and the inventory service knows that it has to listen to events from the Gateway (or even simpler: Just listen to 'inventory-updated' message).
Maths for Mums and Dads:

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http://www.amazon.com/Maths-Mums-Dads-Mike-Askew/dp/02240863...

The Number Devil is often recommended:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Number-Devil-Mathematical-Adventure/...

http://www.amazon.com/Number-Devil-Mathematical-Adventure/dp...

How young are the children? What you can do for very young children is get some small stones and paint numbers and letters on them (use child friendly paint, obviously) and then use a toy dump truck and toy loader to move them around, and start recognising the numbers and letters, and start very simple spelling and arithmetic. Or you can paint numbers onto toy cars and use paint numbers onto a car park.

Cuisenaire rods are fun and useful.

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Sometimes they come with books and you probably want to ignore most of the book. (Because knowing that green + red = blue is not useful.)

You can bulk buy dice. Chessex sometimes sell "pound of dice", and these are lovely tactile clicky clacky things. You can use these for games or rewards.
You can, and it does happen. But yes, you would get a replacement if its not there.
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It's picking up a bad reference from Freebase (see the id): https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/topic/m/0y49634

That's disappointing.
We had visiting scholars from some of China's best institutions, they didn't know what a Fourier transform was. They couldn't write MATLAB because they always had somebody else do it for them.

I would like to see these claims motivated by statistics from the Nature Publishing Group's journals.
"Software is the exception." If I weren't reading this on HN...

Your only argument is stating that the demand for lawyers is saturated. How is that different from saying the supply curve and the demand curve cross? This is about a shift in the supply curve. The whole point of the previous comment is that AI-assisted legal counsel will be much much cheaper than it currently is. That means people will quite likely want more of it.
You can write 1'000'000 for a million in C++14. http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/integer_literal.

They didn't use underscores because _100_000 is a valid identifier in C/C++.

Arbitrary bases aren't there.
The MPM algorithm is an even better variation on autocorrelation than YIN.

It picks the first peak of the autocorrelation after zero-crossing that is greater than k*(max peak). k~=0.9

http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/tartini/papers/A_Smarter_Way_to_Fi...
> Obviously, the better solution would be bait packages with tracking devices that would alert law enforcement when moved and serve as probable cause for searches...

This is a start up idea. You design and sell a gadget that is put inside a parcel. You sell it to law enforcement, or to delivery companies.
I agree. To me he just didn't talked anything about his topic. Althouth everything in this article does make sense, but what about the REST?
Could there be a legal case involved here? I mean if I as a customer paid for a door-lock which was marketed as "secure" and you knowingly shipped me a door-lock which can be subverted by tools some particular burglars are known to have access to? That sounds quite malicious to say the least.
I donated due to the number of times I've seen the wayback machine links come up in discussions on HN.

A great resource that we can't afford to be without.
Which is why commercial crypto and git should never be in the same room together.
Thanks for that! I knew they'd loosened de-duce up a bit, but this was ~10 hours.
But are sleepers agents reliable enough ? Considering they would be living in peace in a modern and comfortable country, wouldn't they hesitate to act when activated?
Most people don't know who their neighbours are, never mind trusting them with their packages.
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Yeah, this "us-vs-them" tribal nonsense is seriously pointless in the realm of scientific research. I want to have stuff made of futuristic new materials due to innovation in chemistry and live to 120 due to innovation in biology and medicine. I couldn't give two shits whether the papers leading to these advancements were published by Chinese or US scientists.
American intellectuals and higher eds experiment more with and stigmatize less the use of mind altering substances. This is strictly a personal observation though, not necessarily a fact.
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So, neither Emacs, nor vim (and none of it's gui variations) are supported.
The argument there would be that it's very hard to secure all access to a network - anyone compromising any network device, or e.g. physical access to the cable runs in the building, then had access to IPMI.

In a high security situation I'd keep the IPMI network physically segregated, with a small number of machines acting as access to it. Or maybe connect IPMI only within each (locked) rack, and require using something like ansible if you want to perform an operation across more than one rack. Whether the cost/benefit fits for your circumstances is another question of course.
I think it's less of an "NSA directly did this" and more of a "NSA invented cryptography that absolutely no one thought was a good idea."

The juicy bit, and the piece that really is obnoxiously bad, is that NIST, who decides cryptographic standards, contracted out to two agencies when they were looking at introducing new cryptography in 2006. Those two agencies? RSA and NSA. They paid both of these organizations for the privilege of getting insight.

NSA had been pushing for Dual_EC for a couple years at this point, and wanting people to take the bait, they secretly gave $10 million to RSA for them to start using it in some of their products and for them to tell NIST that they thought it was cryptographically sound. All completely behind the back of NIST and the public.

So NIST is consulting out with two of the biggest names in cryptography, one of which had been championing Dual_EC for years (NSA), and one of which started using it in their products (which are primarily sold to government agencies that MUST use NIST-approved crypto, and presumably stood to lose a lot of money by "betting" on Dual_EC).

NIST never saw it coming.

And that's the irony of the whole thing. NSA is supposed to make the US, especially the US government, more technologically secure... yet they directly undermined cryptography that was predominately used by government agencies. Meanwhile the rest of the tech world saw it for the bullshit it was. The only people who were hurt by it was our government.

Thomas Massie gave a great speech to congress about this earlier this year, and pushed through a vote that now prevents NIST from contracting out with NSA. I wish I could find it.

(Aside: Thomas Massie, a congressman from Kentucky, graduated from MIT with a BS in EE and a MS in ME, founded a successful tech startup, and now serves on the Committee on Science, Space and Technology. One of the few cases where I feel someone in our government is adequately educated in what they rule over.)
It's interesting to me because the way I see it the linux scene is too busy duplicating effort by making new init routines and loggers than making good user experiences and ms has evolved their flagship OS into something incredibly user focused and good to use.
Shows that his "radar" is pretty crap. His hunch that it wouldn't be a very successful language didn't turn out so well.
I'm curious: this discussion is all about improving software that understands legal language. Are there any (long-term) efforts to improve legal language to make it easier to understand for software?
> I think my biggest takeaway from Japan was that it's stuck between two worlds -- one 20 years ahead, and one 20 years behind.

I get what you're trying to say, but that literally means the present day.
How about batching stuff?
What field? Signal processing or psychology?
me too: I love Java.
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An easier option is to have your items delivered to a local pickup location

Amazon offers it https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_366591722_2?_encoding=... as well as having other pickup options in the UK (though I see in the US, there are not as many parcel dropoff services! is this an area for growth?)

Another UK example is Argos which has some partnership with eBay where you can have some purchases delivered to a local branch.

Most bricks and mortar stores will ship for free to your local store for pickup.
C++ is the classic design-by-committee language. However it started it, it's far from one person's design now and hasn't been for decades.
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Also, she doesn't work in health care. Theranos is a pr/investment vehicle. The products are overhyped, she's a figurehead, the entire idea is to get investors to part with their cash for as long as possible - and then when it all goes wrong the pretty face in charge stays out if jail. It ain't her business.

I see her and Shkreli as fundamentally doing the same thing - just she's doing it not like an idiot, like him.
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