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Well I should probably be more respectful, in deference to the worldwide audience here.

It's not as if Europeans who settled the American continents hesitated to commit genocide, some even using biological weapons when it suited their purpose (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Biological_warfare).
REST is the definition of a buzzword. Vague. Useless. Everyone talks about it, but no one ever 'understands' it. You make your API REST not because you think it's good, but because everyone else does it. It's instant karma. Like XML was 10 years ago. Who cares if you have to make a lot of ugly confusing endpoints - at least you can call your API RESTful.

I like how Dropbox bucked the trend and went with a simple POST based API. JSON parameters in. JSON response out. No complicated urls, strange headers, verbs, hateoas, etc..

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/docume...
"The Internet is Not the Answer" by: Andrew Keen

FINALLY! a scathing, rake-that-rich-a$$-across-thee-coals dive into our superficial obsession with the digitally privileged. Muah!Best book I've read in years + the appendix/biblio holds 20 pages or so of FURTHER awesome reading.

"Human Use of Human Beings" by: Norbert Weiner

An awesome transportation into 1950 MIT professor who calls out the problems of "progress" and explores communication in the neatest way. Everything he mentions is still a problem today! I just really dug this book.
Totally!! People giving you negative feedback are giving you the keys to their heart. They're telling you how to make a product they'd love! If I sell anything on Amazon, I or someone on my staff will be writing responses to every single piece of feedback we get on Amazon. It's obviously important to address the unhappy people, but you should appreciate the positive feedback just as much!

EDIT: Anazon->Amazon. Feedback to Apple: Really? Really?
Agreed, unionizing will backfire. There are simply to many PhD's for the number of teaching positions.
1) Because they block it in the robots.txt file : https://web.archive.org/robots.txt

2) They are creating a search engine for this very purpose.
One problem is that creative tasks can't always be broken down into more tasks. The other problem is that the whole practice of religiously creating todo's is pure horror to some people.

Many of the more extreme 'artisty' types of people I know absolutely hate any form of task management beyond a simple list. Preferably on a post-it on the wall or on a scrap of paper. The way they feel about simple task/project management apps is probably how many 'less-extreme artisty' people feel about GTD. It just doesn't click for many people.
The huge gapping hole in this article is the fact that AIG share holders probably would have been completely wiped out in bankruptcy. It's very rare for a company to come out of chapter 11 with the shareholders still keeping their equity.

The big problem during the panic was that those mortgage packages had no value because nobody wanted to touch them. That's why they were called toxic assets. And AIG was insuring all those toxic assets. Nobody had any idea how much AIG was on the line for. So nobody would buy it, loan money to it, or invest in it.

So taking 80 percent might have been too low of a percentage. If AIG could get a better deal, why was it begging the Fed for a bailout? The answer is this was the only deal they could have gotten.

The motive for all this was that AIG owed money to everyone. If it goes into bankruptcy, it stops paying out. And then there is a huge liquidity crisis. The banks they owed money to needed that money to stay solvent. If AIG goes insolvent, most of wall street goes insolvent.

And the government had just watched the same exact thing happen when Lehman went into bankruptcy. It shocked wall street.

They honestly (and probably realistically) feared AIG going into bankruptcy would destroy the credit market. That is catastrophic. Companies wouldn't be able to borrow to make payroll. Companies would go insolvent due to liquidity issues. Shelves would stopped being stocked. During this period F500 companies finance departments were freaked the fuck out. They were having trouble financing day to day operations.

One of the big downsides to bailouts is they cause moral hazard. So the solution is make the bailout just barely tolerable. That's why AIG can't just get a big zero interest loan.

AIG stockholders shouldn't have gotten rewarded for running their company into insolvency just because their downfalls carries a systemic risk. The fair thing to do is to wipe the shareholders out 100%. Why should an company that appears to be worthless (since nobody will buy it), who is insolvent, who is a massive risk to the world economy, get a single dime in compensation.

The only reason they got anything was so the company didn't turn down the deal out of spite.

AIG was worthless. I can't believe they are bitching that their bailout wasn't sweet enough. It's ridiculous.
Atlassian's low sales costs might simply be a function of who they are selling to.

E.g. Jira & Salesforce both have the same approximate ease of use, and the same approximate level of configurability.

Sales implementations are typically top down. So you sell the salesforce solution to the sales executives. This requires a sales team. And because you are selling into sales management, you need to a good sales team. I have sat on these sales calls, and at times it almost felt like a game of "sell me this pen."

In my limited experience, Jira implementations are the complete opposite. Even in big companies, they are bottom up. The target audience does not want a demo, and may not even want to talk to a sales person, they simply want to get their hands on the product.

Does anyone have any insight into sales costs of other saas development tools?
I think a lot of the commentators here are missing his point. Namely, that he started Alma because he loved cooking, and that before being named the "Best New Restaurant in America," he enjoyed cooking for other people, but afterwards all the wannabe critics ruined his experience. So negative Yelp reviews aren't helpful if he didn't plan on becoming a world-famous restauranteur, but just wanted to run a small, local restaurant. In other words, in a world where Alma never won this accolade, he, his early customers, and all the negative Yelp reviewers would all have been happier (because they wouldn't have known or cared about Alma being overrated).
I'm a creative fella. I use GTD super heavily, because it lets me manage EVERYTHING in my head - all my creative efforts, in addition to the mundane.

> Most task/to-do software is based around the concept of projects and tasks. It’s really too bad. The tendency is to fill up your task software with dozens of projects and tasks under each project. But the more you look at your projects and tasks every day for the next few weeks, it gets discouraging. It feels like a never-ending river of stress.

These are things that are already open in your head in some way. you put them into a system you trust to get them out of your head, and you review them at varying intervals because they matter to you in some way, at some level.

> The most important thing for the creative innovator is not a ton of tasks to do but rather the ability to see what’s important to focus on and to focus on that deeply. The creative innovator needs to go deep on a feature or issue, and the deeper they go the more creativity they unleash.. thus creating lots of value to the end user.

GTD doesn't stop you from doing this. GTD helps you identify what's important and ensure it gets done.

> Personally, I can’t bear the thought of trying to organize my work with Things for Mac (or similar task management software). Typically, you create some projects and fill them with tasks, and before you know it you have so many projects and tasks that it’s overwhelming. The whole thing becomes a distraction and a drag. It makes work less enjoyable.

OK, I might agree with you there. I had abysmal luck in implementing GTD with Things and Omnifocus, so I built my own web app that does what I want: focus on capture, and make review possible from a variety of data points like creation, tags, metadata; even things like tag or word count.

Overall though, this author doesn't know what he's talking about, doesn't understand how to properly implement and manage their GTD, and that is simply NOT GTD's fault. that's theirs. If you're going to make such a bold title that "GTD sucks for creative work" you better back it up with some solid points and alternatives. This author did nothing of the sort.

I will still say: GTD is awesome for creative work. I am easily 5x more creative after learning about GTD. I don't 1:1 implement it, but I take whats useful and discard what I don't, like inbox zero. Although now that i've been booking a lot of appointments via email, I might want to revisit that.
Doesn't work without Flash. Better luck next time.
I'm also a side sleeper and had trouble with normal earplugs. A month back I bought these DIY custom molded earplugs. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003A28OW6
I use them every night with no discomfort, they do a better job of blocking out noise and they stick in all night regardless of my tossing and turning.
Agree, but no language uses both -> and -->
> In fact I suspect Microsoft will recognize just how shitty Windows is for most things they want to do in cloud, but not anytime soon.

They did when they used Linux servers to centralize all the Skype traffic: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...
Only if you are a troll. If you are a normal user, then I prefer real name.
It's not quite that simple. He doesn't directly addresses every interpretation.

REST (http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Efielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_ar...)

HTTP REST (http://cafe.elharo.com/web/why-rest-failed/)

GET/POST vs GET/POST/DELETE/PUT (HTTP REST) (http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/why_put_and_delete.htm...)

A more recent look at GET/POST over HTTP REST (http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2009/it-is-okay-to-use-post)
OS compatibility is important for laptops/desktops, but not in at least some database / server applications, and those are the applications that would benefit most from raw access
Oh my gosh, this is amazing. Thank you for sharing. How did you first come across this?
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That would be fantastic, especially if it was a high resolution and if it didn't damage the environment around it.
Also, just got report that MacVim supports ligatures in latest version
I agree that everyone needs some way of organizing. But is it really so hard to imagine that many people hate lists of tasks grouped by tag/project on a computer or in a filing system?

I've met so many people who do fine with - to me - the most haphazard, chaotic systems that I hesitate to judge them by my almost OCD-like and definitely autistic obsession with lists. Their brains just work differently.
Hmm, I used to sleep with a fan on back in college for the heat and I did get used to it at the time. Maybe I'll try some white noise. Thanks.
> The first time I slept over at her place, I got barely any sleep.

I'm guessing you meant on account of the noise. And weren't referring to a great next of sexy fun.
Who knew, if you raise prices of eBooks beyond hardcopy and collude with other book publishers to make them a plain terrible value proposition, print books will sell more.

Little more than a stay of execution.
This is true in a traditional conception of ownership, but you own an ebook better in other ways.

I.e., I've moved a lot in the last few years to the point where I have given away, or just recycled, most of the paper books I've owned. I still have all the ebook a I've ever purchased.

I lost my kindle in a train station last month. I could still access the books I was reading on my phone the same day, and when I get a new kindle all the books will be there with little effort (including notes).

While Stallman's old essay was amazingly prescient and showed an understanding of how ecosystems around media distribution that few had at the time, the part he didn't understand was how consumers would differently weigh the benefits and definitions of ownership.
Tracking progress in timely dataflow
How long do they last you, on average? I've seen these before but worried about them breaking down.

I may look into getting some custom molded silicone sleep plugs in the future, I have some noise attenuating ones already for concerts and they're pretty comfortable.
What editor do you use? Is it listed as supported here? https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#editor-support
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The Voynich Manuscript
They should be cheaper.

But publishers don't really like ebooks because they don't control the digital supply chain - which is owned by Amazon, and to a lesser extent Apple and a few also-rans do.

Paper pub - B&N, small indies, and the like - has a symbiotic and deferential relationship with the publishers. Amazon is a gorilla the size of New Jersey and would happily eat them all for lunch.

So publishing execs are notorious for overpricing ebooks. They don't really care if the ebook market shrivels as long as it doesn't die completely or take paper with it.

Result: ebooks are vastly overpriced, and fewer people are buying.

Meanwhile the self-pub gold rush of a few years ago has ended. There's not nearly as much 99c "product" being shovelled onto Amazon, and the only writers who are making it are career writers who understand PR and reader retention. The no-talent wannabes saw their sales peak then crash, and they've gone elsewhere.

That gives trad pub a little more leverage over content than it had when the gold rush was its peak, and for a while it looked as if it was going to roll over trad pub altogether.

I think it's a temporary equilibrium. It's only working for trad pub because it has such good historical PR, which means too many naive writers still believe being published is a path to cultural glory. As the current generation of naifs dies out the next generation is going to be more realistic about publishing, and they'll realise trad pub has less to offer.

There will still be the occasional million-seller, but the backlist and mid-list writers will all go direct to digital and manage their own paper print runs if they need to - and they'll earn more doing it, even though prices will be lower.
I've not yet read 'Atlas Shrugged' or 'The Fountainhead', and feel I shouldn't comment until I do. However, my anecdotal experience is that there is an association between people who have read Rand and people who are isolationist, individualist, and, uh, unpleasant. I have wondered about the mindset, about whether it's the book that develops the mindset, or the mindset that finds the book, and about whether books might help develop a different mindset. As a person who devoured the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a teenager, I always liked this quote:

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." [1]

I am hopeful for any social discussion of character.

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Rogers
It's also a historic piece of cinematography with a world that feels vast and immersive to its fans.

(I'm not one, but I am empathetic enough to imagine how they feel.)

Objectively it's not perfect, but every movie means something different to everyone and registers on a different level with each person.

So you're free to criticize it and rate it based on how well or poorly it portrays the things you think it stands for.

But other people have opinions too. And unless you're a filmmaker worth a damn yourself, your opinion doesn't count for anything.
Great bit of source code. We've taken a similar approach to create free timers for email marketers.

https://niftyimages.com/TryIt/Timers
Yeah, I was looking at the authors: Steve, Philip and Dan, David, John, Daniel, Elon, Marshall, Matt, John, P.G., ...

Wait a second, Cheryl, what's she doing here? Oh that was Jessica's choice.

And we now return you to your regularly-schedule programming: Neal, Andy, Charles, Yuval, Andrew ...
When I was living in (Southern) Italy, something else that worried the local Italian population was any food that wasn't Italian. People wrote to their local papers congratulating the local council for refusing to allow a non-Italian restaurant to open.

Tradition is fine as a starting point, but I got so sick of (often mediocre through lack of competition) pizza and pasta. Sometimes, Italians take offence at what I'm saying and then list Italian dishes. Which often turn out to be different kinds of ways of arranging pasta, and different kinds of sauces for pasta. Tradition isn't meant to be a prison; it seemed to me that the tradition of the food had become more important than the actual food.
Interesting that they were remarkable when they opened, but when the mainstream media made it remarkable, it was no longer remarkable to a different set of people who were looking for more than what the space was.

This reminds me a little of Clay Shirky's article A Group is it's own worst enemy.

Not faulting in the restaurant owners (all businesses have growing pains), it raises thoughts about branding and how much "this is how we do it here" is as much about the holes in the walls at the restaurant as it is the food, and how that story was known and told.

Was the restaurant's message about who it was clearly known, before outside reviewers came in and interpreted their story and told their story for them? For me, a restaurant bootstrapped on so little money is remarkable and worthy of support, but it might not be for everyone.

Some things aren't meant to appeal to everyone and still be successful.

Link to essay: http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enem...
Drunks are a big problem in my neighbourhood, especially on weekends. Last night I had to get up at 05:00 to tell a bunch of drunks to bugger off. They didn't like that, so they made more noise. Sigh.
FTA:

In the bigger picture, as cybercrime evolves, it will become clear that loss of integrity is a bigger danger than loss of confidentiality. One merely has to compare different kinds of breaches to see the truth of this:

[[INSERT CHART HERE]]

Indeed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10765562
In a sense, so is all storage hardware. It's just a matter of how long it takes before it fails. This goes for SSDs, HDDs, Flash cards, etc.
I think transfire was referring to RAM in the system to act as a pagefile read cache, not RAM on the SSD to act as a cache there. There's no power risk to an OS-level read cache.
I also lived once in an apartment that was on a noisy street, I did all sorts of research on decibel limits in cities and briefly considered starting to record and trend using a decibel meter - then I remembered I have a day job.

At least in Seattle, there is an ordinance, but it isn't enforced often, and the most clear rules are some silly "if you can hear a sound system from 75 feet away from a car 'clearly'".

I reached out to the public non-emergency PR part of our police dept, essentially their summary was 2-fold, as I remember:

1. The most common noise enforcement calls were construction vehicles and semi trucks using jake brakes, both of which were a priority when there was opportunity to enforce (i.e. a pattern)
2. Many vehicles are very loud, whether legally authorized or not: sirens and emergency vehicles, Harley's, etc. Vehicle enforcement is rare. (They would not say never enforced, but that's the feeling I got)

In my opinion, the only thing louder than the motorcycles were all of the city buses. :(
> RAID isn't about connecting drives, it's about not losing data.

RAID-0 is used as a way to get faster performance from spinning disk drives, as you can return parts of each read request from different (striped) drives.

You also get better write performance, as your writes are split across the drives.
Meta: The way to get this on HN (looks like it was pulled from the home page) would be to writeup a blog post or medium article with the title "The Khan Academy of Clit". When is saw "clit" I thought "wow is there another use of that word that I don't know??". Then I clicked and saw it was literal. Interesting site would love to actually see some thoughts and comments on this actually.
Silence is extremely unsettling. At my parents' suburban home I need a window open or a fan running in the room or I have no chance of sleep. If the power goes out and the fan stops I wake up immediately. I've never slept better than with an open window at a Beale Street hotel in Nashville and street musicians below, or in downtown Chicago with the soothing rush of cars and sirens.
Wait what about Ashlee Vance? Wait never mind that's a man too
2.5" NVMe is fine and more scalable than add-in cards (more slots) with increased serviceability. The equivalent add-in card is usually much more expensive than the 2.5" version.
Different UI sparks creativity in different ways - you can see this in software as well. Having tactile hardware makes people approach music differently. Also some prefer the sound. Finally, many people program computers all day and are looking for a break from the screen. I'm sure there are more reasons but these are certainly popular ones.
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Good Software Takes Ten Years[1], too. You can't just crank out a world-changing startup in a weekend. You have to stay on the route for O(1 decade) to see if it turned out good.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html
In Firefox I recommend the use of this bookmarklet (save current page into : Archive.is, Wayback Machine/Internet Archive, WebCite)
http://that1archive.neocities.org/tools/bookmarklets.html
>could you possibly stop ripping people off with Eastern European wine that didn't pair with any of your tasting menu?.....Good riddance

Perhaps it's my disdain for wine snobs or anyone else that takes ridiculous things seriously, but I find your comment extremely distasteful - especially the quoted part. Unless he is actively misrepresenting the origin or brand of the wine, he isn't "ripping people off". He simply made a menu choice that you vehemently disagree with. If the negative Yelp reviews are similar to your rant here, he absolutely has a point in blaming the positive articles about the restaurant for bringing in the wrong kind of clientele with outlandish expectations and a penchant for publicly deriding others' lifework.
UX concepts are best described with images/gifs/screencasts.

What would your service do differently than say dribble?
Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't notice! I think that I could get used to that.
Public restaurant reviews are simply not helpful. There are better ways to solve discovery for consumers, and it's uniformly terrible for venues. Enabling private feedback to the GM/owner would be better.
Exercise to lose weight
seems to me like the difference here is that photography (and other artistic fields) seem to be setup in a 'winner takes all' kind of way; you are the very best, or you are very little...

Programming seems to be the other way around. Unless you go into the business side of things, after your first five years, you get better at what you are doing, sure, but your pay doesn't go up a whole lot. After your first five or ten years, you are doing pretty okay.

so... I'd argue that because of this, jumping around makes a lot more sense in software than it does in areas like art where only the top X% or whatever of people employed in the field make a decent living.