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Hi!

I use a script that finds any email a client hasn't replied to in the past 2 weeks and creates a report that's delivered to my inbox and let's me quickly write them again. Keeps me from mentally managing my email and focus on other tasks.

Another handy one is a notification system that sends a message via Slack when a client gets a new Yelp review. I can let the business owner know if it's a bad review, share it on social media if it's a great one, etc.

I've got a few in the works, including one to convert Google Docs to problem-free, Wordpress-friendly HTML.

Basically I'm using them to automate things I don't like doing or things that I can't stay on top of all the time. My current position is probably 50% content strategy, 40% content creation and the remaining 10% I try to fill with projects that make the other 90% eaiser.

What kind of work do you do?
What's the best way to learn C++ nowadays?
I can think of at least one university class where the pace was well below what I could handle. In order to prevent myself from getting bored and falling asleep (both figuratively and literally), I regularly took a newspaper to class and read that. Occasionally, I would look up to make sure I was still following the class. Sometimes, having a distraction can actually improve your attention to otherwise boring material.

Clearly, this is not going to apply in all or even most university classes where the level of the material being presented is quite high, but my point is that different things work for different people or even the same person at different times.
This essay is absolutely correct in all things. I didn't finish college and, even though I've been highly successful, it was later in life that I noticed things that were missing. Things that would have made other things easier and, especially now, made life a little easier.

Those "things" are probably different for everyone but, for me, I wish I had them from the beginning.
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Moore’s Law is probably dead. Here are ten other laws you may not have heard of
True, C# tooling is an order of magnitude better. Still hate IDisposable and events using strong references.
The Github repo is here. https://github.com/owainlewis/apidoc
> Because it's (possibly) a suicide we don't honor his death?

No, we do honor his death... but you must acknowledge things are a bit different when someone takes their own life vs. due to causes outside their control.

Others have pointed to Steve Jobs' memorial on HN.

Steve Jobs died of more-or-less natural causes after a great career where he never stopped doing what he did (even in his deathbed he was up to speed on what Apple was doing).

Ian took his own life as some sort of retaliation against perceived police brutality in the middle of an alcohol/drug fueled rage.
I'll probably be downvoted to hell but no matter what you have gone through, assuming you are in good health it doesn't make it right to kill yourself. While we should mourn the loss, we should not learn from him and find a way to keep on living. You owe it to at least your family and loved ones. I personally find it really hard to sympathize with someone who has gone as far as low to kill themselves.
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Nobody offers legitimate AppleCare except, well, Apple. But you can get insurance (inc. one accidental damage claim) for less than Apple's total cost.
Well, of the six long term mentally ill people I've asked if there was a better term now, I'm at zero suggestions and all of them except you said 'unhinged' was great.

So unless you're actually going to suggest something, I'll be keeping with the term they're happy with, I'm afraid.
Nothing stopped me, I was trying to build it out. 2016 will be my year to get beta users and really get things going. You can check it out at http://localhost:3000 ;)
If someone doesn't recognise it as fiction in the third paragraph - a decade of deflation and hyper-deflation? - they're unlikely to be able to take much away from the article anyway.

(And that's before the end of the paragraph, which talks about negative interest rates since 2019).
Uh, Butt-to-cloud, surely?

I might want to tweet my poops, naturally; but what data does my butt need?
In the US, a republic, our system of checks and balances can and does cause situations where security personnel who are subservient to some elected officials can and does conflict with and enforce rules against the policies and/or actions of other elected officials.
From what I can remember, Amazon has always been full of mostly useless reviews. Disclosing that products were provided for free does little to change that. About the only thing that does is let the parties involved "white wash" their hands of ethical issues.

Occasionally, there will be a shining star. Recently I ordered an AIO printer and a reviewer had a fairly comprehensive reviews on multiple models, almost at a short article length.

Music seems to be one category where I sometimes find value in the reviews. It seems like people are more forthcoming about their music tastes, even though subjective, than what they think about utilitarian products.
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>No joke, AmigaOS 4.1 is actually 30EUR today -- in almost 2016 -- and it only runs on bizarro PowerPC hardware that's built out of weird industrial control system motherboards or something and sold by yet other hopeless companies. [1][2][3]

This is what amazes me, really. I get the novelty factor, but who's dropping $500 on new PPC Amiga hardware still? It's one thing to go out and find an old amiga on ebay and run some retro apps or games for fun, but buying new hardware for an OS that could probably barely browse the web these days (is there a modern web browser for Amiga?) and doesn't even really meet the standard of "classic car like hobby" seems odd to me. I just assumed there was something critical that still needed to be propped up.
Desktop commodity VR: Oculus, Sony, Microsoft. Cannot even.

Also, Magic Leap whatever it is, looks amazing.
I've been through this before (15 years ago). As a "first engineer" as well. I was fully-vested in a fair deal. The start-up had been acquired outright by a large private co which gave a nice real world known valuation for the company and the new owners were entering a pre-IPO quiet period (we were told it would happen with few months). Exercising my options would net a 7 figure stake for at a cost of about six-months salary. I hadn't understood all the options complexities at the start but learned fast about this time thinking of selling some. Engineer #2 got a loan in order to exercise their similar options and got totally screwed as things slowly imploded. I never did exercise them thankfully. In another case my options as a early engineer (again fair enough terms) ended up actually worth actual money after a few rounds of dilution and conversions and sales ultimately to a public company. However it was a few K worth after 5 years of work on paper it had been variously valued up to high six figures. I know now that options are, as someone said elsewhere in the comments, "a variable odds lottery ticket".
Taxes are an attack on class?
> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

jwz's wit was a lot of fun in the early 2000s but that quote is too often used wrong.

This quote is not about regexps, it's about using wrong tools for the job. Using it without context makes it sound dumb. "Well, what if regexp is exactly the right solution for that problem?".
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Well, the SATA controller has DMA access with the host. Of course, you have to find some way to trick the controller into misbehaving, but it's possible.
Looks like that's probably true for all of them now. I have Sprint and after posting my question I looked up Sprint's "Easy Pay" option, which is exactly this. For some reason I thought it was a rebranding of the current subsidized model where your phone and service payments were locked together.
It is one thing to say that such an offering is not in the poor's best long term interest. It is another to oppose it in such a way that hurts the poor's chance of even having a choice.

If is the difference between saying that smoking at 18 is bad and pushing a ban on selling cigarettes to adults who are considered too young. By all means, inform me. But do not take my freedom from me, even if it is in my best interest. For example, I strongly oppose bans on selling cigarettes to young adults even though I have never smoked and I hate smoking. I love the advice of how it is bad for you, but I love having the freedom to choose not to smoke instead of having it forced upon me.

But, I also realize it isn't this simple, as you have the other side using very underhanded if not outright illegal means to push what is in their best benefit. Personally this leads to me being at a moral impasse, because while I love the freedom to choose things that are less than beneficial for me, I realize that applied at large this causes major problems and I personally cannot hand wave it all away by saying they are adults responsible for their own choices (I honestly don't draw a major distinction between adults and children in this regard).

I dislike Zuckerberg for being deceitful as to the goals of this 'charity'. But I also dislike those who want to remove choices, even those that are not in my favor.
It's a bit more complicated than that.

First, Apple includes AppleCare+. Valuing that is a bit difficult, since it is normally $100 but that gives you two years of benefits (including a warranty for year two), and for Apple's plan you only keep the phone for one year. But it's convenient that if you drop your phone in the first year, it's only $100 to replace it.

Second, if you want to trade the phone in at 12 months, you need to do AT&T Next 12, which is $32.50 per month, or a total of $390. So it's about even.

My take is that Apple's plan is better if you really plan to trade it in after 12 months, or if you would have gotten AppleCare+ anyway. If you might keep the phone for longer, and don't care about AppleCare+, AT&T is probably the better choice.
Wasn't part of the appeal of Amiga its unique hardware? The dedicated co-processors? In some ways, it was very ahead of its time in this. Is the PPC version able to replicate this somehow?
I would say politics.

Also it is my understanding that if an American would like to move to another country, and become a citizen of that country (for any number of reasons), they have to renounce their American citizenship.

People moving to the United States, on the otherhand, may retain their citizenship of certain countries, such as Canada.
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I don't think that's a good idea since it very easily leads to overengineering and becoming accustomed to overengineered solutions.

The way to use new tech is when it gives a clear advantage, not just for the sake of using it. There's nothing wrong with a lot of older, simpler, more compatible solutions.

It's good the parent mentioned blogs, since I think they're one example where much ridiculous complexity has taken hold for little gain; please don't turn what should be nothing more than a widely-accessible, simple static page with minimal bandwidth and processing requirements into an elephantine multiple-layered monstrosity requiring tons of serverside infrastructure and only accessible with the latest browsers.

Always keep in mind YAGNI, KISS.

(This comes from the experience of someone whose work has involved replacing countless overbuilt systems with far simpler ones.)
It is, however, much slower than SATA II, which makes it a very poor choice when considering the volume of data games load off the disk when loading (this probably explains Bloodborne's lackluster loading times).
If someone is willing to agree to a contract without fully understanding it, why should we be concerned unless they are clearly mentally disabled and being taken advantage of?

If someone wants to smoke tobacco or pot, why should I get any say in the matter?
Got any data for that, or do you just happen to dislike some of the conclusions?

Soo much evidence, you clearly have not been paying attention. See e.g.:

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1683617

[2] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/research/do...
After 40 years since PARC, perhaps the issue is a weakness in the abstractions of WIMP. The base assumption for WIMP is that the user cannot type...the reference hardware at PARC was a tablet like device for children, the first Apple GUI's were on the business executive targeted Lisa platform.

The ubiquity of computers has rendered that assumption to the midden alongside buggy whips and typing pools. Using networks requires typing: even appstore apps require usernames and passwords even when typing web addresses isn't required. WIMP was designed for a time when to a first approximation all new users were new computer users. That's just not the case anymore.
I'm finishing up the mobile site for https://socialite.ooo, looking to start dropping invites in a few days. I started it New Years last year, so I'm stoked that I was able to get it to launch in one year of moonlighting.

I have a basic fitness app I want to build, should be super easy, hopefully be able to crank it out in January. A friend pointed out the idea while on vacation, there are no other apps for this on Android or iOS. I'll be giving that friend half of the profit as a thanks for the idea.

February, start working with a former colleague on a business idea, we haven't decided which idea yet though but we have a few that have potential. Finally working on something security related in my spare time.

Do two classes per semester (after work). That should let me finish my masters by June 2017. Then my girlfriend and I can get off the east coast to somewhere warmer.

Save more money. Buy less stuff. Present at some security conferences.
I was recently at a museum in Adelaide, Australia, which featured a scale giant squid exhibit. Story goes the museum cleared out a shaft for a new elevator but apparently the British manufacturers made a sizing mistake and an entirely new shaft and elevator had to be made, the question being what to do with the old one. Apparently a friend of the museum just happened to have a giant squid model on hand and donated it. The entire display stands at a length of four stories.

Imagine that, coming to the ground floor and seeing the ends of the longest tentacles. You walk up three stories and you still haven't even reached the full height. Then imagine literally running into one of those incredibly long tentacles at ocean depths far beyond the faintest traces of sunlight. Terrifying.
"but the machine built for this study actually outperformed the average human on these questions."

A subtle but key statement in the article. If the models are trained for the test, we're essentially looking at a standard machine learning problem, albeit with very modern techniques (word vectors, deep nets, etc). The point is that all of these are optimized towards a goal. In this case, the goal is the IQ test.

This is not close to being an intelligent being the way humans are. Candidate optimizations you can say humans are 'trained' for might be survival, finding meaning, reproduction, etc. All of these goals are extremely broad and abstract, especially in the context of computers.

I'm not saying this article is sensationalist, but it may be perceived sensationally. This article merely notes a predictable progression in artificial intelligence.
Jeez web sockets really aren't that hard. We've used them for a long time on our production site for a live attack map: https://www.wordfence.com/ and we regularly have over 1000 concurrent visitors on the site when we promote a blog post or do something similar.

I can't think of any reason why I wouldn't use node.js on the server-side for web sockets. It obviously uses epoll() and you really need an event language to be comfortable writing an application that manages a large number of concurrent connections. Ruby for this makes me shudder - sorry it just feels like a square peg forced into a round hole that's late to the party.
Thanks a lot. I'm familiar with those projects and while v1 of my project doesn't use it it would be amazing to use it for the higher interaction canaries/honeypots I build.
Why do we keep losing all these good men at such young ages?

* Ian Murdock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock)

* Michael Hastings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_%28journalist...)

* Aaron Swartz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz)
Yes, a current AT&T phone bill for a 64GB iPhone line looks like this:

Mobile Share Value iPhone: $40

Discount for Mobile Share Value Savings: $-25

Equipment Charge ($749 financed over 24 months): $31.21

If you were on contract, the second two lines would go away. After the phone is paid off, the equipment charge goes away.
Because we've got to have someone pulling levers to manipulate the economy...
What Does “Happy New Year” Even Really Mean? – Science – Smithsonian
Augmented Graffiti: A mobile app where users draw and post images to any surface, which are able to be viewed through the camera by those in the user's social network.

I've been a bit afraid to start this (or any) side project due to my time consuming bad habits. However 2016 is the year for me, and you.

Best of luck everyone.
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They do re their own rules on importing cash. Canada has a similar 10,000$ limit on unreported cash, a number which trips up many an american tourist. With today's exchange rate, that's only 7-8000$ US. Normally they end up filling out some forms and paying a penalty, but someone caught crossing illegally with a pile of cash won't be keeping it.
I'm surprised no one has tried using computer vision to identify the parts you have. That would make this site useful no matter what bricks you own.
That's awesome! I think more SW engineers ought to be getting exercise for all the benefits mentioned in these comments.

Me personally - I climb, bike, run, and lift. I like variety, and I usually only do one of those activities a day. I find yoga to be too slow, with little mental engagement, and thus boring. My wife, however, loves yoga. And we run and climb together when we can.

It's all about finding some form(s) of exercise / physically-intense-activity that works for you. I found that I'm attracted to things that engage both my mind and body. Rock climbing is incredibly hard physically and mentally engaging; each boulder problem is like solving a puzzle. And for the progression minded, each route or climb is graded so one can measure progress and overall fitness improvement. Mountain biking is fast, furious, and mentally demanding because you have to pick the right line to stay rubber side down. I tend to ride as fast and as hard as I can, both up and down trails to keep it demanding and fun.

Cross-training is important as it forces you to work different muscle groups, which promotes overall better body awareness and health. I also find that when I take breaks in the middle of the day to do these kinds of activities, I find I'm able to focus better and get more done. I've also found that when I'm stuck on a particularly thorny challenge, be it a defect or algorithm / design problem, taking a break and getting some exercise usually opens up new avenues of thought and ideas I hadn't considered previously.
If you are getting the results as an event stream, that doesn’t really save anything on client-side resources. Seems just as “real time”, just with a slightly different back-end implementation.
That's exactly what the Lego movie was about!
>and to go a step further, it may have even been drug induced, speculating from the randomness of the twitter feed

Have you read the twitter feed? Because I don't see any "randomness".

At worse it could be an over-reaction to a traumatic incident. No randomness at all though, very specific and focused.
Steve Jobs is more famous and thus known by more people. I use Apple products on a daily basis and I use Debian only once in a while. Yet I feel more sad about Ian's death.

And while many Mac users attribute their OS to Steve Jobs, I bet most Ubuntu users never heard about Ian (or Mark Shuttleworth for that matter).
Hopefully, they aren't working today either. With any luck, the people who could put a black banner have a chance to spend a couple days with friends or family to celebrate the new year.
How can an arcane, complex, technical argument ever prevail against raw emotional appeals?

"the iPhone will become the phone of choice for the pedophile" [1] (see also terrorist, serial killer, etc.)

Immediately after the Paris attacks: "If you create a product that allows these monsters to behave in this way, that’s a big problem." [2]

Atrocities are inevitable, and whether the perpetrators use encryption or not, our leaders seize each disaster as an opportunity to push their surveillance agenda.

All the informed discussions on HN are worthless against this kind of emotional propaganda.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/cia-director-jo...
> with someone who has gone as far as low to kill themselves

Far lower yet is he who would criticize the dead. You won't be forced to sympathize, but nobody asked you to give commentary on how superior you feel to suicide victims.

No, it doesn't make it right. But it's especially not right to do what you're doing now.
> if they are only doing the business of government, then why shouldn't government know what they're up to?

The "business of government" is not a single, unified thing. The "business of government" for elected representatives involves debating and deciding when and how to change laws. Part of doing that properly may involve gathering information from people that if they fear surveillance may be unwilling or unable to communicate openly or truthfully.

Consider England and Wales (specifically England and Wales, not the UK, as the laws were changed separately for England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland etc.). Consensual gay sex was only made legal in England and Wales in 1967.

Surveillance would put anyone gay petitioning their MPs (members of parliament) at risk of legal sanctions up to and including prison and chemical castration if they were to be caught admitting to having had gay sex. For a long time afterwards, they were at risk of being imprisoned for statutory rape if they admitted to having had sex with someone over 16 (the legal age of consent for straight sex now and then), as the age of consent for homosexual sex was set higher.

At the same time, MPs had a legitimate interest in hearing exactly from such constituents, whose lives were substantially affected by unfair laws.

There are many issues here - not subjecting MPs to scrutiny also allows undue influence from lobbyists, or outright bribes, for examples, so there are tradeoffs both ways.

But there are many situations where an elected officials duties to to their constituents may be in jeopardy if their communications are subjected to surveillance or even if people believe they are under surveillance because it creates barriers against effectively petitioning them.

To take a more contemporary issue: Imagine if surveillance agencies could legitimately pick up all discussions about cannabis legalisation between constituents and lawmakers and use private admissions to lawmakers of use as evidence against the people involved. As much as it might be inadvisable for people to admit to illegal acts when talking to lawmakers, it is often certainly part of "doing the business of government" for lawmakers to listen to such admissions to get an understanding of their constituents wishes. Something they should be doing more of, not less of.
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