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I'd argue that most stuff that we do is like this. For example you can't try to be productive either. You can shape your environment, remove distractions, go for a walk etc., but in the moment there is no way to forcibly produce good ideas to solve problems (say design problems in engineering etc.). You also can't try to learn (except for rote learning and developing a hate for the subject matter in parallel).

Or maybe not. Maybe you can do self-suggestion. I certainly know people who can easily dig themselves into hole of fury, getting angry at someone (not present), making assumptions, getting more angry at them, imagining further nastiness about that person etc. If you can make yourself more frustrated, perhaps you can also make yourself less frustrated. Whatever.

I think that worrying and analyzing this very topic (whether you can "try to X") too extensively is not terribly useful either. It's a bit like ivory tower programmers who read all sorts of Agile books, Clean Code, The Mythical Man-Month etc. without actually spending lots of time writing code. One can do lots of philosophical back and forth based on principles, but in the end it comes down to actions.

If you think you can't try to relax, you probably also won't be able to. Or maybe yes. There are limitations to what can happen in the brain, but there is too much self-referencing going on when talking about chainging one's own conscious state. It usually leads into a lot of bunk, new age whatever magic stuff.

Anyways, one way to get rid of frustration is to not worry about ways to get rid of frustration. Including this one.

You have to do it quick enough so that your consciousness doesn't jump in and say "but I can't try to follow this advice either". You have to let the advice act on you. "But I can't try to let anything" :D But then a point comes when you notice that it just happened. The best summary is to "let things be", while knowing that letting or not letting it is bullshit, there are no permissions involved in this type of thing anyway. (Seems like I couldn't resist to spill out some text like this. I think there is some value in thinking about this, but not too much and definitely not if done too deeply and seriously.)
I very happily pay for Dropbox. I haven't found any of the alternatives as easy as Dropbox. The syncing is seamless.
> but saying DropBox is better because iCloud doesn't even exist on Linux make no sense.

makes sense for me. I don't use iCloud because of that. It doesn't have the features that I need. Although "Better" is subjective. Dropbox might not be better for you, but it "makes sense" for some people
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I think it's you who are oversimplifying here. Venezuela has two big problems: the first is that collapsing oil prices knocked the support out from under their economy, and the second is that the government is trying to pretend that hasn't happened by enacting capital controls and printing huge amounts of money, based on a (let's be clear) distinctively populist/leftist economic theory that there is no such thing as inflation, but rather only predatory pricing.

I think it's easier to metabolize the political dimension to the story when you think of "populist/leftism" as something outside of simple "populism" or "leftism". There are plenty of left-leaning thinkers who do not believe you can print money to solve any economic crisis.
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This is my experience as well. The only thing that somewhat breaks between Go project is vendoring (or lack thereof). But in comparison to the pain of supporting python applications that must run on everything from 2.6.6 to 3.5, Go is a walk in the park.
It's actually a good reason to pick DropBox over iCloud if you are running multiple OSes. So, it does make it better in a way.
Your impression of the documents you were asked to sign does not comport with my recollection of the contracts I was presented with. As federal loans are a fairly standardized product, you can trivially find their contracts online.

Here's one of the examples for Sallie Mae:

http://www.studentlendinganalytics.com/images/Sallie_Mae_Pro...

This document, in style and length, comports with my recollection of what I signed ~15 years ago.

8 pages; approximately the length of an apartment lease. The language should not tax the reading comprehension abilities of a college student.

Representative sample:

Interest on this note will accrue at the Variable Rate (as defined below), beginning on the first Disbursement Date, on the principal balance advanced and on the Capitalized Interest, Fees, and Other Amounts, until the principal balance and all interest are paid in full. The Variable Rate will be used to calculate interest during the entire term of this Note, and following the maturity of, or any default under, this Note; there is no initially discounted, premium, or other rate that will be used to calculate interest under this Note.
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This is great feedback. I've tracked the DPI issue here: https://trello.com/c/55CRuNmY. Also, it's kind of dumb I don't have pricing enabled yet and I don't have a donate page. Should have thought of that =]. Thanks for checking out Turtl again!
People on the left want to emulate places like Norway, not places like Venezuela.
"I don't see a reason to bring your political leanings into a discussion of straightforward economic cause and effects."

Really? Can't you really step out a little and try to think why oil represents 95% of Venezuela's export earnings? Are you really sure that pointing the cause of Venezuela's collapse on leftist policies is just a fruit of "policial leanings"? Is there anything you would you consider as reasonable argument against "leftist populism"?
> When you are spending more money than the money coming into the system, which happens with almost all socialist systems

You mean, like the USA?
Not their fault! "Education System" - They don't know how mortgage or taxes work but hey atleast they know about the cells inside a fucking leaf!
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I'm a subscriber to a website, one of the features is that it writes expert content on our industry that subscribers can then share to social media but also share on our own websites. As a Member, the site does not require us to link back to any article we post and we can post it to our own site as if we wrote it. The site also publishes the same articles on a company blog that is available to the public. I am one of thousands of subscribers, who also post the articles to their own site. Are all of these counts of duplicate content hurting my site rankings? My understanding is that it does not help, but it is not hurting my rankings. Google knows the difference between, duplicate content like that on my site and duplicate content posted to intentionally beat the system(this form will hurt rankings or receive penalization). Looking forward to your expertise, if you can cite where documentation of your point that would be helpful as well! Thank you!
Apple. Please Apple. Replace your iCloud abomination with Dropbox when the time comes.
>This is a classic "that never works" maneuver

Funny how this argument starts to fall apart when you look at all the failing oil & fracking companies in the US, which were run by people who knew what they were doing and had no socialist petro regime to be loyal to and no activist investors.
Sure, that's a flaw. It's just not a fatal flaw. For the chief reason that there's probably nothing better. So you take your lumps and remember that it's wrong sometimes. It's something we can work on while still benefitting from these tools.
If you believe this list [1], South Korea, Germany, Switzerland, among others (I've informally excluded tiny and oil-rich ones).

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Well it does make sense if he says Dropbox is just as good as iCloud on Mac and even supports other platforms. Thus it's better if you aren't only using Mac.
What are some other companies that have used massive currency dilution and capital controls to avoid the impact of oil prices?
In 2011 there were already many shortages everywhere. Including the famous toilet paper.
Ask HN: Is recurring revenue or high upfront payment more attractive?
If you could get recurring revenue from abstracted code snippets, would that be more attractive than a higher single payment for non-abstracted code?
>> The first step was when Hugo Chávez's socialist government started spending more money on the poor, with everything from two-cent gasoline to free housing.

That sounds exactly like the kind of thing we (HN crowd) have been dreaming about. Hopefully we don't end up reading a similar comment down the road about the US!
Not OP, but I've asked for more space and was told the business account was my only option, so now I've hacked together a Dropbox/S3 hybrid.
probably not. wit.ai and other FB services resolve to the same blocked IP ranges. Then again, slack is slow as heck in china.
what other services have you considered? WeChat for work is annoying with the disappearing messages and clunky desktop clients.
problem with that is most people don't have access to a fishing hole that produces a fish a day. they have access to a hole but must use the owners net and only get 1 fish at the end of the day as pay.
> and when you're debugging, it's one less chance of the bug being in the platform you're relying on and not your code (which is something you can immediately do something about).

That's generally why you want to use them. You're using something that is already battle hardened and tested.
Fifty-nine percent of the students surveyed said the total outstanding student debt was in the “millions.”

The most worrying part to me. 59% can't estimate things like this within ~two orders of magnitude?
Ask HN: GCS is regular object storage but can be used instead of HDFS. How?
AWS offers object storage and you can integrate it with EMR. This requires import. They also offer another option for s3 storage which can be used instead of HDFS, but it cannot be accessed as the regular object storage. It is the same story with Azure - Azure Storage and Data Lake Store.

But reading Google's product page, it seems that you can run map/reduce and Spark on their regular storage. How come?
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It's not working for me Firefox. Strange since the flow experiment that it was based off of works fine. Chrome runs it perfectly. I don't know if it's lack of market share or Mozilla being too stretched thin chasing Mobile OS / IoT, but I'm been having more and more issues with FF lately.

For those that liked this demo, the Oryol engine does a nice job with particles too: http://floooh.github.io/oryol/GPUParticles.html

Edit: It may be working for you, but not for me on my HD 2000. Tried again with nightly and whatever bug was breaking it on my older hardware has been fixed.
Mobile Firefox too.
> It's certainly unfair to compare rightism to flat-earthism

I didn't; I was talking about fringe movements planning for the collapse of civilization. They certainly do not represent the right wing.
> Correct my if I'm wrong...

You are very wrong, plus you are talking to jerguismi (localbitcoin's founder), who I'd presume has made quite a bit from arbitrage in the space...
You trying to kill people with text?
If you're old enough to go to college you should know you should read papers before you sign them. Not an excuse, even if public schools didn't teach how compound interest worked, which they do.
From the article it sounded like they were already well on their way to disaster even with high oil prices. For instance, not even maintaining their oil infrastructure, and installing incompetent loyalists to run it.
I really wish to hear from people who support leftist causes what they think of this and if there's anything, any hypothetical event, that they would accept, if happened, as a proof that leftist policies are bad.
Allocate part of your wealth in riskier assets. If you think you're able to do it on your own, play around with some ETFs.

Alternatively, ask around for a good hedge fund.
Better question:

Why are Federally subsidized educational loans at 8% interest, whilst the Big Banks get their money at 0%, or thereabouts?

One invests in the future, while the other breaks it. You can probably guess which does which.
There have already been helium plasma tests in the previous months. This is just the first hydrogen plasma firing.
This is a small fixed cost as compared to the cost of not using the pool. I wasn't suggesting the operation is free.
You can render it any way you want to. The example themes aren't the point.
Keep in mind that many of these jvm languages allow you to use java code. So many of these languages are using the newer language and java so it won't drop off and instead should continue to increase
"Dictator" implies illegitimacy, unpredictability, or spontaneity -- coming to power by some sort of coup or political surprise. More importantly, it implies being entirely unfettered by law, custom, and the wills of one's subjects -- like the Roman dictators were -- which isn't even true of Cromwell, and certainly isn't true of the kings.
Hi,

Are you hiring any interns for the summer? What positions would those be?
Since when were you experimenting shortages on Venezuela? How serious are these shortages?

Do small shops survive in Venezuela? How?
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Worth noting that the Brookings study says:

"We do find that students with higher expected
contributions are more likely to be unaware that
they have federal debt (or any debt). This may be
because these students’ parents made the decision
for them to take out loans, perhaps with the informal
understanding that the parents would later pay it
back (note that students can usually obtain loans on
more favorable terms than their parents). In some
cases, the lack of knowledge about cost and debt
may stem from parents proactively managing their
children’s decisions about education."

And that the first study was an informal survey conducted by LendEDU, a company that recommends and reviews student loan refinance companies.

That said, I think confusion and misinformation about loans likely does have a large contribution to the US student loan debt. It is unclear how statistically founded the contribution is.
??

Ones financial commitments in life are rather important..
It's hard to argue your "fact", especially against such an insufferable amount of smugness and causal reductionism.

I find it not amusing that people can assume things they don't participate in are simple, stupid, and trivial. It's the same type of intellectual closemindedness that leads to major problems in human existence. It's a mindset that deliberately ignores complexity in order to justify preexisting belief and prop up belief as truth while protecting the ego.

Personally, I enjoy working on hardware and working on distrubted systems. I also like building things that look beautiful. But to each their own, I guess.
Isn't the price someone pays to acquire something its value? What's the difference between losing value now, and being overvalued in the past?
Dropbox has the same problem a lot of the moderately successful unicorns have; it's a good product managed by smart people that would be much better off as a right-sized stable lifestyle business a la 37 Signals / Basecamp than as an attempt at a world-beating massive-growth juggernaut like Google or Facebook. Unfortunately for them (and Evernote, and a whole host of others), once you've signed that deal for the huge late-stage VC cash infusion at a fantasy-land valuation, there's no going back.
$5M valuation isn't exactly suffering. The problem is that the failure of Box as a thriving company has put a ceiling on how much Dropbox can make in the public markets.

If Dropbox does need more money, if it can't get profitable with the funding it already has, then it will be in for tough times. If it is forced to go public before it's ready, like Square, then its employees will suffer much like Square's employees have with its stock price.
Venezuela tried to emulate that also.
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Yeah as toomuchtodo mentioned there is no option except business and there is a minimum of, I believe, 5 accounts, so at $15/per user/mo thats $900/yr vs the ~$200/yr I'm currently paying. Maybe worth it as each band member could have their own account, but it's a pretty big leap when I really only need 1-2 TB more.
Should probably include the context of the quote, which I think already says that:

>>The first step was when Hugo Chávez's socialist government started spending more money on the poor, with everything from two-cent gasoline to free housing. Now, there's nothing wrong with that — in fact, it's a good idea in general — but only as long as you actually, well, have the money to spend.

I think even the article doesn't go far enough though: it's not just about whether you "have enough money", but whether you can reliably expect to keep getting that money, and you won't see increases in your spending obligations.

On that note: There's a dangerously common mentality out there that doesn't understand the concept of "good times don't last forever":

Your country has a lot of oil money coming in? Save some for when it isn't. Revenues are high because of a tech boom? Set it aside for later. Your pension fund investments returned 30% this year? No, don't pay out 23% to the managers "since they hit their 7% target"; that 30% has to cancel out down years.

And in personal lives: Your current job seems like an absurdly good deal? Save and cross-train for when it becomes obsolete or oversupplied.
In my mind Dropbox became a company not worth supporting when Rice joined Dropbox's board (http://www.drop-dropbox.com/). I don't know what their future holds. But personally, with a board member who advocates warrentless surveillance it seems unlikely that we share similar views on the security of my data, and I wont be using their service.

I'd hope their customers are also looking at the security of their data in light of this and seeking out alternatives.
Alaska and Maine have different legal systems too. Scotland is culturally considered a country, sure, but I'm curious whether that has any concrete meaning.
> Why are so many holes/ports necessary

It's designed to be maintained from the inside. So you need to get replacement/upgrade/experiment parts inside where you need them.

> and why is there so little homogeneity?

stellarators are highly asymmetrical
I pay for Dropbox, and their sync is the industry's best.

They'll be here in 5. 10 is the bigger question mark when files go away.
How private are mobile email clients?
Regarding "True freedom is allowing others to extend/improve the code for their own uses."

Can I correctly conclude, then, that you are enthusiastically supportive of people who violate copyright by making and giving away gratis copies? A fan of people who violate EULAs by reverse engineering? Approving of anyone brave enough to defy trade secret laws?

I am always a little surprised at the earnestness with which the counter-libre "open source" propaganda embraces as freedom a handful of very artificially erected rights that rest on state brutality and nothing else.

Further, that in the "open source" view, to resist that state brutality in order to protect users, share, and study power -- these are supposedly acts against freedom.

re: "True freedom is allowing others to extend/improve the code for their own uses. I prefer 'open source' because it fosters the degree of freedom that the GPL only superficially claims to promote."

What is clear is that you promote your freedom to rob others of freedom, with the help of state violence.

The freedom you advocate is a negative freedom: a bondage you want to (or want your employer to) impose on others.
Sorry, but no. Google deserves at least a portion of the blame here. By short-circuiting the DMCA process Google is removing the few protections the DMCA does afford the complainee. That's bullshit.
For it to actually be post hoc, I think you'd have to show ideological bias, when at least the WaPo story looks pretty straight up. Price of oil is the prime mover here, and Venezuela has big problems because of it. The Resource Curse is a real thing...
Me too. Dropbox is fast and simple, it's my "sneakernet" at home. I commonly copy files between a Mac and a PC for some projects I work on. Letting Dropbox handle the sync is the most simplistic way to go about it. Most of the files are 1GB or less, so it really doesn't take much time for them to sync, and I have the added bonus of backup and easy off-site access.

My dayjob uses Box, and it works OK, but has just never seemed unique enough to switch over too.

I think I have the $100/year or whatever it is Dropbox plan, I honestly don't even know. I don't seem to run out of space, and it doesn't cost very much so I just don't think about it at all. That, to me, is the hallmark of a valuable service.
We can have a committee (of politicians who might or might not had accepted political contributions campaigns from the energy sector) doing the regulation and another committee (of appointees with various levels of connections to energy sector) doing the scrutinization, or we can have those broken out as two separate businesses arriving at their numbers independently.

Why can't consumers buy kWs from a variety of competing providers, and have them delivered via grid owned and serviced by a third-party? If a major utility decides they can outbid everyone else on grid maintenance contracts due to their superior cost structure or some technological know-how, so be it.

Such tight vertical integration does not make sense if you extend the analogy to other infrastructure projects. Grid operator is the toll road operator, energy distributors are the UPSes, FedExes and other trucking companies paying for access to that road, and energy generators are the Amazon.coms and Wal-Marts pitching their kWs to final consumers.

The billing is done by three separate parties, and we don't have to establish a supreme committee that decides whether Amazon charges us a fair price on shipping costs and toll road surcharges.
Stross (who is active on HN) explores the subject of abandoning stories in some detail on his blog, e.g. regarding the Halting State series [1]. He also describes here how political uncertainty can kill a story; in this case uncertainty regarding the outcome of the 2014 Scottish Independence vote. Halting State books 1 and 2 are set in a near-future independent Scotland, but were written well before the vote happened. Regarding Halting State 3, he said (2013) "In just two years the map of the Scottish near future will have changed, unpredictably and drastically, from where it is now. I therefore conclude that there is simply no point in my starting to write..."

[EDIT: added quote, made it clear that it was the third book in a sequence that was canned]

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/psa-why-...
They also don't provide information in real terms. Sure, I owe a ton of money, but I have no idea what that means to me. How much per month for how many years? They're finally starting to give this information to students, but when I was in, it was all very opaque.
"based on a (let's be clear) distinctively populist/leftist economic theory that there is no such thing as inflation, but rather only predatory pricing."

Can you source any of this without linking to an "Objectivism"-associated organization?
time value of money plus risk of default play into it. Also, how much of it is my primary income versus side income.