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I know this is a content-free comment, but I've been following your comments here for years now, and you always have interesting stories. Thank you for contributing!
For kids, addictiveness of screens can rivals heroin
That was probably filmed with the gimbal not the drone
I see-- yes, when you embed a new form, you receive a verification email for the page URL-email combination. Meaning if you change the email address or use the form on another URL, you get another verification email.

If you register for an account, however, you can bypass this and pre-register your domains and verify your email address and get a special URL without your email address in it (it's an arbitrary token).
> if Snowden wanted to be in Ecuador, he'd be in Ecuador

I think this is very naïve. The US wanted him very badly, and we can throw our weight around pretty well. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
The Shield and The Wire may be two of the finest television shows ever, and both portrayed corrupt cops without glorifying them. Well, mostly.
I would like to tell the writer: "Cool story bro, nice job on all the research and kudos on your effort, but you're confusing the cause/effect."

It's not that "rich people work so much", it's that "people who work much tend to be rich".
Where exactly do you live? A quick search indicates that Tesla is outselling Ford in Norway. If you live in Norway, then astazangasta is correct and you're looking at a symptom of income inequality. Norway is rather wealthy even by Western standards.

Tesla has done a great job of dressing up a status symbol as an environmentally friendly choice. (Or vice versa.)

If you look at the poorer citizens in your country, you'll likely find no Teslas, and few electric cars in general.
I LOVE Watsi - 100% of my donation goes directly to help people.

Is this only for new donors? I am already a universal fund donor, but may consider making a new account for my 'friend' to get the match donation.
Interesting that RedHat is the driver behind this.
> What do folks think - should I build it in Java or Go?

There is an old quote that when people ask for advice you should carefully figure out what they want to hear and then tell them that.

In this case even more so: if you are starting an open source project I'd strongly recommend optimizing for long-term motivation. Whatever that means in this case I'm afraid I cannot tell.

> Would you prefer to contribute to a Java or a Go codebase?

I personally would have a way simpler time contributing to a Java project than a Golang project.
I'd handle that balance by dropping the "not legitimizing their opinions" part completely.

There's a lot to unpack here, but briefly, the idea of "legitimizing" an opinion suggests that there is some group of people who have the authority to decide what opinions are okay to hold and what aren't. The problem is, a) there is no dispassionate authority you can refer to when we're talking about political issues; everyone brings their own biases whether consciously or not, and b) people who already disagree will not cooperate with that authority voluntarily, and c) the authority has no actual power in a democratic polity anyway. You can't arrest the other side, you can't put them in camps, you can't fine them. All you can do is yell insults at them, and if they don't care what you think, you are effectively powerless -- and obviously powerless to anyone watching.

Your only option in a democratic society is to have faith in the truth, plainly and calmly and repeatedly and respectfully spoken. When the other side comes at you with illogical nonsense, don't get angry; look at it as an opportunity to educate the onlookers, an opportunity that the other side has generously given you. And take that opportunity as often as they foolishly provide it to you.

And yes, one can be cynical and believe that the truth doesn't always win out. But suppression of lies either ends up in the fascist state you're trying to prevent, or eventually collapses in on itself and creates an even worse reaction. In an open society, the fascists are a couple of losers in basements complaining to themselves while the world moves past them. In an increasingly closed society such as the one we live in now, they become the brave rebels fighting the Establishment. Don't let them be the brave rebels.

Thanks for the opportunity to express these thoughts.
Because many people hotlink directly from the site. And If I'm going to host the images myself and eat the cost of bandwidth I might as well derive some value from it.

I provide a link to where the original images was taken from, so if anyone is interested in the image without the watermark they can get it from there.
Huh, so that's where the /bikeshed in Google Hangouts Chat comes from. I've known about the easteregg for a while but never looked into the naming origins
To me this is the key point...

> “building wealth to them is a creative process, and the closest thing they have to fun.”

When you put a lot of your effort into something, you become invested in it. It doesn't matter what it is. I'd suggest that past a certain point, the drive for greater material wealth is no longer about survival or comfort, but is instead about wealth as its own end goal. It's like grinding in an RPG, if you grind past a certain point the game itself becomes too easy, so the enjoyment changes to maxing out your stats just because you can.
>I do care about personal security. I don't see what blocking ads has anything to do with that.

Do you have absolutely zero personal information tied to or stored on your computer? A compromised computer would be compromised security in such a case.

>I've never seen or heard of anybody who's ever lost any money due to an ad load. It's just irrational paranoia.

Look into malvertising and especially ransomware. Just because it hasn't happened to you or someone you know doesn't mean it hasn't happened. It's also happened on big name and high trafficked sites like The New York Times, Yahoo!, the Huffington Post, and more. We're talking hundreds of thousands of people who have been financially impacted due to malicious ads on otherwise "trusted" sites. Even sites that specifically requested they disable their ad blocker, like Forbes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/big-name-sites-hit-b...
I don't think this is a really an open vs closed source question. If anything, long term you might be better off on a closed source solution if you don't mind paying for it. To many open source projects die because something cooler comes along and the maintainers lose interest. Then you end up being the maintainer of some piece of dead open source history.

Really if your worried about becoming attached to a particular technology, you should choose from the beginning to build a heterogeneous environment, and require all your in house development to adhere. In the beginning it might be painful to assure that your software stack runs on two different databases/OSs/ec, but once the abstractions are built up it will likely result in a more stable environment, and ease porting to a third should one of your original choices die.
Yes, thanks for the corrections you are absolutely correct.
Reversible is the important bit.
In Google Maps you can now add labels to places. And there is some support for emoji, which makes it almost as good as My Maps.
Cute (and upvoted for humor).

The question is not whether foreigners are people, but whether they are a part of "the people", usually taken to mean "the people of the United States" - which is the context in which "the people" first appears.
Dogfooding only helps here if the dev team's use cases match the users's. Just about every company I've worked at has "dogfooded" its products, but almost always a small subset or even a completely different configuration from a typical customer.
> But it has had man-centuries of work to get it where it is now; a de novo solution will necessarily need similar levels of work to get to a similar point.

That's not true. There is a lot that went into X that is no longer in use, and doesn't need to be faithfully recreated; e.g. basically almost all rendering (font and otherwise) has moved from server to client. At least in the past (Latest sources I studied were of X10 ... showing my age), that was a significant part of X, with a lot of work going into it - and it does not need to be redone.
There is also open-source software for this, such as https://xpra.org/
>A Salary of Smoke

Don’t be too upset when you see the poor kicked around, and justice and right violated all over the place. Exploitation filters down from one petty official to another. There’s no end to it, and nothing can be done about it. But the good earth doesn’t cheat anyone—even a bad king is honestly served by a field.

The one who loves money is never satisfied with money,
Nor the one who loves wealth with big profits. More smoke.

The more loot you get, the more looters show up.
And what fun is that—to be robbed in broad daylight?

Hard and honest work earns a good night’s sleep,
Whether supper is beans or steak.
But a rich man’s belly gives him insomnia.

Here’s a piece of bad luck I’ve seen happen:
A man hoards far more wealth than is good for him
And then loses it all in a bad business deal.
He fathered a child but hasn’t a cent left to give him.
He arrived naked from the womb of his mother;
He’ll leave in the same condition—with nothing.
This is bad luck, for sure—naked he came, naked he went.
So what was the point of working for a salary of smoke?
All for a miserable life spent in the dark?

-- https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+5&...
What doesn't Mercurial support?
This is what enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) are all about: Pumping external water into hot, dry systems. Most of the work is focused on either opening natural fractures or creating new ones between an injection well and an extraction well, so the volume of rock in which heat is extracted is much larger.
I have written a crawler for buzzfeed and 9gag but I don't have them running because there is a lot of overlap between 9gag and reddit and they require more work.

To be honest this was a weekend project I did awhile ago. If there is viable interest I may pursue expanding it. But for now I'm going to keep it as is.
I've had the exact same experience with re-booked flights. As you've alluded to, Google Now etc actually makes that experience more confusing.
Hi. Author of the article/gist here. It was actually written in Spring of last year, I think. I've just updated it because, as people have said, many of the issues have been addressed one way or the other:

* The KafkaREST proxy makes life a little easier
* librdkafka makes life a lot easier, especially when you can just download a thin wrapper around it for your chosen language
* I am no longer working at the place that chose Kafka 0.8 following no testing at all for their use case, and refused to back down through months of hell both writing code and trying to keep clusters available
* The people at Confluent have done a lot of good work since then, both on Kafka itself and on various auxiliary tools/products.

So yeah, I would probably look at Kafka again today if I needed that kind of functionality. Screw ZooKeeper though.
I watched a documentary about this group a couple of years ago. I don't remember the film itself very well, but the story is interesting and the videos that the group makes are something else! I'm pretty fascinated by cults in general, probably because I tend to not want to join things.

http://www.childrenofthestarsfilm.com/
You're obviously hanging around only certain groups of people, and not reading message boards filled with pro-authoritarian people. Go to any message board with right-wingers and you'll see him denounced as a traitor. HN is simply not the place where you're going to see this.
Your comment touches on how this happens, but not why.

If rich people have more say in what they do, why are they working instead of things that might be more "fun"? If rich people have far more leverage in their hourly earnings, why not work far fewer hours?

I'm not sure the article really solved it, either. It's a curiosity to me as someone who has determined the quality of life I desire and want to "work" the bare minimum to achieve that.
I've recently entered the fifth decade of my life, and I actively avoid any company that does not identify as a startup, or which employs more than maybe a hundred people, because I've already wasted too much of my life struggling to do work I don't care about or even believe in, just because some unknown committee of managers in some other part of the megacorporation employing me decided it needed to happen.

I look for small teams, instead, who are hot to try something new, where I can personally accomplish something significant and where I'll have enough breathing room to exercise my own initiative and apply my by-now-considerable experience to the choice of tasks we undertake and the design of the solutions we implement. I won't suffer through any more small-cog-in-a-big-machine experiences, no matter how much money they're offering. Life is too short for that.

Still, I agree with you about the lottery: equity has lost all incentive power, and salary is the only form of compensation I care about. I just see money as a tool for living an enjoyable life, not as an end in itself, and it would take more money than anyone will ever be willing to pay me to make up for the suckage another boring corporate grind would inflict on my quality of life.
Study: Deep Learning Drops Error Rate for Breast Cancer Diagnoses by 85%
Presenting Technical Topics to Technical People
Ah, I missed that. My go pro, the hero 4 black, is not waterproof and currently fits in that drone as well. Additionally, go pros have been used on 3DR drones for a while, but without the benefits of being waterproof. The case also affords protection for the lens, which the drone does not allow.
Redux or MobX? – Dissolve Confusion in JavaScript
Tokyo rent is actually not very expensive compared to rent in other major cities. It is a result of permissive building policies. Other major cities that struggle to control housing costs should look to Tokyo as an example of how to do things right.
The new Google Destinations web app is intended to solve the other half: pick your flights and hotel.
If you travel the food alone will be fulfilling.

Food in a foreign place is always different than what you can find at home
Why you should create you own NoSQL database
So far I am very impressed with their collection of places to see (groupings too!), and their ability to guess how long you might go to each location.

The app isn't perfect, but these features alone are worth adding to the collection of travel apps for sure.
Having seen how hard many poor people above the age of thirty work.... I'd disagree quite heavily with this assertion. Would be interesting to see the reasons.

My hunch would be more in line with much of the "rich" that we discuss here have managed to over leverage themselves such that they have to work hard to meet obligations. It takes surprisingly little money to lounge playing video games when you don't have a car/house payments.
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Yeah, I think the ability to share a trip with friends is required. I'm going on a trip later this year with a couple of friends and it would be nice if everyone had access to the information.
Must be part of the Grand Vision.

Or just someone tinkering with the controls hoping to avoid a crash.
@ocschwar probably meant that twitter - being a single though admittedly big actor on the internet - didn't help in raising the level of discussion on the internet...At least that's what i interpreted.
This really comes down to how good the data is. If they are parsing really ambiguous reviews to make a suggestion, the results will still be horrible.
To be honest, I've not given the article I linked a careful read.

My understanding is that it's entirely uncontroversial (as a question of "is" rather than "ought") that those who are neither US citizens nor US residents, while also not present in the US, are not afforded the protections in the Constitution given to "the people". It is also entirely uncontroversial that they do apply (in sometimes disputed form) to American citizens in the US (and probably also while abroad), and that they usually apply to long-term US legal residents present in the US. Some other points on those spectra are less certain (especially to me).
You can put up with whatever working conditions you want. You're certainly free to accept your lot in life.

Me and a bunch of other guys, we don't agree that "nothing can be done about it". We're gonna fight the good fight. Lucky for you, when we fight the good fight and win, that stuff filters out to those of you who gave up, too.
Cooking Almond Jumballs at the Folger Shakespeare Library
As a procrastinator – and a perfectionist – I enjoyed reading that article. However, I lack the imagination to properly contemplate things in their idealised pre-actualised state – so I can’t justify my procrastination on philosophical grounds.

As is the custom on Hacker News, I thought I’d comment on the design of the page. This is the first article I’ve read from the mobile version of the New York Times website – and I love it. Firstly, it works really well with my 9 year old laptop (running Lubuntu with Firefox and NoScript). It’s so elegant in its simplicity and lack of clutter. The typography is beautiful and refined (with proper em-dashes and typographic quotes). The width of the column of text is ideal for reading. The links are underlined blue. Jakob Nielsen would approve.
This was how I got started in the industry. I won't center this on myself, but I'd give you this advice...

Start building shit.

Build anything. Build games, build websites, build console apps that compute large sums of numbers. Make yourself code daily, and commit to micro-projects, even if you never list them on your portfolio. Try to focus on learning one strong object-oriented language and then one strong functional language. Learn to appreciate both styles for what they are without being dogmatic about one or the other.

Don't just memorize design patterns, build mini-apps that implement them, and then do the research to understand why people recommend them. Pair programming is great, but don't do until you've done much of the above. Right now is about freshness. It's about putting on your favorite music and tinkering. Tinker a lot. Download someone else's program, and debug it. Debugging will teach you more than most care to admit.

Read anything you can get your hands on related to programming languages. Read blog posts about new features to languages and why experts love or hate them. As you get into libraries that help you to accomplish your goals, go to their source control page (if they are open source), and read the issues and suggestions. Read the rebuttals from the maintainers as to why they won't accept suggestions.

Books I'd Recommend:

-Code Complete
-Pragmatic Programmer
-Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Not about code, but will help immensely).
Wikivoyage, Wikitravel, I can never remembered which is the most up-to-date. There are some offline apps for them on iOS (okay not great) but they've worked for me abroad a few times. The ones that come to mind are Turdus and Voyageur, both free.
Facebook acquires modular consumer hardware maker Nascent Objects
The shot begins up by the ceiling, and passes through a shelving unit. Maybe they used some kind of jiggery pokery to get that shot, but it would it be false advertising.
I'm aware of that. It's a great place.

Housing affordability is only one part of the equation.

Also - what makes a place a 'great place to live' is highly subjective. It depends on what you want to measure.
Quantum teleportation across a metropolitan fibre network
Traffic is monitored globally.
You shouldn't take oaths you can't keep. Taking both led him to lie, so no matter what he did he was violating his oath.
> If rich people have more say in what they do, why are they working instead of things that might be more "fun"? If rich people have far more leverage in their hourly earnings, why not work far fewer hours?

There's probably a correlation between being rich and being more inclined to spend time on activities which return money.

In that, ceteris paribus, having less of that inclination will reduce your probability of becoming rich.
Right, building a stage site internally or asking a pilot to test are basically user acceptance testing. Xeros builds a new printer model, replaces all the printing machines on the first floor that's dogfooding. But I get what you are trying to say.
Because, generally speaking, by the time you get to that point, work has become your life. Some people can't handle the disconnect. Much like when a pro athlete retires, they often lose their sense of self-worth because it was so closely tied to their profession.
I recently visited Cambridge, MA to help my brother move, and I think the density of the city is quite nice. I was struck by how little parking they have. I didn't miss my car at all for the few days I was in Cambridge and Boston.

One of my friends and I were talking about parking lots recently, because we had gone to do some shopping at a mall in Chicago. We both found the large amount of parking (by Chicago standards) really off-putting. Parking lots divide in the same way that highways do. A parking lot that has 5 rows of parking seems small when you are in your car, but it's a wide space to cross when you are on foot. In the summer large lots are at least 10-15 degrees hotter than the surrounding area because of the blacktop, and during the winter lots are ringed with walls of piled snow and ice. It's really off-putting.

Parking lots are even more oppressive in the suburbs. I briefly worked at a company whose office was across the street from a really nice outdoor mall. I've always enjoyed taking a brief walk during lunch, and so I tried walking to the mall a few times. Despite being across the street, it took about 10 minutes to reach the actual mall, crossing my building's lot, a six lane road, and the mall's lot. Surprisingly, there was a crosswalk at the stoplight, but there was no sidewalk at any other point in between my office and the mall.

I only went a few times, because it took so long to reach the mall that I nearly had to head back as soon as I got there, and because drivers in the area were completely oblivious to pedestrians. In the few times I went, I nearly got hit several times by people who were only looking at the light, and not looking for pedestrians in the crosswalk.
I think it's the same addiction cycle that drives MMO addicts. If work is the only thing in your life going well you may focus on it rather than fix what's broken.

Many successful people are less happey in retirement because that don't get a social circle playing up the importance of what they are doing. Sitting on a beach is simply less rewarding than landing a major contract. Thus, these people are not checking email on vacation because of dedication they are chasing a reward cycle.
Michael O. Church a troll? Please.

The guy had an odd view of himself but I always found he provided excellent well thought out analysis and arguments. I'm not saying he is always right, but he wasn't a troll.
Garry Tan on toxic tech culture and the dangers of “playing startup
Aston is a class act. He volunteered to act as a mentor to students in a coding bootcamp I attended several years ago, and it was my privilege to meet him. He's the sort of person who is unequivocally a net positive in this world, and I wish him all manner of continued success.
Agree that Google custom maps on mobile could use some polish. I've been just starring places on Google Maps as a bucket list. This app seems to integrate with starred places.