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Happiness, by its very nature and definition, is rooted in feeling pleasure about the happenings and circumstances of life. It's fickle and never guaranteed.

Joy and peace (a positive confidence despite the sad or happy circumstances) comes from having a set of principles one adheres to and complete self acceptance.

Paul's advice here is utterly incorrect and sounds ridiculous to even read:

...if you quit your job and move to a new city where you don't know anyone or have a clear purpose, there's a good chance that you'll end up depressed or even suicidal.

Seriously? People should spend less time seeking happiness (a fickle emotion), and spend more time becoming at peace with themselves, because inner peace will carry you through no matter the circumstances.
That explanation never made sense to me.

If windows has rotated everything, then chrome is now the right way round again and should appear to render properly.

The only reason it does that I can think of, is that chrome loaded when the screen was half way through a refresh - so we saw the now rendered bottom appear before it went back round and refreshed the top of the screen.
How is that possible? Isn't Iron Man from the 1960s?
This is going to sound a bit presumptuous, but with your background, you might be able to get to market much quicker if you approached some life sciences VCs first. They may be able to introduce you to someone who can handle the CS side, give you a little money to get started, and avoid some pitfalls along the way.

I don't remember the names of early stage life sciences VCs off the top of my head, but if you're interested, I'd be happy to do some digging this weekend for you.
You make a valid point and I'd do the same if I were in your shoes. I'm just worried of wasting too much time pursuing rabbit holes when I already know where I want to go. At the same time, I've been more than once surprised with things that seemed unimportant before. The question then is how to filter out the "rabbit holes", while keeping the ignored interesting stuff.
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one smart aspect of FarmVille is that you can gain points without other people giving you Karma. In fact, you get points for helping others.
I'm in the UK, I'm not sure whether Netflix is over here yet. Not to worry, it's on a retail website for reasonable money, and I wouldn't mind owning a copy :)
I'll counter your poor analogy with my own poor analogy: for most of human history, we existed without the use of oil or its byproducts. Then we got plastics. I don't want to back to a world without plastics.

Or we could review the argument on its own merits. For a short period of time, circumstances prevailed in which a small number of artists (skills ranging from acceptable through excellent) were able to make an outsize profit from their work. This looks like its coming to an end.

The era of multi-dozen million dollar making artists like Michael Jackson, U2 and Madonna is giving way to an era where artists make a good, but not GDP comparable income, like Amanda Palmer and OK Go.
This doesn't say what constitutes a copyright infringement. For example I'm viewing the BBC web site, and by doing so I'm downloading images that I certainly don't own the copyright on.

Also, secret blacklists and the ability of politicians to unplug people from the internet doesn't bode well for the future. It will end badly, mark my words.
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Thats not harsh at all. My Chron's is very severe and attacks my organs (kidney and heart) sometimes. I was committed when i was younger (go ahead and laugh) but it was just Asperger syndrome. I don't think counseling would help. I think I am just tired of fighting it. And I am going to take the advice given here.
If HackerNew wanted to become more like FarmVille (not that it should), the system could:

* give you karma just for stopping by each day

* give you karma for upvoting other's posts

* give you profiles you could customize by trading in karma

* show you what your friends were upvoting and their Karma

* show you how close you were to attaining moderator status

* allow you to give one virtual gift per day to your favorite contributors

* have your karma decline if you don't stop by in a week
Thanks for the advice. I thought of this before, but I realized that the journey is more important than the destination to me. Why should I outsource all the fun?

That being said, a younger co-founder with the engineering and /or business skills, good stamina and character would be certainly great. I hope to find someone like this during my preparation.
I agree, but found it hard to make the title precise and less than 80 characters.

BP's figure of 5000 (which I think they've finally dropped) hasn't even been in the range of any independent estimate I've seen.
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You have a point. Although what I had in mind wasn't so much the "real-time" stuff that we get from Twitter and random blogs but the extensive analysis that's often offered on blogs like Brad Delong's, Mark Thoma's Economists View, Savage Minds, or The Monkey Cage. I find RortyBomb to be the single-best coverage of the current machinations over financial reform going on in Congress. Of course, if you follow the financial reform bill extensively, you're going to have to sacrifice reading about, say, the latest news on Israel-Iran relations or the latest on the national political scene in India.
At uni no-one checked or took roll call at lectures. You could just rock up without enrolling/paying and get free learning. Of course you can't do the exam and get the degree, but that's not the goal here.

Is it stealing? The professor would be doing the exact same thing with or without you there. As long as you don't take up a seat in an otherwise full lecture.
I think the problem of facebook is not the size of your friend list, but the size of "useless" (matter of tastes) apps that populate the timeline, like quizzes, and a big etc of questions, games...

I block one, and ten new appear...
They were pretty obviously meant to be ridiculous - that was the joke.
Sorry, this is long, but hopefully it'll be useful.

My first startup was a "ramen profitable" ISP in central Canada during the mid-90's. I was very young and foolish, IMHO; I had just entered a relationship with a woman I'd met at University, I was coming up on the end of a semester that was going to result in my being politely asked to take a year off to get my priorities straight, and I was making furious plans with the folks who became my co-founders to regain the Internet service I was about to lose due to said scholastic problems. We turned this desire for Internet service into one of the first commercial ISPs in Manitoba, in a completely unplanned burst of entrepreneurialism. During initial bootstrapping of the company, I got married. The next four years were probably the worst of her life; I prioritized the business above myself and her, without question. I was too busy to see what were obvious signs of our relationship becoming poisonous; signs my friends and co-founders were very aware of, but didn't mention in order to keep peace. Tempers flared constantly.

We exited, selling the company to a local competitor, and I took a position with a mid-sized ISP in Chicago (it warmed my heart to see a mention of Enteract in tptacek's post; not many independent ISPs left in Chicago anymore). My wife and I moved, we suddenly didn't have any of the stresses of business operation hanging over us, and I think we assumed our relationship would improve. It didn't; after four years of fighting, we just didn't know how to deal with each other any more, and didn't have any interest in figuring out how. Within a year, she moved back to Canada, and I filed the divorce paperwork that we drew up together, resulting in an amicable and fair attorney-free divorce.

I've since remarried, and my wife and I have a very different relationship to that of my first wife and I; when one person is being unreasonable, the other calls them on it, and we work out problems in good faith. And we assume good faith; we trust that the other person has our mutual best interests at heart, and that's a place that took us a while to get to.

I'm not sure if this story helps at all, but just be mindful of the fact that you need to make yourself spend time on your relationship. If that means scheduling time for each other where the cell phone and computer will be off, you do it. It is very easy to take the other person in your life for granted, and assume they know how important they are to you.
I haven't looked at their script. I'm curious whether they transmit selected text, as Daring Fireball seems to suggest, or only copied text. If the former, they're going to get a lot of false positives from those of us who neurotically select blocks of text on pages for no reason while reading.
It's true that I was limited to reading Indian dailies when I grew up. But I believe the point stands. I think if your job is not in journalism or politics, then you have a limited amount of time left to read. And you can choose either to read magazines, which gives you a sample out of a wide spectrum of topics or you can go into depth on, say, the financial reform bill, and sacrifice "breadth."
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I find your comment significant:

> ...even someone trying their best and generally upholding their end of the marriage bargain can be divorced against their will...

"No-fault divorce" could be called "unilateral divorce" since one party can dissolve the marriage regardless of the other's actions or wishes.

I see it as yet another thing that dissuades people from forming lasting bonds with each other. I wish I knew what could be done to reverse the trend.
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Whoah, whoah whoah!

We have hosted Exchange at my university. The Outlook web client is perhaps the worst piece of software I am forced to use on a regular basis.

The calendaring is completely useless on the web client. I can't see anyone else's schedules so when I make meetings with them, its like shooting a rifle blind folded. I have to do a "guess and check" method where if Outlook vomits in my face and says someone is busy at that scheduled time, I just guess for the next time slot till eventually one fits.

We don't have nearly as much space as you do, so I am forced to completely delete all my messages 4 times a year to free up space. The UI makes this task such a pain (admittedly it is the uni's fault for not forking up enough $$ for enough space, but it is incredibly time wasting and difficult through the web client).

Do I get some sort of notification when my inbox is full? No. Only, I stop receiving emails and every would be sender gets a message that my inbox is full. This continues until someone I meet in person tells me that they haven't been able to communicate with me online for the larger part of the week. No way to get those emails back.

Oh, and all this is after I forward all my messages to gmail and never use Outlook unless I am forced to.

(Sorry, just venting and getting this off my chest.)
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In that scenario the user is totally disempowered and at the mercy of unaccountable masters. It's that sort of tyranny over users that Apple played upon with its original 1984 ad.
Windows doesn't change the hardware of the monitor. It just changes the orientation of what's on the screen.
I suspect that this fanfic is hoping at its best to bring some of Harry Potter fans, of which there are many, to the understanding of rationality and participation in site lesswrong.com

A smart move to raise the sanity waterline, as Elieser puts it:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1e/raising_the_sanity_waterline/
Bad news guys. Carroll, Farhi, and Guth along with 't Hooft already looked into this in the 1990s. The only way time travel is possible is if there is already a time machine in the universe. If there isn't one already, it's impossible to create one in an open universe, and in a closed universe, it's not possible to create one and then use it before the universe ends.

The proofs are in 2+1 dimensions, but they're generally believed to hold in 3+1.

http://preposterousuniverse.com/research/#ctcs for a brief summary with references by Carroll.
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This is a good idea, but I'll probably need a lot of tutors. Maybe I need a "higher-altitude" mentor, who can go through the journey with me and indicate tutors when necessary.
Just something fun for Friday.
I agree, it's almost completely a factor of how much time you spend reading and how you manage that time across topics. Increasing the time spent and becoming a better manager probably means you can cover both breadth and depth.
I would doubt it. Maybe the creators caught wind of it in a psych 101 class, but we learned about micro-achievements years ago just by being gamers, and they just happened to master it.

Super Mario Bros.

Think of the "levels" of achievement:

1) On the smallest level, you kill small enemies, get a "big" mushroom. You get points, and your environment changes.

2) On the next level, you collect coins. 100 means an extra life.

3) Then you beat the sub-levels, 1-1, 1-2, 1-3

4) Finally you beat a "boss" and go to the next "World" to 2-1, 2-1

5) Beat 8 "Worlds" and the "big boss" and you beat the game.

6) Advanced players will compete for the best times, try to create fireworks over the castles, find warp zones, or max out their points.

The key is in progressive achievements and always wanting more. You create a sense of urgency or need and you have someone in the palm of your hand.

Business is no different. I just upgraded my Basecamp account so I could add the "Time" module. I'm on World 2 now.
People hike across Canada all the time. So much so that there is a national network of trails: http://tctrail.ca/home.php
A word of warning: this movie is entirely dialogue. That being said, it's a great movie.
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This is very very nice. I have been begging Igor(nginx author) for years to add LUA or JS support for scripting in an async style. This is a great start and kudos to the author.

Kick ass!
> do we have the right to make the decision not to develop these therapies

Actually the bigger question is what gives you the right to play with mother nature?

> But these problems seem to be smaller than 100k-150k people dying each day after a long-period of suffering and frailty

So? I've had relatives dying, not that big of a deal. They live on in the heritage they leave behind (like their children).

Very low birth-rates so that some old farts with money can live longer?

What do you think, those vaccines or those modern HIV treatments are getting to poor countries like those in Africa?
Well sure, if you go to a big degree mill. I went to a small liberal arts school in the States, and classes were participatory, and it was very difficult to attend without changing the dynamic of the class.

I think the lesson is choose your professors, classmates, and class sizes carefully.
I couldn't help but pronounce it "Taint" as I read this. What a terrible name.
Your problem is that people don't know that they would find your product useful until they have it. Who is actually going to be looking for your tool?

Drew Houston has talked about this in respect to Dropbox (http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510) - who knew they needed Dropbox until they found out about it? USB sticks and email work just fine, right?

I have exactly the same issue with Synctus - VPNs and Terminal Services work just fine, right?

What you need to do is find a channel. People who are already in the business for whom your product is a value-add.

For example: for Synctus, I am reselling through IT professionals - the people who might recommend and install VPNs and Terminal Services for their customers.

In your case, you might see if you can approach specialist car search and real estate search sites - if you can work out something that you can give them which will add value to their service too.
At James Arthur's 60th birthday conference, he said something like the following (roughly paraphrased): "First …" and, unfortunately, I don't remember what first was (but I agree with Dove (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385842) that there should be 3 :-) ).

"Next, I studied the work of Langlands, and the group was called GL_2. Then, I studied the work of Harish-Chandra, and the group was called G."
Who needs psychologists when you have game designers? Psychological literature doesn't have the level of interest or experience in the practical applications that expert game designers have.
The point here is that the rotation is done by the OS, in software, so the screen is still painting from the physical left-to-right and top-to-bottom. This is something you'll never notice with the naked eye, but their camera uses a staggering 2700fps. This means that a full repaint of the screen - assuming 60Hz refresh happens in 45 frames. Those 45 frames, played back at 30 fps means that the full repaint takes a second and a half, leaving you with the ability to see the individual lines being (re)painted.
That's a very good point - there could be a third graph which has a lot of tiny lines that are far more densely packed together (then the pre-internet graph) but manage to sample the whole spectrum at the same time.
Well where are you in the world? I would definitely suggest rolling by your local hackerspace and looking for some assistance in getting yourself motivated, and navigating the harrowing experience of building out your own tool collection / parts collection as well as some of your skills.

Sourcing components and tools as a hobbyist, garage inventor, or even small design firm is very different from sourcing parts as a large institution or as an enterprise. The factors of scale change the playing field drastically. Many of the smaller kit builders and maker types have a shared knowledge regarding this sort of limited run development that you are endeavoring to pursue.

That being said, the key benefits for you that a major scholastic environment can provide you outside of tutelage is access to a robust machine shop, capable electronics facilities, and more important than all of that... protection from litigation in the patents you file.

Many graduate and even undergraduate programs offered by major universities actually will stipulate that any patent you file while at school, regardless of whether it's a personal patent or something completely unrelated to school, will be protected by them, their legal war chest, and their patent warchest. This is a huge selling point for some schools. ASK ABOUT IT.

Also, many schools have start up incubators of their own, or a network of people who can help you find funding. A friend who left stanford graphics lab took advantage of their start up program where they offer you use of facilities and space on campus in return for a percentage stake in the venture... they also will provide you with assistance in using their alumni network to score capital.

These are just some immediate thoughts. But I definitely see some values in going back to university that have no relevance to the actual classes you might take, but more with getting things done in your R&D.

Definitely regardless of what you decide your level of commitment is, don't get discouraged. There are far too few people with medical certification and experience turning their eyes towards prosthesis and other technologies that assist the disabled. And while there's money to be made there, more importantly there is a lot of good that can be done. The things that help someone who is confined by their disabilities can be for more huge to the people who use them, than us.

I know a number of engineers, good ones that would be interested in helping people the way you are suggesting. It's a job that one can draw immense satisfaction from.
Perhaps Android is trying to do to iPhone OS what MS-DOS/Windows did to Mac OS.
Honestly it doesn't really bother me, it has been useful from time to time when copying something (saves me the next step of copying the URL).

It sounds like they should add an opt-out though.
Wow, yahoo is up there. It's a shame they can't monetize their websites more.
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They were talking about this spill on NPR the week the spill came out. There are plenty of news outlets doing good journalism and it would seem that you yourself are not paying any attention to them. So stop blaming the media.

In any case, this disaster isn't over yet, and we don't have good enough figures to say with any certainty that this is smaller than the Ixtoc spill.
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I do a lot of copying and pasting for the 'hand-edited' portion of links on hockeybias.com and I too have noticed an uptick in this cr*p. Thanks for shedidng light on the perp!
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Yes, and then they learn all about source control. It's really not that hard and is pretty easy to learn. Hence why you don't need to pay someone to teach it to you.
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Amazing that Facebook has ONE THOUSAND pageviews per unique visitor compared to about 100 pageviews per unique visitor on the rest of the sites.
It's selected text. And they're trying to spin that as a feature (i.e. they can show you the section of text has the highest "user engagement" based on relative number of selections)
I wish I were you some years ago. About your engineering study, how is the startup mentality? I see a lot of talk about entrepreneurship in engineering, but most students and professors seem to be more focused in what is more important to land a job at big companies and team work in detriment to creativity, self-reliance and comprehensive skills.
I suggest you should go to a top CS University (MIT, CMU etc), you shouldn't have much problem getting into one of them if you already have a PhD.

Whatever people on this community say, CS is significantly different from Hacking or writing some web app in PHP.

A good MS program at a top school will lead you to deeper understanding of CS. The general opinion on HN is very anti CS education.

However if you truly want to build for future (think of Google and Intel and other) then nothing can replace firm knowledge of CS.
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