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The flailing itself is almost certainly the problem. The faster you move, the faster you drown. Strive to do nothing for a time instead - neither work, nor distractions. You've probably been led by the nose towards your high-achiever position in life, and now you have to stop, take in the world, and learn how to actually take control of things.
Since you are also into programming, I would recommend studying some discrete math.
Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications by Kenneth H. Rosen is rather friendly and instructive on how to do proofs.
I dont think its a good idea to strictly focus on one subject when it comes to reading. It will be good for your brain to take a break from thinking about entrepreneurship and think about something fictional. Therefore, I suggest you add Fahrenheit 451 to your list.
I'm amazed that Apple seems so set on the AA battery format for desk peripherals that it is releasing a AA battery charger with the trackpad. I don't find AA objectionable, but Apple's marketing regarding removable batteries centers around "we can pack more battery in by eliminating the packaging."
He's not talking about technically superior server-side Javascript environments, he's talking about langauges and frameworks that provide more than just a callback model.
"There is a good argument that advertising actively moves you away from the EMH which is one of the strongest arguments in favor of capitalism."

I said anti-capitalist because many people were against advertisements and the gold accounts. While there may be many people lurking on reddit that are not anti-capitalist, it's a sentiment I see in almost every topic related to making money on that site.
When people stand around jaw-boning about construction work, they're most likely not engaged in any productive discussion. When we're engaged on HN, chances are we're learning something that is or soon will be directly useful in our careers or personal lives.
Practice and have some patience. I still remember the first year of my maths degree. The exercises seemed rather hard. A couple of months later, they seemed easy (the ones from the early months, not the new ones from the later months).

I don't think rote learning is the solution, but there are common problem solving techniques.

Also, my experience was that you don't understand maths so much as that you get used to it. I think I know how you feel - I also expected to logically process a section of the maths book and then having understood. In practice it didn't work that way. I remember at some point I suddenly had a grasp of "Gaussian Manifolds" , which seemed completely intractable at first glance (don't ask me now - it might not have been 'Gaussian Manifolds' but something else, I forgot the name and the concept).

I think in reality as a mathematician you just have to get used to feeling stupid.

it also frustrated me how little we really understand. For example sometimes we prove something by some really clever way, some border case contradiction or whatever. But to me that was not understanding - understanding would be "seeing it", not proving it.
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Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Maybe they figure that making a battery charger is with AA batteries, in these cases, better than putting any sort of power input on the otherwise sleek device? An iPad or iPhone needs inputs on it to begin with, but solely bluetooth peripherals don't.
I'm surprised at how many people say they came from Reddit - perhaps I stayed on Slashdot for too long.
xflux is included as a binary in the package source. I'm sure you mean well, but this is a security risk and breaks the terms of use for the Launchpad PPA (as it is not distributed under a permitted licence). You could host the package elsewhere, though.
...female students in CS are being discriminated against. [...]but research in discrimination against women is crystal clear on this.

[Citation needed.]
A and B may not be sufficient reasons either. Here is a counter example from my home state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model#Human_Development_... Economically Kerala is a third world economy, but in Human Development Index and birth rates it is more closer to developed economies. The birth rate is at replacement level and still falling even though most people do not have sufficient pensions, most parents are not professionals and unemployment is endemic. So you will have to look beyond GDP and consumerism for falling birth rates.
There is no B3 bomber.
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I would replace my mouse at work with this in a heartbeat, but I'm a .net developer by day and need those windows drivers. (I use an MBP at home)

I think they're missing a huge opportunity here by not providing those drivers.

Obviously an opportunity they have decided they don't care about, I just wish they did.
Yes, apologies, I play fast and loose with die/package terminology and I should be careful to be more accurate.

Anyways, your points are all quite right and Apple has asked for and gotten smaller packages before.

I still think the licensing issues trump the package issues and that more relates to Intel absorbing the northbridge onto the die. (That one actually did go on-die not just on-package I think?) It just seems silly to blame an unrelated change that added an on-package IGP for these issues.

I mean I know people have an irrational hatred for Intel's IGPs for some reason, but blaming them for the nvidia license dispute issues that are about the northbridge going on-die? I just don't get it.
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There's no reason for a sleeper ticket to be expensive. In Europe, Asia and Africa, night trains are certainly affordable. Cheaper than buses in many cases.

Amtrak is expensive because it's expensive. It bills its sleeper service as a luxury thing, and charges luxury prices. There's nothing to say that it has to, or that anybody who decides to compete with them has to.
90% of your search rank is determined by the number of high-quality sites linking to you. The other 10% is titles, metas, keyword density, on page markup, interlinking between your pages, and finally page load time (in roughly that order). Page load time only becomes a factor after evaluating all of the other factors first. If you're going to spend time doing anything, focus on the 90%, not the last 1%.
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You may find that undergraduate physics is a good match for your learning style. There is plenty of ridiculous math, but all of it is based in simple (!) models of the way the world actually works. Differential equations and vector calculus are relatively easy for visual thinkers, and the need to get the math to tell you precise answers drives you pretty naturally to some reasonable approximation of mathematical rigor. Where heavy mathematics demands insane amounts of rigor to make progress, physics is merely descriptive, so you can enjoy learning about the symmetry and beauty of things (like how all of chemistry falls out of quantum mechanics) without (all of) the mindlessly mechanistic formality (like proving that legendre polynomials are really a complete basis set).

Also know that math (and physics for that matter) is almost universally poorly taught, so don't get discouraged by that.
If the people in charge of rankings have not a care one bit about the revenue effects then simply let the user decide - give me flag to simply take all results out from any site containing adsense. The the non-technically inclined can get the results with the "how to make blueberry pie" results and the more technically inclined can skip the content mills.

Something like so:

how to make blueberry pie -adsense

edit: didn't notice that previous commenter had said the same thing and moultano had replied "you want the new york times filtered out of the results?"

No, I want an advanced flag that filters ALL sites with adsense out when I use it, including the New York Times. If I want results from NYT then I won't use the flag when I search. He didn't exactly answer the question of will we ever get a filter-out-adsense flag
I suggest you stop reading HN and go outside. Do not use HN as a measuring stick. Many people here, whether they admit it or not, love making themselves appear superior to others. Some really are superior, but most are probably just like yourself. Just stay true to yourself and you will feel a lot better.

If it helps, I am in a similar position. I am under 25, but working as a programmer for 3 years. I got student loans to pay off. (and dont tell my boss, but sometimes I read the internet instead of working). It happens. Slow progress is better than none.

Also, try listening to this song as loud as possible, and tell me it doesn't help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5TXr-vDvhY
They did say it was the exact same touchpad, just bigger... so very likely.
Be sure to mention it's completely preliminary, non-peer-reviewed, and posted on arxiv.
Now Apple just needs to incorporate this into the "iPad Keyboard Dock" and I'll be more than happy to buy!
I was in the same position as you recently (and still am to some degree) though in worse shape, since I decided I needed math at the end of college. The points people made previously about working at it and repetition are critical. I absolutely understand that you don't want to do things by rote, but what's important to realize is that like ANY other skill, there is one best way to improve, and it's called practice. You'll just need to do exercise after exercise, and read and re-read proofs, even when you don't feel that you "get" it. First you do it, then you'll get it.

The other thing that works the same for every other skill is to teach it. Get a friend who feels the same, and teach each other math. This works pretty well when you're not even talking to a real person, even. Just having to formulate your understanding solidly enough to convey it to someone else reveals where you get it and where you don't.

The personal trick that will help though I find is the hardest to do consistently is to be OK with not getting it. You'll spend a lot of time not understanding, so get comfortable with that fact and keep going. For myself, I tend to back off the subject when I don't get it right away, but I learn much faster when I stick with the stuff that makes me uncomfortable.

Prescriptively, try looking at How To Prove It for an explanation of what's going on in proofs, and how to engage with them.
You can use your finger....
Yes but it's hard to see how machine guns prevent somebody having left a 'package' under seat.
It's like how after 911 there were tanks at Heathrow airport - in case of hijacker on a plane? Or in case the hijackers decide to attack the airport with a wave of T32 ?
Very interesting. I was one of those people with the misconception. How did the ancient greeks think that we were glued onto the planet? Gravity was something Newton defined? Am I having another misconception?
Why is logging a sausage fest?

Why is construction a sausage fest?

Why is fishing a sausage fest?

Why is trucking a sausage fest?

Why is computer science treated as though gender balance is important when there are plenty of fields where women are nearly non-existent.
Agreed.

I guess being sarcastic isn't a favourable trait on HN.

I like everything he said in the message.
> it's normal to not be able to derive proofs on your own without seeing them beforehand

I STRONGLY disagree.

Let's address this with an example: "Two planes are either parallel or they intersect in a line" Someone who just finished high school should be able to "prove" it informally without even opening a text book. Of course high school education doesn't give you the tools to write a formal proof, but if you think about it for a while, then write an informal proof, when you finally open your book and read the formal proof it will be pretty obvious to you. Once you learn proper maths in University, you should be able to sketch a formal proof very quickly.

Obvioulsy you cannot reinvent all the math from the last 5000 years all by yourself, so you need massive amounts of effort and study to learn (a part of) it. In my view, learning the basics of your problem space, then thinking informally about it, then (informally) writing your own theorems and proofs is the best way of learning. You won't come up with everything, but when you go to your book and read that all-important theorem you will think: "Aaaahhh! of course! how didn't I think of it!?"
"Why aren't sites that scrape content blacklisted?"

What like Google News?

It's a lame joke but it shows you how fine the line is between 'scraping' and 'aggregating' content.
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For what reason? Generally HN people are against censorship.
Just because nobody's really done it before... it does seem weird - especially if you want to use a mouse.

- It's cordless - you can put it on the left or right or anywhere else.
- You don't strictly need a mouse.

- I remember thinking the touch-surface on the magic moues was silly -but now I miss it when Idon't have it... and I actually suspect (won't know until I try) that the increased size of the new touchpad will be an important factor - you'll essentially be able to use a finger like a mouse on a pad - without needing to necessarily resposition very much - giving you veyr mouse-like behavior.
Could you provide a citation for that? I'd be VERY surprised if doing technical work before college did not correlate with success.

In my admittedly anecdotal experience (at a college way below the level of CMU), introductory programming classes had a classical bimodal distribution. There was a cluster of grades at 30 (people who weren't interested in programming) and another cluster at 80 (people who coded as a hobby and already knew nearly everything the class had to teach).
But this argument may be underestimating other human traits like curiosity and spirit for exploration. Even if we were wired to "simputers" at birth, many of the hacker types here would want to explore what is beyond those constructs once made aware of it. This leads me to believe there will always be some who would not accept the virtual world as an end all and explore beyond it.
The body of knowledge certainly _includes_ war, famine, and neglect, but it's idiotic to say that's the entirety of it.
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Again, nice rickroll :)
If I'm on the computer, my time on HN is the leading reverse indicator of how productive my work is that day.

This be true for me too. I find myself saying things like "Wooh! You missed a whole day of HN today!" at the end of productive work days, and after awhile the glow of doing so much work sorta gets linked to the act of not going on HN as much.
More truth than hype in this case. The modern indoor lifestyle and diet are not very conducive to maintaining the requisite levels.

Vitamin D comes in many forms -- and not all are equal:
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This is a very interesting theory. I'll admit that I find it aesthetically appealing to eliminate the cosmological constant ("dark energy"), and eliminating the big bang and big crunch doesn't bother me very much. The fit to the supernova redshift data is also impressive, though I haven't taken the time to unpack the optimization used so I'm not sure if there's overfitting going on there.

The arXiv article itself also makes very interesting reading. My BS in Physics didn't get as far as the Einstein field equations so I can't follow the derivation, but the introduction and discussion are fairly easy to follow. Allowing the speed of light to vary over time has been a popular choice in a number of cosmological theories recently, but afaik the space/time/energy conversion allowed in this model is new. It's hard for me to follow exactly where the author gets the particular functional form she uses for the speed of light wrt time, but if there are any cosmologists in the room I'd love to know whether it looks "reasonable".

If I had to look for problems, my gut says that the space/time/energy conversion the author suggests would predict some kind of astronomically observable result apart from an accelerating expansion. Looking for that prediction and checking it against observations would be a good step. I also noticed that in the arXiv paper, she assumes a universe with three spatial dimensions. I'm wondering if this is the case, how it will interact with string theories which assume 10+ dimensions.
shhh....

I don't think Steve know this has removable batteries ;)
Yeah, I hear you about the note thing. If I even get into the US in time for my wedding, I have to apply for permission to go on our honeymoon. We have to plan two honeymoons, one in case I can get permission to leave and re-enter the US, one if I can't.

As far as I'm concerned, US immigration controls only make life harder for people who want to do the right thing. I've had plenty of chances to just overstay a visa and not go home, but I chose to do the right thing, and as a reward, I get to wait months without seeing my partner.
Pretty depressing seeing comments like "Also there is no way a website has a $8CPM" and wondering why people who don't know what they're talking about keep on talking. I sell at double that rate for smaller sites on a daily basis ;/
As a lefty this would be awesome.

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the way to fight creative block is to feel... positively or negatively (it hurts) but intensevely... The worst is not to feel and this can be a mental pb, underwhelming neurotransmetters... lack of brain/thumos/heart fire.
If you use BetterTouchTool or MagicPrefs with your Magic Mouse you can get all those touch features in your mouse, that is definitely better when it comes to move a cursor.
Can you elaborate a little more?
Did you have arranged employment or did you get in while the Developer category was still open?
The stereotyping of and bigotry against males in that diatribe was rather offensive.
Just from my own experience, I started taking vitamin D supplements during the winter months (roughly from equinox to equinox) 3 winters ago, and it seems like my immune system has vastly improved. The number of colds and flus I was subject to fell from about 3 per season to 1 the first season and zero the next two (knock on wood).
How would that work? There's no cursor for it to control on the iPad.
This looks like a nice product and I do really love the multitouch pad on the MacBooks, but I'm so sick of Apple calling everything "Magic" and "Revolutionary".
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I really like how Logitech solves this problem with their Performance MX mouse. It takes a AA battery and includes a rechargeable AA battery.

When the mouse's battery runs low, you just connect the (included) micro-USB cable. The mouse recharges and can be used at the same time, albeit tethered. Once's it's charged, put the cable away and keep on working.
For wireless peripherals, non-charging AA batteries are a better choice than any charging dock or solution.

Why spend every day docking/undock the thing (or charging the batteries when they die) when I can slip new batteries in once every 6 months?
Especially in high-energy physics and in (I think) cosmology, the community is small enough that the arXiv is basically the primary means of communication. Peer review is everyone looking at the article and talking about what they mean. Published journal articles become more of a way to "keep score" to help outsiders make hiring decisions.
I first heard about this last year after elite marathoner Deena Kastor found that she had a Vitamin D deficiency. She ended up breaking a bone in the Beijing Olympics. It turned out that she had plenty of calcium, but was deficient in Vitamin D from overusing sunscreen.

http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=16940

Luckily the solution for most of us is to just go outside for 15 minutes and enjoy the sun!
> the basic point being that women are socialized their whole lives to not be entitled or aggressive but to stay quiet and in the background, while men are constantly socialized to take what they want, step forward, go for it, "be a man" etc.

I think this is related to what Nicole Sullivan is getting at when she talks about women needing female role models, e.g.: "The problem compounds itself as women see no role-models for how to be a woman in this field."

I suspect role-models are more important to women than they are to men. For example, I'm a man, and when I started designing a programming language I didn't know anyone else who had; when I co-founded a political party I didn't know anyone else who had done that either. The whole concept that do do something you need to know someone else who has done it seems alien to me.
I think it's a matter of preference. I've been saying how much I wanted to ditch my mouse for a desktop version of the MBP trackpad since I got my laptop.
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My strategy is to always leave a really easy "next task" when I'm done for the day, so I won't feel anxiety about "what should I do next" with any given project.

I call it "park on a hill", the way you park a vehicle without a (working) battery/alternator/starter facing down on a hill, to let gravity help in push starting it (farmers do this with tractors all the time).

Once you're immersed in something, creative block is a whole lot less likely.
Those that threaten transparency will threaten it whether wikileaks exists or not. The point of wikileaks is to expose these people and have them removed so they can be replaced by people who are for transparency at which point wikileaks will become irrelevant.

The just powers of government derive from the consent of the governed, wikileaks provides information on what the government is doing so the people may judge whether it is just.
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My guess is that it has to do with the battery losing its ability to hold charge with time. It makes sense to engineer a massive new battery for the iPhone or Macbook, but these peripherals don't have the same volume or margin cushion to absorb the cost, hence off the shelf battery technology.

Also, I think most people expect to change out a computer every couple years, but a mouse is supposed to last longer. If the thing became incapable of holding charge after 18 months it would get customers riled.

After using a Magic Mouse for 6 months, I can say the rechargeable battery station is a must buy, I have to change my MM batteries every 3 weeks or so.
Read more carefully. They weren't his predictions on hardware architecture.

And from my reading he's saying "(hopefully) we don't need no stinking multi-threading cause multiprocessing will be how it's done".
I'd really like it if two of these would play nice with other. I could see doubling up with one on each side of my keyboard. (Been thinking about this for a while.) I know little to nothing about hardware (UX/marketing guy) does any one more knowledgeable consider this use of the driver probable as built in functionality?
Yes I love the texture, like it's being done on the back of a torn up, sewn back together tablecloth.
I've been waiting for this since the rumors first started surfacing. As someone who uses a $100+ Kensington trackball, this is a bargain.

If anyone has information on Windows 7 drivers for the Magic Mouse (whichare presumably the same), let us know!

Otherwise I'll have to write them myself. :)
This is just my experience, but I noticed that I used to have flu every 3-4 month between the age of 18 to 22 and then it suddenly stopped. I didn't take any supplements for this to happen, just graduated from college. I am not sure if it was the hormonal changes or change of environment or just plain growing up, but I'd think twice before attributing it to supplements.