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I've thought about this a lot. Say you really manage to live in such a way that you won't have these regrets. Wouldn't you, then, regret not pursuing a career? Or the thrill and excitement of climbing a ladder (hey, just putting it out there)? Not to mention that the "fulfilling your own dreams" regret is probably impossible to avoid by merely fulfilling your dreams.

I would love to hear the regrets of people that have lived a life in such a way that they don't have these modern regrets.
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Please understand that I don't think the FSF ever set out with the intent of being "elitist", and I appreciate what they are trying to do. Although I often do not agree with the methods, I am happy they exist.

I like your example of the moat. I think though that nobility is not very much defined in your metaphor. After some thought I think there is a strong sense of community maybe, where those who've worked there the longest are those who become the "nobility". And people do not want a "foreigner" to come and change their ways, even though he may back his ideas with facts and good arguments.

In a way, a method that made sense once, is used for such a long time that at some point it becomes more of an "ideology", like a nationalistic feeling.
When to Make the First Offer in Negotiations
Why hast thou forsaken me?
There is a pretty good article that states that it is often to your advantage to actually make the first offer. I submitted it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643734
To me, Laurie is the only one that has a shot at improving her condition.
Try going to the streets of London, especially in Shoreditch. There are tons of career beggars there. I have actually seen them coordinate their plans near a Tesco. The BBC has also written a few articles on the topic.
They won't take the sandwich half of the time, which are pretty high odds to be wasting your money.
Gender and sex are different things for once. I think many people who are against the usual "men and women are different" idea think that that most differences are a consequence of the culture more than genetic predisposition. Pushed to the extreme, the idea that men and women are the same is indeed ridiculous - but I think the idea that men are more often disposed to computer programming as ridiculous myself. To give some (anecdotical) evidence: I have been to open source conferences in the US, Europe and India. In both US and Europe, the proportion is mostly young men (+ older men for people in academia), as you would expect. In India, I would say a good third were women, up to 60 year old women.

Certainly, there is little data to back the natural difference up AFAIK, and again correlation is not causation. For example, how much is due to the fact that women willing to have a child need to have them in a period which is generally considered crucial for your job ? For law and medical related jobs, the mandatory length for studies is much longer than for tech - is this a factor ? I can think of many other reasons to explain the current situation which has nothing to do with "how our brain are different" and other platitudes. It may be true, but it is so close to the usual cliches that people will legitimately consider them as such unless you have strong evidence to argue it.
The web server is overrun, and the article accordingly inaccessible.

I implemented a system for an OS bootstrap that uses a scheme similar to this, though I deliberately placed the boot partitions "underneath" (carefully double-mapped) files within the file system that were expressly created for the purpose of "protecting" the boot-level structures from the OS and its disk activities.

The files were located over specific ranges of disk blocks that were known to the console; so long as that mapping was maintained, everybody was happy.

That change would require changes to a few OS-level tools; to (for instance) a Linux partition or Windows. (I had that option.)

The other approach is to place the boot structures in a boot partition; to use one of the four slots available in MBR for a partition for the boot tools.

The consoles I was working with support EFI (and which has its areas of brain damage) and console makes allocating a GRUB2 boot partition trivial. That keeps the console and its tools from stomping on the partitions, and the applications from stomping the boot loader.

If you're stuck back in BIOS-land with MBR (and no easy way to launch into EFI), there's likely no good solution to these collisions other than grabbing an MBR slot, as there's almost certainly no general Windows coordination policy here other than "don't do that".

Microsoft Windows itself has occasionally and classically stomped on foreign-format disks; it had the galactic stupid of writing a "harmless" signature to disks it didn't find MBR structures on. If the console pilot allowed Windows to write that "harmless" signature and your foreign file system was corrupted.
Reddit can be monetised today, right now, without a single intrusive advert.

The key is affiliate programs.

Go talk to Skimlinks, point out your traffic, laugh at their rates and then stop to think for a moment. If reddit signed up to every affiliate program there was and didn't share revenue with skimlinks or anyone... if reddit took care of explaining what they were doing and how they were doing it... the readership would be fine.

Hell, you want me just to use the site as normal and inadvertently through doing so I end up clicking links that lead me to buy stuff occasionally and this gives you some pennies. Sure thing, doesn't bother me.

Pennies, yeah, that's all it is. Except that's a penny or two per click. Reddit has size and traffic. Reddit could link to the odd item here or there behind affiliate paywalls and those unobtrusive and naturally organic links created by virtue of creating such a large community could monetise the whole thing.

Don't believe me? Try it for one month. And then when your jaw hits the flaw remember to give me some credit for it. Affiliate schemes keep most forums alive and allow them to exist with minimal advertising. There, I've let my secret out. I run small forums, and they are making me a lovely nest-egg... if I had the cash I'd buy reddit just to put affiliate links on it... it would be an immediate cash cow, and the readership would be fine as they'd understand why, and visually no garbage would have changed the experience.

The key is to do all affiliates, leave no penny on any table. Every click that could earn you money, should.

Technically all you need is a set of rules to process any existing link in any post or comment, and to detect whether that URL goes to a destination that has an affiliate program. If it does, strip any existing codes and drop in yours, if it doesn't then leave it alone.

Oh,and tell people explicitly not to game it. No-one need ever create fake clicks or fake atricles. The organic mass is enough.
Interesting - this was submitted nearly four weeks ago, and yet garnered no comments at all, and only one up-vote:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1570865
Not the best metaphor since it's not hiding that there's nothing behind the facade, rather there's something superficially unacceptable behind it. Trojan Horse is not quite right (the experienced veterans are not going to leap out from behind the facade and ravage the hiring company :-) but something in that direction would be much better.
The problem is that almost everyone is lopsided in some way: they excel at something, and are deficient in other things, but almost always in unique ways. Often, the time that they lack in other areas has caused them to grow in others, and it's that growth that gives them an edge in life. Most nerds know this: often they have exchanged social skills for technical skills by the choice of how they spend their time, and how that choice reinforces itself because of how comfortable they feel in different situations.

So many of the things you learn, things you'd like your 17 year old self to know, are things that other 17 year olds already know; and vice versa.

All I can really say is to explore the boundaries, do things that stretch yourself, that scare you, to minimize the risk of getting caught in local maxima. Learn to understand how your mind plays tricks on you, tries to stop you from growing. Think of e.g. showing an older grandparent how to use a PC, and of how difficult they find it, how they can't play with it, and learn on their own, because they lack the confidence; and how frustrating it can be when you know it's not actually hard, and all they need to be is open and playful. Keep that in mind when you think something is too hard or that you're not good at it; watch out for your own mind telling you to give up.
I know many people won't like it, and it may send visitors away, but it's their right to have this in place. I think it could catch on and it wouldn't really be unfair.
Excellent.

+ Expand B(x+2)

+ Expand A(1-x+x^2)

What do you get? You need to play with these sorts of equations and see what happens - see what you get.
At the moment we have no protection to stop any brute forcing. But we also make it so that you can't delete or edit a jot once it's made, it simply just expires depending on the expiration time you set (Default is 5 days). We did this with the general thought that you shouldn't put anything online that you wouldn't want anyone else to see, but it's all anonymous so regardless of if someone see's your jot chances are it wouldn't make sense to them since they don't have the context.

Sending a person a link works great when you actually know the person and have some sort of online contact with them. But if you're dealing with someone who you don't really know and don't want to give your person info (email address) to then just giving them a password would work better....but I think adding links would be a good idea as well.

Na this wasn't made during djangodash we're not that hip :(
Use 1password (1password.com) - and keep an online copy of your 1password password file at cloudsafe.com
One think I have recently learned when it comes to recommending books is to point out the obvious: I have a different level of personal experience and knowledge about the topic, so the books I liked is often the result of my personal experience and the kind of books I usually like.

I am a fan of dry, no-nonsense, non-fiction books. So I don't think its very surprising that I often don't enjoy pop-psych books because they tend to dumb down the science and use selective knowledge to get readers hooked into the topic. Hard science is rarely a priority in those kind of books, its the personal narrative and interpretation they want to push that takes precedence over actual science.

This is why I often read books thats written by people who have good background knowledge on the topic and is a professional on that field. Which means I try to avoid books written by General "sciency" guy who has an interest in many things and read some books on those things and he is just rehashing and reinterpreting those words the way he likes it to sell as many books as he can.

I am fairly new to Neuro/psych books. So I don't have an extensive list of books I have already read. However I do have a fairly good list of books on my queue that I have collected over the last few weeks from other professionals neuropsychologists on the field.

- Anything by Antonio Damasio (just started reading "The Feeling of What Happens", loving it.)

- Books by Daniel Dennett

- Books by Joseph Ledoux

- Books by Oliver Sacks

- Subcortical Structure and Cognition (needs some neurology background, I have none. I am slowly building myself up to reading it)

- The Neuroscience of Religious Experience

- Phantoms of the Brain

Note that all the books or authors I have recommended are either psychologists or neuropsychologists by profession (AFAIK), unlike Lehrer, who is a science journalist with interest in psychology. When you read a hardcore no-nonsense Neuropsychology book (ie, Damasio) and then compare it to lehrer, I think you will see the glaring difference in knowledge and substance.
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Have you ever known anyone that didn't do their jobs as well as you could? That you could do what they do, in two thirds the time, and less in effort?

If you do, you already have your answer.
pg linked to it on Twitter yesterday which likely drew a lot of attention. twitter.com/paulg
This is a really complex question, and I doubt that anyone will ever have the answer to this. As, there are so many variables at play over here that most of the times we can't see them let alone comprehend them. Most people over here have a pretty unary point of view i.e. they don't even realize the subtle signals they get everyday about socially acceptable behavior. Even though, I don't want to be unique in this regard, but unfortunately I am and there are a few things that I would like to share.

First of all, the 5 year old me knew that I couldn't act "feminine" (what was feminine for the 5 year old me is laughable at best). Why? I just knew at that age that I couldn't do that. The adults around me simply wouldn't approve. In fact, they would be disgusted if I did. I knew that I couldn't play with my cousins' dolls because it was wrong for me to do that. I knew that I couldn't talk about the fact that I liked making stuff in the kitchen to other kids because it was wrong for me to do that. In fact, I stopped doing it after a while and I constantly had to suppress behavior to fit into that mold.

Take a look at any kid at an early age and see what happens if that child picks up a "masculine" or "feminine" toy. Most adults simply don't engage, or they engage too aggressively. For a child these subtle things matter a lot and they start dictating the pattern which still exists till later life.

You won't believe how suffocating it is to be an outlier in this regard, a freak for all intents and purposes. I have to constantly pretend to be someone else and it is amazing how subtle those cues which operate are. I can't talk the way I want to. I can't gesture in the same way. I can't walk "that way". I can't eat "that way". I can't move "that way". I can't relate to others "that way". I can't pick up topics "that way". This list goes on and on and on.

The truth is that who we are is hammered into shape by our experiences to a large extent. Unless, we consciously embark on exploring ourselves and examining our motives for everything.

So, yes it's true that on average male and female brains are different (it's a bell curve), but to what extent do those "differences" shape future behavior? To what extent is a person's behavior determined by what's between their legs? Or in their blood?

These are questions that we simply don't have an answer too. It's not like we will never have it, but it's just that right now we don't.

So, in the mean time maybe we shouldn't write articles going either way and, perhaps, focus on creating things instead. An even bigger perhaps is that we might want to try respecting people for who they are. Not who we want them to be. Just saying.
I read the book "meditations" from Marcus Aurelius recently. It's very interesting to note that the human condition hasn't changed that much.
Here are a couple of quotes related to the article.

1. "How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks." -- Marcus Aurelius

2. Work will always be considered a waste of time when you think about it later if you don't enjoy doing it now.

Who thinks those hours debugging + testing X piece of software in language Y about 10 years ago which is now replaced by code Z wasn't a waste of time?
It was fun then though.

3. "If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."
-- Marcus Aurelius

4. No comments. True friends are amazing human beings to have around. Often better than your own blood.

5. "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. " -- Marcus

We could all use some philosophy, it helps when things go to shit.
I have recommended some books here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643750

For articles and research paper:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Neuropsychology/

http://www.reddit.com/r/psychology/

For any specific articles I would recommend I will have to go through my huge list of saved links. I am a bit lazy right now, I might come back to this later and post some. :)
She's been out of a job for 10 years...
This might not be entirely Microsoft's problem.

I faced similar issues with Dell's backup/restore software for windows 7, which I multiboot with Ubuntu.Still others had this issue with HP backup and recovery manager

The relevant bug is here - https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/grub2/+bug/441941

What is interesting is that Grub apparently doesnt have a problem, but Grub2 does.

I got rid of it simply by uninstalling any bundled software (Dell, HP, Sony, Lenovo) BEFORE installing Linux.
I find the implied converse of this quote (and its more usual version, applying to work) less than convincing. I've had more than my fill with my parents, thanks; I don't wish they had spent less time working and more time with me. I think there's a selfishness in that, a narcissistic desire to own more of the lives of your children, who, ultimately, are going to break free of you, and live their own lives.
So how will you make money from this site?
Really? Limbo he says and limbo is sure what it seems to be.

If what you're saying were true, Apple should have fairly quickly rejected it citing the grounds you state. Something else is going on.

And isn't it the case that there are already quite a few interpreted code exceptions already in place, e.g. Lua in games?
That's extremely interesting; I've never before heard of priests and ministers renouncing their faith on their death beds. Do you know of any article delving into this?
Ditto Chicago. The fact that every homeless person in the country does not save up the $50-$100 (less than a week's work in a major city) in bus fare and make a beeline for Miami or San Francisco has some scary implications about the depths of the problem and/or their ability to make some simple improvements in their situation.
The general rule is that founders should pay themselves as little as possible. For some people, that's $30K, and for others, it's $100K. Just depends on where one is in life.
And I still think you're wrong. There's a young person centric round here precisely because this is the YC site. But figures of just tech startup founder ages are harder to find.

All I can now talk about is from personal experience. For example I know at least 12 startup founders (meaning low cost, tech centric startups) in Nottingham, working for 3 of those startups. None are/were under 25 when they started their business. The majority of them were over 30. Only 2 had started a previous business before 25. My friend has worked for 3 different tech startups elsewhere. All had founders over 30. Most of these people were married. Some had kids. They still started a business in the tech field.

Perhaps it's because the events and things I go to appeal to people my age, and the events the younger founders go to appeal to a different age. But I doubt it. What I suspect is that older people are probably more likely to go into b2b, the less glamorous startups, because it's easier money and most of these people knew the industries from working in them beforehand. And thus relied on existing contacts and sales forces rather than techcrunch et al. for publicity.

In fact it's almost impossible for an out-of-college/still-in-college founder to enter b2b precisely because they have no experience of that business domain or contacts in it. They can't see the opportunities unless they work in it. The only business they might know is the startup one.

In the end, my point is the idea that older people have no interest in starting tech-centric startups is wrong. It doesn't even make any sense. Do you think older people are scared of tech or something?
Obviously they are all in tough situations. However she spent the money somewhat wisely, knows how to use a computer, skype, and has some programming skills. She also sends out resumes. I'm not saying that she will make it, but from this pool she is the one who may manage to get out of it.
You hit some of the reasons why we created http://OpenAppMkt.com
Capitalism is an economic system. It says nothing about social services or policy. There are plenty of countries with free market economies which provide extensive social services and have very progressive social policies (see northern europe and scandinavia).
I think it's a scandal and a disgrace - SOMEBODY call 60 minutes!

But no, seriously, why do people have such a big problem with this? The person begging and earning 50k is hardly getting money for nothing - I've done both telemarketing and shopping mall face to face direct sales and that's not easy or enjoyable. I think directly asking for money would be worse.

If someone spends 20 to 40 hours a week and manages to make a decent living, I don't see how that is bad, and I'm sure I can think of jobs and maybe entire industries that have a worse net effect economically or socially but are considered OK.

There are definitely more dishonest yet not as maligned ways to make a living than donning some old clothing and pretending to be poor.
I find it disappointing that your clearly written argument was met with downvotes and ad hominem attacks. I expected more of HN.

I listen to music a lot. I might even be described as an audiophile. But I recognize music for what it is: a source of pleasure, relaxation and comfort, and a social glue. I don't feel the need to make pretentious claims -- that by listening to music, I'm learning about the history of humanity, human nature, mathematics, etc. Someone on a carousel might as well claim to be studying physics.

I would never in a million years claim that music is as valuable as philosophy or science. Music simply conveys no truths, except the most trivial truths: about itself, the composer, or (in a limited way) the times he lived in. Whatever Einstein might have said, Mozart is not his equal.

It's all good and well if you use music as a tool for achieving certain beneficial mental states, akin to wine or physical exercise. But spending a large chunk of your time studying classical works, composers, etc. is a horrendous waste of time, unless you are a composer yourself. It's like studying 17-century Russian iconography or the cuisine of medieval France. Pure intellectual masturbation. There are so many unsolved problems in this world that spending your mental energy on things with no practical significance is a criminal waste of intellectual resources.
The Third & The Seventh (100% CGI)
Will Dojo Toolkit work for touch devices?
Do you have a personal limit on what you would tolerate? What tax rate might prompt you to avoid the taxes, for example by moving?
Its funny how you never hear about anyone arguing for gender equality when it comes to death row or homelessness or psych wards or menial physical labor.
You need the pick your homeless person carefully if you do this. There's a nontrivial chance it will result in verbal harassment and/or a confrontation.
You have to wonder how well they really understood their customers

A quote comes to mind: "You are not your target market". This is as true of women selling to women as it is for men selling to women.

Those companies in the 50's and 60's you refer to probably did perfectly well for themselves as long as they were listening to (and learning from) their customers.
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