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Your comments on this submission have been excellent. Thank you.

Without starting everything up again, I'll just mention that the ability to pierce the veil depends some on which state you are set up in (pharma investors nearly insist on Deleware, FWIW).
It seems to be currently unavailable at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003P2QCE8/

Not seeing in my Kindle 3's store search either.
There are several big things you didn't mention, AI and neural networks, for example. You could also try robotics and engineering stuff (watching how a piece of silicon and metal becomes alive is priceless).
Sorry about the nitpick, but no, the LHC does not use antimatter. Both beams consist of protons (or heavy ions sometimes). Some of the accelerators at CERN, like the LEP (Large Electron Positron) Collider, do use antimatter, but the LHC does not.
This micro is not for smartphone, Marvell is not in that business.

Currently Marvell has the best micro's for Server class machine based on ARM (XScale) architecture, look at the Plug Computer (http://www.marvell.com/platforms/plug_computer/). This last micro, with three core is in the same family of the ones used in the Plug Computer (armada) and in the OpenRD reference platform (http://www.open-rd.org/); And none of this chip are in any smartphone.

Not for lack of computing power, but because they have a different target market (and different on-chip peripherals). Marvell's Armada SoC have Gigabit Ethernet and SATA interface on board... not exactly something you need on a smartphone (at least not on mine).
this video

Google container data center tour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRwPSFpLX8I

provide even more details on the cooling system etc.

and yep that's NOT an april fool
Can someone explain to me why I do not see isolated vertices in this graph? When I was in (Central Europe) high school, I recall that apart from me, there was considerable amount of people not involved in any kind of relationships, and even not counting them, many people used to have partners from other schools. Is it really like this in American high schools, or did the researchers just choose this way of presenting the results?
Sudhir, it looks nice. Can you please tell us more about it and how it can be useful to people?
I'm 45 and I think I giggled like a 5 year old when I first started using the Star Walk application on my iPad.
Does it matter? Disk space and ram are both cheap and plentiful.

That just sounds like promoting a culture of waste to me. "Do we need to care about resources?" "Nah, disk and RAM are cheap, and our users won't mind paying for more of it."

What happened to elegance, efficiency, and modular, maintainable design? Just because you have a shiny box with 8GB of RAM and a terabyte of space, it doesn't mean everyone does, or everyone should have to.

The difference in disk space or ram taken by apps on an average OSX desktop, and average Windows desktop, and an average Linux desktop seems to be negligible.

I'm not sure you can meaningfully make this comparison since the platforms (at least at the GUI level) are quite different. A better test would be to take a "standard" Linux system, and then create a "bundled" system that has each app in its own directory with all its dependencies bundled with it (perhaps leaving out some of the fundamental ones like libc). A little bit of common reasoning would suggest that memory and disk usage would be affected greatly.
Thanks for the correction. Upvoted.
Facebook started out excluding everyone who wasn't a college student, keeping it private without oldsters...then when it opened up, it kept things private so only your fiends could see.... Then, later, they made these private things public by default.

Facebook violated their privacy promise to me, and I will never forgive them for it. I'm only keeping my account around until I can complete deleting every piece of information I've put into it.
> For each online presence, I decide if it will be professional or personal, and then try to make sure they don't overlap.

Similar reasons; I usually try to have my not-directly-related presences separate from eachother to the extent that, for example, I use a different image hosting service for Twitter and the various discussion boards so that the latter cannot discover the former. Sometimes I let people know where to look, sometimes they find me by accident. The internet being what it is, it is possible to link the various presences but it is generally not feasible for a non-government entity.

The downside of this is that I lack and will lack an "established online presence" with its transient and overlapping benefits. Sometimes it would be nice to be known.
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I know hardly anything about proton beams. However, here's a thought experiment that's on my mind:

Instead of a beam of protons, lets think about something simpler: a reasonably high powered bullet. Instead of a 7m segmented carbon cylinder, lets have some slats of wood. So, in the same way as at the LHC, the bullet strikes the wooden slats, it deposits all of it's energy in the wooden slats, breaking them up and stopping the bullet.

I think that fits the use case of the beam dumps, where all the force of the beam gets dumped at once, and the important number is the total energy of the beam, since you want to totally stop it.

Now, the thought experiment: replace the wooden slats with single piece of paper. Now when the bullet strikes, it goes straight through - the mass of energy in the bullet mostly stays in the bullet, only enough energy to rip through a small circle in the paper gets dumped. The bullet will carry on it's merry way.

So, relative to the LHC beam, which is your hand more alike: the sheet of paper, or the slats of wood?

It's a simplistic model which ignores radiation from the beam, and lots of other things, but I think it's informative. My guess is that the beam would behave like a laser cutter: cutting a smallish hole, possibly with secondary damage, but largely powerful enough to carry on it's way once it has punched through.
I believe they omitted students who did not have sexual relationships.
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unless automated, not a scalable response pattern.
The article states that just over half were sexually active. So they must not be including celibate students.
Can't edit this now, of course, but as fjh pointed out elsewhere, I confused the details of the LHC for the LEP, partially. The LHC collides protons and sometimes lead nuclei; but at no point collides antiprotons.

Posting after midnight: Not always a good idea.
Some pretty interesting patterns there. One of the more interesting was that people who have had lots (5 or more) partners had tended towards 'unpopular' partners (zero or 1 other partners).

Also I wonder if 2 homosexual relationships (that I can see) is in any way accurate or due to embarrassment to admit such a thing even on an anonymous survey.
Well, is that not more an evolution then a revolution?
Welcome to the law of Diminishing returns. Your choices fundamentally boils down to the following:

-Take the blue pill. Stay in wonderland. Pick a technology, any technology. Drive yourself into it deeper. The rabbit hole goes much, much further, than you can imagine.

-Take the red pill, and wake up: the rabbit hole goes the other way, too. On first basis, you have the ever-exploding number of scientific disciplines ( http://www.turtlshel.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/43056172... ). Even further, society isn't merely a collection of engineers, and scientist: other people have all kind of different jobs.

Furthermore, they are equally convinced, that their field of choice was the right one; and from their own perspective each one of them was right.

Since you're HN, you might have a particular interest towards this field we call "business". Now, this is not what people around you -who are called "managers" btw- do. A good working definition for engineers is: Business is the ability to actualize a job that needs to be done, on which you're retroactively hired (or fired) by society as a whole. Or, as PG put it: doing stuff what people wants.

Regardless of how you choose, a good partition of it is going to be soul-searching. There are 2 pieces of media I'd strongly recommend for that:

-Randy Pausch Last Lecture [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo], and

-wishcraft, which is a short book, available freely from http://wishcraft.com/.

On an ending note, I feel for you. Every time I've been down to this alley, I always always wished I'd have done it earlier. If anything, you should know this: the direction of your life does not boil down to singular moments, as you've described in your initial post. It's something that must must must be constantly evaluated, and course-corrected based on any new piece of life-data you happen to stumble across. And it's never to late to change things.
Living in a capitalist world is frustrating but not redeemable in the near future.

What do you do, other than computers? A "hobby" may seem like a lame suggestion but in reality, hobbies is all we have apart from people (and those are harder to come by).
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Try to think of how computers and software could make things better and work on that. I don't mean how they could look cooler or play games faster, but how they could help social progress or enable revolution or democracy in the third world or how they could pull people out of poverty and death.
Teenagers have sex. Who knew.

The interesting part to me is that if you look at individual students in the big group, most have only 1-3 relationships. They just so happen to link up into a massive web.
I meant the graph linked in the adjacent comment:
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chainspix.htm
The description states that it presents romantic connections, not the sexual ones. However, rereading the article makes me think that they did not take single students into account when creating this graph.
Shutting up has nothing to do with karma. You should shut up if you have nothing to say. In response, your karma won't take a hit for saying stupid or pointless things, but the karma is not the -reason-. It is a symptom.

That's why karma exists. It shows the people who consistently have things to say, versus those who just yammer on to hear their own voice.

And that's why downvotes are necessary. If someone says interesting things occasionally, and never says pointless things, they add to the signal (rather than noise). If someone says just as many interesting things, but 100x as many pointless things, their karma would look exactly the same as the person who only added signal. Downvotes are the only way to distinguish those 2 people.
The CPI is not inflation, it is government propaganda. Even it has shown %20 inflation in recent years if you read the report and do the math, rather than listen to the talking heads on CNN.
Impossible to have monetary deflation when the money supply is expanding.
The article said it was in a small town where the second nearest high school would be more than an hour away. Therefore the only 'legal' relationship they could have with people close enough were in Jefferson High School.
Of McClure...

"his blog uses font colors like it’s 1998 Geocities all over again. He Twitters without an internal editor. And he laces his stage performances with expletives as if he were a pirate."

Should be quite amusing on Monday.
> Do you remember how the founders of [...] NewsTilt were viciously shredded by an angry mob, right here on HN? No?

Well, actually this happened. It was tempered by lots of people being nice, offering condolences, giving good insights, a few job offers, and even some people looking to start up companies together, but lets not pretend the mob didn't come out with their tar and feathers.

That said, I fully agree with the sentiment. Failure is perfectly acceptable, a natural occurrence in a risk-taking industry.
Gold will be in a bubble when my mentioning it doesn't always produdpce someone like you saying it is in a bubble.

Bonds are a massive bubble that has expanded since 2008 enormously. Rates are at historical lows and the amount of new issuance is at historical highs.

You'll forget about it when it happens, but the next bubble to burst, by 2012, will be the bond bubble. The rest of the world can only buy so much, the fed is printing and buying it's own auctions under the table, and when interest rates have to rise to try and make them attractively, current bonds will crash, most of which are short term and the government is surviving by rolling them over every couple of months...... It's a massive cluster fuck just waiting to happen..... Actually, now that i think about it, I need to figure out a way to short bonds with leverage. Maybe put options on a bond ETF?
It seems somewhat obvious that sooner than later all code will be written in this (or a similar) way.

LtU is just outright adorable sometimes.
> The Open Source revolution seems to be over; [...] And it seems that the children of the revolution turned the gold to chrome, scrambling to squeeze a buck out of anything a buck can be squeezed out of. Instead of the free sharing of ideas I grew up with, I'm encountering more and more the attitude of a guarded sharing of general topics, but the real knowledge and experience seems to be held back because it has to be regarded as a personal asset that might be used to turn a profit somewhere.

Too true. Some of the newer "open source" projects seem to be run by suits posing as geeks, where the source is open, eventually, but nothing else.
Has anyone used bitcoin? I'm not sure how scalable it is, but it's very handy for online payments (peer to peer, no fees, etc etc)...
Though I do not have any statistics and I am not familiar with American high school culture, I believe that not many homosexuals are romantically/sexually active in high school. People in this age are still discovering these things, and I don't think that most of the homosexuals fully realize what their orientation is like. Even if they do, actively seeking partner is looking for trouble in high school reality -- children and teenagers are so cruel towards people different from them. I did not know of any of my school acquaintances to be homosexual, and the possibility of all of them being straight is kind of odd, considering the percentage of homosexuals in society.
Stock investing takes maybe 20 hours a year of time. Meanwhile, those bank CDs are going to not let you keep pace with inflation.... If You had used bank CDs anytime in the last decade you would have lost money in real terms.

I am amazed that people are so ignorant of history that this kind of dumb ass advice gets offered and people think it is so wise, and of course the dumbasses who know nothing of investing or economics mod it up.

Reminds me of the responses I've gotten in the past when I tried to share how much success I was having investing myself-- was told that it was better to leave it up to a broker or fund manager because "I'm and expert bin programming ,they are experts in finance". I was shocked that people were proud of their ignorance.
Oh, thank you, I must have missed it.
I understand why they wouldn't allow it for competitive reasons, but being able to view others' code seems like it would be a great way to learn.
Most commonly, it would be in
/opt/awesomeapp/lib
(and the binaries in /opt/awesomeapp/bin)

See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICA...

That's, more or less, what /opt is supposed to be. QT and KDE used to be "integrated" that way, until distros finally got around to put them into /usr. So, there really is a standardize mechanisms with those uncommunicative packages in the FHS. (Note that the Unix family as a whole does not standardize filesystem layout, even though Solaris also has /opt and uses it for exotic packages such as GNU gcc).
I refuse to believe in imaginary property.
I have dealt with fraud prevention for non-physical goods both with PayPal and a merchant account. It's a small start-up, annual web orders of $1m, average purchase price of $16.50.

We were hit pretty hard with fraud (when we first started, Aug/Sept 09) but we now have it down around 0.5%.

I know you don't want a commercial offering but we had great success with maxmind (http://www.maxmind.com/app/ccfd_features) it costs about $0.015 per order.

Here is how we did it... We tested every order through maxmind and using the fraud score we divided them in to three groups, low, medium and high risk.

* Low risk orders were fulfilled as normal.
* Medium risk orders had to do an automated telephone verification (we used twillo for the calls, we mapped distances from area code to billing address and rejected voip numbers).
* High risk orders required one of our support staff to call and confirm the order.

Recommended reading:
http://www.detectmalice.com/

However, I don't think stolen cards will be your main issue. Unless you have tracking numbers for all your shipped orders people are going to open claims with PayPal. PayPal always favor buyer and you will find people abusing the system. Be prepared for a lot of "Not as Described" claims because the item didn't match the users expectations. This isn't a one off, this happens often.
Totally agree with @fookyong.

Don't build in the evening (unless you're single, then have at it). After a long day of work, working more is the last thing I want to do. The wife and kids need some attention.

Go to bed early (10pm-ish) with the fam then get up early. I get up at 5am every morning. Your mind is fresh and invigorated. I find in the early hours of the morning I'm very productive, I think clearer and my wife isn't bugging me to come to bed every 15 minutes.

This is how I handle freelance and personal projects on top of the full-time job. It gives me an extra 3 hours a day without wearing me out.
Found that. Didn't think this was the joke.
Thanks for the shout out Kilian. The blurb was awesome! Still one of the highest re open rates so far. :)
That first observation is really interesting!

I think the homosexual numbers are accurate, at least for the guys. The gay high school students I knew seemed to be more actively engaged with older men.
These 2 phrases:

"Instead of the free sharing of ideas...I'm encountering more and more the attitude of a guarded sharing...the real knowledge and experience seems to be held back because it...might be used to turn a profit somewhere"

and

"Todays big topics leave me pretty much unenthused"

I hear a lack of motivation, not for technology, but for the specific purposes to which technology is being put- squeezing a buck out of things.

But you're mistaking the impact that incentive structure has on your motivation for a lack of motivation about the technology itself. It doesn't work that way.

I suggest finding a way to spend time with organizations that have a different incentive structure. Find someone you know and talk to them about how they use technology. It wasn't entirely deliberate, but looking back, I can say I found a way forward when I started working with non-profits and helping at schools.

It takes a little while, but being around people who have a non-financial mission, and then being able to deploy what are still in those areas incredibly useful and rare technical skills- this feeds the motivation engine.

Making money is really important, and it's very visible; the context in which the work happens is invisible, but it's even more important.

So- it may take some time and thinking, but I would advise- stop thinking about the details of the sausage. Server side, client side, mobile, whatever- it's all just sausage.

Think about purpose and incentive structures.

The note you wrote is evidence that this matters to you, and that, like a vitamin deficiency, you're missing the motivation that comes from a different sort of incentive structure.

I would also respectfully disagree about the open source revolution being over. For technical, social, economic reasons, looking at the trend lines, it is very far from over. Open source, free software- this lives in and feeds an ecosystem that is not about making a buck, and there are healthy and growing areas in which these incentives are dominant. That OSS and FS can be consumed by other ecosystems- that's fine, the world as a whole is healthier when you have a balance of both. This is precisely why FS licenses are written as they are- the act of creating a tool to a certain degree has to be agnostic about the uses to which the tool will be put. But OSS and FS are still growing, and gifts are everywhere being created.

Good luck.
Unfortunately Anti-trust action is often used to drag companies into the unholy Congressional Lobbying racket.That's the way it worked out with Microsoft. Google's lobbying budget seems to scale with it's size so maybe it will escape serious action.
Sudhirj,

I really like the 37signals-esque appearance you gave it.

Please email me... I have a few ideas I'd like to share with you privately.
There is Netduino: http://netduino.com/

I think it's worth having a bash in a lower-level language too, though. You'll notice the Netduino is a 48MHz ARM7 with 60K of RAM and 128K of Flash. By contrast, the Arduino Duemilanove is a 16MHz processor with 16K of Flash and 1K of RAM -- a far lower-specced chip, and very cheap (couple of dollars). Writing code in C (or Wiring, or whatever) for such tight constraints is part of the fun in my opinion.

Edit: The BASIC Stamp is also really popular: http://www.parallax.com/tabid/295/Default.aspx
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It might also be that their cost for Hitachi drives is enough to offset any higher failure rate they may have. Could go either way on that front, really.
This is good advice, the problem is that you are suffering burn out. !0 years sounds about right. You need to get back to your roots and one way I recommend to do it, is to get into embedded. It gets you back into a small reward loop where little things net positive feedback. The other thing that I recommend to people is get closer to a research discipline. If you are really that burnt out, try applying your trade to a secondary science that you are interested in, chemistry, Bio-Engineering, astronomy something like that. There are a lot of cool projects that need help with code.