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You'll find what you are describing as entitlement in every generation in history, usually present in its most outstanding members. It's not new to today's youth, and it's not the negative trait that you are framing it as.

When viewed favorably, it is persistence or focus or determination or courage. Take a look at any "keys to entrepreneurship" article or any book on sales success (and probably journalism as well).

What she's lacking here is tactics, charm, and experience. From what can be seen in this article, at least, her problem has nothing to do with any fundamental character defect and even less to do with a unique aspect of this generation.
The existence of post-paid services seems to have no direct bearing on whether pre-paid services, like Zipcar, should feel entitled to rapidly go ape on your credit rating when the funding source disappears.
That focus shows too, I literally can't walk past them without stopping in for a cup. The baristas know me by name. Even after a two week absence due to traveling they still had my order brewing as I walked through the door and ready immediately after I paid.
If it's a top 10 school then do it. You can get a job anytime, but the window on grad school shuts quickly. If you don't like it after 2-3 years, take an MS and quit. Grad school is fun.
Probably not. I bet Steve Jobs could punch an average iPhone user in the face and that user would not cancel his iPhone contract or stop buying stuff from iTunes.

People love Apple.
A "renaissance man" now is a dilettante. In Jefferson's day it meant having both broad and deep knowledge.

One could argue that the advances of science have made this impossible in modern times but I disagree.

I believe you're being too fast to dismiss that argument. As is pointed out in http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html, from Jefferson's day to relatively recently, the output in scientific journals increased 10-fold every 50 years.

In Jefferson's day it was truly possible to learn what was known about all fields of science, and keep up with them all. Your knowledge could be broad and deep. But based on the sheer increase of volume, this soon became impossible. Today there are over 100,000 journals devoted to scientific research. Even if you read one page per second, every second, day and night, you would not even be scratching the surface of what is being produced.

Regurgitating the fractured work of others isn't intelligence. Applying this information as a tool to advance oneself and the human good is the goal of education. Applying this information as a tool to advance oneself and the human good is the goal of education.

This is a strong argument, but not necessarily for the point you are trying to make. Your argument leads to the point that we don't want students to just memorize random facts and regurgitate them. It does not lead to the point that it is possible to have both deep and broad knowledge about all fields.

The challenge is that, thanks to the advances of science, today we both have more subjects to learn about (the "broad" is broader) and we know about them in more depth (the "deep" is deeper). This has made the ideal of having both broad and deep knowledge much, much harder. Hard enough that most conclude it is simply impossible.
I'm working on a project that, if marketed properly, will leave Facebook biting the dust.

;)
especially given that two of these conditions (type 1 diabetes and autism) often develop before children start eating grains

Grains are a staple in most baby formulas.

http://www.gerber.com/SupportedSitter/Products/Cereal_with_D...
I like how it changes the dimension. But converting to PNG is massively increasing the file size?

"Original file was: 137724 bytes
Transmitted size was: 844176 bytes (due to base64)
New file is: 633131 bytes"
It has always seemed to me that if the work is good then it doesn't need sugar on top. What one wants is hard, interesting problems to solve and great people to work with. Once you have that, work is more fun than "fun".

Edit: But I have to say something about that asinine first paragraph. First, judging history by recent television dramas? He's joking, right? Second, the corporate culture of the early 1960s was notoriously soul-destroying and its loss is nothing to moan about.
Looking at your resume, you've got decent experience with both undergraduate research, TA'ing, small companies and a large company. I had similar experiences at CMU when I went there (for ChemE, not CS), and I decided that entering industry (in 99, a great year to get hired) was better. If I'd graduated in 2001 or 2002, I'd probably have stayed in grad school. How is recruiting looking at CMU this year? Do you have solid job offers already? Does the professor you've been doing research with have any suggestions about where to apply to grad school?

A friend of mine graduated with a CS PhD last year, and he just took an interesting job working on the key algorithms behind one of the "big names" in tech today. But other opportunities he was offered were the same as he would have gotten with 10 years of software development experience.

I'll also say this - if you don't get your PhD now, it's a lot harder to go back and do it when you have a mortgage and other commitments.
If you think you might want to teach, go for the Ph.D. now. You're at CMU and doing research (from your comments), so you can get some recommendations and possibly basically direct placement into top-tier schools. That opportunity goes away with years, as does the ability to live on ~22k/year.

If you want to work on the more researchy problems while in industry, also consider the Ph.D. Even the Master's is just a "quick pay grade upgrade" but won't get you into the research labs at MSFT, etc. You'll be just another hacker, albeit one with one additional line on their cv. Most of the graduate students I meet (in Computer Science) have no interest in being professors -- they mostly want to work in research labs or use the Ph.D. as a leg-up towards a CTO job.

If you don't care about either of those, go into industry.
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Both options are great options. Obviously, either way can further your career, so you should be asking which is a better fit for you.

For example, ask yourself - would you enjoy doing a PhD? If you wouldn't have fun, then don't do it. A second question is - what careers would make you happiest later on? If those careers don't require a PhD, then consider not doing one.

Also: Are there multiple CS research topics that would interest you? Are you self-motivated and good at working on long-term projects? Are you happier implementing things or thinking about how to implement things?
What is the FF extension called that lets you type to search the addons you have and also lets you see a text list of all the addons you have (enabled and disabled). I used to have it but I switched computers...
More harmful than the "Haskell shell"? ;) http://code.haskell.org/shsh/

And I imagine a BF shell ( http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/ ) would be pretty bad. Unfortunately, I can't find one.
Maybe you should be directing your anger at Apple for implementing the quick-but-harmful viewport hack in the first place.
hi Lachy - let me know what you're working on (if it's not too late). I don't believe we've ever received any correspondence from you.

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3rd shift workers have increased mortality\risk of cancer, largely due to Vitamin D deficiency. I agree Jefferson's statement is accurate.

Nowadays we know vitamin D exists so you can take a supplement or consciously eat certain foods (oily fish such as sardines http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/01/alton-browns-sardine-avoc...)
I couldn't disagree more. I recently had a similar issue. If a company cares about its customers it should:

1. Email them 3-7 days prior to an auto-renewal to tell you it will be renewed if you do nothing;

2. Simply cancel the account if an auto-renewal fails emailing the customer to tell them why. Ideally it will go inactive for a period (eg 7 days) in case it's unintentional;

3. Give a no fuss refund within 7 days of an auto-renewal if the service hasn't been used in that time; and

4. Allow easy deletion of an account (not simply inactive ie it's about data retention).

Stories like this are good to publicly shame companies for putting short term interests (the money made from auto-renewal grifting) ahead of customer satisfaction, which is ultimately to their detriment.

Still... not sure why this is on HN.
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Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose, that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you. Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

Talk to me when you set free the 600 humans that you own. Until then you can fuck off to your castle on the hill and invent silly gadgets, and study plants while your farm loses money every year until your death.
I'm really excited about the sequel. I read "A Fire Upon the Deep" only a year or two ago. Amazing book. Not sure where he'll go from the end of it but should be interesting.
New Vinge, new Richard Morgan and maybe new Neal Stephenson (depending on how you count The Mongoloid) all in 2011.

The Morgan & Stephenson books might be fantasy and historical fiction (?), but if everything lives up to its promise this could be the best year for SciFi/Fantasy since 2000, when Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" beat Stephenson "Cryptonomicon" for the Hugo Award.
Oh foo! I kept putting off buying some of my favourites because I was too busy and didn't want to get distracted.

Wow.
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Anyone would like to explain why stuff like this is not automatically tested? Introducing tests into the kernel source tree would actually help its development and prevent incidents like this, wouldn't it?
Make sure to read "A Deepness in the Sky" first. It's a prequel to "A Fire Upon the Deep", and also a Hugo award winner.
Asynchronous data processing using Celery.
It would totally not be useful. When people are searching they are actively trying to find the answer to a question. They don't want to take extra time to comment. Consider:

1) Google's Experimental Search: http://www.google.com/experimental/a840e102.html. They tried making it the default behavior and no one used it.

2) Facebook: you already have a captive audience to ask for advice on non-timely questions.

3) Delicious: people already save and comment on their search results (the parts of the results they care enough about to keep around).

4) Springpad, Evernote, etc: bookmarklets & cross-platform apps let people save links, web pages, and just about anything else.

5) Instapaper, etc: save content for later.
It does absolutely have direct bearing on whether "opting not to provide services is the seller's prerogative" as the parent stated, when the services actually are under a formal contract and post-paid. The argument holds up for Zipcar but not any of his examples.
I would argue they can have equal merit, and correspondingly, they can have equal worthlessness as well. It really isn't the medium, per se.

For the record I'm a parent, but my kid is 2 and there's one in the oven, so like I said, no great font of wisdom, I've just been pondering the problem. But I do observe that one problem is that there is probably an unavoidable phase of consumption of "childish things". I played a lot of video games as a kid, but you know, I turned out alright, and looking back I can not honestly say that I would be in a very different place if I had instead been doing "worthwhile" things. In the excellent Hardy Boys story today on HN, adults go back and read their beloved books of their youth and discover they are tripe. Is there necessarily a way around that? I'd be surprised. You can't become a person of taste and discrimination without acquiring taste and discrimination and that necessarily entails a period during which you do not have taste and discrimination. Is there anybody who does not essentially "fritter away" their childhood? (Yes, but not very many, and even fewer of them do it by their own choice.) Do we not often feel sorry for those who have been forced to "not fritter" away their childhood, do we not often feel sorry for the 15 year old forced to play piano four hours a day, even if it produces spectacular results? Am I the only one who looks at the top-level gymnasts and feel a bit sorry for them?

But that's just more questions, not answers. I'm not convinced anyone really has answers. Who can prove that playing a lot of video games is actually a bad thing? People mostly just assume it without proof.
When did the MPAA or RIAA become a law enforcement agency? Also, who's lobbying/(bribing) senators to make laws?
Where I work is pretty fun, however, I feel like as a company/startup grows it becomes harder and harder to keep it fun.

Not in the sense it that it is no longer fun at all, but keeping the same "culture" fit with new team members is hard. Your companies "culture" is something that grows organically with early employees, but as you hire more people, eventually much of your company "culture" moves towards ritual, which while is intended to improve the culture it is less genuine.
Talk to me when you don't apply current political and social ideals to pre-industrial revolution America 200 years ago.
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The first time this happened:

"The company engages in regular “random acts of kindness”: workers form a noisy conga line and single out one of their colleagues for praise. The praisee then has to wear a silly hat for a week."

I would make it very clear it shouldn't happen again. If it did, I'd leave the company.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/

It's possible to do nuanced analysis of that era, Jefferson's beliefs, his treatment of his slaves relative to other slaveowners, the fact that he freed them on his death, and the things he wrote about in his letters to contemporaries - if you read his letters, he constantly questioned slavery and had misgivings about it, but it was the norm for the era.

You could make intelligent points about it. But you haven't done so. This "until then you can fuck off" is petty, it doesn't open anyone's mind - if you wanted to, you could put some thought into it and try to make a more nuanced, intelligent argument. Broadly condemning with profanity, no nuance, it doesn't change anyone's mind or enlighten anyone.
what does VA stand for?
Game publishers consider used sales the same as piracy.
The argument is weak re: DDOS(ing) the RIAA, you can listen any song for free on Youtube or Vevo either through your PC or through either iPhone app. Also YouTube's new artist playlist mix is awesome!

As for watching MPAA content check out YouTube as well. Tons of american tv shows can be found on youtube; better yet Justin.tv's entertainment section is awesome place to watch American TV shows for free! For me downloading is 2005, even if I did not have access to Hulu; youtube & justin.tv satisfy my prior bit torrenting.
Yeah this used to be pretty common, especially for schoolchildren for at least 100 years after Jefferson's time to "walk" home while hunting.
It can actually be very difficult to "walk away" from this style of shell in established Unix environments, which I know from experience. (And I would love to avoid tcsh, as I have my own list of grievances that go far beyond what was listed on that web page.)

For some reason -- and I've witnessed this multiple times -- there has been a tendency to use tcsh as a baseline, and then build stuff on top of it that lasts for years. After awhile, too many scripts assume they can simply "source" a csh-style file to set their environment variables and aliases. And administrators may not even offer standard login files for other shells (which is sad, considering that Bourne-style allows many more shells to work).

Pretty soon, your choices are to grudgingly use tcsh, where everything works as intended; or, to use a different shell, and see obscure problems from time to time because of missing settings.

So basically, nearly 15 years after this article, I can say that tcsh is alive and well in Unix environments and "can't" go anywhere if they were unfortunate enough to use it as a baseline. Technically there are ways forward, of course, but nothing ever seems "broken enough" in tcsh to warrant the effort to change it.
It's a movement I guess that is screaming for Hulu? Are most of those in this movement not in the US?

But again this the RIAA they are targeting as mentioned above any song you want to listen to is available on youtube through ur PC or their iPHone app.
I do think breadth and depth have expanded, but I think fundamentally less than the explosion in page count would suggest. There has also been a big decrease in signal-to-noise ratio, with a lot of crap published in journals, and not enough gardening work. IMO a much bigger proportion of scientific resources need to be put into survey articles, "recent advances in X" retrospectives, post-intro-level textbooks and tutorials, and even ideally some cross-field work, matching up equivalent/redundant ideas and harmonizing terminology. In academia at least, the incentives don't encourage that, though: even though a survey article is probably the single quickest way to have significant impact on a field (they're widely read, and you're forging the lens through which many subsequent people will view that field), they're not as well respected for advancement purposes as even very niche original research is.

As it is, tons of stuff keeps getting reinvented just because the state of the literature is so bad that you'll never find it, unless it was invented exactly in your sub-sub-specialty, or you serendipitously found it via a colleague who remarked that what you were doing sounded similar to something he once read.

The decline in scientists writing books also doesn't help. It used to be that prominent scientists would gather up their scattered papers and unify them into a magnum opus laying out their theories, or possibly a few different books, one on each major area they worked on. That sometimes happens, especially in areas like cosmology, but it's much less the norm than it was 100 years ago. Today it's quite common to just publish 200+ papers over your career and not really do any summarization of them, even though there is plenty that could often be done, since it's common for papers to supersede or overlap with previous ones.

Actually, on that front, it'd be a big win if scientists with lots of publications simply provided some sort of brief guide to them. Take the 50 papers on lasers, and provide an annotated bibliography explaining which papers are the important ones, which papers are obsolete or superseded, and which ones might be of particular interest to people working on particular topics. A few people do that, but many don't even separate their list of publications by topic, let alone provide a guide.

Or, shorter: There is a lot of stuff published, but it's terribly indexed and summarized, which I think is a bigger problem than the volume alone.
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Tintin is another example. Herge, the author, had a love/hate relationship with his detective character.
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Ask HN: Notepods no longer being sold.  Anything we can do?
I was attempting to re-order a set of Notepods, as I run an iOS development company, and to my dismay discovered that Apple had sent them a cease-and-desist letter and consequently were no longer being sold.

For the unintiated, Notepods were notepads designed for mocking up iPhone and iPad views. Front side had a basic iPhone/iPad view, back at grid lines for any notes or measurements you might want to add. They were beautifully manufactured, extremely useful, and had become indispensable to our business. Our clients remarked on them time and again, as we could do workflows so much quicker.

I've had a brief correspondence with the creator (which is an Australian company; mine is as well, so there's patriotic bias to this request), and while IANAL, I'm wondering how far one can push legal boundaries in this case.

To clarify, the issue is not with the name, but the general likeness. For a product which was designed to mockup iPhone/iPad views, being unlike an iPhone/iPad is not going to be useful to anyone.
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From the article - "I am not an entrepreneur, but I don’t think it’s that simple. Entrepreneurship is all about overcoming the odds."

Seems dangerous to read too much into what the author says until (s)he has actually gone through the experience they want to write about.
I understand the sentiment... but completely disagree.

_Rainbows End_ is less fun than his other novels, but it deals directly with near-future issues in a way that only a few other SF authors are doing well (Stross, Stephenson, recent Gibson, and who else?). It changed how I think---much more than did, eg, _A Deepness in the Sky_. In terms of relevance to the times, I'd rank it next to _True Names_.
> How would you line up the first set of businesses

Call prospective partner merchants and pitch them over the phone. If they seem open to the idea, set up an appointment to meet in person. Present, negotiate terms and get them to sign a contract. Take photos and write a blurb about the business. Rinse, repeat.

> How would you attract buying customers

Before launch, make the homepage a signup form. Chat up the social media channels. Launch when you have a big list (~10k) of email subscribers.
I created the Color ID app described by the user.

It's very rewarding to see that someone has found our app useful. The app was, in fact, originally intended for the (color) blind. It grew out of SS12: Code for a Cause ( http://ss12.info/ ), a coding competition where the goal is to create software for the disabled.

The whimsical color names made me think that the app would be less useful for the colorblind, as most people don't understand colors like "Cosmic" and "Hippie Green." So I thought the app would be mostly used as a toy; a fun way to see what the "color" of your friend's face is ("Tacao"!). But this blog post makes me realize that what started almost as an accident, actually ends up being pretty awesome ("a very psychedelic experience").

BTW, the app's name in the App Store is "Color Identifier". It appears as "Color ID" on your home screen. I'm certain he's talking about my app because mine is the only one (AFAICT) that reads color names aloud, and also contains all of the color names that he mentions in the blog post.

For those interested in the app, here's an affiliate link to see it in iTunes: http://bit.ly/CIDHaN (it's 99¢)

Let me know what you think. I love hearing from users of my apps :)
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You have my sympathy. (Two years managing an outsourcing operation in India working from specs Bablefished from Japanese. And being told by my Indians that my translations were wrong because Babelfish, Yahoo, and Google outvoted me. And having to justify to management why I was billing months of overtime to debugging in a project where a math error would be national news and where RC1 was delivered in a state where it was literally impossible to pass your test unless you were deaf...)