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Hamburger Casserole Recipes FTW (lessons learned: ebook publishing)
Rock on, seriously, rock on!
If by hacking project, you mean, "writing my senior thesis," then yes!

And if by "writing my senior thesis," you mean, going onto HN instead, then double-yes!
One of the things that irritates me to no end is browsing the app store on my device and wondering if I've bought an app I'm looking at (and deleted it or not installed it on that device). Knowing if I really am buying an app or not would be nice.

A list like this might be helpful, but I suppose I could also just store `ls ~/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications` in Simplenote to get about the same functionality.
Thanks for reminding me of tup again. I read about it earlier, and had always meant to go back to it and give it a try.

And I wonder whether we can make a version of git that uses inotify.

If he's willing to endure a long-lived server process, he can probably have no-op builds with a tup-like system in less than a few milliseconds. (Basically as long as it takes to run through a single `if' and return to the shell; since no news is good news.)
Though it's no reason to move to Pennsylvania, PPL Electric there adopted a stunningly usable online billing system a few years ago. No idea how that happened, and as I don't live in NE Penn. I can't provide a screenshot.

Ironically (for the original poster), PPL's owner operates a UK utility.
Having read up a bit more on ZeroMQ, I have to ask:
How is this, if at all, superior to, say, MPI[1]?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface
More power to him. When I was young and skinny, I started noticing effects at a sustained 60 miles/week.

I really don't think he's setting a dangerous example, because most people trying to emulate him would find that something gives--joint, muscle, whatever--before it got to the point of danger.
In Wisconsin it is sacrilegious to not watch a Packer game; that said I am still on HN.
Installing fine from a USB stick here. I grabbed CD1 of the X64 discs, and copied to USB using dd:

dd if=/path/to/thedebian.iso of=/path/to/usbstick/device

(replacing the if and of with your paths of course -- note: all data on the usb stick will be erased, and make sure you've picked the right device!)
Don't forget about skin cancer </seinfeld>
Why choose? :)

I am watching the game (Packers just scored) while working on a hobby game project.
That's good; a reminder in general: it's a serious crime in the USA to bribe foreign officials: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
Define "hacking" and "project" please.
Well, I'm doing something with PHP and CSS. Does it count?
http://alcor.org/AboutCryonics/index.html
Another use is for obtaining an async redis connection using async http frameworks that may not include a redis client, e.g. tornado. I'm doing something like this at the moment using tornado's async http client talking to a nodejs http server that is basically proxy'ing some simple redis commands.
I'm in the home office with a hot cup of Casi Cielo working in the bowels of CoreText and Quartz for a huge feature update to my iPhone/iPad app. When I need an eyeball break, I walk into the living room to see if I can catch a cool commercial)
George W Bush Cancels Visit To Switzerland Over Fears He Could Be Arrested
Doing both is certainly not difficult, football games feature a lot of downtime.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870428120457500...
Chromium still uses a gnu make based build system. He did this "for fun" to investigate a potentially faster way. I am very envious, my "for fun" activities never result in something so cool.
...is that today?

I've been busy hacking for weeks, didn't even notice.
I've often thought the same. I've no yearning for an afterlife - I am more than willing to accept that once I'm dead, I'm gone. I also have no problem facing my own death - it'll happen when it happens. I certainly don't want to be immortal - that would be one of the most boring things ever, and would completely devalue my relationship with everyone I've met (especially loved ones). I can't however shake this desire to see where we are as a race in 200/2000/20,000 years. I guess all I can do is aim to at least contribute something towards the positive advancement of our race.
You explicitly talked about contemplating ways to make your suicide look accidental as to allow your family to collect the insurance benefits. i.e. insurance fraud.
Working on my site so i can launch my freelance web design & UX business!

Time to get back to wrestling with the CSS, which isn't always easy for us right-brained types :)
Oh really? Look at the best-selling investing books on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Investing-Business-Books/b/ref=bw_ab_3...
Original source: http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
Perhaps "entropy inaction" would be more fitting.
"We have this nifty thing called the Internet now"

I accept your criticism of my comment (in support of living in areas beyond your means), but that's unnecessarily snarky, sir.
Is it bad, that I simply SSH into the server and do a "git pull"?
I am. Playing around with Google App Engine and Honeycomb at the same time, making some tools for tabletop gaming. Just uploaded first revision (very feature incomplete) at https://github.com/cgranade/ProjectUmbra/.
http://www.edge.org/documents/kahneman_master/pages/Session....

The guest list is ri-di-cu-lous. Tens of billions of dollars and 2500 IQ points sitting around a table.
The super bowl isn't going to code my start-up project for me!
I've looked at thousands of resumes over the years. All I care about is What You Know and What You Did. I can see both pretty clearly from your resume. The rest is just noise (to me).

If I was looking for guy to write primarily Python or C in a Unix environment I would definitely follow up with a request for code samples and a phone screen.
"The country they're in may have laws against this very thing."

Why not tell us the country and what laws there are?

The reality is that anyone can create any web page they want, and you'll never be able to find them. You need to figure out some other strategy to manage your identity, like advertising to your fanbase what your real Facebook profile is.

Personally, when I see something on the Internet (social profile or otherwise), I usually assume it's fake. It boggles my mind that other people don't do this. And that's the real problem.
I had no idea the super bowl was on today. Or this month...
Tried it. Unfortunately, it slowed things down to the point of being usuable. In particular, it seemed to cause endless thrashing as (All In One) Sidebar tried to display favicons in the Bookmark Manager and Scrapbook.
I've always tried for at least 15% raise each move [1]. If you are desperate, they'll figure it out and lowball you. The last 3 jobs have been 50%, 50% and 33% raises. Confidence does sell, but you also have to produce your value [2]. I'm not at the top of my pay-band for folks of my age and experience, but I am slightly above median for Denver.

2000 and 2001 were terrible years for developers. You'll hear them described as all sorts of terms, including "dotBomb." It took me 8 years to get my salary back to the same dollar amount I was making in 2000. And that 8 year period included 2 years I was out of work (23 months spread over 3 gaps).

There is a saying that goes "make hay while the sun shines." Aside from the obvious agricultural meaning, it also means that you should make as much as you can during the rich years, and put some aside for the lean years [3].

My estimation is that there are really 2 job pools. One for junior level skills and one for senior level skills. There is a large gap in salaries. When execs and politicians whine about a shortage of experienced workers [4], they're complaining that the senior pool is too expensive. However, all their options of making colleges produce more workers, or opening the visa flood gates will only serve to increase the quantity of folks in the junior pool. It takes time, training and effort to move yourself from the junior pool to the senior pool. But it will be up to you - no company will do it for you, and indeed, with the constant demand for workers who can "hit the ground running" that shows that companies want the benefit of the senior pool without contributing to the succession from the junior pool.

Notes:

1 - Companies who ask what you are making now will usually try to limit you to 10-15% raises with your new position. Part of this is a cultural dislike for people moving up too fast. Victorian literature was full of tales of people who tried to move to another "station in life" and were found out then sent back to the lower classes they came from. This is the sort of mentality you'll find during interviews.

2 - Confidence will get you in the door, but you have to get work done to keep your job.

3 - This is not limited to retirement savings. By age 28-30, you should have about 6 months income saved up for the times when you will be out of work. By 35, you should have more like 12 months saved up. That is your lifeboat and the only way you can survive the ups and downs of the industry. Developers over 40 who get laid off can find it takes 6-12 months to get a replacement job.

4 - Mostly they want protection from the free market, but usually what's happening is that they think they need senior level workers but are only willing to pay junior level wages. So they want some sort of bailout from the government.
What if most civilisations either destroy themselves or are wiped out by a comet or changing star conditions or an irregular orbit, or any number of things. If life truly does take as much time to become intelligent enough to actually tackle space travel there is a lot that can go wrong in the 4 billion year interim. Plus that requirement rules out a great number of stars which don't live long enough.

Even our civilisation, any number of things could still go wrong before we are able to explore the universe.

I wouldn't be surprised if we find a decent amount of life of the single cell variety. There is also the possibility of a civilisation far older than ours that never really got going on the intelligence path, or are lacking a good supply or certain base materials to really get going.
Sample bias. How many people are surfing HN at the same time as watching tv.
Cool! .. and all this discussion reminds of a line from Calvin and Hobbes - "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
I just wonder how the refresh rate of an eInk display would affect the writing experience...is it going to refresh on every pen stroke or is there a creative solution to that problem that I'm not thinking of?
I'm extremely dubious of a metric that claims JavaScript and Delphi have the same market penetration.
That's true but out of all times in history for advancement this may be one of the most interesting to live in. We have developed a global communications and information distribution network, this hasn't been there in the past and you would expect something similar to be present for the rest of all time.
Of course this also works with bases other than two for your underlying number system. Or with mixed approaches.

In general, there's no known algorithm for finding x^n with the fewest numbers of multiplications in time polynomial in O(log n), i.e. the size of the representation of n.

(I can't remember whether the problem was (co-)NP complete, or even how to construct the certificate to proof that the problem is in NP or perhaps co-NP. Though I'd bet on it being in NP.)

And then you can also think about balancing the number of multiplications and the number of intermediate results you have to store.
Don't support objectifying women? Boycott GoDaddy.
You've seen their commercials. They just ran another one, as disgusting as they always are.

Don't give them your money.
The only competition going on that I'm aware of is a three-way match-up between python, javascript, and my brain.
Let Me Show You My Beautiful Family
"Accidentally"

It's funny when unintended changes and mistakes lead to better conversions. An example that comes to mind was PlentyOfFish's poorly resized images leading to higher profile clickthroughs since people wanted to see the images with correct aspect ratios.
Gawker Considered Stupid – Criminally Stupid
low chance of contracting a disease

EX: Just the M in MMR prevents ~1/2 million people from getting sick each and every year. The benefit of measles vaccination in preventing illness, disability, and death has been well-documented. The first 20 years of licensed measles vaccination in the U.S. prevented an estimated 52 million cases of the disease, 17,400 cases of mental retardation, and 5,200 deaths.[10] During 1999–2004, a strategy led by the World Health Organization and UNICEF led to improvements in measles vaccination coverage that averted an estimated 1.4 million measles deaths worldwide.[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Measles_US_1944-2007_inset...

Vaccinations prevent well over 50,000 deaths per year in the US alone along with a large number of vary serious side effects. On an individual basis the lifetime chance of infection is still higher than you might think and only increases as more people avoid vaccination. If we where talking about an adult taking the risks for themselves that's one things, but we are talking about making the choice for someone else as well increasing the overall risk to society.
Not watching the super bowl to write python for my PhD project, but instead checking HN.
Ryukyuan languages
This title is disingenuous at best, like saying that Oracle has forked MariaDB or that Debian forked Ubuntu.
Wikipedia says the stellar disc of the Milky Way is 1,000 light-years thick and cites http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980317b.... . The core is thicker. Even the image on the page you linked to shows an object that is much thicker than a piece of paper.
no , i did not. most insurance policies actually allow for suicide after a year. The real reason for making it look accidental is for effect on daughters. its an insane way to look at it (any discussion of suicide is insane but this was 10 years ago) but thats the way it was.
Good / bad are relative terms. Neither situation would be recommended for a site with a code base that pulls from multiple resources / pushes to multiple servers on every release, but for a single server environment this could suffice.

As for the difference b/w your method and the OPs, he defines it here :

> This is more convenient than defining your workstation as a remote on the server, and running "git pull" by hand or from a cron job, and it doesn't require your workstation to be accessible by ssh.
Can I use git to manage a Drupal-managed website?
I'm tutoring a compsci student. Does that count?
I'm just telling you the facts on my books. My most expensive one was the one that sold the best. For high-end finance books price-point doesn't matter as much (one successful trade makes up for it, 100x).
My bowl game happens to be between Postgre and MySQL. My development environment MySQL instance and Heroku's Postgre are very different with aggregate functions.

i.e. How can I possibly select parent rows where ALL children match a certain criteria.
Too bad they weren't able to use Jooplicate to show you the exact holding page they were seeing, with Jooplicate being down and all. (Who Jooplicates Jooplicate? ;P)
I've been working on finally beating zelda 2 on virtual console, catching up on client work and thinking about my next move with the TryAPL (https://github.com/shaunxcode/TryAPL) project I've been hacking on.
I think last year I just took a nap on the couch and let the touchdowns wake me up.
Please read `Burning the Cosmic Commons: Evolutionary Strategies for Interstellar Colonization' (http://hanson.gmu.edu/filluniv.pdf) from the wonderful collection `The Economics of Science Fiction' (http://hanson.gmu.edu/econofsf.html).

The paper provides an explanation for us not having seen those probes that still allows other civilizations to exist. From the abstract:

"Attempts to model interstellar colonization may seem hopelessly compromised by uncertainties regarding the technologies and preferences of advanced civilizations. If light speed limits travel speeds, however, then a selection effect may eventually determine frontier behavior. Making weak assumptions about colonization technology, we use this selection effect to predict colonists' behavior, including which oases they colonize, how long they stay there, how many seeds they then launch, how fast and far those seeds fly, and how behavior changes with increasing congestion. This colonization model explains several astrophysical puzzles, predicting lone oases like ours, amid large quiet regions with vast unused resources."
Dungeon Keeper 3
me -- social hacking rather than code, but still ...

http://bit.ly/no2hr514
My old boss was a lot like this. It turned into incredibly narrow tunnel-vision, which ended up sucking anything creative/fun from the company.

You really need social interaction, and interaction that isn't related to work to succeed.
As we add increasing amounts of software and microchips into the world around us, are we setting ourselves up for a future in which 1-in-a-million false positives / negatives end up happening in various systems several times a day?

Sorry, this microwave cannot heat this product, the explosive-density-detector has triggered the security block

(Now that I think about it, this mirrors my real world computing experience right now - endlessly pestered by false matches and ineffective checks. File downloads blocked by mime type, by browser, by file extension, file opening blocked by extension, program install blocked by UAC, program running blocked by inaccessible internet, file copy blocked by "unspecified security flaw"...)
What about the bending of space for an instant travel time? That's more of an unknown in terms of possibility from what I have read.
Oh please... spare us the righteous indignation over the "war of the sexes." The various diamond retailers - who run commercials insinuating that a man's value to his (wife|fiancee|girlfriend) is based on the kind of diamond he buys her - are just as "disgusting" as Godaddy... but where's the outrage over that?

Godaddy is a fair domain registrar with relatively cheap prices... they get my business because they do what I need them to do, for a reasonable price, no more, no less.
That's a good point. There are times when you might have to work a crazy week, but that an burn you out very quickly if it goes unchecked.
I don't think I've hit the top, but I've been on the front page of Hacker News 3 times in the past 4 days. I really should start writing about these things...
Wow (created: 1234 days ago) yet I am still happy to be here. 
Just wanted to say thanks. HN is still one a great place even after all this time.
The fact that the solar system has sat around for 4 billion years without being eaten by Von Neumann machines makes me pretty certain that we're alone.

That's quite a leap you're making. One very strong counterargument boils down to simple economics: where's the profit motive in building a fleet of von Neumann probes to 'eat' every solar system in the galaxy? Who is going to pay for this effort, and what returns do they expect?

If it takes a million years to colonize a galaxy, then unless you plan to live for two million years you aren't going to see the full fruits of your effort.

As a race our attention span seems to be narrowing. As far as I can tell, despite or perhaps because of recent advances in applied science, we're actually losing our propensity to engage in multidecade R&D projects. The next LHC-scale project is going to be an almost impossible thing to sell to the governments that will have to agree to finance it, and it would take years for us to return to the Moon if our survival depended on it. We are most definitely not moving in a direction that will lead to the sort of expansionism you're talking about.

Edit: here's another thing, with regard to the absence of 'radio bubbles' from other civilizations. It's really, really dumb, from a technical perspective, to transmit RF signals that are distinguishable from background noise. It means you're wasting power and throwing away channel capacity.

Look at an HDTV transmitter on a classical spectrum analyzer sometime, and you won't see much in the way of coherent structure -- you'll just see a pedestal where the noise floor seems a bit higher than usual. This means that the 'radio bubble' is not a bubble, but two nested spheres with only about 100 light years of space between them. To observe emissions from an advanced civilization, we need to look at just the right time, between the development of RF technology and information theory. Otherwise we won't hear a thing.
People love numeric karma. If you can find a nice way to do without making human interaction "cheapened" please do.
I didn't even know it was today until all these Super Bowl articles started showing up.

I was happy that the Bears lost a few weeks ago because it means I have another year to be able to walk around in my neighborhood without being hit by drunk drivers. (I live right by soldier field, and it seems they don't let you drive away from it unless you are utterly tanked. Someone ran a red light and was inches away from hitting a baby in a stroller. What the fuck.)
I'm doing both...
"Measured in constant dollars, America’s manufacturing output today is more than double what it was in the early 1970s."

What's a 'constant dollar'? Is that nominal or inflation-adjusted? Over that timespan the two could mean very different things.
I think it's awesome! Alas, I want an HackerNews tie.
Better still read the last paragraph first .... you may save yourself five minutes of reading.

I'm at a complete loss as to why this artice is on the front page - to say that I didn't learn much from it is an understatement of some magnitude.
Python "jumped the shark" because more people have started adopting it?
Have you ever been interviewed by The Onion? :)
Even if you manually change the date range to today? Most people don't realize that Google Analytics defaults to "yesterday" but can be manually changed to today.

(sorry if you already know this & answered it in your previous comment. I just don't want others to miss out on GA's real time capability)
Requiring corporations to act responsibly is different from wanting a world where they do.
there are bugs to fix..
Con Edison and Time Warner in NYC both have fairly usable and quick services.
Spiced human ham would likely be incompatible with any alien metabolism.
I'm putting together the release notes for the most substantial update for any project I've ever done. Probably shouldn't release yet if everyone's watching the Superbowl. Tomorrow it is?

http://atomo-lang.org/notes/0.4
"The growth of productivity — output per unit of input — is the fundamental determinant of the growth of a country’s material standard of living."

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Productivity.html
"Constant dollars" = inflation-adjusted.