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> Why do I say this? Because a real psychopath would never find it useful to discuss his psychopathy

Interestingly, once it becomes common knowledge that if one describes themselves as a psychopath they couldn't possibly be a psychopath, it would be beneficial for the psychopaths to just identify themselves as a psychopaths because in the eyes of others will instantly be labeled as "definitely not psychopathic". That would perhaps serve as an extra shield behind which they can hide their psychopathy.
People have the weirdest hobbies. Have a look at this guy: http://www.themysteryworld.com/2011/02/tatara-project-guy-ma...

Making knives starting from the very scratch (that is, making their own steel to start with)
Microsoft has over 20000 apps on the Windows Phone 7 market place...I don't know the exact mix between Silverlight vs. XNA (the two frameworks that you can target WP7 with) but I'd feel safe betting that at least 75 percent are Silverlight. 15000 apps is hardly what I'd call very few.
Nice. Look forward to hearing more. Currently part of a team that is using node.js with peg.js (http://pegjs.majda.cz/documentation) for a service that defines a grammar for a query language, which is translated into one or more internal service API calls for an enterprise backend. Needs to handle hundreds of req/s, so any performance improvements over peg.js will definitely make your solution more appealing as well.
Just in case anyone is leaping to wrong conclusions: This is neat, but it's not a miracle material. Tensile strength of 1900MPa is quite high for a steel, but it's half as strong as glass fiber. The big advantage here is that it's tougher, and cheaper to make, than fiberglass composite.
Everything I try gives a 404.
I'm not sure if they'll call it Silverlight (although I think it would be smart if they did), but the skills used in developing Silverlight applications will translate directly to the new platform.
Under PCL-R a person with a 30 or more "points" (ratings from 0-2 regarding each characteristic) is regarded as a psychopath, so assuming that PCL-R is the definitive definition of psychopathy, we must still accept that a psychopath is not necessarily also a pathological liar and an impulsive individual. It seems silly to use PCL-R as the definition of psychopathy for the general population, however, because "Revocation of conditional release" is something that one can only experience after being institutionalized or sent to gaol.
I've also been using a standing desk for a while -- maybe six months at this point.

I built my standing desk out of scrap wood, and quickly determined that I wanted a place to put a foot up: At about 12" off the floor I added a horizontal support that I can leave one or another foot on. It makes a HUGE difference for standing.

I also have a drafting chair that I CAN sit in if I want to, so I'm not completely tied to standing if I'm tired. My most productive days are certainly the ones where I stand for most of the time, though.
Also:

http://isitchristmas.com/
"even in a great chair, sitting all day is uncomfortable."

I disagree. At my previous job, my chair was extremely comfortable. I could work 8 hours in it with no discomfort whatsoever.

I found out just exactly how good it was when I switched jobs and ended up in a really lousy chair. I had pains that I didn't know where they were coming from. Turns out the 'good' chair had made my back muscles lazy, and I was now using them again. It took a few weeks (and a slightly better lousy chair) to get back into shape.

I haven't pushed for a better chair at work because I realized something. When I went to a conference, I had to sit in a folding chair and my back was so bad at the end of the first day that I didn't go the second day. I blamed the chairs. But in retrospect, I know it was my back that was the problem, not their chairs. I'd rather not train my back not to tolerate normal chairs, so I haven't gone for a deluxe chair again.
No. You can ask the spaceship to measure Q2 after a certain period of time. So "fly away and at a specific time T measure Q2" would be the command. Sorry I should have made that more clear.
Dating/relationship site for sale on flippa
Using SproutCore 2.0 with jQuery UI
It's actually the second result for 'languagejs' already, so it's not too bad.
Just say no or don't respond at all, if they're reaching out via email. You're likely just another name on a list by these "Idea Guys"

Or just give them an honest quote, and stick to your guns. They'll walk.
Haskell is the only widely used language that uses lazy evaluation by default. This has historically lead to confusion and difficulties with reasoning about time and space, particularly when a programmer is coming from a strict language.

Why do we care about laziness by default? Like purity, it adds power and expressiveness.

----

Finally, what would a strict Haskell be like? Here's a discussion: http://augustss.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-points-for-lazy-ev... )
So is it going to be called Rearden Metal?
Did the same thing at a similar time. Played with Linux from 1999 till 2002 then made the switch until I got a Mac mini in 2005, used Linux and OS X until 2006 when I got a Yonah MacBook and then basically used OS X almost exclusively on the desktop.

(I still have Linux servers and a Windows box as a hybrid gaming box / htpc / NAS but that should be replaced with an Apple TV, Drobo FS, and Xbox 360 or something)
My setup is exactly the same as yours. I have a rug over a rubber floor mat, which allows me to stand barefoot for long periods of time. Since the Ikea desk doesn't adjust vertically, I pull up a bar stool whenever I want to sit down.

I find that I switch back and forth between standing and sitting several times per day without really thinking. My body knows what it wants, so I just go with the flow. I can't imagine working at a normal sitting desk any more.
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To re-iterate: have you been diagnosed psycopathic by a qualified mental-health professional?
There are really two valid uses for aliasing/type-punning: one is bit twiddling (e.g. you have a data structure where you want to access specific bits or bytes, e.g. the exponent of floats, or having a mixed stream of floats/characters/shorts), and the other one is type-punning as poor man's polymorphy, as in different sockaddr structures in the C library or the representation of event types in Xlib.

It's easy to claim that these uses don't exist, but they do occur in every larger piece of C software (especially when that large piece of software has performance-critical parts, which is increasingly the main use of C). And in both cases, the compiler breaks cases where the aliasing is introduced in the current function, and also exploited there; this should be reasonably easy to detect (compared to the general aliasing problem, which is unsolvable).
What I would mean if I were to say "sociopath" seems clear as mud. Wikipedia tells me:

Sociopathy is a loosely-defined term that may be used to refer to:
Psychopathy,
Antisocial personality disorder,
Dissocial personality disorder

and later,

Hare writes that the difference between sociopathy and psychopathy may "reflect the user's views on the origins and determinates of the disorder."

Edit: I see, thanks.
Or just give them an honest quote, and stick to your guns. They'll walk.

Do not do this if your real answer is "no". Sometimes people will surprise you and take you up on your offer. And if you were really just trying to politely say "um, please kindly get lost but without all kinds of drama that I don't really want", well, you just failed at getting rid of them. Now, attempts to get rid of them get even more complicated.
Relativity just demands that changes in time are a measurement you could make. Then it talks about the geometry of those measurements. What are you arguing against?
A friend of mine is 'bio hacker'; he works with different microbiological organisms to learn about them and build better ones with specific traits. This article describes it better than I can: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101006/full/467650a.html
History of Bitnet Relay -- the inspiration for IRC
>>I consider the consequences of actions in the medium to long term before I do them.

>>I am less impulsive than most people I know

Isn't part of being a psychopath to lack foresight? To lack fear of punishment?

'WildUtah' has a point -- you are on the Aspberger scale, or something.
Something I've always wondered is -- of course going back in time is a bad thing -- but is going "faster than light" necessarily going back in time? I wonder why, say, instantaneous communication across the galaxy wouldn't be possible, as long as it doesn't go back in time. (BTW: not necessarily from a physics point of view, they would say that not only can't one travel back in time, neither can you go faster than the speed of light, but I was wondering more from a paradox / time causality point of view).
That brings up another question: How much will it cost and how can I buy some?
Windows works only because everyone accommodates Windows. Just like any other OS, without vendor support you are not going to get very far on hardware compatibility. OS X severely limits the range of applicable hardware and Apple has enough muscle to get support for its models and configurations.

While I agree generally that a lot of boneheaded moves occur on the Linux desktop (like Pidgin->Empathy), I don't think berating hardware support for not being equivalent to Windows is fair. Also, it's usually wrong; I have always had to install drivers every time I have installed Windows in the last five years, but I have only had to install drivers in Linux on a few occasions (MadWifi back before ath9k was around, Broadcom wireless on a friend's Dell laptop, uvcvideo before it was included in the kernel).
You really don't understand _delirium's point, or are you just playing stupid?
Yes, exactly: Clear as mud is very socially acceptable for most "normal" people (not necessarily on HN where people will pedantically argue every definition with you). Say "sociopath" and then if someone asks what you mean by that have a clear description of what you are trying to convey (basically define it yourself). It is a malleable word, open to interpretation. It gets you a lot less shit from other people than using the word "psychopath". I know because it is a word I and my sons use in part for this very reason.

My remarks are intended to be a helpful suggestion, based on something that has worked for me. That's it.

Peace.

Edit: No problem.
I don't get why Amazon didn't cut off all its New York affiliates yet.
Buy from System76. Not only do they use "known good" hardware configurations, but they include software called "System76 Driver" that automatically performs any magic necessary to support your machine's full range of features, like modifying udev files, etc.
Your site is mildly amusing, but I strongly believe we need to keep gimmickry such as this (along with other banal stuff, and politics) off HN. With every passing day, this site is looking more like Reddit.
Rearden Metal, anyone?
It's difficult to explain some of the other things mentioned in this thread without going to math, like why FTL = time travel. It should also be mentioned that the reason why time travel is a problem is not merely that you can send a signal backwards in time, but that the signal may be used to then prevent the sending of the signal. Moreover, it isn't necessarily the case that this requires a human; you can get something like an asteroid going around the loop and knocking itself off the path that led it around the CTC in the first place, so having this sort of paradox in the universe is genuinely bad and does not require human involvement.

But as to FTL, let me horrifically simplify. Imagine space as a 2D grid of points. Vertical is time (up is the future), left-right is 1D of space. Take every point, and connect it to the one directly above it, the one above and right, and the one above and left, with a directed link. You are allowed to move through spacetime along those lines. You can see your past and future lightcones on this graph, if you look. Light always travels diagonally on this graph.

Normal travel in this horrifically degenerate spacetime is travel that can be expressed on those links. FTL is somehow figuring out how to bypass the graph structure of space, which the shape of that space doesn't permit. Space is literally shaped so that FTL isn't really possible.

Reality is of course substantially more complicated than this, and this model is useless for any purpose beyond trying to show what I mean by space being shaped such that FTL isn't possible.

This also sort of demonstrates another thing, which is that ultimately, any point that you can't reach is, from the point of view of where you are, really the same. They are all equally simply "unreachable". So you if you create an "unreachable" drive that lets you get there, you can basically just use it twice to jump far away from where you are now, then from there just jump directly into your past. Also, there is no compelling reason to think you would have a drive that would only let you go "one light year"; it would open the entire universe to you. In General Relativity, this still basically holds true, though it requires more explanations about how there isn't one true reference frame, etc, etc, but FTL really is time travel and it really does just shoot physics and causality full of holes.
What I wrote was very few were being developed/sold.
Amazon's user accounts have some strange behavior. I have managed to get myself 2 accounts with the same email and different passwords. There is no way to merge these together!

This is the only site I've used where the username doesn't have to be unique!
Well, that's democracy for you. Maybe if honesty wasn't so rare, we'd have the populace acting in concert with their representatives because they have the same information. It's may just be the secrets that exacerbate irrationality. Google "open-book management" for more in this direction.

Furthermore, why is this "irrationality of the masses" more harmful than a leader keeping the secret that the country is asking about a loan from an organization that charges 50+% annual interest? After all, it's truly a rare thing that it's an economist who makes the final decision whether to go through with something like this or not. They're made by people receiving guidance from the economists you advocate secrecy toward those who pay their salaries. Why can't we all receive that guidance and information when it comes to matters of national concern?
Top 5 big leaks that the media ignores.
I have never even spoken to qualified mental-health professional while he or she was at work.
Because it shouldn't be enabled by default?
Most of them are just clueless. They either have no concept of the work involved or they genuinely believe that their idea is a precious thing on it's own and are doing you a favor by sharing it. They tend to go on remaining clue-deficient as most people have a hard time saying "no".

As to how to deal with it: Take their offer and add to it until you'd be happy to do the work. Tell them you'd be happy to do the work for $X. Don't think of it as being assertive so much as being honest. Remember that you're under no obligation to haggle.
Just to illustrate your point, in Colorado the legislature did this same thing (lobbying by small business was used as justification), but the large affiliates I'm familiar with (2, specifically) moved their offices to Laramie, Wyoming (2.5hrs from Denver). Keep in mind, there are ~5M people in our entire state.
if the inventor could not license or sell this patent, this fairly common feature might not exist today.

Bzzzzt, I strongly disagree with this supposition. If the inventor approached Apple, was rebuffed, and then Apple copied the invention in the creation of its iOS ecosystem, I might agree with you. However, it appears that what has happened here is that the invention was independently created subsequent to the patent filing.

Which suggests to me that it would have been invented any ways and thus the ability to patent the idea has no bearing on whether the invention would or would not have been discovered.

p.s. By :"bzzzzt," I mean that I am "buzzing in," not making a rude noise intended as an insult!!!
Apple recalls a few Verizon iPad 2s, citing connectivity issues
That's not an interpretation I've heard before but it sounds very interesting - can you recommend any relevant reading material?
This may not seem practical to many who have larger boxes, but much of this advice is extremely useful when you're running a large cluster with millions of hits a day and every spare ounce of memory you save translates into less money for Dell. Great job!!
I agree that a switch to Windows does not make sense. I fled to OS X because I'm a Unix biggot and don't want a system that doesn't ship with zsh or bash. Apparently darwin's posix API sucks and is different from Linux but I'm not affected by that directly so don't really care.

Cinch, SizeUp, and Divvy provide all the tiling things I need for window management and they unobtrusively just enhance my normal environment, it's great. I don't miss xmonad at all anymore. I miss dpkg and apt but homebrew is good enough and I regularly fire up Linux VMs if I just need to, vagrant is awesome for this. (vagrantup.com)
By way of example. I'm sure there's equivalent incantations for lighttpd/nginx/flavor-of-the-week, the parent comment just happened to mention Apache. :)
No, quantum entanglement does not allow you to communicate faster than light
WP7 was just released last fall. 20000 apps have been developed in 7 months.
Why do you associate visual programming with Silverlight in particular? It's perfectly possible to write Silverlight apps without touching such tools (like Expression Blend). Meanwhile, there are plenty of drag and drop/WYSIWYG code generation tools for HTML (see: Dreamweaver).
As a .NET developer myself I will be glad to share with all of you that the only people who are infuriated by any of this are morons who think html/js widgets are replacing the .NET CLR + Framework/Library + C#. I won't argue with morons and neither should you.
1and1. Here are some of the plans they offer:

http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/VirtualServer;jsessionid=E7...

If you sign with a 1-year contract it's even cheaper. I've been using 1and1 for 5+ years and the performance is pretty good. I've only had a couple of hours of down time in those five years and support got back to me very quickly
Touché! ... I would say I sadly fall into this category, but as you I share the same opinion, and am enthusiasticallymoving forward.
I think the problem is that a lot of .NET developers have felt for some time that the platform is running out of steam. PR disasters like this just provide a focal point for that, more general, anxiety.

As for why it feels like that, I suspect that different developers would have different answers. For me, there's
the abandonment of the Iron* projects, the lack of a decent .NET Javascript, and the weird need-hate relationship Microsoft has with its open source developers.
I suspect with respect to the frame of reference from where the measurement is being done. If the frame of reference is the ship itself then you will not notice any change in entropy. Hence why you won't be able to tell that time is actually slower. However, from a frame of reference outside the ship you will notice the difference in rate of change.

So really what you are really measuring is the difference in change of entropy from your local frame of reference to the frame of reference of the ship. There is no such thing as absolute rate of change. All is relative.

With respect to time, if you could somehow reverse all the motions of every single subatomic particles in a particular frame of reference then you would essentially be moving back in time in that specific frame of reference. To reverse time you have to reverse the motion of every single particle, sub-particle. Is almost the same thing as simply playing a movie in reverse. Now the real issue with this methodology is that the particle movements are not being recorded anywhere as far as we can tell. So we need to first find a way to record the movement of all the particles in a frame of reference and then find another way to run the entire recording in reverse. I wonder if exceeding the speed of light would actually reverse the motion of particles. That would imply that the motion is somehow being recorded? Who knows, just thinking out-loud.

Another really good question that I've been wondering about is why does entropy decreases when you move faster? What is it that causes entropy to decrease? Is it some sort of "friction" with space-time? Anybody have any good suggestions? It may have to do something with conservation of energy. Or conservation of something. The faster it moves the slower the particles move. Something is being compensated for.
Er, what conclusion is there to jump to other than an accurate one? It's 7% stronger than traditional steel and 30% lighter, with a greatly decreased manufacturing cost. Ok, fine, it's not a "miracle" material since it's not curing the sick or raising the dead. But as long as testing continues to support the conclusion of both the manufacturer and researchers at tOSU (and elsewhere), this seems like an impressive engineering feat.
I'd add that if the site is purely static (the example is a PHP site), you can get away with 2MB to 8MB for Nginx and the rest will be filesystem cache and OS. If you don't have too many files, CPU and network throughput will be your only bottleneck and you can have unlimited domains.
Ask HN: Review my app, ChatThrough.com
Hey HN,
My partner and I recently launched http://ChatThrough.com a site for finding and creating random-chat groups.

Can you guys take a look at it and see whether you have any suggestions or advice for us?

I'm not a designer and I had to design the site, so if anyone has any tips for improving the overall design.

Also we're curious as to how we can attract users.

Thankyou for your help!
(check out blog.chatthrough.com for further info)
Kinda neat to realise that the Mac is part-Swedish. :D
Fascinating article, thanks.
At least he put links to news articles on it. I just hope it gets updated...
$7/month for 1GB is beyond just oversold -- at that price, it's probably an outright scam -- e.g, the server was stolen, your memory is all swapped out, /proc/meminfo is lying to you, or something of the sort. prgmr.com is one of the cheapest VPS providers I've ever seen, and $7/mo only gets you ~192 MB with them. While I'm sure they do leave some room for profit, it beggars disbelief that anyone can provide actual service at a third of their (already low) prices.
As long as you don't use Illustrator and hand off the design with half-pixels all over the document : )
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Pretty cool stuff. Shame I don't have much of a use for it. :(
http://chatthrough.com
http://blog.chatthrough.com
x.0 releases often occur because it's the only way to get a sufficient number of testers. I remember reading this as the rationale for pushing KDE 4.0 when they did, and it's generally true in all software no matter how well funded the QA department is. You may experience a shoddier x.0 with OSS since most QA budgets are around $0, but even products released by big companies (OS X and Windows are two comparable products ;) ) have some serious problems when a new major version is released.
Cool! I really like how accurate it is; works with almost every site I try. :)
At one of my hosting facilities outside Seattle I'm paying $2k per month for 25 terrabytes of transfer which is industry average. That's roughly 7.8 cents per GB. I'm billed using 95th percentile billing as is everyone running at scale. We're small compared to many larger consumer web startups. As you increase in scale, prices drop dramatically e.g. triple our transfer would give roughly half the price.

I know you're probably referring to options for small startups just starting out, but thought I'd share that data.