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The Adventures of Tintin coming to Android platform
Gameloft has acquired the license fees and Paramount Digital Entertainment announced the upcoming launch of The Adventures of Tintin for Android platforms.
Hang in there man, that fact that you reach out for help is a good sign.

Everyone here has better or same advice as me but this may help is ways you may not realize -- take vitamin B complex and fishoil. It'll help your depression and put in the right stuff chemically for your brain to stay positive.
It is known from an ancient times, that knowing a language does not make you a poet. Programming is like writing poetry - to put a known words in a some special order. We all know those words, but very few can manage that order without losing the meaning.

The second big thing is the difference between understanding and realization. Most people have understood something more or less, but very few have their own realization. There is huge literature on the subject.

And the big picture is very simple - the phenomena discribed is called the lack of practice. The major fallacy is that you cannot compensate the lack of practice by studying (reading HN) more theories.

I know that, because I was suspended exactly for lack of practice in English, co I cannot convey my views and put my opinions in pleasant words. Reading and writing is two very different cognitive tasks..

So, they think I'm a troll. That is how it works.
That's SENIOR Sancho to you, bub. :-p
But the Internet also has a significant winner-take-all character at the large end of the spectrum, due to network effects. See Facebook vs. MySpace and all the other social network carcasses in its wake. Mr. Khan's teaching videos might end up being the one-and-only source of education on the Internet. What then?
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I tried to follow the really interesting link provided to the Cat Programming Language article on Wikipedia. I got this:

01:14, 13 April 2011 Ron Ritzman (talk | contribs) deleted "Cat (programming language)" ‎

Why would anyone delete a useful reference to a serious academic article like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(programming_language)#Sema...
In the article, Dr. Wolfram claims that computer programs, not mathematics, is the best way to model the universe. However, hasn't Lambda Calculus (and therefore functional programming) shown that the two are the same?
I made a tiny $10 'investment' back at parity with the USD. Lost a $5 best to a friend and agreed to pay him 4 BTC instead. Today I was able to tell him that it had appreciated to $115. He is pleased.
_The Ecclesiastes_ by Solomon, from The Bible

_Start From Scratch_ by Wes Moss

_The Facebook Effect_ by David Kirkpatrick

_The Millionaire Mind_by Thomas J. Stanley

_Secrets of the Millionaire Mind_T. Harv Eker
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Wikipedia deleting Programming Language articles again
As I understand it (and hopefully an expert will correct me if I'm wrong) they measure the composition of the air you breathe in and the air you breathe out. From that they figure out how much O2 you're converting into CO2 and hence how much energy you've consumed.
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Building Websites is Easy (html book for young teens)
Yup, most cities have people on staff that simply beg companies to move to their area. I'd be shock if Cupertino wasn't giving a few carrots to Apple..
If we're going to be strict about things though, we should take into account the fact that standing rather than sitting all day may have bad effects as well.
I'm surprised it's only 4 stories. I would of added 3 more stories and added capacity for several more thousand employees. I can easily see them out growing the space very quickly in the next 20 years and possibly building two other circles in the empty spaces beside the circle.
True enough. I suppose the reason this book is so good is because it focuses on 100 distinct events which the author believes completely transformed the course of history --- and explains the reasons why they believe this to be true.

History is full of examples of a small force overwhelming a large force against all odds, and I love reading about the clever tricks and twists of fate that made it possible. The fact that the outcome of each battle completely shifted the course of history is an added source of awesomeness.

Sure, Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 were landmarks. But they would have happened eventually --- whether Russia or America did it first seems little more than a silly contest of the times.

But when you read the above book and realize that "Europe, as we know it today, would be completely and utterly different if, thousands of years ago, this one person had not made the monumentally stupid decision of keeping his army awake all night" .... well, that seems to me what makes history so interesting, no?
On its way to becoming an asset indeed. Over the last year bitcoin has seen a ~20,000% return rate. If bitcoin gets uberpopular (i.e. each coin is worth ~ US$2m) within 20 years, then BitCoin would have a return rate of ~ 85% per year consistently for the next 20 years. There is practically nothing else with that close a return rate, so the only financially sound course is to hoard your BitCoin, not spend them.
Didn't he explicitly say it was an aesthetic decision? He wants it "human scale" or something like that.
Apple plans to build new headquarters "that looks a little like a spaceship"
I have a little experience in retail management. I can't speak to #2 because I didn't deal with suppliers. I can however tell you that my fortune 500 employers had #1 and #3 in place already; these are basics that every retail software must have, these features will not sell your software.

In the companies I worked for, middle managers liked using terminal-style tools and see most upgrades as a huge waste of money. Your system better do something pretty good to get the attention of some of these guys (and you better be able to illustrate it in saved wages). I'm young (under 30) and I felt this way, too. These guys are smart and they know their business.

Now from a software designer's standpoint, the tools they use are terrible. There is a huge opportunity to improve them in too many ways to enumerate here. However, this article just covers the necessities retail software needs to be functional. Most retailers who have POS systems more sophisticated than a register from Staples will have this stuff already.
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The thread is about Lojban (I remember interacting a lot with one of the main promoters of lojban on Usenet in the 1990s), but since there is also mention of Esperanto in the thread, I'll mention one of the best online resources about Esperanto:

http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/

I have studied a great variety of natural languages, from several different language families, and made my living for several years as a Chinese-English interpreter or translator. Conlangs are fun hobbies, but they have not enjoyed conspicuous success at solving any of the real-world problems for which they are proposed as solutions.

A good general site about conlangs is

http://www.zompist.com/kit.html
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http://www.cupertino.org/index.aspx?page=26&recordid=463...
Jobs talks about engineering management. Seems like the perfect explanation for what might be going wrong at other companies such as Microsoft, or even Google.
I wonder how many hospitals Tennessee could have built with the oncoming legal fees.
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I came across Scott Aaronson's review of NKS a few days ago and loved it: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0206089.

I would recommend reading that to anyone who is also looking at Wolfram's work.
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Well, Wolfram's thesis is that analytical representation is not the correct frame for modeling the world, and algorithmic/procedural representation (e.g. simulation) is the correct method.

This isn't particularly novel, but it is a key insight of computer science. I just don't think that Wolfram deserves credit for it.

Edit for clarification:
The key insight being that you can model things algorithmically. Whether it's "correct" or not is a different matter. But this type of modeling is different from analytical modeling.
Google Redirects Traffic to Avoid Kazakh Demands
What if its a cover up for large attacks to come !
Penn. school district hit with new Mac spying lawsuit
Think of something simple you'd like to make and learn whatever you need to make it. Perhaps a small but useful widget for your website. Attachment to a creative vision can motivate you in a way that tutorials and classes cannot.
"Did you know that disco record sales were up 400 per cent for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue, A-y-y-y!"

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Audi Q3 starts volume production
The Company provides approximately 1,500 jobs at the plant, including 700 newly created positions. Special emphasis was placed on training the workforce.
Microsoft pursues botnet herders via Russian newspapers
Cybersecurity, innovation and the Internet economy
Yes. There are multiple models of computation, and many have been demonstrated to be 'equal' (the technical term escapes me).

Lambda calculus, turing machines, neural networks, certain cellular automata, and others I can not recall have been shown to have this equivalency.

I am not impressed by Dr. Wolfram's arguments. The Amazon Review cited elsewhere in this thread has a very cogent discussion of his points.
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The distinction between currency and asset can be fuzzy. Would you rather be paid in USD, gold, bitcoin, Google stock? How much extra would you charge to accept any of the above? I'd personally take bitcoin rather than gold today, because bitcoin can be exchanged for USD around the clock from the comfort of my chair.
The BitCoin community created this speculation bubble by rewarding early adopters and miners. That could have been entirely avoided if they didn't choose such a strategy for initial distribution.
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Learn how to cook. You only need some very basic, and very cheap, ingredients to make amazing food. By improving your diet, you will improve both your physical and mental health.

You will also save money. For example, tomatoes, onions, beans, chilies, rice, and spices run about $5 total, and with that you can make a gigantic bucket of vegetarian chili packed with vitamins and complete proteins. Add meat for a better amino profile, and the total will only hit about $8.

I've been struck down by crippling depression before, and had to build back up. The three things that made recovery possible were a good diet, exercise, and a project to focus my mind on.

The diet helps you keep your body from going to hell, the exercise provides a surprising amount of calm, and the project gives your mind something to do so that you don't dwell too heavily on that which you can not change.
Some of these courses look really interesting. Having just passed my Algorithms Qual it is interesting to see the different ranges of topics covered in equivalent courses.
Hmmm. I don't think I was suggesting that we'll continue to see a rate of return of 20,000%. What I was suggesting is that many will perceive BitCoin's historical performance as an asset as proof it would be better treated as an asset, not a currency.
No Chirp This Year, So Twitter Developers Holding Their Own Summit
A Diferent Way to Think about User Permissions
What's a better strategy for distribution?
I'll add a couple of courses I've really enjoyed at CMU (http://www.cs.cmu.edu):

15-410 Operating System Design and Implementation:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410/

15-251 Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science (webpage might be out of date):
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-251/
The difference may add 15-20 minutes to the commute, if you're coming down from points east. Not insignificant, but it's not like it is taking people 10 minutes on one hand, over an hour on the other.
I just posted on a MtGox/Mastercard deal in the works:

MagicalTux: "we are finishing the contract part, and working on the card design. Next we'll need approval from mastercard to issue mastercards with a huge bitcoin logo"

http://www.bitrific.com/2011/06/mt-gox-and-mastercard-deal-h...
what's a very big if. OP was more about why people will not treat bitcoin as a currency
Why is U2 popular? Product market fit.
Also check Eco's The Search for a Perfect Language, it's an excellent resource.
This is better than TrueCrypt-on-Dropbox [1] in the sense that there's probably much less bandwidth inflation due to encryption, if any.

However, with EncFS be warned:

"Anyone having access to the source directory is able to see how many files are in the encrypted filesystem, what permissions they have, their approximate size, and the last time they were accessed or modified." [2]

Since tarsnap does the block partitioning and encryption client-side, it doesn't suffer from either problem.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546626

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS
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There are also people here who would downvote you for abbreviating Microsoft with a dollar sign.

We're all adults here, right? The fact that a for-profit company is a for-profit company is neither shocking nor novel.
When I started to host real stuff on my own servers, I picked ubuntu largely because I knew that if I ran into problems, I'd easily be able to google and find useful resources.

I've stuck with it since then largely because of comfort and, really, why switch?
Neat ! here some tips for creating a kick ass graph visualization: http://www.martinlaprise.info/2010/02/15/visualize-your-own-...
Yard and Garden tools
Real Racing 2 HD beats Wii U to the wireless, dual-screen gaming punch
thanks, appreciate that!
Here's a suggestion where more mining would create inflation that would offset increased demand for Bitcoin: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=57.0
What a lazy ignorant statement. If you want to see how they crunch the numbers, go look.
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Entertaining read.

I agree with the assertion that The Khan Academy, via brief video clips, may be a terrible place to learn history (though it is GREAT for other subjects).

But as others have noted...who cares? The internet is filled with opinions and falsities, far more "dangerous" than anything on Mr. Khan's site, that pass themselves off as "history". It's just a matter of degree.
according to https://support.grasshopper.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=vie... they say: "We are still waiting on our primary storage array."

This companies infrastructure is such that the failure of a single storage array shuts them down? Tragic.
Based on your data and a sibling comment of yours, it would mean we would simply need fuel tanks that hold 5x more fuel. That doesn't seem unreasonable as the production cost of a fully electric car can be less as the engines are MUCH simpler (esp. when ordered in mass).
You can:

#1 try to find another job, #2 finish your degree and #3 create your own stuff.

It's up to you.

I seriously thing that you should try #1 if you want to work, #2 if #1 fails and #3 if you are passionate about something.
How did you get started, and what were your original plans? Was it to deliver in person training? Perhaps you should go on Mixergy.
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Franklin Park Zoo animals like the guardian of good heart Griffin Keyes He finds himself in the lions rather than a woman Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to go to the zoo and find
downvote?
Turing proved the existence of non-computable reals, so the two are not the same. Also Chaitin's constant is a non-computable real number with a precise mathematical definition.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitins_constant
I believe there are various tools that will do exactly that for you.

For instance, I manage my tasks using OmniFocus, and in Apple's Mail program, pressing a keyboard shortcut instantly creates a task in OmniFocus, with the content of the email added as an attachment to the todo, and a link back to the original message (just in case I want to refer to the whole thread or something).

Another keyboard shortcut moves the message to my "Old Mail" folder on my IMAP server. (I used to organize old mail by client or project or whatever, but modern searching makes that unnecessary.)

I use two separate actions because the normal thing I do with a message is glance at it and put it in Old Mail. If I need to make a task out of it, it's one extra keystroke.

So my Inbox only has new messages in it that I haven't seen yet, and my task list has all my tasks, including the ones originating from email, without much friction.
Is deionized water safe to drink?
And prior to that, Digital Equipment was using "the network is the system" back the late 70s.

But then ideas and slogans are rather cheap, and neither DEC nor Sun are around any more.

Apple is still around, and Apple is still executing on their ideas.
My theory is that that review, and Shalizi's, are as popular as they are because nothing is more convenient than learning one doesn't have to actually do the work of considering a (set of) new ideas and perspectives.
We actually deploy it across a number of client apps, rather than just our own site. We use it to run a dozen or so tests at any given time across multiple apps, and to quickly iterate on others' products.

It's an interesting combination with mixpanel. If we could get one more thing from Mixpanel, we'd really be set - I'm bugging them, we'll see if they come out with it!
A Stack O everyone gets a standing desk. I can't imagine not having one. Well, I can, that's how I did it for most of my life.

It took me about a week to adapt -- sore calves and feet, which passed. A "standing mat" or "anti-fatigue" mat (Google 'em) helps a lot. And take off your shoes.
WATCH or READ THE SECRET by Rhonda Byrne
Tutorial: Android Inter-App Content Sharing
"But the problem is living spaces being separate from working spaces."

Some companies have closely integrated living and working.
Foxconn is one such company.

(some have suggested that Foxconn employee depression problems may be partly due to the employees living away from their friends and families, often at a considerable distance)
I will argue that in order for it to achieve a stable value, one that without volatile price actions. The market size needs to be a lot bigger than current bitcoin market size. Given you cant create more bitcoins, it will require each bitcoin to be worth 1000 times more in terms of dollars for it achieve a stable value. Silver has less than 10B market cap, and yet it is still notoriously volatile
I think Microsoft Word excels for the power user. My guess that once you get into advanced functions mail merge, change tracking, word art, etc. you will find that Microsoft's version has a lot more functionality and is easier to use.
I'm pretty sure it is saying 10x better and cheaper than a standard lithium ion for the same battery size. If they are not saying that then the sentence makes no sense.
This tutorial covers how to use the ContentProvider component to expose your content to other Apps including the parent App. It provides a detailed explanation of how to implement the ContentProvider backed by a SQLite database. The tutorial comes with an App with full source code to take the concepts for a spin!!!
please put it up somewhere, archive.org took it down, I would be very interested in analyzing it
Semi-related tangent, this is Bertrand Russell on Wittgenstein from the epigraph of Markson's book Wittgenstein's Mistress:

"When I was still doubtful as to his ability, I asked G.E. Moore for his opinion. Moore replied, 'I think very well of him indeed.' When I enquired the reason for his opinion, he said that it was because Wittgenstein was the only man who looked puzzled at his lectures."
Thomas Friedman: The Earth Is Full
Link: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humance...
Before I try to offer some advice...

This is the dark side of the startup dream that is endlessly pushed on all the VC blogs and tech sites and boards like this that I frequent.

Anyway, with that said, I think you really just need to stabilize your situation. You (obviously) need to find a job, any job, whether it is temping, stacking books in the local library, retail, anything. Diminish your credentials if need be. You sound like an intelligent guy, you can probably think of ways to make yourself at least temporarily appealing to jobs that are objectively below you.

I am very sympathetic with your parent situation. You are lucky at least that they are old enough to be drawing SS and Medicare. It sounds like you are in a low-cost area and so that should be enough to at least support them at a minimum American subsistence level. With consistent checks coming in and government-supported health care, it would be hard for them to royally screw themselves permanently in the financial sense. And unless they are wealthy, it does not sound like they really need estate planning, and you can try to help with day to day care but you cannot let it consume you.

I echo everything everyone has said about community and inspiration. Sites like News.YC provide all the inspiration I need - I have actually found the hackers and founders type meetups I have been to to be quite underwhelming compared to what I read and the people I interact with online.

I hope for the best for you.
Any particular reason you linked to your fork instead of the original?
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No, this is a mischaracterization of what Wolfram is saying. Wolfram says: why consider computer programs to be valuable as mere approximations to the underlying analytic models, when you can consider computer programs themselves to be an entirely new and unexplored land of complex and interesting models.

Traditional computer science considers computer programs to be merely a means to an end.

A quite delicious irony is given by the example of Naiver Stokes equations. They are themselves an idealization of the flow of fluids composed of discrete particles. Because of our obsession with continuous models, we mostly resort to laboriously solving them numerically -- but it turns out that simple lattice gas cellular automaton models are actually 1) fairly accurate 2) much more computationally efficient, and 3) more suggestive of the underlying microscale physics.

To step back a bit, a helpful analogy would be that simple computations are the 21st century equivalent of differential equations, which were studied rigorously in their own right starting in the 18th century, often prior to their application to concrete problems.

Whether this intuition will turn out to be prescient, or whether it will fizzle out, is another question.
yhc, uhc, hjs, ghcjs,"haskellinjavascript", jshc, haskell -> llvm -> emscripten, etc, etc

In fact I wanted to start my own -- except I don't have a single clue of how to even go about doing something like that. Though now that I think about it, I wish all the effort was put into a single project that wouldn't die off within a few months of going public.
The market? You're kidding right? Us consumers can't make a clear decision if we don't have all the facts. How long did it take the tobacco companies to admit that smoking was bad for us? How many lawsuits?

The market does nothing except exploit. Now nothing wrong with that.. but the idea of a free and open market in America hasn't been true since.. well.. 1980?