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It's been almost six months since borders filed for bankruptcy, and they were having cash flow problems before that. Many suppliers have been insisting on cash terms, which must have put a serious dent in their stocks. I was at a borders last week looking for a brand new Stross hardcover that I was willing to pay full price for but they didn't have it. An employee said they wouldn't be getting it, yet they definitely would have in years past.
We already live in a golden age. Many people spend their time wishing they had lived in some romanticized past; you seem to take the opposite approach. Each new technology brings with it both novelty/convenience and a nostalgia for the past. Because of recorded music, we had a long stretch where few people knew the joy of creating and sharing music themselves.

The whole point of the article was to enjoy the journey. I hope you don't spend yours with your sights set on a distant (perhaps impossible) goal and miss out on the joys of living your life as it is today.
Can it be that Hackernews attention is controlled by Europeans
Most of people tend to read the most upvoted articles on HN. Many even have setups that just don't show them the links if they were not upvoted enough.

The US is the biggest reader of HN obviously. But I think it's attentions is very much controlled by Europe.

Because when the US are sleeping, the new submissions don't fade away so quick, so that links and posts manage to gain some more upvotes. That's how they can pass over the limit of votes set by more people before the day in the USA begins.

what do you think?

sure the really good news like Nginx announcement will make it's way up without any magic.
Having done all of those things it just isn't enough and always leaves you wanting more. It's similar to having a customer write you a check (not through some job, but directly to you or your business) for the first time. You want it again and again.

1) Skydived. It was awesome!
2) 4-5 years ago I decided I wanted to be really strong. I can deadlift over 500lbs now.
3) This is a great thing to do, especially by yourself.

If you pick the right activities you can actually hit all 3 at once. A solo wintertime hike of a 14er is perfect (dangerous, physically challenging, lost feeling). A lot of people didn't understand why the CEO who recently died on Everest was on Everest at all. It's because he had to get away from his mundane, which to him was being a successful CEO.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut
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I would love to see the times adopt a layout for their front page which is more web based and less like imitating the front page of a paper, at 5 columns across in places it is too squished together at only 970px across.

It would actually be a great candidate for responsive design, could make the current columns setup look far nicer with more width when it is available then remove columns where there is less screen width available, similar to http://theconversation.edu.au/ which has a similar amount of columns across.
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Most big box bookstores don't have as much variety or depth as we've come to expect from exposure to online book sellers. You have to go to a sizeable used bookstore to get that (famous examples being Powell's in Portland and The Strand in NYC).

The problem is that people have diverse interests (niches) and a typical brick and mortar retail operation simply can't afford to carry much depth in any particular niche. The result is a lot of niches shallowly represented, at most big box stores you can't even find all of the books written by a given author, even famous ones, unless they are insanely popular at the moment.

Ironically I think in the next few decades the pre-internet trend will reverse and independent used bookstores will stick around longer than the chains.
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Ask HN: Are there any startups hiring developers based overseas?
Story: I am currently tied down to something in my hometown and can't leave to find a job elsewhere. Unfortunately, the startups in my region are rather stifling and I prefer the experience gained from startups based in the US.

I've worked in one before, but it seems so hard to find jobs like these. Or am I looking in the wrong place?
If someone wanted to extend this concept a bit further, how about a one-play-only game that could only be passed on as a bequest. That is, no one else gets to play it until you are dead, for real.
Bit of a technical challenge, to ensure the game data structures and code could always be run, no matter how much time passed. Also, to use a storage medium with a reliable lifetime of centuries - which Flash isn't.

Some people built an everlasting clock inside a mountain. http://longnow.org/clock/
It would be interesting to try building a 'game seat' like that - can only be reached by a hazardous journey, will be there and playable for a thousand years, you only get one go at it.
Protip: Buy from India. It's illegal, but you get a paper copy of a textbook at about 10% of the price.
Everyone is talking about Django.. What about Zope ? Except the learning curve how does zope fare when compared to other frameworks ?
....which would be cool and all, but Richard Pearse flew before the Wright Brothers.
The strongest part about django has always been (imo) it's documentation. The books that are out currently are simply not as good as the docs on the main site. I suspect this is the main reason there are not new books. If no one is buying django books, why write new ones?

The only dig I've read here that I agree with is that the plugins vary wildly in quality and ease of use. I would suspect that's true of ror as well. (Although, I think they have more to choose from, so there's probably more diamonds in the rough)
You could equally make the case that HN attention is controlled by California night owls. I'm usually awake till around 3 AM PDT - that's 6 AM Eastern. So while the east coast is sleeping, I'm upvoting stories on the New page.
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I'm not sure that it will take 20 years to prove that we're only as sentient as the other animals.
I dunno about the rest, but last I heard (sometime last year, I think) Canonical hadn't made it to break-even, so I'm not sure one can use it as a "working" example yet.
I'd bet it wasn't. I saw this sort of thing shown off as one of the advantages of Android's Intent system (e.g. highlighting a URL or phone number in a note-taking app) at a developer event months before the G1's release.

So far as I understand, iOS doesn't have the same sort of Intent architecture, so it seems unlikely that that Google's implementation drew any inspiration from iOS (especially as the same sort of thing has been done in web browsers for years to the point where a browser might be prior art).
Maybe a more literary, less alcoholic version of the Elk's Lodges and other fraternal organizations? I would love to see a revival of these groups, which are right now dominated by unfriendly old men getting wasted on cheap drinks.
"While Mr. Jobs will have plenty of money and talented people from which to draw, the odds of his starting another company of the size and success of Apple are exceedingly thin. The computer business has become much more competitive than when Apple started and is not growing as fast. Moreover, few entrepreneurs have managed to strike gold twice. "

Hah. This whole article is fascinating
Your right I don't have the figures and would be interested to see them myself. Generally search marketing is very much a volume thing, each user makes a small amount but having something like a billion users creates a lot of money overall.

With Apple they get a nice markup on the device itself and 30% every time you buy an app or take up a subscription.
Why not? If you look above, you'll notice the initial implementation was on a Power Macintosh, which suggests that the claims are made very widely.
What sorts of links get upvoted more by Europeans than by Americans?

What sorts of links get upvoted more by Americans than by Europeans?

What proportion of the total links submitted / that make it to the front page are these?

Look, you've persuaded me that it's theoretically possible, but you've not demonstrated that it's actually happening. You appear to think that this phenomenon would be bad for HN, but you've not demonstrated that, either.
My problem is the exact opposite. I can't see to read unless I'm looking at a back-lit screen. For this reason, all of my books for the past year and a half have been ebooks, read on an iPad.

I'm not sure what I would have done in college had I had the problems reading then that I do now. At the time, my only option would have been a book on tape, which is an absolute nightmare for random access and complex subjects, or braille, which I don't know (though, admittedly, should probably learn).

Not that any of that is to discount what you're saying at all. I guess more than anything i just wanted to share my experience. I can certainly see the appeal of having a physical book over a digital copy, and that may well be the preferred choice for the average person, but for a certain demographic, just having the option of a digital version can be an almost life-changing experience.

I remember the first night I got my iPad, after a year of not being able to read a book unless I was tied to my computer/desk. I sat comfortably on the couch and read a novel. I cried, I was so happy.
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No one has to pay 3-4X what they're paying now for their health insurance. They have to pay 101%.

It's possible that they didn't understand the nature of their compensation, and mistakenly believed their compensation was lower than it was. But in that case, I'd suggest they simply failed at financial planning.

(Note: if you can't do proper financial planning, don't do a startup.)
Seems like the music is doing a lot of the heavy lifting on this one..

Also, you could just film the thing and run it through HighLightCam - http://highlightcam.com/

(although it appears to have turned into an iPhone app since last I checked.. huh.)
People say that, but it is grammatically incorrect.
i actually hate all this seo, and tend to think that the good thing will find it's way without special tricks. i even think (maybe wrongly) that marketing tricks are recognized by people, and they start to think that the thing marketed to them is actually bad.

but after my question stayed virtually unnoticed, i started to think, what are the statistics of what time and weekday is the best to be noticed, if it's not Apple, Google+ or Microsoft.

How much California night owls are there? :)
If this patent is as broad as it seems, Google needs to treat the patent situation around Chrome as a serious threat.

In fact, depending on how liberally you can interpret things like "input device" and "output device" I could make an argument that elements of Google search infringe (e.g. the bits that parse a site's menu structure into a virtual ToC for faster access).
Awesome speech. Thank you for posting it.
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I thought that sounded familiar...

http://www.paulgraham.com/californiaavenueoaks.html
I think you're operating from the assumption that the fruits of automation will somehow find their way to the population at large. That won't necessarily happen.

It's quite possible that the advantage will go entirely to those who own and manage the businesses that automate their operations. (And indeed, some would say this is happening now.)

If automation reaches its endpoint, where no human labor is necessary, how does capitalism continue to function? What value can members of the public offer in exchange for all the automatically-produced goods and services?

I think if that were to happen, we'd see some kind of major social reorganization. Who knows how that would look? Maybe it would be utopian, and then again maybe it would be some kind of luddite, burn-the-robots-and-hang-the-engineers facism. Who knows.
To clarify, I did not mean to indicate elitism by mentioning gentlemen's clubs - rather their social purpose, which is in fact close to how many people use Starbucks or other wi-fi coffee shops today: somewhere to go instead of going home, where you can get a drink and something to eat and spend some quality time with your laptop, or socialize if you are so minded. If you paid a subscription, you wouldn't feel bad about occupying a table as long as you wanted, and the bandwidth would be better :-)
In all honesty, many people don't know what Chain World is (I didn't before reading the article). The sad truth of scrolling through new submissions is that the headlines are the only pieces of information we can rely on. A carefully worded headline can go a long way. Your title (and Wired's title) almost assumes we know what they're talking about -- Wired can get away with that since they're a magazine and this is a featured article that will receive readers regardless (a mysterious title can be beneficial). On HN, it's almost the exact opposite. If people can't tell what you're talking about (in general), it's a lot harder. I guess headlines that are easier to skim are easier to vote for, but I'm waiting for the day that we won't even need to curate content by hand.
no, not bad for HN, really. Hate to admit, but it's a theoretical question connected with (kill me) how to get attention here
Do you have any problems that aren't solved yet? Write yourself something to do that - and if you're worried about your employer/coworkers finding out, do it under a pseudonym, Chrome's Incognito mode (so that you're always aware when you're logged in under that pseudonym), and whois protection on any domains you set up.

If you want to show someone you learn quickly, start a blog - and chronicle your progress. "How I built [your app here] in a weekend - lessons learned, things I didn't like". Write a lot, especially about things you've learned while building all of your cool side projects.

Have a lot of side projects (or just one big one, if you can't think of many). Most of the jobs I've gotten that don't involve an arduous interviewing process have been because I met someone and said "this is [my cool project] - can you help me solve [problem x]?". I know it sounds weird, but asking someone who knows more than you do to help you out pays off - you end up with mentors, or coworkers, or even friends sometimes.

I guess at the core of it, my advice is: work on some side projects, and try to show them to people who you might want to work with (especially when you're applying for work - I can show you a private example, just send me an email).
I cringed when I read this line as well.
From where I see, Django has a decent community. I have been helped a lot, I regularly go to meetups with a turnout of 20+ Django devs at a time.

Django is a Python framework. It has some nice features of Python like explicitness over implicitness rather than depending on a lot of magic. But in no way I feel it is a clumsy, inflexible or restrictive.
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Great points.

I wonder though, what if the monkey had intended to take the self-portrait. I'm not saying this was necessarily the case this time, but I wonder what implications this would have.

Then again, since the monkey lacks a language with which to communicate to us, it's probably not possible to know one way or the other.
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The owners who set up the experiment. Or if it's just fooling around with stuff, then nobody. The monkey isn't capable of rational decision making so it can't be responsible.
It's official in the sense that lulzsecurity.com endorses it (and @LulzSec endorses lulzsecurty.com), so either both @LulzSec and lulzsecurity.com are 'fake' or they're both actually controlled by LulzSec.

I think it's pretty safe to say that they're both controlled by LulzSec.
I remember the Borders in Springfield VA having grad-level CS textbooks. Now it's just heartbreakingly depressing.
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Uh, Apple is suing Samsung:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383820,00.asp

They may not be suing Samsung over this particular patent, but that could easily change.
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No, it's a CoffeeScript message bus.
So I can't edit my own post for some reason, but I think I found something in this vein:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/boston-athenaeum-boston

A bit old timey but they do have a great book and art collection, a reading room, a separate room to just read newspapers, discussion events. They also lend iPads and kindles to members.
> The problem with making scope always explicit is that you then need to explain scope to newbies. Sure, it's worth explaining, but you just lost half your audience.

That's a price I'm willing to pay for the pain it brings later on.

> Based on the success of BASIC (and indeed many, many early programming languages), global variables are easy to understand, local variables are less easy to understand.

It's not like explicit scoping prevents users from abusing globals...

> It's all very well to complain about JavaScript's lack of Important Language Feature X

Actually, if you read my comment instead of going off about an alternate reality comment you may notice I'm complaining about a feature of javascript I think is misguided, not about the lack of a feature.

> Along with many other Language snobs, I used to despise JavaScript

I never despised javascript. Still don't. But after a decade of development, as I've said I've come to view scope inference as a misfeature.

> Compare that to ActionScript 3 and the byzantine Flash/Flex (and constantly changing) class library and then decide which one deserves the adjective "abominable".

I don't think I have used the adjective "abominable" anywhere, and I really don't care for ActionScript under any of its forms.
Github is a neat way to host projects. A link to a repository or a hosted application is infinitely more consumable than a video demo. The Github bootcamp has tons of info: http://help.github.com/, and would be a great place to start. Don't worry too much about your credentials on paper --- put together code samples that demonstrates your ability to work with the languages and frameworks you mention. There are several startups that would love to hire a motivated, resourceful hacker.
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I can understand that, though I certainly disagree.

I can respect a principle of proportionality -- I don't think it makes sense to risk a life life to stop a petty theft. But I absolutely cannot agree with the line of thinking that says because something is one person's moral responsibility, it isn't another's. To my way of thinking, any evil you know about is your responsibility to fight. Or at least not cooperate with. Personal cost doesn't enter into it.

I think sometimes life doesn't offer you a middle ground between heroism and cowardice.
seems kinda pricey. renting 2 sets for $16/mo. I could hop on to target and buy 2 sets for the same price and I get to keep them till they outgrow them.
I guess they need to deal with the overhead costs on shipping + cleaning + just plain gets old or torn.

Can't see the value in this.
Intel (a small business in 1968) was started by two physics phd guys. Adobe (a small business in early 1980s) was started by two phd guys. Google (a small business in 1998) was started by phd-dropouts. I think there are many companies started by phds.

If a small company is trying to solve sufficiently complex problem, like what Intel (in 1968), Adobe(in 1980s) and Google(in 1998) were trying to solve they need a phd. If a small company is building a new social network or social app it might not need a phd.
If he lives in silicon valley and has a family he's fucking poor.
I completely agree with you. In fact I found the article title from WIRED unsuccessful, but I opted to leave it intact so as to be also easily searchable. It is nice to see that the article receives the attention that it deserves.
I am currently a university student, and last semester I took an international economics course. As most first lectures go I expected to sit down and listen to the professor tell us what we would be learning throughout the year and what books to buy. But this was quite different, I and many other students in the class experienced a wide range of emotions from panic to excitement. This was a peer based learning course (Myself and the majority of the class did not know this and several people went on their computers and changed courses), for those of you who do not know peer based learning involves students basically teaching themselves the material and then teaching their peers their findings. This was the best course I have yet to take, I learned not only a lot about international economics but how to better my ability at teaching myself what I need to know. In this course we were given three problems throughout the term that we were to be solved in groups, the problems themselves were very vague and indirect yet through researching and presenting our findings in small groups and then in individually completed essays we became knowledgeable in international economics. A bit more on topic was the fact that our essays were to be written individually (and submitted through turnitin) yet all of our research was done in a group setting. This furthered my ability to take information from various sources (mainly the internet) and formulate my own opinion and use proper citation where needed. For me this style of learning was very awkward at first but the reward for sticking with it was great.

Another course I took that term was statistics for economics, for some of the assignments the data used for the questions were chosen by the students themselves (limited to a specific time frame to prevent plagiarism). In the end I think the professor and TAs only checked our formulas rather than our answers because of the time it would have taken to find the correct solution for each problem but this is an interesting way to combat plagiarism.
It just happened in the very thread you are responding to.