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1. I am saying you should only do great things.

I disagree. Most of the things you'll be expected to do are not great and to attempt to do great work will actually get you in trouble. You'll get into personality conflicts with people who don't care as much as you do, and your pace of work will be considered slow.

It usually demands 3 times as much time and 10 times as much energy to do a great job of something than a passable job. Sometimes, a passable job is enough and more is wasted effort. People who have to do a great job of everything they are asked to do end up getting asked to do a lot of things, some unrewarding, and eventually burn out because they just can't do everything that people want done.

Example of minimal effort being ideal: your boss says you need to be in at work at 9:00 am, even though there's no hard reason (it's just a demonstration of power). Let's say your commute is under 40 minutes 98% of the time. A passable job would be to leave at 8:20 and be on time almost every day, and average 8:40-8:50. You won't get yelled at for being a few minutes late once every couple of months. The "great job" would be to leave for work at 7:30 and arrive at 7:50-8:10, when no one is in the office, thereby ensuring that (unless something very unusual happens) you'll never be late. Does this extra effort really win you anything? Is it more rewarded to be an hour early than on time? In most cases, no.

You need 3 "buckets" for your projects. A: things where you'll do a great job. B: things you'll do just well enough to satisfy the minimum demands. C: things you won't do. If your A bucket is empty, you'll probably get bored and start itching for a side project, but you do not have the time to put everything in your A bucket and will burn out if you try. Generally, you end up splitting the things you have to do (your paid job) between A and B and your personal side projects between A and C (i.e. either doing a great job, or not doing them).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_in_the_united_...

It's just like there is a substantial bias toward being a Conservative for people in the military.
Ferris sounds like someone claiming they can sell you a part you can bolt-on to your engine to double your gas mileage. I mean, I don't think anything he said violates the laws of physics; It's possible, but it's so unlikely that without extraordinarily good evidence, I'm simply going to ignore the claim.
There's not much point in having a tax on capital gains at all if an insignificant number of investors would have taxable capital gains.
Personally, I would rather be lobbied than shot.
Since blood pressure is higher in the morning, it's better to do exercise in the afternoon.
Aye, but it's a bet on a ten-year old trend. Remember IMVU? One of the stories from that is they believed it was going to be a great way to hang out virtually with your friends, but it turned out that users wanted to meet new people, not simplified representations of their real friends.

The closest thing I can think of is IRC, and the way that (at least, to me) nothing has really topped it in terms of real-time communication with friends in the last ten or so years. Do we need a more graphical version? Maybe; but I'd put my money on doing something compelling with mobile, not a Facebook virtual bar. I do like the way Shaker tries to augment the world with little touches like "You share a birthday", though. We need that on smartphones!
"These are people who are homeless or on the verge of losing their homes. These are people living paycheck to paycheck, despite having what we think of as stable or decent paying jobs. These are people struggling to put food on their tables. These are people with illnesses that have destroyed their lives. I don’t understand how anyone can look at a group of people who are desperate, whose lives are falling apart, and say that those people are selfish and whiny when they demand a change."

All of these things were around before wall street and they will be around after wall street. I'm not sure how protesting is going to give these people any more money, unless it means taking it from the people that are working.

"This is a SYSTEMATIC FAILURE for those people who are struggling to make ends meet and to help this country grow and flourish"

Minimum wage already exists and you can get by on it (although it's not easy, I've done it myself).

"The government has given tax breaks to the highest 1% and has given nothing to the rest of us"

50% of the population doesn't pay federal income taxes. How is this not a tax break?

"And everyone in this country has realized that health care is not functioning the way it should, which means that many of these people who have done everything they were “supposed” to are struggling because their health got in the way of their jobs or sapped their money."

This happens, but not to as many people as you would like us to believe. The last stats I saw showed > 70% had some form of health care.

"I don’t know if I would go so far as to say we’re the 1% seeing as there are MANY countries that take care of the majority of their citizens better than America does (see: all countries that do not have a paranoid terror of anything remotely socialist, e.g. Norway, Sweden, etc.)"

You do realize that it's almost impossible to start a business in those countries due to regulations and taxes, Right? You also pay 60-70% in taxes (income+VAT+other).

There is a reason people don't like socialism: It gives the government control over you. Instead of being able to choose where your money goes, it's taken right off the top and spent by the government in any way they see fit. It's a monopoly that you are forced to pay.

The government is an important thing to have, but it needs to have limits.

"Simply because a person has a cell phone does not mean they’re wealthy. It means they chose to spend their money on one of the most useful inventions of the last century."

A cell phone costs how much? Usually $60-$70 per-month (sometimes more) depending on the plan. You don't need a cell phone. You can get a high-deductible individual health-care plan for that much. If you don't have insurance through your employer, it won't break your bank account if you get into an accident.

This article hasn't changed my mind about the protests.
In my experience diet is WAY more important than exercise. I bike to work about 3 miles so I get some moderate exercise but not a great deal. What really changed my body is when I decided to go vegan. I eat far healthier than I ever have and literally feel like my body can breathe again. I recommend everyone try to get more vegetables and fewer animal products into their diets, even if they don't really want to make the commitment to veganism.
What?

This idea by Obama's campaign folks is pretty transparent. Plenty of people donate time, money or expertise to politicians that they support. All political parties make overt requests for donations, whether in pure cash or other forms.

The link color on the blog seems to suggest the author's political opinions and reasons for writing the post. This is apart from all the rhetoric contained within the content itself.
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Was that written by a robot? Is it supposed to mean something? wtf.
Brad Cox, co-creator of Objective C, wrote a interesting response to "No Silver Bullet" in 1995:

http://virtualschool.edu/cox/pub/NoSilverBulletRevisted/
I fully agree that non-paid design competitions like the one mentioned should be banned and avoided by every professional - but unfortunately that's not what the post's about...

All the Lenin, propaganda, bolsheviks, Marxism references are bordering on pejorative, he even goes the length to say that public schools are "non-Constitutional government agencies". Yeah, let's save health and education for those who can afford it, that will make things much better.
Snowboarding is a tad out of reach with the drive to Tahoe, but not undoable. (Yeah, it looks quick on the map, but OH GOD THE TRAFFIC)

www.bayareaskibus.com helps with the traffic. You pay a little extra and then don't have to worry about driving. You can use the 8 hour round-trip to sleep, read your Kindle, watch movies, etc.

(I'm not affiliated w/them in any way, but I've used them ~15 times and am a happy customer.)
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I think this is an excellent essay. I would add: different people have different problems; the best ideas for companies come from people fed up with working around their problems; so the world needs a wide variety of entrepreneurs to move the ball forward.

I enjoyed my YC experience, but it was 100% male, IIRC. YC was for me a social exercise, and as in most social exercises, the more perspectives you can canvas the better; and YC participants started by women would bring new perspectives.

I would also encourage older people to give it a shot, too, but that's a topic for a different post.
How is it without a doubt superior? There are cases where innovation only takes off after the patent has expired. We don't know what the world would look like without IP protection, it may be better it may be worse but we just don't know.
It means "This is good, but it has a long way to go."
Good thing we have bash: a paragon of both simplicity and readability!
From bit to a heart beat - Twits to Music
Processed white flour has always been the worst for me.
Could be a bet on timing. Maybe they think IMVU was ahead of its time...
I'm guessing because no one has heard of those because no one wants to hang out at a virtual bar...?
New research shows removal of restrictions can decrease music piracy
Ask HN: Please stop overriding standard browser navigation keys with Javascript.
Google, I"m looking at you. Google.com changes the behavior of the cursor keys in input boxes to a behavior inconsistent with the rest of the Web and the rest of host operating systems.

Moreso, Google will capture and change the expected behavior of the arrow keys for scrolling.

Today I noticed that Google.com has overrided backspace, a shortcut for "Back" on every browser, including Chrome.

This is not cool. I use a laptop and rely on consistent behaviors of keyboard navigation on the web. I don't want to have to have to learn different (shoddily) implemented navigation patterns every time someone decides to change something.

This is a bad trend in my opinion. What does HN think?
Who were you speaking to? I just recently managed to convince my (Chinese) wife that trying and failing her own online business would be better than working as someone's slave in an industry she doesn't even like. And our friends here are too busy trying to live on the small monthly salaries they get to even consider taking a risk with a startup.

...let alone the fact if you have a successful internet startup, someone with more resources will make a carbon copy of it and there's not much you can do to shut it down.
According to the mayo clinic website[1] blood pressure actually peaks in the afternoon in healthy individuals. If your blood pressure peaks in the morning, they seem to be saying you may have a health issue.

[1]http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/blood-pressure/AN00391
Here's the printing press for the LA Times:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/06/many-la-times-...

It's hard to appreciate the drama of deciding to stop that enormous thing, pulp the hundreds of thousands of papers already printed, and re-print everything from scratch, without understanding the scale of the operation.
This program more or less implements a debugger, using ptrace to attach to its target, suspend it, then trampoline through malloc and dlopen (the routines a program would use to load dynamic libraries on its own behalf). This isn't far from what gdb would do if you used "call" to dlopen a library.
Awesome, this is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.
Chef uses Ruby for recipes, I propose using JavaScript. If the system itself was written in JavaScript, then writing recipes in it would allow for more flexibility.

(EDIT: perhaps having the ability to define recipes using a JSON only format would work as well)
What if you are at school (high or uni/college) and have killer design skills but no scores on the board with which to show you can follow through on a project? Competitions such as this aren't for everyone but there are plenty of opportunities to be had in participating.

Design (or coding for that matter) for its own stake is one thing. But if I am working with someone I want to see that they can do the job even when it isn't something that necessarily gets their blood rushing.
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It mentions that "the top %1 pay more than %40 of taxes," but I am pretty sure I've read that they make far more than %40 of all profits. [citation needed] of course.
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant [pdf, 2005]
I suspect it's because of Google Instant (a feature I don't really like), which has to interact with the server every time a key is pressed to ensure that the results are "live".

If you use the gear icon in the top-right of Google.com to go to "Search settings" and turn off Google Instant, it may fix the problem.
Couldn't click "Up" enough times on this.

The difference in productivity between a day preceded by a good night's sleep and one where I stayed up late then got up early are probably 50-75% for me.

Diet, exercise, weight loss, meditation, walking, music, etc. etc. etc... nothing has as much an effect on my mood and mental performance as sleep does.

I can literally eat butter until my knees buckle and as long as I get a good night sleep I'm good to go the next day.

I know none of this is cool like the people that are energized by a quick 13 mile run or 40 mile bike ride at lunch time... I'm not sure why I was dealt the hand of "sleep is the best thing ever", but I've learned to optimize for that and it has helped a lot.
>> I disagree.
I already said that. :) I was summarising our discussion.

You make good points, but I'll need to experience it myself when I get out of university before I'll be convinced.
Think the authoritarian government system deserves a bigger portion of the blame. When you don't have freedom of speech, it tends to kill creativity.
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That has little to do with creativity, and more to do with frugality.
Having never given up a child for adoption nor being adopted myself I certainly cannot agree or disagree with you categorically. However my contact with those how have been involved in such things has shown me that interest and involvement varies greatly depending on the people and what experiences they had.

edit what i replied to:

Considering he gave him up for adoption not sure why he would want to meet with him once he grew up. He is no more relevant than a stranger wanting to meet Jobs. And calling him his child is an insult to the parents that raised Steve Jobs.

Hope quoting a deleted message isn't against the rules, I didn't post the username as it appears they regret something about the post and deleted as is their right.
Interesting question. What if HFT algorithms become so efficient they are able to easily out-compete human trading decisions, such that humans exit the system altogether? What if the stock exchange becomes exclusively HFT algorithms competing against eachother on behalf of large funds, such that being a 'trader' is all about which fund to put money into (which algorithm suite to back)?

In such a thought experiment, what if the algorithms discovered more money could be realized by trading on a vector different to 'the current/future worth of a company'? Say a genetic algorithm determined that whether the share price ended the week's trading on an odd number rather than an even number is more important for predicting the future direction of the price on Monday. In the world of genetic algorithms, stranger shit has happened. What impact would this have?

I don't know much about trading, particularly HFT, so I don't even know if this is possible or realistic. I do love thought experiments though, and believe that HFT algorithms are currently trying to predict human responses to market events and act accordingly. Just wondered what would happen if they dominate a market such that human influence is negligible. So yeah, interesting question.
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I hope we can get discussion like this going on every lecture (if not here, on Reddit or in the official discussion forums). Do you have any pointers towards reading on translation strategies that are more "realistic"?
Hi, thank you for your inquiry. I'm one of the StackMob engineers that worked on this feature. The encryption is one-way and we are storing a hash only using bcrypt. We will update the post ASAP to be more clear.
I'm thinking Apple may start bringing out their own TV's/Loungeroom hubs.

They're known for their high quality displays and they already have a lot of the other technology that would be coupled with it - FaceTime, Siri, iCloud/iTunes, App store.

In fact, I think Siri and Facetime are both the key parts here. If you can get your TV to do things for you (eg book flights) and also use it as a simple communication point (FaceTime) - its in the realm of "future technology" that people think of when they imagine what's coming.
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I can tell from your profile that you were a high-level gymnast, so you have to know from first-hand experience that the difference between the before and after pictures isn't what 34 pounds of lean muscle mass looks like. Once you factor out the obvious attempts at manipulating the viewer (tanning, shaving, posing with muscles in an engorged post-workout state, etc), you are looking at maybe 5-10 pounds of muscle on the high end.
You probably have your contrast up too high. Try calibrating your monitor, MacOS includes a utility.
Now, how hard would it be to design a sort of minimal virtual machine that can run this in parallel with e.g. a Windows host OS? Distribute it via some existing delivery vector, et voila...
Haw. I wish I had a Mac.

I'm on a 1Ghz Dell laptop from 5 years ago. So the screen is... less than stellar.

I also have $280 to my name in total :P
Exercise is important, but I find the effects are way more beneficial when you do it early in morning as opposed to evening. It disrupts my sleep if I exercise too late
Were you referring to these guidelines? https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAppSec/Secure_Coding_Guidelines#...
Differences between PowerShell and other *nix shell variants are that PShell allows you to pipe full COM or .NET objects between processes or commends, rather than just piping the text files between different commands.

PowerShell vs cmd.exe PowerShell is actually a complete shell scripting language, that gives you full access to all of the .NET libraries and methods. It also has a rather nice IDE that ships with Windows as is. Also, you can use PShell of Exchange and other server automation, you can do remote scripting, and it has some pretty decent security controls baked into the system.
Sorry to say that, but implying that the "other" 99% are all just lazy asses is amazingly stupid.
... are you seriously positing it is "too hard" to start a business in China (the fastest growing economy in the world)?

> let alone the fact if you have a successful internet startup, someone with more resources will make a carbon copy of it and there's not much you can do to shut it down.

Because that never happens in the U.S? I can think of a number of examples just off the top of my head. But I'm worried I'm confusing your point.
Maybe. If so, we will tell you about it in our Post Contest blog post.
Super awesome. Is the green pattern you've used for the buttons available too? Thanks alot!
Love this site, I've been using these in last couple of projects.
Yes indeed. Thanks for the link...
This low rate may also have to do with biases extant in engineering / sciences etc. Couple that with YC's preference for hard-core tech founders ( a perfectly reasonable delimiter ), these results are not surprising.

You can see similar composition in YC leadership where Jessica is the only female partner ( http://ycombinator.com/people.html ) and from my limited understanding, she brings in a much needed balance to their approach.

A system that produces great results should perhaps focus on

".. but by the content of their character " - Martin Luther King, Jr.

This I think, pg emphasizes via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU
This is great. I needed a asphalt-like texture for a project and I made one using a site like this one, except with textures from the real world. http://www.mayang.com/textures/
Good to hear. Thanks for the response.

I'd be interested to hear about your timeframe for "forgotten password" and "password reset", it's not really up to a "minimum viable product" without that.
Sudoku puzzles are Assignment problems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_problem), and can be cast as Graph Coloring problems as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_coloring).

Although the performances reported are more than good, the discussion on brute-force algorithms omits that some of the cutting-edge research on the topic is in the Constraint Programming community (Sudoku is the typical example of the "all-different" modeling constraint).

One of the most commonly used algorithm used in Optimization (and in feasibility problems as well) is Branch and bound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_and_bound). Combinatorial problems of that size are relatively small and can be solved in fractions of a second by off-the-shelf commercial software and very little modeling work.
Using a compiler doesn't mean your code isn't written in the source language.
Apple used to have some parts that were standard, but with the direction they've taken the Macbook Air, I don't think it's got a single one left. Both the 2.5" hard drive and the optical drive are gone.

It's still made of standard components like the webcam and processor, but beyond some electronics it's all designed in-house. And the electronics may not stay standard on the low end, though I don't see them competing with Intel's chips in the Pro lineup.
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Definitely true that whole grains > processed flours. Oily and fried foods are also to be avoided where you can.
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and for what its worth, Jobs did hire a personal investigator in the 80s to find his mother. That is how him and his sister originally met, if memory serves. It is most likely a personal matter that made him not want to contact his father.