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I'm going to try to get through all of them

That's inspiring. I've been working through them all so far, albeit slowly. It's worth noting that later chapters have fewer exercises. The one I'm looking forward to most, Chapter 8, has less than a third as many as Chapter 1 does. Presumably they get less mechanical as well. I'd be content if I find enough time to "pay my dues" the slow way through the earlier chapters. When I was younger I used to scorn the mechanical stuff. Now I'm taking pleasure in it. We'll see if that lasts.

For those who don't intend to do all of them, here are some exercises I found interesting:

1.2: 3, 10, 11, 14, 15, 23

1.3: 4, 14, 17, 18 (that's about as far as I've got so far)

(Also, see my comments above if you don't have a way to look up those exercises by number - and especially if you have the Indian edition.)
This makes me wonder why there isn't a kickstarter for startups (is there?). You could "dock" your startup in one place, then people could decide if it's good enough to invest in, or even request joining your team.
You're right, but I think pivoting is a failure to admit defeat on many levels; from vc investment to execution. If I was in whatever Fund that invested in Color, I'd be pissed the f off.
There is the old saying "Actions speak louder than words." But that saying predates mass media, and the existence of schools in which one can learn marketing and political speech as actual formal degrees, and the rise of postmodernism and its ethic of relative truth making it permissible to pretty much say anything in the pursuit of a goal.

I would update it as simply "Actions speak, words don't." Perhaps somebody can come up with a more pithy version. But it's amazing the amount of BS that you can cut through with this metric, and just how unbelievably worthless the torrent of words coming from our politicians and businesses are. I mean, worthless on a philosophically profound level. Astonishing amounts of effort are burned on ensuring that words are as disconnected from reality as possible.

Facebook will say whatever they think will advance their agenda, only very loosely constrained by laws and with many educated people who know exactly how to skirt those laws with precisely-constructed vague statements that sound like one thing but legally say another. (The easiest and most popular are statements carefully qualified to in fact say nothing at all.) Meanwhile, their actions are clear as day: Track everything, expand their tracking as much as possible, and worry about the details later.
How much does Google Analytics “Premium” cost? (hint: over 100k/year)
> They are issues for Linux the brand.

> And for Linus's practice of letting distributions do
> whatever bloody stupid thing they want. I'm stunned that
> this one ever got into production in its current state.

Fixed that for you.
Why so much hate? Better access to data is generally a good thing. You could use it to build a proper argument on a political level, instead of resorting to this kind of snarkiness.
>he's just an overachieving asshole with no moral scruples.

real unbermensch would have so little interests to and so little in common with the normal people what you'd be happy if s/he would spent a second of his time on the interacting with normal people (even being asshole toward them)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludens_%28Noon_Universe%29

The speciation inside the human species continues. We've had several successive species of humans so far and there is no reason for the process to stop. Human evolution has been speeding up, and i hope to see signs of new humans in my lifetime (statistically i have about 40 years left). Ivy Leaguers mating to Ivy Leaguers only is a one way to go, though i'd bet more on the changes coming from human-machine integration and biomedical advancements as brain related changes seems to be the primary driver of human evolution.
The Arch Wiki (and Beginner's Guide) make it really easy to set up your system, especially when combined with the list of commonly used/installed applications.

It takes a bit more time to set up, since you're building your system from the ground up with exactly the applications you want. Once you do, though, you know your system inside and out, and you can customize it exactly the way you want it.

If you have a 'do-it-yourself' attitude, you'll love Arch. If not, you may be annoyed by having to set up things that Ubuntu sets up during the installation (major things like the DE/WM, and minor things like setting up international fonts). Personally, I appreciate knowing exactly what and where everything is on my system and not having the added bloat, hence the switch.
So, realistically, what could the top 10 expect? Top 50? Top 100?
Nietzsche isn't calling you a slave. He's saying that your morality is a slave morality. Meaning your moral system was invented by people who were, in fact, at the time, slaves.

How anyone feels about that is up to them. He mostly just wanted to point it out.
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What's a "7-like dock"?
I think I was in third grade when we were paired up with older kids, fifth or sixth grade, who were supposed to "help" us with our reading skills. It seemed like the guy I was paired with could barely read out loud. I remember wondering how he could possibly have made it that far. I've seen similar phenomena since. I've seen native English speakers around my age struggle with only moderately advanced vocabulary, including in college classes. It worries me a lot.

Just in case you wanted some anecdotal evidence to go with your claim.
Even if the public articulates its wants, we have to depend on our oh-so-reliable elected officials to write, pass, and enact legislation.
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Your post is a pretty thoughtful one, so thanks :-)

I don't think your analysis is right, though. Here's why.

You're equating

wealth accumulation at the top reduces wealth accumulation at the bottom

which is formulated as a principle (i.e., a "universal"), with

If, however, a wealthy person pays himself a fat bonus from his company, while cutting jobs in order to instill fear, increase production, and drive salaries down, has clearly increased his accumulation of wealth at the expense of those beneath him.,

which is just a particular instance.

Yes, of course you can imagine scenarios in which a particular wealthy person does something that causes a particular group of less-wealthy people to have less wealth at the time - like lowering their salaries.

In fact, I think that

wealth accumulation at the top reduces wealth accumulation at the bottom,

stated as a generalization, is the same as the statement "the economy is zero sum."
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Yes, it is more verbose. I don't think that SICP is a good introductory book (for all the well known reasons), though obviously I didn't know this at the time.
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That's a lovely sentiment, but it's not close to reality when it comes to the presentation made when pitching those early-stage employees to join a startup.

Imagine a founder talking to an engineer about their fantastic idea, explaining how huge the opportunity is, etc. etc. and that the engineer will earn experience and a close-to-market salary. And you'll have options, but they likely won't be worth much unless we become Google, Amazon or Microsoft.

Yeah, I can't imagine that conversation either.

The demand for talent makes this situation appealing only to those who really need the experience. The highest quality talent -- the ones you need for your early-stage startup to succeed -- can do better than this nowadays.
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What benefit would this provide over simply having an encrypted memory stick (or similar) containing all of the necessary account information and leaving the password with someone trusted (e.g., lawyer responsible for will, family member friend, etc)? (or, as troels suggests, leaving the password or even the stick in a safe)
I'm guessing that's the goal, but it's only going to be as good as the inputs provided by the different agencies.

For example, if you look for the time series I was after on data.gov, the "Download CSV" button brings you to...the BLS page, with all the problems I discussed.

http://explore.data.gov/Labor-Force-Employment-and-Earnings/...
Why does the Unity menu bar's File menu truncate the application name to "Firefox V"? Mac OS X shifts the menu bar to the right for applications with long names.

I'm assuming "Firefox V" was something like "Firefox Version 4", which isn't an unusually long name (especially for such a popular application and one that is a default application for Ubuntu). They shouldn't even include the version number in the application name. Joe User doesn't care.
It only hurts them in the long run if they're wrong about what people want. There have been many cases in the past where people raged against something new they didn't want, but the long term view demonstrated that they actually did want it. Potentially scary if this is one of those situations, of course. Certainly, people should have seen the writing on the wall long before this.
thanks a lot, very insightful. Had actually never heard about Jason Calacanis. Will check out his podcast and his blog, looks quite interesting :-) !

Would you remember any other blog/book/recommendation you read at the time ... ?
I currently work in Enterprise land and we outsource to India as well as bring some folks over to the states for a limited time. I used to work at a software company that did the same thing. Ironically, they both used the same company and when I interviewed at my current gig, there was a guy from my old software company gig! Completely blew my mind - talk about a small world.

I always wished there was some sort of partnership/job sharing where we could go to India for 6 months to a year. I think it would be an absolutely amazing experience.

I most likely wouldn't do it today as I own a home which I'm not interested in selling, nor renting out short-term.

In my younger/non-homeowner days I'd absolutely do it. It wouldn't be about the $ or the work experience, it would be for the life/cultural experience.
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Funny. I tried Emacs a few times but it was always that undo thing that kept me from sticking with it. Incidentally, it was also the undo that kept me from sticking with Textmate. At some point, I settled with Vim though. Lots more strangeness there, but at least undo works.
i detected no hate. only humor. and a bit of sting that usually comes from a kernal of truth.
I really like the idea. May use it for a couple of upcoming things I wanted to do.
Here is a perfect example of a troll artwork:

Build a straw man argument picking a useless example exploiting a known design limitation of a particular design choice and use it to tarnish everything about it.

Unfortunately this doesn't tell node devs anything new, fuels node haters and presents deceptive information to devs unfamiliar with event loops or the scalability problems inherent with Blocking IO.
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> The problem is we can't all work on every problem.

Which is exactly the point of a representative democracy. We elect other people to work the problems we can't. If they do an unsatisfactory job, then we should elect someone else.
Why would you want to apply for that many startups, simultaneously? Seems to me like they would all be working with wildly different technology solving wildly different problems...

I don't know about you, but I want people excited working with me.
I've been wondering about the connection between mental illness (specifically bipolar) and start up life now that I work at one, and find the experience very bipolar. The way I see this article (as someone who knows bipolar people and what they go through): if changing you diet helps (I've only seen it help friends of mine a tiny bit if at all), great, if not, please seek some other kind of assistance if you end it. I also give props to him for sharing, I wish there were more positive role models that suffer from mental illness.
Yeah. Cross platform availability is definitely a must these days. For some time, E-texteditor looked like it could be Textmate on Windows. By now it is just as much vaporware as Textmate itself, though. A pity, really.
This feels like blatant sensationalism to me.

This particular patent describes the process for 3rd party sites to tell Facebook about something the user did (new Open Graph API, anyone?), which subsequently can be shown as an ad to the user's friends, i.e. "Your friend blah has bought something on This Service, do you want to do so too?" (some peer context for ads, which facebook already tries to do for things like fanning pages).

This is quite different from the meaning implied by this post, which the first 2 quotes were addressing, that Facebook tracks and correlates browsing patterns of users across the internet without their consent.
Be careful with this though: if you have a merge ready to push, and you pull with rebase, your merge will be 'flattened' and all commits in it duplicated on your current branch. I've been bitten by this a couple of times.
After reading this: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2011/10/02/belle-vue-cl...

I would say no.
Last week, everyone lost their shit about Facebook's logged out cookies. Your traditional megacorp is going to say "oh well, so it goes, repeat the party line" and move on. Internally though, this spurred some engineers to actually investigate it, which lead to an audit, which lead to the discovery that we'd forgotten to delete the user id out of the cookies, which lead to a fix and a blog post and a clarification of our policies.

So, beyond understanding the skepticism, I actually think it's really important, and personally[0] encourage it. We're not going to get better at privacy if people don't jump our shit over every perceived misstep, because we've either failed to make the right decision, or we've failed to communicate our decision effectively.

All I'd ask is that we try to keep this communication as high signal as possible, and avoid going down roads with no plausible resolution[1]. I think that's best for Facebook, the internet, and discussion in general at HN.

[0] I speak for myself and not my employer, Facebook Inc, blah blah blah.

[1] If you think Zuckerberg is evil and that we're all just going to try to screw you, there's nothing I (or anyone else) can tell you that is going to change your mind.
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Thanks - fixed it!
We're still debating internally about how to match startups with top scorers. We want to include both applicant and company preferences.

Ultimately, I think we're going to have to wait until we see the distribution of scores before we make a decision. Secretly, I'm hoping there will be incredibly obvious cutoffs for bracketing, as opposed to some of the Dutch Auction ideas being thrown around.

With that said, if you're in the top 10, and want to interview all of the companies, I'm fairly sure we can arrange that.
I live in Switzerland, most people I know speak at minimum three languages fluently, and a huge proportion 4 or 5.
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If you're using Pulseaudio, replace

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with

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Another problem is keeping your backup passwords in sync with your day to day use passwords, especially if you're not going to die to 40-80 years.

Probably the best solution is to have something like 1Password set to automatically manage passwords, encrypted with a master password, and then disclose only enough information to get to the daily-use 1Password. Disclosing a single password like that is probably better accomplished in a paper will, stored with a lawyer/executor.

Although there's also some value in an "I'm dead" script which deletes porn, porn passwords, information about your affairs, criminal activity, compromising photos involving porn and crime and drugs, the Guatemalan second family you support, etc., before turning over things like facebook passwords to next of kin.
Yes, I agree. My post was worded very poorly. Thank you for the corrections! I didn't realise that Apple didn't force the HIG. I do enjoy the care and thoughtful interface decisions.
How horrible. When asking an adult for proof of date-of-birth we clearly say "Because you can't come in and buy beer until you're 21". But kids don't get that respect.

There's no worse way to handle this. It teaches kids to lie and there's no reason a less-than-13yo shouldn't have access to email anyways. Yes, it is the law, but it's just wrong.
At CodeEval.com you only solve challenges for the companies you're actually interested in. :)

Here are some cool ones in case you're interested:

http://codeeval.com/public_sc/48/ => Milo (a eBay company)

http://codeeval.com/public_sc/55/ => lolapps

http://codeeval.com/public_sc/47/ => deviantart

http://codeeval.com/public_sc/37/ => Ampush Social

http://codeeval.com/public_sc/6/ => Factual

http://codeeval.com/public_sc/10/ => Asana
Until these pre-branded domains are actually bought and used, it seems like such a waste. There have been so many domains I would have loved to purchase that are blocked by some "value-adding" gimmick.

At first, it's interesting. But think about it. Pre-purchasing domains throwing a brand on top is really as bad as implementing a software/web application without doing any market research. Chances are it's really not what people want. Unlike dead software/web apps, however, these domain names become worse than useless by block others from making something great.
> If Facebook is "lying through its teeth" it will only hurt them in the long run.

Because after all, we see corporations being punished every day for lying by the powerful and effective consumer protection organizations in the United States.
That's neither a machine or a method of doing business, so it's not patentable. It doesn't help the argument to pretend the patent system is even broader than it is. This patent isn't on "SEO for press releases", it's for a machine which performs a process including an expert system which evaluates rules to provide keyword suggestions... etc. Unless your machine works the same it doesn't infringe. The idea is not what's protected.
Same here. It's lacking a bit of... Color.
yes but they are useful, or does anyone else know better stats how much mobile developers earn? apparently majority of mobile app developers don't earn enough money to cover their opportunity costs or development costs.
My take on it:

If both the rich individual and the poor individual are competing over the same scarce source material (eg Petrol, Rice, Real Estate) then the market will elevate the price of that material to the highest level that the rich will bear.

As the price of the scarce resource increases, the poor get driven from the market. If the rich were not so rich, the scarce resource wouldn't be priced so high.

This doesn't hold true for things which aren't really scarce, such as newspapers or software.
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Is there a way to force a cache update or does this limit you to (at most) one daily new item?
He named the business with the same name I pitched.
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So here's the deal: Right now I am in college and due to a maelstrom of recent events including difficulty in non-cs and -math related courses, I'm really not sure that I want to continue studying at a university next year.

While I thoroughly enjoy my computer science and math courses, I find that I just can't keep up with the class. Take my calculus-based physics for example. I'm sure that, given enough time, I could make it through the course and learn everything I need to know; but because I am working and taking 4 other courses, I just don't have that time. I feel that I would benefit a lot more from teaching myself these courses one at a time, i.e. finishing Calculus before I take calculus-based physics. I probably should have registered for the algebra-based course, but it's too late to do that now.

What kind of repercussions (career-wise) would there be if I decided to drop out of school and learn on my own? I might consider coming back after a few years of working full-time, but I really don't know. Is it worth paying for school if I don't feel like I'm gaining as much as I can from it?
According to a friend who works with them, the MP is the "entrepreneur" who received funding though he brought in others to run it. He earned cuts on both ends, essentially. Yes, very shady.
How much of this is exaggeration? Of course there are outliers, but when thousands of people applying to top schools show such incredible backgrounds and achievements, I have to wonder about the accuracy of some of their claims.

The top schools are fooled from time to time, as evidenced by some high-profile cases at Harvard College in recent years. All of the following examples could be considered "super people" -- a published author, a valedictorian and essayist, a standout student with impeccable grades. Yet all three were exposed as plagiarists, and one of them pulled off a series of cons based on fabricated records and lies.

Blair Hornstine:

Following a widely-publicized report that Hornstine had plagiarized material in articles she wrote for her local paper, the Harvard admissions office has rescinded her offer to attend Harvard in the fall, according to a source involved with the decision.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/7/11/harvard-takes-ba...

Adam Wheeler:

In Middlesex Superior Court, Wheeler conceded today that he dishonestly gained admission to Harvard by fabricating SAT scores, falsifying letters of recommendation, and forging high school and college transcripts. He also admitted to plagiarizing essays and a research proposal that earned him a Hoopes Prize, Sargent Prize, and Rockefeller research grant while he was a Harvard student.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/12/16/harvard-wheeler...

Kaavya Viswanathan:

A recently-published novel by Harvard undergraduate Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” contains several passages that are strikingly similar to two books by Megan F. McCafferty—the 2001 novel “Sloppy Firsts” and the 2003 novel “Second Helpings.”
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/4/23/students-novel-f...

Note that these are people who were caught. Surely there are others who weren't, either because no one bothered checking their claims or they were smart enough to keep a low profile once they were accepted.
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If that happens to everyone in the marketplace, then inflation just occurred. The market had a total of $100 + $50 and now has a total of $150 + $105. The cash in the market increased by 58% so all the price of all goods will also increase by 58%.

This means that the money I have is now worth less than before, and I am now poorer than before.