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I don't think any of your arguments are very responsive to Ferris's reasoning. For example, that it's "ludicrous" for him to gain muscle with so little gym time is not responsive to the argument that not allowing muscles time to recover retards growth.

Moreover, I think it's a misinterpretation to say that Tim is promising people, say, 2 hours of sleep per day by reading his book. His book is a documentation of experimentation by himself and others, and especially for sleep is partly theoretical. But his analysis on how to cut sleep time is still helpful, especially given the scheduling constraints Ferris recognizes for a 2 hour sleep schedule.
This is really awesome. Just an hour ago my wife and I were scanning through an extensive collection of tile-able background images she stumbled onto (http://www.flickr.com/photos/webtreatsetc/). While I really liked a lot of the background images there, what I really love about the images in the OP is that they're friendly to content areas with text.
Awesome patterns, very subtle but bring a lot to the page.
And thank god for that, birds would be falling out of trees all over the place!
actually the attribute syntax leaves a lot to be desired in terms of redundancy. First you have to quote the attributes (or put a : in front of them?), yuck. you need to use the => operator which is two times too big, and whats with the unnecessary outer braces?

non-idiomatic hamlet isn't far from that haml snippet (note you would never put bits of urls in the template as strings, instead you provide a url rendering function which converts the @{} bits into url strings):

<#gallery
<.screenshots
<ul
<li
<a href=@{View first}

idiomatic hamlet is much more focused on being a cleaner html for designers than it is trying to be a haml clone.
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Facebook doesn't technically run PHP anymore; they transform their PHP into C++ and run that because PHP is too slow.

https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php
that's pretty cool too!
It's like saying that Kinko's has an unfair advantage at making copies because it bought expensive copiers and regular folks have not.

Who's the one making copy machines artificially expensive so that Kinko's can afford them and ordinary folks can't?
Exactly. There is nothing that would stop us from making smartphones water resistant and shock resistant and sowing them into clothes. It’s not that we don’t do it because it’s impossible, we don’t do it because it’s a stupid idea.
The detail you mention is called the Flynn effect. Here is a link to a lecture by James Flynn, the discoverer of the Flynn effect, on the implications of that research.

http://www.psychometrics.cam.ac.uk/page/109/beyond-the-flynn...
Lots of weird stories, I posted this in another thread: "I was a little disappointed — Steve Jobs had indicated he'd write a foreword. But he'd never written a foreword before and I said, "Just write what we were like back then."

"We sent him the book and he said, "Oh, I saw some excerpts, and I'm going to decline writing the foreword." I don't know why because I'm nice to him, so there must have been something he didn't like."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/200...
LOL, here's what I just got when I tried to log in

'Ooops

Our servers are off having a quick coffee break. Wait a second and refresh the page. If you still get this message, we apologize and ask that you try again a little later.'
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There has been relative gain by a very important class of investors: individual retail investors. If you trade individual stocks for your own account, you've seen a steady decrease in the amount of spread that you have to pay to get your order executed and you certainly shouldn't be deluding yourself by thinking that you are competing with high frequency/low latency traders or that they will be somehow disadvantaging your orders. The people who are at the root of these complaints are the buy side institutions who don't want to invest in technology to improve their order placement and the older exchanges who are either also trying to avoid investment or who are struggling to protect obsolete business models. If the various proposals to limit the rate of trading are enacted, then spreads will widen out even for the large buy side players (perhaps even by an amount larger than what HFT is currently costing them), and the only winners will be the entities that want to remain fat, dumb, and happily protected by regulators.
IIRC, a few months ago there was quite a large discussion here on HNs about the reason you shouldn't do either of those.

Can't find the discussion, but there is certainly a fairly large body of people who oppose those examples as well.
>If true, this would completely change the balance-of-power in the Apple-Samsung legal battles.

Don't think that's true. Worst-case scenario is that Apple releases a firmware update that removes the switching functionality and forces the 4S antennae to behave like an iPhone 4 (assuming the functionality can be turned off by software). Patent litigation will then continue as before.
The page rendered fine on my machine, but I closed it immediately because I hate infographics, or rather I hate "infographics" in the current vogue. It's just like reading any other superficial journalism, except with somebody screaming in your face the entire time.

Now excuse me, I'm off to compose an innovative four-axis plot showing how Edward Tufte will spin in his grave under various future scenarios.
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Pretty weak journalism. The source article on ComOn mentions two "patents," but they're actually patent applications. One of them has gone abandoned, and the other has already issued as U.S. Patent No. 7,643,853: http://www.google.com/patents?id=QsvOAAAAEBAJ. There is no excuse for linking to a published application when it has already issued as a patent. There is absolutely no excuse for linking to a published application that's already gone abandoned.

It sounds like other U.S. and foreign patents may be in play here too, but the articles don't give us the foggiest idea which ones they actually are. Come on, people.
Thank you – this'll come in handy!
Why can't someone create a pseudonymous tumblr on... tumblr?
I'm not a defeatist. I'm a realist. The "you can be whatever you want to be" bullshit that kids are fed is destructive. It's not true. Not in the least. I'm all for more moderate formulations of that, such as "pay attention to what you want, not what others expect of you" and "value your integrity and creative freedom highly; money and esteem are unimportant in comparison". I can get behind those ideals. I do not think it is responsible to tell young people that when they are adults they will be able to define their role in society and have society say, "OK, sounds good, and here's the money to pay your bills". It don't work that way.

We have a generation of neurotic, emotionally stunted, psychological cripples in this country, and one reason for that is that we've had 40+ years of kids being told they could be whatever they wanted, only to reach bitter disappointment in adulthood upon discovering reality. Which means that normal lives feel like abject failure to them. If they grew up with lower expectations, they might not be so miserable.

Our parents weren't told this shit, because our grandparents grew up in the fucking Great Depression and knew better.

Every time you tell a kid, "You can be whatever you want to be", you're setting him up for despair if he ends up in an average job and social position. You're better off telling him that life is hard and full of compromises and that most of whether he succeeds or not is out of his control, so he should focus on the 1% he can actually control. I am all for inspiring people to do work they love instead of the work that is best-paid or most esteemed, but they need to be prepared for sacrifice.

I don't understand how someone's age precludes them from following their dreams.

Like it or not-- and I'm definitely in the "not" camp because I think it's disgusting-- in the work world people are judged on where they got to at what age. That's why this "follow your dreams" bullshit is so pernicious. It leads to people (after chasing rainbows for several years) working entry-level jobs at 30, which means they are very unlikely to be taken seriously ever-- they're too far behind.
Asana and Quora ditched PHP? Is it supposed to be news that a small tech company changed their architecture? Happens all the time.
Google forcing date of birth request on login.
Dynamic ram refresh intervals are mindbogglingly conservative, especially if you're not running near the upper-temperature limit. In other words, DRAM doesn't lose information anywhere near as fast as the refresh intervals might suggest.
Very nice job -- i particularly like the "organic" patterns (like black linen)
'ls' has -R too, if you really want to do it like that.

Of course, that form in Unix would not be suggested, because there are other far better (readable/concise) ways of doing that. (like the 'find' one someone else just gave you).
A non-shortened URL can point anywhere as well. The only way to "make an informed decision" is to put the URL in your browser—that goes for shortened and non-shortened URLs.
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I think the idea is that it could create an experience similar to Turntable in the sense that you can "socialize" with strangers in a safe way. Many of those strangers also may be famous or influential; there may be something valuable in an experience where you can virtually hang out with Mike Arrington.

It's cool having that kind of interaction on Twitter--and it's certainly more "human" on Turntable since you're all engaged in a common activity that occurs in real-time: listening to music. Unfortunately for Shaker (or so I predict) virtually hanging out (apologies for the oversimplification) is hardly the same thing as listening to music with other people. This sounds like a bet on a trend...
How in the world can you say there is no organized crime in North Korea? The entire government is a case study in organized crime and worse! The reason there is no "mafia" is because they're all in the government, or they're dead.
I've written loads of fabfiles and a subclass of Task a few times. I've also wrestled with Puppet and Chef and been resoundly defeated by both.

Fabric does what we need it to do for now for provisioning & deployment. And frankly you can make it do whatever you want. "Programmatic use of SSH" isn't something to be scoffed at; it's simple yes but it also lets you do whatever the hell you want very simply.
I've done this over 4 years straight. I'm on the UES btw.
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My perceptions might change in the future, but I think we still agree on these points:

>> But you have to pick and choose.

1. The less time you spend doing things you won't do great at, the more you have to focus on doing great things.

2. If you want to do something great, you have to spend effort. You must try to understand all aspects of it.

What we are disagreeing on is:

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

2. You are saying we have too many things to do, and have not enough time to do all of them great.

>> You might get a 8% raise instead of 5%.

Being pedantic here, but 5% is 0% and 8% is 3%, after inflation.
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Occupy is about an end to corruption and getting money out of politics

No no, the Tea Party is about an end to corruption and getting money out of politics. This is just about being a dick to people.
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Steve Jobs wasn't a product manager....
The greatest innovator (IMO) of China is Jack Ma from Alibaba Group en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma
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Google named his one Web Audio API and Mozilla named is one Audio Data API.

Mozilla's Audio Data API is available since FF4.

Web Audio API has been enabled in Chrome 13 or 14, before it was off by default. Probably appeared shortly after FF4 (?)

Such non-standardization sucks balls if you ask me.

These guys should make HTML5 standards and stick to it. Not make the standard evolve every NEXT day saying "oh look its what HTML5 is now!"

That's absolutely non-standard and annoying as hell.
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i found that the default white surround didn't help any. hitting "preview" I was actually able to see it even on my laptop.
Ahahaha. "Could". How about we don't publish unsubstantiated rumor based on some trash talk from the guy behind "Antennagate" until the device is actually available and we know what we're talking about?
Touche, jballanc.
I've been working on improving getting-started information for CFEngine 3. Check out www.verticalsysadmin.com/cfengine.htm - especially the "Getting Started with CFEngine 3" guide, and the "Guide to CFEngine Body of Knowledge".

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"How can programmers help the Occupy movement?"

Found start-ups and give them all jobs.
I think it's fair to say that in this crazy patent regime pretty much anything "could" infringe any number of patents.
I'm all about the iPad and iPhone, but Siri is not going to achieve that sort of success for a lot of reasons. Just wait and see. :)
This is great. The preview feature is clever.
For those getting started with Configuration Management, I would recommmend "Getting Started with Configuration Management" by Cory Lueninghoener (in April 2011 issue of USENIX ;login: magazine): http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2011-04/openpdfs/Lu...

and my own report from Configuration Management Summit last year: http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2010-10/openpdfs/Co...
What portability. I mean, Web Audio API is supported by only Chrome and Safari (so that's not "webkit". Sure Flash ain't better.
But hey! None of this is standardized.

And why should Gecko support Web Audio API? You see, they got Web Audio Data instead. Not compatible of course. None are standard.

So flash does beat them and HTML5 on that very topic.
Hm. Looks like I need to calibrate my display. I can't even tell the difference between a few of them.
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The point is, you could already integrate with Maps/Calendar/Address Book etc from the app.

Yes, the integrated Siri is going to be better, but is it going to blow your mind and revolutionise the world? No. Get back to me when it can understand a non-Germanic language.
> 2) Capital Gains tax: Income tax is progressive. Why not Capital Gains tax above 15%?

What's your goal?

During the campaign, Obama was asked if he'd raise the capital gains tax rate even if the result was less revenue. He said yes.

What is your answer to that question? What goal are you trying to accomplish with the capital gains tax?

And no, you don't get to assert that an unspecified "higher" rate or one with a different term would raise more money. You get to do the analysis. (I'm not claiming that the current rate is tax-revenue maximizing.)

Note that there might well be other goals. One is growing the economy. Another is "fairness". There is little chance that maximining more than one at a time is possible.
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Tile one, add a radial gradient, and you've got a killer desktop background/wallpaper.
Yes. B&N allows single issue purchase of BusinessWeek viewable on the nook and nook apps. Amazon only allows you to view it on the Kindle (and not the Kindle app either). $1.50 for a single issue, no subscription....it's a no brainer.
The vast majority (all?) of technical (as opposed to trade dress / design patents) Apple has asserted against Samsung are for software-only features (e.g. spring-back scrolling, slide to unlock, photo gallery swiping) and that strategy has been working well for them.

Even if Apple can get past the antenna patents with a software and/or firmware upgrade (something I'm more skeptical about because, among other things, redesigning your radio interface after release sounds reasonably difficult), that still keeps the iPhone 4S off the market for the time it takes for them to implement, test and deploy the upgrade, plus the time it takes Apple to convince the relevant courts (over Samsung's opposition, of course). Since it is October 10th, that's almost certainly going to seriously cut into the holiday shopping season (one of the reasons Samsung is sweating on their side, too).
Tim is very much a promoter and a sensationalist but you really should read the book before you knock the claims. He was pretty careful to document how he did the muscle growth thing, including weigh ins with a professor at SJ State.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/29/from-geek-to...
I meant a physical copy.
Very awesome. I like how the preview feature doesn't change the offset of the texture in the box, but just lets it appear outside that box.
This has always been the hardest part for me, finding a subtle background pattern that gives a little more than a flat color, but that doesn't have too much contrast such that it draws the eye from the text. I'm glad to have found a resource specifically designed for this common need.
No, they're drowning in debt issues too. Google "China debt" and you'll get an earful, one example: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/23/why-china-s... If you don't like that one pick your own.

Nobody got out of the last decade unscathed, China just covered it up better. Nobody's getting out of this one unscathed, either.
I have heard California described as the mecca of rock climbing, and of course there's plenty of surfing if you get yourself south. Santa Cruz mountains are famous for their mountain bike trails.

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)
You can hardware accelerate 2D transforms on iOS. You just do a -webkit-transform: translateZ(0); and it puts the element in the compositing layer.
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"Also, we encrypt user passwords on our servers and we never return a password in the result of any query."

Queue a link to _that_ bcrypt article...

I wonder if they've got a reason not to only store a hash? And if so, I wonder if they've got infrastructure secure enough to store your users passwords in an apparently retrievable form?

(I quite like Mozilla.org's guideline of storing the hashes in he database and the salts in the filesystem, to help ameliorate the consequences of an SQL injection attack...)
I was surprised at the range of blues (IBM, Intel, Facebook, GE), but I was also surprised how a few of the reds look identical to me (Lego, Coca-cola, CVS).
It's a trade-off for me. For the most part, exercising every other day has good short term and long term benefits for my productivity. But sometimes, just saying "fuck it", not eating, not exercising, and blasting through code for a few days gives serious short term gains.

It's not sustainable, and I've now learned when to quit, but the gains I get during those periods get are something exercising and being healthy just can't measure up to. Maybe I'm delusional
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This looks like the hardware kit that is used: http://www.adafruit.com/category/51
Spot-on. In the general case, patents do appear to serve their purpose in the US. It is not a perfect system, (see: software patents) but it is without a doubt superior to a total lack of IP protection.
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"Triangles" should be called "Parallelograms".
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Occupy Wall St is about whatever anyone is holding a sign up against and speaking against and that includes large corporations that are run by billionaires.

This would include Facebook.
Maybe requiring registering and stress testing of HFTs over a specific volume is a solution. Or as a cost of registering a
HFT is a requirement to "make the market" whether the HFTer likes to or not , there should be plenty of opportunities to hedge or offset any unwanted positions.
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I have to add a second priority: get enough sleep. For me sleep is more important to my productivity than exercise (though of course exercise helps with sleep).

I don't know if everyone is as dependent on a good night's sleep as I am, but I feel the effects of waking up even 30 minutes too early. Its like night and day (intended).
The financial corporations are the ones with the lobbyists.
Well, the downvotes got me to investigate further. It seems it was the Chrome extension JSON Inspector ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mfnjijpckfecpgchob... ) that was inserting the target="_blank" only on this page for the article's link.
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This is a great collection. I would maybe consider adding a custom color filter, and a custom text overlay w/ preview.. and maybe a sort by most popular/downloaded? Thanks again :)
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What does "it's a good start" really mean.
Lost in translation type differences in evaluating projects for people in US, Romania or the startup community.
A nice addition would be the proper background color for before it loads.
I thought that was tea party movement.

This is Occupy: http://fyiblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/protestseattle.jp...

Back to work, guys.
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A memristor TouchPad would've been really hot.

I wonder how these theoretical projects will survive in an HP that is only concerned with how much profit each project makes to appease shareholders...
I only have an ipod but these are for Steve...
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> so there shouldn't be much holding you back.

Four words: Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The US would likely block a Yahoo sale..
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