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I never exercise. I hate exercising.

I do dance several times a week, however, and like to walk around/be jittery so I hope that helps me stay in shape. I don't stay in the house much -- it makes me depressed.

Essentially I'm getting a kick out of using my body to move me around, make it do things. And I keep a daily chart of weight that helps me intuitively feel when to stop eating. Right now I'm at around 78 kg at 189cm which feels good.

My new favorite exercise would be punching people who tell me to eat more in the face.
>Most "objectivists" are intellectually unoriginal. They've taken Ayn Rand's philosophy literally because it sounds good to an adolescent mind and is illustrated with reasonably well-crafted stories, not on any actual merits.

Do you realize that some of the leading Objectivist philosophers have studied all other schools of philosophy, can speak about it freely, and understand it deeply? Would you posit that said Objectivist philosophers have adolescent minds?

Are you familiar with Mr. John Allison IV? He is an Objectivist and former CEO of BB&T (BB&T Corporation (Branch Banking & Trust) (NYSE: BBT) is an American bank with assets of $157 billion (March 2011)).

"Reasonably well crafted stories, with no actual merits"?

>Yet objectivism as usually deployed is nothing more than apologism for the existing, status quo, corporate elite: one that houses few intellectuals and no artists

You are absolutely wrong and have said nothing factual. No true Objectivist apologizes for the corporate elite - especially if said corporate elite earned its elite status through pandering to government and the status quo.
As for artists, are you familiar with, for example: http://www.cordair.com/? Would you not call that art?

>I would actually prefer socialism to corporate capitalism driven by private-sector social-climbing and bureaucracy. Socialism may tax the most productive in order to feed mediocrities.

I would prefer neither - because neither system protects the individual. Both systems eventually fail - one being far more nefarious in its crony and duplicitous ways. At least the Socialists didn't hide what they were after.
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That knowledge is pretty hard to come by even if you know how to code, so not having thought computationally .. ever .. makes for a really bad PM.

Computational thinking and prototyping skills are the key, even if you use another human to do the prototyping, knowing what to bother protyping and how to learn from the prototype are all very important for a PM. If you dont have those skills, you don't have the means to discover the limits of what you know about the area your product grapples with, and to grow.

Steve Jobs, I believe, was very good at both.
There are also lots of libraries for powershell that make it very easy to do things. For example MS provides a great way to manage Exchange via powershell. You can even go so far as getting a GUI in powershell.

As a sysadmin I use powershell for quite a few automation and management tasks on Windows servers. It is nice to have a interface to the server that I know will always be on the server and will update by itself. There is no need to install a third party scripting language just to script simple things that are difficult to do in the standard windows command line.
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Your team looks great! Just wondering, what's a typical quote you give for a project? I'm not looking to have anything built at the moment, but possibly in the future!
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There is no such thing as 'actual business value'. The very definition of value is based on perception; something of value is something people want. The closest concept I can think of to what you mean is "book value", which comes with its own set of drawbacks.
Now... what if you are a Product Manager in charge of lazy, lazy developers?

Ok, so let's be fair. I'm sure there are totally lazy teams of developers out there. But somehow, I doubt that's the case as often as the author thinks it is.

"I don't need to know how to code. Why aren't you listening to me?! Must be laziness on your part."
I like to think of the relationship between a developer and the user of their software as being a bit like the relationship between a doctor and their patient. One of them has a problem and the other one has special skills that will enable them to fix it.

Having a person (of whatever job title) between a developer and the user is a bit like having a patient telling the nurse what's wrong with them and the nurse then passing along that description to the doctor so they can write out a prescription.
My father likes to use the quote, "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right."

This is a Henry Ford quote and seems to apply to this situation. You can either believe you can 'follow your dreams' or believe following dreams is reserved for a select few others.

Jobs didn't say everyone can become a billionaire. He said everyone can follow their dreams. He's right.

>> By his late 20s, he was at the point of never having to work again. He could work for fun.

He had been working for fun from the beginning.
If you're going to do something, do it as best as you can, otherwise don't do it so you don't waste your time.

This sounds good and I like the work ethic, but it's not the most strategic approach.

There's something immensely rewarding about doing a really great job at something, about building something that's truly great. Aesthetic completion, perhaps? I would personally much rather work in that way as well: always able to take the time to write great code, never having to do deal with legacy bullshit or ill-considered external demands that compromise the quality. But is that practical? Not for most people. Steve Jobs could pull it off. He was rich and didn't need to keep his job at Apple (one that he'd already lost in '85) so he could actually do great work, and insist on the same from others.

The strategic approach is to pretty much stop at "good enough" and move on to something else. That's what most people do at work, and I don't like it but I understand why people work that way. Doing one really great thing is much more rewarding, but it doesn't build a CV, and it only makes a career if a person has a lot more creative control than most of us get. CVs and reputations are built by sticking as many fingers in as many pies as possible.

School doesn't prepare people for this. I've worked at a number of companies that consider a 3.9+ GPA a negative in hiring because people with excellent grades tend to be those who insist on doing great work, not the mediocre work (in more quantity per unit time) that most jobs actually require.
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The irony of Occupy being organised on Facebook is wonderful.

Will Gap provide the t-shirts?
Eliminate futures

This statement is almost identical to "Eliminate automobile insurance", for reasons you don't understand. General advice: Don't speak on that which your ignorance is total.
Reminds me of the course I took at Berkeley where the homework was issued as PDF files. Not just any PDF, though; these were designed to be submitted back after you had filled out the form blanks in the file. They used the latest and greatest Adobe extensions to the standard to submit the data over HTTP directly from Adobe Reader, which of course meant that those of us with Macs couldn't use Preview and people on Linux were just plain screwed.

I made as much noise as I could about an electrical engineering course at Berkeley all but requiring Windows, but it pretty much fell on deaf ears.

I don't think I ever managed to clean all traces of Adobe crud off of that poor Mac.

What bothers me the most about Adobe's free player/viewer applications is that installing one of them automagically gets you a copy of AIR and a bunch of auto-update crap. They go against pretty much everything Apple's user experience guidelines recommend, as if they're going out of their way to make us feel like we're back on Windows 98. Gah.
By "average", I meant "of average means". Whether there are "average people" is a silly argument. When I said "average people", I meant "people of average means".

If "average people" means "people of average talent and ambition", then we're talking about people who neither have the talent nor desire to do what Jobs did, so the discussion's irrelevant.
As much as I hate just citing a logical fallacy, that's a nonsequitor. You "own" the name because... you can't program in it after what must have been entire hours of effort? If we're going to go down that route at all, that's an argument that you don't have any right to the name, since you've put next to zero effort into it.

Of course, the real reason is that no, you don't own the right to the name, in any sense, but hey hoo, carry on, whatever.
Steve Jobs must have had a understanding about programming, it makes just no sense otherwise.

He was maybe never an active coder, but i can't believe he doesn't understand code itself. It is a skill you can learn in a day and he never was curious about this in 30 years of software industry?
Awesome... is Google Chrome the only browser with this API level?
Following the Vietnam era, planners began to fear that the US would never again go to war. War was just to messy, too cruel, too close to home. It created amputees, homeless vets, PTSD, etc.

The public's distaste for war was not of a moral nature, it was a byproduct of an increasing standard of living. Life was easier, people saw less suffering and death, expected more from life, etc.

As with the space program, America's worship of technology could be leveraged to build super weapons... but only if those weapons led to "hygienic" war in which Americans didn't have to see the horrors firsthand.

So our defense contractors built smart bombs, highly accurate missiles, etc. UAVs are just the next step.

The future holds both precision insect-size (or smaller) attack robots, as well as massive space-based lasers (the death star was uncannily prescient) aimed at earth and able to vaporize nearly anything that isn't heavily armed.

All of this will be controlled by a smaller and smaller class of military personnel. Gone will be the days of recruiting welfare recipients to enlist.

The debacle over "Star Wars" as envisioned by Reagan was mostly b/c the technology wasn't mature enough at the time. But just as George W. Bush jumped at the chance to wage two large wars (b/c the public momentarily would consent) there will come another moment for space based lasers, and we can be sure that our planners will not let that opportunity go to waste.

The recent stories about the drone fleet being pwned, followed by the stories about the Chinese building drones, are designed to get the average person to say "Darn it we need America to be a leader in Drone tech, let's spare no expense to have the very best".

Nowhere in the trajectory toward space based lasers and assassination drones is any moral concern likely to emerge. Why? Because when war is hygienic nobody realizes that it's ugly and worthy of moral reasoning. The discussion becomes about the merits of one technology vs another, one nation's tech vs another, not about what horrific purposes these devices will actually be used for.

So your point is well taken. And it is not lost on our planners. Have you ever wondered why Rumsfeld made such a big deal about saying "Damn it, the US will torture whomever it likes!". Not b/c this was new policy, or b/c he wasn't well aware that his remarks would create a shitstorm. He made the remarks to distract everybody (hawks and human rights activists alike) from what was actually happening. It worked incredibly well. Finally he resigned to leave the impression that he'd been somehow a loose cannon and not a master player in an amazingly well executed propaganda campaign.
And he was an adopted child, whom wasn't exactly born into a super-privileged family:

"Jobs was adopted by the family of Paul Jobs and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian) who moved to Mountain View, California when he was five years old.[1][2] Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, Patti. Paul Jobs, a machinist for a company that made lasers, taught his son rudimentary electronics and how to work with his hands.[1] His adoptive mother was an accountant.[18] Asked in a 1995 interview what he wanted to pass on to his children, Jobs replied, "Just to try to be as good a father to them as my father was to me. I think about that every day of my life." When asked about his "adoptive parents," Jobs replied emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents." [18]"
-From the Wikipedia article on S. Jobs
Does something like this exist for the ML class?
Honestly, this is one of the reasons I quit my job to launch a startup.

If I'm feeling blocked, I can take the day off, go for a 200km bike ride, and reboot my brain in the mountains. And no-one call tell me not to (ok, except the wife).

It's a potent combination of meditative thinking time, vitamin D, & suffering-induced endorphin high.
RIP Steve.
My career got a boost because of technology you created.
I wonder what you would have created if you had lived another 10 or 20 years
Doesn't the life of Steve Jobs discredit your argument?

From what I understand of his life story, he came from
"average means" and achieved his success through his own creative capabilities.
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A friend and I created http://occupycalendar.org for communicating about Occupy events.
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I just moved to the bay area last December so I don't know all the best places yet, but you can do everything you just described very easily in SV.
"He embraced first-handedness or independent thinking: a primary orientation not toward others’ opinions, but toward reality as you see it."

This is such a simple concept, but it is probably the most rarely employed thought process in all of society.

Original thoughts are rare and usually lucky. No reason to look down on anyone for being original - there's nothing new under the sun. Independent thinking, however, is far more rare then it has to be.
Just FYI, on this site you reply by hitting the small "reply" link under someone's comment. It's all threaded.
You can either believe you can 'follow your dreams' or believe following dreams is reserved for a select few others.

It's between those two extremes. If I decided my dream was to be a movie star, I'd be out of luck.

He had been working for fun from the beginning.

He did something really smart. He started working (for fun, as you said) before he had to. At 20, it would have been socially acceptable for him to go back to college. Since he was working but didn't have to work, he could achieve a lot. This, combined with the luck of being substantial after a few years of working life, enabled him to "work for fun" for probably most of his work life.
Google still has a very long way doing an adequate translation between a language such as Chinese and English. I'd be surprised if Google was taking such a pedestrian approach in solving that particular problem.

As it stands, languages such as Chinese are intrinsically implicit in nature. In fact, the more adept at the language, the more you can express with less. If you follow the literature back a couple thousand years, the amount expressed in a few characters is absolutely astounding.

If you take the example they use at the bottom regarding wonton, it's down right criminal to map the grammar in such a hurried manner. For one, just from the romanization of wonton, the AI should be able to gauge that it's looking for 2 characters and not 1 (1 character per syllable). However, in the case of the menu, the wonton egg drop soup drops a character to save some space.

Taking a straight forward CFG approach will never result in an accurate translation. What may work well is to do multi-pass contextual analytic processing in parallel.
Sometimes the goal of military action is not conquest. Well timed assassinations are hugely powerful (by foreign and domestic groups). One look at the presidential motorcade (or at the entourage of machine gun carrying thugs that accompany politicians in 3rd world countries) should make that quite clear.
Here's an example, find all files recursively that are over 100k

ls -r | ?{$_.Length > 100*1024}

Doing this in Bash or CMD would be annoying (certainly doable though!), especially the recursive part.
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Hate to burst anyone's bubble but Tim Ferriss is selling snake oil.

The 4 Hour Body is roundly and deservedly mocked on bodybuilding forums. Its claims are completely delusional. Among them:

# How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time

# How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested

# How to triple testosterone and double sperm count

# How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks

# How to reverse "permanent" injuries

This kind of stuff only fools people who don't have prior information to compare it to. For example, the "incredibly high" level of testosterone he is talking about is in the 600 ng/dL range, which is a normal level. It is an expected number, and the variation he observes is completely within the range of natural fluctuations. Testosterone peaks and falls.

It is also impossible to gain 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days with that level of testosterone. In fact, it would be impossible for anyone other than a professional bodybuilder coming back from a layoff (it's quicker to regain if you've already achieved it before) WITH high doses of anabolic agents including testosterone, pushing massive weights.

(Injectable testosterone esters have long carbon tails which means the molecules take much longer to be broken down. This jacks up testosterone levels 24 hours a day, without the peak/fall of the normal cycle. This vastly increases the window for protein synthesis.)

Just look at the claim: 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, which is over a pound a day, in less than 4 hours in the gym. This is almost 9 POUNDS OF MUSCLE per one hour of exercise. Completely ludicrous.

Sleeping 2 hours a day? Sure. Forget 8-minute abs, we've got... 7 minute abs!

Being able to run 30 miles after 3 months of training? Are we onto this BS yet?

Those injuries you've got, they aren't "permanent"! Note the scare quotes. It's just in your head, and if you don't get these fantabulous results, it's your own fault. Lazy bum.

There are similar problems with the 4-hour Workweek. Just look at all the publicity for it -- it was a CONSTANT media blitz where Ferriss was working around-the-clock to promote himself. And he's been doing that for a long time; his self-promotion is a full-time job in itself.

It's the same old story with all the so-called financial gurus. They ALL get rich by selling you a book about how you can get rich quickly and with barely any work.

Anyone who's ever done any programming or writing knows how little 4 hours is. As a weekly investment, that is NOT the path to mastery or startup success.

You can't even be a successful snake-oil salesman with 4 hours per week, as evidenced by Ferriss himself. It takes lots of work and dedication.
Indeed. I urge everyone to be vigilant with flagging, since "groups of people with agendas" are one of the things which HN needs a strong immune response against.
Actually come to think of it, I bet IBM's G2 system would work amazingly well with translation.
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Agreed. It's a bit naive to think they assembled this at the last minute.

With that said, having a whole issue dedicated to someone in this manner (photos, quotes, no ads) is still pretty awesome.
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#1: You've moved the goalpost. You "asked" how to boot a Mac from a USB stick, not for instructions on creating a bootable USB stick to boot an operating system not specifically intended to boot on a Mac.

#2: That a particular kind of computer has certain requirements for booting that are not, by default, met by certain operating systems, has nothing to do with freedoms. The requirements aren't hidden, they're publicly documented, and can be easily accommodated by those operating systems if their developers desire.

From my perspective, it seems like you're arguing that Apple restricts freedom because it doesn't follow 80s-era "standards" for partitioning and booting, but instead follows the newer EFI/GUID schemes. I find such a stance more amusing and ironic than credible, particularly considering Intel is largely responsible for both.
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Great points. Lately I've been cramming workouts right before work or lunchtime. Lots of general health ane energy benefits.

For boring married folks like me, I would add family time every day is important.
From what I understand of his life story, he came from "average means" and achieved his success through his own creative capabilities.

Ok, I agree with what you are saying, but a few things are worth attention.

First, he made a very smart decision. He started working before he had to, which meant that he could start attacking problems that interested him and working in ways that would enable him to grow right away. This may be a "secret" advantage of dropping out of college; you can start working before you have to do so because of social expectations, and therefore you get to do better work. Having to work is one of the biggest obstacles most people face in their working lives, because it means they can't concentrate on the best work.

Second, the 1970s in Silicon Valley was an atypical time when a 20-year-old nobody was taken seriously by highly influential people. That era has come and gone. The only 20-year-olds who can get sit-down meetings with partners at Sequoia in 2011 are those with rich parents. We may have a more open society in the geographical aggregate, but our world is much more closed than Northern California was in the 1970s.
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Hmm, in the greater world of software project delivery, I actually see this as a problem of misaligned incentives.

People will go ahead and make poor long-term decisions that inflate technical debt and eventually cause product to die largely because they can disassociate themselves from bearing the consequences. You know, like moving on with their lives after the project goes into production and when the problems start emerging.

I've seen this happen with many projects which I was part of. Managers telling me with a straight face that technical debt does not matter. Engineers caving to managerial fiat to ship features which the contract did not hammer down.

All software system failures are human failures. If your company culture, leadership and processes can prevent this, kudos. :)
I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the expletive in the title. This seems to be a doctor that is intent on finding the answer using the scientific method. Why provide a commentary until he reports his results? What happens he he proves part of us lives in a spirit realm? What happens if science somehow proves there's a God? I think this is very much like the current brouhaha over the faster-than-light particles at the LHC ... Either there's an error in the experiment or we don't understand physics the way we thought we did ... And either there's a scientific explanation for NDE or there's a facet to our consciousness we don't understand. But either way, let's continue the studies!
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