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> The point is […] utilize possibly useful modifications […]

The ideology which spawned the GPL is that systems should be open. When a consumer buys something like the Kindle, he or she should be able to make changes to the system, i.e. rebuild a modified version of the OS and use that instead of Amazon’s original version.

The GPL is an ingenious way to transform the world of closed software to one where instead it is open, case in point being the Kindle, where Amazon decided to build on source already out there, and due to the license (GPL) in turn has to make their device more open than had they e.g. used BSD licensed software.
Maybe the BBC writer can't read Dutch? They certainly can't write English judging by the clunky headline.
There's no paradox. Some of my favourite apps on my iPad/iPhone: Garageband, Brushes, Camera+, TabToolkit. That is just what I use personally. If you have the skills you can produce high quality results.

Certainly you cannot do as much as a regular PC. But I don't know why some people think these devices are 'just for consumption'. Maybe they just have no imagination.
> So, it's okay if Apple collects your personal data instead of some criminal? Sure is hypocritical.

Criminals: steal tens of thousands of dollars from your bank account. And you may well be stuck with the losses. Apple: knows a bit of your personal information. So yeah, those are comparable.

And computer training? Another stupid idea that demonstrably doesn't solve the problem. People have been trying that since at least the windows 95 era. Strangely, there are still bot nets, viruses, malware, spyware, electronic theft, etc. But I'm sure it's going to really work any day now.
There is little correlation in the US between per pupil spending and academic results. More so, increasingly public school expenditures are going not to teachers and basic supplies but administrative staff. The problem is not that we aren't spending enough money. The problem is that we aren't spending money on the right things.
I haven't seen a solution to that problem, yet. Closest I've seen is this site: http://whatispolymath.com/
You seem to mainly address universities, which were out of scope for this article. OECD PISA is measuring 15-year-old students. There is a huge difference in the level of teaching at compulsory schools and universities in Finland.

"People are not much interested in learning in schools" is a gross overstatement and generalization. There are those who are very motivated, those who are not motivated at all and the majority who fall somewhere in between. I saw firsthand how even the least motivated students were engaged by one really good biology teacher. Everyone was interested when the teacher did his job well. On the other hand, with terrible teachers even the best students tended to zone out. I imagine this is the same everywhere in the world.

As for the needs of individual pupils, I couldn't agree more. When I first entered school I already knew how to read and add numbers together. I was not allowed to progress at my own pace, and subsequently got really, really bored twiddling my thumbs during those first few years.

I think this catering to the lowest common denominator and lack of individual care is something that the Finnish school system really suffers from. Sadly with all these articles out many observers seem to think the Finnish school system is infallible, and they're only aiming at replicating the success of Finnish schools instead of thinking how to do even better.
People only learn the value of backups when they have their first significant data loss. This is their time.

Multiple copies, multiple locations.
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Well sleep time for your body is "detox time". Body fat is one huge deposit of "toxines". This only gets burned when you "fast" / don't graze for a while and energy is obtained from those deposits. This alone would mean, more sleep = more burning. That's also why people doing one variation or another of "intermittent fasting" are getting great results, as they extend that phase well into daytime as well. I know I know, citation needed.
You don't consider language important in conveying ideas, thinking, etc?
Does she also have a problem that Amazon takes the lions share of the remaining money, instead of it going to the authors? Amazon is just another MITM - a facilitator of getting product to consumer.

Same argument with the kindle, right? "Amazon got their benefit when they sold her a device"?

Perhaps she doesn't realise that the App Store is the same kind of service that Amazon provides - after all, the Kindle is also locked down. You have to do Frowned-On things to read your other ebooks on it.

Perhaps you should inform her of this, and watch her mental model break yet again.
What is shocking to me is that if I were working in say the automobile industry and I make a highly customized bike, these kind of clause would mean that my employer owns all of that.

Some may argue since I have paid for the components and not the company that would save me, but to be fair the programmer paid for his/her laptop/desktop, servers (if any), maybe even some programming tools. Does having most of the stuff to make a side project come for free make me eligible for giving up my IP to my employer? This is just insane.
Or maybe they just love the job and think that the legal dept is a dick but that does not overshadow their love of the work being done at this company.
If you say No Child Left Behind pushed teachers to teach to a test (easy) rather than teaching critical thinking, etc. (hard) and then you say No Child Left Behind failed to deliver any statistically significant impact on test scores, aren't you just saying teachers can't even teach the easy stuff?

How do you think they can teach the hard stuff if they can't even move the needle on the easy things (in this scenario of yours)?
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That's OK because the more ripped you are, the less clothes you need to wear =)
Posting this from a throwaway account for obvious reasons, feel free to include same/different experiences or offer suggestions.
I spent hours playing mastermind as a kid and this modern day re-incarnation is a really nice twist on the theme.

Mastermind was a nice primer for Sudoku, and probably those that are good at solving Sudoku are good at solving problems involving constraints in general.
1. Take more risks.

2. Don't be afraid to fuck up and keep going, provided you learn why you fucked up and don't do it again.

3. A good sign that you've done something really worthwhile is that at least one person is pissed off at you. A good sign you've done something really stupid is that a lot of people are pissed off at you.

4. Nobody has a clue about anything. Even the super popular speakers at DefCon. If someone tries to tell you they have a clue, it's because they haven't yet realized they don't.

5. Follow your instinct. If you are bored or unhappy, figure out what's causing it, and change that. Oh, and take more risks.
I'm fifty, and there's so much more I want to do, so many things I want to see, and so many things I want to build.

I love life - and I live pretty much every day. There are loads of things I have to do, but every day I take some time to do some stuff I want, and it's great.

Do you really not care if you die at fifty? When you're 45, will you still say the same? What about when you're 49?

Would you be content to be told you have a year to live? Have you done everything you want to do?
Tech specs:

5Hz clock cycle.

8 general purpose registers.

32kb of memory.

19 instruction non pipelined architecture.

"not fast, but lights blink and it makes noise."

Respect :)
Tell PG: Thanks for the change to the "title" on each page
Just wanted to say that I've noticed the change to the page titles, putting "Hacker News" at the end instead of the front, and it's a huge improvement for me. Now I can see which tab is which, and when you have dozens of tabs open, it really helps.

Thanks PG.
I signed a similar clause, and while I probably could have balked and gone elsewhere, it is literally the only aspect of my employment that I don't like.

The people I work with are brilliant (which I knew going in), I am paid very fairly, my bonuses are tied directly to my personal performance, I have flexible hours, and complete autonomy to do whatever I need to get my job done.

If I _need_ to purchase a $10,000 server to do my job, I just buy one and expense it at the end of the month. I _might_ have to explain the need when someone sees the expense, but that's par for the course. If I need to buy a USB drive to get my work done, or a relevant book, nobody will bat an eye at it.

Also, I haven't chanced it, but I'm guessing that my employer would only exercise control if I built something related or tangential to our core product. If I made an IOS game, I'm pretty sure I get to keep it... but if I build a widget that makes the support or administration of our core product more efficient to use, I'm guessing I'd have a hard time starting my own business around it without my current employer pulling out the lawyers.
Afro-caribbean and first generation American chiming in here. I can assure you it is a cultural and institutional racism here. Being colleagues with other 1st generation Ghanaians, Nigerians, Haitians, and Jamaicans it is a recurring issue amongst the black community. Where 1st gen children who keep their culture of origin do well academically (if their culture demands it) but subsequent generations absorb more of the african-american culture which shuns academia. An example, my neighborhood highschool had enough left in the annual budget to fix the leaking roof in the science wing. The parents petitioned the schoolboard to have the money used to buy new football bleachers. This is the type of culture the students and teachers are up against.

The US has a long, and controversial, history with genetics and eugenics research. Most researchers have been wise to avoid it because, realistically, it is a career ender. Unless you enjoy your research being lumped in with propaganda spouted by racist and facist you'd be wise to not go there.
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This is a test.
I like tests.
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it's very salty :)
i don't have it

i will ask alex if he does
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Fanatic blog is about the fashion cloths. Fashion not in the sense of not just clothing but we are also focusing on quality of fashion cloths.
Interesting, I appear to have been voted down for a calm and considered opinion.
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What a surprise. Only a commercial product would advertise learning software development in "less than an hour".
I never noticed, but the change sounds useful.

Although, with the community around here, I'm surprised nobody has made a browser extension to manage HN tabs ;)

(For bonus points, the extension would have to integrate HN search and comment scores)
I assume this is game source?

Why was it not in an externally hosted repository?
See also: "Misconceptions about the Golden Ratio" — http://laptops.maine.edu/GoldenRatio.pdf
It's a shame that's being downvoted ... I heard multiple people (who do proper weight training) complain about the fact their jeans or trousers get worn fast because their hips are well-developed and sort of brush against each other when they walk.

I bought a suit recently - the coat (jacket) fit perfectly, but they had to take like 10 cm off the waist of the pants, so I had to come back in 4 hours ... tells you a bit about what they expect an average person to be.

I did not see that comment as "that's why you should not get fit".
You can lead a horse to water but you can not make it drink.

Without the water the horse dies for sure, with the water at least it stands a chance.

If those students are that unmotivated then that's one more feather in the cap of the teachers that they hold on to what they are doing in spite of such resistance.
You say it's a job offer, what had the employer suggested for accommodation? If they're willing to hire foreigners, I'd think they'd be able to accommodate you.
$50 is too high. I'm pretty sure you'd more than double the sales if you halved the price. Try doing some A/B testing on this.
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If a small bump on the road like this is going to make you run then emigration is probably not for you.

In time you'll have to deal with lots more friction and red tape than the simple act of scoring a place to live in an area where such places are scarce.

If you do decide to stay, ask your colleagues if any of them would mind a roommate to cut their rent. In environments where housing is scarce doubling up is quite common. You might actually make someone happy to lower their effective rent a bit.

The domain linked is funny, being an expat is never 'easy', there are always hang-ups and issues. The grass always seems to be a lot greener on the other side, once you arrive you realize quite quickly that each place has its advantages and its drawbacks. Easy is staying at home. Being an expat stands for broadening your world view and your skills at the expense of some inconvenience.

Oh, and we actually like those old buildings, the one I'm writing this from was built in 1903.
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First, a tourist visa. I still have freelance work from here that I can continue over there, though I'm sure some kind of obscure illegal immigrant job could be found. Was it hard for you to get workpermit etc? Any recommendations on internships if you want to get in touch with a good programmer community/learn? I'm no programmer myself, just frustrated by the fact that most of my ideas are currently sitting in static psd's. I'd love to be in the middle of a bustling community.. Mexico has gotten too frustrating, half the people i work with don't even know how to unzip a file.
Thanks for the feedback, guys :) Didn't notice I'd been posted on here until now...

There is a new article in the works as well; stay tuned :)
Well I'm not eating breakfast quite often and it does not affect me in any negative way - more like the opposite.

If it took you 18+ years to feel negative effects of not having breakfast, I would probably check any other changes that happened recently first.

As a counter argument, here's a couple of links on why you should not eat breakfast, but feel free to disagree.

http://www.gnolls.org/2131/the-breakfast-myth-part-1/
http://www.gnolls.org/2181/the-breakfast-myth-part-2-the-art...
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It's just more incompetent. That's what happens when evil genius moves aside, and the henchmen take over.
And I don't understand why you post random links about issues you are not familiar with, which is what you would need to digest them.

Some APIs are not ready for developer use, end of story. Apple does right to forbid their use to avoid crashes on the next iOS upgrade. It's not some plot to gain advantage. CoverFlow clones were always welcome, page curl is already published (clones were welcome before that, I coded one btw), JSON parser already published, some other APIs have no place on developer space.

Your complain should be: Apple doesn't open source their system.
How I retired in 9 years on a corporate programmer salary
An optimizer lands, bringing native operators (for Rakudo Perl6)
My professor and I could use some advice
It is just the most recent (I wanted to write last, but I'm sure it is not the last) of many similar stories and articles, which can be summed up as "Do not be a sharecropper." Some previous ones:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2004/11/sharecropping-in-orchard...
Here's the list of my favourite ones:

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health - Gary Taubes
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Scienc...

The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet - Robb Wolf
http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Solution-Original-Human-Diet/dp/...

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health - William Davis
http://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Lose-Weight-Health/dp/1609...

The Great Cholesterol Con - Anthony Colpo
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Cholesterol-Anthony-Colpo/dp/143...

Fat and Cholesterol are Good for You - Uffe Ravnskov
http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Cholesterol-are-Good-You/dp/919755...
Wow. Just wow. You've basically managed to reinforce just about any stereotype of an ignorant, unprepared American who shouldn't even be trying to live abroad.

This quote says it all:

> The building looked like a century old, fourth floor with no elevator (seems to be the norm almost everywhere)

BTW, one of the first things you should figure out when relocating is how the local housing market works, otherwise you will get screwed. Guess what: it works the same way the other way around (what do you think a European will experience if they try to move to NYC unprepared?).
just one comment on that paper. "the most aesthetically pleasing rectangle" experiment I think is flawed. when you present someone with 4 figures it is easier to unconsciously pick the actually "most pleasing" because your brain is ok with validating all four for "aesthetics coefficient" so to say.

when you're presented with some 48 figures, you simply overload your brain and it fails to evaluate aesthetics of each rectangle, sort and pick the highest score. so in my opinion that experiment is flawed.

you brain can only operate on a limited set of objects especially when evaluating and comparing qualities. (7+-3 or thereabouts). pick any book about brain/psychology - it's there.
I travel between 3 countries, one of which is Spain. It really makes life a lot better; in the south of Spain people are so incredibly more relaxed that you first get frustrated with that, but rapidly take over that life style as being frustrated doesn't make much sense. Example: you can be in the supermarket, in a queue behind the cash register and no-one sitting there. You look outside and he/she is standing talking with the neighbor. 10 people in front of you waiting. The foreigners/vacation goers sighing, grunting, annoying and just going away after a while, the people who live here just talking. Doesn't matter if it takes 1 minute or 2 hours. People don't care. And yes they have jobs, but it's so ingrained to work like that...

Another example; you're driving on a one car road and suddenly end up in a jam, you check what it is ; someone is standing still and talking to someone. No honking, people shut their engine and go talk to each other.

This way of life makes you realize what kind of crazy stuff we are doing 'up north'; like every second matters. It does, but not for work. For work, really very little matters. Your clients can wait for a bit. That site that 'must go live tomorrow' really doesn't have to go live tomorrow in almost all cases. If you live 3 months/year in Spain, you'll be well rested and viewing the world more for what's important which are things like rest, your family (however configured), your friends, eating and making quality food, hobbies, and telling people to fuck off for trying to stress you out.

No amount money is worth wrecking your health over and in some cultures they know that; we seem to have forgotten.
That's a crying shame. Project Zomboid is shaping up to be an excellent game. I was looking forward to seeing the next update.
I find these visualizations pretty cool, and I forked the original WebGL globe demo to support real time activity. Check it out at https://github.com/zsolt/globestats . It uses node.js + socket.io for the sample server.
Copenhagen is one of the most expensive and over-crowded cities in the world. I'm not surprised that you couldn't find something in a rush. People sign their kids up for housing when they're born in this city.

That said, it sounds like your scope is something like the inner city of Copenhagen. That's a terrible starting point. It's much easier to find an apartment in the greater Copenhagen area: Frederiksberg, Albertslund, Ballerup, Brøndby, Gentofte, Gladsaxe, Glostrup, Greve Strand, Herlev, Hvidovre, Ishøj, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Rødovre, Søllerød, Tårnby, Vallensbæk, Værløse.

I am surprised, however, that your employer hasn't given you any references, tips, or even subsidized housing. Considering how hard it is to find housing in Copenhagen as a Dane, it seems strange they would expect a foreigner to just "figure it out".

At least get a Dane to interpret all of the Danish apartment postings you're missing.
The problem is that you sent e-mail instead of calling.

I had the same experience in a nearby city, sending 30-40 emails for every 1 response. I finally decided to get a prepaid SIM and start calling people, and suddenly things became much easier.

The person who I eventually rented an apartment from explained that she placed the ad in the morning, went to work, and received my call (and a few others) before she returned home to read her e-mail, which contained over 100 replies. The people who called already had appointments to see the apartment, so she wasn't even going to look at the mails unless those people were uninterested. She also remarked that she could tell from our brief initial conversation that I seemed like a nice person, which helped my chances; she doesn't get that benefit from an email conversation.

Looking at it from a potential landlord's point of view, it makes sense that calling an ad that has just been placed is going to have the highest success rate; not everyone checks their mail as often as tech-minded people.
There is quite a bit of plausible speculation (on reddit, et al) that this is just a story invented to get out of finishing the game. This sort of thing happens fairly often in the indie game & game mod scene.
Steve Jobs might have killed himself
If you really didn't care about being fat you wouldn't even post. The rest is rationalisation, I mean why hang on 'til 50? Go for it, emulate Hendrix, or Joplin, live fast, die at 27.

Health issues typically kick in just after 30 ..
For years, when I saw that, I was just as judgmental. Then I realized that, in the real world, sometimes backups fall by the wayside.

It shouldn't happen, and for the people responsible for the loss of this data, it never should have. Again though, it's easy to see how caffeine induced coding sessions end up with tons of code and not much else. Those tons of code are PRODUCT, and they're building it. The idea of burglary sounds so far-fetched that it's always easy to put off til tomorrow. And backups took _time_, and _effort_. Time and effort that would have taken away from coding. From building.

Nowadays though, between Github, Dropbox, or any of the million completely painless ways to back up your code, it seems even more egregious that something like this can happen.

Admittedly, I use Dropbox as a convenience more than anything. So that I know a core set of files are available to me no matter what computer I'm on, but it was very natural to fall into the habit of making sure that 'important' documents went in there as well.

If I had to throw this laptop out the window and never see it again, I'd feel relatively assured that between Dropbox and Chrome, I wouldn't lose anything important. I've had a couple of hard drives crash recently, and short of having had to take the time to reinstall some apps that might have been slow downloads, that's about all there was to it.
If it's not white on a blue background, it looks like a frog with one eye open.
> then emigration is probably not for you.

I'd probably think the same if I hadn't done this exact same thing on three different countries already without breaking a sweat (relatively speaking).
HN favourite this month: http://www.codecademy.com/

One of the oldest website: http://www.w3schools.com/ However, they're not always good according to this interventionist website: http://w3fools.com/