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> Is the forced part even necessary?

From the article: "These findings are exciting, Dr. Alberts says, because they contrast with some earlier results involving voluntary exercise and Parkinson’s patients. In those experiments, the activity was helpful, but often in a limited, localized way. Weight training, for instance, led to stronger muscles, and slow walking increased walking speed and endurance. But such regimens typically did not improve Parkinson’s patients’ overall motor control... The forced pedaling regimen, on the other hand, did lead to better full-body movement control"
I don't know what you mean by "work-shyness". My observation is that it's a bimodal setup. Kids who want (or, more appropriately, whose parents want for them) to have a future work a lot harder than they did 25 years ago. Those who have given up don't seem to be doing any school work.
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This has been a sad week.

Whenever I'm learning a new language, I always look for but fail to find a book with the clarity, conciseness and completeness of K&R.
The simplest ideas are the ones that are commonly the most useful. Very interesting tool!
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The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is oft refuted, but I think you're missing the point of the GP.

Many of it's sections criticism what were at the time implementation limitations or bugs, only some of it really criticises Unix itself.
The article doesn't mention one of the most interesting aspects: Hadoop is Java.

It seems like Microsoft has had a policy of not touching Java with a ten foot pole for some time now. At least, since .NET came out, they've been pretty proactively anti-Java.
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Off-topic: I skimmed over the article and all I could see was iPad, iPhone, iPad, iPad, Apple, iPhone, iPad, iPhone, Apple.
I've still my copy of the UHH, and my barf bag.

It remains probably one of the best books on the subject of operating system design, and all the better for being insanely opinionated.

Fundamental objections included:
* It was user hostile (still is)
* It didn't handle text very well (still doesn't)
* The "de-facto standard" mentality where bugs are promoted as features (still present)
* Lines of text are a bad model for program composability. (If you believe this is false, ask why perl exists.)

If you want to see alternatives to the "lines of text" mentality, you can look back in time to LISP machines, or just play with powershell on a windows box.
I instinctively recoil every time a document like this, ostensibly targeted at a fairly wide audience, just assumes that you'll be using the latest fad business method. When that business method further assumes "agile" is the right thing, I just walk away.
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American society is built to tear people down, to make 10 people so sick that 9 of them die and then to crown the other one king. This isn't an accidental malfunction; it's the purpose of the damn thing. It starts with children. At least Scarface had the decency not to involve kids.

The "career game", which now begins in childhood, is a war of attrition. Look at the people running major, Fortune 500 companies? Are they the best and the brightest? Are they our society's most talented people or its most capable leaders? Fuck no, obviously not. They're the ones who didn't develop chronic puking disorders, severe panic attacks, lifelong back problems, RSIs and socially crippling misanthropy after being thrown into a "pay-your-dues" war of attrition with hundreds of other idiots and surviving the longest in it. That's how they got where they are-- not leadership, not creativity, not any kind of talent whatsoever, but making it through more years of soul-raping corporate grunt work than their competitors could survive.

We're now in a state where the constant warfare begins in fucking preschool. This is what we get. The only way out is to radically reshape society, and the problem is that there are people currently in positions of great power who will defend the status quo with everything they've got. Their problem, not ours.
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"scope(d)"? Would make perfect sense to me.
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Read the NYTimes article... you learn that the two sets of pedals are 1:1 connected. Your partner pedals faster and you have to pedal faster. Maybe not harder - but you do have to keep pace.
"You don't necessarily need someone cracking the whip to do that..."

You'd be surprised. Long-term goals are notoriously bad at motivating most people in the short run (hence, why procrastination is such a powerful force). So, even if you have the specter of something like total physiological degeneration looming over you, you're still going to work only to the brink of your comfort level unless someone pushes you further.

Anecdotal, but: I broke my arm a few years back in a really bad fall. Totally shattered a few of the bones in my right wrist (and I'm right-handed). Got a metal plate put in, and went through a year of physical thereapy. At the outset of the PT, I was told in no uncertain terms that I'd never regain proper movement of my right hand unless I worked my ass off every day at range-of-motion exercises -- which, at the time, were extraordinarily painful. So, in theory, sure, I could do them at home and never actually go in for PT. But whenever I did that, I'd work up to the edge of my comfort level, but never go past it. Conversely, when I went in for PT, having someone there to "crack the whip" pushed me past that discomfort threshold, and that's how I broke through the plateaus on the path to recovery.

The body's (and mind's) natural inclination is to avoid pain and discomfort, so you trick yourself into thinking you're working as hard as you can when you're actually not. And exercise isn't about working as hard as you can; it's about working harder than you can. That's where the progress happens.
Actually, I still find these sorts of results very surprising.

Till recently, I always thought that once one was an adult, one's brain lost its self-renewal capacity, and that progressive mental decline was inevitable. This was the general scientific view as well. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity ]
> Layout adjusts to different screen sizes and orientations.

But only if you have JavaScript enabled.
This marks the end of all my "Hello World!" first programs; replaced by "goodbye, dad\n"
Wow, I'd love to see an 8256 - that's what I learned to program on. Actually, my first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, but... man, bump the table even slightly and the 16K RAM pack would dislodge and reboot the computer. So, really, it was the Amstrad that I first learned on. Great to see.
I also found a site called Computer Science Unplugged (http://csunplugged.org) that has some nice activities to demonstrate computer algorithms in the physical world. I might pick a couple of those to show some of the challenges facebook and twitter were faced with.
I don't see why people tag this is a bad thing? He exercises his freedom of speech in a constructive matter, both Amazon and Google should get this as a pro thing.
1. There is plenty of genetic diversity (aka hetrozygosity). The most credible evidence suggests that Colony Collapse Syndrome was caused by a disease, not GMO seed. Also, all of the seed companies take tremendous care to ensure that their patented biotech traits (BT) keep working in future, which is why they all have refuge requirements (meaning a farmer must plant at least X percent of their crop that isn't BT, which makes sure that various pests continue to breed with genes that will make their offspring susceptible to herbicide/pesticide treatment).

2. Corn has tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of genes and has roughly 22 million nucleotide base pairs. Having two breeders from two different companies come up with roughly the same plant interdependently is in the astronomical range.
I remember reading a book about writing by Stephen King. He talked about innovating by combining strange ideas. An example he gave was that a book about plumbers would be boring and that science fiction was a crowded competitive market. But, he said a book about "Plumbers in Space" had the makings of a great story.

So, try to combine something you LOVE with something you admire.

Maybe you love cooking, maybe you admire Facebook. How about "Facebook for Cooks?"

or, "Wordpress for Restaurants", "Twitter for Travelers", "Google for Mechanics"

Once you have the area you love, you can pick and choose ideas from the leaders in the tech space and bring those that make sense into your niche. Make them easier to use for your audience, refine them, make them your own.

That's kind of what I do at FASO with art as the thing I love. BTW, someone else on this thread described us as niche photo sharing for artists - that's actually not what we do. We're more like "Wordpress for Artists", except that we predate Wordpress so technically Wordpress is like "FASO for Everyone Else". :-)
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The full report is here: http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/quarterly-ven...
I don't think they are actively anti-Java - they are a more a "speak not of Java" company.
Left and Right Navigation overlaps the areas needed to scroll and read the content on my phone. The layout looks nice enough but I have a hard time believing that the designers actually tried to use this code on a phone or they would have seen these obvious issues.

While testing on many platforms is part of the standard web routines it seems to me that pulling off a responsive design requires even more careful testing than usual.
If I recall correctly, this is a repost. Seemingly Eric Ries’s Lean Startup needs again a "creative" selling push. Oh jeez.
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Either you're quite old or your professor forgot about Alan Turing. :/
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I would love to see a new edition (3rd) of "The C Programming Language" for C99.

What are your thoughts now that one of the authors has passed away ?
I'm going back to this page almost every hour today and every time I get to "goodbye, dad\n" part I'm getting emotional... Excellent homage.
Agree completely. When I was a kid, my mom would be gone whole days shopping, doing errands, etc. Now, kids are more likely to be taken with parents due to safety fears.
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Ask HN - Do we really need recruiters?
Say one gets paid $75 an hour, out of which the recruiter keeps 10-15, which works out to 20-30k a year. They use questionable tactics (many of them), treat the very programmers/designers that bring them money badly. Other than pushing resumes and making a few phonecalls to arrange interviews, in most cases they don't do anything else.

In other industries like housing for example, brokers do quite a bit of work (at least, much more than recruiters). Even they don't take 20% of the billing rate, hour after hour (My broker charges one month rent, sometimes even less, when he helps someone find an apt).

Why do we still need them? Isn't there any way we can at least reduce our dependency on them?
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What is the root cause of this problem though? Is it just a natural result of overpopulation + our natural tendency to be selfish? is it overpopulation + the need to give up individual needs to support the whole? is it the natural result of our biological instincts and we're just really fucked up species?
Good - Boston VCs need a serious kick in the pants with how they treat entrepreneurs. I don't think this will be ego-busting enough to do it though.
I did read the rest of it and I still say the complaints he has against Amazon sound more like complaints against working in retail. If you like having a nice working environment, stay far away from retail because they're all like that. There's no money to be anything else.

P.S. When I can trade HN karma for time off from work I'll start to care about it.
Last I checked almost all source code is "just lines of text". Convention is what gives speech / words / code / user interfaces meaning. The Unix command line interface was designed for programmers, and in particular systems programmers; as the old joke goes Unix _is_ user friendly, it's just particular about who its friends are.

In the end though Unix doesn't concern itself with lines of text, it could hardly care, what Unix cares about (at the user interface as opposed to the kernel interface) is files with a stream of bytes. "lines of text" belongs in the domain of application programs.
Do you have any evidence for this? The closest thing about this I have read is in Freakanomics. Their research showed the relentlessly pushing young children with activities and extra studying, has little effect on average on where they will be after they are on their own for a while.

I don't really know enough to say any meaningful about promotion in a large company, but a simple counter example to your entire rant is that you can get ahead in those companies by politicking. You don't have to work extra hard, or push yourself, just know the right people and push the right buttons to get the promotion.
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I agree. I remember the day when you could drop by a friend's house to chill w/o calling beforehand, or sending a text message or IM. or the days when you could just drop by the park and have a good chance of meeting a couple of buddies there. Everything now seems so structured. Have to arrange meetups with friends. Have to arrange this or that. And lots of socializing happens after work, where the intention is to just get drunk, and forget about the day.
NumPy is not fast enough, that's the problem (http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com/2011/07/speeding-up-p...). In scientific applications, the code calling it is rarely the bottleneck-- if it is you might be doing something wrong. The biggest bottlenecks I encounter are a) computation and b) data serialization / deserialization (especially if a database of some kind is involved)
The environment we're in affects us a lot. As young kids, very few consciously choose to pursue social situations, as our minds are not that developed. A lot of it happens due to our life situation.. ie we live near a park, we live near lots of kids our age, or our parents hang out with other parents who have kids our age, etc.
I thought one of the big problems in MA is that the courts favor the employer re: non-compete clauses. If I'm remembering correctly, this would be a real damper on the ability of talent to pursue opportunity.
Well, if this really does pan out, then I'm sure you can rig some sort of harness on the patient while they're on a forced treadmill. When they start falling/losing balance, the harness gets yanked, pulling the patient off the ground. Basically, like a belaying system, except on a treadmill.
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> Layout adjusts to different screen sizes and orientations

I am getting very weird slide jums when resizing the browser window on any slide after the first one(resizing seems to only work on the first slide, on Firefox 7.0.1 at least)
I flagged the other 11.10 submission[1] for the reasons in mgunes's comment, and it's dead now. The same should happen here.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3106857
Thanks for pointing this out. I hate when people comment about how great a design is because it fits their use case. There is no "average user" for a smart phone, so any design decision is going to appear brilliant to some and idiotic to others.
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This is a good story because it raises a lot of questions:
What did the picture look like?
Did the family keep it?
Did they post it to Facebook or Flickr?
Did they ever figure out who was taking their picture?

Obviously they were impressed with Apple, owning an iPhone and visiting the campus, did they not recognize Jobs because he was sick or because they just didn't know any better?

There's a line in this post about Job's personality when he walked that reminds me a lot about accounts of Walt Disney during his own battle with cancer - clearly labored, but still upbeat and energetic.

Nothing inane about this one.
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I have a potential partner for my business that has all the right qualities, minus the technical skills so I'm faced with a dilemma. The potential partner is committed to the idea and the partnership, has extensive business know-how, is a go-getter who is diving in and working on the idea as hard as I am...even though I have not made a commitment to her yet on a partnership. She is a good friend and we have very complimentary personalities. We resolve issues easily and productively. So why the hesitation? When I read advice from PG and JL, it seems to always indicate that there has to be a technical co-founder. My question is, how technical do they need to be? I am a User Experience professional with years of front-end coding experience. I have worked with developers and have been editing code for years. I'm a pro at DHTML, CSS and pretty good at JavaScript. I understand ASP and XML too. Plus I'm an expert with the Adobe Suite, and in the past have learned ActionScript and Director's old Lingo to complete projects. I have run over 50 usability studies and my focus has been prototyping based on end-user evaluation. I have and always will learn what I need to learn to accomplish goals. Am I technical enough? How is a "technical partner" defined? What's more important...a highly technical partner or a highly compatible and motivated one?
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Probably has something to do with this:

"Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java, sued Microsoft in October 1997 for incompletely implementing the Java 1.1 standard.[2] It was also named in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust civil actions, as an implementation of Microsoft's Embrace, extend and extinguish strategy. In 2001, Microsoft settled the lawsuit with Sun and discontinued its Java implementation"

Glad to see they're acting more mature these days.
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Maybe something like this? http://www4c.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=word-based+length+32+...
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"There are dozens, maybe hundreds of individual learnings like these that Amazon had to discover organically."

From the examples, this would be a very valuable documentation to have access to.
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Regarding your last point, while the ideas of Smalltalk and especially Lisp are influential, C may have just as much a claim to influence. Both Lisp and C are beautiful abstractions, the assembly languages of two abstract machines. While Lisp is powerful, C is such a profound success because the C abstract machine is very close to how computers actually work.
I find it the right thing that canonical focus on the user interface, so unity is a good idea for them to focus on what matters the most, the end users. as a developer I don't care much about desktops, I find them all interesting.
Disregard this. 11.10 is indeed officially released: http://release-blog.ubuntu.com/?p=173
Checkout the online tour http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/
I am curious are there any software/libraries which can build a demo/tour like this for any Desktop application?
The article says that they're on the back of a tandem - a two person bicycle. As long as they're not completely leaning all over the place, the person in front should be able to keep things under control.
I agree, K&R is a landmark.

Then again, so is AoCP.

Wrox is skinning a different cat by trying to provide the FM which no longer comes in the box.

Ritchie knew how to provide just enough back in the days when just enough covered the vast majority of cases.
I think people massive overestimate how smart people you need to build most things.

(and Google overestimate more than most...)
Yeah, but Steve made it sound that that's why Facebook is successful. I was disputing that.
Can the two of you build your vision without (trivial) outside help?
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Works fine on my Ubuntu 10.04 Linux machine with Chrome 15.0.874.83 beta and Nvidia driver 195.36.24.
he made, all kinds of programming possible, a world without C is truly impossible.
thanks for the flagging!

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Any graph that ignores dividends is useless for comparing companies over time. Unfortuantatly, you normaly pay taxes on dividends so there is no simple way to add them back into the stock price. Which, IMO is why it's best to compare earnings not stock price.
Typicall tech co-founder in a early startup person is the one who can code your whole application without any outside help. He/she should be able to go through the code and fix any bugs if it is needed. This person should have good knowledge in all aspects of technologies. For ex: if you are using a website built on .NET Framework with SQL Server backend, generally then this person should be familiar with databases, writing store procs, building web services, writing C# code and lot of other stuff.

When evaluating a tech co-founder you should ask with 2 of your guys can you complete your application end to end and go public without any outside help. If the answer is yes then he/she can be your tech cofounder.

Since in the early days without any funding, money is tight you should be able to complete the prototype/product with almost no resources.
Looks like it'll be interesting to play with in this version. I also thought unity in 11.04 was far too buggy to be usable as a daily environment. I guess it's time to check out this new release.
Agreed. Another nice example is new paltz, new york (has a small university there). It's easy to walk to from the university through the neighborhood to the main street for a slice of pizza.

I also recall where rensellaer poly is to be a nice little town next to the university.

I can't think of many towns in Texas that offer a small university town without being so spread out parents don't have to worry about cars though.

Boulder is also really nice near campus (getting sprawlish outside it), mountain hikes are a bike ride away.
a tribute to d ritchie, the inventor of C and unix along with others.