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Packing a struct can reduce performance due to misaligned reads. If the compiler decides your struct needs padding it probably does.
I can only guess but you definitely are not in your 30's yet.
I held the same exact sentiments in my 20's. Then I got to my 30s and I realized I haven't done all that I wanted to do. I can slowly see time slipping away and 50 is not too far.

I am afraid 50 isn't enough, time wastes too fast.

PS: I once made this snarky comment at my office water cooler If someone guaranteed I will drop dead at 50 without any health issues, I would take it any day over living with pills and dieting...and then a man in his 50s with a pace maker walked by to fill water. I felt incredibly stupid to generalize life for every one else.
That's funny, I noticed these stray pixels too, but I assumed they were put there on purpose, to make give lettering a 'dusty' appearance.
So what games do you play now? Just wondering, not only because I've come to a similar realization, but because I'd like to know what passes the test for you now. I think I'd trust your judgement.
Yes, but moving the actual script tag that loads that minified JS file to the bottom of the HTML can help in some situations. Less so now that most UAs have decent speculative parsers, but it used to be that seeing the script tag would block any resources below it from being requested until the script was done loading.

And being cached won't help for first-time visitors to the site, of course.
I don't think you can call that an ad hominem attack. For one, he's not talking about the actual author of the quote (the writer), and for two... well, it's just not an attack at all.

I find it very relevant that a person who does all these things is a (fictional) character that lives for thousands of years; that means he has plenty of time to learn a lot about many different fields and trades. Normal humans don't have this luxury.
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Any decent C programmer should know this stuff.

Also,

> size_t offset = (size_t) &(((struct s*)0)->thing);

In what universe is that code "ugly"?
If you really do have a legitimate 1500 msec process occurring on the home page, try to flush as much of the HTML to the browser before you start the heavy lifting. Ideally, you could have the entire HTML shell delivered immediately, and the content elements slotted in at the very end (using DOM manipulation).

If you can put all the content inside a <script/> tag at the very end of the HTML, it will at least give the browser a chance to find and download all the page's resources (css, Jquery, logo image, etc etc).

e.g.

<html>
<head><link rel="stylesheet"></head>
<body>
<h1>Home Page</h1>
<p id="content1">cheap content</p>
<p id="content2">place-holder content</p>
<p id="content3">more content</p>
~~flush~~
<script>
$("#content2").html("expensive content");
</script>
</body>
</html>
I think it's hard to overemphasize how much of an effect the respect accorded to teachers in Finland draws in the most motivated and skilled. Teachers in the US are all but regarded with contempt, and in many cases deserve it. Teaching hasn't been an aspirational profession since the women's rights movement made it possible for intelligent women to aspire to more than nursing or teaching.
Ask HN: Tips on finding great interaction designers?
I'm sure everyone you know is hiring designers. Any tips of 'discovering' or 'attracting' great interaction designers. We aren't just looking for people who put out great pixels (it's a minimum requirement) but designers who get the Apple way. Dribbble? Forrst?

If you are a designer or know someone who may be interested in disrupting the mobile video entertainment (same way Flipboard did to print), please shoot us an email to say hi and I'll tell you more about the exciting things we are working on!

Thx! thomas @ nowbox.com
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There's a lot here, so sorry that I am just dumping links in, but I'll be glad to come back and expand on anything if you like.

people of anniston, AL vs. Monsanto http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/dirtysecrets/annisto...

scotus scuttles lower court ruling to stop gmo planting: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/09-475.pdf

chimeric gene - http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/...

general monsanto info - http://www.monsantowatch.org/

groundwater pollution - http://yosemite.epa.gov/r10/cleanup.nsf/4c5259381f6b967d8825...

monsanto uses front group to fund against anti-GMO ballot initiative - http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/measureh122903.cfm

one of my favorites, can you see the parallels between Monsanto and the RIAA? You could point this one in favor of Monsanto, but if you are like me and think that pushing terminator seeds to small farmers is a terrible thing then you will see it a different light. Often times they give out the seeds free the first year then have you stuck on them, comparisons could be made to drug pushers: http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/knowledge_goods/monsanto.h...

Here's one against the idea that Monsanto's products are "always better" than non-GMO agriculture: http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/monsanto%E2%80%99s-cotton-strateg...

Excerpt:
"Monsanto entered India in 2002 with some very compelling advertising. They claimed their engineered seeds would produce yields up to five times that of conventional cotton – 20 quintals per acre (equivalent to approximately 4.5 bales) compared to the 4 quintals (less than 1 bale) farmers were struggling to pull from their fields at the time. At the time, Monsanto admitted that their seeds costed more but insisted that investment would pay dividends.

Unfortunately the average yield of Monsanto’s GE cotton turned out to be nowhere near the advertised 20 quintals per acre. In reality the average output of the crop turned out to be 1.2 quintals per acre. Nowhere in India did it exceed 4 quintals per acre at the end of the harvest. To add insult to injury, farmers soon found out that the fibers produced by the Monsanto GE cotton plants were of lower quality. Instead of getting the usual $86 per quintal, they were only able to sell their crops for around $36 per quintal.
On average since 2002, of the farmers in India, many of whom fell into the Monsanto trap, one is committing suicide every 30 minutes. Many end their lives by drinking RoundUp."

The list goes on, if you've read this far and want more, I'll be glad to dig up some more of the material.
Set up a system whereby you re-read this post on your 45th birthday.

See if your thinking's changed about it by then.
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I think you're looking at the problem all wrong. The question is not whether she is the right co-founder to present to PG, JL, etc., for the sake of applying to YC. Instead, you should be asking yourself if she is the right person to be building a company with. A startup is essentially a shotgun marriage where the company is the baby. Can you see he being the right person to bring a company into this world? If the answer is "yes" then start working with her. Whatever you do, don't base your decision on what YC is or is not looking for. They look for teams that have qualities that suggest success and that are aligned with their investment thesis. If you have a team that doesn't fit into their investment thesis, but is the right team, then that's all that matters.
I went through a period of being tired all the time - so tired that I found it hard to stay awake in the afternoons. And close friends would mention that I looked like I was putting on weight. I felt confused most of the time. It was lousy.

Turns out it was a thyroid problem combined with myxodema (water retention on the face). My GP diagnosed it after blood tests. Now I'm on life long medication and I have yearly blood tests -but the fat-face has gone, and I feel normal. Also, I get all my prescriptions free. (I'm in the UK.)
What really got me is the profiteering on the photo taking.
Your experience is consistent with research, eg.

http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20110323/sleepy-pe...

Not only does skimping on sleep raises your calorie consumption, but it seems that tired people show increased preference for fats.
If you are indeed engaging in significant activity, then the carbs will help. I have sedentary job (technical) but get in a good couple of hours at the gym most days. Keeping carbs moderated keeps the fat in check, but cutting it too low make intense cardio and strength training very challenging (and less productive).
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Sorting, I think.
seconded.. I was pretty eager to use this app, as it looks like exactly what i'm looking for.. but dealing with the Apple store download BS made me say, screw it..
*"Why I think siri will never open to 3rd party devs"
it lacks the AJAX
As a Finn, I restrain myself comparing us to others but I just want to say that most schools here are not well suited for non-superficial learning.

I would hope the future brings a system that is driven by the need of individual pupil and by her potential and interests rather than giving equivalent, non-inspiring curriculum for all. Also, learning should have more meaningfulness in it; something along the lines of what Papert talks in his Mindstorms book http://www.papert.org/

What I have observed is that people are not much interested in learning in schools; those with passion get bored and creativity is not encouraged, at all.

In my opinion, it's a horrible state what we are in but I don't think many will do anything about it. And in universities, it's even worse. Studying e.g. Computer Science is much of theory without not enough practical learning, as departments lack proper funding (e.g. assistants for helping with assignments). People learn basic concepts barely, and are not excited by them. It's just something to get through so that they get the diploma which is too highly appreciated by companies' HR.

Also, the content what is taught, is not what should be. The whole culture is short-sighted, and people who get out of universities are not well-equipped but are suited for trivial web-development of current age, i.e. what the industry is in need of.

This makes me sad as learning and teaching should be fun, and could be much more effective. I see some hope with interactive, visual tools that let people learn by themselves but I am not so sure the people responsible for these kind of things really are multitalented and experienced enough to do the proper thing.
The basic reason is energy. Osmosis is free, energy-wise, as it lowers the entropy of the system as a whole.

So basically water intake through osmosis doesn't require any energy, whereas any other method would require massive amounts of energy to fight the osmotic gradient. It would also mean that every other cell intake would have to use active transport. Long ago evolution decided that regulating water intake would be too expensive, and so we don't.

(which is also why it would be a horrible idea to try to cool down in sea water if you're dehydrated. Don't do it ! And for the love of God, don't get any of it on your face)

You can make fresh water out of sea water using just a sheet of plastic and something to catch the water. First, dig a hole in the ground, in a piece of sand that was exposed by ebbing water. Say 20-30 cm deep. Put a cup in the middle of the hole on a stone. Wet the sand with seawater, put the plastic over the hole, attaching it to the sides somehow and put a stone in the middle of the hole.

Water will evaporate, hit the plastic which will be slightly cooler than the air below it, so part of the water vapor will become liquid, go towards the middle where you put the stone, where it's cooler still because it's deeper in the ground, and it will drop down into the cup.

For better performance, you can put anything that contains water, like plant leaves, rip them to pieces and put those pieces under the plastic. But sea water will work. This is not good enough to remove all salt, but it will reduce it significantly.

And btw, if you need to cool down : dig a hole deep enough to have permanent shadow, and lie in it.
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Makes sense, they are communist after all.
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As a linguistics student, I have a good deal of sympathy for people using a secondary language-- but I don't think this author even proofread his post before submitting it.
The problem is that the $5000 isn't being distributed evenly. The schools that rich kids go to, public or private, get orders-of-magnitude more funding than the ones poor kids go to.
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basically, this is well known, but I found it interesting as it is now standardized.
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Siri will be open to 3rd party devs IMHO. User will say to Siri, "[App Name], [command]."

"New York Times app, read me the 10 top stories."

"Pandora app, play Sugarland station."

Each developer can list a series of actions = verb + object. When the user installs the app, Siri will pick up all the actions and they will be available to the user. Again, it must be initiated by the user saying the app name first. I can see two main usage cases:

1. Launch app into particular action - for example, "Pandora app, play Sugarland station." This opens Pandora and plays Sugarland station. Pretty straightforward. Devs just determine the verb + object and what Siri does with the action. In this case, Siri launches Pandora and sends over the verb "play" and the station "Sugarland," and Pandora knows what to do with it.

2. Read/show data within Siri. So, in this usage case the app doesn't launch but rather gives Siri data. For example, "New York Times app, read me the last 10 stories." Siri sends "read" (verb) and "last 10 stories" (object) to New York Times app. New York Times app gets that action and does an API call to the server to return the 10 top stories and gives it to Siri to read. Siri reads them to the user.

#2 usage case is pretty mind-blowing if Apple can pull it off. Because it's taking apps and pulling off its cover and stripping them to it's core services. Users don't have to launch the app to get certain data. App become more services that Siri can access. Of course, the user can still launch the app and do other things in the app via touch. But the app has a voice interaction interface and Siri is the master of that.
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You're also sweating about 1L/h, and are probably respirating a fair amount of water (through your breath) as well.

2-3L/h of consumption isn't of itself excessive, though if you're keeping that up for a period of time, I'd include some electrolytes.
You may find this article on recent research thought-provoking: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/fashion/makeup-makes-women... - "Wearing makeup...increases people’s perceptions of a woman’s likability, her competence and (provided she does not overdo it) her trustworthiness." (Journal link: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal....)
First of all, wether or not Apple decides to open an API to siri and wether or not it's possible are two separate things. None of his arguments are very convincing to me. Managing a 3rd party ecosystem is a hard problem but not that hard; especially for Apple who really can call the shots however they see fit. Here's a scenario: all 3rd parties can plug into the siri API but they need approval and can be kicked out for whatever arbitrary reason Apple picks. That would suck for developers (see marco's post earlier) and yet most developers would jump through hoops to get into there.
Sometimes API calls can be a meaningful expense, depending on what you're using and how.

Weird resource usage can sometimes be a problem if you don't watch it. Infinite recursive operations, brute-force algorithms being called over and over per user, stuff like that.

Advertising will take whatever you throw at it.

Personnel costs are likely to be the dominant factor for most web projects until you start talking serious, serious scale.
Ask HN: How about an economy based on Time?
I'm in no way a economist, not by uber long shot, but, I read about economic theories out of boredom.

I'll just pitch my insane idea for a new economic system. Lets have an open discussion.

The current economic system is run by (mostly) meaningless numbers, that can be easily manipulated by people who understand numbers well.
Eg: you do work thats worth x dollars and get paid, and govt prints some bills, now your x dollars are worth x/(somefactor)

Anyway, I'll come to the point, what if we managed to create an economic system that is based on a bullet proof system ever, "TIME".

Time is the single unforgiving platform, that is common to all. Nobody has one second less or more in a day.

By this system People gets rewarded, how efficiently they use their time. If person A creates x tool within 10 hours that was useful to 1000 people and person B creates y tool within 8 hours that was useful to 1500 people, then person B is richer that Person A.

As weird as it may sound, based on my observations, all the rich/wealthy people care more about time, may be that is what made them rich in the first place.

Why not bake it into the system, so, that everybody is encouraged to do more with less time and resources. (isn't that the definition of entrepreneur)

By rewards, I mean some system to keep track of the progress each person made, not necessarily money.

What do you think?
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That's true, of course, but he did go far above what a normal being can take : you should not drink more than 1 liter of water per hour, because your kidneys can only remove that amount of water per hour.

If you drink too much water (> 90ml/kg is LD50, the dose 50% of people won't survive, so for a normal adult of 70kg we're talking 6,5 liters of water as fast as you can chug it in), the electrolyte balance in your nervous system will reverse, eventually resulting in the depolarization of all axons. Since this doesn't occur at all places in the nervous system simultaneously it will be a very painful and extremely scary way to die.

Anyway the doses the GP mentioned are enough to create issues (anything > 1L/hour creates issues, and a sustained water intake of more than 1L/hour will eventually kill you)
Step one is to learn the lingo. A great interaction designer will not necessarily have any graphic design skills, as that is the graphic designers job. It sounds like you are looking for someone with skills encompassing both disciplines, which you should be very clear about. Just as engineers sneer at recruiters messing up technical terms, great designers have enough options to not apply to positions where the recruiter shows little understanding of the area. It doesn't instill confidence that you will be able to give proper merit to their skill set and experience.
I respect your decision to not have kids, but in this case that is clouding your judgement.
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Merging of tech, fashion / hiring the "best" for design, etc.

Branching out from engineering vs design (where so many say "I'm a coder, not a designer" and, making the point, that sometimes, you should invest (even by hiring), into "design."

I dunno, seems relevant to building applications for layman.
http://xkcd.com/485/
The Occupied lifestyle, says Mr. Knowles, is a lot cheaper than real life: "I might go home with more money than I had."

So they're actually all just doing it for the money. I'd got the impression they were protesting about the mechanics of the world's financial markets, but actually they're just all just opportunistic capitalists looking for a quick buck. Thanks for clearing that one up, WSJ.
Do you have figures? I very much doubt if that is the case.
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Just curious - does it recognise 'full stop' instead of 'period'?

It's very unfortunate that it doesn't transcribe Australian English that well - do you have a particularly broad accent, if you don't mind me asking?
There is a huge difference between Denmark and Finland both in the quality of the education a coming elementary school teacher goes through and perhaps more important in the level of applicants that are accepted for the education. In 2010 for many of the schools in Denmark where you can become a teacher there were no requirements on your grades from "gymnasiet" (equivalent of high school), you only had to have passed gymnasiet. In Denmark, coming teachers choose 2 or 3 subjects that will be there main subjects. For these subjects there are some requirements, unfortunately these are ridiculously low. In gymnasiet all subjects have a level A, B or C which indicates how deeply the subject is covered. Some subjects eg. Danish and history are mandatory and exists only in the highest level A form while others eg. languages, biology, physics, math, exist in usually at least two of the levels and depending on your choice of line you can choose different levels with the requirement that when finishing you must have had 2 non-mandatory A level subjects. To choose eg. nature & technique, a subject supposed to encompass physics, chemistry, biology and geography, as one of your main subjects when becoming an elementary school teacher, it is sufficient to have the medium grade in just a single of a list of subjects that are related to natural sciences and this only had to be on the middle B level.

Another problem is that until 2007 the "seminars", the schools for educating teachers, were mainly relics from the late sixties, this having all the obvious implications given the hippie
state of DK in those years.

Also in DK through all levels of the educational system from elementary school through university, the main focus is on the students who are at the bottom of the skill spectrum.
If communism is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.
"I have no argument in principle for the idea that you should restructure your whole program's control flow with transparent cooperative scheduling"

Maintaining any kind of long-term state for the functions which the event loop calls can be trickier than it needs to be, since they need to quickly return and can't leave anything on their stack.
Sounds great, until you have kids...
For git data. You also want to backup your mysql database, otherwise all your issue tracker data is stored only in one place. (This is my point, I am apparently unable to properly express it.)
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Everything I have heard says that the US spends a lot more per pupil than most of the developed world, and yet... has shitty schools.
If you are going to be a self-sufficient farmer, you need land. Otherwise, you need something you can trade for food. If you can't produce something that anyone wants, you are labor isn't worth much. If you labor isn't worth enough to eat, you starve.

China inflates its currency to buy dollars. Then, US consumers use those dollars to buy products from China, which requires employing lots of people.

The government could just hand out money to poor people, but that could just result in lots more corruption. They can also create useless jobs but that also has problems.
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