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Four-hour work week? Work smarter, not harder?

I just don't buy those kind of ideologies if you really believe your idea will change the world. If you want a lifestyle business that provides for you and your next of kin, more power to you.

And if that's the route you take, please stop trying to convenience everyone your path to enlightenment is the right way. For awhile, I found that whole movement to be quasi-religious and therefore quite annoying.

When you love what you do, it's not work and therefore there's no reason to want to avoid it. And that's why they win.
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Incredibly bad? Someone didn't read the article...

> Yet these explanations don't hold up. As Laurence Steinberg, a developmental psychologist specializing in adolescence at Temple University, points out, even 14- to 17-year-olds—the biggest risk takers—use the same basic cognitive strategies that adults do, and they usually reason their way through problems just as well as adults. Contrary to popular belief, they also fully recognize they're mortal. And, like adults, says Steinberg, "teens actually overestimate risk."
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> So if teens think as well as adults do and recognize risk just as well, why do they take more chances? Here, as elsewhere, the problem lies less in what teens lack compared with adults than in what they have more of. Teens take more risks not because they don't understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently: In situations where risk can get them something they want, they value the reward more heavily than adults do.

Opportunity cost is never higher than when you are young.
It was pointed out later in the thread that it should have been 'undefined' rather than 'null'.
That is simply unbelievable, but Im not sure you can sustain a healthy life with with 16 hour work days
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Not a downvoter, but maybe it was the "normally". The cool part of a Stirling is that it is indifferent to fuel.
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Ah... you have instantly transported me to mid-'90s Slashdot comments.
As always, if you shouldn't look at patents, don't click to read the rest of the article.

Groklaw is right to write that. If you write software that will ever be in the public eye, you shouldn't look at software patents because they make you more liable for damages in infringement cases.

The constitution authorized congress to create a system "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" by publishing information that innovators would want to look at. The system we have now hinders progress, not just in corner cases but across the entire software field.

Can you imagine anyone writing that sentence if we had a patent system that worked as intended? I can't. If the patent system promoted progress, innovators would constantly be reading patents.
Crazy. I really would prefer working 4 hours max each day. Or achieving the 4-hour workweek. That and work from home at first, then everywhere. :)
Cooking up a startup (plus a bagel recipe and a game about peaches)
That's the device, cool. Then there's the infrastructure as others have commented.

Another compelling issue is, will it work uninterrupted for 10 years? Like other household appliances e.g. water heater, furnace, softener, dryer, roof.

Building it cheap may preclude building it to last. Thats where Engineering comes into play.
Groklaw used to be good a while ago, but now seems to have degenerated into extreme bias against Microsoft. We do not see such articles written by PJ on Apple, for example. While they're still interesting, they need to be taken with a large dose of salt.
Yeah, how the OP dares to shows us a prototype of something that he probably hacked in a couple of hours and doesn't even support the very specific user that has JS disabled by default.
[Accidental delete above]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.33785151255085,93.754781484... - might be a down ramp?

What's the deal with the really bright light blue colouring? Like on (some of) the runways? It looks like an overlay to try and disguise something maybe?

On a similar note, I'm tempted to post an Ask HN: about what people think this is;

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.452107,90.85693359375
>"Since there are no other factors helping Windows Phone’s sales at retail, I don’t see how it’s going to move past the state it’s in today: a platform that reviews well but effectively nobody buys."

Retail sales of WP7 phones will be driven by the same factor which drove Android sales - handset manufacturers choosing to build phones running the OS. See Nokia.

The reason this is likely to happen is that WP7 offers a far more stable roadmap and sophisticated B2B relationship than Android. Not least among the benefits are Microsoft's deep pockets, patent portfolio, and consumers' 20+ years of familiarity with the Windows brand.

On the development side, Visual Studio for Windows Phone offers a much lower barrier to entry in terms of cost relative to the iPhone and a much lower barrier to entry in regards to technical knowledge relative to Android (i.e. cheaper development hardware relative to Apple and a more user friendly IDE and languages relative to Android (YMMV)).

Furthermore, TouchStudio provides an onboard IDE to allow scripting by users in a way analogous to bundled BASIC of the Commodore 64, IBM PC, or TRS-80. Because Microsoft is approaching the phone as a true computing device, WP7 is highly likely to gain traction in markets with low levels computing infrastructure by leveraging the higher levels of cellular infrastructure which is not uncommon in the developing worlds.

To put it another way, WP7 offers development opportunities in places without app stores to people of diverse stripes who are interested in solving meaningful computing problems and addressing acute needs without requiring the investment in additional resources (i.e. computers for development).

In other words, Microsoft's strategy appears to include a definition of developer in line with the early days of personal computers where every person may be their own developer - in opposition to a solely consumer centered model of the phone as primarily a media consumption device.

And that strategy truly offers handset makers the opportunity to radically expand the smartphone market in ways that are more difficult to achieve with Android.
The bookeen odyssey[2] looks more interesting as an e-ink tablet. While it isn't out yet(it'll be out in 22/11), they made an impressive demo of the technology[1], showing a really fast display.

They also have strong processor(cortex-a8, 800mhz), so web browsing will probably be much nicer and fun than the kindle.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxwceUvxlCo
[2]http://www.bookeen.com/en/cybook/odyssey
Yeah, but those are sales(aka short duration discounts). He noted a spike that eventually fell off. I bet the longer steam discounts see sales fall off in a similar manner.
Then you have two problems... I kid.
Wiki and it's hyperlinking is too complex for me. I just write README files in main dirs and a big install_notes in ~.
Clinically it's used as "not quite mania, but close".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomania
tl;dr

"The buying and selling of stock by corporate insiders who have access to non-public information that could affect the stock price can be a criminal offense, just ask hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam who recently got 11 years in prison for doing it. But, congressional lawmakers have no corporate responsibilities and have long been considered exempt from insider trading laws, even though they have daily access to non-public information and plenty of opportunities to trade on it."
Magix Illuminate 1.1.1.1 released - The self-styled "Mother of Agile"
Cybernetics in the Service of Communism
Notable observation by Levy: "Replacing the hardware is no more complicated or emotionally involved than changing a flashlight battery."

This is followed, in the next paragraph, by the "you’re filing citizen papers for the digital duchy of Amazonia" observation already remarked on in another comment.

Not enough attention is being given to this aspect - the device is mostly irrelevant, the 'appstore' account is key. In time, the user accounts will eventually accumulate a significant amount of value. However, these accounts are designed as personal and non-transferable.

A couple of years into the wide use of the appstores, in practice, they work as if the "used" content is of no value. But perhaps soon we will have divorce lawyers settling who keeps the house, the car and the Amazon (or iTunes) account ...
>They've probably done a lot of this behind the scenes with Linux and other browsers before.

Other browsers? Like what? Opera? Doubt we wouldn't hear of it.

> HTC has grown 3x every year for the past 2 years because of Android,

Sure... but just remember that HTC came out from being an ODM for HP and Dell to make Windows Mobile devices and then made a lot of Windows Mobile devices for a long time, which gave them a ton of valuable knowledge about how to make smartphones.

Google is the one that needs to indemnify their OS and make companies like Apple and Microsoft think twice about trying to charge patent license fees.

Remember that Microsoft isn't too happy with the current state of patents and tried a lot (see the Bilski case) to to reduce the burden of proof placed on the alleged violators. If they had succeeded, they would've weakened their own patent suits substantially but they seem to be okay with that.
Appreciate the feedback. I'm going to have to give that typist a tough tongue lashing !
That's impressive, but I can't understand how either of these companies are happy with that situation. It's like trying to argue a polygamist can be fully dedicated to both families.
I think its just differences in lifestyle. I love working super long days. I just don't like it when life tries to get in the way of work.
So sorry to hear that Ilya's gone. I only had a chance to meet him a few times, but I found him intelligent, thoughtful and friendly.

I don't know the circumstances of his death, but I do hope that his family and colleagues get to see what an impact it's had on the hacker community.

I look forward to hearing ways that they'd like us to honour his passing; until then I'm going to do it the way I know best -- keep hacking.
IIRC Ferriss arrived at his "four hour" week exactly by not counting work-related activities he enjoyed, as work.
If you like flash ads, or if websites which rely on ads have a dubious business model, or blocking different types of ads, or flash crashing, does not (in my opinion) alter if not ad blocking is a moral issue.

Of course, all those issues can be discussed. I personally ad-block, because I have decided it improves my life greatly, and I have decided I don't care about websites which I like which don't offer me an alternative way to support them.
ACN Scam? So How The Hell Come That Reps Still Make Money?
The OP made the call as a founder who deeply cares and is trying to make a connection with the person on the other end of the line. In your experiment, the calls were being made by staff of a third party, which raises concern as to whether the caller is interested, speaks with appropriate animation and can evoke needed interest and emotion by the receiver of the call.

Furthermore, I don't think the value proposition of your scripted pitch was significant enough. The OP went out of the way to try to create a valuable win-win scenario without it sounding like a sales pitch. If I were on the receiving end of your script and didn't know of your organization, I'd assume the ebook would be filled a bunch of fluff and a hidden sales pitch for your product. Potential value for information that I couldn't just otherwise find on Google is low.
How the Heart Beats
Move over, Frank Miller: Brin on Miller on OWS & Spartans
Kudos to you for such a widely released implementation of somewhat insane coding.

Crashes back in Windows 95 days suddenly make a lot more sense to me...
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We've given some thought to this - one idea we are kicking around is embedding a heat capacitor in the engine, kind of like a battery for heat so that we can even out the heat input to the engine - The heat capacitor coule be a type of insulated molten salt bath.
Zero to Eight: Children's Media Use in America
The key word of your post is "sustain". You may be doing it now, but the cost of the 16 hour days is going to take it's toll.
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No one from the government competed in the Darpa Grand Challenge. It was all private companies or universities. I was there, DARPA sponsored it and oversaw it, that's all. Check the wiki link below and tell me which team listed was from the DoD?

They wanted self-driving cars for military transport into dangerous locations. The first DGC there were only a few competitors and none of us did very well. In 2005 there were quite a few (listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2005)) with lots of teams making it through to the desert final stage.

I was part of the military-industrial complex, and yes there is a lot of wasteful B.S. only there to make more things to make more money, but there is stuff there that is not being done at all (or at least not well) outside of the government. Those things are the things that are labelled Secret or Top Secret in most cases. Like all governments, if the US government has an advantage in any little way, it likes to keep it that way.
There is no money back guarantee, it is a gamble, although we feel its a pretty good gamble.
Like they did with microsoft?
IBM's z/OS runs on mainframes, usually, and often a proprietary flavor of Unix runs on supercomputers with many nodes.
>The .NET library designers already decided what counts as exceptional, and it's often not possible for me, as a .NET user, to decide much of anything about the use or placement of try/catch.

What do you mean? You can certainly decide what's exceptional. You can roll your own exceptions. You can catch and discard or handle exceptions you don't want to bubble up. You can put try-catch everywhere or nowhere (or choose a reasonable place in between). Your hands are not tied by .net exceptions any more than they are tied by any other reasonable error handling model.
Introducing NULevelDB for iOS
I've got doubts about their logistical
and abilities, now that they increasingly
use private companies to get their stuff
around.
No only nuclear submarines
The idea that google would bother to manually fix the views on a youtube video is an almost hilarious conspiracy.

The view counters on videos on youtube regularly get stuck for various reasons, for various amounts of time. Reasons vary (and often aren't clear), but often kick in when youtube automatically thinks someone is trying to inflate the number of votes a video gets.

I am genuinely curious. Is this just a way of getting publicity for a video, or do you really think evil google did this on purpose, specifically targeting OWS videos?
Spain, Nvidia plan ARM-based supercomputer
>> Also in this special case please keep in mind that the guy committed suicide

from the article:

"The cause of death is currently unconfirmed."
You could ask people to remove personally identifiable information (names, phones, etc.) and inform them that if they'd like to upload their full resume, they're welcome to at the full site.
I totally agree. Work would be relevant if I enjoyed it.
It depends on what you mean by "real developer". If you are a PHP guy who just needs some plugins on his page, you're good not knowing what's in the black box. If you plan to put JavaScript on your resume, not knowing how jQuery works under the hood is not going to cut it.

Look at it in reverse. I decide not to learn C#, even though I have an idea of how they work. Do I need to know how to query a database? No, I can leave that to someone else and concentrate on JavaScript and call those ASPX APIs. But I don't plan to put C# on my resume.
For the most part in the US, limits on work hours only exist where safety is an issue: truck drivers, people who work on power lines, etc.

Note in this case, Dorsey is working for two different companies, and in at least one of them he's a founding executive. Even in the EU, a founding executive might not be covered by work hour restrictions that apply to his employees.
It's a super neat hack; but if you use it in production you're completely crazy. I think it's intended that way.
Agree with all of these points, especially the condensed-at-first display.

I would also like it if the search box was in the fixed header, so I don't have to scroll back to the top to re-search.

Otherwise nice tool!
Extremely impressive but is it really sustainable in the long run? I personally do not think that working 16hr days is good for you in the long run. It is not healthy.

What use is he if he gets burned out in a year or two? Not much I would wager. Sure one might argue that this pattern of long working hours is crucial in the first few years of a company.
The question if he does so much more in 16 hours than he could have done in say ten or twelve? I doubt you can remain very efficient 16 hours per day.
It seems I have to refine the lingo. You may have created 4 questionnaires instead.
I'll have to set up a how-to real soon!
Ask HN: How do you handle unrelated actions in A/B tests?
Say we are A/B testing signups on our site, but some number of users come to our site, then login. Since these users appear to be irrelevant to our test, should they be removed from the final test results? Or does it not matter?

I can see arguments for either answer, but I was hoping someone on HN with a little more experience in the area could provide a stronger argument or even a statistical basis for one answer or the other.
Correct - this is just the piece that turns heat into work. The rest electrical system and fire box / solar concentrator comes latter.
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>It is a third gadget, the long-awaited Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire, that represents his company’s most ambitious leap into the hearts, minds, and wallets of millions of consumers.

Blah Blah Blah....A sufficiently ambitious kid could make something like that in his basement!
It would be nice to show something more useful on the front page before the user types anything into the search box. Like an index or a table of contents or so.
What do you mean by "support such a company"?

I buy their products and enjoy their technology even while i abhor some of their business practices. I'm sure plenty of people hate Apple's and Google's business practices too, but still use their stuff.

What can you do? All of this is nothing compared to the actions of the corporation known as the US Government who whores out her super powers for evil the world over. Yet, I still pay my taxes and live here because I'm being practical.

At some point you realize that the whole corporatocracy is against you having any kind of freedom and there's quite literally nothing you can do about it. So, you might as well enjoy your life. Maybe that's the wrong conclusion but at the least I know that Microsoft is just playing in a game and that they didn't invent the game.
That's true, but in the real world it's fairly uncommon to see actual burners in use, outside of machine shop projects and the like.
Ask HN: Can we fix the Google links?
Consider these stories from today's first page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3233526

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231945

Both articles are identified as being from google.com next to the title. I find this is becoming increasingly misleading as more posts surface from Google Plus conversations (the first one), as well as links to Google Groups, etc.

Do you guys think there would be utility in showing subdomains or some other identifier that would help show that these posts are not actually coming from Google?

Perhaps it's just me, but I tend to see the parenthetical domain as an indicator of not just source domain, but of authorship, as well. Lately, I've been seeing more posts that I find myself thinking, "Google wrote that?!" before clicking on the link to see it's actually coming from a non-Google author.

Anyway, just a thought. google.com isn't the only domain affected here, but it's one of the bigger ones lately.
Plans are refine the thing, go social and/or go mobile, to minimize the friction.
Disagree! Disagree!

Having essentially the same code written in two places (code and comment) absolutely BEGS for them to get out of sync. Its why we write modules, subroutines etc - get it right once.

Comments are evil if they mention the code. They should be about constraints, the compiler, your wife, ANYTHING but the code.
You are. The worst possible thing you can do at a startup is plow ahead and put in hours like crazy. Just like Steve Jobs killed product lines, or an engineer removes thousands of lines of code, you can remove 100 hours from the next month if you think about it carefully for one hour.
I have and so have a lot of other developers.

To be fair, they did a major overhaul of the App Hub just prior to Mango which corrected a number of other issues. It just seems to take them a long time to correct what should be obvious issues or usability problems.
If you don't already have a smartphone (the majority), then I think apps don't matter as much.

I have an investment in some of my apps -- even if they were available in WP7 (or had an equivalent), I need a migration tool for the data. Each app I install is a little bit more lock-in.
Thank you, that saved me investigating if I should write such an app.

Of course, selling snake oil colour calibration to iPhone users might still make money ;)
Those are great points, but the question becomes a matter of the stage of the company. Clearly, the author still benefits from making cold calls, whereas in most cases, this starts out as a reality but becomes less and less as the company grows.

Also, we know our ebook is a potent conversion tool. I think it stills comes down to the question of industry marketing practices: we've found inbound marketing to be much more effective because of the saturation in cold calling.
The creator of this website, rgarcia, specifically said (when he posted it a couple of days ago) that it was a 24-hour project: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3222253

Cut him some slack! I harbor many doubts re: your competence in the realm of friendliness.
Design sanity test: Don't animate a dropDOWN menu sliding UP.
Seriously, what are you talking about? What investors? You have proven you don't know what you are talking about in this thread, but I am curious what you think is true? Who are the heads of the NSA meeting with who would be considered investors? The NSA meets with the Armed Services board and the Senate intelligence board, and that's about it. I get it, you think the government is b.s., but groups like the NSA don't seek outside investment.
Nice! It's great that it has detailed version support info, like:

*Support for multiple, comma-separated, background images was added in Gecko 1.9.2.*

but I wish it showed what fraction of web users that represents. Maybe with a little green/red fuel gauge icon.
Can you post a screenshot (or a link) to a similar page from an OS that doesn't look tired to you? Not criticizing you -- just want to know what you think.
Wonder what the bankers would say to that...
Bad analogy, wild dogs (wolves) are pack animals and are subject to the influence of their peers as much as humans are.
I'm sorry, but this is a very bad example. iptables had an issue for a long time where error code is not carefully preserved in many situations and you end up with messages like:

iptables: Unknown error 4294967295

This wouldn't happen with exceptions - even if not handled properly, you'd see where is it originating and what's the most probable cause of the issue. And it's not necessarily iptable's fault - in some cases you have to really bend some rules to get the error you want. Also you cannot stack them so if you fail to cleanup after the original error, what do you return? The first or the second error? One has to be ignored.