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I don't want to hijack this thread but this post reminded me of two small details I enjoyed that were in the photograph of Steve Jobs's home office (Diana Walker, 2004).

One, it was delightfully messy. I say delightfully because I had expected it to be clear and minimalist, especially being that he must have prearranged to be photographed. It looked like the desk of someone who was busy doing stuff, not just thinking about doing stuff.

Secondly, there were a large number of harmonicas on it, presumably in different keys. Steve had made his love of music well known but I had never seen any evidence that he created music himself. I know have visions of him tooting away on these as he worked. It also makes me wonder if he played with Garageband.
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And when you're done with that, try 'man zsh'.
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I guess there is already a proliferation of these sites popping up.

likealittle
geosay
chatnearme
yours

more to come ...
It's funny to blame poor teaching for people getting weeded out of STEM subjects, when a lot of STEM subjects are designed to weed people out.

I think it's more the case that, in our headlong rush to get as many people through college as possible, the standards plummeted. 50 years ago, a liberal arts degree probably had much the same academic rigor as many science degrees have today, and so it at least demonstrated one possessed intelligence, education, and a work ethic. Back then, you majored in French literature because you were interested in French literature.

Actually, a lot of that might even still be true today--a liberal arts degree from Harvard might be of value, but only because not everyone gets into Harvard and completes a degree.
What I take from this is that time is more important than money; exchange money for time whenever possible. In many situations you have the option to exchange X dollars for Y hours of freed time - it's important to think about these situations in these terms, because it doesn't always look that way.
Hmm, yeah, I hadn't thought of it, but that would be a more valuable statistic.
Where do you get that impression from? I do not see any claim that Apple started WebKit.

The only mentions I see on the page for "apple" are in raw statistics that explicitly mention that they are about fairly recent time frames. The first one has more commits from chromium.org than from apple.com

I also briefly browsed other pageson that site, but did not find any evidence for your claim.

Do you really expect every mention of "WebKit" to have a footnote explaining that it was based on KHTML?
Based upon reading the course description, if you can grok Daphne + Nir's book, then you won't learn anything from the class.

"This class does require some abstract thinking and mathematical skills. However, it is designed to require fairly little background, and a motivated student can pick up the background material as the concepts are introduced. We hope that, using our new learning platform, it should be possible for everyone to understand all of the core material."

and "For additional depth, you can refer to the best-selling textbook, _Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques_ by Daphne and Nir Friedman."
This is indeed related to the bizzarre practices of bleeping swearwords on TV, which as you say implies that vowels are the things which are really dirty.

Back when he was a radio DJ, Ricky Gervais used to get a lot of milage out of discussing the art of Kunst, the philosophy of Kant, and fellow DJs Sarah and Carl Cox at 2 in the afternoon.
There's also 'tmux':

http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
About once a month, there's a "Who's Hiring" thread on HN. Sometimes there's a variant just for freelance jobs as well.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=who%27s+hir...

There is also:

TinyProj - A good source of curated jobs & developers. Definitely try this one out.

https://tinyproj.com/

ScriptLance - I've never tried this one though. It might be similar to the quality seen at Elance and oDesk.

http://www.scriptlance.com/

ProgrammerMeetsDesigner - I've never tried this one either, and some jobs are for an equity stake instead of cash, but it might have potential.

http://programmermeetdesigner.com/
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There is some truth to this but doing things like paperwork quickly can lead to a lot of trouble. Read Anything You Want by CD Baby founder Derek Sivers. He recommends not worrying about having Terms and Conditions on your website, and all kinds of other "formalities". Then he says breezing through some paperwork on a loan from his father accidentally cost him, I think, $2 Million. Letting his employees handle their stock option plan resulted in a profit sharing plan that gave every dollar to the employees. When he rescinded it, they hated him moving forward.
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The problem with making predictions about a complex system (nonlinear system) like human civilization is that there are so many factors and variables that can affect the trajectory that accurate prediction is virtually impossible. You would think that, of all people, a physicist would appreciate that and thus refrain from making strong claims about the future trajectory of such a system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

http://necsi.edu/research/overview/prediction.html
new zealanders have a rough go with their telecommunications as well. I recall seeing the vodafone CEO on the news saying they made 3-4x as much profit in new zealand as anywhere else (per customer probably). The only competion was the ex-public telecom.

canadians don't have it quite so bad as the new zealanders, but they get a worse deal than the americans for sure.
Halfway down there is a picture of a bookcase with a map of Russia next to it. The map is oriented at 90 degrees to 'normal' and has Western Russia at the top and Eastern Russia at the bottom.
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Single page:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=5AD0C1E4FC0A984...
Thanks.

Sorry about nuking the post, we had a race condition :) I realized that all product names on that list [1] were clickable, and so I decided to first look at the products one by one and then come back with more specific questions.

Would Sketch Up work in your opinion? Also Mathematica is available under non-commercial license for $295, which is reasonable (and I always wanted a copy of it anyways).

[1] http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/supported-applications
Is there somewhere to go for instructions? The game seems familiar but I can't work out what the goal is ... making it hard to determine whether my drags are right or not.
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The factory pattern exists to create jobs and products. Whether anyone wants or needs either is yet to be determined.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09law.html?pagewa...

This was a good story, recent JD with $250k in student loans, no job, and he knows he needs to stay calm.

Incidentally this from 2nd page of googling "law school student loans" (the same google search done by hundreds of thousands of college juniors every year), buried in a sea of websites telling you how easy it is to make law school, business school or whatever your dream is, attainable/affordable.
A threshold has been passed but I'm not sure it's bad ... the whole "Lean Start-up" movement is all about testing and why not test your market before you've invested much time. I do wonder whether the pain of moving off the platform might not be evident until much later though.
Previous submission of canonical URL, with comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3257339

Response piece to the two authors of the New York Times opinion piece, by a leading researcher on the subject, as submitted to HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3258576
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I have the ee enclosure problem now. It's getting pretty bad with some of my deployed projects just kind of spread all over the place.

As far as the database full of plans: http://www.thingiverse.com/
Look how far the Tea Party has got on a silly name.
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A better analogy might be the early PCs sold as kits and targeted at hobbyists, which is basically what this Kickstarter is funding.
i believe the p9 in his name is short for "plan 9" :)
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I've switched from screen to tmux about a year or two ago, after decades of using screen.. and I'm perfectly happy with tmux, as it fits my needs.

However, it's not true that screen has no advantages over tmux. Each program has its own strengths and weaknesses. For instance, screen is scriptable via its Lua bindings, tmux is not. Screen has zmodem support built in, tmux does not. There are probably many other examples, since screen has a bazillion features which have been developed over decades, while tmux is relatively new (and its developers don't seem to care to duplicate every one of screen's features).
I thought the same thing at first too, but then decided this was no different from any other startup providing services to other startups (like metrics, or novel databases). Unlike some of those services, this one at least eliminates an issue people tend to procrastinate around.
Yes, if you want to build something in technology (software more precisely) then Silicon Valley is the best place to do this. It has to be said you can build a technology company in Norway; Opera is proof that you can build software, Tandberg is proof you can do hardware.

A story that may be of interest; I used to work for a company called Aker Solutions here in Scotland, which is Norwegian as you probably know. The owner of the company, Kjell Inge Rokke, played to your strengths in Norway right. You are a maritime nation; read oil, gas and seafood. So despite no college education, he went on to work in your country's main industries and now is one of the richest persons in the world.

Looking forward, hydrocarbons are harder than ever to find. You'd imagine that geologists and the oil companies they work for will need amazing software. Importantly, they will be able and willing to pay for it.
I'm really torn about LaunchRock. I think they're doing a great job at something that tons of companies have needed over the years and will need.

But I really hate seeing posts on HN that are just asking for feedback on a coming soon page.
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I have a few dozen ideas for various inventions and algorithms that are potential game changers but probably too big for me to pull off myself. So I would like to post them to my website and sign them somehow to prove that they were released on a specific date for prior art, to prevent them from being patented. I found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

But I'm not really sure where to go from here. Can anyone recommend an app to do this? If it's relevant, I'm on a Mac running 10.7. Most of the ideas require on the order of $5000 or more in living expenses and materials to explore over a couple of months, but they are not technically complicated, just abstract. I'm hoping eventually to see a kind of github/kickstarter for inventors so they can get the small funds to tinker on their projects and then release them into the public domain. Any ideas/suggestions there would be much appreciated. Projects like the windbelt and electric multicopter come to mind. There are so many relatively easy ideas that could move us into the 21st century but most of us are still trying to make rent each month...

Thanks!
Here's an excellent job-market signal for college students to check: if an internship is unpaid, bail out of that occupation. Students pursuing worthwhile majors and learning skills that are truly in demand should be able to obtain PAID internships with a routine expectation that successful interns will be offered full-time employment at the same company, as my oldest son did last summer.
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At least they didn't provide a one-line install from a non-https server, too.

Just use "curl http://www.example.com/install_this.sh | sudo sh"!
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That would entail changing the goal of the Pirate Party.
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"Fuck’s continued vitality is even more amazing when compared to the fate of its sixteenth century synonyms: jape and sarde are virtually unknown; Chaucer’s swive is archaic; and occupy returns to English with a nonsexual meaning."

Apparently "occupy" was during 16c.-17c. a euphemism for "have sexual intercourse with," which caused it to fall from polite usage. This gives new meaning to the contemporary Occupy Wall Street movement.
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You mean as opposed to pgm-class.online.stanford.edu? Well they're cheap, it makes the urls shorter, it's less confusing. Just good design. But too, I guess the ai-class is run by one of the teachers' startups, so it may be to separate them from Stanford, for that reason and to make it clear that you don't get Stanford credit.
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Any decent production engineer could do that.

What you are saying is what bad civil construction engineers were saying before someone actually sit down and made one of niemeyer's project reality.
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I think Google initiatives and effectiveness are being killed by hiring more and more some KIND of persons. That KIND of persons has killed MS and many other IT companies in US. Now they are killing Google. Once an IT company occasionally hires one of them, those guys will hire more and more their KIND, spend significant money and efforts on doing something just wasting resources but the management level are marketed to trust.
Please put a date in your rss feeds. At least a "last_updated" field!
I really like this quote:
"The way we measure profitability is in ‘tons of money’."

I couldn't help but hear a loud 'cha-ching' in my head when reading this. I makes sense though, having a lot of money in the bank enables a business to make bold moves. I think its a delicate balance between making more sums of money and being more profitable.

Silly side note and stupid metaphor warning - if someone is right-handed, they never think to cut off their left hand just because they get less return or use out of it. Only when someone if forced to choose between the hands would they ever say, ok cut off my left hand and save my dominate hand. Thats like an extreme situation!

But in business, these companies make extreme moves like this, exiting whole biz sectors/markets, eliminating depts, segmentation etc. Add to this, that the bar is continuously raised, so if the factory quota for last year was x this year its x + 10. Thus 5-10 years later the exec's are surprised when the factory is not meeting "quota" and shutter it in the name of profitability.

Profitability is one issue, but I think the trend toward over optimization and greater year-over-year ROI is also to blame.
I think this is incorrect. The business card is the first deliverable of every startup, and whether or not you have a well-designed card is one of the strongest signals that your first prospective customers will use to decide whether or not you can ship what you say you are going to. Trying to save a couple hours and a couple hundred bucks by using one of the templates at Kinkos instead of working with a designer is a huge mistake.

Clearly you are going to be meeting tons of people and telling them about your startup if you are really serious about it, so not having a well-designed business card from day one is just throwing away tens of thousands of dollars worth of leadgen.
You might like the real-time "Traffic Flow visualization" by Chartbeat. Example using avc.com: http://chartbeat.com/labs/iflow/?host=avc.com

Click on the pages that are connected by lines. :)
Isn't it normal to hire people who are already employed but looking for work? How would someone is who looking to get poached any different than someone looking for a job the "normal" way?

I suppose there are hiring managers who prefer to hire unemployed people but I suspect they prefer desperate job applicants.
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There aren't any instructions, or even a goal. But if you want one, try setting all the squares to be red. Click on a square and drag over to the grey squares. They do interesting things when the cursor goes over them.
I like the idea but when I first read your description and went to the site, I expected the equivalent of a cork board in an office lunchroom, which it does do with "gatherings", but the rest feels like Foursquare tips or Yelp's reviews. Basically, I thought it was something your going to read while you wait for the coffee to brew that has targeted information about the office "community" or "neighborhood". "I'm selling my car" or "Employee meeting on Friday the 13th". I'm using the office as an analogy like you used the flyer on the tree. But the true question here is why would I go to your site to find this information? When I walk down the street I have no choice but to run into the tree with the flyer. Then I might tell my neighbor that Cindy lost her kitten and that she should look out for it. Maybe it's easier to start spreading the local info on your site via word of mouth (existing social networks) so that people hear about your tree (your site) and at some point they'll get used to looking for the flyer on the tree.

Ok, sorry for the analogies and generalities.

I think it's going to be a challenge to get people to use it since most people feel saturated by status updates / check-ins / review apps. I'd suggest trying to leverage other social network api's in order to automatically group people by location and also facilitate posting to your site. Maybe create a light weight Facebook app that looks like a tree with flyers on it?

Hope this helps and good luck.
Google is what happened. Not to date myself, but when I was first learning (BSDi) UNIX Google didn't exist. The first thing the sys-admin who helped me said was, "type 'man'."

These days most people just know that if they have an unanswered question, ask the Google.
This would be a lot more useful if you were able to define a sequential path rather than "of the users who went to page x, n also visited page y".
"After all, working memory is common, but greatness is rare."

So...it must just be a combination of many factors. Inherent intelligence or working memory can be useful, but so many other things influence whether you become "great" at something...unsurprisingly.

The papers linked to were interesting in how they looked at the different domains (poker, piano sight reading). I mean this certainly is an interesting thing to study, but I don't imagine there will be some proven way to achieve greatness any time soon rather than just deliberate hard work or something. Or maybe there will?
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The first two or three chapters of that guide are pretty good, but then it gets bogged down in obscure minutia to such a degree that you start to feel almost like you're just reading the zsh man pages again.

The guide is in some serious need of a good editor to make it more concise and better organized. It also needs many more simple, practical examples. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated since 2002, which also makes it a bit obsolete, since zsh development has been very active since then and zsh is now on to a new major version.

Overall, the guide is a nice try, but zsh needs more and better documentation if its not going to overwhelm all but the most dedicated users.
Informative, authoritative (?) comment on that thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/mg14z/whoa_whoa_ics...
Maybe I don't understand what you mean by "incompatible dialect". These are simple classes inheriting from list/dict. Basically, it simply add a couple methods to these objects. I.e. You can still use all the idioms/patterns; these are list/dict. I'm not creating a new paradigm, or writing a new language by tweaking the syntax. There's really nothing magic going down here. I.e. you can do

return List(..).update(..).update(..)

Instead of;

l = List(...)
l.update(...)
l.update(...)
return l

You can still use lisp comprehension, itertools, etc. In fact, I could pass a moka.List to your existing code and you wouldn't even notice it. (And you do, it's a mistake that I'd fix).

I do agree that I might have been overkill with some useless methods and I'm thinking about removing them.
(I.e. such as 'join' as it's really not needed)
oDesk.com and jobs.freelanceswitch.com are good ones with high-quality clients who aren't afraid to pay for good work
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Is tmux as available as screen?

I often have to fix servers that are not from own group, so all my knowledge is honed around tools that i can find anywhere.
You've got to the Godwin point at impressive speed, kudos.

Please drop the snark.
tmux is scriptable from the shell via its command-line arguments, so any language can script it.

It's certainly true that screen does have tons of small old features... but I sort of swept that in with "unless you're using HP-UX or something." zmodem support isn't exactly relevant to the overwhelming majority of programmers, but yes, I admit these things are still relevant to a few niches.
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One might argue that they've gotten so much exposure so far because they are called the Pirate Party. (The name is alluring. It's exciting to read they have a member in Parliament because it's so contrary to what you expect.) Pretty good advertising.

The desirable outcome isn't that they become the most popular party, but that more parties begin to adopt more of the sensibilities of the Pirate Party, which would suit people who prefer to align themselves to less excitingly-named but more powerful groups.
You can always use something like Illustrator or Inkscrape to design something yourself?

I guess you have to be relatively artistic for that.
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It's almost as terrible as the car insurance market in BC:

http://ihateicbc.com/icbcs-dirty-little-secret.html

BC only has one car insurance provider so they're free to set the prices as they see fit. They even try and pretend that they're doing it to help keep prices low as competition would only raise the prices for everyone (yes, they really said this).
Perhaps not, but tmux's bindings are nearly all backwards-compatible with screen's. Well, the default escape char is ctrl-B but I (and I think most folks) just remap it to ctrl-A immediately.
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Sorry. You're correct, he doesn't address that issue directly. Although I think it's still related to self-censorship in some way.

Probably it's a way one can draw attention to the very fact of self-censorship.

Writing f%ck is also somewhat similar to saying, e.g., hot damn. One makes clear their intention to say ‘God’ while staying in safe zone.
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I somewhat agree, but on the flip side - if they had had a "standard political party" name, I doubt they'd had any traction when they were getting started, and not gotten to the European Parliament at all. Remember that the major increase in membership count happened around the time the Pirate Bay founders were in court.
I wish there was an easy way to get info about builtin commands. So things like man bash-disown would work (similar to git).