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I ran across this recent good advice:

> "Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say: <i>'How did he do it? He must be a genius!'</i>"

"Ten Lessons I wish I had been Taught", Gian-Carlo Rota http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-le...
If there's one thing that makes me want to pirate steam games it's being charged a large premium because I'm not in the US.

The money is immaterial, it's the feeling that I'm being taken advantage of.
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You do realize that the cheaper some product is, the less these people are going to be paid, right?

They'll be paid the minimum amount possible anyway, and the rest just goes to company profits.
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The naming convention for macros is a little weird. My rule is: if the macro is user-visible (and not something to make your module easier to implement), it should start with define- or with-, and should include a uniquifier somewhere in the name. If you were writing an extension called foo, you might provide a macro called with-current-foo or define-foo-bar.

If someone already has a macro with this name, then don't call it that.

The reason for ignoring the normal package-function naming convention is that it's simply ugly to write code like:

(eproject-with-current-project "foo" (whatever))

when you could write

(with-current-project "foo" (whatever))
> [. . .] and play them each for a small amount of time

Or even never play them. There are a small[1] of people who collect all ROMs of some (or all) console systems, with no intention of playing them.

[1] I agree that in terms of overall piracy this is a tiny number.
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I like Cicero's answer to the question of when it is OK to break your word. Updating for the modern world... Suppose someone gives you a gun and you promise to give it back when requested. Then the individual goes insane and then comes back to request the gun back. In that case (Cicero uses a sword but same story) Cicero says you have a moral obligation to break your word. I can't imagine you'd disagree with that and give back the gun to someone not mentally fit to handle one. So there are cases where it is morally right to break one's word.

Now, two points I would make:
1) I think it is always better to assume good intentions than bad, but I have been scammed by others in this regard in the past, though fortunately for not a huge amount of money. So keep your eyes about you when you enter.* This means among other things looking at the people who work in a specific environment and actively look for trouble signs.

* Keep your eyes about you when you enter

Be watchful always, be wary always

For you never know when need will be

To fight the hidden foe in the hall

-- Havamal, 12th century Icelandic poem

2) In the event where someone is patently dishonest, (and there are signs to watch for here, for example anyone who accuses everyone else of being dishonest....), then I see no moral obligation to treat them better. I am not a Christian. I feel that it is perfectly acceptable to pay back lie for lie.

3) Key question during an interview: Ask the hiring manager when they'd need a decision by. If the recruiter moves up the date, you know the recruiter is lying.
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But I still think Lisps impose an overhead on reading code, and that overhead is highly unfriendly to a moderate GNU user

Interesting thought, but where is your evidence? From personal experience, I've spent the most time reading and writing Perl and Emacs Lisp. As a result, I find both of them easier to read than Python, which is a language designed to be readable. The reality is that all computer programs are hard to read if you don't practice reading them. (As an aside, I would estimate that about 20% of programmers "in industry" are able to fluently read code. The rest just write the same thing over and over again and are confused when they are asked to fix bugs in code they didn't write.)
I'm not saying JavaScript isn't worse than Lisp: I just think that describing it as "enslaving generations of programmers" is a bit much.
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"I have met many moral absolutists, and their primary attribute is that everyone else is a liar and a cheat."

In my experience, people who have very low opinions of everyone else (and those include the absolutists on both sides of this debate) are usually the least trustworthy people I have met.
Git workflow is evolving, and github in its forefront

If you want to compare on contributors Rails would again beat most open source projects , I remember seeing that number well above 1000
Who the hell keeps downvoting nupark2? His comments are on-topic and well argued. If you disagree post a reply, don't downvote.
pubsubhubbub doesn't have privacy/authentication/authorization mechanisms as part of the protocol, so creating near real-time push APIs isn't just as simple as using some pubsubhubbub library. I think its the complexity of coming up with one's own auth system that stops a lot of people from using pubsubhubbub. However, it is pretty awesome for things that are published to everyone.
Effective means to get people to add detail to their questions?
I don't understand the monad because I'm too stupid, but I really really like Roy nevertheless.

I've really missed static typing on Javascript and Coffeescript; little typos are so hard to find! Structured typing really sounds like the way to go for putting type checking into Javascript, and I like how, just like Coffeescript, Roy tastes a lot like Javascript otherwise - avoiding all kinds of leaky abstractions you get with less JS-like languages. Plus, it has a sexy syntax.

I'd like to try this out in a real project. Is that being done already?
> but it is true in many cases.

I suspect it's true in the NH bubble, but I strongly suspect that very few pirates then go on to buy the product.

When I've wanted to give some money to the author of a book I've downloaded it's really easy; I just go to a store (or Amazon, where buying stuff is really easy) and buy any book from that author on the same publisher. But for digital stuff it's often harder, with annoying websites, weird cart checkout systems, a stupid bit of credit card security theatre thrown in, some spammy email checkboxes to remember to click (or not click), etc. And this is when you want to buy it - that's too much friction for most pirates.

I'd love to see some decent research.
What kind of revolution? Why do you think this time things will end up different, when revolutions have brought us to where we are?
How much bandwidth are they saving by making a P2P network? I made up some numbers and got about 30k$ a month at S3 prices, is that worth building and maintaining this P2P network instead of just a bunch of servers?
This story is from RT, or Russia Today. It's a news network that's been known to run sensationalist stories.
was it this? http://zenhabits.net/god/
How much effort do you have to put in to get those dollars in a year? An email, a call, actually going somewhere?
This could easily render the value of those 10$ below 0
First you should learn how to spell it :)

Next, you have to realize that you don't get good at Emacs by taking some course or learning from some master. You have to discover things yourself through practice. If you want to use Emacs, start using Emacs. You will be an expert soon enough.
<Ms. Chen didn't respond to requests for comment via email and Facebook.>

This reads as a tongue in cheek reminder that Facebook is blocked in China.

< He applied for a permit to tear down the century-old mansion and to build a new villa...>

The seemingly prevalent distaste for old things continues to frustrate me. So much history and tradition cast aside.

I'm disappointed the article dwelled almost entirely on Bo GuaGua after an opening that suggested a more diverse article. While the hypocrisy is particularly striking in China (due to it's stated values and recent history), I think the privilege of children belonging to wealthy and powerful families is well known to be a worldwide phenomenon.

That said, the separation of rich and poor is painfully visible in China. Glowing shopping centers with carefully planned architecture and spotless windows stand directly across from tattered shops with merchants huddled amongst piles of cheap goods and street vendors selling stir fried noodles for less than 1 USD.
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So then how do you write cross-platform scripts? You can't even do "#!/usr/bin/env bash" since I'm assuming what you're saying means 'env' is in /usr/local/ as well, but on Linux systems it'll be in /usr/.

Broken! Can we please just pick one convention and stick with it? Oh, standards... so many to choose from.
I feel like you didn't actually read my comment. Minecraft is a perfect example of how non-repetitive voxel worlds are processor intensive, and rather, this serves as a demonstration that unless fractal-like repetition is used then current day computers are not up to the task of detailed voxel worlds. (minecraft is a cpu hog.) It's trivially clear that this example is the result of repetition and not any breakthrough technology.

Also I feel like your example is confused, I'm trying to be polite, but I think you should do some research about what this is before writing a counterpoint like you have. (what you've written isn't really meaningful.)

Let's take an example of a whirl wind in a desert or dusty plain, in a polygon mesh you're not seeing individual sand grains being lifted from the polygon surface then flying around and landing somewhere else forming a pile, as you have suggested. In a voxel simulation you would however see just that.

Now ignoring post production, what you're seeing is a well textured, but (crucially) introduced, particle effect and maybe some surface deformation for the sandy hill that is being destroyed. (This isn't how the effect is done in film by the way.)

Translating (i.e moving) cows and other objects is actually more on par with how voxels work. I.e. moving an object through space and placing it somewhere else. So you were half right in your thinking that way.

To finalise my point, the tornado "mod" example that I cited wasn't me discounting polygons as you've interpreted, it was referencing this video specifically(i.e showing how voxels can trivialise the programming of advanced motion effects): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSEwU5IqZ4A
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Interestingly, the algorithm is apparently the same as the 1394 (FireWire) 5c "restricted authentication" encryption. I assume they have different seeds for their matrices but if you can crack one of them you can crack the other.

If only anyone used 1394 any more (let alone 5c over 1394)...
It probably depends how you approach the advice. If you follow it with a view to sparking new passions and making new connections with people then it could lead you to something of substance. It's very easy to fall into a rutted existence, a little breadth can go a long way.
Why pirate though instead of simply not buying?
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First of all, put your contact info in the 'about' section of your profile.

There are a lot of amazing people on HN, and some of them are involved in various aspects of computer security. Contacting them privately might be your best bet.

Thomas Ptacek (in the Chicago area)

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek

Cody Brocious is around here somewhere, but I can never remember his HN user name, and I "think" he works with tptacek (above) at Matasano.

Nate Lawson

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=NateLawson

The above have posted to the monthly 'jobs' thread, so they are looking for people to hire. If you didn't know, on the 1st of each month there is a jobs thread and a freelancer thread here on HN.

There are also people involved with crypto work:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=JoachimSchipper

There are many others, so you'll need to dig around.
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It confuses me that this particular comment was found objectionable by at least six people. You guys are weird, sometimes.

Here is an example of a warrant of seizure issued by the United States District Court, Southern District of New York to "Any Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent or any other law enforcement officer authorized by law" to seize certain domains:

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/30/Warrant.pdf

I apologize for not expending the energy to produce a copy of every warrant for every domain ever seized, but I am not personally burdened with such indomitable doubts as to their existence that others seem to be.
Even if it's only $30k/month now, P2P is infinitely scalable for (essentially) free. That's pretty valuable
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I have only come to emacs recently, but what I'm finding is that you can ignore the complexity until you need it.

Basically I started out using emacs in a manner similar to Notepad- type stuff in, save it. Then as I went along, I have discovered that if I want it to do something to help me out, it's generally possible. Once I got to that mindset, I started thinking of new ways it could help me, and discovering new ways of making it do those things.

So far, so good.
Here is some of the evidence I'm going off of: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-10-19-flu-leinwand-...

Edit: I did find this article which mentions new vaccines being more profitable (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2009/tc200...), so perhaps the market is not as bleak as I had thought. Still, I worry about things as vital as vaccine and antibiotic manufacture being left to the whims of the market (new antibiotics are, last I checked, still not profitable).
Have a look at what groups like Aum Shinrikyo are thought to have achieved. I have no doubt that if they were still active they'd have little problem doing this.
well, I believe outsourcing in general, which is the reason why this problem exists, should be controlled and better regulated

It causes unemployment (at least short term) in the country outsourcing its work, and created bad working conditions and unfair working environment in the country receiving the outsourced work

There is obviously something wrong, and the poor are being exploited.

One could argue that those poor exploited people would have been even poorer, without the outsourcing model, and my answer to that, is that I don't mind or see a problem in them being paid less, being paid less is for sure better than not being paid at all.

But these stories are really more about greed and exploitation, which we should definitely stand against by asking for more regulations, monitoring and rules for outsourcing
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Do you pirate a Disney movie, then contact each and every person in the credits to pay them for their work, while avoiding giving money to the Disney corporation?

If you're not, you're just trying to justify your intellectual theft.
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Sure, there's nothing wrong with costing a company money. There's also nothing wrong with costing a person money - for example: if I make a bid at an auction it causes another bidder to pay more.

The point is that you should treat others like you want to be treated. Do you want people to break their word to you? If not, don't break your word to them, even if they have formed a group which is legally recognised as a company.

Also consider that it is possible for a single person to form a 'company' to run his business - is it OK to break your word to this person? Or only when he takes on a business partner?
I used to preach the same thing.

Then, working at a startup taught me that it's not black and white. Several quotes come to mind, but Voltaire's is my favorite:

"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
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Nice article but I want to make a clarification.

The now known as Spanish flu wasn't Spanish at all [0]. It's believed it was originated in China.

The 'Spanish flu' name came as a result of a mix of circumstances: the early affliction and large mortalities in mid 1918s in Spain (althought a first wave of influenza appeared early in the spring of 1918 in Kansas and in military camps throughout the US) and Spain’s neutral position during World War I. Without Media censorship, hence openly reporting about a flu outbreak, led to fooling observers into thinking that’s where the disease had come from.

[0] http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

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If so, we may be doomed. Assume there is a percentage of people who would use that ability. We need to either destroy them, or transform them. Assume they were 'fixed', our next problem would be fixing those who might temporarily be inclined to destroy the world, for example a jilted lover or anyone who is depressed and angry enough due to temporary circumstance. We then have to either ensure those circumstances never occur, or 'fix' those people. That likely covers most people, given an infinite amount of possible situations. Can't kill everybody, and 'fixing' them likely means we lose too much of what makes us human to be worth it.

I vote for taking it out of the hands of people and debugging Skynet for longer than they did in the movie. Then stop competing and enjoy the flowers.
And this is how the next major war will start...

Seriously, this pretty much sounds like a test run to see if the media will still take the bait without asking questions.
On my phone there is no simple way to prioritise it; that happens when I sit in front of the computer and cut through my pile of email :)

So for something that I consistently need to notice at the time it arrives, things like SMS, Twitter DM or other low-traffic notifications are better.
How does one become an "Advanced Emacs User"?

I say this as I've been using Emacs pretty much every day for about 2-3 years, yet I can't help but feel I've only ventured a couple of miles into the journey.

I use Emacs not just for coding, but organising and note taking, file management, shell, git (just beginning to), irc, sometimes for browsing and occasionally twittering. I know (and love) registers, macros, jumping around with "the mark". However I feel as thought I have reached the so called "Plateau Effect" where I'm not advancing any further.

There are a bunch of good blogs out there about Emacs which I read occasionally as well as flicking through the wiki

* http://emacsblog.org/

* http://www.masteringemacs.org/

* http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/

* http://www.emacswiki.org/

But, I still feel as though I am no where near what can be called an "advanced user". I feel as though there is still so much more Emacs has to offer, but I just can't find it.

I guess my question is: where do I go from here? How does one become truly advanced?

Sorry for hijacking this thread, and thanks in advance for any pointers.

P.S. FWIW my emacs.d is on github: https://github.com/ibrow/.emacs.d

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I was hoping it was some awesome machine learning system which separated people who were just browsing from people who actually wanted to buy.. oh well.
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Let's all hope Umbrella Corporation doesn't get a hold of this...
From what I have heard from Apple Store Employees who I asked about this topic, at the moment they are doing nothing. Technically someone could grab something from the shelve, look like they are checking out on the phone and walk out and there is no verification that someone has actually paid for the item.

It is going to be interesting how, or even better if, they are going to tackle the issue of loss prevention or if they are going to consider it an operating loss.

The interesting thing is that even before they implemented the self-checkout system it was based on the honor system as well. Nobody has ever asked me if I had paid for the items as I was leaving the Apple store. Nobody flagged me down as I was holding items to pay for them. I didn't have a physical receipt, just one they emailed to me and I've almost never asked for a bag so they can't identify people who have paid vs those who hadn't paid that way...
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They were already paid for their work, by Disney.

Very few credited contributors are going to have points on the gross of a Disney movie, especially not the animated ones.
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The problem isn't that too many kids go to college: it's that not enough kids get adequate prenatal care, parenting, preschool and primary and secondary schooling.

In other words, the debate is asking the wrong fucking question.
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"This list is designed to create a perception." I don't see how you can read it like that at all. Why else advise someone to read a new, weird magazine they've never read before each week, to eavesdrop on people's conversations and to start scrapbooking? Most of all, why advise people to really listen to other people instead of blabbering on about yourself, if all you care about is making yourself look interesting? None of those things are public in any way, they're meant to broaden your mind.