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What are all these green accounts that seem to be so excited about the "Code Academy"? This is getting suspicious
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It's nice that Chinese kids have the ability to focus on what they want, rather than status and money. However, it would probably be better if they try to find one burning passion that will carry them for the rest of their life, or at least some sort of field that allows them to build on from previous projects.

Given sufficient time, people can create very amazing things like dwarf fortress. Dwarf fortress was a culumination of several years and is already one of the most sophisticated fantasy simulation game ever. By the end of my lifetime, it will probably have everything that you could want in a simulation game.
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I bet there's someone here to tell that "it isn't that easy, you'll learn it the hard way", but this is something I intend to do as well. If I'm working with something, and I don't feel like I learn anything new or is simply unhappy, I'll quit and live off my savings for a while. As long as I work hard, I'm sure I can find a new opportunity somewhere else.
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No, in Kentucky! Though to be honest, I just convinced them to let me use Clojure. It was a lab, though, so I had a lot of leeway as long as I got things done.
You might be interested in the program "par", which uses dynamic programming to optimize the line breaks, and can automatically handle such things as text prefixed by "> ".

http://www.nicemice.net/par/
Yeah, this article left me speechless. Why would you use jwz to justify startup culture? jwz left the tech industry completely in 2000 and bought DNA Lounge.
I'm not sure it would work at most startups. Firms that use "up or out" policies offer a few things to potential hires:

1) A high salary (to make up for potentially short tenure)

2) Potential for equity shares in profits and control (even though McKinsey is technically a corporation, its run as a partnership with partners being the shareholders)

3) Training backed by a brand they can take to their next job

When someone takes an offer at McKinsey or Cravath or Goldman, they know that they'll be compensated at the top of their field, they'll get a resume line they can take to their next job when they get "or out-ed", and that if they prove to be a super-star they'll get a real stake in the company.

None of these things are true for a startup. That is not to say that startups don't offer their own benefits (I think working at a startup is the best training you can get as a software engineer, but it stings that future employers don't really put much stock in it unless you get lucky and the startup turns into a brand name), but in adopting an "up or out" model you adopt all of the downsides of that model without offering any of the upsides.
Hey, that's pretty slick. Just signed up to check it out, thanks for sharing!
Ah that's neat. I'll have to try almond butter.
I checked out that vizio, it's single core and 1/2 the storage (has an sd slot though). Unless you care about the GPS and camera, seems rooting the fire is a better choice. I doubt I'll root mine though, I'm one of the few that seems to like it.
This is a subject near and dear to my heart, and I'm sure we could have a lovely chat about this -- got Skype?
If you can afford it, please hire professional designers. These posts are interesting and useful. But as in any industry there things that you can only learn through years of experience and education.
tell that to sir alan kay

ps: I should add some data >>> http://tinlizzie.org/~awarth/
If they really can't figure out how Gupta got so far in the firm then they aren't as smart as their PR puff piece says they are.
It's gotta be the hair.
I don't argue for or against that 'new algorithm', just the topic we are talking about. Nevertheless, I haven't seen a proof that voxels can't be rendered more efficiently (although I think it's very improbable), while infinite compressibility is easy to prove to be impossible.

Edit: You didn't clearly get what is claimed here. 'Infinite detail' is just a marketing speech, the claim is that the algorithm can render up to screen resolution any data set whose size is limited only by memory. I.e. rendering speed isn't bounded by the size of the data set. The method has nothing to do with compression, and indeed the data set will be huge if everything is 'infinitely' detailed.
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It seems like nearly all the cellphone manufacturers are doing it Take the newest primary generate add some welcome
It tends to hang out at the bottom of the Shootout [1]. Its phenomenal cosmic powers come at a price. But note that the ratio of Ruby to Python or Perl is generally within 2x.

(The Shootout is not the One True Measure of speed... but it isn't meaningless, either.)

Generally the only thing this really means though is that you wouldn't want to do hard-core computation in pure Perl/Ruby/Python, hence things like NumPy.
[1]: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programming-lan...
PG also said that the 1-in-10 chance is an average, across many different people, and individual circumstances may dramatically alter those odds. Some startups are virtually certain to succeed. Others probably have a 1 in a 1000 chance.

I think you're better off working really hard for a while - enough to fully explore the problem space you've gotten in - and then taking stock of the situation and learning your lessons. Then, hopefully your odds are better next time, and with any luck, the process eventually converges on success.
> Lets shift for a sec. Think about the silk road marketplace. What they should really do is come out with a bitcoin clone of their own, get a bunch of early adopters behind it and then switch the website over to only accept their crypto currency. The'd rake in the cash and have a pile of it on hand from getting in early. They'd be selling the currency and the products you buy with it. The worlds best drug dealers. In fact theres no telling whether the bitcoin early adopters are involved in this very practice at silk road. It's not about beating bitcoin in usefullness, it's about real money.

It is not only about the new blockchain, it is the infrastructure built around it. Currently bitcoin is the cryptocurrency which is easiest to use and has most infrastructure.

If you want to start your own drug market for a new cryptocurrency, you have to setup exchanges etc. too for it.
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http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/careers.html

I don't think you get a job at Tor without being personally known to the developers. Volunteer, I guess.
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I was expecting an exploration of nootropics like Piracetam or Vasopressin. Stuff we'e been reading about for 30 years and maybe there's new research.

But this all reads like a generation of kids amped on semilegal stimulants and nothing else. Is that really "neuroenhancing"?
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Hi,

Blog Post: http://aussiestartups.com/2011/11/need-to-settle-an-argument-barkles-the-twitter-for-debates/

AussieStartups have posted our first article, it's definitely a start but I want to take future posts in a different direction and revolve them more around issues facing Australian startups for instance funding, how founders meet and hurdles they had to overcome.
Rather than just outlining the features of the product go into more detail about the story of the startup.

Cheers

William
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Here's one video. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkgklr_the-possibility-of-u... It doesn't really explain things thoroughly, but it's the best I can find right now.
I also wonder how Americans talk about ADHD as if it is something bad.

Last regular go-to-the-office job I had there was no end to the number of people who would proudly declare how ADD they were. I think it was a roundabout (and ironically commonplace) way to say, "Look at me! I'm so creative."

I finally decide that the way to tell if someone really did have ADD was to note how often they seemed so cheerful about it.

Prescribe meds against it, even.

Have you ever been driving on the highway, and found yourself struggling, I mean really struggling, to pay attention to the damned road, because it was too boring and your brain kept deciding to redirect your attention to everything else on the off chance it was more interesting? Knowing that if you don't pay attention you could die, yet having to fight to look out the windshield?

ADD is not about a lack of attention, it's about inappropriate attention. Sometimes that's a wonderful thing. Sometimes, though, you really do have to pay attention to something even when your brain has other plans.

BTW, schizophrenia and major clinical depression might also be considered "a vital part of [the] self" but not everything you're born with is a 100% good thing.

People taking brain drugs need to weigh the pros and cons.

If you're happy with whatever chemical soup is naturally in your skull, more power to you. Other folks might need some seasoning.
That Actionscript is still a useful language, within it's niche. And since this post is all about finding the right language for particular niches I don't see why you'd argue against it's inclusion.
I bought one. First tablet. I find it just fine for the price tag and it is extremely portable. Since buying it I have used my laptop about 70% less. For some reason I cannot log into HN from the Fire. If I was able to, then frankly I would only use my laptop for development or writing long form.

I am only using it for reading books and browsing. I have also downloaded a couple of books in PDF format and sent them to my kindle email address. They read just fine, although you will need to pinch-zoom every page if the text is too small.

Sometime it freezes, and frankly I had to replace the first one (I bought it in store).

I have no idea what people expect for $199. I find it very valuable for the money. I have a feeling by the second or third iteration they will have a dedicated audience just as Ipad and Iphone do.
Well, like I said, those worked for me. Actually, the change in frequency and size of my meals probably affected me the most. It may not work for you, but it certainly does for me. It's not really 6-8 meals for me anymore; it's more like "eat when I'm hungry and stop before I'm 100% full" kind of deal and it works out to 5-7 small meals.

You don't have to drop red meat altogether, but I have for the most part (not to say I don't still enjoy a good burger from time to time). Red meat increases the risk of heart disease and doesn't provide the same nutritional value as fish.

As for the whole grain, I think you are only getting a piece of the difference between whole grain and bleached. Whole, unprocessed grains do raise your blood sugar higher than processed grains, which is actually a good thing if it doesn't quickly cause a blood sugar spike. That's what bleached/processed flour does. It causes a quick spike in blood sugar, so in that respect processed flour is more like a candy bar. Whole grains also provide more fiber, complex carbs, and nutrients that processed grains have had removed. In this article Dr. Weil went into some depth about whole grains and their glycemic index: http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/QAA400088.

And the fruit juices, well yeah it's just a temporary substitute. Now I only drink tea and water, but I used to have much more of a sweet tooth that I would please with fruit juice. Have you ever seen the experiment where someone puts a nail in a cup of soda and another in a cup of fruit juice? The nail is eaten away surprisingly quickly in the soda.

Most of my dietary changes started after reading "8 Weeks to Optimum Health" which I would highly recommend to anyone wanting to truly improve their health.
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You're right of course - and I should have tempered my post with caveats about "if the poster is correct", and "I don't really know much about the internal workings of the ASF".

The main point I was trying to convey was just that there's a cost to not improving things, just as much as there's a cost to things getting worst.
There's some good advice in here regarding attitude and hustle.

Can I give one more piece of advice? If you (correctly) figure out that the reason you aren't getting given jobs / funding / etc is a lack of connections, then you should optimize for achieving connections. This doesn't come naturally to everybody, myself included, but it isn't harder than lots of things which are table stakes to being an engineer.

Similarly, if you keep getting told No and think you need social proof... then get social proof. Plan B, whining about how humans have exploitable deficiencies in decisionmaking processes such as requiring social proof, is distinctly suboptimal.
Did you do the OSQA implementation yourself? I want to deploy OSQA for an idea in a niche area I'm testing. I want to do Q&A but I also want to add a news section sort of like the setup here on Hacker News. I'm not sure how easy it is to customize OSQA though. I am not a developer so I would be willing to part with a few dollars to get this done.
It's really useful to be able to remain calm and focused, especially if that's not part of your normal personality. These drugs aren't permanent by any stretch, they barely last 8 hours, so it's not likely to do much damage to your sense of self.
I think this tool gives too fine-grained an outlook about whether a language is "suitable" or "not."

Some languages (e.g. Matlab, Erlang) were designed for specific domains in which they excel, but most were designed to be general-purpose. So, most of those languages are really suitable for most tasks.

There are few things that, for example, one might code in Java, that I would not consider using Python for. The two are very different, of course, but for non-specialized applications, the practical reasons for using one over the other come down to other concerns; ubiquity, your own familiarity, interoperability with your existing infrastructure, etc. Me, just I'll choose the novel general-purpose language out of interest.

Then again, a few languages I've worked with (i.e. PHP, Matlab) deserve thoroughly to be crucified for their crimes against computer science and developers everywhere.
Is this usually the case that exactly one commit maps to a single issue? I'd rather expect a whole branch to cover one issue (unless it's completely trivial). In this case, repeating the same issue number in every commit message on a branch doesn't seem very useful.
This might not actually be that off-topic, because I think the underlying reason that git commit messages are stored line-wrapped is for ease of sending them unmolested through email.
I don't drive car much and when I do it's interesting enough to be able to focus.

But I am unable to watch movies without company because I will immediately switch tasks, either physically on my PC or mentally, focusing on something else. And I annoy everybody who I watch movies with by commenting things we see because this switch helps to flush temporary boredom.
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Rob Walling's book is a nice how-to for this kind of entrepreneurship http://www.startupbook.net/

(not affiliated with the author in any way, just enjoyed the book myself)
If you tap quickly (bouncing your finger off the screen) it tends to work fine. I believe the issue is that it is TOO sensitive, especially in regards to thinking you are trying to drag something.

If it let me install 3rd party keyboards and it solved the touch-sensitivity issues I'd keep it definitely. As it is, I'm very close to returning it. I'm hoping for a nice custom rom at this point.
This is a good post about readable commit messages:

http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa...
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The best way to remain calm for prolonged periods is a smartphone, obviously.

Why would you need to be calm and focused at the same time? It's either calm and mind wandering or focused and active, isn't it?
Pretty well even in a corporate environment. The word compulsion was used to polarize and by the comment score card, it did a pretty good job at getting a rise out of a few people. A more positively associated word to be used would be dedication and I find it to be a great ruler to measure the quality of candidates.
As Weatherford's book points out, fiat currency was not invented by the British, as the Chinese were using a similar system in the 1st or 2nd century, and continued to use a paper money system until 1399. Abuses destroyed the value of the paper currency, and it did not reappear in China until the 20th century.

This is accurate, but incomplete. Wikipedia has a decent page on the subject of fiat currency in the 18th & 19th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money#18th_and_19th_centur...
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Pretty poor showing of projects to be honest.
My entry for coolest Arduino project ( which was notably absent from that list ) : http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page .
Unfortunately, there's only one brand available in my city, and that's Guayaki, so I wouldn't know any other brand to recommend. All Yerba Mate kind of tastes burnt, though. You may want to try steeping it for less time than is recommended if it's too bitter.

My favorite way to drink it is sweetened with some sugar and then 5 or 6 drops of lemon juice added. It completely changes the flavor. Several of my non-tea-drinking friends love it when I prepare it like this.
The guy who did the uberfridge project posted it on reddit a few days ago, where he also answered a few questions

Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/mkgek/i_program...
...This doesn't quite qualify as an Arduino project.

Linus Akesson's "EuroDemo" efforts are NOT Arduino based - they are actually less than an Arduino electronically but still AVR based.

This is an old link but I think Linus's efforts still take the cake:
http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/craft/
Ideas for projects (hobbies) are often different than ideas for products (startup)

I look at the problems people face.

What I face, what others face, what customers face.

Then, I try to imagine how it should be. I get input from someone who deals with the problem every day if I don't think I know enough about the subtle details.

Now I have a chance to build something, how it should be. I try to solve it.
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Is there a way to monetize it?
I've tried Adderall a few times and never got the productivity burst that users claim to receive. It tends to have the opposite effect on me. My attention darts everywhere and my skin feels like it's being pricked by thousands of needles.

Such drugs typically work by correcting an imbalance. If you don't start with this imbalance (say, lack of dopamine) then the effects may not be what you want.

The substance lifestyle really isn't something I can buy into.

A big problem is that one tends to become adapted to the drugs and their effects are diminished. Ritalin stopped doing anything for me, and Adderall doesn't seem much better (when taken as prescribed).

People thinking of taking such enhancers on their own should have in mind a plan to get off them.
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"takes Adderall when he wants to bang out lines of boilerplate code."

Tell him to smoke a bit more pot and learn how to program the boilerplate away. :)
My son plays it. But the way it was conveyed to me, it sounds like "The Secret". The whole point is to learn to wish for pieces. If you wished loudly enough, for example "I could checkmate if I had a pawn in my next move", then it could magically appear out of no where.
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Has anyone tried creating a Debian/Android distribution (like Debian/kFreeBSD)? Mozilla's B2G (Boot To Gecko) OS uses the Android kernel without the Dalvik VM or frameworks. I don't know what B2G's userland looks like.

A Debian/kAndroid distro could be what Maemo/Meego wanted to be, but benefit from Debian's popular userland and Android device support provided by Google and device manufacturers.
Even if there was One True Assembly, few would want to program in it directly, and we would still have different ideas about how to generate it. There would still be functional people and OOP people and procedural people. There would be tradeoffs where different approaches would be objectively better.

I would like a One True Assembly because it would make it easier to develop new languages. :)
You can run whatever software you want, but if enough other peers think your protocol sounds funny or your transactions are improperly formatted then you'll be marginalized. I don't know if this has ever been tested, though.
I'd already made that point by excluding games from my statement. When someone says except for X, bla bla bla, you don't respond by saying yea but I do X.
People and organizations - such as aristocrats and governments - that have large amounts of money to spend as patrons of science, also tend to be very interested in finding new ways to destroy enemies. It has been this way for centuries, even millennia.
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I also concur to this:

“Many sectors of society have winner-take-all conditions in which small advantages produce disproportionate rewards.” At school and at work, the usefulness of being “smarter,” needing less sleep, and learning more quickly are all “abundantly clear.”

Let's drop school because you're not earning money there.

You getting rewards for needing less sleep is called "abuse" and "slave labor" and should be strongly discouraged.

I fail to see how being a little smarter (or learning a little faster) would help oneself in the workplace (I can see how it can be useful once per month, but not every day). In workplace you need competence, mental model of what you're doing, passion and the ability to see the big picture. I don't think that the said drugs would greatly help in any of those areas.
Honestly, deadlines aren't there to be first to market. Deadlines are there so you can accurately pace / measures yourself. Once deadlines start slipping, it's a slippery slope. At some point, you may have to look at the planning to see if the plan itself is too aggressive given the resource constraints. With that said, I firmly believe that a strong team needs to stand behind deadlines however arbitrary.
> For some reason I cannot log into HN from the Fire.

I noticed the same thing. Anyone have any clue what's up with this?
I'll try the devkit. Right now, I do see two mounted devices (phone and sd).