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God is just. Highs and lows balance.

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Looking at his disciples, he said:

“Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
22 Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.

23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.

24 “But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
25 Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

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Do shitty stuff long enough, you'll get rewarded.

Alice in Chains has one wise lyric -- no one likes to take the path which brings you lower. I have a hard time not looking at reality as a farce by some patronizing angel and it makes me rage. The Catholic lent practice is just lovely. I'll pass. My life doesn't have big highs and lows--kinda stuck in stable limbo recently.

You can only endure so much of the path that takes you lower. The interesting thing is, when I set-out to take the lower path, it got way way worse than I bargained for. No good deed goes unpunished. There are demon angels who pile on the misery and you say "fuck this! More than I bargained for, shaking a fist at the sky." Those demons live for doing that.

I was terrified for years, but it got better. I have to laugh -- it's not like my fears were logically refuted, no, I just got used to them and forgot them.

I don't know much about Eastern religion, but they probably figure highs and lows balance. God exists, though... Heaven is enjoying His company, I figure. I guess that highs and lows thing still applies. I don't really know how rigid it is. Anyway, rejoice! Talking to God is the meaning of life. As I ponder those Eastern folk, seems very void, their thinking without God. Poor folk.

God says...
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e mutable, but in Him are they firmly stablished; else would
they pass, and pass away. In Him then be they beloved; and carry
unto Him along with thee what souls thou canst, and say to them,
"Him let us love, Him let us love: He made these, nor is He far off.
For He did not make them, and so depart, but they are of Him, and in
Him. See there He is, where truth is loved. He is within the very
heart, yet hath the heart strayed from Him. Go back into your heart,
ye transgressors, and cleave fast to
Another HN user posted this link on TPB: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6670023/Official_Standard_C_...
Top 50 Habits You Should Break in 2012
Cupcake Deemed 'Security Threat,' Confiscated By TSA
Merry Christmas from the TSA
I'm deeply in love with my Samsung Focus, which runs WP7.
Thanks for not asking if we pivoted.
Dude, your style is somewhat persuasive but it's all rhetorical techniques - you use lots of false assumptions and imply facts that aren't true.

This statement here - you're doing it again. But a more concrete example was where you said "funny that the guy does this after making lots of money" - see, it's nasty, it's an assumption that's actually untrue.

So, I said that's false. Did you correct it? Nope. You throw out these assumptions when you don't know what you're talking about, and don't own it when you're wrong.

So - cut that out and get an actual discussion going.

Actually go read an article, think about the arguments made, and address the good and bad points.

Start by summarizing an article - "I think the author is saying X." Then, follow up with if you partially agree or disagree. Cut out this assumptive hand-waving rhetoric thing you do.
As someone who has seen bipolar type 2 first hand, you sound terrifyingly like me. I know that you won't get help right now, but I beg you to do so when you're at the nadir and sinking beneath the waves begins to make sense. Please, please don't let this break you and destroy your life.

It isn't something wrong. It's just the way we were born. Please seek help and learn how to live with this. Please.
Not unusual for third party software to have configuration files elsewhere though. You see this a lot with "Enterprise" java stuff, typically config files in XML scattered around the installation directory.
Sure: I was the founding CEO, and wasn't scaling with the company. I helped hire a CEO with more industry experience who already knew most of our potential partners - one of them had actually offered him a senior position.

I left on good terms with a decent severance package and kept a good chunk of equity.
What a fantastic humanisation of a legend. He was a human being like all of us. He is a legend unlike any of us. Thank you for sharing these thoughts.
It's safe to buy on the Internet?
Lost funding on my project Shadow Physics which basically killed the game and killed the company started to make it, Enemy Airship.

I'm planning on writing up a kind of postmortem on the project after the new year. A lot of things went wrong, and it was a text book example of failure to pivot when we had no other choice.
If you pushed yourself onto the normal path and that makes you happy and keeps you engaged, great.

I made a different choice with different outcomes. In the last four weeks, I was able to hire like 30-40 people or so, keep six or so projects running, do a deal with a top hotel chain and top jeweler, put out a book in a week, lead a struggle for reform against traditional publishing, made $38,500, shot a bunch of videos, had a bunch of fun, hired an architect to build an orphanage in Ulaanbaatar, and so on.

Normal life? It's not for me. I'll take the good with the bad, burn hotter than the sun, and burn out and go mad at a relatively young age. It's a lifestyle choice, and I'm doing it an educated fashion. I wouldn't wish it on anyone else, I don't advocate it, but I wouldn't give it up for anything.
The smell of Christmas
There is much to be said about name recognition. He's been an active community member for a few years and I think people are interested in watching him rationally go irrational.

I've read his blog for awhile now and he paints an interesting portrait of himself. At the same time that he is rallying for the human condition and trying to get people to stand up, he talks of taking over the world and compares himself to dictators. He gave himself the diagnosis of a type of mania, but hasn't really sought treatment for it or even a valid diagnosis. In the past few months his writing has become more and more unstable.

And that intrigues me. Whenever I become unstable in any way, my writing tends to dry up. I retreat within myself to find inner stability. I do things to excess, cut ties, etc. etc. If I extrapolate my behavior over to him (WARNING: dangerous assumption here), then it seems like he is becoming more stable mentally. He is writing on more focused topics, connecting with more people, trying to do better work, being more public about what he is doing.

Maybe he has come to accept the idea of a public failure not meaning much to him and is just putting it out there. Maybe he is becoming more accustomed to the idea that he might just be unstable mentally and can therefore let it shine through.The change in writing topics and styles obviously reflects a change in Sebastian.

Does it reflect a change in how he writes or a change in how he thinks though? Most people here are pointing and yelling "Train Wreck! Watch out!" and worrying that he has changed for the worse mentally. But if you read his stuff, he refers to earlier dark periods in his life. He's stared into bays and thought of drowning as being a better outcome for his life. He sounds like he lost a business at some point in his early 20's or it failed or something just didn't work.

So I don't really think that he has changed mentally. All this was there and has been there since he started writing. To me, it just seems like he is saying "Fuck this, I am going to write about what I really think about." It's more of a change in his style of writing, the relative truth he is willing to let out, than, "Oh shit, finna be a crazy mofo from now on."

Or he could just be going crazy. Or both. Perspective from a casual observer here.
Started http://woboq.com/ about 3 months ago :-)

Right now we're a service company around Qt only, but hopefully getting out a product next year either alone or together with another company.

Being a service company also means that 2011 is already profitable for us. Hooray for having established connections/networks.

If anyone in the Berlin area is up for a beer and exchanging some knowledge, we're interested in that.
CSS3 Daft Punk Style LED light Show
Only works in Modern Webkit.
Oh yes - we do a daily build that gets pushed out to testers - and if it's failing then they don't get it.

(And it took me an absolute age to get rid of all the warnings too.)
here's a start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#.22Theft...
MealTrac(.com), MealMix(.com)
Nothing against Sam Altman, I've never met him and I'm guessing you haven't too, but as far as startups go loopt hasn't really exploded or gotten anywhere much in the past 6 years. It seems like it's in a stable state. It's like your mythologizing the local 5 store chain CEO thats been around for 40 years, but has never expanded beyond the state.

Nothing gets people's attention as a product that looks like it's getting somewhere. A prototype is a lot better than just an idea.
OMG Those Supporting SOPA are the same People who wrote the Pirating Software.
I 100% agree and have massive respect for everyone involved in the publishing process - except the lawyers, bureaucrats, and suits who are screwing it up for everyone.

Artists, editors, copy-editors, distributors, and so on all have immense value. So do ethical agents. But the industry badly needs reform and modernization.
Christmas tree made out of form elements (webkit)
Sebastian, may I ask what your return on the one week book is to date?
And they still haven't adopted the C++ const-correctness rules (for pointers to pointers to ...), which really do help in writing correct code, and correct code that has flavor of C89.
I read about 50% of the letter (http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/an-open-letter-to-simon-and...)

What I felt was unprofessional behavior on the part of the publisher was not sticking to deadlines for payment.

However, I did feel that the author complaining his ideas for jacket design were not taken seriously is a bit diva-like behavior.

I do think, that with all the software tools we have out (spell checker, grammar checkers etc) it should be quite possible to self-publish (using a print on demand service for example, and for ebooks, perhaps you can even design your own site).

The only thing I think is how will your book get publicity if you don't have a publisher behind you. Perhaps Cory Doctorow's model (of putting samples on line) is good, but how do you get your initial break?
This diagram would be instantly forgettable as a table. In this form it's far more likely to reach a wider audience and make an impact.
Initial costs were around $10,000.

The cash return is negative.

The art, doing cool stuff, working with good people, and changing the world return is massive.

(And my share goes to charity anyways, so my personal financial return is capped at zero. This isn't a money thing for me, I had a 180 degree flip recently where I started despising money. Interestingly, I started getting paid a lot more too. Strange world.)
Your point is noted. I didn't want to come off as arrogant and it is understandable why it was downvoted based on that.

I added a framework for valuation and accounting which is a much more accurate than what was written in the article and in a fraction of the space.

The point I am making is very valid and extremely important for people to read after reading that article which is completely wrong in almost all ways.

I'd write it again anytime and gladly be downvoted in the off chance one person reads it and is saved from making huge errors later. (I will skip the "no, no, no" part and adjust tone to keep from seeming arrogant.)
Instapaper is for bookmarking and reading. It strips unnecessary clutter. You provide links to interesting stories - one might want to read them in a more readable format or send it to Instapaper and read it later on a tablet.

Here is my rumble: I'm thinking about an algorithm that would work like singnal-to-noise ratio detector. This requires a lot download bandwidth. It means counting how fast people like, +1, or any other on the internet (techcrunch, etc). Simply, replicating similar logic that HN uses for moving articles from newest page to the front page just for the top 10-20 most popular tech websites (techcrunch, gizmodo, etc). Then you add nice readability features (e.g., Instapaper) and you have a business. I might have a prototype next year but it seems that you have infrastructure that sets you ahead.
A wise man learns from the mistakes of others, yes. But you don't have to be doing what everyone else is doing to learn from their mistakes (otherwise you wouldn't be learning from their mistakes, but from your own). Also, if, as you say, you follow others and do what they do it's not really based on data either until you get enough experience to know what works and what doesn't. After that your "data" will be the sum of past experience and observing the successes and failures of others. It's really the same process if you follow your intuition.

I think the misconception is that following your intuition HAS to mean NOT following the herd. That's only true in the sense of making up your mind and choosing what it is you want to do regardless of what other people are doing. If this happens to coincide with the herd's behaviour it doesn't make your behaviour herd-y (=P). The difference is the "why", not the "what". You're acting in a certain way because that's what you decided to do based on, say, intuition, or based on what other people are doing (or a mix of both). What it is you're doing may be exactly the same as what others are doing, but that's secondary. And I should say that living according to your inner voice really isn't that difficult/frustrating. In fact it's somewhat liberating to do what you want to do as figuring out the herd and convincing yourself to follow it takes more mental energy (in my opinion/experience, of course).

Lastly, when talking about "learning what works and what doesn't", it's unlikely that you'll learn about things that really work from those that follow the herd. It's more likely that you'll learn from those who lead the herd - and those people do it by following their inner voice.
My Web Hosting Provider Doesn't Support SOPA. How About Yours?
After reading about SOPA and its implications to freedom on the Internet, I wanted to know on which side was sitting my provider. So I sent their customer support an email simply asking for a yes or no. I was glad to read back in their answer that they indeed are opposed to the bill. Let me add that, independently from all the burden it would have taken, I was ready to vote with my wallet and take my business away if their reply had been different. I also wonder if anyone can recommend good alternatives for people stuck with GoDaddy and other SOPA supporters?
Clickable for the other poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3390727
For personal projects, I'm going to try and use ANSI C89 forever. I know this isnt especially rational but it's somehow appealing to stick with a small(er) and more historic version.
Its worth pointing out that this can cause issues with Xcode 4.2 as described on http://asepsis.binaryage.com/#known-issues
Reliance On Unknown Dependencies
more clever working coming from you, hakim. love that the elements are still usable.
I'll do it next year
http://buckheadcs.com

consulting, web sites, support, training, and other things in Atlanta.
Do you honestly believe that I have a normal life?

Oh the creative turmoil can be helpful, but being grounded helps you to do so much more. Otherwise it's just two steps forward and one step back. (Be honest, doesn't that happen when you crash? Or when things become too feverish and hot?)

Further, there are things worth being stable for. Sometimes finding that one person who will love you and never leave your side is worth any amount of glory, fame, prestige or greatness you could possibly hustle. Sooner or later we all need someone to keep us warm at night and make everything worth it. Especially someone like us.

You're high right now. You'll probably snort at all of this, but reflect upon this when you're in that segue mode between the zenith and the nadir, when you're passing through that goldilocks zone of stability, and you'll know the answer.
It seems that you'd be better off using a text-to-speech engine, thereby supporting not just one language but all languages. You'd be right in suggesting that they're not good enough yet to be nice to listen to, but I doubt that's more than a year or so away.
I'm fascinated by the fact that more people started a business/company in 2011 than people who didn't.
yes http://geekli.st
That's C++11, a different language.
Actually, Chrome does have the right-click to add ability. At least Chrome 17 (dev channel) does.
I think that <stdint.h> is a C99 feature worth using -- otherwise each project has to redefine eg. myuint32_t over and over again. Colossal waste of effort and namespace pollution.
Go Daddy pulls SOPA support
Will I be able to to fill my own generated hydrogen, or I'll have to by it prepackaged from Apple?
Who is behind the killing of Twitter fail whale?
Yes but currencies dont stay flat and it is not clear that there is such a thing as equilibrium in the markets.
Hate SOPA? 6 things you can do to stop it
Yesterday, GoDaddy lost 21,000 domains
Poll: did you sell your startup in 2011?
If you didn't start a company: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3390727

or shutter one:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=339132

perhaps you sold one?

Share your success story if you want.
Here is another link http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/08/18/evan-weaver-the-man...
http://www.docchats.com
Linux distro package management solves that, surely?
I read a few paragraphs of this blog post, but gave up eventually. I didn't understand what he was trying to say at all. I thought this was because English is not my first language, but after looking at a few other posts in his blog, I'm now convinced it's just bad writing.

Everything is horribly out of context. I don't know any of names mentioned. This post - his whole blog really - sounds more like a (badly written) email to the people who have more insight in this exact situation.

Word of advice: if you write a blog, don't assume your readers read all your previous posts. Took me a few years to realize this myself.
my vote is for Apicius
My impression, will someone please assure me (--are there any good antonyms of "assure" in this context?--), is that Apple is slowly switching to TI for the parts that Samsung is now supplying.
My friend had this idea earlier this year: http://letmereadthatforyou.com/.

I don't know what's come of it, or if he's even got any requests, heh.
Sadly yes, two of them. The main lesson is never build a business based on advertising revenue.

We shut down http://www.publisha.com and http://www.viewshound.com after running out of funding.
Well, I mean the reason I'm suggesting this is precisely because txt to speech engines are so inadequate. And no matter how much they advance in the next year, they'll still never be able to put things in context like a human reader can (of course, many of the non-native English speakers won't be able to do that particularly well either).
> I remember in the 90's finding an application that had a huge (for its day) multi-megabyte resource fork, but only a few kilobytes of program data in the data fork.

Heck, it wasn't uncommon for applications to have no data fork at all prior to the PowerPC transition. (PPC applications stored their object code in the data fork.)
If HN was so awesome for driving traffic, why is the link to the original post passing through Facebook?
That's awesome! Keep up the great work. :D
You know, I've been following your comments for years Mz. At first it was damn strange for me how open you were - it was like, doesn't she know you're not supposed to do that?

But over time, it became a breath of fresh air. I love how our generation is opening up and cutting out the idea that we have to be perfect, or at least pretend to be. It's cool seeing professional athletes like Zack Grienke open up about what they've got going on. It's nice to see your story, your candidness.

There's downsides! Oh, I know, I'm well-aware. But I feel so honest, so alive, so unvarnished.

Can I be a little raw and crass for a moment?

So I worked feverishly today, and then went to a high-class whorehouse for consolidated intense relaxation. It was fantastic, I was walking on air when I left.

I know I'm not supposed to say that, I know it offends a lot of people... but... it's true. I have a variety of people I work with, partner with, and so on. Some of my staff are devoutly Christian, I've got people who are hardcore party-goers, I've got a flamingly gay world-traveling athiest working on one project (even gay people would say "wow, he's really gay, y'know?) and... I think everyone knows I mean them no harm when I put my view out.

Maybe strangers don't know. But wow, it's so liberating to be honest. I feel so unchained. Yeah, I'm a mess in some ways. But everyone is a mess in some ways, and everyone keeps it bottled up and pretends they're not a mess. Yuck. I love this honesty thing. Thank you for your honesty. It's so rare and refreshing.
Nothing speakers louder than the dollar. Bitching and moaning really does nothing compared to the mighty dollar. Fortunately for me I own a small hosting company with roughly 1500 or so domain names that I will do a bulk transfer too after the xmas holiday. These are domain names I mainly control as a consultant for other companies (my clients)... This ought to get interesting when I begin pulling the trigger. About 6 years ago I did something similar to move away from NetSol and they attempted to block this; making it very difficult to close my accounts.
Impressive. I wonder when Firefox will get the transformation support - not that it's very practical for anything right now.
Cool. Merry Christmas.
>You can have either free speech or banned campaign founding but not both.

You could have something else: complete and total accountability, and full transparency of WHO is paying HOW MUCH to WHOM for WHAT purpose. Publicly available. In addition, we could require all politicians to wear their sponsors' logos (just like a motorsport driver) when they appear in public.

Representative democracy is an abstraction that tries to hide what's going on behind the scenes. Let's rip off the hood and make the abstraction leak wherever possible.

Also, I don't necessarily think spreading outright lies should be considered free speech, just as much as I don't consider propaganda or hate speech to be free speech. I don't think we should forbid it but I refuse to categorize it as "worthy of protection".
Didn't realize this one would get so popular.

It started with this -

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/an-open-letter-to-simon-and...
You can also translate Wikipedia SOPA article into your language.
I started http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act . Weird that there was no article for so long time, until 24 December 2011. And even [[American Civil Liberties Union]] was a redlink. I also learned that {{stub}} template was voted to be removed.