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I think it depends on how long you've been together. If you're a professional, you should be able to explain the fundamentals quite easily to anyone, including your spouse. If you have a healthy relationship I think over a long enough time span you'll eventually pick it up just from active listening and asking questions to fill in the gaps when your significant other needs to vent their frustrations or share their excitements.

My wife's a professional geologist and we've been together about 8 years. I took a single introductory geology course in university but nowadays I've got a pretty solid understanding of the subject (I can hold my own conversationally with PhD geologists at her work events and such) and likewise, while my wife has never written a program or script once in her life, she understands quite a bit about the topic just by being married to me for so long now (she's often my rubber duck at home: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging).

That said, we have a 1 year old child now. Careers aren't usually a topic that crops up around the house lately.
Hi there. How do you mean "does not work"? OSM is a map. Do you mean your area is not well mapped? That happens some times. You can always improve the area and data yourself.
Cool :) We've actually been using it in production for a few months now.
You should have a look at "doc/ulm_stats.rb" - that's the configuration from the screenshots and screencasts.

If you have any issues or questions you can always contact me on skype ("paulasmuth")...
In economics this is called an "externality", specifically a negative one in this case.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
The archlinux.org transfer is in progress. I'd imagine the domain-transfer tubes are a bit clogged right now, given the mass exodus from GoDaddy.
There was/is an attempt to do this with gevent via gevent-socketio. However that project seems to have stalled and my last attempt to use it, a couple of weeks ago, did not have good results. Armin Ronacher, the author of Flask, actually used juggernaut in a sample application which led me to experiment with it.
'Cept it being replaced by something more useful.
Human capability peaked before 1975 and has since declined
I received the same indication from NameCheap's support group. One transfer placed 24 Dec went through - the rest are waiting.
I think he is actually really bummed because his worldview is incongruent with how Darwinian and shitty the world actually is. Optimists take it the hardest.

"the optimists don't make it out of vietnam" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stockdale
Former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso made this issue his "post-presidency" flag. There's an excellent documentary called "Breaking the Taboo" [1] that follows him examining successful efforts around the world (including Portugal)

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951090/
> Drug use is a health-related issue, whether it is a doctor prescribing medications, a patient taking meds off-label, a person self-medicating, an addict, or some kind experimentation

> We have a caricatured view of the drug addict -- the unwashed, illiterate, toothless junkie hiding out in a crack house. Yes, addiction ends up that way for some, but by and large addicts are middle-class, educated, and live in houses with their friends or families

Excellent points. If there were just two things I wish everyone in the world (or at least in the US) would understand, it's this:

1. The drugs that you are prescribed and the drugs people consume recreationally are not fundamentally different. In fact, in many cases, they're essentially interchangeable from a chemical perspective (Adderall/Desoxyn/Methamphetamine/"Speed" are a great example; Marijuana/Marinol is a partial example too). The prescription vs. "everything else" divide is almost arbitrary. If someone told you that they were prescribed diacetylmorphine for chronic pain, what would you say? What would you say if they took heroin for pain?

2. The stereotypes of 'drug addicts' and 'drug users' are grossly inaccurate. Yes, some people who use heroin/meth/coke/etc. fall into the respective stereotypes. But many don't - you just don't know it, because they're the ones who manage to maintain normal lives. Look up diactylmorphine (heroin) maintenance programs in Switzerland and the UK, and you'll see that many people who used to fit the stereotypes of the homeless sex-working heroin addict are able to maintain steady 'normal' jobs if they are given regular access to heroin of a consistent quality/potency and with no adulterants (this requirement is key!)

In the UK, there was a 'Nice People Use Drugs' campaign, which was aimed at exactly that - demonstrating to people that the stereotypical drug users are just more visible; the invisible majority of people who use or have used drugs have no lasting/debiltating/noticeable problems (if any at all). Everybody knows people who use drugs of some sort; they just don't always know that those people use drugs. (And sometimes, they're not the ones you'd expect!)
WHEN WILL AMERICA'S RED TERROR BEGIN?
Pretty cool. I'm most impressed by how fast it tracks my movements, just as fast as if it were native. Gives me hope that web apps can still keep up with UI on native apps.
I guess I'm old fashioned but I almost never look at video blogs...for informational value anyway. It might be a great way to communicate the personality/likability of the blogger, but it seems like a really inefficient way to communicate ideas compared to static graphics and well-formatted text.

Imagine if HN were a discussion board filled with youtube embeds for web-cam comments.
yes, doing all of the above is best :)
At least is spawned a discussion here, but the lead is so full of flawed reasoning by analogy that it made me sick as a rainbow.
A bunch of my transfers appear to have been delayed because Namecheap themselves have not generated the initial authorization email to begin the tranfer process. The ones for which they did generate the email (about 1/4 of my transfers) went through fine with no delays from Godaddy. Not sure what's going on (I sent an email to support about 4 hours ago but have no response yet), but so far I'm a little underwhelmed by their service.
I'm not sure whether that's good or bad, I rarely watch tv and it's a habit I'm trying to re-introduce..

Thanks, though for reading. Putting this out there was a little cathartic. If it helps someone in any positive way, great. :)
The US has been waging what can pretty validly be called a war on drug lords in Latin America for a few decades. After the fall of the USSR, that's basically what our military bases in Latin America do. Generally I agree with macuenca; claiming that it's a war on an abstract principle trivializes the very real combat between US-backed authorities and local drug lords.
I went through the same decision 6 months ago. We had a company going and were ready to raise capital and drop college, but we decided otherwise. I am also 23, self-taught and I never liked college. Ever since I was allowed to surf the internet by myself (at 9, in a dial-up connection), my curiosity and patience permitted me to absorb a lot of knowledge "ahead of time". Because of that, college was boring for the most part of it, even more boring when I got into entrepreneurship and decided to start my first company with a friend. The feeling of actually creating stuff and seeing people test what we built and give feedback was amazing, even though most of the feedback was negative. Before deciding to either drop college or close the company, we talked to many entrepreneurs, angels and people we trusted.

Our decision to close it, instead of dropping, basically came down to a few points. We didn’t have a working MVP that tested our idea, what we had was a solid beta team and a half finished MVP, so dropping out of college would mean that I would not have a solid foundation that would allow me to get back on my feet, in case things went wrong (I live in Brazil, entrepreneurship and failing aren’t seen as good things here; on average, degrees are valued much more than the life experience of failing a company). I also ended up having my doubts if we actually needed to drop out of college to build this, or if I was just trying to escape the frustration of going to classes that mostly wasted my time.

So, I ask you two things: Are you sure you are not thinking of dropping college as a way of dealing with the frustration you (might) feel when going to it? Don’t you think you can use the college as a sandbox for testing ideas and working on interesting projects without having to deal with a) social pressure, b) financial health and c) failing consequences? If you aren’t sure, don’t drop it. If you think the frustration of going to some classes, is a lower cost than a), b) and c), don’t drop it. I would also suggest you use the social experience of going to a college in order to meet other people like-minded, possibly even a cofounder for future projects, because the friends I made through college are the ones I am taking with me for the rest of my life and certainly the most valuable thing I am taking out of college with me.
That authorization email is affected by what's discussed in this blog post -- they can't send it until they get all the domain info.
Yep, 80% of my town is unmapped. The same goes for some other towns in neighboring areas that I've checked. Compared to Google maps it's just no good. I have no idea how or on what basis the blog author concluded that OSM is just as good or better then Google maps. Also, I didn't see the option for satellite view.
I see. Well, I'll give them some more time before forming an opinion I guess.
Yes, when you login via Google and Yahoo's OpenID, it's effectively a "social login".

If you can type your OpenID endpoint for your Google account without looking it up, I'm willing to discuss otherwise. This is why it's "Login via Google" and you never hear of people logging in via a generic OpenID provider and then using their Google OpenID URL.
I really like the Open Street Map project. I think it's shameful of Google to create Map Maker, which essentially copies the functionality of Open Street Map, however Google don't release the user contributed data under a reusable license, although I believe they do in some poorer countries.
JQuery WhenAll()
Firing a callback when all ajax requests in a chain of ajax calls are done. Code courtesy: http://goo.gl/gnpmE
This seems like a good use-case for a distributed whois proxy... I wouldn't mind running a node for a few weeks to help NameCheap get through the backlog, especially if it helps liberates my couple of domains that are currently held hostage...
I'm completely out of this scene for 2yrs... Is gnome3 built on compiz?
In New York, the police will do a stop and frisk, tell people to empty their pockets, and then charge people with displaying the drug in public when they obey the order to empty their pockets. Is this the loophole you mean? Or is your loophole a different one?
Incidentally that was my reaction too after reading the article. No doubt he contributed a lot to the areas he was working in, but you have to consider that his areas were limited. He primarily dealt with Number Theory and analysis.

To my mind, the body of work looking into the foundations of mathematics (Russell, Whitehead, Godel etc) which also started around the same time has played a more fundamental role since it changed out very basic ideas of what can and cannot be achieved within the bounds of mathematics.
I clearly didn't read close enough, there are absolutely full sentences lifted from the referenced article. I would never be caught dead doing something so silly, certainly not in such a public and (seemingly) outspoken capacity.
Ask HN: Lifehacker mentioned my app & traffic boosted. How to keep momentum?
I've launched my app back in November and had insignificant user acquisition. I had only one (very helpful) user subscription coming from my HN post (which fell way to the bottom in a matter of minutes).

This was my first web project ever, and while I was proud about what I have achieved (launching a product), I was also disappointed with the lack of response.

Now, on Christmas Eve, I started getting a lot of new subscriptions after a period of relative inactivity. Through Google Analytics I saw the traffic came from Lifehacker. You can see the piece here: http://lifehacker.com/5870288/top-10-under+hyped-web-apps-2011-edition

My app is number 9 - Aherk!, and you can access it @ http://aherk.com. It's pretty simple and unpretentious.

Now, although I'm enjoying my 15 minutes of fame, glory & unspeakable success, I'm wondering what steps I should take to keep things moving. How can I not waste this precious opportunity?

Any input is more than welcome! Thanks a lot.
That's a shame. Addresses can be very hard. OSM is an global phenomenon, and trying to figure out all the dozen different ways you can encode a latitude & longitude into a string as an address (and vice versa).
No, it isn't. In Portugal, the healthcare system is free.
Well I'll keep sending business your way to hopefully speed that process along. :)
Some definitive, unbiased proof of this needs to be seen before I can join the lynch mob. I have no doubt that GoDaddy is desperate and/or inept enough to do something like this but I also can't take their competitor's word for it.
What's the motive to make this process painful? Would people really say Oh screw it, I'll just stay with GoDAddy? Ive never transferred a domain before so I don't know what the process or delay is normally like
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>Microsoft shareholders would probably be better off if MS stopped exploring, exploited current revenue streams, and allowed shareholders to invest in businesses with a brighter future.

That's your judgment. I have to honestly say I'm thankful you're not in charge of Microsoft, because someone trying to compete with Google in the search space is a great thing. (And with Google doing a lot to make Microsoft's core markets vanish, getting into search could save Microsoft's existence in a 10-year timeframe.)
As someone who's in a similar position (I did drop out of college, partly to build a company, but partly because it didn't make sense at the time):

1. Your idea sucks, so don't drop out of school to start it. You need to find a better idea.

2. See if you can take a leave of absence, and also see how long your credits are good for. For example, my uni's credits are good for 11 years; if I twiddled my thumbs for 10 years, then came back, I would (presumably) have lost nothing.

In the final analysis, you should drop out of college for reasons that have nothing to do with the college itself. In other words, drop out because it won't help you get to where you want to go, or because you have other things to do. But don't drop out simply because it's boring or because you want to stick it to the man. Once/if you drop out, you'll realize that.. no one really cares either way.

Likewise, don't stay in school because it seems like the safe thing to do. Life isn't a checklist, and you need to have a good reason for whatever you're doing with your time. The idea of "using a degree as a backup plan" is no different than "finishing a degree in the future as a backup plan", as far as I'm concerned.

Being an anti-college revolutionary is all great when you're in school, but once you leave your school's ecosystem, you'll realize that it's exactly that - a small part of the world. (this is all from personal experience.)
How come other SOPA supporters aren't being punished like GoDaddy?
The author states that updating "older" products really has no return for Samsung (or other manufacturers), and is actually a form of cannibalization with their new products.

That of course is just classic "planned obsolescence", long criticized as wasteful, and injurious to your customers.

This is exacerbated by Samsung's (and other manufacturer's) rooting policies. As the author notes, not only will Samsung not maintain products just a few months old, but they make it very difficult for consumers to maintain the products on their own. In this case, rooting a Samsung android product voids the warranty.

Are there other industries like this? Where we are okay with a manufacturer never updating, or even fixing the bugs, of a very expensive product just months after they release it? And made worse by accepting that company's actions to make it hard/impossible/unacceptable for third parties to work on it?

(Perhaps cars are turning into this model. It used to be that it was not a big deal to take your car to your favorite mechanic, but now I gather, various forms of IP lock-in or just plain expensive required diagnostic tools are creating a barrier for independent mechanics.)

I would like to think that supporting older android products for at least two years is profitable. Does supporting the Galaxy S as opposed to forcing purchase of a Galaxy Nexus really result in cannibalization? The answer of course is no, what it does is help you KEEP a customer from going to Apple, or HTC, or Motorola. And that customer when their machine is too old will remember all your frequent updates and understand Samsung, that you take care of your customers, and buy your Galaxy S III.

The customer that understands you won't support them will be gone. Just like that.
More or less. There are other variations on how to exploit the same clause in the law, but basically, marijuana that is 'open to public view or burning' can be prosecuted as if it is 28+ grams, regardless of the actual amount.

The history behind how New York's marijuana decriminalization and this loophole came to pass, especially in contrast to the Rockefeller drug laws, is actually a rather fascinating example of the sheer racial/socioeconomic hypocrisy within US drug laws.
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I don't know what to tell people about this. It's unfortunate. I think people think of their phones as computers (and I'm not saying that's inaccurate), but unfortunately protected drivers prevent you from going out and grabbing a random ARM distribution or build and throwing it on your phone all willy-nilly.

Further, manufacturers have no incentive to upgrade your software because they're already adapting their changing custom code to their NEXT device that they'll launch 2 weeks later as a "sequel".

But, we've all heard this before. Not all Android devices are built the same, not all the software builds are the same. Many devices are more "open" than others, and some models (read, Nexus line) get timely updates.

I don't think it's unreasonable to compare Nexus vs. iPhone and leave many of the other Android phones in a separate class. As an Android user, that really doesn't bother me.
Hm. It is possible that they set the system to start "throttling" the transfers after a certain number. I transferred 6 and saw no problems.

Anyone care to share their transfer numbers and "stuck" experiences?
Why users' desires and needs are the most underserved?
Blogging has its place in a lot of startups but is hard to justify for ours. We're selling a purely commercial product to technologically unsavvy clients who expect a professional public face.

It's a triple whammy. Very few of them follow blogs (you're lucky if they own a smartphone) and any posts come off either as tacky schilling or unprofessional commentary. That being said, we still blog for the purpose of content and keywords for SERPs.
Actually what Portugal did was much more profound than just changing the law: They reformed their system to treat drugs as a health issue rather than a criminal issue. That also changed the perception of the society towards the issue.

In the US even though in some states marijuana is decriminalized, drugs are still treated as a criminal issue.
>Where we are okay with a manufacturer never updating, or even fixing the bugs, of a very expensive product just months after they release it? And made worse by accepting that company's actions to make it hard/impossible/unacceptable for third parties to work on it?

People keep buying them. In droves. I agree with you, but Samsung keeps setting records with phones sold. They seem to either be good enough at the time of sale that people are okay knowing that they may not be bumped up a major revision of Android, or frankly, they probably don't even understand that the SGSII was released for a couple of the carriers mere months before ICS was released. I knew and waited, but they don't. It's also why (frankly) a lot of people still have an outdated idea of what Android is like, because there are so many old builds on "current" phones.
I will disagree with others here, and say (with disclaimers) to go for it.

A little background on me: I finished high school at 14, dropped out of college at 16, and am now on my fourth company. Now, at 24, I have about 8 years real-life business experience and hands on technical field experience. All time spent learning to be creative with technologies that are actually used in the real world, instead of decade old tech. Dropping out was one of the best life choices I ever made.

At my current company I literally can't even consider hiring most college grads until after they have spent several years out of college spent catching up to the the industry. At that point they are much older than me which can make it awkward working for someone much younger. Not a single person fresh out of college has had the experience required to pass the skill evaluation tests I give to interested applicants. The majority of the people who HAVE passed are ones who spent their time learning to manipulate and do new things with cutting edge tech on their own, rather than memorizing the tech of 10 years ago in a classroom.

The reality is in today's tech world, the list of companies that care about degrees is getting short, and most are not worth working for. Even big players like Google, Facebook, and Twitter, typically hire engineers based on either a degree OR "equivalent experience." If you prove you have the skills needed to do the job, they could really care less where you learned them. If you did unique and innovative things with the time you would of otherwise been in school, it will probably INCREASE your odds with many companies. It shows you are self motivated, can teach yourself new things, and get stuff done.

Go get the experience. It will put you years ahead in many respects, and save you a lot of debt for a piece of paper that fewer and fewer actually care about. Even if your idea fails, then open source it, show off the skill and engineering that went into producing it, and move on to the next thing. A lack of reaching a project's goal is only failure if you fail to learn something. Take what you learned, regroup, and use that knowledge to do the next thing even better.

I do want to make it clear however, that skipping college is actually the _harder_ path. Don't have any delusions otherwise. It is also most certainly not for everyone. To make it without college you need to be self motivated, a hard worker, willing to fail and retry as many times as it takes, and good at teaching yourself. If those are true for you, then if your time is well applied, the benefits can be huge.

My TL;DR; advice: Don't spend your life wondering "what if?". If you are self motivated then go do it. Keep the "education fund" in your pocket to pursue your own ideas.