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First...breath.

Now...make a list of these priorities and order them by importance to you. Next, meet with everyone except the guy at the top of your list. You don't have to meet with him/her because you're going to be getting that shit done asap. Unless, this is the guy calling you every day. In that case, you're going to have to explain to him that while he thinks that being a squeaky wheel will make it go faster, you don't work that way, and he's only hurting the project.

Alright, when you meet with everyone, you're going to have to explain that you have a lot of competing pressures. With some people you're be able to lay everything bare, and others, well not so much. Some will understand, some won't. But it's your job to explain to them ALL that if something doesn't give, everything will, including their project. If you're like me, your not a big fan of meeting with people and asking for help. You'd rather grit your teeth, bare down, and get it done. Which is awesome...except when you've got so much on the go that it bogs you down and you don't even want to get up in the morning (not good).

You have students? Dump them, or reduce them to the bare minimal.

Great job overseas? Awesome! If this is at the top of your list, then get THAT done ASAP. My parent's were in the same position when we lost my Grandfather a few years ago. I headed straight over to the British Consulate, and I had a plan setup before noon. Cost an arm and a leg, but I got it done, and my parents were able to fly out 2 days later.

I have a few days off, so if I can help with anything, fire me an email at lee(at)peanutdynamite(com).

Now get to work soldier! :)
I use Backblaze (http://goo.gl/LKYIq) in case my house burns down and I do TM backups to a DroboShare FS in case I need the data immediately. The TM backups are also full backups so that if I need to just restore a whole machine I have that option too. I also have PreyProject installed in case someone steals my laptop.

Having lost data in the past, I can only say that setting up some sort of backup/recovery system is very important. Hard disks and SSD's are like life, they have a 100% guaranteed failure rate. =)
And there you go. The power of community editing. Call Jimbo and tell him he's got a viable model! Thanks!
Actually the actual law broken was not the creation of the job, but the inducement w/o due disclosure to the applicant:

"181.64 FALSE STATEMENTS AS INDUCEMENT TO ENTERING EMPLOYMENT.

It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, company, corporation, association, or organization of any kind, doing business in this state, directly or through any agent or attorney, to induce, influence, persuade, or engage any person to change from one place to another in this state, or to change from any place in any state, territory, or country to any place in this state, to work in any branch of labor through or by means of knowingly false representations, whether spoken, written, or advertised in printed form, concerning the kind or character of such work, the compensation therefor, the sanitary conditions relating to or surrounding it, or failure to state in any advertisement, proposal, or contract for the employment that there is a strike or lockout at the place of the proposed employment, when in fact such strike or lockout then actually exists in such employment at such place. Any such unlawful acts shall be deemed a false advertisement or misrepresentation for the purposes of this section and section 181.65."

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=181.64

Basically you can't say, "Here's a great job and we have huge plans for your career" -- knowing that you plan to fire him in 9 months.
Yes, sure. There's more benefits to reap: You can intermingle your services with services bought/rented somewhere and eventually replace the ones you're using if it pays of at the scale you reached (think redis2go vs. a self-hosted redis server) Services usually offer good boundaries at which you can separate the system and scale over multiple machines as well as a good entry point for black box testing.
Thanks for the comment and links. I had only ever read
'science fiction' like Ian Banks and Charles Stross Accelerando, but never any of the 'non-fiction'. The linked articles were interesting.

I understand that the risk of an AI that wants the mass of the entire solar system as its own and quickly becomes a matrioska brain. However, I question the idea that we aren't already there. I would argue that an augmented billionaire or better yet, a market economy compares to someone in the poorest 5% of the world just like a modern human compares to a wolf pack. A billionaire can decide not just to go to space, but to build an industry out of it. The poor can't find enough food. That is a huge difference. Is there any research into quantifying these types of differences?

Sure a human level computer AI gets 'free' speed doubling every 18 months, but so does the intelligence that surrounds an augmented human. Just look at how much more intelligence we have available to us now as compared to 20 years ago.

I agree that there will be/is an intelligence explosion. My point is simply that we are already in the midst of it, or that there is no single instant to point at and say 'that is when the singularity started.'

I think that this is an important point to make because it changes the framing of the question from "How can we survive abstract superintelligence explosion of the unknown future" to "How can we survive the existing intelligence explosion." From "How can we teach the superintelligence we are bound to create to be nice" to "How can we convince the existing superintelligence to be nice" and/or "what changes in our social/governmental/memetic structure should we change to survive the explosion we are experiencing?"

Also, if we view ourselves as already being in the intelligence explosion we can look at how existing superintelligences treat other less intelligent beings to see where our culture is likely to head as the explosion continues. If we don't like how superintelligences treat lessintelligences now, then maybe we should figure out why and how to change it.

The framing that the article provides sounds about as silly as a pack of wolves discussing tactics they will use to make sure their new human creations focus all of their energy on catching rabbits; so I tried to come at it from an angle that has a hint of pragmatism and practicality.
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UX(+UI) designer? Come solve hard problems at Ridejoy. Engineers too. (YC S11)
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We love well-designed experiences, we have a rapidly growing community that loves us back (and loves telling us so), and we're building a marketplace for everyone who's ever needed to get somewhere.

We've all been employees at early-stage, venture-backed startups. We know what it's like, so we're generous with the benefits and your equity. (Plus full salaries, of course.) We're well-funded by top-tier investors, and we do things like all-you-can-eat free food, and free tickets and transportation to Burning Man.

We have a tight-knit team and we're looking for people who we can develop a deep mutual trust with. This is not code for "the same as us"; we want to build a team that's more diverse than your typical startup. We understand that a great company and a great culture depends on far more than technical aptitude.

Details: Located in SF. We will happily pay for and help with relocation for the right candidate.

For designers: As the lead designer, you'll be working closely with two engineers who care deeply about the user experience of our product, and want to let you focus on what you do best.

The product is very early, so you'd be shaping it from the ground floor; we want someone to help us build a design culture from the very beginning. Like everyone else we work with, we want you to teach, and to be teachable.

For engineers: Our current stack is Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Coffeescript, Sass, and jQuery, and we're looking to expand into iOS and Android. It's not mandatory to know these coming in; passionate generalists who can learn quickly work too.
Very cool. Sadly, scrolling performance Chrome/MBP+Lion is unacceptably choppy.
Unless you're willing to back those claims up with some specific cites, I'd dispute that.

Isometrics have their place, particularly in rehab or for mobility-challenged trainees (say: an arthritis sufferer unable to do proper squats). Or, as you note, when other equipment is wanting.

Given the general principle of SAID (specific adaptation to imposed demand), or more concisely, "specificity", there's a distinct different between a static contraction, and moving a joint through a full range of motion against resistance in both concentric and eccentric phases.
No, that's just someone reselling a domain.

There is no way to own a domain forever with one payment. You can prepay at most 10 years.
I don't have any info posted about the camera setup, but we're using a Windows laptop with some random QR reader (fastest one we found) to call the unlock URL on the Linux lock server sitting next to it w/the key from the QR code.

Here's a brief post I did on the lock system itself: http://adrianpike.tumblr.com/post/6009384439/door-locks-on-r...

Source is over on GH, but it would be pretty straightforward to roll your own nice & quick. If you do want to use mine, I'd be totally willing to help hack in new features, I've got lots of stuff I want to improve it with, but just don't have the side project time.
That's one of the fun things about most crossfit boxes: they incorporate a variety of lifts in the WOD to maximize the lean muscle and not turn you into a body builder. (If you have the equipment at home you can do WODs by yourself or replicate them at your local gym)
The headline is a misrepresentation of the article. In fact, my takeaway from it is captured in the quote "There is no such thing as disruption from the couch".
Strictly speaking yes, it's a hypothesis. But the fact that the programming ecosystem looks as it does constitutes some evidence in favor of that hypothesis. Were it otherwise, you'd expect the professional programming world to be economically dominated by Lisp and a handful of super-programmers. Yet that isn't what we see. Why not?
Just one door, it's not that big an office. :)
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A fun and simple way to share your resolutions with friends
I'm a big fan of IFTTT. It's dead simple and works as advertised. Excited to hear they're getting support from Betaworks (where the idea will actually grow and be developed properly, not just mined).
And, it's the reason governments will clamp down and regulate the internet more and more.

This is why we can't have nice things.
It's a pretty app that looks like it's taken a lot of design inspiration from Google Reader. Which is a good thing, I think they nailed it in terms of UI.

That said, I was really hoping you'd have your own sharing mechanism. The major thing Google Reader lost in the transition was the ability to share and comment in a unified manner - having to go to Twitter or Facebook to read comments on something you shared elsewhere is a pain.

Also, doesn't look like there's any tracking of read/unread items.
Google does not need to give Motorola any unfair advantage over competitors.

Fewer devices, stock Android, longer support. Nothing that Samsung or HTC couldn't do as well if they wanted to.
Apple put that in there so that they could sell more TC's. They also seem to make backwards incompatibile changes to the protocol for every OS release.

That said, the netatalk (and other vendors such as Drobo) have been pretty good at staying on top of the changes. You can safely ignore this as an issue.
If you had to pay up-front (even $10), they'd probably have gotten <1000 signups.
Thank you for posting this. Important as SOPA is, I'd love to see a few more like this mixed in with the other stories.
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I don't think you are very well acquainted with the state of exercise science research. There is no one who can credibly claim what the upper limit on muscle mass accumulation is. Our current understanding of strength and hypertrophy pathways is primitive. Even incredibly basic foundational stuff is not agreed on: Some researchers claim you can only process 25g of protein in one sitting while others point to research that shows better protein synthesis and turnover when the entire day's consumption happens at one sitting.

People with my traits are very rare: A hard gainer who had over 10 years of lifting experience, could bench press 250 lbs at 5'11" and weighed 152 lbs? This made me oddly experienced, strong, skinny, and light. Perhaps that matters.

The state of health research is incredibly conflicted and ambiguous, including exercise science. There is more in this heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

I'm a programmer. I have nothing to sell and no agenda. I've been posting on hacker news for a long time. It's bizarre that you think I would lie about this.
PHP's has mature URI parsing using several built-in functions that provide very similar functionality.

parse_url http://us.php.net/parse_url for getting URI components

parse_str http://us.php.net/parse_str for getting query string variables

These two functions take care of the vast majority of my URI parsing/creation tasks.

Of course it would be nice to have a fluent interface like URI.js via a PHP class. And the URI normalization functions.
Another thing worth mentioning is to stop watermarking your images. No one wants to see that "RICK JAMES PHOTOGRAPHY(C)" smothered across an otherwise pristine image. It cheapens the image and doesn't prevent theft. Watermarks are trivial to remove.
Maybe he's using a pseudonym and Tor? It's easy enough to publish anonymously on the Internet...
Why, of course. What's more interesting, I can find only one GUI app on my computer that is (probably) written in C++, the web browser I use.

Why do you ask?
> Sending a text to either contact would get to her iPhone 4S, but the phone number contact would send an SMS, and the e-mail address would send as an iMessage.

Nope. Phone numbers also receive iMessages just fine.
Its not the actual emails, rather a prediction that the emails will be released.
I've not done business in Chile, but i have in Uruguay, which ranks about the same in terms of various transparency / economic freedom / gdp per capita as Chile. Everything he complains about is just the reality of living and working in latin america. Chile markets itself as being different, but it's not so different. Getting stuff done is hard, getting investment is hard, doing business is hard. There are lots of rules and red tape. It's just a part of the game.
Yeah, nobody messes with Doctors Without Borders.

In any case, I expect the emails to be a lot of subscriber list maintenance, back issues, UNSUBSCRIBE messages, maybe PDFs of scans of material that was either public at the time or became public since, that were sent in by contacts or sources.
Well, I was referring to obfuscation as a means of protecting the code part, and DRM as protecting the content part. But true, it's a fine line between the two.
Not many people even use linked lists anymore anyways, unless they are programming low-level things and even then it is often more efficient to use a growable array, something like List<T> in .net or vector in C++.

Reversing a linked list is not about how linked lists work. It is a very simple question which verifies that a person knows what the pointers are and how to use them, can write simple loops which manipulate pointers and can handle simple things such as 1 element lists, 0 element lists etc.
The economics of online education seems very similar to those of TV and software industries: large one time expense on content development, global winner takes most competitions(for courses taught in english), brand names are important.

This may lead to dumbing down of courses(to an extent) to get more users. But sure, they don't want to harm the main business.
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You clearly haven't seen the sort of people who are on Facebook.

If anything, Google+ probably skews higher on the socio-economic scale, since it's easier to keep the riffraff out of your circles and discussions.
Is there any evidence that customers/clients want or like to view the full screen version? Everyone I've asked as well as my self find it annoying (specially the welcome screen directly going in to full screen, along with playing music automatically).
Vehement agreement. I got myself fit by discovering that I really liked learning burlesque dancing. Which meant that twice a week I'd get off my ass and exercised for an hour.

What really matters is that you find something you like to do that burns calories, and that you keep doing it on a regular basis. Bonus points if it's something that exercises your whole body and gets all your muscles in shape - as I advance and my teacher shows me new subtleties, I keep on finding ways to make muscles complain that I barely knew I had.
Somewhat ironically, the way mobile computing is obsessed with simple 'apps' reminds me somewhat of the 'Unix philosophy' - lots of tools that do one thing, which you can chain/pipe together into workflows to great effect. I can see this taking off more if vendors and developers work more on simple 'piping' APIs. And other things like RDFs, Service-Oriented Architecture in general.

And it could be so much more richer than the usual piping of text that happens in Unix. Imagine, you take a picture with your camera phone; you pipe the image to some sort of visual pattern matching program which isolates the faces in the picture; which are then uploaded to an online facial recognition service and the identities sent back to you; which are piped to a social networking app to find which people list polka as an interest; and then finally to your email/messaging program of choice so you can invite them to your monthly polka event. THEN you can save this workflow and have it execute from just a single camera shot... or have the camera input come from a surveillance camera via bluetooth.
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Yes, that's how it works with the rest of my contacts, but for this one for some reason she had an exclusive SMS contact and a separate iMessage contact. The iMessage contact was associated with an email address and SMS contact was associated with a phone number.
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Alright, so, anyone care to put effort into a reply as opposed to solely downvotes?
Java: how can a 1Gbit/s attack keep up to 100K i7 CPUs busy?
Hacking is already illegal. What could governments have done to prevent this?
Seems I got lucky in that I'm using one of the older phones that has always had some community development inertia behind it.

In fact, I installed Android 4.0 last night and now I'm running a phone thats almost exactly 2 years old. I love my HTC Incredible.
Ah. That's her configuration choice then.
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I dont think they will either, but their support crews might. All SOF need massive ammounts of logistical, technical, mechanical, and intelligence support. All of their ground crews and support personel would greatly benifit from a tablet, if it's a dell streak that they expect to break, so be it, just so long as spares are available.

The greatest benifit that these support personel will have is a smaller foot print, and no manual pages to count. Yes that's right they actually count each and every page of every manual on an anual basis.

Forgive the mispellings and grammar typing this on my phone.
First, I never said you were lying (at least not the way most people think about the term). You might be or there might be some other factors at play. I don't know.

What I do know is that no one gains 25 lbs of lean muscle mass in less than month.

What if I said that I ran 50 MPH over a one mile span? You'd probably say, "Not likely. No human has ever done that. If you can, you need to let people know because it would be a huge breakthrough in human athletics." Likewise, gaining 25 lbs of lean muscle mass in less than a month is unheard of.

As noted by another poster -- there's a story of someone who gained about 12# in a month and that story bordered on being so unbelievable that the author of the story has to continously inform the reader that this really happened. You're saying you did more than double that in less time.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. With that said, you have nothing to prove to me. I'm just saying that I don't think what you said is credible and I don't think I'm alone. If you are being sincere, I hope at the very least, you can appreciate how hard your claim is to believe.
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Tnx, I knew about those, I am currently building the fronted for the Solr powered search engine (adding/removing facets from the url) and sometimes it gets pretty messy.

I was hoping there are some existing resources before I start porting this...
It's funny that one can make the opposite point. As I wrote a couple of years ago [1], we're getting to a point where many sites actually have obfuscated source, as there's much more attention paid to perfromance optimisations. View Source is becoming a thing of the past, at least as far as high-scale production sites go.

While you can still inspect the DOM and so on, but it's not as accessible if the source isn't there. So in fact, open source code on GitHub and so on is the best hope for learning and reusing, but that puts JavaScript in the same basket as every other language.

1. http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-end-of-days-for-view-source
Sadly the author suggests using Lightbox, which is really aggravating because it takes over the window and tends to move really slowly with all the useless animations. Sometimes you spend more time watching the animated resizing than you spend looking at the images themselves.
I don't think they really claim that. I think that they'd rather say "a singularity is plausible and its effect would likely be of very high magnitude, so even marginally positively increasing the kind of singularity that might come about has expected value on the level of saving the world."