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Ask HN: How To Train Yourself Not To Require "Daily Tasks" In Order To Work?
Was just doing some thinking...

From day one, school trains a human being to be a great "worker". By consistently providing small work projects to be completed daily for almost 20 years, I feel like my brain has become accustomed to requiring them.

Making my own todo lists works well. However, there has to be more to it than that.

How do I stop myself from being just another brick in the wall?
Isn't this some kind of explicit, well-organized, distributed bribery? Legislation for dollars?

Not saying it doesn't happen anyways. But not sure how this helps.

Edit: Ha. Okay, completely missed the parody disclaimer.
It clearly states that it did not evaluate the security plausible deniability of the 'hidden OS' feature.

This is basically saying that if you mount a hidden partition, you may leak information via things like browser cache that ends up getting saved to unencrypted areas. On the other hand, this says nothing about the case where you have the full drive encrypted and boot a different OS if you mount the hidden partition via the bootloader.
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About 5 years ago I predicted that one day watching videos on the internet would become so difficult that youtube and other video hosting sites would be useless as a reliable storage medium. I bought a TB drive and kept all videos that have touched me over the last 5 years. Many of those videos are nowhere to be found anywhere with a simple Google query, no matter how much searching you do.

In a sense, Hollywood has already won, the greatest tool on the planet has been greatly damaged, it is not reliable enough for me to use as a place to store things which I find very useful and want to keep for reference 5 and 10 years later. When I stop breathing one day, the vast wealth of knowledge I have accumulated with video evidence as backup will vanish into the night with me on my X TB drive. Because I won't be able to say: "Here, this video solves all of your problems, but it's been copyrighted, I'll stick it on a thumb drive for you."

Internet video is becoming a treasure trove of information, and people want to take out all the good bits, put a giant wall around the good bits and charge cash money for it. Destroying the original intent of the internet. We need tools to bring back what the internet was... A symphony of thought, energy and freedom where you can post music, video, audio, lectures, comics, ANYTHING. Those days are gone. Now you will only be able to post these things if they are irrelevant and childish, filling the internet with banalities. Passing power right back to the content providers. The internet is under attack, and they have half won.
Should, could, would - are all nice and all.

Convincing democratically-elected representatives to stop receiving money, money they use to buy votes, is a futile fight. Even if you do, many will just be corrupt and still accept money or other kinds of payment. IMHO, I'm starting to think that this system is really good - at least you have the means to find out who paid what and to whom.

Killing Hollywood, or at least doing something to make them think twice the next time, now that's doable.
I love SQL (stay with me).

I cut my SQL teeth on SQL scripts written by programmers who were mainly Java jockeys. Lots of imperative code built around getting a result set and iterating over it.

I was learning relational programming by playing in SQL cmd lines. And getting massive speed-ups by pushing code back to the SQL engines and out of imperative loops.

I love this style of coding - when you squint just right, it looks (a bunch) like a REPL and exploratory development.

And for that last fact, I will always have a bit of a soft spot for SQL. ANSI, please. Host language interfaces on the side.
The disclaimer at the bottom states that it's a parody.
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Towards the end the article talks about multiple factors that are constantly in flux regarding the flow of jobs but how overall they've been moving in the direction of non-American manufacturing jobs. I've seen a few articles recently about this flux moving back in the opposite direction[1][2][3], but this article (for all of its interesting info and stories) doesn't address those signs at all. Hopefully soon we will see an article from somewhere addressing if these anecdotes are negligible or part of a real trend.

[1] http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/14/10156162-ma...

[2] http://www.economist.com/node/18682182

[3] http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/commentary-mainmenu-43...
For the record, rsync.net claims to be able to do data deduplication on their Features page. Could send them an email.
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What we need is KickStarter for Bills !

Let the people fund the bills they want.

Its time to stop poor people having soo much say..
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This is about setting the tone. Real-sounding fake identities may be tolerated because Google currently can't/won't check every user, but Yonatan Zunger isn't speaking for the company, especially when he disagrees with their official policy. Even then, that concession makes pseudonyms second-class citizens which can be deleted if they are too obvious.
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I can do Clojure, Python, PHP and more.

I'm stuck WWOOF'ing in France, but it sucks. So I'd rather hack on your project until my train brings me back home on the 31th.

Looking forward to this.
They should fire Dodd because his lobbying wasn't effective. He threw money around and thought his old buddy-buddy tactics were going to be enough to beat the Internet Rage Machine.

It's a sea-change, and Chris Dodd just got left behind in the 20th Century.
I find this whole thing frustrating, why can I still not get my name to be "Paul (sabret00the)". I write in the first name box Paul in the nickname box sabret00the and then I can't remove the holding letter I applied previously. I then try and simply remove the W and I'm told I need to have my full name up. Why can't I just have Paul and in brackets sabret00the?
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The problem is not lobbying, the problem is politicians know their term in office is finite, and they must continue to work on their career development while in office. Essentially, the big corporate lobby groups and politicians have an unwritten contract: A politician that pushes for favorable industry legislation is guaranteed a good job when his term is over.

The only solution I can imagine to mitigate this problem is to keep politicians in the government after their term has ended forever. I have no idea what they would do, maybe review legislation, be in committees, or just stay home. But, given the average age of a politician, I would imagine the increased payroll would not be to onerous.
I meant something that would not be detected when compiling to JavaScript from CoffeeScript. Maybe I got it all wrong and CoffeeScript just translates without performing any checks. Also I thought maybe the subset of code you can write with CoffeeScript can't be invalid, if it were wrong it just wouldn't work.
It's no longer a democracy, but at least it'd be transparent and honest.
Wouldn't that conflict with "New Incognito Window"?
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I agree. It's partly what I meant by availability of tools. I actually didn't mean IDE (I'm a basic text editor / vi person), I meant codebase mostly, libraries and whatnot.
You are missing the point. PG didn't say "Kill Hollywood" in order to get revenge on them for SOPA/PIPA. (He _did_ title the piece in a provocative manner that _suggested_ he was seeking revenge. That title certainly bought the piece some notoriety.)

Instead, PG said "Kill Hollywood" because the SOPA/PIPA debacle finally made it apparent to him that these industries are ripe for replacement. Imagine you notice that some middleman in a purchasing chain is starting to try very hard to include terms in their contracts that prohibit their customers from going directly to suppliers. This might make you realize that this middleman is scared of becoming unnecessary as customers go directly to suppliers. The middleman is in a position to know their industry really well... perhaps it's time for you to start up a business matching up the customers with suppliers directly (for a tiny cut, of course), thus killing off the middleman and making yourself a successful company in the process.

Well, that's what PG saw going on here. The SOPA/PIPA behavior made him realize that these media companies are focusing on keeping their position rather than on improving their services, which made it obvious that they are in danger of LOSING their position. What a perfect time to launch a company intended to profit from the large-scale changes that will be happening anyway.
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"Except Fox, for some reason, won't provide the free content in a form usable to the OP on the device"

I'd like to emphasize that Fox actively have done work to make it unusable on his device. If they'd done nothing it'd work fine.
I don't really see a pretty much imaginary, arbitrary number on a piece of paper judging my performance in an artificial testing environment as a motivation in any way, shape or form. On the contrary, I think it's highly discouraging.

In my opinion, if your not at the university to learn first and foremost, then what the fuck are you doing at the university in the first place?
I'll bite. A lot of the questions are "do I have enough disposable income" where the answer is yes.

Specifics:

> How long does it take to get to work? Do I have to drive to work? If my car breaks, could I buy/lease a late model new car (one that I expect will not have problems)?

~10 minutes on bike, slightly quicker in car. I guess I could buy a new car, but I've never thought that was a good move financially over getting one a few years old. (Then again, I could just rely on zipcar living here)

> Do I live close to friends

Almost anyone I know in SF is within a 20 minutes by bike or car. Most are within 10 minutes.

> Can I walk to the supermarket, cafe or restaurant,

Other than the supermarket, yes; smaller grocery stores are a block away.

> How large is my home, in sq. ft? Do I have a yard?

130 sq feet personal room, 2 roommates, substantial common space (500 sq feet maybe?), additional storage space. minimal yard.
Admittedly this is where you are going to save huge. Living with roommates over a 1 bedroom can save $12,000+ a year.

>General savings

Have a positive savings rate already while making well below $100k.

Honestly, the big expenses are just house and car. As long as you don't splurge on those, you have tons of cash left.

(This is coming from the perspective of a single guy in SF. For a family of 4 consider that down in Sunnyvale, you can find 3 bedroom houses for $2,200. If that household made $200k, they would have very high amounts of disposable income.)
What is it? I don't want to create a new account to find out if this is an interesting service for me.
This.

I'd go so far as to say that actually teaching students things is the least important service performed by universities even for undergraduates. Far more important for students' future careers is signalling their performance over the course of three years of relatively autonomous study within a controlled environment of their choosing, and the commitment that entailed. Not to mention the huge variety of extracurricular opportunities offered that are particularly hard to replicate through the medium of a website.
Lobbying is protected by the constitution. Best of luck.
It's great that this petition reached threshold in two days, but it would have been nice if it had less than two spelling errors in the title.
You're probably in the right ballpark with the numbers. My point wasn't to whine about getting taxed (I am very happy with the services I get for my money), rather to point out that they are a factor. The 5% tax difference you cite between California and Norway does make a difference when making a cost-of-living comparison, considering that the jobs we are looking at would have health care included.
It's housing that is the main thing that makes the bay area pricier. You can get that down by living in a shared unit.
where are the social media buttons?
Or, as Twain said: "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't."
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Here's a rather complicated example from Android: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/avoiding-mem...

It's pretty Android specific, but the general idea probably can happen in other contexts (pun intended), when some framework or other retains a reference to something you expect to be garbage collected.
That would work if the richest 1 % weren't accumulating all the wealth instead.
> If we challenge the name you intend to use, you will be asked to submit proof that this is an established identity with a meaningful following. You can do so by providing links to other social networking sites, news articles, or official documents in which you are referred to by this name. Note that this name and your profile must represent you, and not an avatar or other secondary online identity. Profane or offensive names are not allowed.

seems to be the one concession from their policy so far (I consider linking pseudonyms to the real name a screw-you more than a concession).

I'm not sure how established Cuddly Bunny would have to be, but that person would have to work at their identity on a more tolerant site for some time, at which point Google+ needs them more than they do. Hopefully these friendlier sites won't follow Google and Facebook's lead.
This is a parody, but something like this could work:

(1) show a list of bills that are passing Congress / the Senate

(2) for each proposal, show a list of politicians that supports or opposes it

(3) have a way for the user to flag politicians he wants to reward

(4) plus a way for the user to setup a recurring monthly donation, distributed towards the politicians he supports, with a note pointing to your online profile that exposes your interests
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I have never heard of a 1 bedroom in SF over $4,000. You can get a 1 bedroom with parking in the luxurious Infinity for $3,350.
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Then Google will be happy to tell us users don't care about privacy:

> The vast majority of users sail through our signup process -- in fact, only about 0.1% submit name appeals.
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Agreed, I wouldn't advocate just taking the opinion of the richest. Nor would I advocate just taking the opinion of scientists as important as their work is.

It would be nice if we lived in a simple world but most of what politicians consider has no simple answer and there are diverse opinions that should guide them. Industry is just one of them.

For example, lets look at public health. It would be stupid to look at public health issues without asking pharmaceutical companies what they think. It would be equally stupid to sit at the table and think they are not trying to make money. It would be equally stupid to not ask scientist, public health officials and the public. It seems reasonable to me that the pharma companies would employ specialist PR people to deal with legislation. It does not seem reasonable to me that in order to stay elected individuals need to raise millions of dollars to fight for what they believe and are thus open to bribery. Fix that and lobbying no longer matters.

All businesses exist to make money. That is their sole goal. If you know that then there can be a reasonable outcome.

BTW: All western democracies are struggling with Lobbying. Only the US has got in to the state where it appears that lobbying has the upper hand (although many would argue the UK is close).
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Videos not available? Really? I stopped storing videos, because they are so readily available. What kind of videos are you storing?
I like it, simple and gets the job done and has keyboard shortcuts.

Seems to be developed in node.js and supports Redis, Memcahced or File based storage and uses phonetic key generation.

Impressive to see how little code there actually is in the actual application too.
Very inspiring. Thanks for sharing, and congratulations! You seem to have done everything right. Now continue putting the same type of effort and don't let it crumble.
By now Perl 6 is viewed as best an interesting research project by organizations using Perl 5 in production.

As a member of an organization using Perl 5 (among many other languages), I should probably speak up. Though we haven't donated many thousands to TPF, it may be worth noting that with a minimal set of modules, similar stability and performance guarantee within an order of magnitude Perl 5's, we would be using Perl 6 without question. (With that alone it wouldn't replace all of our Perl 5 code, but we would be using more Perl overall as a result.) In fact Niecza is temptingly close to that status at the moment if you factor interop into the equation.

We have a highly polyglot environment, so introducing a new language to that is something that can be taken in stride. I assume a lot of Perl 6 reluctance comes from unfamiliarity, but for us it's more a matter of overall reliability. I find Perl 6 is better able to represent program logic, and I am sure having it in our environment would improve prototyping and maintenance considerably.
I very, very seriously doubt the film 16-Love was robbed of
"hundreds of thousands" of viewers through piracy.

You can't complain about misinformation on the other side and then trot out something like that.
I'd be more than happy if they kept an ineffective lobbyist on the payroll. Why would we want them to fire a guy who's lousy and get someone better?
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why hasn't this been thought of before!?
This is not a real approach at security.
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Fire him? Heck no! He does the country a service by being open and up front about the legal bribery that runs Congress.

I think more CEOs, lobbyists and other influencers should be this upfront, it would go a long way towards teaching Civics 102.

Speak up!
> Can someone remind me why we still have grades?

I had a calculus student, begging me to pass him. He'd failed my course, he'd failed the same course twice previously, and if he failed a third time he would never be allowed into the engineering school.

It gives me no pleasure to crush dreams or to fail students, but do you want this guy, say, designing bridges?
I think the money needed to buy votes is a rather US specific problem and maybe not that hard to attack. As example - in Germany we have 2 laws for reducing the dependency of political parties on private sponsors. The first is that TV stations have to send a certain amount of political spots before elections for all acknowledged parties and the parties only have to pay the self-costs of the stations for that time (around 35% of the price for commercial advertisement). The second law is that parties that get above 0.5% or 1% (depending on the type of election) receive money for each received vote (up to certain limits to prevent that parties just take part in an election to make money from that). I don't say it's perfect and there is still a lot of financing going on beside that, but it shows that the fight at least isn't futile and that it is possible to reduce the dependencies on sponsors.
The point is that greed is dependable and stable. If you can depend on something that won't ruin the economy or society, then at least that works as a guarantee against worse excesses. And let's face it, even large corporations have a stake in maintaining a veneer of free enterprise (even though they tend toward cronyism).

Consider that idealistic politicians are also capable of more damage than corrupt self-interested ones.

The solution is not to seek for selfless idealists (who may be dangerous), but to remove power from politicians (to the extent possible) or at least to move decision making as close/locally as possible to the areas affected.

In a way, those interested in politics to make money would be less interested in it for the pure sake of having (then preserving) political power.

Here's one way to start: remove direct elections of senators. It makes lobbyists having to deal with 50 separate state legislatures rather than 100 individuals.
Indeed, but trust me: If the undergrads were raptured away overnight, at least fifty percent of the research faculty at the big research universities wouldn't miss 'em. Sad but true. Less time teaching lecture classes means more time for grants and projects.

And university sports should just be professionalized. The big-time sports are a cartel designed to avoid paying young athletes while still selling tickets to watch them play, and the small-time sports like the one I played could be moved to public or private sports clubs.
Same here. I now delete videos after watching them because I know that if I want to watch them again in future they're just a quick download away.
Do all of these things have to go together?

Performance could still be measured by grades even in a purely online university.

Extracurricular activities are still possible, people could join study groups within their local area and socialise there, possibly also discounted travel to visit with study groups elsewhere. In addition you could spend the money you saved via cheaper college fees to indulge in some pretty kick ass hobbies.
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Even with a "mute" checkbox, it stands to reason that a hack that grants access to the mic will also at least attempt to bypass the "mute" setting. So, without a hardware solution, there's no real way to secure the mics on these macbooks.

Personally I'm not that worried, but I can see why this could be a problem for some.