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The odds of extinction within the next 50 years are still low. A self-sufficient Moon colony would cover most of the disaster scenarios adequately while being a lot cheaper to build than a Mars colony. Besides, having a self-sufficient lunar colony would probably make building a Mars colony much cheaper.

On the Moon, solar energy is abundant (close to the Sun, no atmosphere) and so are the metals used in spacecraft construction. Without atmosphere and with a low gravity, launching cargo to Mars is easier and can be done with a magnetic rail launcher, effectively using solar power to launch a spacecraft to Mars.

I's even greener to go for the Moon first ;-)
Whenever I hear that argument I want to scream. The logic flaw is so clear:

It is only unsustainable at current technology levels.

The way we lived in 1900 was unsustainable then, but we could survive like that with 2012 tech no issue (less coal burning, improved sanitation, etc). In 100 years it will be sustainable to live like we do today.
Football isn't a productive enterprise, regardless of how much money it can extract from the wider economy. Going to mars will most likely result in a large array of new tech which will find unrelated uses on Earth. Think of it like a way to buy a big burst of creativity.
I stopped reading when I got to "tragedy of the commons." I'm having trouble deciding if I think the definition is condescending or just plain ignorant. Is the rest of the article as ignorant/condescending?
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Really good post, I'd just like to add one more piece of advice:

Don't over-extend yourself. When your paycheck is directly proportional to the amount of work you put in, it is very easy (and indeed tempting) to take on more work than you can comfortably handle.

Avoid the temptation. You are no good to your clients if you're always tired.
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I am coding, but it's actually a more ambitious project to get rid of text in the toolchain altogether, making searches such as this much simpler cross-reference searches.
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I don't see that. Keeping your original history around is a function of doing cleanup on a separate branch. It has nothing to do with how that cleanup is achieved.

Rewriting your existing history with git reset can also go horribly wrong, which is why it's done on a separate branch here.
Please add "For Mac" to the title.

You had me all excited.
I take it you do not sell items to teenagers (no credit cards) or internationally (bank transfers more culturally prefered). I (begrugingly) accept Paypal because their consumer mindshare among those two groups is extremely high. For an example, look at any popular Kickstarter: There is a small contingent of customers wanting Paypal.

You probably shouldn't bet 100% of your business with Paypal, but a vocal minority prefers it.
I find it interesting that Gmail has custom scroll bars.
I have to shift my brain into totally different modes between programming and reviewing/testing/version-controlling, and git add -p is an important tool. Maybe you're disciplined enough to keep a queue of everything you'd like to do in your head at once, and only stick to one task at a time, and shift into review/test/commit mode between quantized chunks. Me, I just go in, hack for a bit, and when I run out of ideas, I shift modes, read the git diff, break out my work into chunks, and then add -p/stash/test/review/commit chunk by chunk.

If you want all of my commits to be functionally and semantically separate and individually tested, I can give that to you. git-add -p is just an interface between that well-disciplined software-engineering expectation and what my brain actually does when it gets into flow.
It's pretty obvious from the style of the story that it's more than just straight reporting. It's not a news piece.
What is Google doing with Google+? Just copying Facebook right? They are not innovating too I suppose. Its about money and how to capture the market. So relax.
Yeah, I have noticed this too, this is one reason why I think its important to get out in nature from time to time, whether its going hiking, camping or snowboarding, etc. Basically, our modern lives are usually fairly mundane. We commute, go to work, etc and have predictable routines to where we naturally get bored of this and crave stimulation and this manifests itself often in the form of the digital media you are talking about. By breaking from this routine and getting out occasionally in such a way that you can stimulate your senses.
This is somewhat similar to Google Will Eat Itself, a project that has used Google Ad revenue to automatically purchase shares of Google. They currently own about $500k worth of Google and estimate owning the entire company in 200m years.

See (photosensitive warning) http://gwei.org/
And yet, again, a Moon colony would be handy to counter an asteroid too. The far side could host very powerful telescopes that could map NEOs with unprecedented efficiency and clarity. On Earth, you have a couple hours of sensor exposure. On the Moon, you have two weeks to trace stuff. And most of the heavy parts could be manufactured in situ, be lighter and higher quality (made in a high grade vacuum).

And that's to say nothing about the ability to launch spacecraft from a lower gravity and/or using a magnetic rail. One could even turn the asteroid into dust (which is less dangerous than a ferrous mountain falling from the sky) with a kinetic impactor packing enough energy.
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Am I the only one who finds popular nonfiction books bloated? So often it seems like the core ideas could've been expressed in one or two insightful blog posts.
From page 3 Step 18:

"Like the A5, the A5X system features a 1 GHz dual-core CPU. The upgrade that earns it an 'X' is the new GPU, which Apple claims outperforms even Nvidia's Tegra 3 processor."

Considering that even last year's A5 outperforms Tegra 3 on many benchmarks casting aspersions here seems meritless. You might quibble with Apple's 4x claim but that is not how this reads.
A neat idea I've heard on this topic:

Suppose you read 20 books a year. With 50 years of life, that's 1000 more books in your lifetime. (Or 2000, or 5000).

Why waste a slot on a book that isn't useful? Many books, esp. modern non-fiction, are needlessly padded to fill a length requirement (since a 20-page "book" can't be taken seriously).
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A fantasy startup game? :)
SpaceX got it right by skipping the enterprise sale cycle when they sell their rockets.
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I'm sorry but your answer neglects the second paragraph that I quoted. That seems sort of important...
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What makes things go right? What makes wake up and work your best every day?

Well, such inspiring, exciting stuff, as colonizing other planets. Doing that also improves all other areas. Transportation of course. Electronics. Software. Radio. Medicine. You name it.

That is why such projects not a "childish idea" but actually a great plan.

There's only 2 reasons for humans to work hard, and work good:

- fear of death (war)

- f* exciting stuff (and no, software idea 923839 is not nearly exciting enough, and money isn't either)
The problem with Bing is not that it is not as good as Google, but rather that it IS NOT Google.
People who are used to Google's design and have a bag of trick that they associate with it will not switch over to Bing even if statistical evidence finds it's results to be more relevant for all searches. Google will stay good enough for most of it's users for years to come.
I just wrote a comment on the same! I completely agree. I feel there's a pressure to fill some artificial page count requirement.

I read "The Evolution of Cooperation" and it honestly could have been done in 30 pages. Instead, I foolishly suffered through 215 of them.
A friend of mine builds race cars which are basically some 'regular' car, except all the structural bits get replaced. I joked with him that it would be simpler if he just took the engine out and built a frame around the engine.

Cool. My dad builds and races late model stock cars and has been involved in racing as long as I can remember... so yeah, I can relate to exactly what you mean there. The race cars have almost nothing left of the original car except the exterior sheet metal.
OK, I'll bite. Define "productive enterprise".
Probably none. You can still use ZeroMQ. If Crossroads ends up better than ZeroMQ, you can switch.
Because money is not everything. Once you have reached financial security like he did, you start yearning for other things like power or a legacy. He still has a long way to go to achieve all those things. If he "retires" now, before long, the name Kevin Rose will be forgotten, because there are plenty people in this industry who have achieved his level of wealth and success.
The goal should be that in 100 years, it will be sustainable to live like we will 100 years from now.
I used to do that every night, but now I lay in bed and just read articles on my tablet.
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But most of the development for such devices is done on a PC and exported to the device.
I recently had great success at my first attempt at using Hipmunk.com. I'm about to use it again for a much more complex situation, but I wondered if Google Flight Search might be better. Or comparable. Or do something different. So I clicked the link.

Google Flight Search has not been
optimized for your browser.

You know what I read here?

Best viewed in <browser X>
Best viewed at resolution X x Y

We used to decry these messages as a failure on the part of the web designers or web programmers, but now we're seeing it again.

Sorry - we're too hip and cool
to cater to older browsers.

So as the "standards" race ahead, and we, the general public, are forced yet again to upgrade our browser, and then our hardware, to cope with the ever changing (and totally inconsistent implementation of) the latest whizzy thing, I start to wonder if there's space for someone to create a service where:

* Using an elderly browser I connect to your service.

* I tell you the page I want

* You effectively give me a VNC session.

I'd pay for that. The machine I use when I'm travelling (and I travel a lot) is not up to using things like Google Flight Search. A gateway service could be valuable.

Won't happen, I know. I'll just continue to be told in a patronising manner: Upgrade to a modern browser.
So, I'm not that guy, and really trying not to be that guy, but wouldn't it be fair to summarize your general point as: "That's no moon. It's a space station." ? (mainly mentioning it because it could be taken for an inspirational saying in this context)
The real question for me, since I very recently brought 0MQ into my project: should I stay with that or switch to Crossroads? I don't want to get stuck on the lagging branch.
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Was "we're going to build apps until one hits" smoke and mirrors for "we're going to build a portfolio that can be bought out?"
This reminds me of my friend's plan to use the American Express "black" card with no credit limit to buy American Express.
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Categorized popularity. If a user in interested in a topic, they would have the ability to find the prominent voices related to that topic.
HN got so sick ... After reading the article I came over to see the comments to get some more ... but found a totally different feeling.

That raganwald guy taking over such a rude way over a nice topic ....

Please take away all my karma, at least will worth it.
Yeah I'm gonna have to disagree with that. Diablo 2 had a gigantic thriving online community. The game is all about loot and trading is a key component to that. I don't doubt that you personally had an enjoyable LAN experience with Diablo 2 but I'm fairly certain that far more users played online multiplayer than LAN multiplayer. The percentage of users who have a LAN but not internet access is inconsequential.
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Thanks! I never did the math on the Aldrin cycler. Can you give more details for the journal-challenged?
Youtube link to Rob Reid's TED talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0
I've had the same problem. try putting in the (http:\\ ) and attempt few times, it works :)
> A firm with 10 people is probably not paying a payroll company

Sounds like an opportunity. If you have 10 people, at least one of them is probably spending their valuable time on payroll; if you had an affordable self-service option that undercut the existing providers, maybe they would pay a payroll company. And the firm with 200 people, maybe you could undercut their payroll company as well.
proper valuation is the key. Investment bankers use several valuation methods to determine a value of the company. the most common method is the discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. This is what these so-called analysts do all day.

If you've ever studied finance, you'll get an even better appreciation of Apple and why it's doing everything right with regards to how they manage their cash, acquisitions, dividend/cash buyback policy, supply chain management, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow
Hiring of Kevin Rose by Google sends all the wrong signals to Silicon Valley
Just like git and GNU/Linux software, amirite?

The amazing thing isn't that Firefox/Chrome/Safari run so well on XP--it's that they run at all. That they do so is more due to their status as hobby projects (effectively) than as paid products.

EDIT: Note that I respect those other projects immensely... and that the truth is that their goal/motivation is different from IE. Consider, for example, that at the end of the day Chrome is a Google product, and in some way must tie into the advertising thrust of the company. So, it makes sense to try and make it available for as many things as possible.
More like "it's hard to get a job as a developer because companies' perceptions of 'good candidates' exclude everybody".
I think a fair number of nation-states would be willing to pay a lot of money for a version of this system they didn't have to program themselves. And had more firepower, of course.
This is particularly interesting because in a lot of deployments, nginx sits out in front of a lot of other stuff as a load balancer, where it is nicely exposed.

You REALLY should be using multiple boxes if you're running load balancers (especially sw load balancers) with some kind of heartbeat failover. That way you can upgrade single boxes easily, and are ok in case one of them dies. With a bug of this severity, you won't have time to test the patch, so it's probably best to upgrade one at a time in production.

Remember, even if you're running Apache or something else for your actual web server, you can easily have something like nginx sitting in front as a proxy/load balancer. Often in front of your security monitoring devices... and you may have forgotten about it.
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I think you do a great disservice to the talk in addition to missing the elucidative point entirely.

The easiest way for anyone to remember or have many complex topics explained is via a story and especially one with comedy, due to the strong emotional/physical response it creates.

Also, this talk is not just another run of the mill explanation, but it is done from an unusual perspective (copyright math "expert"), which also helps to get the point across.

For those not already aware of the basic issues involved (which arguably is most people otherwise we would not be in the situation we are now), I am betting they, possibly including your "parents", will learn and remember far more from this talk than any facts/figures/reports you could possibly direct them to.
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How is he going to get there and back without his bones disintegrating? I don't believe the science is there yet.
I was there too :) It was such a fun talk, especially the part where in the end of the demo video, the squirrel stopped caring about the water cannon anymore, and decided to steal food while getting sprayed on. I wonder if there is a better way to deter them instead of bigger water cannons?
Any alternatives for a windows user?
Serious question. Who is Kevin Rose and why should we care?
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Often I'll be in the middle of something, with a dirty work tree, when it's time to leave for the day. Then I'll just commit everything with the subject WIP ("work-in-progress"). First thing the next morning I'll git-reset HEAD^ and continue where I left off.

Curious, what is the advantage of doing this? Why commit something locally just to reset it out the next morning?
I think it's a good joke.
I think everyone has given him the benefit of the doubt, but this particular thread could have been much shorter if tptacek had just explicitly stated, "It's important and I won't help attackers by elaborating on the details." If that's not made clear then it's only natural for someone to ask for the specifics.
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If I charge hourly, the better I get the less money I make. I can offset this by raising my rate, but a high rate can be intimidating to clients.

They'd rather hear that a project will cost them $1,000 and they can assume that is 20 hours @ $50. In reality, it might take me 5-10 hours. They would've balked at a $200/hr rate, but don't blink at the $1,000 project fee.

Working hourly means your own interests are directly aligned against the client's.
Right. He can partner with or hire one of the thousands of developers available out there.
GS has thousands and thousands of VPs, many with as few as one direct report. This particular former VP apparently had zero direct reports. Part of what makes this story smelly is the prominence being given to this one voice; very little of the reporting on the story puts his title (normally a fairly senior one) into perspective.

According to the Dealbook post mentioned downthread, almost 1/3rd of all of Goldman's employees have the same title this person does.
I get down voted for not agreeing with the article? Or did you think the definition of tragedy of the commons was accurate?

From the discussion it seems like the article may be interesting but based off of the definition of tragedy of the commons it seems like madness lies ahead. If the tragedy of the commons definition is indicative of what is to come reading the rest does not seem like a good choice for leisure reading.

I genuinely am interested in knowing if the definition of tragedy of the commons is indicative of the rest of the work? (Sorry the edit button is gone from my original post)
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I really don't get it. If the people are so valuable, why pay extra for the company and the investors. Just offer all the employees $1 mill dollar hiring bonuses, and if they gave up on Oink (as it seems they did) they will join you.
Good point. the way I was thinking about it was more like this
1- you provide an overall estimate on where you think you could come in at. you do this to give all clarity on how you are thinking about the problem, anchors your estimate and the functionality you are about to build, and allows the owner to get a sense of price
2- only commit to a week or 2 at the time. this allows the client to tweak things, see quick progress, and add or subtract features as you make progress. Or even stop, test features on customers - and pause.

thoughts?
Luck is not getting kicked out of Harvard with your original idea that involves stealing a whole bunch of photos off a Harvard server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook.
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You can also find very serious and explicit product and cultural decisions in all of Facebook competitors, and indeed in all startups. Everyone thinks they have the next billion dollar company, but the majority do not.

All you are doing is looking in hindsight and using Facebook's profits as justification for Zuckerberg's decisions or to credit him with something other than luck.

You are defining intelligence, intuition, or brilliance based on success. No wonder your observations support your view, it's impossible not to.

As for staying in school, there are two very good reasons for it. 1) Learning is the only way to actually not be ignorant and university is still one of the best environments to learn. 2) Every smart investor hedges their bets. Every investor recognizes risk and that startups are risky and that most don't succeed. Founders are not some sort of exception. Thus, finishing school is hedging your bets. It's good advice.

I'm sure you deeply want to believe that luck has little to do with it. It's a nice feel good story. But you don't have a convincing argument. Everyone recognizes that various types of skills are important, but nobody has ever put forth a magic formula that will guarantee a successful business. Until that happens, we cannot claim that luck has nothing to do with it.
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I wouldn't worry about that. If it came to the level that Google would try to copy this feature, I would already term it a success.
What I am more interested in finding out is whether it will be useful to anybody in the world and how big of a problem it is.
As a person who used those bindings in a couple of projects (this includes tutoring the computer vision course at uni) I will use this opportunity to say thanks.
The customer wants you to commit. When you say "let's do a week at a time", the customer does a mental calculation of what one week of your time is worth if the project doesn't complete, arrives at the number $0, and responds accordingly.

That doesn't mean you work a fixed-price gig. It does mean that you give serious thought to a conservative estimate of the whole gig and then confidently offer that as your price for the engagement.
2100?? having those things in 2100 would mean we humans all are incredibly lazy. You already have 3D printers. Automation too. Why you need to wait 88 more years?

Given what happened in last 30 years, I would rather say in 2100 you will be able to scan yourself into a readable file and shoot it across the solar system all the way to the Mars, and print yourself out anew (printing algorithm would catch and get a rid of all cancers you caught and aging too).
He explains here:

> Such commits rarely survive beyond the following morning, but if I didn't make them, I wouldn't be able to continue work from home if the mood took me to do that.