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I've edited over 100 videos on Kdenlive. I find it good enough.
There is a different way to interpret these events. I've been through exactly the same thing, so I've thought about this issue a lot. What I've noticed is that this happens to me in the winter but not in the summer. I have started to think that I have some very mild version of SAD (seasonal affective disorder), such that I don't suffer depression but I do suffer a loss of energy.

2 things in his account jump out at me:

>The fall of 2011.... By December, I felt anxiety when thinking about work.

So, this happened to him as the days got shorter.

> Low productivity caused me to try to compensate by
> working longer hours, routinely 10-12 hours a day,
> with the occasional saturday thrown in.

He doesn't say if he's worked 10-12 hours a day in the past, so we have no idea if this is unusual for him. But for me, 10-12 hours a day is no problem, during the summer. It is murder for me during the winter.

Some hours I've worked in the summer:

1.) Worked 20 hours, slept for 3 hours on the couch in the office, and then worked for 20 more hours. And these were highly productive debugging sessions in which myself and my co-worker felt we made huge progress.

2.) Worked 26 hours straight to get a project ready to show a client. Felt great about being so productive.

3.) Worked 16 hours every day for 2 weeks.

In retrospect, I've realized that I never have these amazing bouts of hyper-work during the winter. Only during the summer. And I suspect the problem is getting more intense as I get older, because I don't recall this pattern when I was younger, or somehow I am so stupid that I went many years without seeing it.

But I see it now. And I am reshaping my work life to account for it. I now know that I can work 60 hour weeks during the summer, but even 40 hours is difficult for me in the winter.
> His movement has consciously coopted the word [freedom]
> for ... something ... less important

I don't think you realize how ubiquitous and critical to everyday life software is becoming. It's not just "freedom to play with source code," it's freedom to travel, read and form relationships as one sees fit and without being tracked.
ZMQ is specifically content agnostic. It looks like zmqc is too. As zacharyvoase pointed out, you'd just pipe the output of messages to other tools that can handle JSON/MsgPack/Protobufs/whatever.
...and that's why they're failing. I never read anything from Yahoo anyway.
make bluetooth candles and sell them. if you made your own pcb it would be so cheap.

https://sites.google.com/site/r3s2v1/projects/candles
http://www.donttrack.us (by the DuckDuckGo-team) gives a few examples.
You realize that pretty much every group V dopant has been already measured?
The problem is that n-type dopants are deep in energy, far away from the conduction band. So the electron from the donor stays with the dopant atom rather than activating and putting its electron in the conduction band.

> Maybe nitrogen or oxygen would be a better choice, for the similarity in molecule size
[Typo: Dopants are atoms not molecules.]

Many Group V atoms have been tried. See eg http://phycomp.technion.ac.il/~david/thesis/node17.html
This happened to me twice. Finally got it on my third try.
You can mount /tmp in RAM, making the computer faster and avoiding ssd usage. I use it for rendering and manipulating large collections of files. Logs are there too.
This doesn't work on Yahoo links, only on Guardian and WaPo links from what I can tell.
They don't mention (or show) the Philips EnduraLED models. Those are, by far, the non-incandescent lights with the most pleasant light quality that I've seen. They're still quite spendy, though.

http://www.usa.lighting.philips.com/lightcommunity/trends/en...
You are probably thinking of Smith-Waterman:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorith...

Company I work at (in HPC) was in negotiations to implement it for one of those big plant biotech firms long before I was around, or so I have been told.
Show HN: A fast, WebSockets based 9GAG clone for Peru
Most of the advice here is rock solid, so I'll summarize it/my experience (2nd round, arrived in Nov 2011):

-Work on your Spanish ahead of time. It helps a lot, but you don't NEED it (I knew nothing before coming down).

-Stay in a hostel/hotel for a few days when you get down here in order to find a better place.

-Bring down at least $10K. It took me two months to get my first reimbursement and I was running pretty low by then.

-Accept that at least one full day a month will be wasted on bureaucracy (reimbursements & mandatory presentations to locals)

-Don't expect to get high quality talent here that speaks English fluently. Those that have found talent are far outnumbered by those that haven't (technical & business).

-Don't expect to have strong mentorship like 500, YC or TechStars. It's all peer mentorship.

-Realize that the strength of the program is the international component. There's a lot of market opps in Latinamerica that a lot of people have no idea about. It's also rare to have such an global composition of entrepreneurs.

It's not perfect for everyone, but if you're:

-pre product/market fit

-interested in international markets

-cool with trading some time wasted with bureaucracy for equity free funding

then it's a great choice.
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The other day I did a braindump of all the computers and handhelds I've owned so far, and their basic specs, before I forgot. I plan to maintain the list because it's fun to look back on :)
The TSA also fears a 300ml container of liquid but not 3 100ml containers and an empty 300ml one. What's new?
I feel for the author and I do miss the type of programming and programmers that he is reminiscing about. But I just have to wonder how we would feel if our new home was put together by a bunch of craftsmen (framers, electricians, plumbers) without an architect and other managers working above them, and how the end product would be int terms of consistency, reliability and quality.

The new software development model is following the same model that any group development work has taken. While the handyman in construction is still useful, you won't be seeing any job ads for handyman on a construction site. But you do see handyman trucks driving around as successful consultants fixing the issues that come up with the products derived from this group development process, or at least I do, but they are few and far between.

Building software is different than building a house, so say us people that build software, but to the people above the actual coding and systems, to them it is just a project with the goal of getting finished. They don't know what a programmer does much more than most architects know how to wire a house or pour concrete. yet houses get built, and somehow software does as well.

I'm all for the small groups and lone coders producing ground breaking software, but software has turned into so much of big business that it can't be helped that the other people have followed the money and put project management into the mix. All you can do as a programmer is choose which side you would like to be on and do the best you can in the situation you are given. Specialization is for insects, so they say.
> and those you expect to do the actual "management" stuff so that you don't need to.

Sounds like your answer is: When there are items that smart people want to outsource, they often go work for people stupider than them rather than hire people to take care of it.

Do I have that right?
Right, so the "herpes" ad example -- I just have never seen that kind of thing in real life. I search for 100's of things a week, including certainly plenty of embarassing things, and have never noticed ads that seemed in any way obviously based on those.

And as for insurance companies rejecting you or charging you more -- this just seems like FUD. Has this ever happened before? And if it did, it seems like something for Congress to address, not a reason to stop using or hate Facebook.
Meanwhile in India, the Hole-in-the-Wall project, providing internet access with no direction, assistance or teachers to illiterate street urchins, continues to produce amazing results as completely uneducated children teach themselves to read, communicate in English, do math, and many other skills.

http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/
I think if apps becomes the default platform for mobile reading then something is broken. There are no standards, each book has to take up a slot on my phone and if I no longer want a book but want it stored on my device.
The DVD service allows multiple profiles for the same account; users can switch between them to get their own queue and recommendations.

It looks like they explicitly remove that for streaming customers. I have no idea why.
What sites can I use for programming problems?
Excuse my ignorance: By skimming through the program rules, I got the feeling that you can only expense up to $40K over the 6-month stay in Chile, but not save some to take away with you when the batch finishes, am I not right?
I have to agree with your sentiment about the machine. I too bought one as part of the G1G1 program and it is a horrible device. I've played around with it extensively (even building a temperature sensor so that school kids could do some simple experiments with it: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/01/simplifying-my-olpc-xo-1-tempera...) and it's an ugly machine.

The supplied software is really poor in general (or incredibly limited) and there isn't much of a decent ecosystem of software around it. And the default launcher is hard to use.

It is one thing, however: it's really robust. Can't count the number of times local school kids have dropped it on the floor or generally abused it.
Is "The Codecademy for Higher-Level Languages" HN editor embellishment? I fail to see how Programr is for higher-level languages than Codecademy & how it's like Codecademy.

Edit: This is TechCrunch editorialization. My confusion still stands.
In today's hyper-connected world always remember the maxim "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."

Always and everytyime.

In fact to make it a bit stronger even when you are paying for an App/Service/Whatever expect your personal information to be a part of the deal.
Thanks for posting this article. I love how you explained strengthening the casual link between effort and reward. I guess that's why I'm such a SEO-freak. I love how the harder you try to build links, and create content, the more traffic you get.. the rules were so simple and SEO was a game I could win!

Then Google Panda came along and took away what I loved most in life =(
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That's correct. Some teams have struggled to spend all the money within the 6 months.
Umm, what about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_health_care_refor...

I know it's 7 years ago, but Mitt Romney is probably the next Republican presidential candidate and it's not like the party penalized him for his past stance. Or even really talks about it. And if you really want to dig into it, look at who voted for in in that states legislator.
This is one of the the consequences of the "free software movement". Nobody wants to pay for software anymore and hosting and development aren't free.
At the program level, this is built in (D has daemon and non-daemon threads like Java). Or you could use ThreadGroup in core.thread. It would be pretty trivial to do this at the user level with messaging as well.
I don't understand the hostility to RMS here in hackrerland. RMS is trying to recreate the best hacker environment that ever existed bar none: MIT's AI lab in the 1970's. I was alive then and knew some people there and it was all true--it was hacker nirvana. It got blown apart by his friends going off and founding some lisp machine companies that killed off lisp as a commerical language when those companies died from infighting.

What does RMS want? Four freedoms that businesses want to take away from you: the ability to read, modify, share, and run the programs that you or hackers like you write. There's nothing purist about wanting control over your own program, or for it not to be closed off from you against your will. That's what happened in the 1980's, and what continues to happen with proprietary software.

Obviously, as the leader of this movement RMS has to stay especially pure or no one would follow him. RMS may have his idiosyncracies, but you have to give him credit for not being hypocritical, which is more than you can say about virtually any other leader out there.

I'm a really proud supporter of RMS and what he stands for because I've spent half my life being burned by proprietary software, and I'd love to go back to the garden of eden that was MIT's AI lab in the 70's and early 80's.
Static analysis of an unknown compression format
Posted below: "dailyllama [dead]: They actually have some support for this (or at least they used to, and grandfathered some of us in)."

Their FAQ mentions it. But when I asked their support line was told it's only available to subscribers of the DVD service.
"I don't think you realize how ubiquitous and critical to everyday life software is becoming."

You can talk to people and drive around in your car. You feel you need to use things that track you, but it's not true. You choose to.

There is a difference.
Freedom of the mind (which is what software freedom is) and physical freedom are equally important and you can't really be free without both. What good is being safe from physical harm if you can't express your own points of view and make your own determinations? Restricting what software you can use with a computing machine that you own is a harm and RMS is right to fight against in the way that he sees fit.
3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up
http://projecteuler.net/

http://www.topcoder.com/
Just wrote a Arch Linux package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58283
I know you're being snarky, but I really don't see the contradiction. These students haven't graduated yet, so they can still drop out if they're inspired by his class.
The teacher in question was given high marks on review by all her superiors, not just herself.

If the students didn't perform, but her superiors liked her, why are you assuming the superiors know what they are talking about?

Again, how can I compare the opinions of heterogeneous superiors, and why do you believe the opinions are correct and objective metrics are wrong?

Opinions fail on many counts - comparability and objectivity being the most obvious. Why do you fetishize opinion, and assert it as being more accurate than objective metrics?

They also shouldn't dominate what's taught to the extent they do.

All standardized tests do is measure whether a school is meeting their goals. If standardized tests are preventing schools from ignoring their goals and teaching whatever they feel like (or perhaps nothing at all), why is that a bad thing?
Copyright infringement is not a criminal offence.
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Why would anyone want to discuss the ideas of uneducated people? What next? Ayn Rand?!?
BBC offers free online language courses
Belgium is in the Internet dark ages.
Make Riak Look Like Mongo
Why is it worth reading the report?
Here's a detailed run down of the latest version of the reimbursement process: http://emilytoop.com/2012/03/20/my-first-reimbursement-proce... Emily's in round 2.5 which started in January. I was in round 1.5 which started in July, things have improved a lot since then.
This argument could be made against anyone who stands by any conviction.

The diagnosis of some psychological problem solely based on the fact that he won't agree to follow the arbitrary established order which is against his convictions is a common feature of authoritarian regimes.

The accusation that if he disagrees with a system of laws because he wants them to be more ethical and less ambiguous he is undermining a social construct that is needed to keep society "humane" is worse.

It's not helpful, when someone disagrees with a law or set of laws, to argue against the entire concept of disagreement with law - unless you want to either paint them as an absolutist or an anarchist. Psychological problems are usually diagnosed based on the amount of suffering of the individual, and RMS doesn't seem to be suffering at all. He has specific concerns that can be replied to specifically.
The "tax" has nothing to do with using Windows or not, just paying for Windows (reflected in the increased price of hardware that comes with Windows pre-installed) when it is not needed. This could be because you already own a copy or plan on using an alternative OS.
When you say copyright industry you really mean software industry.
"What does RMS want? Four freedoms that businesses want to take away from you: the ability to read, modify, share, and run the programs that you or hackers like you write."

He wants these at the expense of the freedoms of the people that wrote the software. If you want these freedoms, write the software yourself and distribute it.

"and I'd love to go back to the garden of eden that was MIT's AI lab in the 70's and early 80's."

Right. With none of the technological advances we have today. No thanks.
Lately these are contract positions, and being in a corporate environment here I'm dealing with an agency that deals with other agencies. I still do some direct (usually by Craigslist ad) recruiting. I only submit the screening task to people who have already responded to the position posting. Very few people, maybe 5-7% do not complete the task, and I assume they found another position in the interim.
Have you seen InstantWatcher (http://www.instantwatcher.com)?

Probably the best use of the Netflix API I've seen - accounts for the search areas where Netflix lacks, without losing discoverability.

Your project is obviously much closer to the netflix design than IW is, but check it out, might give you some ideas!
This sounds like special pleading - so now we have to wait another decade or two before we're allowed to pass judgment? What sort of effects are you expecting to pop up then, that we can't observe now over a sample of <850,000 laptops?
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recommendation is a good concept if you have things to recommend. Netflix current catalog is seriously lacking. We were in the middle of watching the TV show Spartacus when it was taken off (due to licensing problems).
Yes, they seem to look for "fingerprints." Your second cover may have interfered with the fingerprint just enough.

I overheard one TSA agent mentoring another on the x-ray machine just a couple days after the iPad 2 was available. The first TSA agent got confused looking at the new iPad2, and the second agent explained how many batteries each had. I overheard something like "iPad 1 had 2 batteries and the iPad 2 had 3, and the batteries should be in these spots." Did you know there were multiple batteries a few days after shipping?

I was impressed. My expectations were low to begin with, but the second TSA agent had legitimate technical knowledge.

Edit: I'm not supporting TSA or saying this is the right approach. This anecdote seemed to support your supposition for how they screened items. I still was impressed an x-ray tech knew the insides of an iPad 2 better than even engadget. Thank you for making your point, though :)
I travel with an 11" Air and iPad in a backpack very frequently. The article does explain some confusion I've encountered when dealing with the tray stackers association, but I wouldn't limit to them since I've encountered the same confusion abroad.

The iPad has been examined several times (in particular, the first couple of weeks after release), whereas the laptop has only been inspected going into a State Department building.

"Please boot the laptop so that I can see that it works normally," was a bit of a problem because it booted so fast off of the SSD. I had to restart 3 times to convince them that it was normal. The first two times, the guard thought I had just done a sleep/wake cycle.
Seems to die if I try to open up chat, but otherwise its been solid for me.
"forthy" ! What in the world can they do to make money to justify such a high valuation? Sell filters !?
That depends entirely on the terms of the deal.
Mediocre but (afair) working alternative solution.
Create a friendlist with no-one (but yourself)
And give those apps only stream_publish permission to that friendlist.
Not much to say except that's awesome!
The hole in the wall project involves no teachers.
New Kickstarter record: $2.1mil for Wasteland 2 RPG
Has no one noticed that you can set permissions to the app posts. You can set it to visible to only yourself at the time of installation.
Maybe he manages his life savings that he put into Bitcoin: http://falkvinge.net/2011/05/29/why-im-putting-all-my-saving...

(One wonders how that worked out for him; I'd find that answer a lot more interesting than his connection.)
And repraps really upset them...

http://blog.reprap.org/2008/07/tsa-really-wreck-reprap-child...
Is "Charlie bit my finger-again" the most watched YouTube video?
I find it depressing that one of the primary gatekeepers for TechStars NY uses these criteria to determine who's got the right stuff:

You want to feel that for the past 10 years, they've only been thinking about this one thing. That's how you know they're legit.

If you become creative director at Ogilvy with that beard, that means you're stupidly talented.

It's not that we're giving certain companies an advantage for no reason. They've earned the advantage by either knowing us or knowing people who know us.

This isn't about applying randomly. It's about building relationships.

These last two quotes are particularly disturbing. It's not about your product or your users or your execution. It's about who you know. The process favors the people who are good at networking or pitching, and forces everyone to spend less time on product.
If you've got no-script on then no stats will be reported obviously. The tracker tests if it can create a webgl context and XHRs the queried values back (webgl or not).
Of course it didn't improve test scores. Why would anyone think a computer would make you better at answering inane, subjective questions about poorly written passages or more accurate/efficient at applying the handful of algorithms about triangles that the government believes everyone should know?

OLPC was never going to improve test scores. That's not to say it can't produce better, more educated human beings.
That's really cool! The magnifying glass looks kind of like it doesn't belong. But, that's just my opinion.
Ask HN: Multi-streamed video puzzle. How to?
I know lots of HN users attended our first event and it went down a huge success. This time we've got three founders speaking, one a YC founder.

There is no age limit, there was a diverse age range last time. Tickets are £5, including all the beer/soft drinks and pizza you want . It was full of founders, no business cards and very relaxed atmosphere.
http://www.codechef.com/
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Self-employment is very difficult, especially the first time.

When I was working at Apple in 1990 a friend left to start his first business. A few months later he confided in he that he was scared to death, he felt like he was operating "without a net". I naively thought he was being melodramatic.

A year later I left to start my first business. And I felt exactly the same. It was frightening, the phrase "without a net" summed it up perfectly. My friend's reaction hadn't been melodramatic at all. His reaction was perfectly normal.

It may be impossible for someone who has never tried it to understand the emotional challenge of starting a business. That stress is layered on top of all the normal stresses of your work as the sole developer.

And perhaps multiplied further by underestimating the schedule? It's easy to fall into the trap of saying "I will be superman. I will get this done quickly". I've done it 100 times.

Thanks for posting, and be kind to yourself. You'll work it out.