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I understand where you are coming from. You feel that if you are truly interested in a topic, you will explore it without ny other reason or incentive.

But I don't think they are saying they are learning for teaching's sake (what's wrong with that anyway). They are interested in the topic. But, having to put what you learnt into words for someone else, makes you crystalize your understanding. It reinforces what you learnt. Makes it stay more permanently in your brain. So it enhances your learning. Plus, answering questions raised by your readers makes you delve deeper. Just my opinion.

And if you proclaim upfront that you are learning while blogging/teaching, your readers are free to read or instead find a well known expert and read their book/blog. Amazon reviews, blog comments etc. also tell you what you are getting.

I have heard others say that when they want to learn something, they ultimately teach it and I have seen one of them live it. And I will say it works. She may not be The Expert on the topic, but her knowledge and passion grows everyday. I have been intending to put this in practice myself, high time I did!! Tonight!
Raspberry Pi + Phidgets = next step from Arduino + shields.

Provided the Phidgets work well with Linux, which is not clear to me ATM.
As a (2D) game developer I love bezier curves. So many uses. My favorite may be that you can calculate the curve from just the end points if you know the velocity you want the object moving along the curve to have at the end.
Starting Strength is the perfect go to beginner - intermediate guide to weight training.

Good for you, you're on the right track.
They should work on apt-diffs first which Redhat already does. The torrent idea may not be practical because your machine would have to be running the torrentable-apt-get to act as a peer. I doubt many people would want to leave that running and the short 10 second connections would not be enough to sustain the swarm.
thats what I do. Wake up 7, gym till 8:30, then work with break for food once every 2 hours for 5 minutes (plus bigger dish at evening) then from 10 to 11 cardio, sleep before 12. I do not exercise over the weekends, let body sleep longer, rest, be lazy. If I manage my time properly, I still easily get 10 hours of work a day! I just noticed how much detracting certain things are: talking 5 times about the same thing over the phone with friend, watching TV "only" for couple minutes, browsing web, reading emails that I know I will come back to again later on, etc. It all adds up substantially. The only spoil other than energy drink with 30g of sugar (my daily rate) I let myself to do is to "waste" time here and there on reading HN :)
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RSS will die if isolated blogs à la Wordpress die. RSS is a solution to the problem of following those isolated blogs. Collective platforms like Tumblr or Facebook solve this problem by featuring an integrated reader. There are other solutions like using Twitter to notify the availability of new posts.

Solutions die if the problems die.
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A third thing to remember: the folks you're getting information from (governments) are often reluctant to provide that information, and there's no legal requirement for it to be a particularly useful format.

It'll often be a CD of some 1970s mainframe database format with no information on what format it is, how to open it, etc. They'll do a little happy dance if you just give up and move on to another story.
This might be true in the US, but in London privately-owned sandwich shops are VERY common, there's like 6 of them within 30 seconds walk of my office. They'll typically serve mainly sandwich and wraps (made to order), or alternatively potato, pasta or rice-based meals.

There are some places that specialise in salad/veg rather than sandwiches, but they tend to be vegetarian with the only calories coming from cous cous or potato.

I'll have a look around though.
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Curious anecdote: Elon Musk started out in this field, which gave him the capital to do X.com/Paypal (among his more recent endeavors). From [1]:

He stayed two days [at Stanford] before dropping out to start Zip2, which provided online content publishing software for news organizations, with his brother Kimbal Musk. In 1999, Compaq's AltaVista division acquired Zip2 for US$307 million in cash and US$34 million in stock options.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
> Historically, this does not end well.

Could you expand?
It is not backwards compatible. Yeah I know that is HARD, but that is why we have smart people to write the standards.
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Evolution is no longer the default mail client. It's now Thunderbird (and I think it has been since at least 11.10).
I think a different way to think about it should be, since Google Drive and Dropbox are pretty much the same, why should I switch from Dropbox to Google Drive?

I certainly can't think of a reason and thus will happily remain a Dropbox user.
The sodium (not actually salt – or at least, not sodium chloride) in a coke might make you thirstier, but the caffeine probably won't. While caffeine is a diuretic, studies have not supported the idea that it causes dehydration, and it's generally accepted that the amount of water in coffee (which has a far higher caffeine density than coke) is enough to offset what you lose to its diuretic effects.
She took the benefits because the government took far more than that from her! She was just getting a tiny part of it back.

She actually wrote at length about this issue [1]. That people keep puzzling over it shows that they don't understand AR (which is perfectly fine if they don't claim to understand her), or just want to smear her.

[1] http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/government_grants_and_scho...
My old Lenovo r51 is still on hardy heron 8.04. I used to read the release notes for Ubuntu to see if I could upgrade hassle free. There was a new Linux intel video driver which was a step back for a while: poor video play back and no compiz. Maybe it is time to get that ssd and upgrade os!
>using -moz-border-radius since Firefox 1.0. (that's 8 years ago. There are web designers that aren't twice that age out there).

...web designers who had no idea -moz-border-radius existed until recently. Thanks, W3Schools!
It's possible that you've just explained it: The people for who it became such a problem have already migrated away.

I don't have any numbers for that, but even if it's a small shift, then it could be that most people weren't too fussed anyway.
http://chains.cc is a good gui for this
I'm sure as hell thinking about buying one. Never heard of this before - thing looks really neat
I would assume that YC's resources are more limited at the energy level than the money level.
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Disclaimer: My knowledge may be out of date.

People have tried to package Unity for other distributions, but those efforts have failed. One of the main problems was the patches that Canonical applies to GNOME libraries (to make Unity work) and to applications (to make them integrate with Unity). If someone wanted to fork Unity they'd have to find a way to handle this to get it fully working on any distribution besides Ubuntu.
Go deadlift 300lbs and tell me your heart isn't going nuts.

Your heart will certainly go nuts. But deadlifting won't enable your heart to keep going at 80% for 5 minutes straight unless you do some 1x100@100lb crossfit style deadlifting.

I strongly recomment weight lifting for most people. I'm only suggesting that out of 5 days, do 3 weight and 2 cardio days. And yes, the cardio days should probably be squash, heavy bag or football rather than the treadmill.
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> "The best thing about this diet (and I hesitate to call it that, I'm never going to stop)"

A minor nit pick: that's exactly what a diet is. Your diet is what you eat every day. What pop culture refers to as 'dieting' is more like a selective fast: a temporary change or reduction in diet.

And that's why 'dieting' doesn't produce lasting results for most people. Most of those diets do work. But people fail because they stop doing them. They don't recognize paleo or south beach or atkins as a lifelong change. They try them, get results, get comfortable then fall back into old habits and thus their old shape.

That's why it's key to approach changes in diet and exercise on the basis of what you will maintain. And ultimately why talking about relative benefits of various diets and exercises is silly.

The 'best' diet and exercise is the one that keeps you healthy and that you maintain.
> it's not being fat, although I am, it's that for some reason the muscle tone in my neck sucks

hehe, jeez, I really wonder why "for some reason" the muscle tone in his neck sucks ...

that said, having to repeatedly pay $2k for sleep studies that tell you nothing new before you get any treatment is really crappy. even if the first type of treatment should be a dietician and a personal trainer, not a fancy machine.

and even then, if you have a fancy machine that is doing important health related tasks for you (possibly you're even trusting it with your life), I don't think there should be any question whatsoever about the user of said machine being allowed to know exactly how this machine works.

as for liability, just have people sign off on the liability if they make any modifications or change settings to the machine since the last checkup by a medical expert, if you make modifications it becomes your own responsibility, that only makes sense.
Ruby and Python are. But look at the origin of popularity. Python was popular in academia / system scripts for a long time. Ruby's popularity comes in a large part from Rails.

Now guess which community has better graphical design skills? Or from the other end - all other things being equal (and of course they aren't in reality, there are many small differences), I'd rather use a language designed by someone who specialises in designing programming languages rather than one creating websites.
I can recommend Anne Applebaum's history in addition, of course, to Solzhenitsyn's works:

http://www.amazon.com/Gulag-A-History-Anne-Applebaum/dp/1400...
2012 - 1974 == 50 ?

well, not according to google https://www.google.com/search?q=2012-1974&pws=0
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Triple booting on Santa Rosa 2007 MBP. Upgraded to Lion from Snow Leopard and had many problems, lack of recovery partition, Spotlight failure etc. Need to reformat and reinstall all to get spotlight working again.

Ubuntu is now my main OS.
You seem to believe that there is a conflict between principles and reality. AR did not. Because principles are induced from reality and are always true (within the relevant context).

(By "principles" here, I mean correct ones.)
Thanks for pointing that out! I was experimenting with prices on the app store, but forgot to update the website.
I don't always down vote, but when I do I prefer to leave a comment.

I've probably down voted someone less than 20 times on HN, but when I do I like to leave a comment as to why. Its been the case where I've been down voted and wondered why.

His comment isn't a troll comment and looking at his past comments he seems to be reasonable, intelligent, and otherwise a productive member of HN. I wanted him to know why I downvoted him, and he can consider changing the post to offer more insight in which case he would attract more upvotes and would generally make HN a better place.

What makes my comment more productive is that I articulated why I down voted which is that it lacked any insight into the process and didn't contribute to the conversation.
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This is a problem only if you don't default-route everything from the Linksys LAN through the VPN, with the IPv6 LAN subnet being routed through the VPN. In fact the IPv6 LAN subnet might just as well be at the remote endpoint with a tap bridge (which is actually very close to my openvpn ipv4+ipv6 setup)
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I definitely agree that personalization is the key - but on an individual basis.

That is the focus of our company - and why we feel RSS won't die - but its role will evolve as more info is consumed via Twitter/ etc/ etc - ignoring the social signs(data) readers/ users provide doesn't make much sense.

But personalization should always be an option - because the firehose is still very useful
Squash is such an amazing workout. All that, and after a crappy day at the office, you can take out all your stress on that ball.
Your whole argument about him doing this for promotional purposes hinges on the idea that he gets something out of it (e.g. sales). You have no real reason to believe that he takes a "contrarian" position to "get a rise out of others," other than your implication that he gains by "marketing opportunities."

In fact, your whole argument was a subtle way of saying "He doesn't really believe this, he's just peddling shit in order to make sales." None of which you can support, especially since the implied gain (the sales) doesn't exist.

You have no real reason to believe, much less state publicly, that Thomas is disingenuous in his opinions.

This makes it an ad hominem attack, by the by.
A quick search find an number of efforts.

http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/

http://www.camrdale.org/apt-p2p/

http://sianka.free.fr/
"Dot-com bubble, real-estate flipping, tulip mania"
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Refer to the great-grandparent comment.
"Dot-com bubble, real-estate flipping, tulip mania..."

Add the 1930s crash to that.
My employer still has two DAT readers which we use to process records from the Department of Labor.

I had never seen one in action before.
I applaud the author for his tenacity. There is no doubt that kind of discipline produces results, both in terms of work product and personal advancement.

However, I have serious doubts about the merits of writing a book about a subject intricacies and philosophy of which you have not yet had the chance to distill through the lens of experience.

The method may, perhaps, work for simple recipes, how tos and other procedural knowledge. I really don't think it would work for anything in or above the intermediate range of content on any meaningful, commonly deep topic.

Just imagine whether the "Mythical Man Month", "Code Complete" or "Innovator's Dilemma" could have been written with this kind of approach.

I don't know about others but when I read a book, I sometimes realize the presence of an unavoidable slight bias towards believing the author and respecting his conclusions, that is unless I am already deeply knowledgeable about the subject and have my own strong opinions. It better be the case that the author is in fact trustworthy on the subject.
Is it more than superficial though? Depends on your definition of 'superficial':

I think that depends on who the audience is. If you're a CTO at a company that's up and running and live and you're beginning a deployment of something new, then yes, you need an overview rooted in hands-on experience. But if you're a guy who just wants to learn something new because "I might use this in the future" or "I'm just evaluating this" or whatever, a book which is based only on theory/research can be wildly useful if it helps you shortcut the learning curve to learning the tech. Actually, if it helps you shorten your own learning curve, it's beneficial in either of those scenarios, in a sense.
I wish this was available for Android. Any plans to port it?
I think there is defi a need for this...seems to be getting there
I have searched for a PG answer but haven't found it.
So PG hasn't answered this question yet
I would need a bit more detail about what your app is and what it does before I could make a recommendation.
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I agree they should be clearer -- as should the vast majority of companies storing data on behalf of consumers -- but this is being blown out of proportion.

It's a little unfair to highlight how Dropbox says "You retain full ownership to your stuff" while not also pointing out that Google says the same thing, "You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours."
Thirded. They is such a simple way to visualise this.
No, style has nothing to do with superficial looks.
This is thanks to Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/) and the kind of community participation Python is famous for.
Yeah, when you start digging into Django, there's just no substitute for a good IDE (PyCharm for me) that lets you dive into the source. The source never lies. :)
Pretty sure you could hire an unpaid intern who would do that happily, which would hardly cost you anything.
Distributed thinking isn't rational even if the actors are, it all depends on the rules of the game. For example, the optimal strategy in a prisonner's dilemma hurts both players; tragedies of the commons have similar effects at a larger scale. There is no objective standard saying how much future discounting is rational, although obviously I'd prefer one that doesn't discount significantly until after one or two lifetimes.

Burning the stuff now is a perfect example of future discounting: it values having energy now over having something that can be used and reused. It's also an example of tragedy of the commons: the energy utility goes to whoever uses it, climate change is a cost for everyone, and unregulated markets don't minimise those costs.
Interesting. However, if they serve sandwiches, perhaps they also have "grilled chicken cutlet sandwich". If they do, no harm in just asking for the chicken and whatever other toppings you like (cheese, lettuce, tomato, etc.)
While early adopters are the "choir", they often feel the same pain as other potential users, and found ways to get over it. They're such a great resource because you can ask them what hurt the most.
Wolfram's graphs were prettier :)
I am not sure if anyone on HN know what is Line. Since US / EU uses Whatsapp.
I'd rather use a language designed by someone who specialises in designing programming languages rather than one creating websites.

Are you referring to PHP or something? Certainly Matz is every bit the language designer Guido is. Like it or not, Python and Ruby are competing in a lot of very similar niches. Fluffing the design of your webpages is like stopping at the 24th mile of a marathon.
The IT guy has last looked at Ubuntu a couple years ago, he was surprised how far it had come. He is working a Windows domain at the job.
Of course there are other ways, it's called not eating crap.
Ahem... "Usability".
Didn't Dropbox scan through source code someone had uploaded and discovered an app that created a Dropbox API then banned him?
I always expect to mercilessly refactor what I write, though it's good to remember users don't care if your code is top notch, it's just something you do to make your own life easier, to simplify adding features. The ego aspects just gets in the way, especially if you're the only person working on it. In my experience, I'm always more productive with some code and building blocks to arrange than a blank canvas, and as you gain more experience it's easier to see corners before you code yourself into them.
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> No pressure. It’s all going to be here tomorrow, a week from now ... even a month.

> By the way, anything older than a week or two stops existing on Twitter.

Great point. One of the most annoying things about organizing articles based on a single timeline like Twitter is that old stuff gets pushed into oblivion too quickly. Most of these don't use pagination either, so I need to scroll like crazy and wait for AJAX to catch up if I want to go back more than a few days.

Sure, you could do search, but how do you search for something you don't even know exists? Like a blog post that appeared two weeks ago while I wasn't looking. With any half-decent RSS reader, each blog gets its own section, so articles don't get lost in the noise even if Blog A only publishes once a month and Blog B publishes twice a day. Even if Blog C only publishes once a year, the little "(1)" next to its name will stay there even if I miss it by several months.

Not all of us are always looking for the latest news from the last 30 minutes. I routinely read articles from several years ago, sometimes even from the previous millennium. Any method of finding and organizing articles that makes it difficult for me to figure out what happened last year is not welcome in my mind.
That's not a bad idea, especially since these days you often can't rely on someone else's network to be secure and free of shenanigans like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804608

On the other hand, this leads to suboptimal routing. If I'm in Australia and the VPN server is in the US, connections to Australian hosts would be routed across the Pacific and back.
Yes, it can be, and the next bit says as much. I've pasted in the rest of the bullet point to clarify. I was just disappointed that such a thing has to be enabled manually now.
The "nice" thing about pre-fab diets like Paleo is that you'll find lots of like-minded people sharing recipes and generally giving each other support - just like every "moment". There are certainly other diets that are effective, and paleo doesn't even seem to have a solid scientific foundation…

Basically pick anything that reduces your caloric intake. Yes, some diets might get you more rapid results, but in the end most people fare better with something they can actually live with, especially if it's not just sprinting towards a goal, but keeping that dietary change for a long time (permanently, even). I'd be wary of picking any extreme as your first stop, in any endeavor.

For me, just training yourself of snacks and sweets worked out quite well (I've got one hell of a sweet tooth). I did this mainly by picking 24 consecutive hours in a week where I didn't eat anything (and neither made up for it before or after that). That alone saves you some calories, but for me the main benefit wasn't this fasting, but teaching yourself that you don't have to eat all the time.
Me too. But I hit it a second time and got the article. I very nearly flagged it. Not cool.