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Why not similarly - create a Chrome plugin - that clicks on all ads (for sites you visit) yet, does not display any?

Thereby funding the content you live, yet killing the ad-flocked web
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I think by 'intelligence' he means intelligence required to make macro level impacts. Like traveling across oceans/seas, Living in mass organized colonies and cities, Math and things like that.

That sort of intelligence only developed recently(When compared on a time scale).

The earlier man had a pretty neat life, tending to food and rest and physiological activities all the time without having nothing much to worry about.

Its only when the Philosophers and thinkers started originating, did mankind get some direction to work towards.
I wrote this in 2008 (when I was 17) while I was bored. Check out nanosnake on the pygame website, it's better :P
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Neat.

I wonder what happens if you use swap/get context?
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Since there are no ads in Facebook & Google mobile Apps (as of now), as their mobile users grow... their potential revenues drop!
Maybe [...] she saw the shoe on her way to her hospital room at some point.

Maybe she floated her way into the hospital room? That's what would follow from the text you quoted.

Your response seems like a good example of how we make up just-so stories to rationalize what we want to believe. First the emotions decide, then the brain comes up with reasons.

I don't know if the provocative case studies in the article are as true as the author implies, but whether they're true or not is quite irrelevant to what most people, including most people called scientists, will say about it.
Should I post this question as its own thread? I'm new to the HN community and haven't figured out all the norms around posting yet. Thanks.
"19th Century circus flyer". What a great way to summarize some of the kitschy looks out there, and the first thing to make me laugh out loud all day!

Compelling, tasteful, unique design is incredibly difficult. Some of this has to do with the tools we have available...
$20 per month for just Photoshop seems like an easy sell for small businesses who would otherwise pirate a copy.
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It's not super obvious yet, but you can keep crawling around sites based on emotions by clicking on them at the top (for LifeHacker, it's accepting and optimistic).
Isn't the resulting font a derived work of the ones that made it up, and hence not his to freely license?
Here's an off-topic legal question:

Are you allowed to copy intellectual property like fonts, perform a function like averaging on the intellectual property, and distribute the result of the function performed on the intellectual property?
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Although i agree with most points made in this article, I think, having been a manager/teamlead of many programming teams, i think i might write an article on "how to be a horrible employee"...
Unrelated, but issues with Adobe's tool suites. http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/
They were probably not invested at the same level but I'm sure they did well.
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I've had a number of horrible bosses over the years (if you are reading this and we still talk, i'm not referring to you!) and for me it falls into two categories: trust and authoritarianism.

Trust is critical. If you hire an engineer you should trust that they can do their job. If you don't think you can ever do that, don't hire them! It is incredibly demoralising, and a sure sign you should plan an exit when your boss tells you that he doesn't trust your code, especially when they write poorly thought out, untested, spaghetti...

Authoritarianism is also a deal breaker, especially when it is applied simply to assert dominance. A new alpha male manager coming in and declaring a new company order without even trying to get to know the strengths and weaknesses of his team is fatal. I've seen teams fall apart because of this.

I would probably suck at both of these things. I probably shouldn't be a manager.
Oh, my. Why did you have to bring that up? And provide a link?
And the last time you replaced a capacitor was?
Those that are suited to it, yes. But I learned to program because I couldn't help it. It fit so well with my mind that every second was pleasure. And it got me a great job. But that's just good luck for me. That's the world happening to be aligned with my obsession and aptitude.

If the only demand right now was for people that could play a mean game of pick-up basketball, I'd be the one serving latte's.

Edit: You are right though. My little cousins that are coming up, even the ones that might not love programming, I am encouraging to learn what they can. Just be able to do the basics and it probably increases your worth as an employee by a large factor.
what's a materialis... oh, right, it's a REAL scientist

Max Planck:

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck

Pretty sure Planck was a real scientist.
Silicon is here to stay for the foreseeable future, and for a very simple reason. While we have many advanced possibilities with germanium or carbon nano-tubes or other such advanced processes, silicon is still the cheapest by such a magnitude that it wins out in performance per dollar.
With some images of each (which I can't judge for accuracy): http://semiaccurate.com/2011/08/18/intel-moves-transistors-f...
That was really easy.

"Computer scientist Alan Kay also plays Stan's father on South Park."
I was surprised by this one! But I looked into it and it seems legit. Do you know anything about the computer science program? I checked out the courses and they seemed interesting, although many of the neat ones were for graduate students only :(
Use the Google, Luke.

The first hit on searching for the quote explains its history: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/08/27/master/
Ask HN:  What do you use for a daily todo list?
I recently moved from Workflowy to Trello, both excellent products, just experimenting (I have no connection to either)

What, HN readers, do you use to keep up with day to day task lists?
> While it bothers me to take the site down, my webhosting expires in May and not only can I not afford the $120-ish dollars to renew for another year but if someone gave me the money, as has happened the previous three years, I would spend it on food, not hosting service.

How about if someone offered to take over the project(s) from you? In effect equivalent to the above, but non-fungible.
That sounds pretty awesome!
fair use I would say.
Singapore just surpassed Hong Kong as one of the most expensive places to live in Asia.

I think it'd be more rational to discuss more developing countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, South America, etc.
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Faking IMEI/IMSI/etc numbers is illegal in most places, though, and a number of the (I believe the Gevey in particular, at least one model of it) does that.
No one has mentioned Canada yet, so I'll attempt to cover that.

I attend Brock University in Southern Ontario. There's not much startup mentality here but it's increasing. A business incubator was recently founded [1]. From the tech side, I'm usually the one encouraging the startup mentality (with a few friends). For example, we organized the school's first hackathon last semester. Some of our graduates have created startups, but I'm not aware of any tech startups. Sometimes startups do recruiting here but not often.

Some of the schools I would recommend in Canada are University of Waterloo and University of Toronto. Both of those have a strong startup mentality. Incubators at both schools, lots of successful tech startups from both, and their locations are great for recruiting talent.

[1]: http://www.busu.net/blueprint
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Those all sound like great ideas. You should choose one and the share your results.
Simple maths: Subscription to new CS6 photoshop, $20/mo. Current cost of Photoshop CS5 standalone from amazon, $578.
How much time do I have to use the standalone version for before it becomes more effective than the cloud one?

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28 months
(original post said 28 weeks. apologies for my bad maths and thanks to all those who corrected me.)
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For these articles, it would be good to consider the other side:

Talk a lot, do not listen much - people need to know what's going on. A good boss has to keep everyone informed of the stuff that matters.

Be patronizing - you need to ensure all the right checklists are followed (security, stability, etc).

Be as cryptic as possible, never direct - don't micromanage.

Encourage bureaucracy, and demand visibility into everything - documentation and process is really important.

Show them who's boss - you have to make sure everyone is co-operating, and that silos are broken down.

These "problems" can be strengths, or necessary evils. It's more a question of when the behavior is a problem, rather than which behavior is always best.
Too many people confuse a college degree with functional skills. College is a good place to gain functional skills, but in the age of grade inflation, a degree does not imply you've gained any.
Worth pointing out that even if you personally did not become what the director expected of you, by leaving you likel brought the remaining team's average closer to the expectation.
Since all three of my current sites are deeply rooted in first hand personal experience, I do not see how that can be realistically accomplished. I either need a (financial) miracle within the next month which makes it worth my while to continue developing my sites or they need to die. I don't see any other reasonable alternative.

But thank you for asking.
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> Simple maths: Subscription to new CS6 photoshop, $20/mo. Current cost of Photoshop CS5 standalone from amazon, $578. How many weeks do I have to use the standalone version for before it becomes more effective than the cloud one? 28.

Months, not weeks. You'd have to use the standalone version for 2 years and 4 months before it became more cost effective. And that assumes that a new version doesn't come out in that time.
"We had just mapped an underwater plume with a one-of-a-kind underwater vehicle carrying a state-of-the-art mass spectrometer. It could be the greatest scientific contribution of my career. But the media wasn’t that interested. They were more concerned with whether the plume was toxic."

Ah, mad scientists. I love 'em. They're all, "I have a robot that maps underwater hydrocarbon plumes!" Everyone else is like, "Uh, is that stuff going to kill us?" and the mad scientist just goes, "You fools don't understand! I have a robot!"
For those of us who get everything from iTunes/Netflix/etc, this happened already.

Beyond the personal time cost of commercials, there is a larger societal cost to commercials which is nigh-impossible to quantify. Swift-boat commercials kept Bush in office a second term, and soda commercials influence children towards obesity. They put perceived truth up for the highest bidder, and while they work imperfectly, billions would not be spend on ad campaigns every year if they did not yield the intended result, externalities be damned.

I'm not naive enough to think corporate and political propaganda would disappear without television advertisements. But for better and for worse, they create a stronger gravitational distortion in public awareness than all the other forms of propaganda combined.
Err, you mixed up your units. It takes 28 months for the break-even point, not weeks. That's damn near two and a half years of use before it makes sense to buy it outright.
As I understand it, a font is a bit special, copyright wise. You only need to change it in very minor details to call it a completeley new font. See Arial vs. Helvetica.
I think you mixed up months and weeks. The period is actually 28.9 months, ie. almost two and a half years.

I think it's pretty attractive, especially considering updates will likely be automatically included in the subscription.
While programmers in general are in short supply, Rails people are extremely scarce. This is surprising considering the learning curve for this platform is basically a few weeks of intensive training, perhaps even less for those familiar with some other MVC development model.

Mobile applications are putting a tremendous strain on the labor pool by demanding not just native developers, but people who can build out back-end APIs to support these applications. Rails is great because it can get your product out the door and expose what kinds of difficulties you'll have scaling it by providing real-world data on how it's used. It's fast to ship and an essential first step.
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I've heard that sepia is all the rage in radiology reading rooms.....
That's 28 months - not weeks. So assuming you would normally upgrade every 2.5 years then it's about the same cost. If they release a new version each year then the subscription service would win easily.

More importantly, creative suite is now affordable for a huge range of people. Freelancers, students and small businesses can now afford a legal and full version.
I'm not sure why college students aren't told that a degree in anthropology/english/women's studies is not going to give you marketable skills, while a degree in nursing/engineering/computer science will. Perhaps incoming freshmen should be given better guidance?
... and who do you think funded those CS departments? It's all by grants, a lot of which is from the defense department, who has a lot of money to invest in high risk, high return, long-running projects with practical outcomes.

Saying 'some other network would have evolved' is a cop-out: clearly that would have happened, but it would have happened later and that could have cost us in terms of competitiveness. Same argument for GPS, except even more likely given the heavy investment in infrastructure needed to even get a basic implementation running.

Also the 80's are not the 60's, it's ridiculous to think that the networking technologies were not influenced heavily by the work funded by the military ... hell the only reason killer apps could be created was because the technology was so pervasive that it made sense to write them.

And GPS, self-driving cars, and ARPANET are only what I came up with offhand because I was too lazy to check. Add ENIAC and radar to that list, both of which were developed specifically for military purposes but (obviously) later had wide-ranging practical civilian applications.
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Yeah, and it's not like they would have be cancer researchers otherwise. Curing cancer is great, but I have no interest in doing it - my passion is in creating media and technology for people to enjoy. I think that's just as valuable to society than having me become a cog in the quest for space exploration or cancer research. We can't assume that the noblest goal should be everyone's passion or expertise.
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Interesting, what makes you go from tangible to digital > post monthly?
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They should. They'll also find it helpful to learn what a command line is and how to operate it. Oh, and HTML -- got to know HTML. And Javascript seems to be pretty popular these days... at least enough to operate jQuery. Then there's SQL, because even Rails developers will get their hands dirty at some point. Of course, we wouldn't want to start them with data programming because they've got imperative programming, object oriented programming, and MVC architecture to get on top of first. We'll start with simple syntax that as many as 1/4 of you will understand after a week of classes: "a = 10; b = 5; c = a + b; #What is the value of a now?"

After they get through that a quick course in Linux system administration with a refresher on the file system metaphor ("Its like Facebook... actually, no, it is wholly unique to your experience and every person you'll be working with has forgotten that twenty years ago it confused them, too, so expect not-so-good natured ribbing when you ask questions."), and how to use Google, StackOverflow, Github, and a version control system designed by a supergenius who doesn't care what your fingers think about getting bitten.

Sweet, that gets us to Hello World.

OK, now let's start doing useful work: meet your new friends, the letters A, P, I and the number "countless." Here's the Stripe API, go charge credit cards. Ugh, wait, you set the name value of the credit card text field in your HTML, which results in the credit card number getting written to production.log, thus causing us to fail PCI compliance. Don't you know anything?

Seriously: I think young college graduates would be very, very well served by skilling up on things that are commercially valuable rather than the blather that comprises a lot of what passes for education. That said, "just learn Ruby on Rails" perhaps does not appreciate how much of a gap there is between the bottom half of the US college-bound population and an engineer capable of commercially valuable work.
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The few times I've gone "off the reservation" to work on something important to the organization, but I know I would have been told to not work on it, I usually:
1. Don't tell the boss about it until is partially functional. They can't forbid you to work on something that they do not know exists.
2. Work 1-2 hours a day on it. When they ask you what you are working on today, you can honestly talk about the main stuff you are doing for 6-7 hours of the day, without mentioning the side project.
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Totally. In fact, colleges should publish outcome stats -- what percent graduating in degree X got a job in their field within 9 months? And at what median starting salary? Dismal numbers would cause many students to reconsider that Psych degree, or at least realize they are really undertaking a 4 year vacation.
>> You'd have to use the standalone version for 2 years and 4 months before it became more cost effective.

You'd have to use it continuously for that time. If you use Photoshop less frequently, ownership makes even less sense. For example, I use Photoshop maybe every few months. It would take me a lot of years of $30/mo to get to $578. And I'd be happier with Adobe when I got there, because I'd be on a current version of the software.

I hope they don't mess this up with crappy DRM, like in their standalone CS editions.
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Cool! Thanks.

Edit: looks like you missed COPYING; it's still GPLv2 (whereas LICENSE has BSD-looking text).
>You basically just restated the last paragraph of my comment as though it were something I haven't thought of.

Guilty as charged.

I tried to answer both you and the other guy in the same thread that advocated Erlang-over-C++ without making the considerations you made in your last paragraph, and I guess I should have added something to distinguish your two cases.
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> The hard part of this would be connecting some crowd-sourced mute intelligence to the actual mute button on the TV.

Buy a cheap USB HDTV tuner. Install MythTV. Start watching all 1 hours shows 20 minutes late. Then let MythTV skip commercials for you automatically.
"Unwilling to pay for (good) tools."

A manager where I once worked demanded that we continue to use (the unpaid for shareware version of) WinZip on one computer that was dedicated to sending data off to clients. After WinZip added the 1 second wait for every file ever processed, he implemented a 'wait and come back rule'.

The count reached over 3000 at one point!

I would just use 7-zip or zip it in Cygwin. But it became so that when I wasn't around clients would have to wait an extra hour to get their files. He sometimes would just sit there and wait for the count to complete. A single license was maybe $25 at the time?
His final solution (500 equidistant points per glyph) is very clever though visually, it results in putting unnecessary emphasis in areas of variability. For example, look at the bottom of uppercase 'Q' or the middle of lowercase 'f' - notice how it appears to be a thick knot instead of being the same width as the rest of the letter. This is most certainly because averaging the perimeter points ends up enlarging the enclosed area. The more darts you throw at a dartboard, the larger the area you will cover. While he mentions that he solved the issue of excess variability (lowercase 'g') by selecting a subset of similarly styled glyphs, I don't think he did anything to shrink the knots.

Off the top of my head, one thing that could help solve the knot problem is treat the serifs and sans-serifs as two different subsets and make two Average typefaces. Additionally, he could calculate 'average distance to X nearest points in reverse direction'. By that I mean, a point on a curve pointing down should look at all the points that point up (meaning they are on the other side of the filled polygon or hole), and find the 5-10 closest points and take the average. This could tell you how thick the line or hole is at that point. Then use this as the weight to come up with a weighted average of all the other parameters for each point.

All-in-all, this is a fantastic project and the weeks and months of independent research is time well spent. Hacking for fun is wonderful.
What makes you think that "all the best and brightest minds" in this world are capable and motivated to work on the most noble tasks? If they had the passion for it they'd be doing it. If they don't have the passion for it, they wouldn't be any good at it.

Frankly, I personally have no interest in learning how to cure cancer. I have no interest for biology or formalized scientific research. I do have a passion for creating technology for people to enjoy. Does that mean my values are wrong? Should all people be pursuing what society deems the "noblest goal"?
Almost all schools do publish these exact statistics broken down by major.
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