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I think passion is something you do regardless of financial rewards. How many pop artists succeeded with the sole intent of making money? Even those superficial rappers touting material gains probably enjoy the craft (at least the ones with staying power). I think the intersection of passion and success (defined materially) is when you consistently get better at your passion to the point where you can offer value above and beyond others who share your passion.

A case in point is exercise. I see lots of people in the gym who are committed and even fanatic about achieving their fitness goals. However, the lot of them wouldn't be able to cover living costs if they tried to do it as a job. Still, it doesn't stop them from coming to the gym and spending a significant part of their income on their passion.

Just because you don't make money directly from your passion doesn't mean much to me either because it can drive success in other parts of your life.

I also think people confuse passion with strong appreciation. For example, you can love rock music and claim to be passionate about it. However, you might not be passionate enough to push yourself to practice the craft of music only to listen and critique it.

The confusing thing about this article is that he does manage to transition his career into something vaguely related and not something completely different. Maybe it's the teaching aspect that's really important to him but it still seems like a reasonable career path in line with his core passion.
Don't know about the specifics in the article, but modern research is showing (has already shown, I think...) that the brain shows far more plasticity than they thought not long ago.
Things (not specificially intelligence) that were thought to be invariable turn out to not exist.... the brain can learn.
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As far as I know the FOU was in place way before 2005 when Apache started on Harmony. Oracle did a 180 on supporting Apache then stabbing them in the back.

When Sun owned Java, Oracle are documented as supporting Apache's requests to get the FOU restrictions lifted and helped Apache slow the development of Java at the JCP level. When Oracle bought out Sun, they immediately stopped supporting Apache for both FOU and rammed through Java 7 without really getting many of JCP on board. IBM basically folded (after spending so much effort on Harmony - I suspect that IBM are kicking themselves for not buying Sun when they had the chance, I and many other people involved in Java at the time thought it was certain IBM were going to buy Sun out) and most of the other JCP members abstained or quit. Even members who voted for Java 7 added comments to the effect that they were not happy.

This is all in the public record : https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_asf_resigns_fr...
I got a bachelors in Physics, and I am not qualified for very much. Does anyone know if I can go back to school to become an accountant without an undergrad degree in accounting? I would adore one of these lovely boring jobs.
We've found that it works quite well for us on Leanpub, and you're right that the learning curve doesn't seem to be too steep for new writers.

We need to be a bit better at this, but starting off with saying

"# Chapter" makes a new chapter

"## Section" starts a new section

this is italic and this is bold.

[this is a link](http://example.com)

gets you 90% of what you need to write a book, and the other 10% is not much harder.
Two ideas on your post regarding potential technical resolutions.

First, in a web environment, one is probably logging all API calls and their effects on the server side. With Windows, you couldn't do that as your users were hitting local code rather than an MS server. This makes deprecation of older APIs much easier, in part because you can see which of your functions a particular API user is calling and in which order. Done right, these backend metrics will make it easy to identify the most popular use cases as well as functions that aren't used much.

Additionally, there was an interesting HN post from a few days back on self-describing APIs[1]. If this catches on, it will also make it easier to deprecate old APIs, especially if the OPTIONS request returns JSON. With a little bit of reflection up front, client code can then determine the most up to date way to achieve the effect they are trying to get with this API call. This may slow down client code (requiring one or more redirects up front) but won't crash it. Apple's support of Rosetta for PPC shows that slow emulation is a good intermediate between outright breakage (a la Facebook) and infinite grandfathering (a la early MS).

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3841710
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In fairness I just installed grc on ubuntu and it is nothing like demonstrated on the blog because the homebrew version has extra stuff in it.

So "Start by assuming OSX" isn't THAT much of a smarmy reply.
He doesn't HAVE to have something in mind. He is merely telling us about a problem that he sees with the current situation.
Is there a packaged solution for abstracting your resources, ep.io style?
My account was restricted once and I ran through all the paperwork - faxing my id, my credit card statments (unbelievable) talking to a csr and it was still deemed I was somehow in the wrong. After all that I deleted my account and just created a new one - when the truth doesn't work lie.
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Dictatorship is a pretty stupid word to use. You can sell your stock in Google at any time.
You might be surprised

I really would be surprised. I'm pretty familiar with GAE's limits and pricing structure. Granted, 50k requests/sec is severe, but they would have to actually go out and write special billing code just to charge me more if I hit that rate. I don't see that happening.
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I don't mind you being that guy at all.

I consider myself to be an ok writer with a reasonable vocabulary.

I never knew it wasn't pouring.

Consider me educated. Thanks. :-)
Google sold non-voting stock. People bought non-voting stock. What the fuck is the problem?
In the short term I suppose you might not want to use markdown. But, in the log run markdown would be better then most wyswigs, and if you have a population of users who are sufficiently technical, or need to do something more intricate then a couple paragraphs markdown really is the way to go.
Go often takes a lot more moves (~300+) to finish than chess. 25min per player / 150 moves = 10 seconds a move per player.

Compared to ~40 in a chess game would be 2 min per side / 20 moves = 10 seconds a move. (http://www.chessgames.com/chessstats.html)
Yea, clicking outside the box also works but the suspicious part of me (triggered mainly by the original bait and switch of "Free stuff") wonders why they don't include the x on that popup screen
One of the few times I find myself in visual mode is when I'm indenting lines. v{motion}>> or <<. Super useful.
Is WINE stealing Windows?

If not, how is Google creating and distributing an implementation of some Java APIs (the question at stake in this trial) stealing Java?
Isn't RiakCS an online service, like S3 itself? That's what I understand from the basho page...
$0.10/tweet? That is insane!
While I may have sounded sarcastic, even dismissive. (If you read it in your head with the right tones.) I actually ask because I love hearing about what people think the future should be like. The hope is that if I ask enough people my own vision will change significantly.

So while I don't necessarily expect people to have something in mind, I always hope they do.
Thanks for your work on CUDA, it's really a great tool! My one hope is that Nvidia decides to make it a direct competitor to OpenCL by allowing it to target different platforms (though I recognize that it's not completely up to Nvidia and requires cooperation from others).
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The Oracle legal may be more competent than you think. They started the trial with all sorts of other claims (e.g. most notably lots of accusations of patent infringement). What we're looking at now are the claims that are left after all of the pretrial maneuvering (e.g. patents being re-examined, claims being narrowed, etc.).
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I just discovered "Nocs"[1] for the iPad/iPhone, very nice markdown editor with drop box support. It's free and seems to work better than some of the stuff I've paid for.

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It means don't trust fuddy-duddy newspaper editorial boards about tech firm valuations.
This was intended for people who already had an account and the title of this submission doesn't reflect that. I believe that makes the process of asking for a login even more acceptable.

Text from the email they sent out today:

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For small scoped loops, I usually just abbreviate to the first letter. I'm not sure how others feel about this, but I think it's perfectly legible:

for i in items:
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for r in rows:
for c in columns:
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Show HN: pinad.com.au - using structured data in general classifieds
Hello everybody,
I recently published https://pinad.com.au/ and I'm looking for feedback.

Below I explain my reasons for creating this tool:

There are a lot of websites in the general-classifieds market that don't allow users to describe the objects they want to advertise and this subsequently leads to very poor search capabilities. To search in an efficient manner for an object, the object has to be properly defined/described first, it's characteristics have to be made visible. If no data descriptors are available, the search is transformed in pure full-text search. When data descriptors are available, the search can provide proper filters.

Let's take an example by describing a car...

...in an unstructured manner (this leads to full text search): "I have a blue Ford for sale with a 2.2 liters engine..."

...in an structured manner (this leads to filtered search): Item is: For sale | Manufacturer: Ford | Color: Blue | Engine size: 2.2

In the above example the unstructured data has been transformed in 4 filters which are pretty much impossible to replicate in a full text search.

The website has about 82 categories that provide proper descriptors to enable structured posting and structured search.

If you want to post test classifieds, please mark them as unavailable after you are finished with them (or add a "Test" in description, I will remove them later...) so they will not be indexed by the search engine

The indexing job runs every 15 minutes, you will be able to see your entry in the search results after that interval has elapsed.

The postcodes are available for Australia only, you may use something like "4000" for playing with it.

Please let me know your thoughts on this, I would really appreciate it.

For private feedback, please use the e-mail address available on my profile or the contact form on the website.

Thank you. Adrian
Did you consider attempting to sell your business? What prevented you from doing that?
Why was this submitted and to what greater end? Who gives a shit about stripe's user section?
Some of Teller's bookmarks are very...interesting.

http://ia601207.us.archive.org/28/items/gov.uscourts.nvd.869...
"It worked okay in the 1930s; even today"

It's a mixed bag. Some economists claimed it helped others claim it lengthened and made the recession deeper.
For more information on the vote of Java 7: http://blog.joda.org/2011/06/java-se-7-passes-in-zombie-jcp_...

And an excellent summary of how the FOU came to be (with pictures): http://blog.joda.org/2009/03/sun-apache-ip-in-pictures_9067....
Blatantly copying somebody's magic trick from which they make a living from and then literally packaging and selling it as your own is downright dirty.
By the looks of the code I'd say they made it.
"He works for a computer company in California. He does something with the Internet". Now I want to know what company!
My guess would be no... Starbucks I imagine is probably not a company who would be interested in letting people see how they do HTML/CSS on their website.
A good question. What is the answer?
Somebody had to. I wonder how people think it's acceptable for the TSA to take naked scans of their children, yet if someone strips naked they close the children's eyes...
There are absolutely national markets for Defense launches.

Do you think the Air Force would launch recon satellites on a Chinese rocket? How about the X37B?

Granted, there is also a sizable international market for purely commercial launches.
Full quote:

"This is quite a shock. He hasn't been under any stress that I know of. He's never really under any stress. He works for a computer company in California. He does something with the Internet, which is just kind of mystical to me. This is quite a surprise"

It's no surprise to me that he "does something with the internet". Who else would protest TSA procedures by walking through naked?
I can only imagine this is specific to scenarios where you have to manipulate s3 objects directly and the fog::storage abstraction used for s3 isn't adequate (though I could not example such a scenario specifically)
Good point. I will put a MIT License file in there shortly.
I think you ask a great question. I'll bite. Here is what I have in mind that will change my world.

Small data. My data. A 1999 google like interface into an index of me: my email, my documents, images and video that I've collected. Nice to haves would be a copy of the various conversations I have had on third party social media sites.

This index should be set up in a way that I can easily include a copy of it in my Trust that will pass my assets to my daughter (note - I am increasingly thinking that the raw data, much of what either lives in the cloud or gets backed up to CrashPlan, is an asset that should be part of the an Estate that gets passed to the next generation). She should be able to add to it when she is a old enough and (if I am so lucky) my grandchildren's grandchildren should be able to search for vague terms in the stories that their great grandmother (my daughter) told them when they were young. They will get links to relevant emails or documents that help them explore the past. They will be able to see the connections between images takes a the same time or location in a way that lets them explore their history. As I understand this tool better I will be able to narrate a one way version of my story to those of future generations.

As I said above, a tool like this would solve my problem. Do you think it would be useful to a computer literate, smart but non hacker/programmer type? Any ideas on how you think one should approach this problem?
But then we couldn't charge you for training and consulting.
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What do you think software developers do for a living?
Also, who went back in time to administer an intelligence test to Mozart?

A very astute question. IQ scores are specific to a particular test taken at a particular time, even when comparing IQ scores according to today's standard score definition of IQ for test-takers taking several tests very close together in time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_giftedness#Identif...

(See the sortable table, with reference to the original publication, at this page anchor location on Wikipedia. The same table appears at the page anchor link below. ALL of the Wikipedia articles on human intelligence and IQ testing need a lot of updates, because they have been subject to frequent edit-warring, but that table is quite useful.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceiling_effect#Validity_of_inst...

Nobody has an IQ score from more than about a century ago. The current standard score definition of IQ, performance on a cognitive test with the population median set at 100 and performance two standard deviations above the median being called IQ 130, began with the Wechsler adult tests in the 1950s and spread to child testing by the 1970s, and is now pretty nearly universal. But even with that definitional issue kept straight, an individual person's IQ score can bounce up and down over time, and by any kind of testing theory we can never be completely sure of a person's "true" score, as any score on any occasion of testing is an estimate of the test-taker's behavior on other occasions or with other item content. Honest IQ test-givers report scores with an error band around the score, as has always been done, for example, by the psychologist who has tested my children for appropriate educational placement.

The very excellent book Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up by Joel N. Shurkin

http://www.amazon.com/Termans-Kids-Groundbreaking-Study-Gift...

gives the full back story to the silly estimates you see of historical figures who lived before the era of IQ testing, which were mostly made up by Terman's collaborator Catherine Cox. Her procedure was justifiably laughed at by Shurkin as he described it: she counted the lines in biographical reference works on different historical figures, and supposed that the people in history who got the most ink probably had the highest IQs. There were always plenty of anomalies in her results from the very beginning, and no one takes them seriously anymore.
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The practice of placing a large order and canceling milliseconds later to induce an exploitable price movement accomplishes this, sanctimonious protest to the contrary notwithstanding.
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I think what you're talking about is one of Tornado's demos - not sure how current it is though.

https://github.com/facebook/tornado/tree/master/demos/s3serv...
It takes less time to "learn" markdown than it does to read this blog post.
Adit has never seen Return of the Jedi. No credibility.
At least he has plausible deniability that it wasn't his screenshots or computer. Otherwise, somebody's gonna be a bit embarassed when they have to explain what "mantube" is.
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This makes me sad, if the guy figured it out on his own - I don't see what the problem is.
Software is a little different. It generally comes with a license specifying what can or can't be done with it.
What, mantube? I didn't even know that existed, I was surprised that it was there. I guess I never really concerned myself with Teller's sexuality, and why would I start now...
I have no idea about broad meetings, how many % do you need in meetings to make such a move?

I was under the assumption you only need over 50%, which he has already. Or is it different US?
The preface to the article says this guy is a reknown journalist.

But I fail to see any insights worth noting in his writing.

Is he imagining that if we charges users to access digital resources that we'll stop mining data?

And why does he care if companies exploiting "free" are losing money? Is he invested in them?

I'll bet if I sent this guy a demo to boot up that allowed him to connect to peers directly and bypass all the data mining, all the spam, and allow for all the convergence he could ever want, he'd balk because it didn't have "big buttons".

One things is for sure, the internet holds no promise for any improvement in journalism. It just keeps getting worse.
I think start ups pave the way for initiative products. Start ups don't have to deal with the public sector of large companies getting shareholder approval to move quickly on decisions. This really puts large companies at a disadvantage to start ups. BUT, the one key element that gives big companies the edge is an abundance of capital. Its a cat and mouse game.
education is not a tech issue, its a social issue. When school boards decide to push creationism over evolution, its not a technology issue. We provide students the tools and all the information but have no way to inspire them to learn in competition with the idiocy of what the pop culture tells kids should be cool.
It's probably more about the performance being identical than the trick being discovered.
Is the experience you're getting at the startup arming you with knowledge that you wouldn't get at bigco and that you can use when you start your own business?

If you're just a developer stuck in a corner without any real exposure to business decisions then, other than the stigma associated with it, why not work for bigco?
Open source APIs and libraries improve this situation to some degree.

At least you wouldn't be stuck debugging assembly code.
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We can compare apples to apples, though. Again, this isn't about defunding NASA, it's about maximizing return on expenditures. NASA doesn't have to stop doing science or exploration to take advantage of commercially developed launch vehicles. Indeed, by making such a switch it would free up money for NASA to spend even more on doing those things.

If NASA were spending $5 billion a year on developing its own automobiles when they could just buy cars from Toyota or Ford the decision would be a no brainer.
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I'm not sure that starting a company is your passion.

Perhaps your passion is to write a piece of software and charge money of the said software?
It's pretty strange to me that the very act of non-lascivious public nudity would be illegal. In more liberal parts of the world(and I would've guessed Portland), this sort of protest is considered protected speech.
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But you don't need a license to copy a software's design or concept.
I don't even know what ITAR is, so no.
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Please do some research on the background of the whole sordid affair - Google did not steal 'Java' - they took ASL licensed libraries and used them as an API and they built their own VM.

Guess who did the same thing? Sun and Oracle. Did Sun steal Java too? Look inside the current java source code and you'll find code originally written by open source developers under the ASL (xml libraries [crimson etc] spring to mind immediately, but I'm sure there is other stuff in there too))

As far as I know at no point did they claim that Android was Java (which is what the Microsoft case was about).
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