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"Of course, there’s nothing wrong with those things, and ephemeral delight might be good enough for some people, but I’m usually looking for something more out of my reading (in fact, I don’t read fiction at all any more)."

I find this comment slightly arrogant and condescending. By choosing not to read fiction the author deprives himself of experiencing not only "ephemeral delight", but also removes the possibility of deriving insight from many inspiring and thought-provoking works.

Not all raw 'brain food' needs come from non-fiction. This is one reason I like science-fiction - the better works combine fantasy with reality, and bridge the dream / conscious worlds in a way that very readily lends itself to new thoughts and ideas.

In addition, the mental escape provided by fiction can be soothing and healing to the pattern and structure-obsessed mind I - and likely number of HN people - have. Sci-fi and fantasy books are, for me, as alcohol or drugs are for others.
It's better cause it's a little bit faster. That's all.
Plenty of people want to program. More so now than ever before. Just because there is a market for $8/hour programming doesn't really mean anything. There is a market for $800/hour programming too, and everything in between.
> 4 CPU cores (Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.67GHz)

The cpu specs are disingenuous as well. A heroku dyno may run on an intel xeon cpu, but I would never say a dyno "has" a 4 core cpu.
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Startups are just businesses, most of them are uninspired and uninspiring as a concept, as a product, as a model, as a website, as an application, as a solution, even if they use words like startups.
I guess there's no way to prove that isn't deliberate, but that smells like the rather more common failure to implement crypto systems properly.
What's your guess for what the guys at IV are making?

If they are getting a percentage of settlement revenue instead of billing hourly I could see them making that much.
The list that the OP read:

- Checklist Manifesto
- Made to Stick
- Confessions of a Public Speaker
- Why Everyone Else Is a Hypocrite
- The Power of Habit

I think the fact that he's questioning the value of reading such books is fair (and I find it ironic that he's applying such rigor to try and extract value from such books), but these are hardly the books of great literature. Self-improvement and self-motivation books are, perhaps too often, profit-guided and banal.

You don't read, say, Steinbeck or Vonnegut, to 'remember what's in them.' (Furthermore, things like 'active recall' aren't going to help you out.) Authors you have made it to the upper echelons of literature are the ones who develop distinct voices and talents to attract and evoke you in ways lesser literature cannot (I can barely remember East of Eden , but I can point to the emotions it made me feel and the questions it raised about my life) -- these are the books worth reading, worth bruising yourself on.
So methylated spirits is presumably not a luxury good, I would assume ;-)
Even if they can't evolve, they have ridiculous amounts of cash. They could absorb a piece of whatever new wave comes along (assuming they missed that wave) and incorporate it.

This is hard for product and most services businesses, but in the commodities business it ought to be much more workable.
This doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. On one hand they say that it's an "older algorithm" which presumably implies that the vulnerability is a simple software implementation bug. On the other they point out that the provided certs had "the ability to sign code", which is a straight up authorization failure (and a staggeringly bad one given the regime). Which is it?
You mean patent lawyers who are employees of IV, or patent lawyers who represent IV? Actually, I dunno why I bothered to ask... I have no idea either way.
Am I reading it wrong or did someone spoof a request to the terminal server licensing service? Or was it because they were relying on old compromised SHA1 algorithms?
This is a horrible article. It makes no effort to seriously examine the issues. It is just a rant. If this is what passes for journalism then god help us all.
Yeah - I was pretty amused by that one.
"While antivirus companies might catch some, he says, only an international treaty that would ban militaries and spy agencies from making viruses will truly solve the problem. "

I really doubt that it would stop the problem. Viruses would still be made by the militaries/agencies.
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You know as well as I do that you can't. It is an absolutely absurd statement. This is just typical of a lot of the completely misinformed nonsense that passes for comment on patents.
What percentage of your customers is this? If it is 1% then you probably want to refund them and close the account. If it is 20% then your company is the problem. Or you are missing an opportunity to address a different need.
With fiction, sometimes the entire point can be escapism. A way of taking the mind elsewhere for a time that allows other things to occur because you are not thinking about your current issues.

Like taking a shower - which can be where my best thinking can be done!

This can be a really good way of solving tricky day-to-day issues, even if the process looks like time wasting for those that are overly ambitious.
Business, for one.
At least 4: https://www.google.com/search?q=afghanastan%20site%3Amilitar...
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Nice!

How does it compare with Socket.io? I use Socket.io for Review19 - http://review19.com - and am always looking to experiment with new frameworks.. :-)
Possible ideas that come to mind: a movie producer, a philanthropist, a technical writer, a mayor.
Yeah, but I thought I'd ask the question instead of just saying "You don't know what you're talking about."
Reading is fun. The books that we read start dialogues and introduce concepts that we won't remember until we think of them in association with something else. That the OP has to try and justify reading to himself in some sort of rigorous quantitative fashion is just sad.

And I remember plenty of what I read just fine. (Enough of it to satisfy my requirements to keep doing so.)
I agree with you. But after coming from a poor financial background, let me tell if had settled down for a 'stable life' working 9-5 I would be no where.

Opportunities in my life were as scanty as getting a bucket of ice cold water in the middle of Sahara desert. Sometimes things don't happen, you have to 'make them happen'.

9-5, stable life et al is sufficient to keep the status quo and maintain things as they are from one pay check to another. But they are not life altering.
Check out Dokuen[1]. If enough people are interested I might start taking it in that direction.

[1]: https://github.com/peterkeen/dokuen
1. You probably won't get a visa to do devbootcamp (Since its educational it would require an F visa (devbootcamp can't help you).
2. With a BSc and and MSc in CS devbootcamp is not going to be of any use for you, get a book and a mentor and learn Rails yourself.
3. Companies can petition for your H1 for a future date no worries as long as the cap has not been exhausted, it is a regular occurrence. The problem will most certainly be how companies can accurately judge your abilities remotely. (People have cheated often on technical video conference interviews before)
The Is He/She flirting with me App is just around the corner. I wonder what new privacy issues will crop up with this kind of technology.
I can't find a source. I may have remembered something incorrectly.
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Waking up early, having a set routine immediately on waking up (so you don't need to worry about making decisions while half-awake), etc. is one of the best hacks. Particularly if you have to manage other people or otherwise do non-maker work, it's quite likely you'll get more actual work done between waking up and 10am than for the rest of the day.

(5:46am is a particularly good time, especially to the sound of a pager)
So in question 5, the C Standard answer is rejected because the x86-specific answer is required. But then in question 7, the x86 (and all normal archs) answer is rejected and the C Standard answer is required.

Would it really kill you to decide on the questionnaire rules before writing the questions? :-)
I was thinking about the implications of using this technique to analyze e.g. political speeches and try to catch people lying on the act. Your application (winning on card games) seems very interesting too.
Depends on the tree and type of maintenance. Some monitoring and directional pruning goes a long way. In general the larger the tree the more maintenance and monitoring is required.
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It was pretty entertaining, but only until the audience applauded him at the end - that's when it turned sad.
It is, but this quiz is in the context of x86 and x86-64.

> Also assume that x86 or x86-64 is the target. In other words, please answer each question in the context of a C compiler whose implementation-defined characteristics include two's complement signed integers, 8-bit chars, 16-bit shorts, and 32-bit ints. The long type is 32 bits on x86, but 64 bits on x86-64 (this is LP64, for those who care about such things).
Before the globalization of the food supply, climate change was the cause of death for many of the great ancient and not-so-ancient civilizations.

Getting fresh food from any part of the world is (comparatively) trivial nowadays, but even 150 years ago, most food spoiled on the way to the local market a few miles down the road.
Google is only returning three for me right now. One of the profiles spells adult "aduld." But more importantly 3 out of how many profiles? Thanks for the empirical data showing that the mispelling is a poor choice for a base word list.
Yeah. I want one!

I am an app developer and am very excited over the likelihood of 2 GB RAM. We can begin to design apps with capabilities previously seen only in desktop or server apps.
ShiftIt is great because it's an open source version of many of the other app suggestions you list!

The public 1.5 versions on GitHub are missing one important feature: pushing the current window to a second monitor. This is available on the 1.6 branch. I couldn't get it to build with Xcode on OS X Lion, but the author has a very stable 1.6 binary available for download:

https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt/issues/72#issuecomment-3...
Previous nanonote owner here.

The keyboard is just WRONG. Hard to use for any shell activities at all due to the itsy bitsy tiny space button.

Don't plan to type anything on it - notetaking will be a pain. See for yourself :
http://en.blog.guylhem.net/post/5587220325/the-original-nano...

The keyboard layout was my main gripe, so I proposed a fix more than 2 years ago: http://en.blog.guylhem.net/post/5587284432/the-idea-nanonote... (I moved my blog from wordpress, hence the 2011 year tag)

On the mailing list where the keyboard issue were discussed, IIRC basically it was said the keyboard had not been optimized at all - just made to work, but that it would soon be remade etc. Still hasn't changed though.

I had a nanonote. Did some OSX stuff for it (including compiling a reflasher), some hardware hacking (including adding a bluetooth module because THERE IS NO WIRELESS OF ANY KIND ON IT) but the keyboard limitation were just too strong.

After waiting for ANY improvement such as making and selling new keyboard layouts, I ended up selling it. Or giving it away, just can't remember what I did with it, except feeling is was a missed opportunity :-(

My advice: don't get one. Looks cool, but you need to hack your own wireless in. Then the keyboard sucks, and you will understand it can't be put to any use. And you'll cry, because it had so much potential.

Meanwhile I got myself a N900 and it's far more interesting to tinker with. There's even a community project for making replacement cases made of aluminum and exposing a new USB port - now that's serious hacking :-)
>particularly receptive to the meme of fiction

Actually, our minds and memories are particularly receptive to narrative. Which can also result in problems, both the narrative fallacy ("Our need to fit a story or pattern to a series of connected or disconnected facts" which leads us to overvalue "facts" embedded in a story format) and undervaluing of statistical and other numerical data.
There's a difference between 'implementation-defined' and 'undefined'. Question 5 is implementation-defined behaviour, while question 7 is undefined behaviour.
Because books are not read for remembering facts, or very few times books should be read for remember a fact. Unless the fact is life altering, or so astoundingly beautiful that it just has to be in your brain.

Books are read for fun, to go through emotions, experiences and get a generic framework to do stuff in life. They must be read for the aha moments and 'You get the point' kind of moments.

Think of it like meeting an interesting person. Do you go about by remember each an every line you talked. You just enjoy the experience, go through emotions and take away what you can.

Reading text books is a little different. That is your art, you need practice and master. That may require you to 'remember' things.
yeah, don't be like Fermat.
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In college I lived in an old apartment building that had been updated to have 3-prong outlets. One day I was wiring up some audio equipment for a party. As I hooked my computer to a a receiver in another room the audio cable immediately started sparking and the rubber insulation melted off. I yanked it out of my computer. Luckily the only real damage done was the sound card for my computer and the destroyed cable.

Later I did some investigation. First I bought one of those standard outlet testers. It seemed to suggest that everything was fine with the outlet. Then I did some more investigation. I got a volt-meter and started measuring the voltage from the different prongs. Finally I measured the voltage compared to a copper pipe in the house.

Turns out that both the neutral and ground wires were actually hot (as measured against the grounded pipe), and the "hot" wire was the ground. The outlet in the other room had been wired correctly. The shielding on the cable was grounded so suddenly it sent 120 volts down the audio cable when I plugged it in—destroying it in seconds.

The electrician didn't believe me when he came in to fix it, but was finally convinced when he checked against a pipe.

Just goes to prove that you can't make any system fully fool-proof.
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There are some fairly clear indicators from Adobe itself about the future of dreamweaver.

Note what they say in the 'Code' section here: http://html.adobe.com/toolsandservices/
"We think there’s a need for a different type of code editor – we’re working on something and will have more to share soon."

... which is plainly referring to this project: https://github.com/adobe/brackets
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Looks like a perfectly relevant link to me.
Maybe it's you, guy. I remember what's in books just fine, though sometimes I reread them for the pleasure of enjoying the author's 'performance' - much as I like to re-listen to music I already know quite well.
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https://openshift.redhat.com/app/

OpenShift is Redhat's open sorce PaaS. Ruby, node, python, java, php, etc. They run a free service on top of AWS, and you can deploy it on top of AWS, rackspace, hp, or anywhere on top of fedora or RHEL 6.2.
Yeah but it would have to be a targeted attack. In any case everyone should be using something like 1Password anyway.
I'm obsessed with programming languages and code beauty. I enjoy the pseudo-mathematical confidence Haskell gives me. There are several languages on my list, but I'm more productive and currently more satisfied with the results with Haskell than any of the others. I recommend giving it a look if you want to see something different.
nginx has a module that can provide some simple operations via REST api :)

edit to add link: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpImageFilterModule
Who else thinks that the world needs an international arms control treaty to forbid cyber weapons?

Especially Americans need to get behind this. Right now Americans have a perceived advantage in cyber weapon technology and are thus opposed to cyber arms control.
SwaggSec, lulzsec, ... at least they are creative for choosing a team name.
There is a quote, I'm not sure the answer but in a nutshell is says that amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong. I think that is very true in all disciplines.
Nine times out of ten, when I'm done using Parsec I find myself wishing I were using Happy and Alex instead. Parsec seems to be powerful and liberating to a lot of people but I guess I had lex and yacc drilled into me hard enough that I haven't managed to let go yet.
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Repeating his procedure using a word list consisting of just the word "password" (according to him the --rules option trys a bunch of variations) yields 18 passwords.
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The amount of sugar has always been on the nutrition label. I'm not sure there is anything to be done if people don't bother to read it. Everything should be enjoyed in moderation— too much of anything is bad, even water.
What is the defacto IDE/editor for Haskell? I've messed around with Leksah, which looks like it's pretty nice, but I have absolutely no idea how it works.
Can anyone remember every detail of their life over say a month long period from 3 years ago? Not likely. Does that make life not worth living?
If anyone's interested in this they might also want to look at the ZipIt Z2: http://linux.zipitwireless.com/

(More at http://chainxor.org/openwrt-zipit/ http://mozzwald.com/ http://anarsoul.blogspot.com )

Positives:

- Has Wifi

- Currently clearing last of their stock. $20 for one, less in bulk.

Negatives:

- No open source hardware/chipset. :(.

- No proper USB port (USB host/client on dock connector.)

Roughly Equivalent:

- Has hacking community (#zipit on irc.freenode.net)

- Fiddly keyboard (haven't used a Nanonote but wouldn't recommend notetaking on a ZipIt.)

We group bought 21 Zipits recently at my local Hackerspace[1]. I just designed a breakout board for the rear connector (GPIOs, SPI, 1 ADC channel & the USB 1.1 client/host port) which will should be available at some point soon I hope.

I'm also one of the maintainers for the OpenWRT for ZipIt port, people have ported all kinds of bits and pieces. Some folks also run Debian and I think there are some bitbake-based distributions as well.

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[1] Although so far nearly all of those are sitting on shelves largely unused. Geek impulse buying strikes again! :(
I have a feeling this will turn a lot more innovators into patent lawyers. This is probably the first time in my career that I want to start writing (as in more than once) my congressman. Not to mention that if Apple, Google, and Amazon are acting out of fear what hope does the little guy have?
I think GP comment is worth of discussion if you mentally replace "S&P" with "Fortune". No reason to downvote it.
There really isn't a de-facto IDE/editor. The Emacs support continues to improve; Vim support is quite strong. There's EclipseFP for Eclipse. I have used Leksah and like it, but usually use TextMate.
This is very true.

The best way somebody can teach you something is by narrating a story. I find self help book harping oft-beaten facts all over the book.

Such books put me to sleep.

On the other hand, tell a story and teach you what you want through that story. That will drive the point home.
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You might be interested in CloudFoundry and Openshift which are both trying to do this.
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Same here, my family was quite poor growing up although my parents were really motivated. They managed to improve our living situation and give me opportunities in school. Whatever drive I have is largely due to my parents.

But, I'd say the majority of everyone I ever knew in high school are just doing the 9-5 thing raising their family and I think they wouldn't have it any other way.
For anyone using Debian or a derivative and who wants to build from source and/or install without using the package manager, here's one way using Debian update-alternatives tool:

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TLDR: Install GHC (binary) to a custom location like /opt/haskell/ghc, then add it to the system with the Debian update-alternatives tool, repeat with Haskell Platform. Only difference is you build Platform from source. update-alternatives scripts included for both.
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I was really surprised how many errors there were in the quiz.

Errors in the quiz:

3. (unsigned short)1 > -1: This will evaluate to 0 on systems where sizeof(short)<sizeof(int), and 1 on systems where sizeof(short)==sizeof(int). Yes, such systems exist. Old Cray supercomputers and various DSP processors don't have byte-addressable memory, only word-addressable, so they make all primitive types a word long.

5. SCHAR_MAX == CHAR_MAX: The person who wrote the quiz even ACKNOWLEDGES that the quiz is incorrect here and apologizes. This is implementation-dependent, it is 1 when char is signed and 0 when char is unsigned. Both types of systems exist. You can use -funsigned-char on GCC, for example.

11: int x; x << 31: This is only defined for some values on platforms where int has at least 32 bits. There exist systems where int has 16 bits, in which case this is undefined for all values. Old DOS PCs often used 16-bit ints, and I believe that ints were 16 bits when C was invented.

12: int x; x << 32: This is only undefined on systems where int has no more than 32 bits. There exist systems where int has more bits. Do a search for ILP64 if you wish to hear about such systems.

14: unsigned x; x << 31: Again, this is only defined on systems where int has at least 32 bits. See #11.

15: unsigned short; x << 31: This one is tricky. There are four different cases, depending on the size of int and whether sizeof(short)==sizeof(int).

15a: sizeof(short) == sizeof(int): defined for all x, since x gets promoted to unsigned.

15b: sizeof(short) < sizeof(int), int has less than 32 bits: defined for no x. I don't think any such systems exist.

15c: sizeof(short) < sizeof(int), int has at least 32 bits but less than 32 more than a short: defined for some x. This is the most common, with 16-bit short and 32-bit int.

15d: sizeof(short) < sizeof(int), int has at least 32 more bits than a short: defined for all x. This is the uncommon ILP64 system.

18: int x; (short)x + 1: This is outright incorrect. Casting int to short results in undefined behavior if the value cannot be represented as a short. Truncation is only guaranteed to occur for unsigned types.
AKA: Samsung finally decides to do a true worldwide rollout.

The pace of the Galaxy S III launches (compared to the Galaxy S and the Galaxy S II [which spawned at least one blog dedicated just to tracking release dates and release-date rumors]) is impressive.