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This is entirely why I haven't been submitting my own content.

So, right, I sometimes discourse in HN comments on these sorts of topics. We're facing a crisis where authenticity is vanishing from the everyday life; and the traditional protector of authenticity -- religion -- is sapped away by technology, entertainment, and poor design choices. I may someday request to do a TED talk called "TED is the Problem" about this, but I can't as yet fit both an engaging discussion of the problem and what we can do about it into six minutes.

The point is, I'm 27, and I'm too young, and I'm not special. I'm working on it, practicing writing on how to be heartfelt and authentic in the world -- and the sort of crankiness at the Mistakes of Society which was once the domain of prophets and is now the domain of bloggers. But really I am only just learning to stand within it on my own. I don't even have any formal academic qualifications of any kind yet (though my Master's thesis in Physics will be presented next month). I don't have any successful projects on GitHub. I'm just little-old-me. So I refuse to submit because banality still fills my insights. The rush to be famous also, frankly, terrifies me. (Since I'm not special, I feel a great freedom to be Real.)

I guess I'm working my way around to a question which I want to ask the community. It looks something like this: "What do we do when simply talking about authentic living is an inauthentic form of life?" What do you do when the very act of saying, "here is how to Really Live" looks like a shameless attempt to gain a cult of followers because you're afraid that you're not Really Living?

Heck, I've reread this very comment a couple of times, and darned if it doesn't look like I'm committing the same error that I'm complaining about. But I really want to know. Does authenticity eat itself? Is there any room left for us to teach others to be authentic? Or is that a relic of the bygone age of gurus and rabbis, a victim of the Hollywoodification of Western culture?
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>The art world is where the bleeding edge of culture can be found. Most of the cultural trends that are commonplace today have origins in the art world.

Citation? I was there for (at least one corner of) the start of the current steampunk trend; to the best of my knowledge modern art() had nothing to do with it. Can you give me some examples of cultural trends and their modern-art precursors?

() In the sense that's being talked about here; a good number of those involved were people who painted or drew
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IOS Photo Library is *still* broken. Sorry Apple, Please Try Again
"After all, there's a huge genre of photography dedicated to the everyday and the banal, whose only real claim to anything is beauty in composition and light."

Yes, but I think the major difference between this and most modern artists that you'll find in galleries and museums is that photographers are far more likely to admit that their work is nothing but beauty in composition and light, without piling on claims of symbolic meaning or attributing some abstract concept.

I'm mostly indifferent to the work of most modern installation artists; it's the self-importance of it all that I bristle at.
You miss the point. If Microsoft want to make a lot of money in the mass market, then they will need to support the current generation of laptops, not the bleeding edge.

I'm not saying that splitting the screen from the laptop is not cool, as I'm no Luddite! I'm merely remarking on the fact that Windows 8 seems to have been designed for the next generation of hardware, but there is no guarantees that this sort of hardware will be adopted by a large proportion of the market any time soon.
SBT just fails to work correctly on a semi-regular basis. Quite a few scala people ended up resorting to maven instead, which says a lot.
Incidentally, I may be the only programmer around that doesn't like the Lenovo hardware. It never felt "right". The touchpad is more responsive but I'm not a fan of the "nib" and the physical buttons for the touch pad (Though I'm pretty sure you dont HAVE to use the physical buttons they're still obnoxious).

You're right though. If I were going to move away from my MBP I'd probably go with a Lenovo machine. Alternatively, I'd be interested in trying out the new Vizio laptop hardware and seeing how it feels. It could be crap, it could be awesome.

EDIT: As an aside, I do keep a windows machine around for gaming purposes and I still love windows 7... just not for dev-ing. Sadly, I only have time for a couple of games a year these days. Busy making stuff.
I think what you're describing here is more a problem with Gene Wolfe message boards than with Gene Wolfe's writing. They (or at least the ones I've run into) seem to delight in exploring the super-obscure details that show how clever they are, while ignoring the broad strokes which are the meat of the stories. Wolfe's books are these great symphonies working on multiple levels, and these boards focus on finding the Easter eggs.

I'm not going to tell you you're wrong not to like Wolfe. His is a very particular style, and I know people whose literary judgement is at least as good as mine who do not like it.

For my taste, though, taking an intriguing setting, telling a vivid story in it, and not spelling out all the answers is about as thought-provoking as literature comes. I won't pretend I can tell you exactly what happens at the end of the Wizard Knight or the Soldier series, but I can tell you that I've deeply enjoyed rereading them, and plan to continue doing so every few years for the rest of my life, and the mysteries make it more appealing to me, not less.
There's another advantage for Orrick: Suppose a growing company were to come to Orrick for help with an M&A event, a VC financing, etc. Now suppose the company's initial corporate paperwork were a stew prepared by non-lawyers (or non-expert lawyers). That would make Orrick's job more difficult. So it's to Orrick's advantage to have the initial corporate paperwork be competent: even though Orrick doesn't necessarily get to bill for doing that initial paperwork, its later work is made easier.

It can also be advantageous in negotiations for Orrick's documents to have become de facto standards.
Renaissance Figures in Modern Photos by Dorothee Golz
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He had me up until that and this: Thus, to make full use of VimOrganizer you will want to have an Emacs'
server running alongside.
From the sounds of it, they want to monetize their data.
so... we don't like Chrome? Bc it's not playable and I don't feel like opening FireFox.
Many of these apps and tools do not have unique creators - there are devs who churn out apps like crazy, multiple of apps per year. Also, many do not try to make a living off of this - go figure, how much can you possibly earn with a top-10% mobile app? How long will earnings last? Seems more like a lottery to me. The article's writer means SaaS products, and I doubt that your chances of financial success are nearly as high with mobile apps you put in stores.
Apple really didn't have any legacy support or enterprise clients to speak of. Apple also included a Classic Mac emulator in early versions of OSX to allow programs to keep running while developers created new ones, similar to the classic Desktop mode.
Contemporaries for sure, but probably not peers. The world that created that art is far removed from the world of the visitors. Art has its bubbles too.

Here's an example: http://forum.deviantart.com/devart/suggestions/1745568/

I'm sure 99% of HN knows about J/K navigation and appreciates when websites implement it. But it's unknown outside the world of software development.

There's a bubble at ConceptArt.org, CGSociety, and every other place where people gather to talk about something. Art bubbles and tech bubbles have a similar problem: convincing people in other bubbles that what you value has value. The art in the article makes more sense when you see it as the product of a bubble. You would need to peer inside the bubble with a guidebook to know what you're looking at.
He also draws parallels between skateboarding to open source hacking at about 12:45.
Those are official apps, though, right? They shouldn't be affected by this because they're probably covered by terms negotiated between the platform provider & Netflix?
I don't remember which exactly version I think 1.6_10 and 1.6_21 had some differences in way Hibernate communicates with JDBC, so basically app worked on my colleagues computer but not mine. It took quite some time to figure out this problem.
I read "shrooming"
That's not entirely true. org-mode is quite flexible and serves as a lot of things, and one of them is in fact as a TODO list [1]. This becomes particularly true when you use the TODO extensions.

I am constantly surprised at the capabilities of org-mode. Some sociologists that I'm aware of actually generate their LaTeX publications through org-mode [2].

[1] http://orgmode.org/manual/TODO-Items.html

[2] http://www.kieranhealy.org/files/misc/workflow-apps.pdf (generated through org-mode, source: https://github.com/kjhealy/workflow-paper)
It's hard for me to say much about how the UX feels without having used it. However, one thing sticks out to me as a concrete example of Microsoft's failings.

"Another annoyance with the Metro Start Screen is that all roads lead to it. Almost everything you do ends up throwing you into the Start Screen. I find it utterly crazy that I can go from clicking on a tile on the Start Screen and then be unceremoniously dumped into things like a Classic Control Panel applet or Windows Explorer. Then, to do the next thing, you’re back to the Start Screen again."

Microsoft effectively has unlimited resources (cash and people). There is no excuse for not updating all of the applications to match the new UI toolkit.

This sounds exactly like happened with Vista. They updated the OS, but not the 1st party applications. Windows 7 updated many of them (Paint, Movie Maker, etc), but even then not 100%. I guess the issue was that the 'Ribbon UI' was an Office team invention, not a Windows team invention, but as a user I don't really care about the office politics behind it.

Now they're adding a Metro layer and they made the same mistake? It makes the OS so inconsistent. They can't do much about it for 3rd party apps, but the 1st party apps should be consistent. The cost of rewriting the presentation layer across all of those utilities has to be a small amount compared to the overall budget.
To put the car analogy straigth I would compare changing the tires with replacing the power adapter. I'm not interested in adding a turbo in my outback like I'm not interested in adding more ram in my laptop.

Happy MBA convert after 15 years of Linux/pc.
Question - how well does the query parser handle stale queries? SQL Server for the longest time had issues with plan stability in that the plan became too stable. When the data distribution changed dramatically, the queries didn't age out of the cache and the queries would do such things as use the wrong index, or not work out the correct cardinality of a table and then use an index where really a full table scan would have been better... and so on.

How does the database handle this sort of thing?
Actually, it's the end of the high-resolution PC, since there's no point in adding more detail if your eyes are physically unable to detect the difference. Also, we're already able to buy 3D displays, so that's another 'old' technology too. Smart 3D TV's - old.

I imagine someone's going to be selling 3D contact lenses soon, so all surfaces will be 3D video devices. The next step is to make them intelligent...
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This is an awesome and exciting project!

The unique trouble I found by myself is that list comprehension are not fully supported.

[x for x in (1, 2, 3, 4) if (x % 2) == 0]

This won't work as expected. I opened an issue about this: https://github.com/chrivers/pyjaco/issues/69
You got it backwards. Wayra has everything to prove, while Index has an stellar track record. The question is what can Wayra bring to the table compared to Index?
In the interests of full disclosure: I haven't had the chance to try this out on the new iOS6 betas yet (I'm in crunch mode right now finishing up Remembary 2.0).

Also, the jab at the end against "Rich Corinthian Leather" was totally unfair, since one of Remembary's big selling points is the vintage-looking skeumorphic themes.
I use Harvest, http://www.getharvest.com/. I think it can do all of the things you want it to, except maybe import expenses via email. It also has a public API. We're very happy with it.
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Why you need your own company
For internet in many places it's them or them. Unless you are ok with very slow or very expensive.
The incentives are great on the first test. But, there is a lot of money to be made for tweaking the finial study from inconclusive to slightly positive.
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Which is really good, additional revenue streams are an excellent idea. Doing it like this? Less excellent. There's probably much better ways to monetize rather than upending the apple cart and having developers go 'huh, this isn't a great idea'.
All these examples of what is obviously not or very shitty art according to OP suggest for me that OP does not "not get art" but they cannot reconcile these examples of modern art with their own understanding of art.

The only question I would really, really like to get answered from OP out of personal interest: please tell us, show us or at least try to explain what IS art for you?
One of my music videos on YouTube is blocked in Germany with a note that it infringes copyright. I wrote the music and the lyrics myself. I shot the video myself. I'm the sole copyright owner. The appeal didn't lead anywhere. It was detected as such because it's likely registered on Content ID because it was published by Sony, the record label. But Sony does not have the copyright. Still. Nothing I can do. (Even calling up Sony to resolve this didn't lead anywhere.)
The biggest problem that I've seen is that on Windows apps sometimes steal this association. I used to tell users to do this to launch Java applications, but it was surprising how many times they would end up in WinZip or some other Zip handling application.

Java does try to get that to work by default, though.
Recovery on the system restart is going at the speed of hard disk.
I've just launched it a few times in my emacs days, it seemed pretty powerful as the documentation suggest : http://orgmode.org/guide/index.html .
I may be getting something wrong, but it do not look like just "edit todo.txt + cosmetics" to me.

For example, if I understand correctly C-c a a (http://orgmode.org/guide/Weekly_002fdaily-agenda.html#Weekly...) compiles an agenda. I'd rather have a small program to do that and launch vim on each todo like mutt for writing emails than having it bundled in my editor.

Edit If I were using emacs daily, I'd gladly use org-mode :)
Great to see that SmartOS developers are active on HN.

I'm interested in SmartOS but I've heard some things about it not being production ready. What's your view?

Also, being able to boot from an internal volume (not USB) is also crucial to me, as the alternative is simply not an option. (The "best" case, using a USB drive, is not an option as our server is in a shared rack and you run a risk of someone unplugging it).
That's one of my favorite features of Pentadactyl: letting you edit the content of textboxes from any webpage in your editor of choice (I use GVIm) by simply pressing CTRL+I.
I get that this sucks as one of the 3 remaining people using Netflix's API, but the writing has been on the wall for at least a year since they announced that Netflix itself accounted for more than 97% of all API usage. Most of the remaining services offer subpar experiences and it makes total sense that Netflix would make another step towards controlling their users' experience.

The shift away from third-party apps has been happening for a long time, and the fact that you only care / are angry about it when it is affecting you is telling. Clearly you're not interested in the consumer experience, just in how this affects your bottom line.

That's a legitimate concern that I can support, but let's call it like it is.
Ideally, you want at least 3+ generators any two of which can power the facility.
Congratulations, Eric!
Eh? I have been using org-mode for years for calendaring, smart todo-lists and what not -- with all the things like deadlines, schedules, repeated items, tags, priorities etc. etc.
I'm using FreeBSD and ZFS in production, for years now. Very happy with it and it's rock stable.
Where is the contradiction? He says they're difficult to use with a mouse and even more difficult to use on a touchscreen. Makes sense to me.
Thank you. I was writing a large diatribe of my own, but refreshed in another window and saw yours echoing what I wanted to say, plus a lot that I wouldn't have thought of.

The one other thing that strikes me is that, for the sake of argument, I will often convert more dependable facts into anecdotal form to ease understanding. I've found, through trial and error, that just stating the hard facts tends to lead into a circle of explanation, but stating that same information in more relatable terms is, simply put, more relatable.
It's entirely time and money. They only have so many devs, most of whom have day jobs, and pretty limited funding to support them, so the UI (and many other polish-and-details things) had to take a back seat to more important core functionality.
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A retina display's claim that individual pixels are small to see means you're not supposed to be able to distinguish individual pixels in an image - so curved lines appear smooth without pixelation.

It doesn't mean that a 1 pixel-wide line is invisible, or that you won't see a single white pixel on a dark background.
Interesting,

This method of fingerprinting bypasses "elite" anon proxies and gives away IP addresses and OS of the host. Google currently employs a number of tricks to get real IP addresses, you can run a connection via a proxy and 99% of websites you visit will only get the Proxy IP, Google has a way of getting IP from User_Agent (not sure how but I was building my own proxy last week and found this out).

Will check the tor bundle later (as they are better configured) but I believe they will be harden against this, I dont know how I could make firefox in a default configuration stop leaking this information without cripping my install, anyideas?
This is cool, but it's nothing new. Unroll came out months ago. In fact, the focus of the product is more as a newsletter aggregator, which is and of itself a cool concept. I've been using it, and it works to a certain extent. It's not perfect, but it's a nice idea.

Also, you might want to check out Safe Shepherd (née MelonCard), which is similar.

https://safeshepherd.com/
I'd still rather buy from Steam than Origin.
I've only read a little bit of Baker from his stuff on housing, and I tend to agree with him. He does a decent job of actually backing up his point without the slight-of-hand graphs Krugman uses. I am not fond of his headline writings to attract attention. His criticism of the regulators is detailed and backed up well.

I really, really wish we had gone another way on health care. Moving health care away from company to individual purchases, health savings accounts, government health disaster insurance (everything over a certain $ amount), massive changes to IHS. Phasing in items and protecting from day one our most vulnerable populations (fix the leaks instead of buying a new boat).
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Contrarian anecdotes can be very useful (and logically sound) when they are contrary to a generalization. If someone asserts "f(x) = 5 for all x in A", "f(a) = 3 and a in A" is a logical contradiction proving the assertion false.

And, frankly, if we're talking about public discussion of scientific papers, inappropriate generalization is as big a problem as contrarian anecdotes, if not bigger. Scientific papers often cover highly specific observations that are useful primarily to other researchers, and often even then not for many years. People then try to apply that specific knowledge to practical day to day situations.
Screw the hype : lean startup born in 1975
Is this a joke?

Data must fit in RAM, no joins over >2 tables, no transactions, no builtin support for clustering/sharding/horizontal scaling whatsoever.

What is the advantage over memory-tables, MySQL on a ramdisk or something purpose-built (redis)?
Huh? Why? Did I miss something? Have TRN astroturfnauts been spamming HN or something?
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Unrelated directly to the article's content, but I found your type extremely difficult to read and reworked it in browser so I could read it more easily. Here's how it looks and the modifications I made - hope this helps!

Screenshot: http://cl.ly/HTyu

p { font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7em; color: #555; }
.hentry header { magin-bottom: 1.5em; }
(Person you replied to here.) "The rotational UPSes are the cause of the majority of 365 Main's downtime, and in general, horrible and must be destroyed with prejudice."

No. Incorrect. There is a reason I 100% refused to move my hosting company there. I'm not going to say anything else publicly, but it wasn't the hardware that caused repeated outages there. (I moved my hosting company from San Francisco to San Jose, and lived in the Bay Area for 10 years. Everyone in the hosting industry in the Bay Area knew each other. I also hosted for years in AboveNet SJC3, which had the same flywheel setup.)

Note: I hope at this point they've fixed the issue. I've been out of the industry for a few years. I wish them the best.
Well, that link I posted sure is him being wrong.
My fiance's dad is a garage tinkerer (and pet lover). Here's his startup.
Ask HN: What is the point of 'likefarms'
I'm cleaning out a facebook dataset and noticed I've a lot of URLs which come from 'likefarms'. I just don't get it, why are they so common? What purpose do they serve either negative or positive. I'm at a loss!
I'm always surprised when I see internet reviews where people talk about no longer being able to see individual pixels. I can't see individual pixels even if I look closely at my screen... and everyone I've talked to in person has said the same thing.
Did you submit a bug to Apple?
For many things it's perfectly possible to create excellent online "showrooms", but there's also plenty of products where feeling and trying on is very helpful, or even crucial.

The only real alternative for those is buying multiple items and then returning the ones you don't want; I wonder what's the efficiency of one versus the other, in terms of time, money and energy.
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Very limited tests, one PECL extension for my projects was updated to support 5.4 only recently. The biggest win will most likely be for the POST payload (multipart) parsing because 5.4 is faster on array/strings. The good point is that with PHP farm, you can run both 5.3 and 5.4 in parallel to compare :)
It's an interesting and well studied area of statistics for medical tests.

eg. If you have a test that is 99% accurate and a treatment that harms 1% of the patients and you do this screening of a million people - how common does the disease have to be before you cure more people than you kill ?
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From this vantage point they look like the next Blackberry. A company with so much going for it you'll look back and wonder how they threw it all away.
"No." - Betteridge.