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Heads up. I just deleted all the bookmarks from one of my PC's. When I saw the error caused by this downtime, and not knowing the service was actually down, I clicked the download link.

Downloading the current snapshot from the server usually
fixes this, but will cause you to lose any local changes
that have not been synchronized. Would you like to perform
a download?

I then proceeded to watch as my bookmark bar began to slowly de-populate. I was in the process of starting a video for my daughter to watch, and was talking with her, and not paying close attention.

I ended up creating some bookmark backup / restore scripts, ala http://www.digitalwindfire.com/posts/backup-and-restore-goog... to/from my dropbox, and used that to restore the bookmarks to the victim PC, from a PC that still had them.
Well, "yet beautiful and usable" is a matter of opinion.

I find the 5 year old iOS UI boring and much less usable than the AOSP Android UI.

And this could be related to the fact that the Android team is refining the UI with every iteration.
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"A ton of people I met from around the World thought Americans were overweight, materialistic and unintelligent. This was, of course, an unfair generalization."

Less than 30% of American adults are at a healthy bodyweight, so it's really not an unfair generalization.
>> 2. The university endowment system combined with some of the greatest research institutions on the planet created the tech VC system that fuelled the growth of Silicon Valley.

> 2. True but a bit irrelevant.

> [...] US is the capital of the tech world is 110% due to the success of the VC industry.

Are you disagreeing just to disagree? How is the thing you're giving "110%" of the credit irrelevant?

Access to money doesn't create success and without success that money would just go somewhere else. You can't seriously give it "110%" of the credit without looking at the reasons for the VC system and the underlying factors of the success.
Most of the content is being pulled in from jobvite via an iframe, but the iframe doesn't have sufficient vertical space and is getting cut off (just above the "engineering" jobs, which is particularly awkward here).

Here's the unadorned list (though I'm not sure the "Apply" buttons will work): http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qG29Vfww&...
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Nice find! Thanks chbrown.
So. We can post any old vacuous filler articles on HN today, can we?
And we (Hipmunk) support the first 4 of those too. Just type two colons after your city code. :)
What sucks about it? Interested to hear...
You know how sometimes you buy a second hand book and some jerk who owned it previously went through and underlined every second sentence, presumably for an assignment or some such?

The default behaviour on the kindle seems to be to show me underlined phrases from everybody on every book. I love the device, but was supremely happy to learn how to switch that junk off.
I use CTR+tab to switch between windows, anything that would work for me?
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Hi guys,

I am a coffee fanatic who can't handle the caffeine any more because it takes too long for the caffeine to be flushed out of my system. If I take a cappuccino in the morning, I sometimes can't fall asleep at midnight. Or I fall asleep and wake up in the night.

I distinctly remember drinking up to three cups of coffee in bed and falling asleep shortly after.
I think I started being hypersensitive to caffeine 3 years ago when I went crazy on coffee, taking multiple highly concentrated cups daily.

I'm starting to look into how I can metabolise the caffeine faster because coffee offers huge advantages to me. Makes me sharper mentally, and I'm able to focus more. I've read about sulforaphane (derived from broccoli, abundant in broccoli sprouts) and I'm currently experimenting with that.

Any ideas on how I could flush caffeine out of my system faster?
I do it too. Not so much because I want google to parse the question and answer it, but often because I want to find forums/etc where someone has already asked the same question and hopefully got an answer
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I'm not familiar with single application mode for Windows. Sorry, grim :(
My inkling is that your Hide Others and the basic Hide are seriously underused by OS X users.

Minimizing a window in to the Dock is only worth it if the app has another window(s) that you want to remain visible. If instead you Hide the app, it doesn't take any clicks to get it back, you just Cmd-Tab.
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> if it was possible to determine ex ante what benefits society the most, it wouldn't even be a contest, of course we could all agree to do that, it's almost tautological.

The prisoner's dilemma is a simple example of a situation in which cooperation would be the ideal solution for everyone, nonetheless players tend to behave selfishly.
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Indeed, he's playing Starcraft. I don't think he's trying very hard to use dat proxy.
Living and traveling outside the US (Europe, Middle East, Asia) for ~15 years convinced me of the inherent superiority of the US (culturally, economically, etc.). Our government is broken, but generally the US lets problems get really inefficiently bad, then overcorrects, so I hope that will happen in the next 20 years.

The threats to the US are not other countries getting better than us, but the decline of the nation-state in general, or some global catastrophe which would harm everyone.

(There are plenty of specific areas where other countries are better than the US, but no single country which is enough better on enough things to be a serious competitor.)

I was much more down on the US before leaving the country. Independent of that, I would strongly suggest spending a few years living and working overseas, not just traveling for a few weeks as a tourist.

(The UK/Canada don't really count if you're from the US, either, IMO.)
In Melbourne, Australia the wait is over 2 hours and they don't have toilets in the building. Once you pass the many security checkpoints you can't leave until you get your visa. Pretty funny watching everybody run out after they get their visa sorted out.
So, tourism decreases as a consequence of our making it significantly harder to enter and much less pleasant and welcoming once you do, and our solution is a marketing campaign to convince people that's not really how it is. This seems so fundamentally flawed I don't even know where to start.
It is most certainly the case that living away from one's source culture has a profound effect on your perception of the world. It's important to note, however, that none of what Mr Carson describes was caused by Britain and the British specifically.

I can say that because I'm from there and I am one. And yet I can report much the same: I moved overseas to unfamiliar shores, and the result has been an enlightenment, a much clearer perspective on the parochial vs the universal. To look back at one's origin with fresh eyes. It's refreshing and challenging and will change anyone with a shred of self-analytical capability.

This became clearest to me when living in the Netherlands. There were two identifiable Dutch social modes: either cliquish & insular, or open & welcoming. The latter was strongly correlated to those Dutch who had travelled. I'm not saying the former were unfriendly, it was a matter of acceptance: I was simply always a guest.

I have observed this trait in many since, and in myself.

Note that I do not believe an overseas holiday is sufficient to achieve this. You'll have to stay somewhere, become at least a little bit of a local. My experience has been that six months is sufficient, two years is optimal.
This article looks like an edited down version of this http://tidbits.com/article/10624

With no mention or link to the original work.
Alternatively, hold Command+Option when switching apps to toggle "single app" mode. I.e., you switch apps and hide all others in a single step. I use it all the time.
I really think seeing you're own culture from outside your own bubble provides a massive wide angle lens that provides perspective and periphery that you didn't previously have and if you have the opportunity to gain this insight then you should try your best to gain it.
Thanks! I didn't know about this. Personally, I like Single Application Mode so that I don't have to think about it. I throw every computer I have into Single App Mode when I get it.
> My impression is that this use case is basically dead. The vast majority of Twitter usage seems to be as a communication tool by celebrities.

Your impression is wrong in this case. Let's take something topical:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/eurocup

Look at all those people talking about the eurocup!

Also:

> The problem with advertising on Twitter is the same as it is on Facebook: it's an unwelcome intrusion.

You mean, like television commercials? Which are the foundation of an I don't even know how many billion dollar industry. I'm not saying it's a slam dunk they'll get this right but there's a lot of evidence out their in the world that eyeballs can be turned into money just about anywhere. It seems a bit hasty to just dismiss all of that.

There's also plenty of buying intent to work with like this:

https://twitter.com/AllMadeUp21/status/219518855091978240

That's just an example that took me 10 seconds to find. Get enough people talking and some of them are going to talk about things they want to buy.
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That was my mistake. I must have closed the tab by accident. Updating now. Thanks for catching this, cadooo.
SEO is dead.
Mobile IS THE FUTURE.

I used to create simple websites, do some SEO and get thousands of visit daily and now its impossible. Regular link building its dead nowadays.

So, building freemium apps IS the future.
This is about as clear a visualization as you can get to show that the mere existence of Chrome has rewritten what "evolution" means for the web.
I think dropping the quotes is a bad idea. This isn't javascript. However, I do agree about the => symbol. I would have preferred if in 5.4 they added support for ':' so, ['a':$b]. At which point, I'm sure someone will say that looks so similar to js syntax, why not drop the quotes? To which I say -personally- I just think it leads to more confusion. (Although for some reason I don't mind that in js - I know.. weird preferences.)
The difference is that in the world of GNU/Linux, a different desktop
environment or window manager is usually just a single package manager
command away. You're being free to choose. Microsoft will force their UIs on
you, and there's nothing you can do about it (except not updating, which is a
workaround, not a solution).
I like to think of Telehash as the answer for p2p routing. It's powerful and there's working implementations.

The other piece of the puzzle is REST in the UDP context, for that, CoAP looks really well put together: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-core-coap-10

I have a weekend project going to blend the two and make magic, but I haven't put enough time into it yet.
I've been playing acoustic guitar for 10 years, electric guitar I have been picking up in the last 6 months. Playing music is definitely one of my true passions along with programming. They both are provide very interesting avenues for creativity.
I've never really understood the notion that any one country is better than another one. It just seems way too subjective and people seem to generally favour the country they were born or brought up in.

I think it's much like picking a car. You can argue the pros/cons all day and night but it just boils down to what you personally prefer and what evidence you feel justifies your decision. Declaring a country is better than any other because it has more money, weapons, CCTV cameras, mountains, lakes just seems silly, no?

(I'm discounting countries savaged by war, famine etc because I'd say by most accounts but not necessarily all, they wouldn't be better)
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To make money, you either need to help others make money, or help people get laid.

Advertising is a possibility but it would ultimately be a failure given the investment that has gone towards Twitter.

Paying for a premium Twitter account isn't going help either. For most people, Twitter doesn't help them make money or isn't a status symbol.

So perhaps the business model needs to be to help people get laid somehow. Listen, people want to either get rich or get laid - do 1 or the other and you'll make a lot of money.
The US is a large country so people like to hate on us. Same goes for China and Russia.
I've had a couple Asus laptops (not a Zenbook), and the multi-touch is pretty decent (well, once you dig into the settings and turn off pinch-zoom and all the fancy three-finger gestures). Still, Apple's multi-touch implementations are much better than "pretty decent". I would love a Windows equivalent to the Magic Trackpad; it doesn't even have to have all the gestures, two-finger scroll (both vertical and horizontal) and one, two, and three-finger tap-to-click (for left, middle, and right mouse buttons) on a big external trackpad would make me very happy (so long as it worked well).
Obviously you need a metric, but mine is "place to start a world-changing technology business."
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>Yes, you can take your car apart but the sum of the parts is worth much less than the whole car

The opposite, actually, is true. It's not very intuitive, but yeah; I've got a '96 Nissan maxima with unrepaired body damage and what sounds like a suspension problem that I've gotta get rid of. If I wanted to sell it fast? I think I'd have a hard time getting four hundred bucks for it. (I mean, if I drove it into a car buying business and wanted to walk away with cash) But, the salvage yard where it would end up? I bet they'd make that much back selling all the windows and tires... then what they'd get for the other parts would be gravy.

I think the key to understanding this is that selling a car all at once is way less effort than selling each part individually. Sales takes effort and we're only measuring value within the context of a sale.

(nothing to do with bitcoin; I just think that this is an interesting way to point out that the way we measure value ends up giving us some non-intuitive answers to how much a thing is worth.
It looks like just another github equivalent, and I spied a Mac dock so is it Mac specific too?

In any event what I have found missing is a goal oriented interface. To many of the guis and the git cli are all about tasks. If you know what tasks map to your goals then it works out ok, but if not (as is the case for perpetual intermediates) then it is a confusing maze of bizarre commands, useless messages and copy/paste from google search results hoping one of them will work. For context see this http://www.drdobbs.com/goal-directed-software-design/1844099...

Git also has all of its defaults setup for large groups. For example tags are not pushed unless you specify an additional flag. That is absolutely the right thing to do when there are lots of developers, but the "wrong" thing when there are only two.

Nirvana for me would be a gui tool (Linux and Mac) that interoperates with projects hosted at Github and has a goal oriented interface. It should be smart about things (eg tags not being pushed in a project of two people is worthy of attention), and it should enable a git workflow (eg topic branch, pull requests, reviews etc). I really don't care what the git commands are to do various things - there are often several needed in some particular order with various random flags. Just help me and other perpetual intermediates reach our goals and concentrate on our development efforts, not micromanaging a version control system.

Part of that also means having an attitude about the right way/best practise way of doing something. Rather than providing endless configurable ways (and dialog boxes) to do something, pick one right way even if not everyone would agree. An example would be to always push tags for projects with few developers.
Consider sandbox pages where I can do some quick editing to try it out before signing up. I don't care if the page does not last more than an hour. Please be clear on your pricing, I could not find a pricing page.
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Another alternative approach - fullscreen. Gives me more room on the 13" Macbook, and as the article says, you can just cmd-tab.

This works fine for browsers, terminals, but afaik the OSX builds of emacs don't ship with a fullscreen mode; so you just do M-x server-start, and in a fullscreened terminal run /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient -nw
This is a great article, and as a European I can relate to all of his points. Here are some comments from the other side of the pond; they're of course my personal opinion but I think they're somewhat representative of the European view.

I don’t view the USA as the center of the world - i see America as an overreaching empire that has had it's heyday. If you take a historical perspective this is how many empires fall. They overreach by trying to annex large parts of the world, spend all of their resources doing so and eventually implode. The British and Roman empire are good examples.

I stopped calling myself a Christian - the fact that many Americans are so religious is just utterly strange, and somewhat frightening. If the Danish prime minister started confessing her belief in a god she'd be laughed out of the room.

I occasionally felt embarrassed of America - I have a mixed relation with America. On the one hand it's a great country with amazing and open people that will gladly help a stranger, and has an amazing work ethic. On the other hand I have a problem with Americans not knowing or caring about how the rest of the world functions, how Americans define themselves in terms of their job, and their aggressiveness on the Geopolitical arena.

I believe America’s time as #1 super-power will come to an end within my lifetime - I think this is already happening.
Just lay off it for awhile, a month would be a good minimum time. Your body will forget what it feels like. Try ginseng, herbal tea's, milk(!), and a cup of chai tea (yes some caffeine but no-where near a cup of joe) in the meantime.
> I stopped calling myself a Christian

Specific to this point as someone that has lived in England forever I find it really strange how on the reddit atheism subreddit all the (American) posters act as if they're persecuted for their Atheism whereas in England religion is just something people do in private if they do it at all, it's hard for me to understand the way r/atheism posters perceive their persecution, but reading someone from America saying that how England is very different with religion makes it easier to understand.
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I'm not sure I'm willing to make this argument yet, but I think there is at least something to stand on to say, "Yeah, but they can be too efficient."

Perhaps, not in the case of this example. But think about GPS tracking. Before if you wanted to follow someone around you usually had to dedicate at least 4 people 24/7 to watching them. Now, just use GPS and your good to go.

It's not so much about watching the good guys, but in my view it's about not having to make the choice to allocate resources. Is this person really worth taking 8 guys (4 per 12 hour shift) off of another case/patrol, etc to watch one person. That probably prevented a lot of abuse. Now, you slap a tracker on their car and come back in two weeks and pick it up and all the data is there.
I agree. I've also spent a few a years living outside the US and while I had a great time it made me realize a lot about all the simple things about living in the US that we don't even realize we have and take for granted. The political stability, the infrastructure, the uniform culture that stretches coast to coast, and just the feeling of being surrounded by the immense wealth of it all. Just last week when I was at the grocery and walking down a gigantic freezer of just ice cream it really makes you think.
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The question wasn't about Windows. The single-app setting only works when you use the Dock to switch apps, not when you use Command+Tab. I would like to know if there's a way to affect the latter as well.
I feel like the majority of his "areas of impact" that living overseas has had on him could have just as easily happened if he had stayed in America, but moved to a city with some more diversity. It's more about growing up and making friends with people that think differently than you than just transplanting yourself.
True. I'm somewhat biased because when someone states their country is the best (I'm thinking of Americans here I'm afraid and I recognise it is a generalisation), it just annoys me. I don't think anyone can be absolutely sure of themselves when making a claim like that.

I think that statement is more a state of mind rather than based in fact, which it is often proclaimed to be. I'm sure plenty of Americans would fight me to death to try and prove it though.
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Once you buy an amount of bitcoins, you can trade those for other bitcoins of equal value from other individuals, or just swap the coins between temporary accounts you've created. Do this several times over the course of a few weeks or so and there's nothing to connect you back to the coins in your account.
> Our government is broken, but generally the US lets problems get really inefficiently bad, then overcorrects, so I hope that will happen in the next 20 years.

That's something as an outsider living here in since around last December I've noticed. Your government is quite broken. But it somehow still works. (Paradox, I know!) For instance, the healthcare bill that was recently passed largely solves the textbook problem of information asymmetry in the health insurance market. It almost didn't pass, but it did. Same seems about the immigration laws - although they are yet to be "fixed". It's a country where, ironically, a "professional news organization" like Fox News exists at the same time with with a "comedy" show like the Colbert Report.

> Unless something major changes, the American focus on consumption will eventually erode our influence around the globe.

That's a quote from the original article. I don't quite see how consumption is wrong. Especially, since from what I see, consumption here in the US is based on the idea of buying things that solve problems. That give people the incentive to invent tools to solve problems. Trust me there are a lot of countries where they don't like to spend money at all (consume). There are everyday problems there that aren't solved because tools invented for them will not be bought. Your quality of life is stagnant if "buy only bare minimum" is the model you want to follow.
I'm seeing the same on my hackintosh (Dell Mini 10v).