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This feeling, that you are meant for something important but you don't know what it is, is the clearest signal you will ever get that you have yet to find your passion.

It gets harder to investigate your passions as you get older because you have more responsibilities to others, but the best thing to do when you don't know where your passion lies is to try as many different things as you can. Generally you can volunteer for things to get access to activities for which you want to go in with an attitude of if this isn't it then I'm going to do something different. You can volunteer through the various sciences, animal shelters, data gathering, politics, medical help, public service, television and radio, community service, environmental concerns, fishing, arts, etc. The nice thing about volunteering is that you can do your best and its always good enough because hey, its free for them right?

And while you're on this journey of self discovery you have to be aware which is to say you have to ask yourself at the end of the day, "How do I feel about the work I did today? Was it good? Was it great? Was it meaningful?" Listen to the inner you, shut out the voices of the world telling you what you should be doing, and find your center.

When you find it, build your life around it, make it your own. There won't be any more 'mediocre jobs' there will only be "This lets me work on this amazingly cool and important thing."
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This is not generally how things are done here.

You've taken my argument (money!=quality), and decided to counter it with 'you can make more money developing a windows app than a linux app'. Perhaps you should go into politics... Or go back and re-read the thread... perhaps you'll see how badly and incoherently you come across.
By the way, I (as non-US) wonder why west coast and california had more nodes even back then?

I mean, west coast is less populated and if you look at night lights map it's practically invisible compared to east coast. Why tech tend to be there anyway?
To be entirely fair, jQuery Masonry and jsTree do a lot of the hard work for you. Supply them with some JSON and the defaults are pretty good.

I'm a very "copy/paste/modify" learner. So it was pretty easy to grab the jQuery Masonry examples and fiddle with them until I got the output that I wanted.

I also had done two previous greasemonkey scripts to alter the HN interface, which is where I learned a lot of jQuery fundamentals.
Queries on demand, with handy search tools:

$ scp census_data.csv admin@my_postgres_server:/tmp/census_data.csv
$ ssh admin@my_postgres_server
$ psql
# CREATE TABLE census_data ... ;
# COPY census_data FROM '/tmp/census_data.csv' (DELIMITER ',');
# CREATE INDEX idx_census_zipcode ON census_data(zipcode);

To do the actual search:

conn = psycopg2.connect("dbname=census_data user=postgres")
cur = conn.cursor()
cur.execute("SELECT count(id) FROM census_data WHERE zipcode='%s';", (zipcode, ))
return cur.fetchone()

What advantage does http/json have over this?

(Yes, I realize I'm missing GROUP BY's.)

[edit: I don't mean to be negative about government transparency AT ALL. I'm only criticizing the particular technical choice here - for small structured data sets, a bunch of csv's in a zip file is the clear winner. Pandas/excel/etc >> json over http for ad-hoc work, and postgres >> json over http for interactive queries (or ad-hoc work).]
You have definitely never worked in a heavily enterprisey environment :)

Many times there are compatibility reasons behind the decision not to update a piece of software. That was the reason why IE6 kept its throne as the most used browser for so long: sysadmins couldn't upgrade because upgrades broke poorly-written websites (mostly intranet pages.)

So yeah, if there was a policy not to update Firefox, I'd be rather pissed about it updating on its own to a radically different version. Other than that, most users should get the upgrade.
This is height of hypocrisy since Apple apparently uses Amazon S3 in their iMessage app, according to an earlier HN post that links here : http://imgur.com/fwXX5

"You can't mention Amazon, but we can use it."
Don't see any emails about the content block that she is referring to this post. I see emails about previous issues of her having links to Amazon in her ebooks. I am very curious about this, because I doubt just saying the word "Amazon" can really be an instant rejection -- and a quick search of the iBook store shows tons of books about Amazon itself, things like "How to Self Publish on the Amazon Kindle" et al.
So what is the point if Apple doesn't even verify your company?

As for the shortcut keys, I can never remember them.
I don't think that's a bad thing, look at it this way:
- Most sites will look and work better now.
- New browser with new functionality.
- It's 2012, it was time to get upgraded.
- I was warned: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3354678/moz...
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Not that this defends Apple, but strictly speaking, couldn't Amazon choose to do the reverse?
Back then it was likely easier to lay the groundwork than in more populated cities. In addition there were great institutes of higher learning focusing on technology.

Note this is just a small theory and in no way has any evidence to back it.
Most of the work on the ARPAnet was happening in California. Between defense contractors (one of the 'goal' clients), the number of universities (Stanford, USC, UCB, Etc.), primary contractors (SRI, BBN, Etc), and the relative low cost of slinging wires long distances through the central valley to try out protocols over long distances, it got more investment early on.
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Rather than saying "etc." which makes it look like there are additional databases you currently support but are not listed, why not change it to "and more on the way" which clearly communicates what you mean?
Wow, I saw 27C3's little experiment but I didn't realize 28C3 had a network connected to the public phone infrastructure.
NHS is our largest employer (5th in the world apparently, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17429786 - c.5.8% of the working population when coupled with data here http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/f...) and, despite it's failings, is an area the UK have led in (nationalised health care), and an important element of nearly everyone in the UKs life at one time or another.

Refuse collection is worthy and widespread but not really something the UK leads in I feel nor would it likely provide the visuals the designer was aiming for ...
My guess is it makes more sense to take products that can be monetized over as much as the user base as possible, and increase their efficacy than try to enter different verticals.
I agree with the sentiment of trying to help other people especially when you are small. I find these kinds of posts the most interesting, since they apply the most directly to my situations.

Reading about scaling to millions or closing a big deal is interesting, but reading about "boots on the ground" this is how I got my first 100 customers is actionable information.
I think the 1 million minimum doesn't include the value of your primary residence.
>Interesting that you think desktop computing is an anomaly. I must have imagined the whole PC revolution thing then...

I think he was referring to desktop computing being an anomaly in that the predominant OS is not nix based.
iPhone (with lowercase i at the beginning)
[Not a real submission]

It's just a proof of concept. The title is " iPhone...", with an space at the beginning so HN doesn't change it to IPhone.

Forced capitalization was discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306377 and I wanted to see if there's any way you can fool this system.
Change the title to " iBookStore..." (with an space at the beginning).

see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306480
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"I doubt just saying the word "Amazon" can really be an instant rejection"

Neither she nor anyone else is claiming that, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.
I imagine they fancy themselves a cross between an elder statesman and V.

Between the presenter's poor reading and the overly verbose prose I tuned out after a few minutes. Bit of a shame since this is an interesting subject.
That makes sense then - I wasn't aware of the fact that Gnome Shell and Unity were distinct. Thanks for the memo!
Thanks! Noted for future reference.
I was using chrome on iOS 5 (iPad)
"THERE were my RSS feeds! They weren’t deleted at all, just left in an unusable, unreadable format no app could use." - this is the most important part I think. Many software vendors - and Apple is definitely one of the most prominent in this regard - think that if they need to store user data, it's completely OK to store it in undocumented non-standard way without any possibility of export. Of course, that enhances vendor lock-in, so why not? But the users should be aware that inevitably will lead to stories like this - my software vendor screwed me over and I have no way to recover my data now! Fortunately, in this case there were third-party tool that were able to export the data - but in many cases the same vendor would fight tooth and nail with such tool vendors to shut them down for "copyright", "patent protection" and whatever else reasons.
Neat - I've been using http://pomodorocrate.com for this, but I'll give this one a try. I like the github sign in option.

Do you have any plans for a badge/widget thing that I can put on my blog ("X has done Y pomodoros this week"-type of thing)?
I thought Microsoft does the "signed applications" thing for years already. Most vendors don't bother to pay, though.

Not sure what to think about signed apps, I just reject the App Store model. Whether it will become the only way in future OS X versions only time will tell.
I think you underestimate the size of the gamer user base on Windows. It must be in the hundreds of millions.
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As the article indicates, the data wasn't destroyed, just obscured. Maybe equivalent for some users, but somewhat overstating things, especially here.
Of course control is important. If you didn't have a goal, you wouldn't have started a software project anyway. If wikipedia's goal is to get more good information to more people, then that's what they want to control and that's what they should measure.
sleep enough, eat healthy, drink in moderation, have real friends that you can trust and that trust you, listen more than you talk, do some good for others, follow your intuition, listen to your body, seize the day.
But then, why all those technology institutes happened to grow there? Back when there weren't many people, or infrastructure, or tech?
Also, as I recall Apple moved to Qualcomm chips from another chipset provider after they got sued by I think Motorola because neither they nor the chipset provider had come to any kind of licensing or contractual deal over the FRAND patents.
Meh, alarmist tripe. People aren't that stupid, and as with any new technology there will be a period of adjustment.

When smartphones first hit the mainstream, people had them out everywhere, and yeah, you had a lot of cases where people checked their email during dinner with friends and whatnot.

But now that the technology has matured some, and we've gotten used to it, we've developed etiquette around its use. We can no openly frown when someone whips a phone out at dinner, we even play phone stacking games to make fun of the phenomenon.

So sure, when something like Glass comes out we will go through a brief period where we're abusing the uses and social acceptability of this device to no end. But that too will pass and will settle into a steady state that is nowhere near as dystopian as these alarmist videos would have us believe.
The only immoral thing I see in this story is that they forced the update. In my country, it is illegal to modify data of one person's computer without its implicit or explicit agreement. Of course, "data" is a general term that include programs.
BTW, because of these legal restrictions, engineers cannot inject virus-killer virus on your computer, even if it's for your own good and would benefit everyone, etc. I therefore don't see how an application editor can possibly justify a forced update.
I actually don't think that would be unreasonable at all! Somebody might have important stuff in there, even if most people don't use it.

I didn't know that this feature was removed. I don't know where the release notes that you refer to are to be found, but this page http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html doesn't mention it and neither did the two articles I read before upgrading. I wasn't using it so it doesn't matter to me but the more general point that I should check whether features that I rely on still exist doesn't make much sense. Of course, features are removed from time to time as they should be, but I do think that if that means removing data that I have created, I should have a warning or a way to export my data.
The thing that makes me pull back from trying Go is the fact that it has no exceptions and no other feature for handling errors (correct me if I'm wrong).

Ugh! I can't imagine going back to the days when I had to call a function, check its return value to see whether there was an error or not, then, if no error, proceed to the next function call, check it for error, and so on.

I know exceptions were a source of "complexity", and you could say that Maybe monads or other programming attempts to solve the problem increase complexity too.

But to just punt and go back to doing it the ugly, unmaintainable brute force way? I just find that hard to swallow.
Honestly, I could see this coming a mile away. I've always distrusted Apple for a variety of reasons. Probably more than Microsoft.
For Kindle users that's true, which is the one and only reason I didn't buy.
okay, enough lurking. this is what narcissism looks like. you are not special. you can make something great, everybody can, but you will waste your life because it is easier to just dream about how awesome you are.

"I'll do whatever it takes not to move towards success, because then I will never have failed." - you, right now.

you disgust me.
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Looks like your explanation of RSS was not entirely successful, as RSS has very little in common with Usenet except for the fact that they both deliver information using pull model. RSS resources are individual data streams, Usenet groups are unstructured assemblies of multiple messages. RSS resources are delivered automatically by site aggregators, Usenet messages have to be posted. Usenet needs NNTP servers that store huge amounts of data, RSS doesn't need anything but reader. Usenet is centralized, RSS is distributed.

In short, calling RSS "reimplementation of Usenet" makes very little sense.
Interesting thing is, traditional book publishers could do the same. Maybe they have, and we wouldn't be aware of it. My impression is that they mostly haven't and mostly wouldn't. I think Apple, Amazon et al. are particularly extractive, and they come at anything firstly from the point of view of how they can control and channel the experience, the level of focus being unique to them.
Yup, if your biggest fear is about the people you're working with, you're in the wrong place. I'd hope that most people are better off worrying about whether all those stock options are going to be worth anything at all.
If you read the article, the data wasn't harmed, it was just moved. Therefore, the law wasn't violated.
how is "impressing people" related to "living up to one's potential"?
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Also you are here[2].

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> I spent 3 months on the backend making sure it receives email perfectly, and securely, and I could not find a mail server written in Ruby which I could modify and add features like Funnel to

The Sup mail client[1] went through a phase trying to handle IMAP directly, but the consensus was that it was simply too awful. It did yield some colorful code[2], but the fallout was that most people relied on offlineimap[3] to get their mail successfully.

[1] http://sup.rubyforge.org/

[2] http://sup.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/sup/imap.rb

[3] http://offlineimap.org/
RSS is passe? That's news for me. I've been using RSS almost exclusively to get my news/blog/entertainment feeds for years now, and I know many others do the same. So what's the cool thing now to use instead?
Yes, pgrep and pkill originally come from Solaris. If anyone cares about the history here, they were added by Mike Shapiro in Solaris 7 to speed boot time -- he discovered that there were a ton of RC scripts that were doing "ps -el | grep foo | grep -v grep", and he was able to shave significant boot time by distilling this into one command. (pgrep and pkill both originated with this work; in as much as they had direct inspiration elsewhere, it was from the "slay" command found in QNX.)

If my long-windedness can be excused, a pgrep anecdote that I feel must be told: when Mike was originally doing pgrep and pkill, he wanted one to be able to search on every field specified in proc(4), including the wchan (denoted by pr_wchan), an archaic field that was actually a stowaway from Multics (!). Even by Solaris 7, the wchan had no real significance in Unix, and the co-inventor of /proc, Roger Faulkner, flew into an indignant rage that Mike would include it -- and "pgrep -w" quickly disappeared from both Mike's workspace and his PSARC case. Now, Mike and I were also the gatekeepers on Solaris 7, and we both wore pagers (aside: I'm old) that would page us whenever anyone integrated anything into Solaris with the bug synopsis. Sometime after pgrep/pkill integrated into Solaris 7, I decided to screw with Mike a little: he was headed to watch a Boston Celtics playoff game, and I knew he would be away from a machine for a few hours, so I started paging him with fake integrations that I knew would enrage him. The first integration that I fooled him with was someone that he disliked rewriting a command that Mike himself had just taken from the same engineer and himself rewritten -- and I really tweaked him by making the synopsis be that the "error messages could be improved" (trust me that this was a sore point). Now, I wanted the fake integrations to get more and more absurd over the course of the playoff game, so I next paged him with an integration from Roger: "pgrep(1) needs to be able to search on wchan". I was just getting ready to send my next page (after all, I had a couple hours of mischief planned) when Mike suddenly appeared in my office, drenched with sweat, panting "please just tell me the first one was a joke too!" As it turns out, he had taken my first page a little too seriously, had immediately stopped watching the playoff game, got back in his car and was returning to work to "throw [disliked engineer]'s monitor out his office window." When he saw the wchan option to pgrep, he knew that I must be screwing with him, and fortunately stopped at my office before doing anyone (or anything) physical harm. And that's how "pgrep -w" saved a monitor -- if not a life.
I'm sorry, it looks "RapidSSL CA" is not supported on Chrome for iOS or Android

Thank you for reporting it though
I would also suggest you have instrumentation set up for your app so that you can see how users are using it. I've used mixpanel.com before, it's free to start with. That way you can capture key user interactions that you're interested in (eg, are people using the "foo" button?). You can also use it to catch exceptions, especially where you think there might be issues like with your ssl cert.

Good luck, I admire your initiative to "ship" your project and it looks like you are getting good feedback on HN thus far.
It would be interesting if Samsung C&T built Apple's new HQ building.
What kind of virtues you mean?
Personally, I wish you good luck. Your wanting is all that it's required. Work on that.
I agree, I'm also saying its unfair and unrealistic to criticize these consumers for being how they are.
funny to read that, i'm just about to launch my side project with basically the same idea. its not ready yet, but you can peek a sneak preview at http://www.themescroller.com

i think that the themeforest ui sucks for finding themes as well. additionally i think it would be cool to compare themes from different marketplaces...so thats what i'm working at right now
The SSL errors are not errors I can catch, well, not without piecing nginx apart, and my C is a little rusty :/

I've had great fun looking at AirTraffic from gaug.es, although thank you for the recommendation for Mixpanel, I'll look into it
No. I was asking for the reasoning behind it.
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Not to mention that with a phone number you have text message as a fall back. I have lots of iMessages sent as text messages when I have bad service.
Huh? The link title says: "iBookstore rejects Holly Lisle's writing course because she mentions Amazon"
I remember was taken aback when one of my coworkers showed me his newly-acquired iPhone toy and it turned out it does not have copy-paste function, so if you want to copy URL from some place or take a phrase and put it in the search you have to re-type it on that cute small on-screen keyboard where your finger covers three letters at once. I was repeatedly told since then nobody really needs copy-paste function - up to the day Apple finally implemented it and it turned out everybody need it. So when I hear Apple never misses an UI detail I say "yeah right! and moon is made of swiss cheese!"
You don't have to buy your kindle-books from amazon.
I think part of that is the way the city is laid out. I think Kansas City is more consistent than most cities in having major roads travelling about every five or six blocks. This probably helps when physically putting the fiber down.
This pretty much sums my life up in a nutshell. I feel this a lot because I tend not to be satisfied with a lot of my work. I always critique and find ways I can do it better. That's probably why I don't have a whole lot to my name.