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After reading the book "Inside Apple" I started to become interested in the idea of Narcissistic leadership. The only problem is that unless you're a real narcissist at heart, it's really kind of hard "to fake it". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_leadership
Even if I concede the point that Bitcoin is becoming a centralized bank - which I don't - how exactly is it "bad and unreliable"? At least this bank is run algorithmically by the crowd/cloud and can't rape pillage or otherwise screw you out of your money on the whim of a handful of rich white men... Perhaps I'm showing my politics too clearly here, but I do honestly believe that math is a better tool for deciding what happens to my money than the board of directors at Goldman-Sachs.
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This is just parroting. The author specifically says he uses a Macbook at home, and the iPad is now his choice for travel, not his only computer.

A raspberry pi is nowhere near the computing/graphics power, portability, battery life (haha) of an iPad. It doesn't even have a case for christ's sake, what a stupid comparison. Yeah, lugging around a bare motherboard attached to a monitor is just the same.

How's this for a "consumption only device"? http://madewithpaper.fiftythree.com/
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The ChemCam system is a more or less standard-ish laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) system. One of the key advantages of using LIBS on Curiosity is that it can analyze somewhat distant samples, which is fantastic for a rover that has a top speed of 0.09 kph. There are several example videos on youtube, here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtI3t1T5zk
One of the commenters on http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/18/documenting-the-death-of-o... claims to be an employee, and names Microsoft as the assignee:

> We start cutting corners and being a bit more conservative, and then finally Sony comes to our rescue. But when they look into how our business is being run, they see it's a mess, and pass. We're basically left screwed, but then Steve approaches Microsoft and begs them to take us. They see we're on the verge of bankruptcy and tell him they only want the top-earners and "brains" behind the operation (the 1%) and that they'll pass if he doesn't "trim the fat." So that's exactly what he does.
WTF. I don't get how people say Auckland is unsafe. I've lived here for pretty much my whole life and I have never run into any trouble. I'm often in town on a Friday/Saturday night usually till around 4am and I've never gotten into a fight or anything. I usually walk home by myself and have never had any trouble. People don't carry weapons here, and if you do ever get jumped or whatever, your not going to end up in hospital.

If I compare it Melbourne (where I lived last year) I had probably more trouble with flipped out P heads then I ever have had in my whole life. There was multiple occasion where I thought we were going to be jumped by Samoan/Tongan people (maybe it was a coincidence but it was every time) and I found that if you talked to them, most of them were from South Auckland so after I got talking to them they seemed to leave us alone. But once again, nothing like this has happened before in NZ.

You honestly never see gang people around, you never see people cracked out of their mind walking around Queen St/K Rd.

I've only been in to LA once but I imagine Auckland would be a lot safer due to the fact that it's a much smaller compact city and there's no guns here. Plus the number of cops around has literally quadrupled in the last few months from what I noticed. It's kind of annoying cause they literally pull over 50% of cars driving through K Rd but hey whatever least it's safe.
As the other guys here have mentioned, they basically need CDN-level latency virtually everywhere for OnLive to properly work and while Amazon does have a CDN (Cloud Front), their normal datacenters only have a few regions within the United States (which aren't close to any major metropolitan hubs (except maybe DC)).

The other big thing is that GPUs have very limited scheduling (i.e. no pre-emptive multitasking), so it's virtually impossible to virtualize into multiple VMs efficiently. So when you get a GPU machine you end up with isolated hardware which doesn't share the same economics as other Amazon solutions. As GPGPU become more popular, this should, however, improve.
I think I actually achieve this state playing Temple Run, which is an utterly mindless game that involves no thought at all, just doing.
It's pretty hard to get and I couldn't make any decent money to get the ball rolling. I've applied in Australia now though and I think once I've been a resident here for a while then I can go back :)
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The exact reason I use jQuery for projects that aren't jQuery projects myself. The years of work and testing that have gone into jQuery make it an invaluable asset when working with Javascript and if you were to do what jQuery and dozens of contributors have been doing the past 5 years that would be one hell of a project.

This couldn't have come at a better time. I've just been tasked with creating a landing page with full-screen background scaling video and this plugin will make my life easier.
It would depend on how often you are charging a customer. If you have several customers everyday, you might want to consider that since it might be a pain point for your customer. But since most "freelance" work takes a little time and you are limited by the number of personal hours in a day, I don't think it would matter too much if you only accepted checks.

On the other hand, Square is extremely convenient and free to use (other than a per transaction percentage charge).
Personally, I'm not a fan of the author's recurring posts on TC. I've read most of them as they come up in gReader the past 6 months and all of them had my eyes rolling for one reason or another. I don't even have to read who's written the post to know it's him.
"I'd always choose to work longer and I love it."

From my own experience I find that this possibly comes from the knowledge that you set your own hours and aren't trapped. I work all the time, but I've noticed a few times that when I am stuck working (say I have to stay until 9pm and know it rather than I choose to stay until 9pm) the experience becomes different for me at least. It's the feeling that I control all that work that seems to help in the "work all the time and love it" appeal for me.

Another example. I normally always drive to work. But just the thought that I don't have my car and therefore can't leave until the car is returned makes the experience different for me.

This applies to many things. We write on HN not because we are told do. But because we decide we want to. I don't know that I'd like someone telling me to sit up late at night with the laptop and write comments on HN.
Reddit also has /r/Design and /r/web_design as well, if you're interested. I think this is nice though, because the spillover from larger reddit hits those places relatively hard - I visit HN for the same reason, so this might be interesting.
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Nicely done! I think he's done other comics that have a similar message. There is also a somewhat relevant xkcd, of course: http://xkcd.com/882/
The really, really slow bit rate (75 or 300 baud) that was common for these types of computers back then didn't require much fidelity.

I remember some similar radio show in national Swedish radio a long time ago. It was broadcast very late in the evening in an effort to avoid mass confusion about the strange sounds.
This reminds me of that old quip that music critics were predicting the end of bands that played guitars right about the time that the Beatles arrived on the scene. I think the lesson here is that as soon as you think it's all been done something unexpected will arise.
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While I am not a fully-fledged designer I would experiment with changing the background colour to an off-white, something like: #EFEFEF - you'll notice if you do that then things are easier to read immediately because content is being separated into its respected sections.

The white you have around each submission is fine, changing the background colour seems to make it easier (at least for me) to read the site. There are probably other ways, but this is the first immediate thing I can recommend.
Some of these custom "textbooks" aren't really textbooks.

From what the blog author was describing it was just like something I had to buy once or twice--spiral bound copies of poems, essays, and excerpts.
I don't think "jerk" is exactly the way to put it. I think people who are more aggressive and have a "killer instinct" get ahead. I'm not an expert, but it just seems that jerks and people with said killer instinct often overlap, but that doesn't have to be the case. Gates and had a somewhat successful career in Microsoft and is running the largest charity of all time, but no one has calls him a "jerk." John Wodden, the most successful NCAA coach of all time once said that there's nothing in the world more powerful that "gentleness."
Loved your post! "I've never had an idea before. Today, I present to you the Ice Cream Glove." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc
Though major releases of software typically does have a lot more changes than editions of textbooks.
Since we're listing similar sites, here's another one: http://tubalr.com
I'm honestly surprised at all the people who apparently haven't figured out that the article is written facetiously.
Thank you very much.. this is definitely something I will tweak simply due to the amount of people requesting it.
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I mean, we're talking about a situation where clearly people hadn't been doing something they'd already been told to do, and somehow expected not to be fired over it.
I usually object to bullshit hype rants with no real content like this one, but in this case, I'll say one thing:

Asynchronous != Realtime
Since you already hava java applets, looks like developing it in Java Swing is a no brainer. Bundle JVM with your application. Yes, it will take ~50 megs in size, but:

1. It is cross-platform (yes, to the extent) but much better than anything else out there.

2. Pluggable LaF.

3. Utilize your java skills and knoweldge.

4. Potentially - easy start on Android.
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Options in the old company would have been worth even less given the preference overhang from existing investors! The new company is actually good news for employees as a clean cap table and a reasonable (lower) valuation gives employees a realistic chance that their options will ever be "in the money."

The old OnLive was poison.
This little note seems quite narrow minded.

Who says communication has to go over the web?

When I send a message or some other data to someone, like when I send something via FedEx, I'd like to know how long it's going to take to arrive. If it can be instantaneous, all the better. When the recipient chooses to read it is their business.

Real-time communications systems are quite valuable, in my opinion. Financial markets now rely on them.

But what I'd really like to see are more real-time operating systems for general use, by consumers. A real-time kernel makes computing very predictable. The time taken to complete a task can be accurately estimated before it is undertaken. Sometimes this is very useful. Sometimes the user might only want to do one or more single things at a time. Maybe there's a task I perform everyday and I want to be sure it will always take the same amount of time, each and every day.

In the real world, outside of computers, everyone knows "multitasking" is overrated. If you want results, it's better to be able to _focus_.

Maybe we might say the same for computers, in some situations.
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Re-ask this question after you have an MVP and post the URL. At the least it will be good implementation experience.
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Ahhh, Thunder Hill.

I've had many a great race there back in the day. Seeing the lap times they knocked down is quite impressive too.

Thunder Hill is probably one of the more technically challenging tracks around. There are several off-camber turns, a nasty rise where you basically have to pitch yourself over it without being able to see (pucker factor 9,000) and two straightaways with flat and very oddly-aligned turns.

The fact that this TT was able to go so quickly around it is quite awesome - this gives me hope that driverless cars won't be as boring as I fear they'll be.
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What?

How can a currency become a bank? You have a very strange definition of the word bank. I don't even know what you're trying to say.

Downvoting, really? That's like me saying "USD is becoming a bank! And that's awful!".
Sadly, this whole discussion missed the point of the post, which is probably a pretty good argument for writing it in a different way. Having said that, many people got the point and didn't get balled up in this detail. The point of the post was that either being a good company is a priority or it is not. If it's not a priority, there's very little chance that it will happen. Further, if people don't understand both why it's a priority and how high the priority is, it won't happen. The controversial line about firing Steve and Tim was intended to be a colorful way to bring sharp clarity to what had evidently been a fuzzy priority. I tend to value clarity over sensitivity, but that's obviously not universal.

In terms of whether or not it was right to "clarify" things to Steve that way, I really did not provide enough context in the post to answer that question. However, implicit in the communication was me prioritizing the employees of the company over the managers and executives. Specifically, if you don't hold managers strongly accountable for management, then the employees will suffer which in my opinion is worse than executives getting their feelings hurt.

For whatever it's worth, I never wrote and I never asked anybody to work 12 or 16 hours a day. I never asked anybody to work any specific number of hours. However, many people did and it was important to me that we respect the effort.

The firing line was intended to come across as the very last straw. After training, after many conversations, after performance reviews, if I still couldn't get them to take management seriously then this was to be the last conversation before making a change. If I didn't hold managers accountable to that, then I should be fired as well-- no question about that.
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Kind of how Gmail has turned email into a centralized communications system? The existence of a bank based on Bitcoin doesn't remove your ability to store your wallet on a flash drive any more than Gmail removes your ability to run your own mail server.
Thunder Hill has two nice long straights - you can generally top 120-140 with a decently powerful car.

What you need to knock down a quick lap there is brakes most of all. I had some monster Brembo GT's that allowed my little WRX to haul down from the triple digits and dive into the turns (paired with Tein coilovers). If you go up there you'll see how you have to cut in really fast towards the apex and then do a fairly ragged kick out the end to gain speed into the next straight.

Infineon is just a nightmare of walls imho :)
All too often I don't think the security contractors ever believe anyone will try to break into these places.
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Have tax payer money go to a national comittee of member professors who work on updating the standard curricula (with good version control), any time there's a change or new hotspot in the area of say cell biology, they can review/update and "push" their changes to the master for merging.

The print textbooks used in schools in several parts of east Asia have had a rational production process like that (hire experts to determine what is really essential content, and then have pedagogical experts work out the best way to present the content) for years. That's one of the big reasons why, even when Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Singapore were poor countries (are you old enough to remember those days?), they made good educational progress through effective schooling for the broad national population, and why none of those countries are poor anymore. The United States is still too "fat and happy" (I like that dialectical English term for "complacent") to do something as efficient or rational for its school system.
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I worked with a professor who got together with a few others and created their own digital course content.

This was an interactive package of notes/exercises/self-marking quizzes on the course content.

They sold it for about a quarter of the cost over the previous textbook for the course, and divvied up the proceeds at the end of each year.

I asked about the legality/morality of it, and he replied with 'it's better content, we charge much less, and turn a blind eye to sharing'.

His attitude could be boiled down to : the publishers are the ones making all the money, so I'm going to go direct and cut them out, plus endeavour to bring the content directly to the students.

It wasn't an online solution because the university had some (outdated if you ask me) prohibition on online only content, in case there were students who spent periods where they didn't have access to an internet connection. (note, this was a while ago)

The guy was already independently rich from his side-business of consulting in his industry, so I tended to believe him that he wasn't really in it for the money, though he did want it to be at least revenue positive.

The whole area is ripe for disruption, but then education itself is fat target.
My university (Utah) does not allow this.
Has anyone here used Elastic Beanstalk? What were your experiences?
On the one hand, it frightens me to think that an ideology-driven company like News Corp thinks it can generate 10 percent of it's future revenue from education. On the other hand, it seems highly unlikely they'll succeed in this objective. The future of education will come form the bottom up, where innovators create new technologies to solve problems, not prop up their struggling print divisions.

The reality is education will be solved by entrepreneurs and forward-thinking educators. If you attack the problem with a pure profit motive, you aren't solving the core problems. Education is a sector rife with inefficiencies and ineffectiveness, but it's not cash cow, at least it won't be in the very near future. Budgets are getting slash and the cost of traditional education is becoming misaligned with value.

There's plenty of opportunities in education, but it's hard to believe an aging $55 billion company is going generate 10 percent of their revenues from a sector in budgetary decline.
I've said it before but it bears repeating.

In no way is asteroid mining cost effective at the moment. However, that's not actually very relevant.

Several companies are working toward bringing down launch costs, SpaceX being the farthest along. If such efforts are successful they could result in lowering launch costs by around a factor of 10 to 100. That fundamentally changes what it is possible to do in space. Which obviously has a very direct impact on the feasibility of asteroid mining. More so, it will probably spur development in Earth orbit as well, including things like inhabited orbital stations, hotels, and eventually cities. That will create a hungry market for materials in orbit, and there the advantage of mining from an asteroid vs. launching from Earth (even given the reductions in cost mentioned above) makes asteroid mining all the more competitive.

Additionally, advances in robotics and automation could potentially make asteroid mining very cost effective. Consider that when mining an asteroid there is no environmental concern and the most effective mining methods can be made use of with brutal efficiency. And, of course, the development of advanced robotics to facilitate asteroid mining would of course be valuable for other uses and thus be a profitable spin-off invention.

There are other points of interest but they are relatively less important. The core point is that if these developments happen then asteroid mining could quite easily become profitable. Of course, there is no guarantee that any of this will happen. So why not wait until the opportunity is ripe and then start? You certainly could, but you'd find that you're just enough steps behind Planetary Resources to be at a significant disadvantage. They'll already have experience with operating spacecraft. They'll already have developed the core technologies necessary for mining asteroids. They'll already have identified the most valuable asteroid targets. They'll already have run pilot operations and overcome several key roadblocks. And on the day that it becomes profitable to sell asteroid mined resources they'll be there with the goods. And if it turns out not to be feasible then overall they'll still have made a better use of their funding than, say, buying instagram, and they likely will not have spent nearly as much money either.
The limitations in the usability of Bitcoin are slowly being shored up by third-party opportunists. Just because Bitcoin is starting to be able to be used the way people use banks does not mean it is becoming a bank.
What are some advantages of using something like Elastic Beanstalk versus Heroku, if any?