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I have the real world experience and I stand by my position. It does suck and I can empathize and of course I can understand why you'd pirate the software but are you really going to try to tell me that it's not wrong? Can you honestly say that not paying is okay because the price is too high and you don't agree with the reasons why you can't run your dongle on a new OS? That's what it comes down to in the end. It's about not wanting to pay and disagreeing with the price. The fact that you know the dongle should work on your machine doesn't put you in a position to know why they want you to upgrade. Anyone in that situation would have a knee-jerk reaction and jump to thinking its a corporate conspiracy and they're just gouging people. That's plausible. Or maybe there's a legit reason that you don't know. But in either case, no matter how ridiculous the experience is (and I grant you that the example you provide is very unreasonable) it still doesn't change the fact that someone created something of value to you, you want to use it above all alternatives, and you choose to pirate it which is wrong.

Suppose I go to the Apple store and I want a new MacBook Air. I have to wait in line for an hour. Then when I get into the store they've upped the price by $10k. Then, even after swallowing my frustration, I look to pay but all the checkout guys are busy. So I decide this is fucked up and just walk out with it. You'd agree that was a messed up situation but it's not okay for me to walk out of a store without paying.

The point is something I can't fathom anyone disagreeing with. There's a product. It has a price. If you want it you have to buy it. If you take it without paying that is wrong. How can you disagree with that?
5) pick a new software vendor and tell people why

There is no justification short of "needed to save someone's life" for stealing. Your piracy hurts the "good" vendors in the same vertical because they aren't getting funded.
I agree with everything you said. People do disappear, WFH, and put up do not disturb signs. However, this is from an operations standpoint, where heavy collaboration is needed to get stuff done. It may not be good for a pure programming shop.
According to the reviews, N4's interface is completely smooth, stutter-free. That's why 2x faster GPU wouldn't improve the UX much.

Ok, LTE improves UX, but it's not that big deal as you make it sound.

Apple Maps may be ok where you live, but overall the consensus is (even among Apple fanboys and Apple CEO) that Google Maps are better.
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I want to buy it but they won't let me therefore my pirate copy results in zero lost revenue for them.
A few months ago there was an incident in China where a young girl was run over by a truck while crossing a street. Nobody stepped in to help, precisely because they were afraid of the legal consequences. The entire thing was recorded on video, and it got a lot of exposure. It was horrific, the kind of thing one wishes you had never seen or heard about.

On the other hand, and thankfully this was a much minor event, my wife once got a traffic ticket for moving her car a few meters past a red light in order to make room for an ambulance. Something like that is enough to make you think twice.
The article is rife with Orientalist gawking and murmuring of approval. Typical for the current mode of reporting on how anybody in Asia does things.

It's superficial, to be sure, but at least it lets Singaporeans speak for themselves about the cultural difference. The true purpose of the article seems to be to say some things about Cleveland that can't be said directly, so a more nuanced take on Singapore might be beside the point.
No, I got that. But I just take offense that this is an excuse to pirate something. They do sell copies in stores still and, especially for someone so technically inclined, it'd be pretty trivial to get to the right site. That said, it's still super messed up that they're preventing a guy who wants to buy something from actually buying it but the whole thing came off to me as "edge cases like this is why piracy is okay".
Content publishers in the recorded music business are the biggest abusers of content creators, with crooked contracts and phony bookkeeping. They hardly represent the rights of creators.
I should probably point out that I'm a little obsessed with them- I have a few hundred Buckyballs (various colors and stuff), as well as a couple thousand of the Zenmagnets. The big differences really come in when you're trying to make something delicate or with a larger structure.

One major issue is consistency- the sizes between colors or even individual balls in the same set varies quite a bit. If you create a flat plane (one height, whatever length and width) or magnets with both the Zenmagnets and the Buckyballs, the Zenmagnets will be level all around while the Buckyballs have different sized. This causes some to bulge out, making that level plane actually quiet bumpy looking.

The other problem is that the coating they use over the actual neodymium is very cheap. The longer you own the Buckyballs the more of it breaks off. The Zenmagnets are going to last quite a bit longer, and not break down in your hands just because you let them snap together too hard.
Let's be honest, virtually no teenager in the world could be trusted to ensure that no 2 out of the 216 tiny rolling metal balls that come in one of these sets ever got lost in their house. Meanwhile, yes, putting shiny metal things into their mouths is essentially the full time job of a toddler.

The problem isn't that magnets are inherently unsafe, or even that tiny round magnets are unsafe. It's that this particular packaging of tiny round magnets is unsafe.

There's a lot of really fun things a conscientious person can do with fire, electricity, strong acid, or liquid nitrogen. But nobody's been dumb enough to put them in colorful packages with "Not For Children Under 14" on the label.
Yes, they're surprisingly good at it. I've taken and taught other standardized tests, and often find them frustrating or boring.

I once found an LSAT question I considered ambiguous. I sent in a complaint to the LSAC. They replied with a three page letter that convinced me I was incorrect.
>Buy the magnets online, or from a lab supply store, and give them the respect they deserve.

Except the ban includes online stores, does it not?
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Great work, I'd like autoplays I click on a certain video though.
I read somewhere that attitude is what matters; for example, if you have one great guy in your team, who happens to be cynical, pessimistic and such it's going to hurt overall performance of the team compared to the same team without that guy. Or something like that. I don't know, but this seems to be something you'd like to take into account if you're hiring.

But my main point is different. First, if your job has certain elements to it that you don't like and you don't feel like you have the resolve to do those things (for whatever reason) you should just change jobs. And second, I find your statement that "passion fades" unfounded. It didn't fade for me and it was about twenty years so far and counting. It's the same for OP, it seems. And I do have (enough of a) life, have great SO (with whom I'm together for almost as long as I code!), and so on; it still didn't change a thing (ok, it may be that I'm now trying to plan more things in advance but that's it).

As for those "problems you do not love" - I genuinely don't have them anymore. Right, there always is some frustration, sometimes anger, but I think these emotions are a testament to my love for all these problems: I wouldn't feel them if I didn't care, right?

So, while it's not necessary to be true scotsman - genuinely passionate - it changes much if you are. I say "scotsman", because I would like to think that passion that fades is not a true one... Maybe I'm wrong. We need to wait another twenty years to be sure :)
Yes, I can clearly and with good conscious say that it is 100% a-ok to break the lock or take a cracked copy of software you already paid $10,000 for to operate with a $180,000 system if the vendor is going to gouge you over a trivial issue.

I'm really sorry that you live in a fantasy world sponsored by the MPAA and RIAA. I've already paid my pound of flesh to get my work done, intentionally not backporting a dongle driver to force upgrades at $10k a whack is the stuff slime is made of. They do this because they know very well there are not many/any alternative vendors for this equipment, which happens to be an exotic motion capture rig absolutely critical to my work. Fuck that and fuck anyone who tells me I have to grin and bear it or otherwise just wave my hands and go without all because otherwise I might offend their sensibilities over how I might see their software. Personally, I don't care about your software. It hasn't done anything slimy to me yet. You're safe.
In fairness to the author, I don't think he was seriously advocating piracy, but was more just trying to use it to demonstrate his frustration at trying to pay for a product and not being able to.
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1. Someone named "mistercow" is obviously biased on this question.

2. Another item to factor in, beyond lookup table size, is that questions are written in English, and the medium (spelled words) should not be snuck in as part of the content, except where sometimes it is done intentionally :)
Also, in classification problems like these, one should also consider not just how efficiently a solution chooses an answer from the set, but also how cleanly it isolates the cluster of items in question from the unnamed items. That is, since [cow,hen,pig,sheep] are all animals, more so than a random word is, animality should be part of the rule used to choose among them.

3. As blauwbilgorgel notes, Google's very successful solution to model picking is to slurp of everything published publicly online (and with Books, also many things published offline) and sample over the combined output of humanity. This is still biased towards written text, published text, and loquaciousness, but it's pretty good.
Some time ago I came across an elderly man in some difficulty lying in the street in London. While waiting for an ambulance he 'died' (no heart beat, no respiration, no signs of life at all, blue lips and gums) and I immediately did CPR on him until the ambulance arrived. Months later I learnt that he survived.

Any brush with death makes you seriously think about your own mortality. I know that watching this stranger's eyes go dead was quite life changing for me.
Interesting question. I'd say it depends on what he/she is a prodigy in and whether or not it comes with any side effects.

That being said, I'm sure raising any kid has it's specific challenges and rewards. Probably good we're not allowed to choose!
The CPSC proposed rule restricts the sale of magnets as novelty items or desk toys. It does not restrict the underlying concept of "tiny round magnets"; if there was a high school science project that needed them, for instance, it would remain lawful to sell them for that.

Here's the specific proposed language:

any aggregation of separable, permanent magnetic objects that is a consumer product intended or marketed by the manufacturer primarily as a manipulative or construction desk toy for general entertainment, such as puzzle working, sculpture, mental stimulation, or stress relief

It's pretty much as simple as "you can't market magnets like this as novelty items", and that's it. That seems reasonable to me.

You could probably set up a business selling them as a lab supply to nerds knowing full well that 99.999% of your sales were to people using them as desk toys; as long as you aren't inducing the public into using easily ingestible rare earth magnets as desk toys, you're probably fine.
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I thought the reverse.
The OP was judging a person by his job, and implying that the person in question couldn't be a genius because he worked at a menial job.

I simply provided some counterexamples.

Furthermore, white collar or not, I doubt that many would contend that Kafka or Einstein were some sorts of models of "success" if judged by their jobs, and few would judge them "geniuses" solely by looking at what they did for a living.

The fact that Wittgenstein gave away his inheritance is completely irrelevant. We were talking about jobs as marks of genius, not about inherited wealth.

However, I will grant that being born in to a wealthy family, being given a first-rate education, and being surrounded by highly accomplished individuals (as Wittgenstein was) does usually give the beneficiary a tremendous head start over most people.

I would certainly have bet on someone born in to Wittgenstein's highly privileged position making something of himself than on someone born in to poverty.

That said, plenty of people born in to tremendous wealth squander it and their lives. A couple of interesting, relatively recent documentaries on the subject are "Born Rich"[1] and "The One Percent"[2].

[1] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342143/

[2] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0819791/
I suspect it was far more valuable in pre-Internet non-population-dense America, where it was one of the few effective ways to connect with other smart people. It is extremely obsolete now. But "they" (whoever "they" is in practice) publish some nifty puzzle books.
If you have Office at work you may be elegible to get office for just $10.

http://www.microsofthup.com/hupus/otherproducts.aspx?culture...

I got it through my University for just $10.
A very close friend was in a car accident that put him in a category 3 (GCS) coma for two weeks. Worst two weeks of my life... Until my girlfriend was electrocuted and hospitalised for two weeks barely able to move her body. Worst two weeks of my life... Until I lost a close friend overnight. Bam. Gone. Forever.

Life is meant to be lived. Unfortunately, that is a lesson you can only learn by yourself.
One real life example that could counter my argument here is 37signals. They've often said they build products for themselves. Do you think they're just lucky?
Commuting? Have you done the math?
There are a hell of a lot of things that we could ban if we wanted to make sure children never found dangerous things. The only reason small magnet toys get grief is because they are new and novel enough to stand out from the crowd and get the attention.
Top 2% on any one test-taking session of *any one of several tests (SAT, LSAT, Mensa test, etc), which is more than 2% of the population.
It's better than others I've seen, for sure. I'm just not familiar enough with Cleveland (other than knowing it's a disaster zone) to really know how this article is supposed to reflect upon circumstances there.

I can hardly believe anything more than a tiny fraction of HN readership is familiar with the situation there either, so I have to go with the more obvious parts.

I'm not an English Lit major, I'm not super-interested in deep meta-analysis of author intentions.
I think you'll find that Tanya Khovanova is in easily the top 0.1% of any general intelligence test you'd choose.
> most people are using LibreOffice or Google Docs and not a single complaint about document exchange or document formats

I had to edit a presentation urgently. It was nothing exotic, made with PowerPoint. LibreOffice failed to open half the images, as did Keynote (which I bought just for this purpose, because it was an emergency). I can't tell you what happened, just that the one time I needed LibreOffice (or similar) to work, it didn't.

As for Office generally, I still haven't found a good substitute for Excel (sadly).
I just watched it, after googling for it. As a dad, I'm sick and want to go home and hug my kids. I can't understand how these people lost their humanity, but I've certainly lost mine towards them.
Of course it is.

If he's at 90% in some of his own states then he can be slightly behind in every swing state and still have the maths come out.
This is the equivalent of "think of the children!"

Not everything that supposedly saves lives is worthy of being enshrined into law.
That's a viewpoint I probably can't talk you out of. But just to give a concise repetition of my viewpoint: the reason small magnet toys get grief is the gap between how dangerous they actually are and how not dangerous they appear to be.
Fascinating - thank you!
Yep, Outlook (Office 2011) replaced Entourage (Office 2008) on Mac.
Yes, because nobody ever pirates the music of indie artists.
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Apart from those dastardly chemistry set manufacturers, anyway. Especially some of the older models were really quite dangerous! Good thing nobody sells them anymore.
I can't accept that this guy really was in perfect health; if he was, he wouldn't have suffered a major cardiac arrest while simply jogging on a treadmill.

That may or may not be the case. I suspect that the vast majority of cases of sudden cardiac arrest are attributable to risk factors, but probably not all. Our bodies are pretty incredible, but not perfect. Sometimes they just malfunction.
I can completely sympathise with your experience! I tried buying window 7 a while ago, as a digital download, from Canada. Guess what? The on-line store wouldn't sell to Canadians? We're on the same frigging continent, it's the internet! WTF?! Frankly I don't even know why they are still in business. The whole thing is run by monkeys. I ended up purchasing a licence, and then pirating the actual software, thus I can say that I paid for it, and frankly pirating MS software is SUPERIOR EXPERIENCE compares to purchasing it.
Monkeys.
Witness my favorite renegade intellectual, Robert Pirsig

I went to high school with a classmate who used to have the Pirsig family over for dinner fairly regularly. Robert Pirsig's father Maynard Pirsig was a law professor at the University of Minnesota, where the classmate's father (and, years later, I) studied for a law degree. I think, having read only Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance among Robert Pirsig's writings, and after limited personal acquaintance with Maynard Pirsig, that Robert Pirsig takes a lawyer's "that's debatable" attitude as he approaches scientific and philosophical questions, which bogs down his quest for certainty.

AFTER EDIT: I've seen an interesting pattern of drive-by voting on this comment, but I'd like to know more about what other people who are acquainted with the writings of Maynard Pirsig (father) and Robert Pirsig (son) think about the influence of the one writer on the other.
Maybe you got a lot of those questions right, despite having reservations about them, and perhaps that's the whole point of the test. Despite there being confusing or ambiguous questions, maybe the test is designed to determine your ability to figure out what the test-makers designated as the correct response.
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>Another item to factor in, beyond lookup table size, is that questions are written in English, and the medium (spelled words) should not be snuck in as part of the content, except where sometimes it is done intentionally :)

That just strengthens my point. The word-length hypothesis doesn't require any information about English. If we change our assumptions to say that the program is being fed the raw visual stimuli (as a human is), then the word-length hypothesis gets even stronger, since it merely involves comparing the widths of the stimuli.

But most of the information about the medium can be ignored when comparing hypotheses because it is constant across them.
spending a lot of money on the military and cutting taxes (Bush, Romney) is not 'basically democrats with a little bit of jesus thrown in'

I'm referring to spending lots of money on subsidized medicine (Busy, Romney), assorted redistribution schemes (Bush, Romney), increasing the regulatory state (Bush), more executive power (Bush), opposing freedom of political speech (Romney), opposing free speech on the internet (Bush, Romney) and pushing/subsidizing real estate speculation (Bush, Romney).
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I've been playing around with something around this lately, and have found that S3 works pretty well as-is - throw your stuff into a bucket, configure it for a website, and you're pretty much done. The performance is acceptable (IMO) and it's cheap (12c/gb transferred, about the same per gb stored/month). You don't really get too much control though (though you can set bucket policies that IIRC can filter on IP, referrer, host headers).

At the moment, I've gotten to the point where I have Varnish running on an EC2 micro instance serving data from S3 (I have a couple of reqs that prevent S3 from supporting my usecase out of the box [mostly to do with having too many buckets, not being able to use bucket folders]). There are issues I need to resolve with invalidation as well as the latency of the first request with this approach, but it does look promising.
Source code (sorry - backend only) is available on my github account: https://github.com/sebcioz/next_episode
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nice chairs is a good one, but here are some others:

1. some people don't like keyboard trays, but I've had shoulder problems after several years of working without the keyboard at the right height. get them

2. get plastic adjustable stands for monitor and keyboards immediately, not on user request. make it ergonomic, but you don't have to spend the big bucks

3. some developers need special environments (i.e. less noise, less visual distraction), but some feed off of interaction. learn what these needs are and either make it happen or don't hire them, but don't find out too late. do not handle this with white noise. it may mean they can't co-locate to be as productive, and if that is a problem, you need to figure that out

4. people sometimes need privacy. don't foster an environment that encourages people to take calls inside or meet in cubes, distracting others
Counterpoint and proviso: know what the hell you are doing. It's easily possible to do more harm than good if you don't know better.

For example, whenever a motorcyclist gets into a crash, people get the bright idea that they need to get the helmet off. No, the helmet is bracing their neck, which may very well be badly injured, so sometimes if you just pull it off, now the guy's a quadriplegic, and since you were just "trying to help", the law shields you from legal responsibility even though you just crippled someone for life.
There are thousands of poisoning deaths every year^. Yet we still market children's vitamins that look like candy in drug bottles similar to those used for prescription medication, and we still sell industrial cleaners with colouring that should make kool-aid jealous.

Nobody cares, because everybody is used to these things. We are satisfied when manufactures put nasty labels on the bottles.

There is a gap between how dangerous magnets technically can be when ingested, and the actual harm they are causing. Yeah, if you swallow them you are pretty much due for an ER visit... but in reality this is an edge case that we should not be wasting our time worrying about.

^ http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/Poisoning/poiso...
>On average they reject 98%. Mensa's cut off is the top 2% of IQs

These two statements are not congruent unless the distribution of IQs in people applying to Mensa is equal to the ditribution of IQs in the general population. I doubt that to be the case.
So do you practice what you preach and carry one of these with you where ever you go, or in your vehicle? If not then why do you feel the government should impose that on a business? Why not make a law that says every business has to have a trained EMT on site during business hours. I'm sure that would save even more lives...