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"Neuromancer" is the story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to work on the ultimate hack. Seven Arts sees "Neuromancer" as part of a potential multi film series as many of William Gibson's sci-fi masterpieces have yet to be adapted to the big screen.
This is a most underrated point - IQ is more important in a demographic sense than in mensa-style braggatry.
Bump, Twitter, and Tapjoy agree - Successful mobile apps have great onboarding
It takes me ~10 minutes to bike from home to work in central Auckland (NZ). I am planning on moving next year and I really don't know if I'm willing to give that up.
This isn't just a "Russian" thing.
So You Want to Buy: Startup Office Snacks
I am using Referly (my YC startup) test this idea, but hopefully it will help some of you as well. One my most frustrating yet fun statup jobs has been trying to order food for everyone (this becomes quite challenging as a company gets to be 40 or 50 people). I tried to compile office snack ideas into a single shopping list along with commentary and advice. Is this useful? How could we make it better?
I hop in a taxi cab and practice Chinese with the driver. Sometimes traffic is so bad in Beijing that I'm looking at an hour to commute 20km. I don't bother with the subway, which is cheaper and faster, but the time is entirely dead, it's too crammed to use my computer.
Considering your sample size of one, calling me a troll for using a sample size of three is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Also, I never claimed that was your main argument. I just said that that's the part of your post I was replying to.
Those systems are extremeley limited in terms of coverage relative to Metro North/LIRR in NYC or Metra in Chicago. A huge amount of the residential development in northern VA is out in Fairfax County, and that area is just now getting a Metro line. Moreover, the metro stops in Vienna, Fairfax, etc, are god-awful. They're built in the middle of the woods so you have to drive to them. A sensible rail system needs to have high density development around the station.

Meanwhile, Metro North, LIRR, and NJT go pretty much anywhere people live in Westchester, Long Island, or NJ. And the train stations are all approachable on foot. I walk 4 minutes from a 40 story high-rise in Westchester to the train station. That's 4 minutes from getting on my elevator to being on the platform.
I disagree. I think the accessor solution is the better solution in your example. You modification requires that File know about all extensions. It has to know if something is an image, a document, a spreadsheet, etc. Every time there is a change, it needs to be updated. Thus you will have File object that is constantly updated. File version 2.2 won't process docx files (it thought documents ended with .doc). Also you place on File the burden of classification. is svg an image format or a text description.

Also with your classification of File.IMAGE, File.Document, can you really generically process an image file. You might be able to, but it is hard. Whereas if you had the extension, with .jpg or .jpeg you load up libjpeg, .png you load of libpng, etc. With File.Document it is even worse. Can process document really generically process without knowing the extension?

This is the reason I like accessors. Having them gives me flexibility in ways the original designer may not have foreseen.
I am using Referly (my YC startup) test this idea, but hopefully it will help some of you as well. One my most frustrating yet fun statup jobs has been trying to order food for everyone (this becomes quite challenging as a company gets to be 40 or 50 people). I tried to compile office snack ideas into a single shopping list along with commentary and advice. Is this useful? How could we make it better?
The FTC wants to sue Google, and now it may have found the charges that stick
Try roller blading to work. Same principle, it's quite exciting so you don't get bored. You also move a bit slower than a bike so traffic becomes less important.
I did the math for my first year of working - 3 hours of commuting a day, 48 weeks, 5 days a week. 30 full days spent sitting on public transport.

I wouldn't like to drive (wouldn't be much faster), but I'm still nowhere near as relaxed or productive on public transport than I could be at home - it's stuffy, limited space (leg room, anyone?), and you can't always get a seat. Account for the 6 months it took to get used to reading on a moving vehicle without feeling ill within 10 minutes, and I've lost even more time.

I enjoyed it for a while (I thought the time would force me to achieve something), but as I started using my spare time differently the commute became the biggest time suck of anything, and there was very little I could do about it (mostly due to infrequent and badly aligning public transport schedules).
For many items, you still need shipping home.
If you use Microsoft Office you are part of the problem.

Please don't be part of the problem.
It is a nice way to meet other people that are (somewhat) smart (in a new city, or beyond ones social circle). What is especially good about it is the relative diversity of backgrounds that members are from (and different ages).

However the atmosphere at Mensa varies much from area to area (sometimes a bit pretentious, but in other areas very low key, pleasant and surprisingly open). And one should not take it too seriously.
qemu.org down too

this is interesting...

https://forums.virtualbox.org/

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Does your bus go door to door the moment you need it?
My to/from/wait time for the bus is longer than drive time.
Another person rediscovers "the commuting paradox".
I wasn't referring to cholesterol, lifestyle, diabetes, etc - or at least not only those things.

I'm talking about any condition at all that diminishes one's health condition from being "perfect" - regardless of whether the cause is genetic or something else. Some of these can currently be understood and diagnosed (but usually aren't), whilst others may become understood, diagnosable and curable in the future.

To me, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy would disqualify someone from being described as having "perfect health".

BTW, this is interesting: http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2010/june/hypertrophy.html - and it includes a mention of epigenetics, which I think is highly relevant to what we're talking about.
I think you are one of the very few people that truly get the point of what he's doing.
You might be interested in Colin Wilson's book "The Outsider"[1], which was written more than 30 years before the essay you quote.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsider_(Colin_Wilson)
Your anecdote (and goodside's) are indeed a bit scary. Of course, tracking faces within an enclosed space (casino, shopping mall) is not the same as tracking someone's movement throughout a whole city. But maybe it could be applied on the streets of certain “high-crime”, downtown areas and spread from there. I admit I'm troubled by the thought of the executive power available when such a scenario becomes normal. We need to match this technological innovation with some form of social innovation that keeps police accountable, but obviously “who watches the watchers?” is a difficult and unsolved problem.
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Does it matter? I don't mean that flippantly.

- The number of total votes by email may not be greater than the margin anyway

- In-person voting also has basically no authentication, and there's been little to no voter fraud incidents

- To commit large scale fraud you'd need to identify a large list of people who definitely are registered and didn't vote in person. You'd then need to request ballots and respond for each person individually. Shouldn't it be very easy to spot a pattern, were someone to attempt this?

My biggest concern would be that it unfairly favors some demographic more than another (which the OP brings up). But that's still better than disenfranchising everyone.

To be honest, I'm fairly impressed with the reaction time and the lack of technophobia on the part of the NJ govt. Its a simple solution that does a lot of good.
Nice collection.

Suggestion: It would be nice if the licence type was included in the descriptions.
You know what's really classy? A giant kudos button at the bottom of this page. Awful.
Many companies see working at the same company for more than 2-3 years as a negative. Even if you love the company, you will be seen as stagnant and lazy.
Great points, but "why join a club whose only entrance requirement is that you pass the test to join" is redundant. Every club with any requirement is exactly the same. Want to join a boat club and need the endorsement of one member? That's a test you have to pass to join, a social one. Want to join an old-fashioned gentleman's club? Then your test is 'be endorsed, well dressed, and have a penis'. It's still a test to get in. Want to join a motorcycle club? You're going to need a motorcycle and know how to ride it. Want to join Hufflepuff? There's a test for that, too.
Would love to see a healthy version next.. :)

Also anyone who buys Diet Coke on Amazon is crazy.
Sidecomment, but worth noting is that whenever there's debate in Sweden about electronic voting, the biggest opponents are always the Pirate Party. They're the ones who would arguably have the most to gain if their supporters could just do it over the internet, but because they're computer-savvy, they know what an incredibly difficult problem it is.

We'll stick to papers and envelopes and ballot boxes, thank you very much.
> new methods will replace keyboards mouses and wide screens

Like multi-touch or gestures? That's exactly what's refreshing and great about tablets.
I will work on the healthy version, but have found it is surprisingly hard to come up with at a reasonable price, it has always been a challenge in companies I've worked at. I usually buy Diet Coke at Costco, where do you get yours?
Lets ask a different question. Why does NYC have a GDP of $544B [1], which is nearly as large as that of the rest of NY State ($611B)?

Another comparison: the GDP of the NYC metro area is $1.28T [2]. The GDP of Texas is $1.3T, Florida is $0.754 and CA is $1.9T.

You are probably right that location doesn't explain Singapore's wealth. But education probably doesn't either - I don't see any reason to believe NYC has a better education system than NY - NYC, CA, TX or FL.

The simplest explanation is that when a city becomes a regional hub, it generates disproportionate amounts of wealth. In the case of Singapore, the city also just happened to be a country.

[1] http://www.housingnyc.com/downloads/research/pdf_reports/ia1...

[2] The metro area is NYC + commuter suburbs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_New_York_City

[edit: B -> T for NYC metro GDP]
I have seen HN display generosity on occasion to perfect strangers and throwaway accounts.
What I don't get is why people still tie something like validation to jQuery. I guess it's nice for the most trivial of applications and web usages, but it's not really a great choice architecturally. Ideally you should create a great multipurpose validation library that does nothing but validation and then you create a second mini-library that encapsulates your validation library and connects it to jQuery and chainable.

Everytime someone releases a library that is jQuery only, you've reduced the utility of that library in a lot of use cases. Not only that, as awesome as jQuery was, we're now entering an age where it's better to have separate libraries for each task (e.g. a library that only does XHR and does it well like TJH's SuperAgent) instead of one large slow moving monolithic library.

NPM as a package manager has done so much to make the javascript community vibrant on the server-side and we need to see more of the many solid single-purpose libraries on the client-side too.
Ah -- I think the line from MIT Admissions at the time was that everyone was equally qualified, but they recruited more heavily in underrepresented groups. I didn't put much thought into exactly what measures they would take.

If you did take Bell Curve as completely true (which is a very lively debate), a shifted normal distribution would substantially change the makeup of a career field (otherwise equally distributed) picked from those with IQ>130 or something. It probably is fair to say Cisco engineers are smarter than the US average, although probably less so than top startup founders. In real life hiring is not on a single metric, of course, particularly later in one's career. But, a one+ SD shift would lead to really different populations at 115, 130, 160 IQ, in addition to absurd outliers like Einstein. (Plus, there's plenty to call into question IQ and specific measures of IQ, like Feynmann's relatively average score. I personally think it's far more predictive in the ~50-115 range than anywhere else.)

(The reproductive-years issue does seem like a fundamental one, especially in a career where your first 10 years are just the start. Are there any good URLs or books on how accounting and law handle this?)
I couldn't use it at all on my mobile. Clicking does nothing, so it's not like you needed both, it's just crippled now.
donohoe: You say that you are "Product Engineering Director for Quartz" and comment that you "do post stuff from qz.com on rare occasions cos I naturally come across it as part of my work".

10 of your last 13 posts, all within a month, are to your company. I think you need to change your about text and remove the words "rare occasions".
Have you heard of iA Writer for the iPad? Many writers love it and favor it over a laptop keyboard. I also have hardcore-gamer friends who nowadays spend hours playing games on a touchscreen. I think you're being a little narrow-minded in thinking that a physical keyboard and a pointer device you hold in your hand are the holy grail of human interfaces.
This could easily lead to looting, displaced families, deaths, etc. as panicked citizens start totally losing their minds.
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Your original post sounded very different from what you're saying now, but I apologize if I misunderstood you. Your last two paragraphs talk about whole lives and what the world recognizes without in any way distinguishing between the examples you gave initially. Kafka, Einstein and Wittgenstein are all listed in the same paragraph; again, there's no distinction between them there.

I'm not trying to nitpick, just to say that I doubt I was the only person who took the post differently than it sounds now like you meant it.
It has always fascinated me how history, individuals, geography and natural resources influenced people, their mentality in various world regions.

While Russia is rich for natural resources (diamonds, gas, oil), just a few people profit from them. Next tear of wealthy individuals mostly profit from serving those who profit from natural resources… Natural resources imply that value is already created. You dont have to think how to create it. You just have to sell it. This stresses a high importance on relations, closed ties between limited political and business. These ties generally are not based on pure smartness nor on common sense logic or ethic. The rest of population, stoned by these in-transparent "success stories" are leaved to strive for fast money and basically steal+cheat.

Also, considering Soviet past, where entrepreneurship have been suppressed for decades, it is just amazing how many super smart people there are, focusing their brain power on anything but long term intelectual value creation and monetization (i.e. intelectual value driven businesses). There are many terrific examples of this, including AK-47, chess players, Nginx… Though nginx is amazing it is not amazing in monetization. I'm wishing Nginx and Runa Capital all the best to in monetizing it! (details of their monetization strategy are not apparent to me).

And mature cybercrime market is nothing surprising in these circumstances.

All this being said, I don't want to say that there are no great, profitable intellectually driven companies in Russia. Among those are Kaspersy Lab, Parallels, some others. These observations are general and highly abstract.
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So, we take you at face value, with no citations or other authority? What if you're one of the Russian cybercriminals? Or that hacker that the Georgian CERT unmasked? So, +1 for vaguely menacing vagueness.
This is a wonderful story. I think it highlights how important it is to have parents support you (mine would buy me books and take me to the library and entertain long, rambling thoughts in the car) and to have teachers and professors support you.
I've made a similar list directly on Amazon. It's awesome, as I can just click "re-order" when we're running low for the items I don't have a subscription to.

What sucks is Amazon carries nothing but garbage food (like the items you listed); no healthy snacks that don't make a keyboard greasy, or orange.

What I've consistently bought: peanut butter crackers, trail mix snacks, water.

I wish Amazon carried more _naturally_ sugar-free snack food!
"If I were with my family, I would give the guy fair warning, then rush him for being predatory"

Photographing people in public places is not "being predatory". In fact, it's perfectly legal in the U.S. So you'd get probably get charged with assault.
For very nice tutorials for someone completely new to EC2 and server-side admin stuff in general, check out Paul Stamatiou's tutorials. here is one of them:
http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-getting-started-with-amazon-...

For those that are familiar with the command line and remote servers, but new to EC2, Flurdy's tutorials are pretty solid

http://flurdy.com/docs/ec2/

Besides that if you plan on making any public AMIs, the blog posts by Eric Hammond of Alestic are required reading and his example github repo for this task should be checked out.
"I discovered this working on code that grades student submissions at edX"

It sounds to me like the guy who submitted 40k spaces is the one who discovered the bug ;). Congrats on getting your patch accepted though!
I've always wondered, in these situations, do you at least have enough room to use a smartphone, or is even that asking too much in the crowds? Where I live, public transportation doesn't typically get that congested.
That rephrasing doesn't really work either. All roads can be precarious in cold weather; the point of the question is to determine whether or not you realise that some areas can become dangerous more quickly than others even though the rest of the road system has seemed "safe enough so far".

(And the "hidden question" is "did you know that shaded areas can freeze as quickly as a bridge or an overpass?" Most people who grow up around real seasons develop an intuitive understanding that thin, isolated objects cool off very quickly, but urban types are exposed to an artificial sense of ground temperature. The point is not so much to know D is correct before taking the test, but to realise that since both A and B are correct, then C must also be correct. It could have been better-phrased, yes, but a lot of questions on written driving tests are of that sort—they can teach as much as they test.)
I agree, I was really struggling to find healthy stuff on their (at least the almonds and beef jerky are a bit better but still, not by much). I have been considering setting up subscription, but not sure how long stuff is going to last. What do you subscribe to?
A lot of his comments remind me of the spate of xkcd-style graphing programs around here. The problem with trying to imitate Randall with a program seems to be that he isn't interested in making things repeatable. He's just very determined and imaginative, and willing to spend a weekend drawing a graph. The charm of something like the movies graph is that it's incredibly detailed, but in a very human way that implies an understanding and appreciation of those works. You could use fancy NLP on a script, but it wouldn't have any character.

I suppose this is the closest I've felt to understanding the distinction between art and just drawing.
Thanks for meaningful insight, but I have to disagree. The concept itself is to lower the barrier of giving a reference so that employee can easily inform chosen friends whom may be interested. It is still so much better than not having resume - employer gets probably good lead. Moreover HR can ask referrer about that person and see if he have any more valuable informations
> "giving any support at all to open source drivers"

Since when is a hardware company obligated to give support to open source drivers??? Really? Really.

1. A hardware company can choose to sell its products to whatever class of customers it likes. It doesn't have to cater to a particular subset of philosophical adherents, when marketing a product. It might not be realistic to ask a person to pay money for a product, when they can only marshal so many hands from a finite set of costly human resources, to meet the demands of a certain type of customer.

2. It makes sense for a small hardware company to cater to users of for-profit proprietary operating systems, mostly because there's hard incentive for makers of proprietary libraries to support their software in kind (ie: you can enforce an annual contract against Microsoft, but GNU?). This is the exact business model that Microsoft has preyed upon and grown fat off of for years.

3. The open source community has a reputation for taking on all comers. This is to say that when the going gets tough, and there's real demand for something awesome, the open source community will step up and brute force a project into submission. We have a reputation for pulling our own weight when it counts.

I don't think it's correct to frown upon a hardware company because it doesn't cater to open source philosophies. It's not always easy to turn that kind of pie-in-the-sky demand into something that pays the very real bills.

I think it's correct to frown upon a company that espouses vehement animosity towards a hacker community that it could wisely cultivate as a neutral ally, that neither helps nor harms profits. Companies that actively spearhead campaigns of criminal prosecution and litigation against hobbyists that mean no harm (and often increase demand, or frequently support their own demand) ...that kind of behavior is toxic.

In other words:

if people buy your goods, they should feel free to use them as the please, and if they figure out new unintended uses for those goods, great! But that doesn't obligate the maker to now support an unexpected, unplanned emergent behavior, however popular it may be.
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