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>> It's way off. If not wanting kids was the norm, we'd die out pretty quickly (feel free to disagree if you have stats, author!).

If 60% of women don't want kids, but the remaining 40% all have at least three each, population would still grow.

Anyway, I think you're discussing semantics here. Saying something is 'normal' does not necessarily imply the converse is 'abnormal'. In general 'normal' does not mean 'the norm' or 'according to what the majority of people think', just that it's not completely crazy to think in a certain way.

I definitely consider not wanting to have kids to be normal, no less than wanting to have them. There are very good reasons for deciding you don't want to have kids, maybe even more so that the opposite. In fact, most reasons for wanting to have kids are pretty egocentric if you ask me, and the number of kids growing up under terrible circumstances kind of seems to confirm that.
Why this and not Squeak/Pharo?
I think Kickstarter has to be a judge a little bit. If they choose not to be a judge then they are choosing to get a letter with phrases like "knowingly profiting while causing incalculable losses to the value our world-wide brand"

Arduino has been very generous with what they have given away, I know if I had received the above letter I would have at least asked the other side for their story.
'I am bitterly, bitterly disappointed'
The Four Hour Millionaire
what you're looking at here is the death throes of a civilization. Abortion on demand, free contraception, and a radicalized group that believe motherhood is slavery. But of course, what do I know? I'm 'only a man'.
Personally, I try to balance this by dedicating Monday mornings to the things I don't like doing - to get them out of the way for the week. I also try to have weekly "themes". So one week might be dedicated to a new feature, the next to marketing/support, the next to optimization, etc. That way you have a defined range of activities to focus on each week and you're less likely to stray off into the comfort zone.
I doubt he can be a nihilist if he in turn values his own happiness (after all if nothing matters than why should it matter if I am happy or not). His philosophy seems more egoistic:

"it makes absolutely no difference to what you are doing as long as it makes you happy (ideally, while staying within the bounds of morality and not impinging on others)."

Which is not to say that it's bad, but it's not nihilism -- there is a belief there, it's what makes me happy has value. Which is fine, but simplistic. There are different types of happiness, happiness from immediate gratification and happiness from long-term goal reaching (ex. learning to play the piano).

If you try to make yourself happy all the time, I think you'll find yourself seeking (or reaching) immediate gratification too often, when the long-term goals are hard, difficult, but worthy of your effort. I started running the past year, and incrementally it's difficult, uncomfortable, and painful (especially at 7:00 AM at 30 F) -- but I feel so much better and consequently happier then I did a year ago.

My point is to not ignore the fact that time is running out, but to absorb the point, come to terms with it, and act with it (sort of mental Judo if you will). I prefer to understand that my time-span is limited, to accept the reality of that, and let it influence my judgment.

Not in that I'm adjusting my will everyday, or worrying endlessly about the issue. However, I do make important decisions with the knowledge that my life could end tomorrow, or the next day, or next year - and how would I feel about that decision given that context.
You're right we have to distinguish what happiness is and it may be different for different people. The rush one gets during a party may not be happiness. While boredom for some may be happiness. Profound or simple, what I aimed to talk about is the anxiety associated with time and our interpretation of it. It doesn't mean you have to settle in life, all it means is that don't kill yourself with anxiety if you fail to make changes. I'm not arguing for inaction, rather I'm arguing for not (unnecessarily and habitually) fretting about results.
I guess the reason those didn't stick in my mind is that (I think?) they were all interjected by the author -- all the quotes from actual mathematicians said otherwise.
I could say exactly the same for any source-to-C compiler, and/or any system allowing decent FFI with C. Unless there is some different reason than the JVM itself, C has an even larger code base.
This wouldn't be a difficult enhancement. I'd probably add some sort of enum to indicate what edge the bar should be along. Some of the view layout logic would obviously need to change, namely the glow effect would need to rotate and reposition based on what position the bar was in (not a difficult thing, of course). This is not necessarily a high priority for me right now (I'd like to add some customization API for look and feel in the near term).

An optional swipe-to-hide/reveal feature is something I was planning on implementing. Look for that soon!
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I would have once disagreed with you being a C programmer. However, nowadays there is a tendency to providing functional features, including for example if..else expressions. But if you make i++ an expression, you end up with ambiguities if i++ ends up being the last line of an if..else branch, and say s = "hello" being the last line of the other branch. In a statically compiled language, the compiler has no choice but to interpret both as expressions and complain about the types of the two if..else branch expressions not matching. However, the programmer may have intended these expressions for their side effects only, not their values. Perfectly good code needs to be rewritten to work around the type checker. How fiddly.
Er, what?

Plain unsweetened yogurt is not something exotic, it's easily available in supermarkets...right next to all the sweetened yogurts.
This reminds me of a similar story told by E.F. Schumacher in his 1979 book "Good Work." Quoting from the chapter "A viable future visible in the present":

The second link of my little chain is this company called Scott Bader,
a plastics company founded by Ernest Bader, a Swiss Quaker immigrant to
England before the First World War. He's now about eighty-five. Ernest
Bader was penniless when he started in England. He said, All my life I
will have to work for others. What a dreadful system. Well, it didn't
work out like that. He was an entrepreneur and he had a business and in
1951 he suddenly woke up and said, I am now doing to all these people what
I suffered from when it was done to me. I am not going to go out of this
life with this feeling. No, I must do something. So he got in touch with
various people, including myself, and said, I want to put this on a basis
that I as a Quaker and a pacifist believe in. I don't believe in what I
am doing. And so we worked very hard and hammered out a constitution for
this firm. Ernest Bader said, No, I don't want to have ownership of this
company, and so all the capital, except 10 percent, was vested in the
commonwealth, which was set up for this purpose as a limited company. The
equity doesn't lie anymore with Ernest Bader, it lies with that
commonwealth, and everybody who works for a certain length of time becomes
a member of the commonwealth. Legally speaking, the commonwealth is the
owner of the operating company. At first the family retained 10 percent
founder's share, so arranged that they had a majority, not with the
intention of using it but as a last resort. Because it is jolly difficult
to build something up but it is very easy to ruin it.

[...]

It was not until 1963, that is, twelve years later, that we felt it worked.
The founder's shares were also put into the general pocket of the
commonwealth, so it is the administration of the commonwealth that owns
the thing.

Schumacher goes on to describe how this created a radical realignment of incentives for the company and to list some of the effects created by this realignment. For example, they put a cap on the maximum spread between the highest paid and lowest paid employees, committed to staying small (spinning off new companies when they needed to grow), and required that a significant portion of all profits be invested in the local community.

Scott Bader still exists and is still owned and run by the employees:

http://www.scottbader.com/governance.html
Not to sound like a cynic here, but: http://www2.gtlaw.com/pub/alerts/2003/kahnj_03.asp

What Are the Tax Advantages of an ESOP to the Shareholder?

If the corporation is a C corporation and the shareholder sells 30% percent or more of his or her stock, the owner can defer indefinitely the taxation of his or her gains on the sale of the stock. The additional liquidity for the shareholder presents vast investment opportunities and increases his or her estate and charitable planning options.
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Something I've always wondered - if you use Parallels or VMWare to visit questionably risky sites in a VM, and only used that VM for that usage, wouldn't that essentially isolate the rest of your machine from exposure from any malware?
This is why Kickstarter is doomed in its current incarnation. With no sense of accountability, backers will be abused more and more by individuals or groups just looking to spend other peoples' money. Worse, fraud is going to ramp up because it always follows the money and Kickstarter is taking a hands-off approach that will fail.

Kickstarter should promote the trust of backers in a similar fashion to the way that Ebay promotes the trust of purchasers. Kickstarter should be seeking to increase accountability in any way that it can through reputation systems, project completion metrics, background checks, and full transparency of the entire process.

Besides the sad response to the Arduino founder in this article, I would point to the backer-only forums and updates on each Kickstarter project. How are potential donors to see what's going on in that project?
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"not happy" != "unhappy"
I use zip because it's ubiquitous, but I use WinRAR to manage my zip archives because it's so much better than any other tool on Windows.
I have a theory around parents talking about how bad it is.

The things that suck about having kids are universal - the tiredness, the continual cleaning up, the lack of time to yourself and so on.

The things that are great are largely individual and personal (face it, we all know how dull it is to listen to someone talking about their kids).

As a result the bad things get talked about disproportionately - they're things parents can bond over because you go through similar things, they are often self depreciating, can be funny (depending on your view of stories involving bodily fluids) and so on. The good things though you generally shut up about because you very quickly learn to spot the bored look when you do.

As a result from the outside I think people who don't have kids can get a skewed view of what it's really like.

Personally I'd say it's the best thing I've ever done but one that comes with a massive price tag in terms of what you have to put into it, how hard it is and what you have to give up.

No-one should tell you you should grow up and have kids - you should have kids if and when you want to - but don't take the moaning at face value. It's like a millionaire complaining about the problems that come with the money - yes they're real but you wouldn't change it, it's just letting off steam.
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I may not be a friend, but of the 7 projects I've contributed to, 5 have delivered, and two are in active development with weekly updates (software)

Some of the things I've back have been on the "sure thing" side (Amanda Palmer) and some on the "hey that's a neat idea" side (obos). But I've never contributed more than I'm willing to lose, even for Wasteland.
Look at IR as a layer of its own, separate from Clang. You can even use it as your source language (although it's inconvenient, of course). For example, the Kaleidoscope language developed in the LLVM tutorial is target independent. The same is probably true for high-level languages that had LLVM backends attached - i.e. Haskell, Emscripten (Javascript) etc.
Extreme views are interesting, but the more "out there" the view the more it needs some supporting evidence. How about some here?
> All they have to do is compile ffmpeg in software only mode.

Let them eat cake!
The Lukas Canade optical flow demo is really cool [0]. Stick blobs to your face and they track around in the same spot.

[0] http://inspirit.github.com/jsfeat/sample_oflow_lk.html
Don't sorry for my family. Be happy for my clients. I treat them as family.
Ask HN: Review my startup VoxBox
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CEO of SAP: "We want to grow from 60M to 1BN users in 4 years"
a) the universe is extremely large, b) nothing and no one ever lived made a dent in the universe so far. Human history is a bit too small for the overall history of the universe.

I know, it is a saying, but take a look at "important people" that lived 2,000 years ago. How many do you know? 5? 10? What about the other millions of people?

Thing is, this whole "dent in the universe" thing leads to discussions that are pretty close to comparing cock lengths. "My goal is so much more worthy than yours - I'm making a dent in the universe", which I find highly hypocritical.

I believe there's no fundamental difference between the "dent-in-the-universe-webservice" that some people claim to develop and, say, lolcats. At least the latter made millions of people laugh for a moment.
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"...PROVIDED WE STOP WASTING TIME AND GET TO WORK."

Hmm, I have two reactions to this.

1. You're right, there's much to be done and little time to do it.
2. Chill, grab a <your favorite libation here>, and enjoy the sunset; there will never be another like it ever again.

I've been thinking the last few weeks about this sorta very thing - so much to do, so little time. I live in San Francisco. I've worked for 'stratups' (I hate that term now) the past few years and there's always that cloud of "hurry up!" hanging over one's head.

Hurry up before someone else launches before you!
Hurry up or you'll loose first mover advantage!
Hurry up because we have this deadline and if we don't make it, we'll loose customer opportunities!

I starting to be so over that crap. Maybe it's burn out. Maybe I really see through this ruse (maybe it's not a ruse at all). I feel like I'm a capitalist like the next guy, but constantly being focused on work and reading about 'startup' (shudder) founders and how they have to choose between work and family or work and life is bullshit.

I'm not sure if this pace of 'innovation' is making humans happier, cleaner, etc. I mean, I suppose on the scale of humanity it is, but I don't see certain small companies making any dent in humanity. Hence, what the OP is saying. Sure, some companies do make dents, but like everything, it's a numbers game and most won't. So I'm really starting to feel like I want to work much less and enjoy my time outside of work and with family much more. Being on someone else's clock and having all my (or most of my) mental energy focused on their dream or even my dream where I might be overtaken any moment from some competitor is total suck. I feel like we're all living in some state of paranoia - oh noes, I'll be overtaken any moment if I don't get this build out tonight..

This post probably won't matter much to anyone (maybe a few?) and definitely won't matter at all to the planet, solar system, galaxy, universe. I won't matter when it comes down to it and I'm probably the rule, definitely not the exception. Realizing this is ok and helps me re-focus my attention (because that's the most important thing we have) on what really matters - life, family, friends, vacations :). Balance.

Maybe getting to work helping people is good, but getting to work to just get rich, wear one's self ragged, make someone else rich - that seems like exercise in stupidity and totally unbalanced.
The $35 Raspberry Pi: The cheapest way to play Minecraft
I don't know for you, but here in Canada companies like Bell, Telus, Cogeco and Videotron have very, very expensive services.

I don't know a whole lot about the big telcos, but I use a small customer-owned telco in Canada and while the prices are basically the same as the big players, the profits aren't extraordinary. In fact, just as the parent suggests, in their case, internet service is operated at a loss and is subsidized by the other services the telco provides.

Perhaps the bigger operations can run their networks for less due to their larger scale and only gouge us because they can, or maybe it is just really expensive to operate telecommunication networks in Canada?
In the ISP space, that's pretty common.

ISPs are data conduits and we don't expect them to police everything.

In fact, with things like the DMCA, that's codified into law.

Content processors like YouTube have already been shown to have an obligation to support take-down requests from IP holders.

In this case, Kickstarter got the equivalent of a polite take-down request from Arduino and they said, "nah".

While I see the common carrier strategy they're pursuing, I don't think that it makes sense in the long run. It will crumble like a house of cards when the first team of lawyers takes a whack at it for serious infringement.

Worse yet, by that time Kickstarter's reputation for protecting the interests of backers will likely be irrevocably damaged, thus destroying their business model anyway.

Throw in some competitors to their business model who add in some sense of protecting the interests of backers and Kickstarter will end up being the Myspace of crowd funding sites.
So far I haven't found a single book that I can't get from Amazon for less than their 50% sale price (or with a $1 difference). I think they need to re-evaluate their pricing structure.
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versioning, code collaboration, and as other people mentioned ecosystem off the top of my head.
And they do exactly what? Cleaner? No. More productive? In which terms? Safer? Nope. Happier? I have my doubts that people were less happy before Google + FB were invented.
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True, and I would also add the best performance of any managed runtime and the best profiling of any runtime.

Unless your language's main features coincide with the very specific pain points poorly addressed by the JVM (like struct arrays or mobile-phone deployment), I'll say that the JVM is the default target choice. It is any other choice that will need to be justified.
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CTFs
CTF competitions are the most efficient ways to learn defensive and offensive security. Challenges come in different flavors for a VM with different vulnerabilities and levels. Team members have to gain access to other servers while defending their own server.
Some CTF competitions have complex scenarios. For example, mimicking a company with an online business and defending it from other teams. Or a scenario where you have to laundry money without being caught. CTF competitions are all over the world and you can find them at InfoSec conferences like BlackHat, DefCon, CS faculties, online companies like Stripe, Mozilla, etc.
CTF Pros There are invaluable advantages to competing besides security training. CTFs are fun. They help recruit new talent, do some team building, improve critical response in your business and more.
CTF Cons Any good thing comes with bad things too. CTFs are held yearly all over the world for short period of time, far from the real world internet (e.g. no DoS or DDoS attacks allowed). Most of them fall into oblivion, even though they are fun.
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CTF365 is World of Warcraft for Hackers except that instead of fighting in a fantasy world, with imaginary powers against imaginary characters, CTF365 will replicate the real world as much as possible, and you will have to fight with your own real tools... hacking tools. TrackBack, Metasploit, Nmap, BackBox Linux or whatever you choose to use as weapons. You will have your own Fortress (your own server) to defend, with your own network, routers, and switches. You will build your own team and we will provide you with RTTK – Red Team Tool Kit for team communication and many more features. There will be as few rules as possible trying to get to the perfect cyber wargame: No rules at all.
CTF365 will provide the infrastructure VPS included.
You can take a look at CTF365 and tell us what you think.
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I think it's less frowned upon here in Europe.

Who want's to miss 10-15 years of her life anyway ? All the personal projects, travels, parties, etc.

As the article says, we spend most of our live trying to avoid it. So now, to have a child is an active decision. You go out of your way, it doesn't just happen. So it must be a project that you should be able to justify, a rational decision. Show me your decision grid, advantages/drawbacks, etc.

No really, what is the point at the individual level ? (I understand the point at the species level, but we don't act at the species level).

Pushing another human in an already overcrowded planet ? Forcing him to pay for you when you will be old ?
The best thing you can do for your child is not having it.
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"Spanner" means 'foolish' or 'stupid' in the UK
Well, the same happened to LISP languages.
They never seem to get a lot of traction... until Clojure appeared.
Seems to hang (stop responding if i make a couple of errors), I am able to backspace, but unable to type further. This happened both on Firefox and Safari (OSX ML). On FF, i got some error about javaac or javacc. However, by pressing space, i could start a new page.
I started this group on HN (then news YC) over 5 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42287. This is our 44th meetup.

For non-FB users, check out http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/hacker.html, though if you're on FB I'd appreciate an RSVP there so we can get the right amount of pizza.
sbarlster makes a good point. Plenty of world-changing inventions came out of science fiction, for example, and I know that my attitude in life has changed for the better based on inspiration from such sources.

Evolution wired our brains for storytelling at a deep level. I would encourage you to take that desire for more factual fiction and turn it into some actual drafts. Having done the same in NaNoWriMo several times now, I highly recommend the learning experience.
They were also the first (or one of the first) to (nearly) eliminate the approval process. You could go from registration form to accepting payments in hours rather than the old process of getting merchant service account and then payment gateway.

Braintree, which was the "pro-developer" option has only recently followed suit and begun offering this "instant underwriting".

http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/01/a-new-twist-in-the-three-wa...
Have we not realised that the future of programming languages is likely to be increasingly functional?

What does SmallTalk do to restrict side effects, to support emerging NUMA architectures, lack of cache coherency, parallelism etc that we are looking at working with more and more at all levels?