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Seems like a sort of cultural inertia. Drives me crazy.
And all of that difference is either defense spending or entitlements that caught up to us because of the baby boomer population bump. Not 'services' as most people would understand you meaning them.

Domestic discretionary spending has actually been falling relative to inflation the last 12 years. (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/feb/...)
Open source tool to map crowdsourced suggestions for cities
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Features of Einstein's Brain Might Explain His Remarkable Cognitive Abilities
You just made another case against incubators / accelerators in general.

If they have to rely on "asymmetrical information" to get access to deal flow and make competitive offers and if releasing the data would hurt their attractiveness to prospective investees, why exactly are they a good deal for entrepreneurs (who can actually build a business)?

There is an old saying if you do not know who is the fool at the poker table, that's you.
I really enjoyed Matt Rix's write up about his success with Trainyard, a hot game from two years ago.

"It’s like winning a lottery, but a lottery where you work really really hard to buy your ticket."
The casual market buys Office for homework, and Skyrim and Diablo to play after classes, and now has no space for anything.

Laptops with so little disk space haven't existed in almost a decade. The switch from spinning metal to SSDs is a new thing outside of us developers and creatives. If we're not the target market, then they're trying to create a new market, as no other is used to so little storage on any type of computer.
You said funding was necessary, he gave a list of 6 companies without funding that were hugely successful by any measuring stick that doesn't include Apple, certainly life changing FU money for the founders. You called them both outliers (maybe true, but it's not like it was just 1 company) and "not successful enough."
Which GM by others out there you like and would recommend, then?
I assume he is referring to Apple making tons of money selling app developers the tools they need to make apps. Iphones, macs, developer licenses, etc.
Google didn't buy Orkut. It was developed as a 20% project.

You can call it a reaction to Facebook, etc all you want but that doesn't disprove the author's statement.

Social signaling was never included in search results until Google+ came along.

Personally, I love seeing items in my search results that people in my Circles have shared on Twitter or Google+.
Except herding cats is easy, you just paint yourself with tuna fish.
Because no one on HN actually believes the Ouya is anything more than vaporware, despite their announcement of having working hardware in hand and initial units in manufacturing.
Good for you, but if we adopted this as an overriding principle in public health policy, then lots of people would just keep smoking.

I would also add that education and socioeconomic status are clearly related to adverse health behaviours - are you saying that poor people who don't finish high school smoke more because they lack willpower and discipline?

Simplicity is a wonderful thing...
Yes, Greek yogurt. Usually a lot less sugar and a lot more protein. It's can be more expensive, but the extra protein makes it more filling.
I'm curious how the feedback mechanism will work. Too bad the EFF and Google lobbyists didn't "go crazy" and counter the Hollywood ones.
Very cool. I ran this, adding a print statement into the Filter function so I could inspect `i` as the channels received inputs. I expected the prints to come relatively in random order but on repeated tries they didn't - and then realized I know nothing about programming with coroutines and explicit communication between threads. Thanks for the thought exercise!
> The program doesn't seem to have gotten much traction, though

Not least because the Vizio PCs in question turned out to be utter crap[0][1].

0: http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/23/3169716/vizio-15-6-inch-th...

1: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/1/3411560/vizio-14-inch-thin...
I've read it has to do with multi account and root.
Is that true?

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/exposed-th...
Great but the action is a bit too chaotic , to much things on screen. I suggest reducing the sprite sizes a bit , and make the background less distracting.
I absolutely can not believe that natural yogurt may somehow have 0 calories from fat. Fat occurs naturally in milk, from which this yogurt was made. Therefore, if this yogurt has 0 fat, it has been removed by an industrial process. I wouldn't eat that.

The greek yogurt in my fridge has about 10% fat (7% saturated), and 6% carbohydrate (4.9% sugars). That sound close enough to natural proportions for me to believe it was not heavily processed.
Doesn't work for me - I was able to bring up your selection but my searches don't work, even if I substitute them into the (absurdly long) URL.
No greatness has ever come from being a namby-pamby.

It is a lot better to be polarizing yourself and find your natural constituency than fail to connect with anyone by trying to be "safe".
An exception to that is games or proof of concept app whose novel aspect will be the main draw.
Two things I noticed:

1. Overspending - No need to buy hardware to 'test' if you can't afford to live.
2. Lack of Focus - An app a month sounds nice, but to quote the article, 'decent is not good enough.' Hard to make 12 good apps/year, let alone great apps. Not to mention support said apps.

That said, I'm finding that I have to work harder and harder to keep my apps selling. Used to be that sales were the primary income, now it's ads for all but one app.

Sadly, I don't see it getting anything but worse.
I have noted down my Windows Key and that is all I need. I will just download a pirated copy, make ISO and then activate with genuine key.

That's the only way out since PC manufactures usually don't provide any installation media.
The Oppenheimer enigma
Making yogurt involves adding a culture to milk. The culture eats the fat and turns it into protein. Natural yogurt has little to no fat.
He didn't start a business as a single founder. He had his wife, and I don't mean as moral support, I mean as a defacto founder. To quote his wife Gillian's own blog... " I left publishing to start a business with my husband. We sold that company and we now run an online training company called Treehouse"
I can understand having those backup and restore partitions on a regular drive, because most failures on a regular drive will leave most of the drive readable, even if you have to boot from some other media. But for SSDs, failures tend to be catastrophic, don't they? I would expect the entire drive to be unreadable if anything goes wrong.

If this is just for recovering from OS failures rather than hardware failures, I'd much rather have a DVD. It's a lot cheaper than space on the SSD.
I see this as a great opportunity for developers from countries like India (where I'm from) . Though the barriers to entry are a bit high , they can easily sustain themselves compared to their western counterparts if they're good enough.
Worked in that environment for 5 years... I honestly never found a way. Now work mostly remotely.

I feel like I tried everything - headphones, locking myself in meeting rooms, being uninviting when people interrupted.

I wish I could tell you a story about how I figured it out but now I only take jobs that are at least semi-remote. I would consider a job where there are real offices for everyone but this seems to be increasingly difficult to find.

I'd talk to your boss about working remote 2-3 days a week and proving how much more productive you are during those days.
Here's a link straight to the demo: http://gnotty.jupo.org/irc/
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The app seems to be making posts to Facebook without me specifically approving each post one at a time.
I don't know. I like the taste of junk food. A little bit of moderation plus a little bit of exercise makes these things a fine office treat. Everyone is a responsible adult; let each make their own decision on what to eat.

(Adding healthy stuff is fine too, but that doesn't mean you need to take away the unhealthy.)
I think it's generally considered bad form do dump on your competitors, even when you do disclose your financial interests in the matter.

I mean, it's certainly not illegal, and one could argue that it isn't even unethical. But it's definitely in bad form. Rude. Vulgar.
Chat, not talk. Reserve talking (interruptions) for critical things. Everything else, chat even if the person is directly next to you.
Did you set the GOMAXPROCS environment variable?

// By default, Go keeps only one kernel thread (m) running user code
// at a single time; other threads may be blocked in the operating system.
// Setting the environment variable $GOMAXPROCS or calling
// runtime.GOMAXPROCS() will change the number of user threads
// allowed to execute simultaneously. $GOMAXPROCS is thus an
// approximation of the maximum number of cores to use.

From http://golang.org/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c
Q: Is this what they call a "Hollywood ending"? =) =| =/
When did Hollywood become more powerful than a major political party? I wonder how they managed to persuade them to take it down..
Getting a fair toss from a biased coin
CloudFlare ramping up more Go projects
Why sad? It just proves the point - they probably weren't sincere to begin with.
Errr... "5. Song previews can only be used to promote the track. They cannot be used for entertainment independent of that purpose, or as the main focus of an App or web experience." source: http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/blog/song-p...
"As mayor of New York, Michael R. Bloomberg has prioritized health initiatives, working to enact policies that reduce the size of soft drinks and require restaurants to limit trans fats and post calorie counts."

And that was a bad thing. It is not the role of government to dictate such things to the people. It disturbs me that articles are still written in which such premises are presented as settled fact rather than rightly ridiculed as components of a path towards fascism.
I'm sorry, but this really, really does not compute:

In March, with the apps bringing in only about $20 a day, they
cashed in Mr. Grimes’s 401(k), which yielded $30,000 after taxes
and penalties. They had already spent the severance from his job at Legg Mason.

...

One thing they never scrimped on was technology, especially Apple
technology. At one point they owned a 24-inch iMac, a Mac Mini, a 24-inch
cinema display screen, two 13-inch MacBook Airs, a 15-inch MacBook Pro, two
iPad 2s, two Apple TVs, two iPhone 4s and an iPhone 3GS. “We justify buying
new models by saying we need them to test out the apps,” Mr. Grimes said.

WTF? I've been doing this full time for 2 years now and even I don't have half as much gear.
It is quite true that no one is forcing anyone to partake in this bad food. There is a choice. But the author praises the policies of a mayor (Bloomberg) who wishes to use force to remove choice.
If only there was some way to tell. There were a bunch of other words on the page where you read that he was a student. Perhaps there is a way to assemble those words into some sort of order and derive meaning from them.
"If we're not the target market, then they're trying to create a new market, as no other is used to so little storage on any type of computer."

I believe that Microsoft is under the impression that 'tablets' are a fad, what people really want are touch enabled laptops with real keyboards. They want to sell this product to iPad / Nexus users. Folks who want to use this for anything other than casual computing will know to get the one with 'more disk.' But that is just my opinion.
Java's Atomic and volatile, under the hood on x86
Building a 'live Google Earth'
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"No ... 99% is"

Ok, so basically, for all intents and purposes, 'yogurt is full of sugar.'

Thus, 'yes'.
yes, it's due to open graph integration. when you download the game, you have the choice to display that sort of information
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. But this is very unprofessional from the therapist side. You perhaps should contact your therapist as soon as possible and let him/her know that there is a breach of trust. Also read about HIPAA(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/summary/i...
I'm sorry, but this just comes off as a guy ranting about how he defied Graham so that he would have more equity and no one to question his decisions. You know what that says to potential hires and the rest of us? "Huge red flag."
I would guess it's not purely Hollywood. There are a lot of copyright-maximalist companies with ties across the political spectrum, some of whom the GOP probably is worried about antagonizing, even if Hollywood itself is mostly irrelevant to them. Republican-aligned examples that come to mind are the Rupert Murdoch empire (Murdoch is so copyright-maximalist he even thinks Google News should be considered copyright infringement) and the country music industry. Disney seems to be donating mainly to Republicans in recent years as well, though some Googling suggests some of that may relate to local resort-business politics (they've been lobbying against casinos in Florida).
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Willpower is a finite resource[1]. Passing by the candy jar 15 times can easily break your resistance or leave you a little dumber and more exhausted for the rest of the day because you've spent your willpower on resisting candy instead of more useful things.

As for "people who want to change...", check out the Ornish program. Patients with severe heart disease who had bypass surgery literally faced a life-or-death mandate: quit smoking, exercise, eat healthier, or die. And yet the vast majority (90%) were unable to make any of those changes. Ornish's program, which basically provided a support group for those patients, raised success rates from about 10% to 77%[2]. Again, these people knew they had to change their habits or die, and that motivation was hardly ever effective, while having some external systems to support their habit changes was massively effective.

[1]: http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/msh/pdfs/MSHagg...

[2]: http://www.fastcompany.com/52717/change-or-die
Money. Everyone and everything has a price.
Official Statement from Shannon Keith Regarding Incident at KTLA 5
Computer Science vs. Software Engineering
I agree it tastes good. But we should note that it tastes good because it has considerably more saturated fat than many other yogurts.

Fage's Greek yogurt has 16 grams of saturated fat in a 7 oz package.

Compare to Dannon yogurt which has 5 grams of saturated fat in an 8 ounce serving.

Is Greek yogurt really better then?
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I'm a big fan of sparkling water (talking rain, perrier, etc). Glad to see it's a trend that's picking up in a lot of office refrigerators.
This bastard is skipping his master thesis, going straight to the phd. I thought only psychologists and doctors were allowed to do that :)

<- some guy finishing his master thesis.
OP makes a number of mistakes about the past.

For starters it wasn't Portuguese conquistadores who descended on South America 500 years ago but the Spanish. The Portuguese had more important operations in Asia at the time. It wasn't until the 17th that the Portuguese really started to exploit part of what today is known as Brazil, part because a chunk of Brazil used to be part of the Spanish Empire, not the Portuguese.

Of course we are not going back to hunter-gatherers, that's stupid on the face of it. Even after a massive collapse the first thing survivors will do is try to salvage whatever machinery they can find and start anew, first with crops and eventually industry. The "dark ages" weren't really dark, the north of the Roman Empire had always been underdeveloped which is why after the fall it continued to be a number of backwater kingdoms while Venice remained as a center of scientific and cultural development.

Also I don't get why OP comes with all these amazing sometimes insane technologies but rules out any attempts at geoengineering which rely on technology which we already have (but we don't deploy because the costs are still too high and the political motivation too low to support it).

And his understanding of the roots of racism is egregious, he completely ignores the vast political and economical reasons for recent and still enduring racism in many parts of the world. For example the Rwandan genocide background lies on which tribe had the upper hand during the colonial age and was thus wealthier and more powerful. It had next to nothing to do with religion or patriarchy.
Have ever procrastinated? Lost your temper? Failed to exercise?

There is a major gap between what people consciously believe makes sense and what they actually do. Rather than deny that, it's often more effective to accept that this gap exists and create systems to work around it.
The entire win32 API in JavaScript
I hope there's at least a tinge of joking in there. If you do something wrong you should apologise. If you rear end someone or walk into them while texting apologising is the right thing to do. I do agree with the point of the article though. If you have an opinion and you can justify it then there's nothing at all to apologise for.
It's a bad thing to require restaurants to disclose the number of calories in their menu items? Is it a bad thing to prohibit restaurants from serving heroin? I'm genuinely curious why you choose to draw the line where you do.
Just look at his CV[0]. It is just amazing what Park has accomplished with such young age.

[0]: http://www.stanford.edu/~liszt90/
Same here, but beware of possible damage to your teeth. My dentist saw some pervasive problems in my mouth and asked me if I consumed a lot of mineral water (I do).
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Mero Campus is a tech startup based in Nepal.

I am announcing the release of public beta version of Mero Campus. Mero Campus is a platform where students can find a right course and college in Nepal and abroad. It is an ecosystem where education meets social networking.
Some of its notable features are:

• Each college has its own URL, http://www.merocampus.com/< college_nickname>, with its information, list of courses and Q&A section.
• Student can search course based on stream and level. They can then compare admission deadline, fees, affiliated university, etc.
• Student can follow tags ( for e.g. engineering, hospitality ) to get update about any new courses belonging to that tag or follow specific course to get update about it and apply online.

We work closely with each educational institutions listed in our platform and make sure that all information are accurate and recent. Students can directly interact with colleges through their own Q&A section.

Visit Mero Campus at http://www.merocampus.com
When you build other people's apps you are still digging for gold, you just get paid to do it, hence eliminating the risks (and the gains too, if the App becomes popular).
But what I think meant with this simile is that instead of being an app developer you can be a service provider to app developers.
In his case, he became a consultant, in my case, I develop APIs and other server-side code for App developer, and sometimes also manage the whole setting up of servers for them.
My guess is that after the first wave of success, many people without software development background joined the gold rush and only focused on learning how to write apps and later they found out there is more to it than that.
"Commercial sweetened yogurt products" are not "yogurt."
The sad facts are, that the average health of US citizens is getting worse and worse every year, and the main ones affected are those who have no say in it whatsoever: children.

Ideally, the role of a government is to protect its people. The US Government also regulates a number of substances (LSD, etc.)- do you think that's also a bad thing?
Yes, selling games will always be tricky, unless the platform is very new.
The problem is that willpower is a finite resource[1]. If you have to make a mental effort to avoid the M&Ms every time you pass the kitchen, that diminishes your productivity for the rest of the day.

[1]: http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/msh/pdfs/MSHagg...
This is a pet peeve of mine with free office snacks, yes. They turn the easiest path into one that's less healthy than I would normally choose, because the less-healthy alternative is free and someone else shops for it, so I can find myself, out of convenience, eating truly junky stuff that I would never buy myself. An unwanted "perk", which just makes my life more difficult!

There does seem to be a trend towards providing some healthier options at least. Sparkling water instead of just soft drinks, perhaps some fruit. I usually bring my own stuff anyway, but it's easier if the default options are reasonable. I once DIY'd that by running a little office snack coop full of stuff I preferred (people put money in a jar, and I brought stuff in), but not all workplaces would be happy with someone doing that, and it's hard to compete with free.
I also believe that people should hear different point of views. Thanks for sharing your story!

But hopefully people also realize that the existence of a co-founder doesn't mean that there is no clear leadership. YourMechanic would not be feasible without my incredibly talented co-founder, but the buck still stops with me. I talk to my co-founder & team about big decisions, but I make and take responsibility for all the decisions.

Having run different businesses for 5 years as a single co-founder, I have found that there is something magical about having the 'right partner' (in my case, brilliant + 100% dependable).
/me rereads

Oh, heh, I can see it that way now. I had intended my comment to say that, since you'd be trying to reach that set of ratios to hide things, you'd probably fail miserably against any competent analysis.
Really? I've been using it across Mac/iPad/iPhone for almost a year now, and I have had 0 problems with it (my library is a bit under 10k songs)
There's some good stuff here too:
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~skiena/392/
It was a bit disheartening to see that despite presenting its argument in a logical way, the article was blasted by a lot of highly visible people like Linus Torvalds which really stoked the fires. To the Internet masses, you're either pro-Android/anti-Apple or pro-Apple/anti-Google.
To me, it sounds like a description of an addiction, completely irrational and willing to sacrifice life necessities just to have another fix.
It's easy to put people on Mars. We simply lack a good propulsion system.
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-> "Note, Silk has sound, Mute?"

That was considerate and awesome. Thanks.
Fat-free, plain Greek and regular yogurts are actually pretty good.
I didn't have the reference handy when I posted, but here is some info about how they use the lasers to make the 3D model:

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/learn/turning-ph...
Android 4.2 has end of the world patch by hiding December
Nesting OSs
Charity lunch with pg auctioned for $10,500
The Bing auction ended up doing the last minute upsell with a second lunch also going for $10,500.

The winner hadn't preregistered for the event. He was also the only person in the room with a backpack.

The highest email bid was $6,400.
Dear CloudFlare,

As I assume you read all comments here. Heads up hosting your images on posterous means they are blocked in China.

Maybe you want to add some China GFW speed up features. You know, proxy images from blocked sites, remove facebook/twitter code from pages, etc.?
Hes a musical prodigy as well !
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