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I directly disagree with this post and take a naturalist approach. People aren't unhappy because they want more; they are unhappy because their basic needs aren't met. And by needs I don't mean material needs, but basic self realization needs.

We actually need very little to be happy, but people now live their lives in way they were not designed to be. As a primordial tribesmen, all people needed were the love and camaraderie of their fellow tribesmen (ie work with close friends), enjoy the thrill of going out on a hunt and being recognized for success (self driven accomplishment and social status), find a mate and raise a family without being a wage slave (adequate free time, no boss), and other aspects of life where you are free to choose.

Today's corporate world has none of these simple aspects. You don't get to choose your colleagues and often don't have anything in common with them. Your work is often assigned to you, and both recognition and reward is shifted towards the company or boss. You have a boss. You make money but all your time is taken away.

You might argue we are materially better off, but biologically our brains our programmed to be happy in the old tribal way.

Some of Paul Graham's essays talk about the same issues.
Strain anything hard enough and it will deform/break - at which time you can point at the failure and say "see? There was a defect/issue here!"

Inject enough disruptive chemicals in a finely tuned highly complex chemical process (your brain) and you'll screw it up.

Any existing mental health issues will, of course, become soon apparent. Lacking any (and nobody is mentally perfect), screw with brain chemistry long enough and there will be.
"Looks," "feels," and "says" make them statements of opinion.
Fantastic link, thank you. These terms are incredibly useful and accurate.
They don't need to replicate what they're doing in Brazil if it's still more economical to manufacture in China. The difference with Brazil is a whopping 60% import tax on pretty much anything, which would make an iPad cost about 1,000 USD minimum if they didn't make them locally.
Just keep in mind, this is a science project. It's going to be a long, long time (or never) before this is safe from enemy exploitation. I can think of all kinds of wacky ways to crash one of these things.

Autonomy is fine for high-flying, loitering aircraft, not so fine for low-altitude flight relying on easily-exploitable terrain avoidance & positioning technologies.
> Yes, even scumbags have rights, absolutely! No,
> don't ever paint this egotistical, opportunistic
> allegorical hyperbole of a man as any sort of "hero"
> or "freedom fighter".

Larry Flint stood for freedom too, doesn't mean he's a humanitarian only thinking of the greater good of mankind.

Even the 'Founding Fathers' of the US were rich landowners that didn't want to get taxed by England. For all of the "fluff" that the history books talk about them being warm and fuzzy about human rights, their philosophies didn't disagree with their pocketbooks.

> When actually they do not make less money now than
> they did 15 years ago.

Their profits/revenues do fluctuate, but they use piracy as their scapegoat for everything.

Is the economy down, so people have less disposable income to spend on consuming entertainment media? It's piracy at fault! It definitely could not be because people have less money to spend, therefore they spend less money in aggregate.

Are other industries encroaching into the consumption media space (e.g. video games industry)? It's piracy at fault! It definitely could not be because people are now choosing to distribute spending of their finite amount of disposable income in other industries (e.g. buying few movies, and more video games).
>> One would think therefore that it would be possible to use traditional applications in the left-hand two-thirds of the screen while running a tablet environment on the right-hand one-third of the screen.

This is actually supported with the Snap functionality where you can have the full desktop on two-thirds of the screen and Metro apps on the left or right. See: http://cdn.nirmaltv.com/images/Windows-8-snap.png
Since you asked, and because it's ridiculous, and because it's rare to have such a great opportunity to mention it: I have an T-shirt/undershirt that I still wear that I've had and worn since 1994. It was written on as an activity at camp and signed by a number of friends, one of whom died of cancer when we were still kids. I love wearing that undershirt. I'd have lost track of how old it was if it didn't say 1994 on the front.
Silicon Valley, and the general public, are full of people who are upset with the Democrats on the issue of legal abuses by the copyright industry.

The GOP had the opportunity to position themselves on the opposite side from the Democrats. And failed to do so. :-(
I assume this is because Tim Cook is bowing to political pressure where Steve Jobs refused. Remember when Steve Jobs said, "Those jobs aren’t coming back" [1]? The question is - why now?

Hacker News discussion [2].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3494389
Also, I don't know, wouldn't somebody who built a sales channel (whatever that is) in the past have done so with completely outdated methods? Presumably fax machines and telephones?

1) There have been largish successful organisations built since the web was invented ;-)

2) Lots of pre-web skills skills are transferable to more modern technologies. Most of the work in creating and building sales channels - especially internationally - is understanding people relationships, legal issues, managing recruiting and scaling of organisations not code, etc.

3) There are domains where large multinational organisations are still built using telephones, personal relationships and boots on the ground. If you're looking to build the next Oracle or SAP a bunch of retweets and facebook likes are not going to help.
All surfraw seems to do is generate the URL for the search and opens it in a browser. Disappointing :(
The Internet alliance or whatever it's called formed by Reddit etc. after the SOPA fiasco needs to show their support for this person right away or there would be absolutely no point to it. Putting black badges on sites for SOPA was good but this needs to be taken up by sites too. Perhaps someone(Google?) can hire him to further write more papers analyzing copyright?
Sure. I'm assuming typical to somewhat-worse-than-typical terms. They could have gotten screwed, but there's no particular reason to think they did.
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"I bootstrapped my bitcoins while married".

That's just gold.
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I've always been unhappiest when I sit down and try to decide if I am happy. I find I am happiest when I am thinking about my situation or life in general the least.

When reading the post about the example giving of the guy who seems happy I thought to myself, "this guy sounds a lot like me, why wouldn't he be happy?" I was disappointed to discover that the only reason he wasn't happy was because he is basically choosing to be unhappy in what seems like a good situation.
Yup, no offices in India, but contractors are distributed worldwide and work over the wire. :)
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> R is currently the lingua franca for academic statisticians. New methods papers, textbooks, and toolkits are much more likely to ship with R libraries and implementations then Matlab or anything else.

Is this the same in industry? I've heard a professor say that SAS is more widely used.
Is this any more useful than a normal web search?

Google Search (with Instant Search enabled) has had keyboard navigation for a long time. After you hit enter on a search, hit tab and you can navigate the results with your arrow keys. And when you go to Google's homepage your cursor is automatically placed in the Search box, so you can search Google with only a keyboard.
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The Army uses tons of transport helicopters in non-combat situations though, right?

The military (having a significantly lower standard for 'safe enough' operation than, say, airlines) will be an interesting inroad for autonomous transport vehicles in society.
I think the Army's self-flying helicopter trumps Google's self-driving car. This is the kind of competition where everyone wins!

Edit: For the people who are still alive...
Or maybe someone who could profit from it.
I remember years ago, I had a part time job with 3Com, while in school, when they were still around in Santa Clara. I was on one of the lines which mfgd the 10/100 Enet boards. The lines had lots of automation, but not quite enough, as I heard a year or two later, they began shuttering the lines and moving them overseas.

So, as in these articles, sometimes manual labor is cheaper than automation, but we may have reached a point where wages have 'normalized' enough throughout the developing world that the variance is not significant enough to make manual labor economical.

What are the billions of people in developing nations (south Asia, Africa) going to do for a living, if their infrastructure and economies have not matured enough to sustain their own 'homegrown' industries?

I mean, outsourcing was seen as detrimental to our economy, but this phenomenon also had an impact in pulling millions of people in dev nations out from arduous agrarian and other subsistence activities.
I wouldn't be so sure. Jobs was notorious for taking public, absolutist positions and later changing his mind.

(cf < 10 inch tablets, Intel chips, etc)
But didn't Jobs always absolutely shoot down an idea, until he changed his mind by completely committing to it?
I've seen this episode of Mythbusters...
This article is just irritating sarcasm.

There are perfectly good reasons to avoid test-driven development. Like being part of an existing large project, where there are already too many interconnected components. Or working in complex AI algorithms, where separate testing of components is extremely painful, and lots of whole system testing is necessary anyway.
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I don't have a problem with this. I hope the GOP fails entirely, so it can be replaced by a new party that advocates social liberalism and (true) fiscal conservatism. Trying to get young voters when you're talking about legitimate rape and not allowing gay marriage is a waste of time. But if a new fiscally conservative party embraces things like those issues and ones like marijuana legalization, I think a lot of young voters are willing to embrace a message of small government and free market economics.
This is an interesting reply, thanks. I possibly didn't explain this well. My reasoning didn't actually help, unfortunately, because I convinced my self that a proc MUST behave like a lambda with respect to "return" semantics.

So had I been left to my own devices, I might have written some Ruby code that assumed it was perfectly safe to return a proc from a method. This is a real danger for me, as I like programming with combinators. And I would have been bitten by my mistaken beliefs.

The only thing I'll say in my own defence is that having made this mistake many times, I had the good sense to check how things actually worked when I got home. I used to know, I'd forgotten, and now I know again.

I don't know if that's "getting things done." It may be spinning wheels. Perhaps someone "getting things done" never wastes any time worrying about the difference because they never bother to wonder what happens when you return a proc from a method.

They simply avoid the problem in the first place, so not knowing is irrelevant.
I like Swype as well, but Swiftkey supports multiple languages and that's a great plus for people from other countries that use english terms all the time.
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I agree, I rarely find the "WAT" / cats / etc. funny or cool. I love humour but this has the same level of funniness as someone falling down the stairs in a bad comedy movie.

"Bitches" is not only unfunny, I find it irritating for some reason.
Early warning: I recently learned that some kids under 13 are adopting Google+. They all have gmail accounts, but their parents won't let them go on Facebook.

It's not really any different in terms of legality or functions, but parents understand (and often don't like) Facebook. So, most likely without the parents' knowledge, their kids are meeting up via Google+.
Base graphics is poweful but definitely full of crazy. However, ggplot2 is well designed as one integrated system and makes total sense. The model is a bit more complicated to understand than literally specifying what goes where as you do in most graphics apis, but the documentation is very good and there are lots of people who know it well and respond helpfully on mailing lists and stackoverflow.
One temporary/hacky multiple account solution is to use multiple Chrome profiles (I think Firefox also has something similar). This way I have separate work and personal Gmails working smoothly, and using different themes for the profiles also means that I don't mistake the windows and send out something from the wrong email account.
I was disappointed by this article. There is no such thing as a "perfect" methodology, so I tend not to trust people who tell me their methodology is perfect. I have a lot more respect for people who recognize the tradeoffs that any methodology forces and then finds the right places to use them and the right places not to use them.

And this is not to say anything at all about TDD. There are a lot of good uses for it. It just isn't the One True Paradigm of software development. But then again, neither were dynamic languages, object oriented programming, extreme programming, nor any of the other paradigms that were going to cure the problems of software development that went on to add value when creating well thought out plans for every unique project.
The article lists 10 reasons which can basically be boiled down to:

1) Unrealistic assumptions ('perfect' developers, 'perfect' architecture etc.)

2) You simply don't care about quality.
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I have exactly the same problem. My half-baked solution is to use my Google+ account in my secondary browser (e.g. Safari) and use the Google Apps accounts in the other one. It's not perfect and it's frankly the reason why I don't check into G+ that often.
> "We’ve been working on this for a long time, and we were getting closer to it."

That to me implies it's been in the works for longer than Cook has been in charge.
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I think initially this could be more effectively used for transporting the helicopters from one place to another, such as another base.

You are right though, aircraft like the Global Hawk operate at altitudes that are safe from enemies, so operationally they are easier to reason with for autonomous use.
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Alright, that makes more sense to me.

Do you know if they intend to fix the need for phoney code paths? It seems odd that a language with nice support for first class functions and closures can't acknowledge when "if ... else ..." has complete flow coverage.
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If you want the benefits of distributed version control with a very simple user interface I'd highly recommend giving Mercurial a try.

A great introduction to Mercurial for people familiar with SVN can be found here http://hginit.com/. Mercurial also has Tortoise HG (http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/) if you want a GUI interface.
I really enjoyed reading "The cuckoo's egg" by Clifford Stoll. The book covers real events that happened when computers weren't really personal.
Can't browse Everlane without signing in with facebook or making an account.

What a great way to put people off. The "shop now" button just brings to login window again.
Sure, and there may be applications there, but they aren't testing with a transport helicopter (such as a Chinook which flies quite differently than a Blackhawk or other traditional helo design), they're testing Blackhawks in a terrain avoidance environments. Two wholly different things.
That's not "political pressure", is it?
The memo was widely hailed by tech policy scholars and public interests advocates.

And also the internet.

At least one thing is certain - there is vehement opposition to any sort of copyright reform, and it is embedded deep into the political system. I don't think I've ever heard of a policy proposal being met with this kind of reaction. Really pushed some buttons.
The military is usually the inroad for wide use civilian technologies.
"He’s making clothes entirely in the United States, and he’s doing so at costs that aren’t prohibitive"

$80 for a zip up hoodie is prohibitive. Make it $30 and we're talking. That's still almost double what you'd pay in Walmart or Old Navy, but if it's good, I'll take it. $80? No way.
I find it telling that proponents of TDD so often resort to name-calling and sarcasm to promote their views instead of, like, just writing great software.
> the kind of competition where everyone wins!

I want to make a snarky comment about the dead (possibly innocent civilian) people not being winners, but I guess a drone is less likely to kill innocent people than shock & awe style bombing and cluster bombing, which tend to harm a lot of children.

It's a weapon of war and so the US is unlikely to release any information for many years. That's a shame, because they've probably got some neat tech which could be used for self driving cars.
Maybe, however I read the original article to mean that the process some people use to make life decisions is the "following" stage in the context of shu ha ri.

From what I can understand: It isn't possible to reach the second stage without first exploring the first as you need to know the baseline to understand the differences between options. Also it isn't possible to reach the third stage without the second because you don't have a full intuitive understanding of what effect each variable has.

Based off this I don't see the post being second stage as a necessary negative, the aim of the article is to nudge people from the following stage into the detaching stage.

I imagine when reading the original article people in the following stage have most potential benefit, people in the detaching stage will agree with the article and won't learn much (but maybe it will affirm their beliefs a bit) and people in the fluent stage have surpassed the advice in the article and will regard it as backwards.
I don't think President Bush asked him to switch to Intel, no.
I think this conflates "smart" in the sense of "raw ability to reason" with "smart" in the sense of "knows the intricacies of how things work". Or, as my uncles might have said, "book learnin' versus real knowin'".

In fact, even in the example given with respect to Ruby procs and lambdas and returns and whatnot, clearly the author hadn't "gotten things done" in that area (by his own admission, this isn't snark).

So to me, the real point is that thinking you've worked everything out from first principles doesn't mean you actually understand all the implications of the interactions in a complex system. That's the mistake I made as a young man, certainly, and it took me years of learning the hard way that I wasn't always right.

Also: there's always a relevant XKCD. http://xkcd.com/793/
My car is definitely locked down in about the same way as my computer. The hardware is open (though much harder to get to these days than before), but the software is closed and you can't peak inside without specialized equipment.
> This is the kind of competition where everyone wins!

Except the people that the autonomous attack vehicle is killing.
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I'm a bit confused why this article was written in a satirical (sarcastic?) style. It raises a lot of good points, but it would have been much more straightforward if it hadn't been written sarcastically. All of the points in the article could have been written from the position that the author ACTUALLY advocates, which would have made it more readable without sacrificing any content.
You know, things don't exist in a vacuum.

I don't have time to get into specifics, but there is a REASON why channel sales exist. There is a reason you may sometimes want to outsource this to people who specialize in marketing, customer service, or logistics.

As these companies you advise grow in size, you will see why. I'm not saying you don't provide value - I'm sure you do. I'm just tired of hearing this on HN - that a startup can do it all and all these other companies are fools that aren't in on the secret.
I don't think this is a hacky solution so much as a great solution. Chrome profiles are a very convenient feature because they can add multi-login support to anything, not just Google sites.
This actually made me have more respect for the Amazon app review team. Or is it a cleverly disguised marketing message for the Kindle app store to ensure us that customers will not be left out in the cold? ;^)
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"smart" and "gets things done" are sufficiently vague that they can mean whatever you want. If I say "So-and-so is smart, however X," the reply can always be "Well, if X then so-and-so isn't truly smart" in the No True Scotsman sense.

This is why I tried (perhaps poorly) to be specific and talk about smart in the sense of mathematics.
I have always heard that it was because Russian/Eastern Europe keyboards doesn't have a colon in their layout, but looking at the layout[0] that doesn't seem to be true.

But the colon combination is a bit awkward for adding quick smileys (SHIFT+6) which makes it understandable that one would use )) instead.

A bit unrelated, but I once had a guy trying to scam me on Steam using some neat chat request trick using a friends name. Disregarding all the other scamming signs I easily spotted this being another user because of the )) overuse.
I know it is silly, but I can't help but chuckle a little bit when I see )) or similar.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Russian.svg
So do these price fixing fines get distributed among the consumers who paid this price?
I'm a strong proponent of TDD. In my experience its more productive, and results in better software. But....

I've been in this position before: We have a large existing codebase with no unit tests to speak of, and the business is not willing to fund efforts to refactor or add unit tests. It is very hard to add unit tests after the fact. Not impossible, but its alot of work, and business folks really don't care.
The question is whether or not that is a good trend or not as the software become a more important part of the car.
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