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"With enough determination and will, you will find a way"

This line of thinking is very dangerous and patently false. You need to bone up on how much one's socioeconomic class affect your chances at doing anything. Besides which, your suggestion does nothing about addressing how to enable people to be productive, it just says that you try and be better than those around you, which even if that works, still leaves all the people you beat to suffer and become a drag on society as a whole. It also completely avoids answering the question of why this is even happening in the first place.

Let me ask you this, would you have the same suggestion to someone who is homeless in India? If you've been to India you'd see how ignorant your thinking is. Why do you people think that the US is some magical place where dreams and wishes come true if you just work hard enough? It's the bullshit the politicians feed us to make you all think we're all millionaires in waiting. This is why we're all going to hell in a hand basket. You need to start taking more responsibility for our fellow citizens. You want to live a place where it's just up to the individual to "make it", go to the developing world and see how much you like it. The reason it's better in the West is because we all share, or at least used to, a similar standard of living. This homelessness in the youth affects you whether you like it or not. You won't like it very much when your town is crawling with them and unemployment is double digits. I can tell you now that your shitty advice and self aggrandizing will be of no help.

"I can't tell you honestly why my life fell into place so that I would be so driven"

Your arrogance is breathtaking. Maybe if the street people start sucking Steve Job's cock the way you do they'll get a clue and start really sacrificing so they too can get ahead.

My best wish for you is that you fail miserably at everything you do so you'll get the chance to put your money where your mouth is, and work your way up to the top as you eat out of a garbage can and sleep under a bridge. When you do that, come back and I'll issue an apology.
I don't mean to hold a position that Andreesen Horowitz's fine is effective, so I can't answer that -- I just think that the situation of the daycare and Andreesen Horowitz differs enough that we can't draw conclusions about one by looking at the other.
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They recently shut down all the servers of a Chinese reseller with 45 servers after a lot of their servers were the target of a DDOS. It's of course understandable to disable those servers in case of a big DDOS, but the problem was that they gave the reseller 24 hours (during the weekend) to backup the data.

It's pretty much impossible to do this in the weekend without even the passwords of the customers. Imagine receiving this email when you wake up (probably some time after it was sent) and having to get new servers immediately somewhere, emailing/phoning customers for their passwords and then also having to transfer potential TB's per server in the small remaining time frame. After posting on WHT (meaning after a PR disaster), 100TB did extend the deadline.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1218922

I was considering them for a high-bandwidth project, but after reading these cases I changed my mind.
I don't see the big deal with any of those incidents to be honest. Would you really care if someone saw your Netflix history? Anyway, what I meant was that alarmists think Instagram is going all evil which I seriously doubt will happen. When have those fears come true?
Carmack: Next-Gen Console Games Will Still Aim For 30fps
Ok, wow. Clearly I'm looking for my reading material in all the wrong locations...
"Why should we not allow people to devote their life to historical studies?" (or any other thing that won't pay well)

Well, we should allow them, and in fact encourage them if a) it's their passion b) it's on THEIR dime, not mine - ie they are rich or very aware of the consequences.

No need to bankroll economically stupid negation that will result in their employment.
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>nested ternary (please don't)

Eh, if you use whitespace effectively it is perfectly readable. Moreso than the alternative, IMO.
Hum, have you looked at the stock recently?
The vast majority of people living on the streets have terrible mental illnesses and/or chemical dependencies. Please don't confuse storytime with data.
Maybe you didn't read them all, but I believe that someone finding you and killing you with a gun is a fairly big deal to most people.
Ask HN: Poker bots playing with each other online
I am thinking of creating an online app with API to which you can connect your poker bot written in your favorite language, find an opponent and play poker. You can optimize your bot and no one can see its algorithms because you run it on your side, just sending and receiving data through my online app API. You can optimize the bot, build strategies and so on. May be even monetize the app by letting users make bets or something like that. So, building a powerful poker bot you may train your algorithms skills for fun and profit.
How do you think, would it be interesting?
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Lets be frank here, 'Follow your dreams' isn't a very good advice for most people. Given the economic reality that poets, artists, philosophers alike aren't going to paid very well, its actually foolish to think otherwise.

Unless you are sure you have a good story to narrate, something that has best seller material- training to be novelist is an utter waste of your time. And taking big loans to do it is financial suicide. The net result is you ending up being a junior editor of sorts working for some portal trying to correct spelling mistake in news articles submitted, sincerely hoping automation doesn't take over your job.

'Making a living' is a very different thing, and frankly kids need to be taught its one thing to be passionate about something, and totally an another thing to monetize it. Your passion might not even be in demand to the common masses, you can't blame them for it. I for once never felt the need to listen to poetry. On the other hand I love listening to songs. Its not the worlds mistake to not want what you like doing. And moreover its not necessary your passion must always overlap with your day job. You can try towards doing that. But don't bet your whole life and financial security on it.

Next comes, a realization that needs to get into young people early on. Unless you are super lucky, big money will come only with big work. Studying history or philosophy is not very valuable to the world, or at least there isn't a pressing demand for it.

When you look at all this things at once. People need to make pragmatic choices in life. Choices which make sense. Again you can point out examples of people who have made it big doing something non-mainstream, but I promise they will be so few you can count such people on your fingers.
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I suppose it's kid-themed, but having the words appear one by one (like Santa is actually typing) is incredibly irritating. The lack of a save function would be bearable if the words appeared all at once.
This actually smells like the same kind of problem you'd have in studying classrooms...
>I have read that as we get older, it becomes harder to develop close friendships

Hm. this is the opposite of my experience. As I've grown older, my social skills and judgment have gotten significantly better. A huge deal, really.

Yeah, good relationships need time to marinate, so the sooner you start, obviously, the sooner that marination process can start, and all other things being equal, the relationship that has properly marinated longer is going to be better, I mean, assuming you didn't let it dry out. But I'm just so much better now than I was when I was younger, and it seems that the people I meet are, too.
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> My idea was to use augmented reality to virtually show DIY interior design and move around furnitures in your room.

It doesn't sounds like you understand the scale of the technical challenge here. You're talking about developing a product based on a technology that is in its infancy! Meeting the type of dev that can execute on this at a meetup is going to be...dicy, at best.

Secondly, okay you have an idea. What else do you have? The only things you mention here are your "idea" so...can only assume not much else.

Thirdly, and directly to your question: it doesn't sound like you have the chops to execute on this idea, nor do you know enough about technology to build a business in any capacity, frankly. Join another startup, learn more about how software is built and how it works, then find something that you know is marketable. I mean, for Christ sake, this should not be hard for you--it sounds as if you have basically 0 invested here...

Tangentially, this is one of those posts that makes me wonder: What is it with non technologists that makes them want to do something in software? Why would you want to work in a space that you don't understand or care enough to learn to understand? These types of people view software as a means to an end, which isn't inherently bad but seems to not fit in the patterns of success I have seen in the software world.
A tech question: I'm a Opera user and notice that a lot of websites just don't work in Opera lately. Now I wonder what special Javascript is required for a page like the Santa Tracker that Opera doesn't support. Because I don't get why a simple animation used in the clock for example doesn't work.
Is this a developers problem for using unsupported Javascript or is Opera having big issues keeping there browser up to date?

Edit: I noticed that Opera is altering the Javascript by inserting a "browser.js" file.
> They are the perfect example of a Black Swan.

I disagree.

The black swan is something that is completely unforeseeable and for which there are no previous partial or complete examples, either of the final outcome or the contributing causes.

Which is her point: 9/11 was foreseeable from the information (the failure was in connecting it) and the fact that a previous, similar plot had been tried in France. The clues were there and there was a previous partial example.
The point of engineering approach to risk management the author makes while suggesting Black Swan phenomenon is something Taleb is actually suggesting by making systems anti-fragile in his new book.
The "right" attitude is an expression, a figure of speech. There is no universal definition. It is a way of stating an opinion of approval. But many people might agree on a similar definition based on a set of facts. Some might disagree. It's up to you, not me.

As for AVTizzle, you could be right. Then again you could be wrong. He wrote what he wrote. He chose a certain tone. I interpreted what he wrote. And I drew conclusions about his attitude.

As one would do with any comment, such as the top one.

You can either agree or disagree with my conclusions. As I can with yours.

Regardless of whether my mind is educated, I've followed Aristotle's idea. I've entertained the thoughts in your comment, however I do not accept them.
Google maps has ski trails in street view (and a skier street icon)
Google started providing search results for the Netscape browser. Google didn't have enough server capacity to provide fast search results for normal www.google.com traffic and the new Netscape browser search traffic, so they started dropping queries to www.google.com until they could increase performance.

i.e. they put their customer, Netscape, ahead of their own website's performance.
Breathtaking, particularly for those of us who lived, fought (and lost) in the Browser Wars of 1996-1998.

I can remember Jim Barksdale, (A southern gentleman, and our beloved CEO) - frequently made references to William Barksdale (Confederate General) - and urged Netscape on to fight, always reminding us, that win or lose, we'd never forget that we fought in the browser wars.

This web page of browser growth history (for all it's probable flaws) is very heartwarming.
Yeah, but shouldn't a delta of 1/3s be the same as 3fps? But the 1/3s to the left does not look like the 3fps to the right.

And it does say that the picture to the right is just like in Quake. So I was guessing that maybe the one to the left is not. Like, it has higher initial velocity and max height, and longer time spent in the air. Like the picture to the right is a jump that lasts for <1s while the one to the left is a way longer one.

Would be nice to have like axes with labels and things on them.
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He gets a bad wrap, but as far as a role model for continued commitment to self betterment and helping other within a positon of power he has done an incredible job.
> But perhaps it was the greatest luck of all

It's a shame you buried this at the end of your post. It's also a shame that you don't appear to recognise that a life, any life, perhaps your life, can be destroyed by that same luck.

It takes surprisingly little to make a person homeless. Until someone's been in that situation they find it hard to understand why it's so hard.
As a bit of background: a lot of the performance pain around EBS is the inconsistency in performance between IOs. Many times you'll get a nice fast op, but sometimes IOs will get slow suddenly, or even stuck. You can imagine that internally, this is EBS seeking on magnetic disks or getting blocked by a clogged network. Regardless, inconsistent performance is nearly as bad (or perhaps worse) than consistently bad performance in certain cases:

Thus, most of the time, performance issues with EBS bite you when you have application data on an EBS volume. If you're constantly hitting the volume to serve data to customers, you'll be seeing the hiccups in EBS performance and passing them right on to customers. Clearly this is a suboptimal experience, and can lead to other failure modes; a slow/stuck bunch of ops can get an application to completely stall.

It's important to note here that EBS has no error reporting system or timeouts; common operating systems aren't very good at handling disk IO errors, so EBS will never produce them, even when its having issues. This lack of transparency can make handling/working around stuck EBS operations nigh impossible.

So, having experienced these pains, people generally say "Don't constantly use EBS if you care about your application performance/stability," and they aren't wrong.

That said, if you use EBS as a boot volume only, you are likely not hitting that volume enough to feel the pain of slow-IOs; once booted you won't touch it much. At the same time, using EBS as a boot volume has all kinds of conveniences: the ability to start and stop the instance without loosing data, snapshots and AMI creation, persistent machine-specific configuration, etc.

I hope that's useful. EBS is not a perfect service, but it definitely has its uses. EBS as a boot volume has made using AWS quite a bit friendlier.

Note: I worked on the EBS team at AWS a few years ago. I currently use EBS in my startup's infrastructure. If you have further questions, feel free to reach out to me.
Ask HN: Pay for a skill-testing based recruitment service? 
I'm talking about a service kind of like interviewstreet.com, that helps weed-out bad hires by testing them for their sills and help you find people whose skills match those that you are looking for.

Would you actually pay for something like that?
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Dude, I have 7+ years as a highly technical mobile developer and experience writing augmented reality apps that businesses are using in the app store. I would place your idea in the 'very hard' box ... Picking this as your first project to learn development is insane. Augmented reality is in its infancy and what you're trying to implement is darn near impossible. Don't throw in the towel altogether, but time for a different project? Yes.
at my old favorite Amstrad's game title star ;-)
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If your business or project plan requires herculean overtime, then maybe it's not a very good plan. :)
No doubt OP's apps are good, but I'd think a lot of his success can be attributed to being early (as he himself states in the post as I recall).

As a current App Store indie developer, I'd say you should consider the counter-examples also. I enjoyed a book called Buttonless (http://www.amazon.com/Buttonless-Incredible-iPhone-Stories-B...) which discusses indie games and discloses sales figures.

The average picture is not the rosiest.
On a system that uses sudo (like Ubuntu's standard account setup), having access to a non-root administrative user account (with sudo privileges) is equivalent to having root access. And nobody can fool themselves into thinking this isn't the case, because the account is explicitly flagged as "this account can become root."

Because the exploit in the article exists, on a system that uses su, having access to a non-root administrative account (that accesses root regularly through su) is equivalent to having root access. But it's not as obvious that this is the case.

This means the sudo setup is more secure (with respect to this exploit), because it doesn't pretend to have a level of security it doesn't actually have.
Yerevan Hotels - Congress hotel in Yerevan
Rooms in Congress Yerevan Hotel are clean and nicely decorated, with a huge shower cabin in the bathroom area which is equipped with heated floor and is always clean and well maintained. On the upper floors some rooms have private terraces with the stunning view of the Mount Ararat, and in the basement there is a fitness center with sauna.
Interesting. I recall how we had to decrease the clock speed of the processors on a high-performance machine in order to reduce errors - these were detected by simple reproducibility tests. With code optimised to sustain a huge percentage of peak speed and a thousand or so processors, such problems can become manifest, even in the chilly environment in which the machine was housed.
Whether it's a PR stunt or not, if the money is used well it'll do a lot of good
And it makes perfect sense for them to do so! They are optimizing for gameplay.
Damn, that's a shame. (I'm one of the engineers who worked on this site)

We've been working really hard to get this out there - but unfortunately I haven't had a chance to test on Opera. What version of Opera, and what OS are you running? I'd like to make sure this works for as many people as possible.

edit: Looks like our SCSS mixin didn't generate the Opera specific prefixes. We'll try to get that updated in the next couple days :-)
Yes, but why can't some regular code (from an open sourced project) be used in the experiments? I'm sure there should be a way to do that.

It is just, that this synthetic code is broken. It doesn't read. There is no flow in it. It just looks from the first glance, like a non-interesting, unimportant piece, that doesn't do anything, so there is no point in reading it.

Does that sound convincing enough, that there is a big difference between reading synthetic examples and actual code?
Hardware and software have co-evolved, so that disks provide an illusion of error free operation until they throw in the towel and die. And they have consistent performance. This has worked OK so far.

With network filesystems (eg. NFS) you can choose to return an I/O error to the application when you hit a timeout or a network error (the -o intr mount option). This is rarely used since applications aren't used to dealing with them. So can't really blame the OS here either.
1) Why should it be particularily expensive? Data centers do this and they are competitive.
2) It should be obvious that your internet connection sucks shouldn't it? If it isn't, maybe it's not an actual problem?

I think there should be one success story showing it can be done for a profit and then they will appear like mushrooms all over the country. You could crowdfund one I think.
Can you make the decision to be evil, or is evilness an inherent property of someone?

If evil is a decision, how could you make the decision to be evil? Deciding to be evil would itself be an evil act. It is an infinite regress.

If evil is built in, how could you possibly respect a god that punishes what it creates for being as it created it?
one part of what a recruitment agency does, but as a web-based service?

as an employer: no, either the application, the CV and a quick google search convinces me and the person gets an interview, or not.

as an employee (which i had been in the past): a company which sends me to a stupid online test is probably not the company which i want to work with anyway.

but:

do it anyway, and solve the issues mentioned above.
> but there are plenty of internet "lifestyle businesses" that can communicate with their user base much much better.

Like..?

> The guys who accidentally turn their hobby projects into a small, sustainable business for themselves talk to their userbase with a level of candidness that you'll never see from startup guys

I'd really like to know which, so I can learn from them.
I think you have that backwards.

If they were optimizing for gameplay they would sacrifice graphical fidelity until they hit 60fps. Targeting 30fps means they want to sacrifice gameplay for graphical effects.
Where are these 100k jobs that people keep talking about? Because there is no such thing where I come from.
AVTizzle's post was, to me, so ignorant it was bordering on bigotry. So it's not just falcolas who was offended by it.

I tried hard not to respond to it as the hateful screed I felt it was. I had to cut lots from my post before I felt comfortable sending it. But, really, come on. Anyone posting paragraphs of "they just don't work hard enough" and "I took control" in response to personal stories of homelessness is going to get posts from people with different life experiences saying just how wrong that post is.

Re-reading AVTizzle's post now I am still angered by it, but I don't think it's hateful. Just ignorant.

{META} I agree that HN can be needlessly harsh, and I welcome people who work to avoid that. Normal advice is to save a post to drafts and go back to it later for sending. That's not easy on HN - there isn't any save to drafts (unless you use a script or weird text editor interface) and there's pretty big time pressure on posting. The guidelines are a good start to describing acceptable behaviour. I'm not sure about a good way to remind people of them. And recently there have been many 'hot button' ('shallowly, but intensely, interesting') topics, so maybe some over-enthusiastic posting has carried over from those.
That seems to be exactly what they are not optimizing for. Lowering your standards to 30Hz lets you crank graphical fanciness and engine features, but at the expense of gameplay. There is a reason Quake players used to turn their graphics down to mud, even though they could play with better graphics at a lower fps.
Certainly captures a lot of my experience with The Hobbit. I saw it in HD/HFR, and I'm planning on going back to see it in 2D just so I can enjoy the Movie. I was distracted, and distressed at the experience - my entire "suspension of disbelief" was never engaged, and I constantly felt like I was watching a TV Show - one exception being where the Orcs where chasing everyone down inside the mountain, when I felt like I was watching a video game.

Like the OP, I applaud Peter Jackson's experiment - without courage like this, you won't be able to advance the technology of the art. But, in this case, it just didn't work for me. I'm interesting in hearing what other's thought.
millionaires and billionaires who donate their wealth to philanthropic causes deserve to be upvoted and recognized.
absolutely wonderful stuff!
how the heck do you get a job doing this stuff :-)

does it use parallax scrolling ?
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