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So, I'm a TEDx organizer in Dallas, and one of my former speakers posted this thread on my FB page. For what it's worth, I thought I would share a few thoughts. TEDx is about organizing an event in your local community. Not all the TEDx talks are on TED.com; only ones selected by the TED team. In addition, the TEDx team watches every talk, all 21,000 and counting, and the best talks are curated for ted.com There are some amazing TEDx events and inspiring talks from TEDx events, like Brene Brown's talk from TEDxHouston (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Qm9cGRub0). Obviously growth has its challenges, and it seems like the conversation below is representative of that. But there are a huge number of people in this TEDx community who are genuinely trying to bring value to their local communities through these events. It's really too bad that a few bad apples are jeopardizing the whole.
That still doesnt change "I could never sit alone all day, staring at a computer and never getting the chance to talk to anybody."

Even by using social media, you are still alone in front of your computer.
Right, you get them speculating, but speculating where they're comfortable enough. Where that boundary is depends on the individual...
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Could you suggest a good board game that is playable turn by turn? We are a group of friends in very different time zone, and playing a turn based game, about one turn a day works nicely.

We have played Tigris & Euphrates, and it works great, but would be looking for something different.

Thanks.
The problem with Belltown isn't so much with crime as its antiseptic feel. Endless highrises with nothing interesting for retail underneath. No supermarket. The coffee shops have no character. On a Sunday morning the streets are barren of people, and even the lone park is cold and uninviting. It's just a classless hunk of neighborhood where bridge and tunnelers drink, and boring people live. I would far prefer to live in Capitol Hill or even Ballard.
There is a way to feed the energy you make using renewable sources into the grid so you can use them when they are around. Since you're still connected to the grid, conventional energy sources or better yet, renewable energy being generated elsewhere, can take over when the renewables aren't available.
Is Finder meaningfully different from the Windows Explorer, the BeOS Tracker, GNOME's Nautilus or KDE's Dolphin, or is it actually clear from context that every desktop OS has something like this that does the same work?
This is correct, these were taken at the Pad A rubber room, the others that have been linked to were taken at Pad B. It was quite dark inside. I preferred the look of the natural lighting. Images were shot with a 5D III and 16-35L lens with an ISO of around 3200.
Having read through their workflow diagram, I'm really unclear why they can achieve 90% efficiency. Isn't that basically just a Carnot engine? If not, why not? If it is, how can they possibly achieve 90% efficiency when the best Carnot-like engine I've seen is around 35%?
Every bit helps. If every FreeBSD user gave $50 the Foundation would have lots and lots of money.
The laws made more sense during the 1700s than now. No one really has any chance now. You discount the entire industrial and technological progress that happened in the past 200 years.
Close to 0%.

You'd be surprised how accurate your google intuition is. But the main reason you don't miss is because you're using this Alfred shortcut to go somewhere specific. In other words, it's helpful for navigating (when you know you'd want the first result), not when you don't actually know where you want to end up.

Consider these:

l wiki amphetamine
l gwern nootropics
l github turbolinks
l soundcloud radiohead

They'd go where you'd expect and are good examples of when I elect to use this shortcut.

However, here are some bad usage examples because you're trying to navigate when you really want to search:

l amazon piracetam
l buy piracetam

Buying the first Google result isn't how you shop. Instead, you'd `l amazon` to navigate and then search for "piracetam" on Amazon. Or you'd just `buy piracetam` and let it bring up the Google results. The first google result for `amazon piracetam` also happens to go to an Amazon 404.

edit: Not the best example considering Alfred ships with an Amazon shortcut (`amazon piracetam` actually launches an Amazon search), but I hope the point is still clear.
Actually I'm not, but reading the post again I see how it could come off that way... (edit: at least to an American...)
Exactly.

Product design and technical implementations do not happen in separate silos. And I want the security products that I use to inspire a much higher level of trust than some generic tool.
Is this a situation of people not having the resources or permission to do the jobs for which they were hired?

So these people are trying to get a job done despite their manager's actions. A manager's job is to remove roadblocks to getting things done. In this situation, the manager needs to self-remove.
It's a foreign occupying power there. Very different record.
So, assuming my impression and Hahn's are both accurate - what changed?

Nothing. The only difference is if you're on a mailing list that Linus frequents, or if you're only reading a single post from that list bereft of context because someone sent you a link to the point where Linus puts his foot down.

Its like Zed Shaw, he wrote a great introduction to programming book I frequently recommend and even helps random people learn over twitter and email. But post some of his work on HN and you'll find a bunch of people still sore about a single angry rant he wrote a few years ago.
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In a different domain, the journalist Hunter J. Thomson was known to type entire novels to learn the style of master novelists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson):

"During this time he worked briefly for Time, as a copy boy for $51 a week. While working, he used a typewriter to copy F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms in order to learn about the writing styles of the authors."
There are definitely cheaper ways to get SSL. The simplest might be a CloudFlare Pro account, since you won't have to migrate to a different host. (It wasn't clear how much of the $99 WPE charge was hosting and how much was an SSL surcharge. It's my impression that these surcharges vary quite a bit.)
See http://books.google.ca/books/about/Day.html?id=kKOefRuY954C

The book, "Day," by Kenneth Goldsmith was created by typing out, word for word, an issue of the New York Times. It's considered a book of poetry.

Typing out a novel word-for-word doesn't seem all that insane to me. And it likely isn't a useless exercise either: artists learning to draw and paint have often tried to reproduce the works of the masters in painstaking detail in order to try and internalize the techniques and effects used. I suspect the mechanical motions of typing out a piece of writing you admire will illicit much the same response in your brain as it likely shares the same mechanism of reinforcement.
You need two networks: one internal without any Internet connection and computers with no WiFi and no USB.

Make people work on their workstation, connected to the internal network and let them use their other computer / laptop to search the Web.

I can name at least one very important chip-designing company that is worth $$$ bn that used to work this way (don't know where they're at now).
It's hard to believe that people "have never seen this behaviour" have spent much time watching the OSS community. Ulrich Dreper, well known OSS contributor and former steward of glibc, was famous for flaming the ever-living shit out of anyone who dared submit a patch that he in any way did not care for. To give but one example, http://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2000-08/msg00053.htm...
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I was about to say this same thing; Linus is extremely tame by most people's standards, and when he does get snippy, he tends to reserve vitriol mostly for those who should know better. If he does take the time to criticize a "noob", it's not because they are a beginner, it's because their idea is flat out wrong. Take the whole git/C++ email exchange (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643...) and notice how Linus didn't get flame-y until the OP did. Or the whole Con Kolivas/Ingo Molnar scheduler debacle: there were perfectly good reasons why Torvalds chose Molnar's implementation over Kolivas's.

The truth of the matter is, Linus doesn't really have time to respond to every hare-brained idea that people have for the kernel. Add to that he's been doing this for a while. If you feel maligned, you might want to consider a) Linus is probably right b) if you really want to hack on the kernel, you should know better and c) if you want due consideration from people more busy than you, you should give your idea due consideration yourself.

Edit to followup: until you've lurked on LKML for a while, or heard an interview, or, I dunno, maybe actually had a live conversation with Torvalds, you are probably being lead to believe he's an asshole by people with bones to pick with him (eg, people who should know better who he told off). As someone else pointed out farther down thread, how many times have we seen links to a single email/blog post by Torvalds without the context of the person he is responding to?
The described IT painfully reminds me of Soviet-style planned economy. It tries to be the only economy in tow", but as it falls behind due to inefficiency, it tries hard to suppress any other economies that try to arise.

And of course it is done in the name of security! Obviously everyone is trying to steal your secrets and that's why you have to live in outdated and broken environment.
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What's odd is that they don't see the parallel absurdity of outlawing a piece of metal carved into the shape of a firearm

What parallel absurdity?

A number's meaning is entirely arbitrary and dependent on the context: a bit-string that is a pattern for a firearm in program A might be a perfectly valid music file in program B.

Firearm is a piece of metal that had to be precision shaped to throw small pellets of metal at very high speeds.

(I'll agree that 3D printing muddies the waters though.)
That seems to be an odd, and ironic flaw in the human mind. We often do to others what was done to us. Sexual abusers are often themselves past victims of sexual abuse.
I am curious to know how you cultivated sense of urgency among employees after this conversation? Did you start sharing more about competition and/or other information? Did you share it directly or massaged the message so the employees don't get discouraged? Or was "we don't want to be discouraging" an assumption?
Don't know why people are downvoting you. The best fit value for the cmbined channels is in the 95% confidence level for both single channels, so I belive we can argue that Betteridges law is correct (at 95% CL).
That's meaningless. "never getting the chance to talk to anybody"? I'm talking to you, and everyone else who reads this web page, right now.

Just look around you. Look at all the people who are in real world physical social situations and still spend most of their time staring at their smartphone and the stream of social updates from Twitter, from Facebook, from Email...

Staring at those screens is compelling because they are so damn social now. It's not some mythical solitary activity like playing solitaire or reading a book.
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I assume you're making the argument that a ragtag bunch of rebels wouldn't have a chance standing against an empire armed to the teeth with the latest war machines. If that is indeed the case, have you been paying attention to the news for the last decade?
Which is probably the real answer and should be treated as such. I can't stand these "Did science just discover that Jesus was out to lunch with Jay Z?!?!" NO, it didn't.

I don't know if I'm just pissed off today because of the whole CT thing, or because I see more and more mass media outlets posting nonsense about science, but if you have to ask "did xyz discover blah blah blah" the answer is probably no.
It's misleading, and poor form to say stuff like that.

Does posting on HN cause BRAIN CANCER?!?!?!? What you don't know about posting on the internet could kill you and your family, twice.....more after a new episode of Modern Family!
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Sure, this person could have been an outlier. But I get the impression that that's what most people think we do all day.

Incidentally, I didn't expect anybody would question that particular point. If anything, I'd have thought people would think it much less plausible that a computer programmer had been invited to a party. And that once there he had actually spoken to a girl.
It is different in many other ways too. For example, the people American soldiers are shooting at (for the most part) speak another language, have a different religion, have a different culture, and look different.
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Definitely. Meta-learning is something that's tough. Recently I enrolled into CodeSchool.com and there are lots of interesting sounding tutorials. I code in Python and want to be more proficient in web development, the problem I face is, okay, where should I start?

Another example is, if I learned programming in python, what do I do to get to the next level?
Given cperciva's non-monetary contributions to FreeBSD over many years, I'd say he ought to get a pass, even if he contributed $0. It seems pretty demanding to expect both huge code contributions over a span of many years, plus monetary donations, from an individual who's just getting his company ramped up.

That's not to say it's not awesome that he contributes both, but I certainly wouldn't be "really disappointed" if he didn't.
Agreed. I think the web has insane amount of good resources for pretty much most topics - but knowing what to learn is hard.

It would be awesome, if I can go to a site and say "this is what I want to do, now tell me what I need to learn to achieve it, and the resources needed".
> both options end up with the "open" solution winning.

I see you've changed from "all roads lead to open", so it's a start. Keep going.

Edit: On second thought, don't. This thread doesn't have a lot going for it, I'm out.
I've had extensive experience in this market (i.e I've spoken to >1000 student developers) and I think this is the right approach.

From a students perspective most students have close to no-idea what kind of company they want to work for when they graduate and often have a very limited concept of the reality of what working at different companies would involve.

From a startups perspective it's very hard to target students, a typical serious recruitment campaign would cost 6-7 figures to run and is really only an option for companies who are hiring a large number of candidates (as you can ammortize the costs of having presence at careers fairs, etc.) - I would imagine Google spends in the millions if not tens of millions in student recruitment every year.

Most startups aren't Facebook or DropBox. Look at First Round's portfolio page, chances are that as someone who's familiar with the startup scene you still won't recognize most of their consumer facing startups let alone their b2b startups.

Most students will never have heard of these startups. Even if a student cares about the domain of the startup they probably still won't have heard of the startup.

You can't be the candidate's first choice if they've never heard of you. But once you've got their CV and you've decided that you want to go after them you can sell them on your company and make it their first choice.

I'm also willing to bet that most startups would rather hire a stellar engineer with average passion about the domain (but cares about the tech) over someone with stellar passion and average talent.
You should touch up on Sublime's Package Installer. With it, it completely trumps Coda (with exception to the CSS GUI).
I definitely was insinuating that, along with lots of other things.

So everyone who wants a gun will do whatever they need to get it? No one who wants a gun will be deterred by any possible prevention measures?

Measures such as background checks, safety class requirements, mental health checks, restrictions on high-capacity or high-throughput weapons, higher taxes, manufacturer and supply chain oversight, spying on domestic traffickers, or closing the gun show loophole?
You can't do it that way-- once someone copies the code, it can never be changed by you. What you can change is the contents of the Javascript file. For example, when I make an update to my service, I upload the changes to script.js and the new code is run on the sites that embed that script.
Second sentence as well...
"We're are..."
Also nmh, though it can be complicated to set up (especially to set up well). Still meaning to put together a tutorial / description of my setup...
I seemed to have failed to mention that their was indeed a toilet. It can be seen on the left in this photo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walter-s-photo/8200797657/in/ph...
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Here are a few.

Racism:

http://constitution.org/cmt/cramer/racist_roots.htm

http://www.guncite.com/journals/gun_control_wtr8512.html

Genocide:

http://www.davekopel.com/2a/Foreign/gun-bans-and-genocide.ht...

http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm
Does Apple really protect its users' privacy more than Google?
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This is amazing! So many exciting things happening in Seattle.

Zipcar has a few stations around the city, so it'll be interesting to see how things play out.

Looking at the prices, it looks like if you rent the car for about 33 minutes ($13), you get the rest of the hour free. Likewise the maximum day charge is $73, while $0.38/min = $547/day. So does this mean you can keep the car all day for under $80?

Edit: Zipcar's daily rate is the same, but their hourly rate is lower ("as low as $8")
I hate the phrase "guns don't kill people, people kill people" because it prevents reasonable discussion but it does get closer to the root of the problem and the solution.

The problem is how we treat mental illness. It's so stigmatized that people feel extreme shame and a sense that they just have to want to be better.

Every single person should be able to walk into a doctor's office, be screened and treated for their illness without the stigma that we attach to it. "Why should I have to pay for it?" This is one, among many, of the reasons. Will it eliminate these incidents? Nope but the result will still be a better society.
But the comments here are just the exact same opinions/comments that you see/hear everywhere else from people who are arguing about gun control. Nothing valuable or new here at all.
What I gathered from the article is that conceptual goals are less prone to deviation from your intentions than quantifiable ones.
I am not sure partitioning networks the way the military does is going to work very well. What is going to happen when a mid-level manager has a meeting, he is running late, and he just needs to get his powerpoint set out of the internal network? He's either going to miss that meeting or fail to close the deal, at which point the policy is getting in the way of business (and will therefore be short-lived), or he's going to find that one crack that lets him get some data out (more likely).

The reason red/black networks (can potentially) work in military environments is that there is a (somewhat) uniform notion of classification in the military; in the business world, there is no such thing. What is needed is something more distributed, like a system that automatically encrypts documents so that uploading those documents to some Internet service is not so hazardous. Give employees smartcards that are easily carried around and easy to use, perhaps combining those smartcards with a thumb drive that contains whatever software they need to decrypt their documents on any computer. The security will not be perfect, but this is not a situation that requires perfection, only improvement.
People are probably downvoting him because they are sick of hearing about that stupid law on HN. If you think the answer is "no", say why you think it is "no". There is interesting discussion to be had there.

Saying the answer is "no" because the headline ended in a '?' adds nothing to the conversation.
The idea there is something wrong with the resourceful workers instead of the lagging IT is perposterous.

IT right now in many companies is living in 2004 still. SO MUCH has changed in the intervening 8 years, it's no surprise that people are going with consumer grade products when corporate IT doesn't deliver modern resources.
I said the same thing here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922380

PG himself has chimed in to point out the words "most" and "probably".

I'm with you, but we seem notto be in accord with the site owner.
Of course, it's not easy. But it's not impossible either. A good samaritan may not always be able to help, but sometimes they can. In such a situation they'd definitely need to be careful, and in general it's inappropriate for armed civilians to try to act like police in situations like this (e.g. hunting down the attacker). But armed civilians can protect the people they are around, and they can stop the shooter from just going from room to room willy nilly (as happened at Virginia Tech) until they run out of bullets. More than that, as I mentioned, by preventing schools from becoming the havens of defenseless individuals that they are today it will have a deterrent effect against attackers. The reason why schools are such a common choice is precisely because there are lots of people there and everyone knows they are defenseless.
This is something that one person has said happens, with no evidence, that many other people with equal credentials have said doesn't happen.

Without evidence, it's just talk.
If the answer is "We don't know", then the article should not be posting headlines as questions they don't have an answer too. Unless they are just fishing for traffic.
Even better: here is a box. How many 'average' library books can you fit into it.

Seriously, put a 'functional skills maths ideas' page up there and you'll get tonnes of teachers linking to the page.
I really do hate reading articles that praise rogue employees using cloud services.

It's wrong for an infinite string of Data Loss reasons, uncontrolled access to cloud services is no different than leaving a laptop filled with confidential information lying in the front seat of your car.

It doesn't matter how secure the user thinks it is, nobody in Security or Risk Management has qualified or quantified the risk.

To say that Executives would rather stifle productivity is false, they will get the appropriate tools for the job for their workers, that has never been the issue at any organization I've worked for directly, or consulted for.

The real reason nobody cracks down on this, is kind of ironic, although the executives know it's going on, and they will chastise or have you written up for breaking policy/procedure, the truth is that they don't really know what their security posture is and they don't want to know for liability reasons.

There's a lot of willful ignorance, because Security in IT truly is a giant black hole cost center to these people, and rather than seeing it as protective measure, they see it as something that stifles productivity and costs enormous amounts of money.
Well, there certainly is competition for engineering talent.