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Don't be so sensitive. Even if jcampbell1's question is addressed to you, it's on a public comment thread so it's really aimed at a wider audience. What his question (and your response) does is point out that there's a tradeoff involved here - which of course you know, but not everyone reading might. Think of yourself as a participant in a Socratic dialogue.
That's a fair question. It could be that this is a solved problem by some other system/app, but I couldn't easily find one while my problem persisted... so I did what every over-active nerd does: I just built my own solution.

I think Pixit is different because it is solely for quick photo sharing between friends in 3 steps. Simple, quick, and effective. However, I'm not sure how much mass appeal it would have. It works for my usecase, but increasingly I find that I am an outlier when it comes to consumery stuff.
Special-case counterpoint: Insisting on getting paper bills from your cell phone service provider can make it easier to detect unauthorized third-party "cramming" charges. Being able to review the details of your bill when you open your mail can be useful if, like me, you're the sort who doesn't always keep up with the on-line version. I just switched back to paper billing for that reason; see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994127.
I appreciate your point, but failures by the police are failures by the government. If the government cannot figure out how to rein in its police force, that's a very serious problem and can't be dismissed.

Your point is useful insofar as we recognize that the police are dominated from a particular subset of society--those who condone marrying rape victims to their rapists, for instance, implicitly by permitting it or explicitly by encouraging it.

Thus, it's something that needs to be dealt with, and perhaps that is an avenue to explore to find a solution.
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People seem pretty conflicted about democracy. They want 'the people' to be in control, but not really -- because they're not very smart and somewhat irrational. Yet they're all for voting. Maybe because they knew their vote doesn't matter? It gets confusing pretty quick.
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This is a mic that has worked really well for our users. Not the prettiest but the audio is solid: http://www.amazon.com/Samson-Mic-Compact-USB-Microphone/dp/B...
I swear by morning workouts. It's just so much more efficient than evenings. When you're tightly scheduled in the morning you're forced to workout efficiently. A good workout isn't necessarily a long one -- high intensity is what matters.

Like Sharkweek said (awesome), the energy it gives you to start your day is amazing. It carries me to lunch with plenty of adrenaline flowing.

I also had difficulty falling asleep when I worked out in the evenings.
As someone with a degree in geography, this is a bit hyperbolic, and a bit of a one-sided, urban, first world, view of cartography that might be nice for advertisers in big cities with pervasive 4G or wifi, but will also be ignored everywhere else.

Mapping is traditionally about sensemaking and placemaking. Precision and accuracy are two different things, and both are entirely context dependent. There's a famous book, How to Lie with Maps, all about it. Maps are how we take things from others by drawing a line in a different place, or how we explore boundaries by drawing what we know and wondering what's everywhere else. They are stories on paper that sometimes have legal or royal or personal meaning, but they are always still stories. Geography is a social science, and cartography is as much art as it is evidence.

In Sketching User Experiences, Bill Buxton tells a story about maps, where your Google Glass example breaks down:

Imagine that you were kayaking off the coast of Greenland, and needed a chart to find your way. You might have a paper chart, but you will probably have trouble unfolding it with your mittens on, and in any case, it will probably get soaked in the process and become unreadable. From the urban perspective, an alternative solution might be to go to your PC and use a mapping program on the internet... However, there is a minor problem here, too. You don't have your PC with you in the arctic, much less in your kayak. We all know about internet-enabled cell phones and PDAs--they might provide another alternative. Why not jump on the internet using your cell phone, and get the map that way?

But here is the problem. You probably can't get cellular service where you are in your kayak. And even if you can, your battery is probably dead because it is so cold. Or, your phone won't work because it is wet. Even if your mobile phone does work, and you have service, you probably can't operate it because you can't do so without taking your mittens off, and it is too cold to do so.

Now let's look at a third approach, one that the Inuit have used... This shows two tactile maps of the coastline, carved out of wood. They can be carried inside your mittens, so your hands stay warm. They have infinite battery life, and can be read, even in the six months of the year that it is dark. And, if they are accidentally dropped in the water, they float. What you and I might see as a stick, for the Inuit can be an elegant design solution that is appropriate for their particular environment.

There are entire cultures where your Euro-centric view of mapping does not compute, so much so that researchers at my alma mater would go into jungles and teach third world tribes how the usurping white man views their world so they can make maps that you, the outsider, can understand what they had previously only expressed emotionally. There are entire continents where your "Mirror World" cannot accurately represent anything, and I feel that puts your seminal moment much further away than you imagine.
It might be useful when the person recording his life is Einstein, or Rockefeller.
Actually I think the queue system won't be included just yet.
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That depends on for who. For Amazon, perhaps.
Like I said in the 3rd paragraph of the post. "Of course, I'm not speaking literally."

I titled this post in this way because it really does make you feel like the day is extended by two more hours. Not literally, I'm taking about psychologically, which is often just as valuable.
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Its interesting, about midway through he gets very lucid about the is and the stuff in it. More than I've seen him in other places.
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Zeusmos has been around before the shutdown, but articles like this are just giving them publicity and pushing them into the light. Zeusmos runs on the apptrackr API, which has also been shutdown, so the shutdown also hurts them.
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StepStats is great! I just got a Fitbit for Christmas and these graphs are a lot better than the ones on the Fitbit site. The best part is they work on iOS devices unlike the Flash ones that Fitbit uses.
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I can't talk about my time machine, sadly. :)
As a consumer, I prefer this style of monetization to in-app purchasing. At least I know what I'm getting and what the reviews mean. Oddly, though, the market doesn't seem to agree with me. Demo/shareware apps just don't seem to do well.

Obviously the average consumer and I just don't see eye to eye about something. I have no idea what, though.
Links comes pretty close. Here's some of the output of this comments page:

$ links -dump 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992951'
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This would be infinitely more useful if there was a view that
scraped the comments for each article or (even better)
scraped the article itself (instapaper style). I would love
to peruse hacker news this way in-between working as I hate
getting distracted on websites.

If I get some free time I might look into adding that myself.

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I would use this but I also think it needs to implement at
very least the comments page view. Otherwise you might as
well just stick to the browser. There are a lot of times I'll
read comments before I read an article, so I could still find
it useful even if you didn't scrape the entire article to
it's own view but allowed me to browse the comments.

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Just as you have economies of scale, there are diseconomies of scale, many of which result from combinatorial explosion in communication channels, and are as applicable to political as to industrial process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseconomies_of_scale
Thanks for the clarity, I'll update my post.
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I've tried going with and without food before the gym, but settled on without. I feel more alert and less sluggish when I don't eat before working out.

If you're strength training, you may run into issues though.
Why are the dynamic finders being deprecated? Is it a speed/parsing thing? Or changing styles?
One guideline for passwords isnt exicitly mentioned here which is that passwords should be kept secret. People are bad at keeping secrets and there are many reasonable justifications for sharing your password with a trusted friend. Passwords proved identity only if secrecy is assumed. Who is responsible/suffers more if I share my passwords, me or the system administrator?
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I was diagnosed with schizo-affective and bipolar disorders when I was 19. I was on disability until I was 26 (I am now almost 31), even though I worked part time as a software developer through that entire period.

I've managed to live a pretty "normal" life so far, even with my health issues. I have both Bachelor's and Master's degrees. I've been with my wife for 5 years so far. I've held down jobs pretty well, with ever-increasing levels of responsibility. I have healthy hobbies that take quite a bit of attention but do not become overriding obsessions.

My wife and I have different struggles than most other couples. She is most definitely not with me because it's novel, nor to "save" me or any other sort of co-dependent nonsense.

Schizophrenia may not be fixable, but it is controllable to a degree and with care it doesn't have to mean a life in institutions or a life without a satisfying career.
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I haven't heard anything that suggests that. In fact, most medical professionals suggest a morning workout for increased energy and better sleep patterns.
There is a difference between using someone's verbatim statements when they have been made in an emotionally heightened state of mind (e.g. in a fight), and using them to vindicate one's self when the blame is being assigned, e.g. in a workplace. There is a reason why the old adage of "give it to me in writing" exists.

Also, even though people may say the wrong things when they are emotional, a repeated pattern of them expressing those sentiments can reveal their real disposition. In this way, a record of what is said, word for word, can be useful to uncover someone's real thoughts. I already do this with my brain, but it is easier when it's in searchable, dated text.
And the missing answer to the obvious question: yes, they succeeded in getting 3000 people to sign up by Dec 31st.

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Exactly like that, but it cannot be used on commercial products. At least for free. Any other suggestions?
voting based on what most vocal/active constituents want is usually a pretty good idea, because they are the ones who usually research the topic the most, and have good solutions, and want their voices heard

Faulty syllogism there, in my view. The most vocal/active constituents can also be the most easily manipulated or the most extremist ones. Consider that there have been several Congressional attempts at immigration reform in the last decade or so, all of which have been derailed by a hardline nativist lobby which insists on deportation of all illegal aliens, which nobody in their right mind considers sensible, ethical, or practical.

Frankly, I think there's an inverse correlation between political passion and expert knowledge.
It might be instructive to get the, er, perspective of someone who has used augmented vision for several years already. http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/why-sm...
nice list! I also did a similar post, and since people seem to be posting theirs here, here's mine:
http://blog.mroth.info/blog/2012/11/11/the-year-in-side-proj...
Why stop there? Instead of saying "until we [someone else] find a way to do that," why not explore what that would take?

What does the research tell us about how we feel? How is that different across genders? Across personality types? Across cultures?

How can we represent that? What sort of accuracy matters? Should it be relative or absolute? Does it matter? What will we be using it for?

How can we record it? How much can we trust self-analysis, like diaries or mood questions? How much can we trust biometrics? Is that dependent per-person or can we generalize?

What sort of biometrics would we need? How long would we have to wear them? Where? Power? Fashion? What about on the beach, can they survive sand and salt water and 110 degree F weather? What about military use, can they survive high-pressure sand and persistent sweat and the very different bodily reactions that someone in a firefight goes through compared to a soccer mom?

What is the goal of an emotional recollection? To understand it yourself? To remind yourself? To reminisce? To convey your emotions to another? To allow another to find something similar in their own recorded memories so they can empathize better?

Don't stop at fiction or wait for someone else to make a web service for it. This is something that can be designed and built today. This is something that could have been designed and built a decade ago.
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Really defeats the purpose of the Senate. It is bad enough we have direct election of Senators when the Senate was supposed to be the way the states kept the federal government in check.

At this point given technology and travel times, I would be more apt to support an amendment to replace the two Senators with the state's Governor. At least some fiscal control and concequences for state budgets would be discussed.
This is a great post and I probably wouldn't have read up on DynASM without it. But the comparison between DynASM syntax and the BPF JIT is a bit unfair; the Linux kernel is not pervasively JIT'd, and the BPF language hasn't changed in decades, so there was little incentive to create a flexible dynamic code generation system for it.

You could probably very easily clean up the syntax for a C->x64 JIT without requiring (yech) a preprocessor.
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relevant:
http://www.njohnston.ca/2009/06/11630-is-the-first-uninteres...
I doubt it will have lots of success. First, companies can use linkedin, or other social networks such as github to reach people, second, most of the people will not want to publicly show that they are looking (their current employer could very well read that thread), and finally as mentioned in another comment, the thread will be way too long (in the "seeking freelancer" thread, there are about 5 times more people looking for work than people hiring).
How does the Schizophrenia present itself in your daily life? I'd love to hear some examples so I can better understand your experience.
Play narrative-heavy computer games that are translated into Lithuanian. I did this to supplement other methods I used while living in Poland. The Diablos were especially well-localized. Bonus is, it teaches you all kinds of obscure words and expressions that even native speakers sometimes aren't familiar with.
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I've seen that you can reasonably have both.

With a mindset of today's leading edge "way" being tomorrow's legacy.. one is creating technical debt that will be abandoned on older versions without extensive updates.

A black and white view on a framework being opinionated definitely costs more developer hours in some ways (which it could save up front).

I want to be extremely careful to not go near any religious debates about frameworks, or as you put it very well, preferences.

There is no perfect or ideal tool. Having open enough conversations about the tools we use and the reality we sometimes face without trying to be apologists or explain it away is essential.

I do wonder if many people have yet to have a relationship with a codebase they started as the leading edge, which stays stuck on an old release that becomes more and more expensive to upgrade. Does one really end up ahead in that case having to repay technical debt caused by the philosophy of a framework?

Maybe there's a finer line that can be drawn between the fantastic benefits of a framework that are not likely to change, and a way to work in approaches that may come and go?

Like any framework, it will have mature whether it likes it or not, I just hope it's for the better like everyone.
Or a satellite photo.
When it comes to something as abstract as "willpower",I can't help but think that these "facts" only serve to hinder potential. Every "scientific" discussion regarding willpower always presents the same old rehashed Marshmallow experiments, blah blah blah. Same as the quick fact at the bottom of this article which argues that strong willpower isn't a character trait.

To all those "facts" I say "so what?". So what if you're a bit delusionally optimistic? So what if you genuinely believe that you have the willpower of an ox? So what if science tells you not to tackle too many habits, why not try? When it comes to these scientific "facts" about abstract concepts, especially when the scientific facts begin to place limits on what I can or can't do, then I just discard them.

At the end of the day, belief is what gets things done, period. It reinforces commitment, breeds passion, and instills hope when others would give up. Belief accomplishes what "rational" humans will exclaim is impossible. If that involves a little bit of ignoring the "facts" then so be it.

I think the rest of the article makes great points about visualizing highly-specific habits to achieve abstract outcomes, but other than that, don't let science define your beliefs on what is or is not possible.
I think if you did that you would get into much the same situation you see with the discussion over the tax/budget changes that are happening today. Its really easy to rally people _against_ something. Its a bit harder to get them to support it. I think you would find with a public veto that nothing substantial would pass through congress.
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You don't appear to be hell-banned (if that's what you're referring to in your first sentence).
I think what you said about theory vs reality is the gap of technical debt that gets created. It's a real and growing issue in any framework that is maturing.

If what is today's leading edge will be legacy in the next 8-12 months, can a codebase get established and create value?
The people already do vote for such representatives.
An interesting example from the last election, and worth the read despite eh frothy prose at the outset: https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/gary-johnson-swindle
Thanks!

How do your watchdog instances monitor other hosts? Do they track usage/load via snmpd, or something else?

Also, are they directly calling the EC2 API to launch or shut down hosts, or do you have an in-house deployment system?
Wow, I had this exact idea few months ago. I figured the founding fathers would be against it though.
>Make something like OS X based on Linux and I'd spend $500+ to buy it and fund its development.

This is such a common wish that I wonder why noone has taken up the challenge. Sure, we have Canonical, but Ubuntu is still not at a place where I would say the experience is better than OSX (disclaimer: I use Debian on my primary machine, not an Apple fanboy by any measure)

<rant>Dell had the resources to do just this. They could have put together a team to get a Dell-Specific Linux-based OS and ship it out when they were the top dog. Now they're finding themselves to be increasingly irrelevant</rant>