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You may want to check out the RePEc sites for ideas, they're for econ, so you may not have come across them. One main page is:
http://ideas.repec.org
author listings are:
http://ideas.repec.org/i/eall.html

Just another possible source of ideas.
I think he misunderstands the purpose of meetings, or maybe I'm just cynical.

Meetings are about showing social status. It's a way of establishing your control over others' time. It's not "Let's get together and be awesome." It's usually a show of either dominance, or deference (to a higher-status entity; you are deferring by committing your reports' time). Obviously, a few meetings have a real purpose, but most don't. Most are on the calendar to confirm authority and status relationships.

I once heard it said that status meetings (as in project status) are actually not about reporting status, but confirming the (social) status of the boss.

This is why so many terrible meetings are called.
Collect empty bottles and fill them with cheap blue stuff, put a layer of real tide on the top for the smell and viscosity. Probably already is.
I could maybe see it with 20 with a cart, but 100 seems like quite a stretch.

Also if they are presumably loosing many thousands of dollars a week to the theft of something so bulky, how the hell haven't they figured out a way to prevent that sort of theft?

If it's happening, my money is on them being in on it somehow because it's really just ludicrous otherwise.
This article, subtle culture-war subtext aside, traffics in the most vapid and disingenuous kind of generalizations. No craning of my neck will find an angle from which this adds value. Flagged.
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I've felt it, and have in fact thrown competitions to avoid having to deal with more strange people.

Usually my line of thought would go something like this: "Can I slip away without being too conspicuous? No? Then I'll find a way to avoid going in the first place."

In recent times I've tried forcing myself to attend situations that involve lots of people, but I can only take about 30 minutes (1 hour tops) of that before I start shutting down and have to leave. I can extend that a bit if I consume lots of alcohol, but I'd rather not do so if I can avoid it.

For me, the perfect social gathering involves no more than 4-5 people in a relatively quiet place.
Is this for real? Seriously this is the definition sensationalism.
>Alice doesn't care how much drugs she gets for that

I think your explanation is wrong.

Alice would certainly care how much she got for $Tide, else she wouldn't see it as ($).

Bob is the lowest common denomiator here in that Bob must know that he can get $xY for $Tide from the store... whereas he is going to give minimal value for $Tide to Alice.

This is not only how Bob $Profits, but also how Bob lays low from the Law.
echo */ (perfect when your unable to fork)
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It looks nice, but the previous design was excellent. It had more examples, more detailed explanations, and lots of comments. I'll just have to get use to this.
> The world is run by extraverts.

Sure is. Collaboration is the trait that made humanity advance to where we are today. And things are better today than they have ever been in the past for introverts: much more collaboration is done remotely.

> The problem with extraverts — not all of them, I grant you, but many, so many — is a lack of imagination.

This is "the" problem? I think it more accurate to say that the author's problem with extroverts (see below) is that they want to socialize with him. Socialization is mentally good for most people, including most introverts.

Honestly, the three paragraphs starting here make me wonder if he has something deeper than simple introversion. I mean, it's fine to prefer to be alone, but it's less fine to feel fear about standard social interactions. If he does the latter, that's kind of a problem to my mind.

(A problem, by the way, that I deal with. I force myself to go to get-togethers with more than about five people. I'll be upset about it as the get-together looms, but I almost always enjoy it once I'm there.)

> So, extraverts of the world, I invite you to make a New Year’s resolution: Refrain from organizing stuff.

Oof. He's asking the majority of the people of the world to change their (generally healthy) habits for his benefit.

Humans are built for socialization. Socialization is a mentally positive activity for most people, and most people crave it.

> extrovert is common but wrong, because extra- is the proper Latin prefix.

extra- being the proper Latin prefix does not imply "extrovert" is wrong. We're speaking English, not Latin.
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I don't see how lockless concurrency is related to writing less code. OTOH I do see how proper use of SQL, which you so hastily left behind, is directly related and beneficial.

Form your post it seems like you're not so much interested in "less code" type of things regardless of their age, and more interested in new things for the sake of their newness, and in "moving on" away from the old things, whatever they are.

Don't get carried away with that.
I think you work for the wrong company. This may be true at MegaCorp, Inc. but in my experience working with small groups of programmers & engineers, when a meeting is called everyone makes damn sure that the purpose is to get together and be awesome.
Just look at the difference an active core makes by observing the difference between Earth and Mars. How likely is it that a planet has all the right things: liquid water, enough gravity (mass), active core, planets further out sweeping up the debris so it doesn't destroy said planet over and over, tidally locked moon, etc.

My guess is that Earth is very, very unique.
Because those articles are generally boring, disappointing, and come out hours after all the other sites have amassed 22k shares and likes for their articles, earning them The Master of the Internet badge on publishers-circle-leaflet.com for the day. It's a new social site where bloggers get badges for having other people do all the hard work, and all your positive reputation gets reset by a rogue cron script at night.
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I think that the $25k flat fee is very well done. It sends the right signals, and incentivizes companies in the right ways.

1) It implies that their offering is heavily productized. To a hiring company, this implies that quality will be high because they have found a way to scale a solution such that improvements benefit every customer.

2) $25k signals a bias towards higher salaries, where this number can be expected to be below typical recruiter prices. It has the same effect as theladders.com's "$100k+ jobs only" policy, but acts as a natural consequence of economic interest, instead of a gimmicky status ploy.
Cmd + K on the OS X Terminal.
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The thing is, if you put raw data in a URL it's no longer really a URL. If you're transforming data it makes sense to put the data somewhere else, and somewhere else means POST. Even if the data doesn't get stored permanently.

REST never really considered requests that don't involve resources..
Up next: the problem with X, they just don't get Y. They love [things people love to whine about].

Blah.
Do take into some account, however small the effect may be, that there will inevitably be more extr[o]verted opinion said/posted here than those supporting introversion, because no matter how much easier it is for introverts to type their answers here than to say it in real life, it is still easier to type nothing at all.
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Sorry you think that. I read it, found it interesting and agree with some of it. I certainly don't think it's worthy of being flagged.
One person's 'basic social skills' is another person's 'complete waste of time'.
> Specifying what item(s) should be targeted in a pool of possibly millions, with endless possible combinations is bound to require some kind of precise pointer.

Since you're using base 64 there, let's think for a minute. How many characters would you need to uniquely identify over a million objects? log_64(1,000,000) is about 3.3. With 4 characters, you could represent over 16 million objects. If you just store all of the objects that you need to reference along with an incrementing primary key, you wouldn't have to use more than 4 characters until you had more than 16 million objects in your database.

Have a billion objects? That's just five characters. Still not enough? With 7 characters, you could index more than 4 trillion.

But let's say that you can't actually keep a single database, with an incrementing primary key. You have multiple independent processes or people generating objects that need identifiers that will always be stable, you can't rely on manually picked names, and so on. So just use a secure hash: a SHA-2 or SHA-3 hash of the objects. If you use a 256 bit secure hash (44 characters in Base64, including the padding), and had 500 octillion items in your set, you would have about one in a quintillion chance of having an accidental collision. I'll give you a hint; you are never going to have that many items in your data set.

Now, you might object "what if SHA-2 is broken". Well, that may happen, though it's fairly unlikely. Most of the ways of breaking a secure hash involve making it a few orders of magnitude easier to compute a collision. But at 256 bits, you have a substantial safety margin; it would have to be pretty thoroughly broken before anyone would be able to find meaningful collisions. Heck, Git uses SHA-1 still, which uses 160 bit hashes, and is much closer to being broken.

Anyhow, the point of all of this is that a URL is supposed to be an identifier. It doesn't take that many characters to create an identifier that could uniquely identify each quark in the whole universe. You absolutely don't need long URLs to guarantee uniqueness; if your URLs are long, it's because you're including a lot of redundant information in the URL, or you are actually trying to store a description of the object in the URL, rather than an identifier.
BitPay is for merchants who want to accept bitcoins transparently, without having to deal with or interface with Bitcoin.

So, you can see BitPay as a first step to bringing Bitcoin's advantages at least to the clients. The second step would be for merchants to implement Bitcoin directly in their shopping cart, so that they can benefit from Bitcoin's decentralization.
That's just the point. He's miserable when people _force_ him into social situations that serve no purpose other than socializing. He's not miserable when he's alone.

I'm not sure why this is so hard to grasp for a lot of people.
I search YouTube for the term "Full Album" and am surprised each day about the full albums that got uploaded there.

I also listen to soundtrack mega mixes(songs of 4 hours+ that mix various soundtracks).
The author is propagating the stereotype that introverts are anti-social. This is not the case. We simply require more time to ourselves for mental wellness. This does not preclude socializing or going to larger events.

The author could politely decline these invitations, citing personal reasons, while asserting that he appreciates being invited, but rather seems to take a confrontational approach. Lack of social grace, rather than introversion, seems to be his problem.
Security > Cross-site scripting > XSS cheat sheet link is broken. Funny considering the first item in the checklist.
It's a nice idea, but I find the 'Rare Earth' hypothesis convincing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis#Rare_Eart...
"serve others", can't figure out exactly his intention by sayin' that but it's a quite weird statement, IMO.

My opinion is: do what you want, if that pleases you, great! If that pleases even more people, greater!
By character do you mean unicode or ascii?
This has NOTHING to do with being extro or intro verted.

Meeting suck because they have a diminishing return that is hard to see. Being on the same page is awesome, spitting out "ideas" and "visions" for the company are rarely productive. Save that for going out to drinks after work.
"It has consistently been found that people produce more ideas when working alone as compared to when working in a group. Yet, people generally believe that group brainstorming is more effective than individual brainstorming. Further, group members are more satisfied with their performance than individuals, whereas they have generated fewer ideas."

I've never judged the productivity of a group session by the number of ideas produced. I think that's a terrible measure. I judge it by the quality of the few that the group settles on by the end. And in my experience, group sessions produce ideas of a quality that I could not have produced by myself. When working with good people, we riff off each other and fill in the gaps in each other's ideas that we wouldn't have even realized were there if we were working on our own.

It's very hard to spot your own weaknesses. I'm convinced that feedback is great and that getting out of your own head is great, and a good meeting can deliver that. Not always, of course. I'm a programmer. I like my me time, and I'm definitely not arguing for group work all or even close to most of the time. But I'm definitely a better person for the trips I take away from my shell.
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They're not necessarily buying drugs directly with Tide--some of them are selling the Tide to a fence, then buying the drugs with cash. Even if that's not what's happening, it's possible that walking around with a ton of Tide is less suspicious than walking around with a ton of cash (at least until the police figure out what's happening).
This article flies in the face of so much contradictory experience that I'm not sure what to make of it. Here on HN we regularly see articles espousing the concepts of pair programming and code reviews and SCRUMs and other techniques involving groups. In research settings we regularly get together for lab meetings and journal clubs and conferences and discuss ideas, and generate lots of new ideas. Heck, people regularly convene on sites like Stack Overflow, not to just get answers, but to discuss ideas. These are all meetings which are productive and generate ideas, not just the convening of pontificating idiots.

There was a TED talk linked here on HN a while back, called "where good ideas come from" [1]. It completely disagrees with this article, but with facts instead of generalizations.

[1]: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_com...
> I would say if you found code with no license, or code being made available contrary to the license in the headers, it's not suitable for including in any project. I think a court would agree that a reasonable developer, finding what looks like proprietary code with no license attached, should not copy or derive code from that sample.

There was a recent article regarding code that is not explicitly licensed on GitHub, which pretty much parrots this notion: http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/github-needs...

Code without an explicit license is protected by copyright and is by default All Rights Reserved. The person or people who wrote the code are protected as such. Any time you're using software you didn't write, licensing should be considered and abided.
Windows RT “jailbroken”, shows its Windows 8 roots
Love it! <3
this speaks to effectiveness of traditional regulations on currency.
I've noticed two types of introverts: easy-going ones and curmudgeony ones. Likewise, I've noticed two types of extroverts: excited extroverts and unhappy ones. This is still a gross simplification, but it makes it easier to think about people's perspectives..
Group brainstorming is also about building a consensus about the ideas produced. People are more invested in ideas where they've put their mark. It may lead to bike-shedding, but sometimes that necessary if you want everyone to be invested and dedicated to the approach.
The only thing that would force you to go to a party is not wanting to disappoint/irritate people. If the author doesn't care about having anything to do with other people so much then that shouldn't bother him.
That's a good question. I had though it worked because the truncate would not actually happen until tac actually wrote something, but now that I look at it more I don't think that is actually the case. `cat > foo` immediately truncates foo before anything is written. Also `tac foo > foo` doesn't work, which discredits my hypothesis that tac's buffering was causing it.

Furthermore `cat foo | cat > foo` does not work, but `cat foo | cat | cat > foo` does work.

I suspect this behavior is actually a race condition of some sort.

Edit: definetly a race condition, shown by larger files:

% wc -l foo
1310720 foo
% cat foo | cat | cat > foo
% wc -l foo
16384 1
Can someone please explain to me the differences in Lego's following lines?

Technic, Mindstorm, EV*, NXT

I'm looking to get something for an 8yr old to pique his curiosity.
Kingston announces world's first 1TB flash drive
HyperX 1TB coming out later in Q1, but the launch will include 512GB Flash Drive.
It should be pointed out that the author is not a programmer but a college english professor so he is likely being invited to different sorts of meetings than the tech crowd may be used to.

Also, I happen to know the author to some small degree and I'm pretty sure his tongue is somewhat in cheek...
I'm fairly young (23) and have only had two "professional" jobs, but at both meetings weren't just power trips. We covered actual material.
This article is itself complete hyperbole, and seems to just be glossing over a social disorder. Being a hermit and being an introvert are not the same, we have not come so far in society by ignoring one another, even animals work together and the ones that refuse are shunned. This is such a terrible generalization of something totally incorrect in the first place.
Make it like the one in the Jetsons.
As an introvert, I sometimes wonder how much my introversion is due to (1) my public-social-self-sensitivity (i.e. how much i care what other people think) AND/OR (2) an exaggerated reaction to my disappointment with throwaway superficial extroversions (i.e. dumb obvious chatter).

And which (if either) should I hope for?
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Seems odd that they're just now getting this out.
I think 90% of commenters here would benefit from making an effort to remove your heads from your own asses.
"Chrome bug?"
"sales pages"?
"incentives"?
Give the young guy the benefit of expressing exactly what he wants without any reservations. And share a few of his talents along the way.
I am sure he'll get to CA soon!
Her name doesn't necessarily mean "bow", though. "Yumi" is a reading of many first names, like 裕美 (something like "full of beauty") or 由美, which are more common than 弓 (bow).
I was under the impression that HTML4 introduced XML requirements, thus requiring the </p> tag.
What is true is that Adobe is terminating the activation servers for CS2 and that for existing licensed users of CS2 who need to reinstall their software, copies of CS2 that don't require activation but do require valid serial numbers are available.

==From Adobe
Substitute jQuery for Javascript and the graph's trend becomes very different.
Try adding Objective-C to to the chart and then see which looks the highest.

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+ruby%2C+objective...

Edit: I'm sure there are tons of other examples of this, too, but Objective-C seemed like the grossest omission.
Aw man, am I the only one who doesn't have this terrible problem of everyone wanting to offer them a job?

I'm sure I'm not doing 100% of what's possible to be able to sit back and pick and choose whether I want the 150k job or the 180k job, but almost all of these "recruiters suck" posts apply to a small minority of people, those near the top of their profession.

Maybe I need a "Do you make shitty weekend projects that end up going nowhere? Let us know" site.
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Whilst there are dangers, like group polarization, I completely agree that group activities, even meetings, are certainly as much about ensuring personal involvement and ownership of the outcomes, than just ideation alone.
How would one go about building a list of said right phone numbers? (legitimately curious)
Yeah, this has all the signs of a viral marketing campaign to me.

But some folks with long-established accounts on here confirmed that they've seen evidence of the Tide underground economy in and around DC.

I think the world would be a more interesting place if it turned out that Procter and Gamble had subcontracted some PR firm who trolled the shopkeepers, police and crackheads alike.
I like Dan's explanation too but perhaps more directly.

Lets say that Tide is $20/bottle so $100 is 5 bottles. She then exchanges that for 5 tide bottles worth of drugs.

The value of the drugs is, by definition, 5 tide bottles.

The article discussed the value of buying stolen tide at a discount against retail in order to get better margins on their sales. The article claimed that the margins were roughly 150% better ($5 vs $2) although that number may have been made up by the author.

Bob prices his drugs in units of Tide bottles, the Store buying stolen tide establishes the exchange rate for Tide to Dollars. There is a 'posted' exchange rate of dollars to tide bottles, although the argument talks about people stealing Tide. This becomes low cost because apparently the store staff is unwilling to call the police, and the police apparently have issues because the monetary numbers are low enough that the crime is a misdemeanor rather than a felony.

So in our scenario Alice is risking getting arrested for shoplifting by stealing Tide bottles, Bob is risking being arrested for drug dealing or trafficking in stolen goods, the store is risking sanctions for buying stolen goods.

The entire point of the article was that because there is so little risk, this process of stealing Tide to buy drugs flourishes as actors in the system arbitrage the risk for cash (or drugs).
Ask HN: Mid-20's career change into computer engineering through BU LEAP
I'm a 23 year old with a useless degree and a rather unsatisfying F500 back-office job with little prospect of advancement. It sucks. I'm thinking of applying to the BU LEAP program:

http://www.bu.edu/eng/academics/special-programs/leap/

To obtain an M.Eng in computer engineering, with the hope of obtaining satisfying and remunerative employment afterwards. My questions for any magnanimous readers:

[1] Is anyone familiar with this program?
[2] Assuming I were able to excel in the program, can anyone take a guess at the employment prospects of a 26-28 y.o. BU M.Eng graduate? My fear is that I would take on additional debt and burn a few more years of my life only to find that I was doomed to be only employable as a mid-level employee at Random Data Systems in Nowheresburb, MA.