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>Applications should be installable by anyone and isolated completely from other apps unless specifically granted permission by a user/administrator.

There is also the Sandboxie approach to installing apps.

Once installed the OS monitors the app (and any spawned processes) for any and all changes it makes to the OS and once closed the settings are reverted (except local settings). When uninstalled any files/settings/etc it changed are also reverted by the OS instead of the uninstaller.

[1] http://www.sandboxie.com/
I've been getting up at 4:30 for years. Here's the secret: go to bed earlier. Unless there's a deadline, I'm in bed by 10-10:30.

grounding breaking stuff right?
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Well it is only 130 euro per map for direct download

http://shop.euratlas.com/maps_gis/gis_2000.html

seems reasonable /s
Netflix on Ubuntu,now just a PPA away.
>What about if I wake at 05:00? Or 04:30? Or 02:00?

Then go back to sleep, dummy. Does he have to spell it out for you?

>Where is the wisdom that solves all my problems, enabling me not to have to make any decisions?

That's called being dead. Until then try to take advice for what it is: a recipe that you can try and adjust to taste.
not to be a curmudgeon but doesn't that conflict with your social life? I know I'd have some problems doing that.

Also 6 hours a day doesn't seem very healthy. Would think you would aim more for 7 or 8 hours.
Cost of hash resizing is something that was covered in my second undergrad CS course, and something that has been a recurring subject in C++ books and articles for the last two decades or so. I'm sure there are a lot of people who don't think about it often, but mainly because most people don't need to.

Performance in general is something most people don't need to consider much.

While these Google projects are great, it's also worth considering that a lot of the time, having a near drop-in replacement for an STL container may not be worth it, because the improvements it brings might not be worth the cost of bringing in a non-standard component outside of the type of extreme situations Google faces.
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My mind works well in the morning, so I'm motivated to wake up as early as the local coffee shop opens...so in Asia I wake up around 6AM (since nothing opens until 7) while in the states I can wake up much earlier (~5AM). Having something to look forward to in the morning (coding!) creates a natural alarm.
>but what I do know is how to find out the answer given a computer and an internet connection.

Then you are not good enough for them. They want someone that breaths and knows these things inside out and backwards.

Any half-competent dabbler can look them up and implement them. Creating novel solutions takes more deep understanding of them than that.
That's not a reason for the core tooling and docs to be crap, though. (I don't know whether they are, but this thread gives me the impression that they are)
I haven't used an alarm clock in many years. I look at the time before I fall asleep and decide what time I want to wake up, and I do.

It doesn't matter how late I went to bed, nor how early I have to get up. I just have to decide before I fall asleep when I want to wake up.
Where on earth did you get that reading from? Just because someone wishes for the artificial divisions that divide us to melt away does not they want a return to imperial hegemony. Your comment reflects more on your euro-skepticism than the claims you are making of the grandparent.
When I was in high school I had a digital radio alarm clock. I had my alarm set at 6am. There was a time over the course of a month, where every single day, I would wake up at 5:59, and as my hand was reaching over to disable it, the alarm would go off mid-slap. It was at this point I realized how good our internal clocks are (to the second?), and I haven't used an alarm clock since. The trick is going to bed on time. Also, mental exercise is far more tiring than physical exercise. If you can't sleep you aren't working your brain hard enough.
If you don't want your image stored anywhere, you need to stop emitting photons so promiscuously. It's inevitable that all public information in the world will eventually be stored, indexed and made available. If not by Google Glasses, then by some other technology, which may be completely undetectable.

Of course, we can make laws to leave some private areas in the world. In fact I believe such laws already exist. But in public places, people have been taking photographs for quite a while.
Everyone is different, 6-8 hours is normal. Obviously, more sleep can be better, but many of us have trouble "sleeping in." I prefer 6 hours of sleep at night, and a couple hour afternoon nap if I can get home at a reasonable time.
>Wouldn't it be more important to have people to come up with brilliant solutions on problems they are working on, rather than hard problems in general that have already been solved?

Most of the times the guys that can come with "brilliant solutions" on new problems are those that know the solved problems inside and out.

The other guys just keep reinventing the wheel (only worse).
The difference being that novel solutions require actual domain knowledge rather than an n-levels-deep memorization of the entirety of your Algorithms 1 and 2 courses from university.
So this post amounts to say:

Here's a suggestion: wake up, look at the clock. Now make a decision about whether it's time to get up, then take action based on that.

This is new? This is news? This is helpful? This is of deep interest?

None of the above - it was a waste of time.

But it's not just this one thing. I see so many people intent on sharing their personal revelations that it's now impossible to find genuine insights that are more widely applicable than that one person's experience. This is the age of crowd-sourced "wisdom", where everyone thinks their own discoveries will apply universally. Anecdote over data, experience over research.

However, I am going to learn something from it. There's a lesson that I'm taking away for my own personal growth and edification. I'll share it here with you in case you want to learn from it as well: some stuff on HN (and other sites) is a complete waste of time. Be ruthless about what you read - you only have one life to spend. Time spent cannot be regained.

Edited to remove some snark and tidy up.
I'm not sure. Certainly, if you want to spend $10M now on the next social local public transit pancake revolution, you're better off in California.

If you want to bootstrap decent tech and not get sued by someone who patented the double click, maybe Europe's not such a bad market to start in.
Atlas of The World History (animated)

http://www.atlasofworldhistory.com/

also

http://www.timemaps.com/history
I agree. Likewise, I learned very different lessons from those books. For example, Machiavelli's Prince is a set of anecdotes on how to acquire power. If that is for good or evil, is up for interpretation [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince#Interpretation_of_Th...
> Kant doesn't use this term to designate a relationship like that between a genus and its species, a class and its instances, or a set and its members.

Doesn't he simply mean universal law as in "a law that applies in every situation"? So the universe of discourse would be situations. I think your formulation with "necessity" is rather more ambiguous, because it doesn't stress the deontic nature of the statement.
My grandfather was a psychiatrist and hypnotic therapy was one of the last resorts he would turn to for chronic patients.

So one day, when I was about 8-9 years old a young boy maybe 4-5 years elder me to was brought to my grandpa for consultation. The case I figured was very severe. I couldn’t somehow accept that kids my age can have these issues; I had only seen middle-aged patients till then.That kid went through a lot of trauma. He went through hypnotic medication and was finally shifted to a permanent treatment facility.

Life passed on and one day I asked my grandfather about that case. The kid, he explained faced a failure for the first time in his last year of high school that he couldn’t accept it could happen to him. His parents were so obsessed seeing him be the first ranker (an Indian school system grade) in the class; he was trained to be that all throughout his life. Until this happened.

I think failing earlier on in life gives us that ability to not freak out when it happens later on.
The origin of the term "log in".
Show HN: Googler - open a Google search from the command line.
I am only remarking on comparable things, like a low speed, one vehicle car crash versus a low speed, one vehicle motor cycle crash. The outcomes are drastically different. Yes I also saw files on car crashes that left people mangled for life. Those folks usually were doing insane things, like drinking or doing drugs and driving 100mph at night. You can just be in the wrong place at the wrong time on a motorcycle and get your shit very permanently, very fucked up because of some other careless driver who did not see you. The same outcome in a car takes a lot more going wrong.

Edit: In reviewing that many files, most serious accidents had an element of "accident waiting to happen". Cases of "Damn, it sucks to be you. Shit happens." were very extremely in the minority. It radically changed my view of risk assessment.
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This is spot on. For me the key is in getting up earlier than ever you would need according to daily pressures. Right now I'm getting up around 4am, and since I adapted to it (I take melatonin so that's really easy) I don't need an alarm clock anymore. Sometimes I wake up naturally before that, sometimes later. But it's healthy, my body gets a gentle start, and I'm never late (on days I oversleep so hard that I feel sorry for myself it turns out it's 6:30am or something) if duty calls. And as a programmer I love getting some good work done on side projects before I head off to work my 9-to-5.

Granted I need to hit bed around 8pm at most (since I really like to get up even earlier around 3am), and I'm still trying to puzzle out how that's gonna work with my social life. My day job kinda gets in the way of otherwise being able to do a siesta and then sleep less at night. But for February I took the plunge of sleeping at the same time everyday, and that means a full month without nightlife, to cement a good habit. Carnival season 'round here makes that easier, since there is beer and parades a-plenty as early as morning.
They look to have as much relative heel as today's men's dress up shoes.
Idea #8: No matter what your browser's or your ability, you're still be able to reach and consume the content of the web.

Make the web accessible (not in an empty gesture of what some people think that means). Make someone who is actually differently abled sit in front of their computer and see if they can use your website, read and enjoy its content.

Read: Make layouts that don't suck :/

Once upon a time, there was a movement called "Any Browser". Oh sure, it's still around, but no where near the adoption it once had. In this movement, people of all capacities, browsers and disabilities were unaffected by the layout of a webpage, because all of it can gracefully degrade to its most basic elements.

Content was king. The layout was subservient to it and, if necessary, the king may cut off its head and still be king.

Isn't it sad that in our rush to make multi-page content, and other glitter that's 50% advertizing, 30% style and just 20% content, my neighbor still can't read sites like Wired properly?

Here's a handy rule of thumb: If I can't get to your content in Lynx, you've failed.
I got it from Lee Smolin's book, The Trouble With Physics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Physics
I'd bet that the next big technological revolution will occur when the next generation of batteries hit the market: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/129299-silicon-nanotube...

Electric quadrocopters today have pretty limited range, with a flight time of about 30 minutes. You could do some pretty neat stuff if they lasted 5 hours.

Not to mention what it will mean to regular airplanes, cars and mobile technology. We'd might even start to see some futuristic weaponry, not that it would be particularly positive.
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For some reason I always feel underwhelmed when they dig up a few microbes and their corpses from the deep. Where are those huge tentacle-ye monsters, we want so much to look at? Or at least find the Tesseract?
Reddit.com is doing SQLi in its Server HTTP header
The idea that you could, even in principle, make an organisation like the EU "accountable" at all is fundamentally mistaken.

My critique of the EU is not that it is doing a bad job of ruling people from on high, and that we should reform it to make it better, but rather that the very idea of trying to govern an entire continent is wrongheaded from the get-go.

We are perfectly capable of cooperating and trading and working together without adding another layer of government on top.

Thankfully, it is becoming abundantly clear that the whole project is doomed to failure. I just hope that it falls apart before further forced integration creates a lot of bloodshed, and not after.
The domain knowledge when it comes to implementing algorithms is algorithms themselves...
Most hackers aren't involved in government procurement and so assume that it will be done with extra care and attention, rather than the opposite for 10x the cost.
Random thoughts:

- One of the biggest problems we have is how to produce and preserve energy in large quantities in environmentally efficient way. If we are able to do that then 1, 2 and 4 are just nothing special. We will be able to tackle on the space!

- Wi-fi spots on everything? That is missing the point - I would argue that not the one-time cost is the problem but rather the cost of service associated with it.

- Idea 5 is so wrong that we must try in every way to protect from it. I can see the benefit of having the weather always in your sight, but I'm afraid that we as society will deep dive into it and never come out.

- War on asteroids? Better war on cockroaches. That is just wasting money on nothing. Now if we are endangered by some concrete asteroid, then we have to shoot it down of course.

- And building skyscrapers for me is missing the point. We have enough of these. Better spend money on preserving the environment and species on our planet then trying to squeeze more people on a square meter. Or just build the damn space elevator.

I have a dream - my son to take me on a space trip :)
Do you have a LED light on when you're recording a video with your phone? Some countries mandate it, others don't.
Do you find it weird that nobody is talking about issues involving the recording capabilities of cellphones?

In public, by law, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
In private, it's up to you to deny entry to someone using recording devices. If he's your friend and you are ok with it you let him in, otherwise you ask him to remove the glasses, exactly as you would do with someone with a camera. And, as with a camera, the intent is what matters.
I read it in full on more than one occasion, thank you very much. Perhaps you should re-read Schneier's original note on cracking contests and figure out how it relates to Mega's case - http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9812.html#1 - because it really doesn't.

Mega's bounty is of the exact same nature as Google's bounty for Chrome bugs. At least it looks that way on the surface. Whether it's genuine bounty is another question, but as I said in another comment I have a problem with the half-assed nature of your original comment rather than with its content. Especially considering that a lot of people on HN look up to you as being the security guy and adopt whatever you say for their own opinion.

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(edit) The bottom line is that offering a bounty to audit the security of highly public project (after readily admitting several design flaws in the initial version) is not a sign of a snake oil crypto. It's just not.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson has got to be the most artificial 'Smart' guy the media had put forward since Carl Sagan.
Well, that gets us near aesthetic philosophy -- something is beautiful if most relevant people will or should find it beautiful. The distinction between "will" and "should" can of course cause issues, and in this case "relevant people" can be troublesome as well.

But as a shorthand, "This is a beautiful theory" is a lot like "This is a theory that seems like it SHOULD -- or at least COULD -- be right".
I would suspect the downvotes (not from me) have more to do with the fact that your reply is a mere polemic, lashing out about how you hate philosophers and Feynmann was right, and rather than rationally responding to my argument. The way we scientists respond to arguments is not to go on hysterical and absurd rants, in this case how I must be a Creationist (?) because I'm defending the rather common view (among scientists) that science is a method for discovering facts about the external world. Arguing that via the scientific method we've arrived at a fairly good understanding of how humans evolved which is likely true in important parts is, in fact, quite the opposite of being a Creationist.

If anything, that view is unpopular among philosophers, where various kinds of social constructionist views are more prominent. Those views emphasize (as you do) that we cannot have unmediated access to the real external world, so instead they focus on the sociological processes by which scientific theories get proposed, popularized, abandoned, etc.

It is indeed true that science can produce a working vaccine.
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Frontiers of Europe from -500 to 2013.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id543207391
I don't understand what this is supposed to add to the observation that these subjects are important at Google interviews. It seems tautological to refer to interview requirements as "selection bias".
>How many times have this happened that you woke up half an hour before you were supposed to [...]

never, lol.
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Sorta interesting, better than average for these lists, but not Earth shattering. The more substantially disruptive technologies are going to be things like memristors, cheap e-ink displays, or configurable manufacturing. In the next few decades the developing world is going to get online and get rich, probably in that order. Also, honest to goodness sentient machines are likely in this century due merely to the increases in brute force computing power available.

Meanwhile, thousands and perhaps even millions of humans are going to end up living off Earth and manufacturing is going to change so dramatically it'll transform our concepts of wealth. 2100 is going to look as alien from our perspective of 2013 as 2000 did from 1913.
The last time I checked, you couldn't use a GoPhone SIM in an iPhone, period (though this could have easily changed, especially now that T-Mobile is deep into their refarm). Easily the #1 complaint of international iPhone users visiting the US.
>So I still have to wake, look at the clock, make a decision about whether it's time to get up, then take action based on that.

Yes, no magic unicorns and fairies spreading pixie dust to wake you up at just the right moment, I'm afraid.

The indecipherable to you message of the story is: don't go back to sleep if you happen to wake up shortly before the alarm clock. Just wake up.

Now, if you woke yourself up at 3:00, as you ask in your previous comment, that doesn't fall on the "shortly" period before a 6:30 way, so by all means go back to sleep. I mean, Oh, those hard decisions...

>But it's not just this one thing. I see so many people intent on sharing their personal revelations that it's now impossible to find genuine insights that are more widely applicable than that one person's experience. This is the age of crowd-sourced "wisdom", where everyone thinks their own discoveries will apply universally. Anecdote over data, experience over research.

I think that what you write above ONLY APPLIES TO YOU. Perhaps you should do some more research into the matter, instead of shoving your personal anecdotes on to us.
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I've had a similar experience.

For me, the most important realization was this: the moment I reached the point where I could set up really complex sites with very little code, using carefully chosen and powerful/flexible modules, the moment I figured out how to make the whole database-as-configuration issue as painless as possible, and the moment I started automating things (drush, etc), was also the moment that I had become a developer competent enough to do all this better, cleaner and faster with frameworks that don't require me to click around and configure stuff.

Drupal is deceptive, in a way, by allowing you to go quite far without writing code or understanding underlying structure. But at a certain point, the costs outweigh the benefits.

I think a example is the Views module. If you're good enough to understand the complexity of building a view, you probably have the mindset of a programmer, and/or the capability to use some kinds of code-based queries.

Perhaps the best audience for Drupal as a tool consists of people that are frustrated by Wordpress' limitations (or that of other full-blown CMS solutions), but aren't quite ready or interested in using frameworks as a starting point.
It's not either/or, you need to understand, not (just) memorize, the algorithms enough to see where they could be applied in or adapted to the domain in question.

Similarly, I could quip that nontrivial novel solutions require "actual" algorithms knowledge rather than exhaustive domain knowledge. Not surprisingly, in reality it's a bit of both.
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Yeah, we really dream of being swallowed up and exploited by a greater empire again, because we haven't had enough of that fun yet in the period between the Roman empire and the 3rd Reich...

There's no "back together" because there has never been a together that wasn't under the sword or the gun in the first place. Peace, cooperation and wide open borders within the EU, great. The EU as the next empire, no thanks.

If anything, the ideal future map of Europe has more borders as communities peacefully regain their autonomy and independence.
>Someone must have had problems understanding Capitalism, it seems

An obtuse comment considering he's a leading scientist.

To call capitalism an 'economy of greed' isn't without merit. After all raw capitalism is about survival of the fittest where only the strong survive and the weak perish, if it were not for the philanthropy of others.

I think the great thing about reading Adam Smith is how seriously misunderstood his works are. For example, people cite Adam Smith as one who believed in no social safety net, taxes and zero regulation.

This is simply not true and if you think it is you should go back and read the book that you clearly have not read.
There are at least 3 major nationwide providers competing against each other on service and price. There are also many secondary local providers and providers renting networks from the national providers.

How is that not competitive?