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Comments like this one don't help either:

// Inside a btree method, if we just call swap(), it will choose the
// btree::swap method, which we don't want. And we can't say ::swap
// because then MSVC won't pickup any std::swap() implementations. We
// can't just use std::swap() directly because then we don't get the
// specialization for types outside the std namespace. So the solution
// is to have a special swap helper function whose name doesn't
// collide with other swap functions defined by the btree classes.
Why are you working 12 hour days?
It is less about the command line, and more about being able to use all of Vim's shortcuts and commands. I am magnitudes faster moving through a big code base in Vim than in Xcode. Even the split window support in Xcode sucks. Apart from that I find Xcode bloated and slow. Back in the Xcode 3 days, the speed was reasonable, but with 4 it became slow. Even worse, if you're on battery, Xcode's constant indexing and whatnot will drain the battery really fast. I've just made the switch to 100% vim a week ago, so far everything feels way better, and coding is so much more fun, but I guess I need more time to really assess it.

For plugins, I think it is simply a case for familiarity. If you already know Python and its packages or Ruby and its library inside out, learning another new language, which has no use outside of Vim might seem like not worth it.

Sublime does have a really strong plugin ecosystem, and I reason that this is because it is so much easier to write a new plugin for something that irks you if you don't have to learn a completely new language first.
Also, the plugin quality should be better because obviously when you use python every day, the quality of your code is higher than when you just learned VimL and only learned it for this one plugin.
Cool, didn't know about that
Pretty content-free. The actual paper is here:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/People/horvitz/future...
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one idea that could change the world: stop causalism. let independent facts be independent. replace "because" for "at the same time".

that would kill almost all journalism, which is never tired of telling us the why, when there is no why.

that would narrow a lot most social science researches.

we, humans, are still not adults, we need reasons, we need good stories, those that make sense. but the probable truth is that there are no reasons.

could be called correlationism.
Since you asked, insofar as the participle "burned" is functioning as an adjective here, it is in positive degree. The comparative degree would be "more burned," and the superlative degree would be "most burned."

This classification of adjectives by degree comes, of course, from Latin,

http://www.dl.ket.org/latin2/grammar/ch34-degofadj.htm

and English doesn't operate completely in the straitjacket of Latin grammar, but has its own very intricate grammatical rules.

http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Grammar-English-Language/dp/...
It's amazing how simple the etch-a-sketch is, but most people find it difficult to draw basic shapes. Side-note: I'm not very good with an etch-a-sketch but I found a hidden ability of mine and drew this [1], which got thrown in "Weird NJ" magazine.

[1]: http://i3.minus.com/jbuePHaiXbDPXg.JPG
That's true, but then a focus on more metrics like citation counts and download counts seems like it'll just increase the strength of those journals, not undermine it. People will try to publish in Nature or Science to get attention for their paper, because those journals are widely read, and have good connections with journalists who'll further publicize your paper, making it easier to improve your metrics.
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Totally agreed. Deregulation and competition are pretty at odds.
I remember tenure committees would have "vertical inches" measured from the Science Citation Index.

In the world of big data, not all citations are created equal, and I look forward to new metrics based on quality of citations.
>I just think that being successful in a modern society requires a broader understanding of humanity and people, and the liberal arts and humanities are important ingredients

This is what many of us subscribe to. Logical intelligence is important, but so is emotional intelligence: the type of intelligence that empowers us to function collaboratively effectively in a highly networked environment.

Unfortunately, there are those (some very smart) who that college (liberal arts education) is a waste of money and time. They think sending young people to highly, exclusively technical training programs would be better for society.
Or the iPad. Took 5, increasingly slow and methodical tries to actually get what I was trying for.
If most people's usual driving speed is "10 mph over the limit,"
then the effective speed limit is simply N+10 mph,
where N is the number on the signs.

A big "if". As I recall, when speed limits were raised on some of the highways in Maryland from 55 mph to 65 mph, the traffic kept going at 72 mph.

In a society where everybody drives, speeds are set not so much by some kind of a law but more by the natural course of human actions.
Within the first year(s) of a startup, you end up almost every day, with more open tasks than you have started. That is the way it is right here right now.

So, I cannot just stop thinking about chores/tasks/goals at a certain point of a day. If I will quit early, I will be "bothered" at home or when hanging with friends.
kind of related, just sharing a happy discovery: a guy called chris watson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Watson_(musician) makes recordings of ambient sounds ("field recordings"). they are less focussed than this archive, but longer, and available on cd (or via pirate bay etc i imagine).

his site is at http://www.chriswatson.net/ and you can hear some stuff there. it's pretty good for going to sleep to (some tracks) or working...
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I wouldn't recommend the King James Version of the Bible for its religious content, not being a Christian and all, but it's essential for understanding half the allusions of English literature. If you haven't, try it.

The 1769 Authorized Version (what you'll surely get if you just buy a KJV Bible) is very readable, the language is beautiful (and, in my opinion, enjoyable) and you'll appreciate your books much more.
Nice post on an interesting time: The world lost its value; life lost its meaning; the individual no longer had grounds to reason about right and wrong. Those who articulated this dissatisfaction were the early Romantics, and they ushered in a new artistic, literary, and intellectual movement. In the process they created several iconic anti-roles that we still recognize in popular culture.

Byronic hero: the wanderer, the outcast, the Wandering Jew, the mysterious criminal whose crime is never explained.

The Visionary: the first stage of recovery and the first positive Romantic anti-role. The word often used at the time was “mystic.” The Visionary tries to observe the world so intensely as to get to the essence outside of all mental categories. It was felt to be the special task and privilege of the artist and poet to communicate that experience.

The Bohemian: perhaps the most modern of the anti-roles, characterized by a fascination with alcohol and drugs and sexual experimentation as ways to shift and change consciousness, put the mind through permutations of perceptions which are impossible for the square who is boxed in by his social role. Similar is the interest in non-bourgeouis modes of living, in indifference to middle-class standards of dress, furnishing, and cleanliness.

The Virtuoso: The Visionary avoided role-playing; the Bohemian defied it; the Virtuoso and Dandy transcended it, the one by fantastic mastery, the other by irony. Paganini was the first great Virtuoso and for decades the anti-role model and ideal. Other examples are Richard Burton the Virtuoso traveler and translator of the Arabian Nights, and the Virtuoso mountain climber who performs sublime feats of superhuman effort “because it was there.”

The Dandy: transforms the role not by excess but by irony. The role of the highest status in European society is that of the aristocratic gentleman of leisure. By willfully playing this role better than those born and trained to it, the Dandy reveals the pointlessness of the socially adapted. The social type with the highest status spends his life in play and pettiness. The Dandy instead offers perfection and elegance without content, without social function. By stealing the clothes of society, he reveals its nakedness. He demands a greater exquisiteness and perfection than society can achieve. This explains the irritation of society with the Dandy, its efforts to deprive him of his ironic authority, the moral nastiness with which England relished the downfall of Oscar Wilde.

Do any of these not evoke the hacker?
Whose war is this?
As with all drugs, this is not a simple, binary matter. For some people, there is a very real risk that stimulants and antidepressants will cause serious psychological problems; that risk increases with dose, and even a person who is fine with low doses will probably have a psychotic episode at very high doses. Just look at the doses being discussed in the article -- this kid was blowing through a month's prescription in two weeks time, and his prescription was for 60mg/day (sometimes higher). He was past the point of therapeutic doses and that he had psychotic delusions is not terribly surprising.

I have heard of people succumbing to stimulant psychosis after drinking too much coffee for too many days. This happens with cocaine, amphetamines, cathinones, etc. Moderation is essential for using these drugs safely, though that statement is equally true for any drug.
I'm a college student, and while I've never seen first-hand a situation like this, I can attest to the widespread casual use and sale of adderall on campus. During finals last December, I was offered a pill more times than I can remember, just $5 or $10 bucks a pop.

I don't think I knew anyone that was actually diagnosed with ADHD that was taking the pill to study. Some of my close friends joked about how easy it was to lie to the doctor about your symptoms. Most of them got a prescription on their first visit.

Looking at LinaLauneBaer's comment shows that there's always two sides to a story, that sometimes these drugs can be a godsend. But I'm going to side with the NY Times on this - adderall is really, really easy to get ahold of on a college campus. It's a casual use study-enhancer that dictates sleeping, eating and reading habits for kids during that final crunch week of each semester.

I'm thankful nobody I know has endured anything worse than temporary dependence.
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Then it criticizes MongoDB for doing little if anything against data loss, was any data lost during this outage I didn't see? ;-)
Check out "The History of Rome" podcast by Mike Duncan, for a highly enjoyable and thoroughly researched account of Rome from ~400BC to the last Western emperor.
I checked out the self-published Object-Oriented Design Anthology that this Clay guy ostensibly wrote judging by the discourse in this thread.

Instead, I found that he wrote from what I can tell the only book that introduces RubyMotion, published by PragProg, and endorsed by other authors.

His blog post shows humility, an ability to praise the work of others, and an effort to add value to the world.

All things that these HN comments distinctly lack and, ultimately, punish.
With the time-lag, you have to take into account the rejection rate. Most articles don't get into their first choice journal, and perhaps get into their second or third choice. You can't parallel submit, meaning that the time-lag between finishing the paper, and it getting published in a journal, often ranges between 6 and 18 months.

I understand that Computer Science does have a slightly faster peer review process than other fields. Here is a piece where a leading neuroscientist writes "Today the lag [in my field] between submission and acceptance is often more than a year". http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/01/25/201300924.short...

Gamification is an important issue. You should note that the journal's peer review system, based on two people reading a paper, gets gamed. There is the wide-spread practice of defensive citation, where you defensively cite anyone who might conceivably peer review your paper, in order to maximize the chances of its getting accepted. Some people know how to play that game better than others.

One way of handling gamification is to look at the quality of the people interacting with a piece of content, and not just the quantity. This is how Google's PageRank algorithm deals with the issue.

There is also the approach, taken by Twitter and Facebook, of picking out the people's whose judgements you trust, and then letting them act as quality filters. Those systems can be gamed too, but aren't typically gamed to a large extent.
That wasn't a prediction. He, like anybody other academic connected to the Internet of that era had been enjoying drop box like services for years. Both at work, and if you added the correct digital service in the home. I lot was done with FTP at the time and there were a lot of specialized clients that did some really neat stuff. So the statement was more like: other people are really going to enjoy some of the luxuries I already have.
I've long wanted some kind of citation-sorting for research, though I'm more skeptical of the whole business for assessment. For research, I think it could improve discoverability and ability to trace chains of influence. If I find a paper that was cited 190 times and I want to see whether anyone's really followed up on it (critiqued it, extended it, revised it, refuted it, etc.), the reverse-citation list is too noisy. It'd be great if I could filter the citations, for example to exclude "related work exists [2,5,12,44]" type throwaway citations.
I'm starting to understand it a little better after studying it a bit. I don't think it will drive BTC "prices" down because there is a finite amount of the currency that is possible to be created. I don't think it can create a glut (I could be wring on that). There are a couple of incentives not to hoard all of the computing power.

1. Benevolent users want to avoid the "51%" attack. It could undermine confidence and perhaps cause users to flee.

2. It's possible that we'll see a hashing power arms race where several cycles of ASIC production supersede or render the previous generation unprofitable. While it may be possible to go it alone and win, it's still a risky prospect, for the above reason, and for the risk associated with ASIC development. Therefore, ASIC developers have an incentive to distribute the machines into the hands of BTC users at large, and quickly.

These ASIC miners are going to have a limited profitability lifetime. While it may be years before they are uneconomical in terms of the cost of the electrical power to run them, they could be rendered barely profitable by a faster generation of ASIC based machines, or by an unfavorable turn in Bitcoin exchange rates; which could happen on a time scale of months or even weeks.
Ok I doublechecked and you're right that hardware is the dominant cost with these ASICs. But power accounts for about a quarter of the cost at $0.12/kWh, according to this calculator: http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/

Thanks for the link, that's pretty cool...wish my utility did that.
This quote is usually attributed to Igor Stravinsky: Lesser artists borrow, greater artists steal.

(Maybe not too literally...)
> I just don't see how these sites hope to generate any revenue.

Good point. The academic publishing "sector" is definitely a very interesting domain and there is a lot of POWER in knowledge, but it is not clear what the role of a startup company would be in there. We could bring cool new technology but without wide adoption tech is useless.

Mr. Price is trying the generic (and by now annoying as hell) "social network for science" approach but it is not clear that having "likes" for papers inside the academia.edu walled garden do anything for science. What is cool is the tremendous opportunity for better scientific discovery applications and the organization of knowledge. Hopefully at some point Mr. Price will //do// something interesting on that front instead of spending his time in PR mode writing guest posts for tech news sites.

@Richard: Sorry bro, but the "sign up to see the PDF" really pissed me off the other day so you are in the bad books until you change that. Not cool.

My guess is that the future of dissemination looks a lot like the arXiv (self-service, cheap) and that a peer review system can be bolted on top of it. Prof. Gowers was recently mentioned he heard of an initiative to build "arXiv overlay journals" [1].

[1] http://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/why-ive-also-joined-t...
Stable, reasonably usable, most stuff written in python so easily extensible. You'd better use some consultancy to set up everything from the start, afterwards it's quite easy to maintain yourself (Free software FTW).
Pretty easy to be dismissive of the startup scene from the outside. Reality is almost no one who raises something like $10mil is making a "social local public transit pancake revolution". Occasionally someone does raise a lot on a bunch of BS, and it makes a bunch of news sites, but ironically those are usually founders who have proven themselves successful before (and probably could raise money in Europe with that record). No one is going to give a first time founder, California or not, that kind of money for their hipster startup.
> Open access journals, based on authors paying $1,000-$3,000 to publish a paper, are going to be a temporary stepping stone on the way to the decline of the journal.

At least in my field, papers cost roughly $50k-$100k for just the researcher salary and overhead. Paying $2k to get a paper published is not a high hurdle (especially once the norm of closed-access publishing fades away). And this really seems like the minimum cost that needs to be incurred in order to get decent copyediting and the editorial cost of co-ordinating the referees. I love the ArXiv, but if I can get a the copyedited version from the journal I will.

Yes the referees aren't paid, which may or may not change, but paying a PhD editor $500 to figure out the best referees and engage in the back-and-forth with them and the authors is pretty minimal. So $2k for a professionally edited, polished paper which is then free to everyone forever seems like a pretty good deal, and essentially a non-issue.

Your point about the need for incentives for scientists to share non-paper scientific output like code is well-taken (and well-known). But I don't see why this can't be solved by open-access journals. I am completely unconvinced that facebook likes controlled by a for-profit organization are the way to go.

EDIT: By the way, you've mentioned in several places the 12-month time lag for publishing. This was solved for the physics community by the ArXiv; the papers get immediately released, and you can still submit to journals for the benefits of copyediting and refereeing. (Afterwards the ArXiv version is updated.) I don't know of any reason it can't work for all of academia.
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> Basically after reading that you understand how wrong the Keynes school is and how Krugman totally lost it (yeah, let's mill a $1 trillion coin... Why not mill 26 of them and be done with the public debt right!?).

I would suggest you read some Krugman ( or Keynes), the entire point of the $1 trillion as opposed to $26 trillion is, that the government owes roughly $1 trillion to itself. So you do not change anything, the coin is just to get around a law that is there to pretend that money is essentially the same stuff for a government as it is for a private citizen.
I think you are confusing gamification and gaming the system, those are not the same thing.

GP was referring to badges, points etc (gamification) and you are referring to gaming the system (ie citing defensively).
I should probably have phrased it better, I meant risk averse to new businesses. The market problems in recent years you're referring to were internal to the long existing institutional establishments.
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Gulliver's Travels is boring and laborious, but TAOCP, William James, GEB, and axiomatised the natural numbers before Peano, made the distinction of cardinal and ordinal before Cantor ?
It's like you are trying to be deep, but didn't actually read your parent.
I liked the article because I feel like I'm at the stage of my career that I need to be a mentor. But at the same time I don't feel like I know enough about everything.

Here is someone writing books and programming iOS apps who can still have his mind blown by, what seems to me, some fundamental concepts. I think there are a lot of people out there doing real work - who can benefit from a little push. that makes me feel that a) I have things I can teach and b) that its ok to not know everything - even what others may think is "basic" stuff.
I'd go a step further and say it's Immoral of you _not_ to copy the idea and make it your own.

The only time an idea has any value is when it's shared. Copy everything you can and make it better.

Others will in turn copy you and rise to the challenge, or maybe they'll decide that a career change is in order.

Either way, you've made the world a better place.
I think ronilan point was that DropBox's type of business (where customers pay) will always be second tier to Facebook's type of business (where customers get it for free).
Sure, although if you want to read the Torah / Tanakh as Jews understand it, I wouldn't just pick up a Bible. Assuming you don't read Hebrew, I'd get the New Jewish Publication Society translation.