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I have a file called ''cleanup.sh'' which I run whenever my Desktop folder gets too crowded (my browser saves stuff to the desktop).

#!/bin/bash
MYHOME=$HOME
MYDESKTOP=$HOME/Desktop

echo " _ "
echo " | | "
echo " ___ | | ___ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ __ "
echo " / __|| |/ _ \/ _ | '_ \| | | | '_ \ "
echo " | (__ | | __/ (_| | | | | |_| | |_) |"
echo " \___||_|\___|\__,_|_| |_|\__,_| .__/ "
echo " | | "
echo " |_| v0.1 "
echo " "

cd $MYDESKTOP
DIRS="Papers Code Images Music Videos Links Archives Webpages Progs"
for dir in $DIRS; do
mkdir $dir
done

# make the final dest dir...
mkdir "desktop `date "+%Y-%m-%d"` "

for file in $MYDESKTOP/*; do
#echo "found file $file ... "
case $file in
*.pdf | *.PDF | *.doc | *.ps | *.ppt | *.textClipping)
echo "Moving $file to Papers/"
mv "$file" Papers/
;;
*.py | *.pyc | *.php | *.php4 | *.php5 | *.pl | *.java | *.c | *.js | *.m | *.csv | *.tex | *.log | *.cpp )
echo "Moving $file to Code/"
mv "$file" Code/
;;
*.gif | *.png | *.PNG | *.jpg | *.JPG | *.jpeg | *.tiff | *.bmp | *.gcx | *.svg )
echo "moving $file to to Images/"
mv "$file" Images/
;;
*.aiff | *.sd2 | *.wav | *.mp3 | *.ogg | *.pls )
echo "moving $file to to Music/"
mv "$file" Music/
;;
*.wmv | *.mov | *.WMV | *.flv | *.avi | *.mp4 | *.mpg | *.m4v )
echo "moving $file to to Videos/"
mv "$file" Videos/
;;
*.exe | *.EXE)
echo "moving $file to to Progs/"
mv "$file" Progs/
;;
*.webloc | *.lnk | *.desktop)
echo "Moving $file to Links..."
mv "$file" Links/
;;
*.zip | *.gz | *.tgz | *.tar | *.dmg | *.iso | *.iso.md5sum | *.deb | *.pkg | *.bz2 | *.rar | *.mpkg | *.torrent )
echo "Moving $file to Archives... "
mv "$file" Archives/
;;
*.html | *.htm | *.webarchive)
echo "Moving $file to Webpages..."
mv "$file" Webpages/
mv "${file%.*} Files" "Webpages/${file%.*} Files"
mv "${file%.*}_files" "Webpages/${file%.*}_files"
;;
*) echo "Sorry, I don't know what kind of file $file is!"
esac
done

#delete empty dirs
for dir in $DIRS; do
rmdir $dir # will fail if files were put into it
done

I then put all these subfolders into a folder titled `desktop YYYY-MM-DD (something descriptive)` and my life gets better (for a couple of days).

It doesn't clean things up, but at least it gets the files out of the way. I often use the labels to find stuff. Eg.

desktop 2012-11-20 (Berlin)
desktop 2012-12-07 (cleanup after book launch rush)
desktop 2012-12-26 (ka-lite, web dev stuff, pre-NoBS launch)
desktop 2013-03-01 (day at the Spundge offices)

Hope it helps.
s/on the web/on the Internet/

twitch :-)
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Well every currency is volatile isn't it? I guess (if namecheap is a us-based company) they're bitcoin price would fluctuate just as the bitcoin does in relation to the usd.
Well I don't think any average person is really keeping large amounts of money in bitcoin.

It has mostly a transactional since the use cases are so niche.
The biggest problem by far isn't in the computer case. Its in the Apple store. The hardware's the same as ever, in the store however, "let me get that fixed for you" has become "that's not our problem".
While I think I did notice a hiccup just about an hour ago on the search (I had to hit refresh for my page to load) it seems to all be fine now.
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On the days that I workout in the morning I skip the first dosage.

You need to be very consciously aware of yourself, because it can be easy to forget about yourself. Buy a sphygmomanometer if you don't already have one so that you can regularly keep an eye on your blood pressure. Make certain that you are eating and drinking regularly. Finally, make sure that you are getting enough sleep.

NEVER take more then the prescribed amount; regardless of whether the medication is working or not. Certain foods can dampen the strength of the medication; particularly foods with citrus. The common tendency that I have seen, is to take another dosage because of the perceived lack of effect. This might just be the single most significant reason why people spiral out of control. Regardless of how they feel or perform, the medication is in their system, and by adding another dosage, will cause their tolerance to rise. The rise in tolerance will only make it that much more likely that person will experience the same scenario in the near future.
This is Ubuntu's "Bada" move - it is scared of being assimilated by Android that it is forgetting that it can truly innovate in the UX and not by building walled gardens around display managers.

Ubuntu already has significant investment in Surfaceflinger/Android via its Touch vertical. It has also started migrating to QT/QML for its shell (which work really well on Android). There is a significant opportunity to innovate on UX (like Blackberry Z10), rather than throw away the ecosystem that would come with adopting an Android core.

Yesterday, I couldnt join a GoToMeeting using Ubuntu. But just after, I did it in less than 2 minutes by using an app oumy Android device. That is a huge ecosystem, that I want to use on my desktop (I dont know how the desktop UX for a touch app will work, but I hope it will).

I say that Ubuntu, Google and Valve should sit together and come up with a graphics+sound backend that will work together. And let me play Half Life 3 on my phone and desktop simultaneously !
This is really off topic, but once - I think I was 13 or 14 - I found a book just lying around somewhere at what passed for my summer camp. I read the whole thing; I guess I must have tried to return it, but I don't remember that part. The book was interesting enough that I wanted to read it again at some point, but I had long since forgotten its name.

This is that book.

I guess I could have found the name of the book by actively asking around, but still - I love the coincidence. Thank you.
> 3) automated security updates or some sort of failsafe procedure to install security updates very regularly (this is by far the most common error)

This isn't clear. Are you saying you think automating these updates is good or bad?

> 5) Avoid storing anything that makes you a particularly desirable

Well, in some cases your user's uid and pwd is the most valuable chunk-o-data a would be attacker wants.

> Most extensive security procedures contain a lot of questionable advice

List?

> and few will prevent human error which most compromise can be traced back to.

I think this would be the power of having a canonical auto-provision script on Github that many can review and contribute to. The script could certainly take the form of sections that could be commented out as needed. In other words, a well documented and reviewed set of recommendations that someone could edit based on pier-reviewed information in the comments and then use to automatically configure a server. That, I think, could be of value.
Karla Homolka raped and killed 50% of the people who fell into her power. Adolf Hitler tortured to death only some 10% of the people who fell into his power. Nevertheless, I think it is defensible to assert that Adolf Hitler was "a bigger domestic human rights violator" than Karla Homolka, since she only had three victims, while he had some eleven million.

North Korean rulers are less effective in that North Korea remains a small, poor, weak country; consequently North Korean rulers are only able to incarcerate 0.7% of a much smaller population. They would be much bigger human rights violators if they were able to establish control over a larger territory that included more people, as the US government has over the past century and a half.
I have to wonder if training and repetition might make a difference there; for instance, after a week of doing computations while walking, can your friend now multiply faster? The mind is an efficient adapter. It would also be interesting to discover what qualifies as exercise in those studies, and if the benefits of increased circulation and possibly a clearer airway based on improved posture, which presumably also increase brain function, could offset the glucose depletion.
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Their reasons don't sound convincing, and Wayland developers refuted them also pointing out that Canonical didn't even engage in any dialog with them whatsoever. They just created their own thing silently in secret. Such kind of approach doesn't add to credibility of their reasoning.
I don't know if it's harder to get the light to where earth is going to be. There's still exactly one angle that will work, and we would have to trust to luck either way to send us the right photons. It's not like anyone is aiming.
You basically just said what I came here to say. This guy seems to have a bone to pick with Porter and this article is flawed on so many levels that it's ridiculous. Strawmen, faulty logic, unsubstantiated assumptions, this article has a laundry list of reasons to not take it seriously.

I love the part where he talks about "Porter's Strategy" as though there was one specific strategy that - in and of itself - encapsulated everything of Porter's thought. Denning seems clueless here. Yeah, Porter talked about a handful of "generic strategies" but to claim that Porter's thinking can be reduced to one simple thing that you adopt or don't adopt, is ludicrous.
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Nontrivial, but doable. See #11 in http://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/100/

Also: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/infpn.html
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On FreeBSD (and other BSDs?), you can change the privileged port range with a sysctl setting, so you don't need to muck about with the settings, just let any user bind to 80 or higher.
The payment gateway BitPay calculates how many bitcoins equal a USD price and then give that amount (minus their fee) in USD to Namecheap within 2 days.

"It does not matter how many bitcoins we collect, how long it takes to collect them, what we can sell them for, or how long it takes to sell them."

https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway-api
I've been using a product called scriptrock (http://scriptrock.com) recently that collects these kinds of best practices and ensures that they actually exist on nodes. I.e, the testing of configuration rather than the execution. I think this is really interesting for two reasons. 1, it's like monitoring for security on my nodes (it runs by default every 5 minutes), and 2, they could build some kind of open repo for people to contribute these best practices (I think they were asking for beta users a while back). Plus it allows me to configure my infrastructure in a kind of TDD way.
In order to elide the out-of-line method the compiler must statically prove that it is impossible call outside the visibility of its optimization scope.

I'm not familiar with Java compilers but I'd hazard a guess that to exploit this optimization (if it were possible at all) they would probably have to significantly rework their code.
Can someone explain to me why that file causes the issue to occur?
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"She's a young aspiring writer living"

Which makes you wonder what parts are true in the story and what parts are enhanced for dramatic effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Frey

NYT also has a similar piece weekly called "Modern Love" typically by a writer with a screwed up love life that sometimes seems stranger than fiction.
Well the thing is they offer web & vps hosting as well.

I really don't see how they can do that anonymously and still function. They will be constantly fighting scammers and spammers.
My impression of Facebook's feed algorithm is that it takes your activity and the popularity of posts into account. If you look at the feed often, you'll see all the content. However, if you've been away for 5-10 hours, facebook will show you the most popular stuff of that time period. It may be that they stick the rest in "under the fold" of feed, but I'm not sure.
Well I don't have any opinion at this stage. Also, I'm more on the strategic side of things these days, than career programming, so might be hard to give you a representative answer.

Was kinda hoping HN would pick it up so we could get some discussion going, as I think it's potentially an interesting/novel idea.

Does it have legs? No idea. Sorry. Heh.
Good for you but understandable user interfaces are (and should be) higher priority than prettiness; the "warning button" looks like a warning message for me.

But of course there are alternatives for visual clues that still look flat-ish: http://i.imgur.com/jXN2tpe.jpg
So we could in theory deflect an object away from a collision towards Earth. How hard is it to make this comet hit Mars for sure?

Just a thought.
You need an anonymized WHOIS service. Namecheap offers free anonymized WHOIS by default on their domains ... its called "WhoisGuard Protection". Its a must have these days.
>>> It seemed like we would have to choose between cutting significant features from the app or only shipping our new version to the newest Android phones (ICS and up). Neither seemed acceptable. We needed a better solution.

This. "There has to be a better solution", a quality which defines hackers - is it not? It's that pushing the boundaries for the sake of getting things done that drive progress, isn't it? It's tempting to take the easy route out. In this case they could have justified supporting devices ICS up, Gingerbread and down does not have a lot of market share I assume. But they chose to persist.

It's that persistence that we need to cultivate to become successful hackers.
thank you for your reply. Could you provide the reasons that you suggest me to not to work for a startup? Thanks
Wow, that's awesome! I'm actually in the Orange County area in California; unfortunately, there aren't any communities in that area but there's an active community in Los Angeles...I try to go from time to time.
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I had the plate armor and I suspect there was a bug with the axe (or perhaps a feature where one of the weapons does nothing), he didn't do much damage to me but I just had 100% miss rate. Second playthrough used the sword and dispatched him easily.
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Мир(Mir), in Russian, is either "world", or "peace", not merely the name given to the space station.
> Haha. I'm afraid to look like I'm asking for my own
> recreational purposes, but what doses would that be?

GP here (separate work/home accounts). Anecdotally, I get a mild high from 10 mg of dextroamphetamine or adderall, and have experimentally taken as much as 30 mg. But I have zero tolerance; I've taken amphetamines less than ten times in my life.

> Again, this is anecdotal and doesn't prove anything,
> but when I've taken too much Adderall at once I haven't
> found it very pleasant at all. It wasn't fun and nothing
> about those dosages made me want to repeat the
> experience, much less experiment with even higher
> dosages.
> (For me, "too much" would be taking 15mg in a single
> dose. I know that's not a huge amount in the scheme of
> things.)

Yeah, at 20-30 mg there are definitely negative side effects; I wouldn't want to do anything social, like the article's author describes, at those doses.

> > I agree that typical meth use is
> > very different from typical medical adderall use.
>
> I don't mean this rhetorically at all... what do you
> feel is the reason (or reasons) for this?

I think they are introduced to people differently, on average. I think adderall is primarily introduced to people as medicine by some authority figure the person respects (doctor), and they're likely to stick to their prescribed doses. Vs, I think meth is more frequently introduced as a fun energy drug (or advertised as MDMA), with vague dosages, unknown quality and purity, etc. Maybe meth users titrate until they feel good, which means escalating dosages quickly due to tolerance. (I can't speak from personal experience here.)

I think some minority of both adderall and meth users (ab)use the stimulants to try and overcome drowsiness and focus more on their work, like some college students (including article author). I think a fair number of people do this without any bad outcomes (myself included). But a fair number also escalate in response to tolerance, and this kind of use is problematic. Maybe awareness of tolerance, neurobiology, etc, would help? I read a lot of erowid before I ever consumed any drugs, but I also have pretty strong self-control, so I don't know that it would work for everyone.

Anecdotally, I don't even try to use amphetamines for productivity anymore because they don't clear from my system fast enough to avoid interfering with my sleep. I'm more productive for one day (if that), but less productive over a two-day period.
Why do they demand that functions only have one input? They claim that it's because that's how functions work in math, but that's not the case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariable_calculus
Until patio11 amends this post to contain suggestions about doing things right instead of merely telling people that they are doing it wrong, please stop recommending it as reading material. Thanks.
Oh my god, that's awesome. Thanks for the link.
he's already presented more than enough to get a commercial programming job. having a vision and executing it publicly and not having it fall down is rather rare, regardless of how awesome the end result is. For the record, I only took a brief look I likes my normal text editor.
I was always hoping there was just a big mirror out there that we could look at and see the past.
>As for the size of the federal government, the number of federal workers has been more or less static for the last 40+ years even though the population has grown dramatically.

The federal government underwent a massive expansion over the course of the 20th century. You're limiting yourself to the period following its expansion and then claiming it hasn't expanded very much since then.

>The federal budget has grown, but most of it has been in the form of transfer payments--money that goes straight from one private citizen to the other.

Privatizing the inefficiency doesn't make it go away. Taking money from middle class taxpayers and giving it to Solyndra was not a good thing. And increasing the amount of money on the table for redistribution very much exacerbates the problem of distributive issues crowding out other important federal concerns for voter attention.

>What makes you think that having 50 different poorly run versions of any given social program is a better idea than having 1 somewhat less poorly run version of any given program?

Local programs have greater accountability and can be better tailored to the different needs of local populations. If a specific program isn't meeting the particular needs of a given state, that state's legislature is more likely to have the right incentives to fix it than Washington. If a state's legislature is wasting money on boondoggles, the cost of such things is born by a more concentrated set of taxpayers who are consequently more likely to demand accountability and shut down wasteful programs. And reducing federal spending would reduce the amount of unjustified subsidies that flow from high population states to low population states solely as a result of the low population states having the same number of federal senators.

Also, this:

"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." -Louis Brandeis
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I don't have data, just personal experience and observations of people around me who have used stimulants for prolonged periods of time. Adderall starts off with 10mgs/day, 20, 30, then 40 to get the same productivity.

I was mostly equating adderall use with that list of effects, not less stimulants.
Ok. So accepting bitcoin, but they still won't have things like two-factor auth available for "several months" (reference: https://community.namecheap.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10...).

I realize PR departments are probably flailing wildly over $33 bitcoins, but which feature do you think your users are more likely to use?
I hope not. I'm 35 and just started myself... first semester CS course.
Actually, I think there was a book about this, like where people were arrested for thinking about crimes, something like that. Except a lot of those Japanese probably weren't even thinking it.
I assume they are not operating out of the goodness of their own hearts?

(they'd be pretty useless if they did, anyway- where would my refund money come from?)
I know! I wanted to find a ticket from anywhere in the US to anywhere in Asia and it told me it was too broad. This product is broken!
Clickable: https://medium.com/startups-more/fc03776603b7
Try this as well: https://www.google.com/flights/explore
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Google, the largest ad business on the planet, derives much of its revenue from a product that is directly antagonistic to advertisers: organic search.
I hope it misses. It will mess up our equipment on Mars if dust is flying everywhere.

But if it does get hit, I hope that the people of our planet can start focusing more on technology development for energy, propulsion, protection, insulation, and terraforming. As for everything else (other than praying), those can be extracurriculars. The main obstacle to this would be the lack of immediate incentive. The asteroid mining companies try to provide future incentive by saying there are resources to be mined. However, to completely change our culture, education, and occupations to gear towards space colonization, we'll need a lot more than that.
Uh yeah,

I am seriously surprised at HN seeing the comments here.
Hmm.. couldn't resist inserting a plug here. But the site you mentioned is very close to what i'am building now http://www.kettik.com.

Like you i spend a lot of time before a trip researching on the kind of experiences i could have once i get there. And being an independent traveler i'am more interested in the kind of activities i could do by myself rather than having someone arrange it for me. So i designed the site along similar lines.

User experiences(blogs)/photos/attractions/activity/sleep/eat/

I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Especially on the way how the content is presented, there's a lot of scope for improvement there.
Adioso co-founder here. I didn't downvote you. I can't speak for the others, but I highly doubt it; they're all too busy working to improve the site and besides we're just not like that.

The post doesn't say Adioso can can currently let you search for anywhere in Europe to anywhere in California.

We're working towards that kind of capability, but as you say, no other site in the world can do it, and we can't either, yet, but I think we're working harder than anyone else to offer it.