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> Want your work to impact lots of lives ?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/us/police-taser-use-on-pre...
I'm certainly not against baking your own bread, I just doubt it's beneficial to the environment. A good naighborhood bakery is probably an all round win.
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"You never know". But guess what - the apocalypse is not coming. It didn't come in the 20s, 30s, 40s...you get the picture. There's never an apocalypse coming. And even if there were - you probably won't live through it. And if you do...then the better question is why didn't you stop it in the first place?

Farming today has to be a large scale, highly studied and high-yielding enterprise. There's lots of room for improvement, but very little benefit to it on a microscopic scale (put seeds in ground, water, hope they grow).
Another interesting thing, if you include a somewhat negative remark about something the readers care deeply about at the beginning of your article, something like "paradise was lost because of reader comments", most people will ignore the content of the article and just argue about that part. As evidenced right now here on HN.
I'm not saying that you can't save at all -- you can save 10% or so if you buy certain kinds of meat, in bulk. But it still doesn't make you cost-competitive with Hormel.
I think part of why that happens is because we get to vote 'en gros', instead of 'en detail'. Countries with more granular voting powers tend to do a lot better at such things (Switzerland for instance). As it is, winner takes all or coalition governments are capable of getting large blocks of people to vote against their own interests by lumping in a token bit of good with a boatload of bad as long as the emotional connection to the token bit of good (as perceived by the voter) is a strong one.
I knew these kind of answers would pop up, I had one sentence predicting this in my text, but erased it to let the magic happen.

Are you able to realize that it is, of many options you have, the dumbest possibility to just burp a simple "it works here". Would you answer this on a bugreport?

I assume, it was an ironic answer, in this case I congrat you for holding the mastership of the highest art of subtile trolling, very inspriring.

In fact you are simulating the typical xtreme-dumb answers perfectly, that are received on "bad-font-whining" regularly - this is exactly the reason why we need a major bad-font-campaign, because this is not only a technical problem, but the roots seem to be hidden in a deeper socio-techno-cultural level of our brains - that "systems are getting too complex"-stuff leads in the end to the human brain regressing strongly in certain areas to amoeba-state.
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Based on your misguided comments, it is clear that we disagree on two points: (1) that I misinterpreted the OP's comment and (2) that the lateralization of the brain is or is not relevant.
I like your comment, but would it really be so difficult to for the next generation of Glass to tether to a smart phone in your pocket that did all the computing and only used Google's cloud services for supplemental input when available? I.e. the voice recognition gets better when you've got a good data connection. The phone could be larger than average because you'd rarely need to pull it out of your pocket.

I don't see why you think there's such a large difference between local horsepower and cloud computing. They compliment each other, and the ultimate technology will be a mixture of both. User interaction is the much more interesting and difficult problem.

(And your battery life comment is misplaced.)
What's a CPU for you?

For me it's something that execute instructions and have their own instruction sets. It can be even built in a breadboard and you could eventually invent your own instruction set.

Even low powered microcontrollers have a CPU (microcontrollers are small, low powered computers), and microcontrollers can come in many sizes[1]

Your point could be that it's just a head mounted display on top of an ASIC, which I doubt it would be.

Right now I think Glass is just a display for smartphones and a way to use Google services, which I think is quite limited (you said it's useless without the net, I agree). Right now we don't even have the tech to run sophisticated speech recognition in a smartphone without a couple of servers crunching statistical formulas why would you think it would be different with a low powered device?

EDIT: Basically my last paragraph is saying that I agree with you but without being too harsh in the comments. This could be the beginning of the wearable computers revolution along with a iWatch.

[1]: http://www.wired.com/design/2013/02/freescales-tiny-arm-chip...
High-yield farming also isn't any of those things. There's a difference between outcomes and practice (or indeed, general American administrative incompetence).
Is it just me or anyone see the funny side that the OP's Dad's underwear throws a server error! :-)
Go to a big box office furniture store. Sit in every chair, see what you like.
The problem is that questions like "Weren't you man enough to fight him off?" don't get asked, the threat of those questions prevent men from telling anyone.

And of course it's bullshit (the rest as well, but that one is just especially idiotic) to ask "What was she wearing?" (in general). But that's something that people are actively trying to better. Not for men.
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Different Coloring Agents -
Paints and inks have different coloring agents. Paints are made up of tiny bits of colored minerals like clays or talc suspended in a colorless matrix such as polyester or vinyl. A chemical union of tannic acid and iron sulfate dissolved in water or alcohol forms the coloring agent of some inks. Others use such dyes as aniline.

Different Coloring Procedures -
Ink soaks into the surface that it colors, but paints do not soak in -- they cover the surface with a coating. In fact, a primer is usually applied to the surface before painting so that the paint won't soak in. For this reason, paint sometimes chips off the surface that it covers, but this never happens in the case of ink.

Surface Protection -
Paint not only colors a surface, but also provides the surface with a protective covering that will keep it from deteriorating when assailed by such agents as wind and rain. Ink offers no such protection.

http://www.ehow.com/facts_7225030_difference-between-ink-pai...
On the off chance anyone actually reads this... :-)

He somewhat, and you more so, get to a point that has been bothering me a fair bit recently. How much should I care about meaning in what I do in my spare time. Possibly due to my upbringing, until recently I felt that if I had spare time I should be doing things that could ultimately lead to a new career, or that at least would produce things that are important. IOW, not just play games but program them. Go out on hikes, and take photography in a way designed to allow the experience to be shared for possibly publication.

However, the last couple of weekends I have forced myself (harder the first weekend than the last couple) to just veg and to play the two games I actually enjoy playing.

In part because the critical reception to most of my "serious" stuff has been lacking, and in part because I'm wondering if trying to do "important" stuff is keeping me from refreshing like I am supposed to do on the days I'm not at my main job.

To your point specifically, I would be curious to know whether the best use of our limited time (at least until we hit the singularity and then time becomes a different medium) is to be working on different aspects of ourself - or to try and fine ways to have fun devoid of any intended meaning?
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But politicians die, too.

In a few years the political caste will consist of people from the facebook generation and beyond. And some of them will understand IT.
You don't use spears. You use rocks. And you drop them in so that they impact on the spot you want in the first place, rather than adjusting their route multiple times.
That's exactly right. At nGen Works we're working everyday to be a flat service company. We recently published out process so others can learn from our successes and mistakes. It's human nature to chase that which retreats from us. When you tell a prospect the team has to select them it turns the traditional model on it's head. Some prospects laugh and walk away. Others understand that they will get a passionate team that cares about their goals.

You can access our process wiki here. Check out the New Biz section (Phase Zero). http://process.ngenworks.com

Also, here is a video on our model. http://www.ngenworks.com/blog/the-jellyfish-model-a-video-su...

We're also working on a site that will be a resource for other service companies looking to go flat.

So far, being a service company going flat hasn't been easy, but we are seeing positive cultural and bottom line results. The toughest part is getting through the fear that it won't work.
You remind me of a story: Inner city school starts a garden. At some point, a teacher pulls a carrot (or whatever) out of the ground, washes it off and eats it. School kid who observed this starts wigging out: Did you see what he just did?! He pulled something out of the DIRT and ATE it!! Ewww!

I will add that it causes big problems when decision makers have no clue where stuff comes from, what the world's limits are, etc.
Coding practice scales. Farming does not.

If you have a smartphone, you have (potentially) a programming platform. We can't simply give everyone on the planet a few acres of farmland to get to grips with the challenges of farming.
Even with rlwrap, sqlplus is awful. However, you can try SQL developer, which is fairly decent GUI frontend:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-develo...
> Programming is simply a tool, a way to abstract a problem and enable it to be solved or solved more efficiently. […] The programming part is nothing more than a hammer to a builder or a scalpel to a surgeon.

That sounds like a massive understatement of the actual power of electronic computers. They are the universal mental tool. The tool that can do any sufficiently specified cognitive task. There is no such physical tool yet (though we could hope for Drexlerian nanotechnology).

Programming is the way we control this tool. I do not know of any greater power.
TB requires active cables, which are hideously expensive (for now, at least?). Even a 50cm one is $29 from Apple. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD862ZM/A/apple-thunderbol...
It really doesn't matter - most of the food is not wasted by individuals, it's thrown away by corporations.

There's a reason corn-products are in almost literally everything...
Teach kids everything.
My point is that the OP and his father are making value judgments - firstly the title, secondly:-

"Growing food is far more challenging, requires an order of magnitude more knowledge and continuous learning and dedication."

Problems I have with this:-

* First and foremost, this is a pissing match. A better way of putting this might have been 'I found this more challenging, etc.' instead of some sweeping divisive comparison.

* It's meaningless - programming and farming are massive fields, what exactly are we comparing? Farming carrots in my allotment vs. a modern industrial farm. Hello world in qbasic vs. the linux kernel. Etc. etc. etc...

What's frustrating is that there are some really interesting points about, as you say, the real world applications of things, abstractness of programming, etc., but it's hidden below this unnecessary grumpy attack stuff.

Of course there's the just very grumpy:-

"Why are programmers granted such high status and wealth in our society for living in a self-created self-indulgant intellectual world of constant escapism"

Well, SpaceX did escape the atmosphere using some self-created self-indulgent intellectualisms ;-)
Wind technology seems quite a bit closer to the best possible implementation than solar, so I would expect more improvement in solar pricing than wind pricing.

If solar improves enough, the capital increments become people going to home depot to buy a 1 kW panel.
Yes, that is industrial ink, to print packaging mostly.

The ink there is probably custom made, you send the factory the material that you want to print on, and the moustached dude (the guy that is very fast with two spatula) will figure how to get the colours the designer wants on the material, and then they make the ink needed to mass printing on that material.

I've made a arcade machine once: http://tinyurl.com/cnv4h88 it took very hard work to get the colours right on the cabinet (and they actually, are still not right! they are just "acceptable" and I had ran out of money to do more experiments).

Each material reacts very differently to ink and paint (the arcade cabinet is partly painted, partly printed), and the results vary a lot without testing.

Note on the video how he says that after some testing, they add wax for example, this is a important part to make the ink reach some sort of desired effect on the material, maybe the material is think and will be crumpled (like candy wrapping or a t-shirt), then you need a very thin ink, that will not break, or a thick but flexible ink, that will stretch out as needed before breaking. But you might want to print on a very hard material (for example a plastic marquee) then you might prefer a ink that sticks very well on the material (try printing on metal...) and that is resilient (what happens if someone throw a rock on your road sign?)

I always has been a coder, but I would never figure when I went to design school (I am bachelor in design now) that I would find it fun :)
“Do I want it enough to shit myself everyday?”

I have no idea how the author reached this conclusion from his macabre story. Can't even tell if this motivational is satire or not.

What I do know is that working 7 days a week despite serious health issues is a terrible terrible idea that no one should emulate just because it worked for Random Guy's Dad. Seriously, we have to stop this macho cult bullshit.
This - I think a lot of the organic-eating SWPL crowd / upper middle class have a very idealized notion of "life on a farm" and growing your own food. I worked on a farm for six months as a kid and what I learned was that it was exhausting, back breaking work, and hours sweating in the sun all day.
Honestly, that sounds to me like "Oh, god. What would happen if everyone could drive?" Er, people would have more individual choice. But we would still need buses and stuff anyway. (And you will always have some non-drivers.)
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So the lesson here might be to never visit 4chan's board on technology [1] and the like?

[1] https://boards.4chan.org/g/ (NSFW)
Actually apocalypse did come-- in the last century there was mass starvation in Russia, China, Ukraine, Ethiopia, North Korea and more....literally tens of millions of people starved to death within living memory. Plus, large scale factory farming is not necessarily the economically optimal way to farm. We can't know because the US and other governments MASSIVELY subsidize factory farming...the market is extraordinarily distorted. Even further, there are questionable regulatory burdens foisted on small farming operations.
Not exactly what you want, but there is Sportiiis, that gives you pace, hr, cadence etc with a visual led bar and audio prompts. http://4iiii.com/2012/product-sportiiiis/

There is also the o-synce screeneye x that is a visor that gives you a heads up display. http://www.o-synce.com/en/products/running-fitness/data4visi...

What you want is coming, what exists now is very basic. It's juts take time until the technology hits the price point to make consumer products possible.
Where does pepsi get theirs?
When I saw the title of this article, I thought it referred to the fact that something like 1% of Internet sites run on Amazon Elastic Cloud. I was expecting the author to intimate that Amazon might be spying on everything done on those millions of virtual servers (data stored in their databases, access logs, etc).

It seems to actually be saying something a lot less interesting (at least to me).
its true. thanks man.
If only someone could come up with an abstraction over all this... We could perhaps call it threads, or co-routines, or such. It could make things so much easier!
This is exactly my analysis. Why would the packet the attacker using be so large? The only logical reason is that they knew the Juniper bug. I am wondering if Juniper also knew this bug but did not disclose it.
Agh, this is an editing mistake. I re-worded this last minute and reading again next day, it was a mistake.

Really what I meaning to say is that it's much clearer as to what is happening. I was trying to point out that success and error were actually functions on the deferred returned from $.post, not just functions you can pass into $.post (as they once were - hence "circa 2009").
Google has been working with one of Steve Mann's previous collaborators[1], Thad Starner[2]. Thad's actually the Tech Lead on the Glass project. As far as I know, he's been wearing AR systems for just as long and does the majority of his research in this domain. I must admit, I'm extremely jealous when I see Thad walking around campus with his Glass.

[1] http://www.wearcam.org/computing.html/
[2] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad/
The crux isn't a list of things they do right, but the emphasis of "doing it right" is what makes the company so reliable.
I think the bigger problem is most working environments are not conducive to productivity or pleasant places to be.

You see awesome offices in places like Google, Facebook et al where workers have plenty of space around their desk, and other areas in the building where they can work/socialise/relax.

Unfortunately most businesses are not like that, they cram as many people as they can into vast open plan offices where desk space is at a premium and you can forget having a quiet space to work.
My mathematics teacher once said that being a research mathematician was one of the most creative jobs in the world. I agree with this, since I can see this situation: as a painter, you have a near infinite number of possible subjects. It seems that much of it will not stretch boundaries revolutionarily. But as a mathematician, you come across a difficult problem. How do you solve it? You may be forced to look at things in a new light, or else fail.
The problem with "great programmers solve problems" is that great programmers are often reluctant to solve problems that don't involve programming.

Farming is interesting because you need to make use of all of the tools at your disposal (including programming, electronics, mechanics, etc.) to solve the problems of the farm – of which there are many!

Students often have difficulty seeing the forest for the trees. The purpose of teaching coding may be to teach analytical skills, but the students will only see coding. Very few will know how to take those lessons and apply it to, say, a mechanical machine to automate their life.

Great people solve problems – the tool they use doesn't matter. I do think learning to farm would go a long way to instil that in students.
+1 for the leap. 7 years ago I went to a local store to buy an Aeron. The guy sent me home with a Leap to try for 30 days - no deposit. 7 years later and it still looks and operates like new. And I haven't had sitting issues since I got it.

A good chair is not a replacement for physical activity though.
Academics have been driven largely by hubris since time immemorial. It's a mistake to think that this conflicts in principle with a passion for the subject (all though in can in practice, of course). If you get rid of all the academics who made you nauseous with self-promotion, you'd pretty much just be left with Erdős and some teachers.

Incidentally, for those who haven't read it, pg's analysis of the incredible technology of the Segway being completely trumped by human fashion is great: http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html
I'm a big fan of David Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage, and other economic knowledge.
Wasted too much time with these kind of reports.

Also every web designer that is not testing stuff on the 10 most used system configurations of the world will have a very bad time in hell and will receive some extra eternities for prolonged torture.

Web designers must develop more interest in making the text readable everywhere. Underlying technical problems are well known to the "community" and should be solved.
The named functions were just an attempt at better highlighting what is going on for some readers. Not sure if it worked, but sorry it annoyed you :).
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His passion reminds me of Jiro in Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It amazes me how much passion is given into products that I would have otherwise found mundane.
Sounds quite likely the same thing is happening to Lua.

The tests were made on a Micro VPS from Afterburst.com (which I own), on an empty/not-yet-deployed node.
Todoist. I've used Remember the Milk, Toodledo, Wunderlist and probably a few others that I've forgotten and have come back to Todoist. It's a simple, clean, flexible interface that does what I need. I had high hopes for Wunderlist but gave up in frustration.
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He comes to the conclusion eventually that his dad did it because he loved it. Should he have sat home worrying about his health?
Um, You could have go with a Akamai Reseller instead? Like Rackspace Cloud?

The same goes for EdgeCast, Mediatemple, GoGrid, etc are resellers.
No intelligent person thinks food magically pops onto shelves. It is not necessary to play farmer in order to know where food comes from. Do you know how make your own steel? Neither do I. I'm not worried about it.
> All 16 bolts in the common berthing mechanism have driven to create a firm connection between Dragon and the Harmony module. The commercial spacecraft is now part of the International Space Station.

> Final berthing occurred at 8:56 a.m. EST (1356 GMT) as the space station flew about 253 miles over the Arabian Sea.
Since I've been trying to deconstruct "programmer" into "systems analyst" and "coder" in other comments, I might as well continue in that vein here, but with a slightly different tack:

Farming is a lot more like "software engineering" than "programming". You can't pause a farm. It's an "engine" that you have to keep running, no matter what calamity occurs (weather, breakdowns, etc.)
Does google glass not use the wearer's smartphone?

Regardless of whether the computation is done locally or not, he has been working on "augmented reality" using glasses, a great asset for google he may even prove to be.
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Thanks for telling us about your dad. I lost my dad a year ago and this story reminds me a lot of his work ethic and his commitment to providing for his family.
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> Though it could also be so possibly from the aspect of the carbon dioxide want to rise to the top and that extra force would only incure more pressure towards the top

Pressure inside an enclosed volume is equal everywhere.
The Reddit voting system works fine. On both Reddit and HN I usually learn more from the comments than the actual article, but I still wouldn't want comments in the New York Times.

Heavy handed censorship turns rude commenters who should be simply ignored into internet terrorists, Facebook comments dilutes the conversation by making people self consciously edit themselves and Twitter or Tumblr replies are like shouting into the wind.

Good old semi-anonymous Reddit comments still perform though, even with a user base of millions of bratty kids the best stuff usually floats to the top.