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The article title is ungrammatical without correct punctuation. With correct punctuation, it's fine - and it is, after all, talking directly about an error in the very grammatical construct it is highlighting. It's a perfectly natural sentence that could easily come about in normal discussion.

The 'buffalo' one is just nonsensical - the word 'buffalo' just isn't used that way, and even with punctuation, needs to be separately explained for people to understand it - even if they are aware of the regional dialect that uses the word 'buffalo' as a verb.
There are always going to be people better than you and worse than you. I think if you have the ability to teach yourself, you will be fine no matter what your age is.I am 33 now and I constantly try and stay on top of things. It is impossible to stay on top of anything for very long in this business, but it is important that you keep trying. I would not be discouraged about that particular age, since that is exactly when I turned mine around. Doubt is your worst enemy.
Thanks for the correction, that's interesting. It's a testament to the utility of vxworks, I suppose, which costs a few hundred thousand dollars per client. Even so, not using rad-hardened CPUs still saves them millions, especially when you factor in backup hardware, test units, etc.
That is way down on my list of things to worry about.
I'm waiting for Egor to spend some time with nodejs ... would like to see what he finds
Ask HN: How does your team celebrate launches?
Also, how does your team or company recognize the leads for launches?
Every language has absurdities. Genders for non-gendered things is one example.

What's really absurd about English is the contempt for diacritical marks. Other languages give you a clue as to how the word is pronounced, whereas in English, if I write 'wind', you don't know if I'm talking about air blowing or charging a mechanical clock unless you have context - which may come later in the sentence.
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There is ample discussion on this page regarding the anonymous subscription option of bitcoins. The post I responded to claims:

"Reality check: if your credit card details are visible to a third party - you're not anonymous."

But that's missing the point since keeping the users' activity anonymous is what matters... not that they are customers.
Ask HN: Is it good to set a personal goal of X much money by age Y?
Why install fail2ban and logwatch instead of csf?
3 of 4 thruster packs experienced the issue; they need 2 of 4 to open the solar panels and 3 of 4 to dock with the ISS. From what I understand they got all 4 working again using the "water hammer" effect to clear the blockage, but I'm not sure how accurate that is.
Glass does have a "high speed 4G link" - your smartphone.
I would be interested. However, I would bet that there are plenty of people at Canonical who are even more interested (or do this already, even).

Thinking about it now, since their plan is to have the same software run on the laptop and phone, you can do it just by installing Ubuntu (or really, Ubuntu in 1-2 future versions). The only thing you won't get to see is what it looks like on small screen sizes - for that you'll need some sort of emulator. I don't know much about virtualization - is there a host program that can dynamically change screen sizes, or pretend that you just plugged into a dock? If so, that should do it.
Also: https://github.com/SpiderOak/crypton/issues/27
Its a contentious theological issue which finds its history immediatly following the death of the Prophet(saw).

I could go into detail if you would like but its a very complex and painful story. The wikipedia page probably covers it rather well.
Don't take it too literally. It's meant as a kind of linguistic koan to illustrate the concept of prosody.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody_(linguistics)

Consider the difference in how one says

He ate that

vs

He ate that?

That's prosody. The difference in meaning isn't a consequence of the presence of the question mark, although that's what people think of as "grammatical." The presence of the question mark and the difference in meaning are both consequences of the prosodic differences between the two sentences.

This shows one of many challenges inherent computational linguistics: "the written word" only encapsulates a small part of what it means to "speak English" or "understand English."

As a nice benefit, it makes the sort of grammarian who obsesses over the written word look (rightly) like they're missing the forest for the trees.
Ha, the general strategy of archiving the Content you need to 'bootstrap' an initial display in S3 is what we do at Livefyre.

For example, a Comment widget hits this when it loads on the page, which uses Varnish to do an ESI from S3, which is super low cost compared to going to the application layer.
http://bootstrap.livefyre.com/bs3/livefyre.com/4/NTg0/init

He left out an important detail about where 'recent.json' is served from. I hypothesize WordPress itself as a dynamic request, meaning you still need to scale that proportional to your viewership. If it were in S3, it wouldn't be true real-time as S3 has double-digit-second latency in updates.
According to recent reports there are 3 million open tech jobs in the US.

Really? Source?

("I don't know math", "that's for nerds" etc. fine flip my burger then).

Not everyone can or should be a programmer.
Wikipedia says:

“Few USB devices made it to market until USB 1.1, released in August 1998, which fixed problems identified in 1.0, mostly relating to hubs. 1.1 was the earliest revision to be widely adopted.”

The iMac G3 was released in August 1998. I didn’t say the iMac was the first computer to have USB ports, because it probably wasn’t quite the first (although, interestingly, no other computer comes up when you try to Google this); importantly, though, it only had USB ports, and killed off ADB, serial, parallel, and SCSI, forcing users to start buying USB peripherals. My family had to get a serial to USB adapter that still worked with OS X the last time I tried it with a GPS receiver (I just looked it up and it may have finally stopped working with Mountain Lion, nearly 15 years later). It was, what, about ten years after that that most PCs finally stopped including PS/2, serial, and parallel ports?

There’s some discussion here with people disputing that the iMac “jumpstarted” the USB market:
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2785/did-apple-j...

Someone complains that Apple promoted FireWire and was late to support USB 2.0, but FireWire came out first and was technically superior (although some devices do have weird compatibility issues), and that Apple dragged its feet supporting USB 3.0 because they were trying to promote Thunderbolt, but I believe this was because Apple is using Intel chipsets (because Intel killed off Nvidia’s chipsets) and Intel was doing exactly what this person accused Apple of doing.
I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting, nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability transcendentalizes intercommunication's incomprehensibleness.

word 1 = 1 letter, word 20 = 20 letters. A friend didn't like "intercommunication's", but hasn't replied on the worth of 'intercommunicationy'...
A simple explanation of TDD for beginner web developers
Green energy is a scam. Government-directed economic activity is a scam. Jobs will come and go with cyclical economic activity. Right now, most of the developed world is suffering from the effects of cronyism and socialism, which are economically inefficient. The massive debt situation in Europe, Japan, and the United States will have significant effects on politics and economics sometime in the next 10 to 20 years. Might get better, might get worse. We'll find out when it happens.
25 is still pretty young. Take Berkeley's SaaS classes-it will teach you advanced Ruby on Rails.
No. How much money you make has a large random factor to it, based on the opportunities available to you. Your goals should be things you can control, otherwise you're setting yourself up for frustration and disappointment.

You're better off setting goals in terms of the specific actions you can take, eg. having finished X project by age Y, or learned A, B, and C skills.
Speed is an issue: I live 70 miles north of Wall Street and for a while worked a block away from the actual Wall Street. I found that at any time except the worst of the rush hours, I could go door to door by car faster than by the Metro train. Net, the trains were not very fast. The main problem was, the trains have to stop and start so often.
Virtually no network engineers (by percentage) have to do anything other than worry about what their vendor supports for a given configuration (and usually a fairly small set of configurations, too); it's much more about policy and operations.

Similarly very few developers have to solve open CS problems in writing a CRUD application (or I guess more comparably to ops, come up with a novel implementation of a complex algorithm).

This is progress, though.
Manned Mars mission plans include a radiation shield made of poop
No.
Be good at what you do, be smart with how you invest. If you set such a goal I can assure you that you will not perform as well as if your goal was learn X by age Y, or something similar. Money is an arbitrary and (IMHO) poor indicator of a successful life.
Ask HN: How can I improve my personal website
I'm a high school student developer looking for an internship. What can I do to improve my flow. What am I missing in terms of design? Writing?

The site is michaelfine.me
Clickable: http://michaelfine.me
You can't have an economy where everybody gets to do their first (or probably 2nd or 3rd or 4th) choice of career unless you are people's desires happen to coincide with market demand.

In fact I imagine that the majority of people employed in the workforce can think of a whole list of jobs that they would rather do.

Otherwise we would have a huge oversupply of porn stars and rock stars but nobody to collect the trash.
So why can't they have manually powered televisions to pick up TV and watch something on the craft? Since Earth has been broadcasting for so long, shouldn't there be TV broadcasts at the range of Mars that they could pick up and watch? If it's powered by some sort of exercise machine, it'd also assist with the muscle atrophy, no?
There is not one single socialist (worker control of the means of production) country on Earth. Please argue from something other than the blatantly religious bunk of the Austrian "economists".

Just because you ethically or morally disagree with someone's politics (like social democracy, or Keynesianism) doesn't mean they must always fail or caused all our problems. The world is largely engaged in trying or pressing-for approaches that are actually quite non-radical and known to work at least some of the time, if not always.
I'm in the same boat. I don't use hjkl for this very reason. I haven't remapped my keyboard because I'm constantly having to use a coworker's keyboard (most of which use Qwerty), and it's just easier to remember keys instead of positions on the keyboard. Everything works except HJKL...
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Interesting point. Thinking it through for myself, it seems important that the money be sent to everyone, not just the unemployed. Otherwise you'd get a weird situation where taking a job might not increase the amount of money you make - or even decrease it, if the rule is that you only get money if you have literally zero income. Giving money to everyone makes it much easier to view jobs as a sort of sliding scale where you work harder and get more money.

Alternatively, you could set the minimum wage such that every job pays more than the base wage. But you'd still need a rule to deal with part-time work.
It is remarkable.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White. There were competing social forces too.
| If you are using this as a mnemonic about its/it's,
| this is fine; but your statement of it is as a rule

No need to be so pedantic. We're not teaching an English course here, we're talking about mnemonics for its/it's.

If you need a general rule, how about:

when a possessive and a contraction collide,
the contraction wins
I was pleasantly surprised to read this and not get thrown into a crazy post-scarcity singularity hugfest. I was really worried about that.

Anyways, I think the novelty to almost anyone here of the idea of decreasing job availability has worn off--as the author states, job and capital growth are decoupled. I don't think anyone would really argue that point.

There are, though, some questions that suggest themselves, a few of which have even already appeared in this thread:

* Is there some kind of morality involved in electing not to work, if the option is available but not required?

* Do we want to work towards establishing a society where leisure is the default, guaranteed state?

* If we do want to work towards that state, what then does it mean to live a good life?

* If we don't want to work towards that state, what is our justification for inflicting toil upon future generations?

* If we manage to eliminate all non-creative jobs (stocking, cooking, manufacturing, etc.), what do we do with all those folks? Is it reasonable to ask them to retrain?

Some of the great questions of life, while perhaps not unsolvable, are neatly sidestepped in one's pursuit of the lower levels of Maslowe's hierarchy; being unable to make rent has more than once gotten me out of a funk caused by a girl, for example.

If leisure becomes the default (which job trends would tend to suggest), it becomes a lot harder to punt on these existential issues--you don't get the shelter of the daily grind or shitty retail job to protect you.
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Ironically, people said he should have handled the commit differently, and perhaps he should have.

But here we are talking about him 1 year later. I think he probably shouldn't have done it, but on which side of the pg/YC line of creative subversion did his stunt actually fall?
> What would you assume would happen if a whistleblower stepped forward and revealed lies and corruption

Which one are we talking about, a whistleblower or Bradley Manning?
Doesn't Vimium do this?
I don't see why for any reason why new jobs will not be generated.

Because economic productivity is no longer translating cleanly into increased buying power and demand (expressed, usually, as a rise in real hourly wages). Without that link, productivity growth through, say, automation just becomes increased capital accumulation, because the people doing the automation, by self-selection of their choice to invest in automation rather than eating their profits, already have a lower marginal propensity to consume than normal.

The result is that new stuff gets invented, but little to no-one can buy it, because "you're not entitled" to wages sufficiently high to make discretionary purchases (like a private car) or personal infrastructure upgrades (like passivehaus insulation to save on heating costs).
https://github.com/Xeoncross/lowendscript

I just use this bash script when setting up a new VPS. It pretty much takes care of it all for you, plus it sets up a ngnix/mysql stack already optimised for law RAM machines.

Also sets up 3proxy which is handy for viewing Hulu/Netflix :)
You can read about it here : http://diet4fitness.blogspot.ca/2008/06/secret-to-buring-cal...

Qouting from this page:
"I like relaxing runs, but if you do the same slog every day, you can suffer from what's sometimes called "postman's syndrome"—named for those who do the same walk every day and yet their bodies never change. Your muscles become so efficient at a movement over time that if you do it day after day and eat the same way, you never overtax your system and burn more calories to lose weight."

Basically it says postmen lose weight during the first months of their work, cause they started a new activity. But after a couple of months they start gaining weight as their body get used to walking everyday :)
As someone who quit his fancy tech job and started a video game company, I can say with certainty that games are not as fun to code as you would think =). The fun part (gameplay, game balance, story-telling, level creation) all happen near the end. In fact, they happen so close to the end that games often don't finish. They will have one third great story, two thirds great levels, and the rest is just rushed and crap.

The reason for this is the tools we made -- game engine for rendering & AI, level editors, resource packers, art post processors, etc, this is how the game really is put together. You don't make a game, you make a series of tools that help other people (game designers, artists, writers, AI scriptors) make a game. Now it is a blast making a work of collaborative art -- because writing and art are awesome -- but making a tool for a game is VERY similar to making an office suite or a complex website. It is all just data and interfaces. All the same usability/complexity tradeoffs apply.

I guess what I'm saying is the author's attitude made sense to me, and I know for sure that I'm not not at risk for burnout -- I love this shit. I love making games, but really it is because I love to program. Stories and art and gameplay are all bonuses, but if I didn't love the code it would still be terrible. That makes me wonder if coding is for everyone. I would love for it to be, but I'm really not sure.

Lastly, I recently taught someone to code from the ground up and the biggest single lesson was this: You will spend most of your day not knowing the answer. You will think and think and wonder and wonder. Is there even an answer to find? Is rails just too slow or are my queries crap? Can the iOS animation engine handle what you are doing or did you just add too many quartz-level effects and that is why it is super slow? You won't know the answer, you will doubt yourself, but over time you will actually become comfortable with not knowing. And even then, you will still be surprised (and pleased) when you figure it out. It is unending and I think it takes a special someone to enjoy that sort of life.

tl;dr Changing your life isn't always the answer. Coding is hard, doubt is hard, and games aren't as fun to write as you would think.
The key finding of a new article in the Feb. 27 issue of the journal PLoS One links sugar to diabetes like cigarettes to cancer: “Each 150 kilocalories/person/day increase in total calorie availability related to a 0.1 percent rise in diabetes prevalence (not significant), whereas a 150 kilocalories/person/day rise in sugar availability (one 12-ounce can of soft drink) was associated with a 1.1 percent rise in diabetes prevalence.”
Those issues have all been fixed (well I never heard of the hanging on wake issue) FYI.

http://www.whatthetech.info/samsungchromebook/
If leisure becomes the default (which job trends would tend to suggest), it becomes a lot harder to punt on these existential issues--you don't get the shelter of the daily grind or shitty retail job to protect you.

My mother always calls that "a better class of problem". God willing humanity should someday have to confront its existential "issues" like a bunch of spoiled schoolchildren rather than going cradle-to-grave without confronting anything more important than how to reach next year!
I found the entire piece pretty tiresome as well. A lot of redistributionist ideas being sold with a good dose of FUD.

How are we going to structure a society that needs radically less human labour?

"We" can't even come to an agreement on federal spending for the NEXT YEAR. Do you really think anybody in government is remotely capable of tackling a question like that? If they did, do you think anybody in that dysfunctional alternate reality has any chance at all of arriving at a workable answer? I know what I think.

Society will, if allowed, figure it out on its own.
Depends upon what actions setting that goal lead you to take. Does it induce you to save regularly and well? Probably good.

Does it talk you into taking a job which burns you out or involves you in morally dubious activity? Probably not.
My first impression based on theme - good job. Now I'm going to download it.

EDIT: Just downloaded. Looking.

When will you add login sessions?

Will you incorporate no-procast?

Is there any way you can incorporate a notification system to show up in the upper right hand corner, or even in the side panel on Mountain Lion? I know some of the mobile apps have thread notifications.

EDIT 2: It would be great if you added poll functionality for the 300+ people. And buttons for New and Leaderboards, etc. I'm saying all of this because I'd use this if you made it a full featured app.

I'd probably pay between $0.99 - $2.99 for an app with everything I just said above. Especially if you could put in different widgets that have been developed by other people (best time to submit, notifications, stats, etc.)
Wha-huh? Of course not. Neither is 35, 45, 55... I plan to work until I'm at least 80, if I live that long. I was still playing in the Army at 25. Take a look at MIT's Open Course Wear videos for Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - half the class looks past 30 and some have gray hair. Go for it.
Though I had done some html and css before I turned 30, I didn't start programming until I was 33, and now it's my full time gig, so no. At 25, you're still just a pup.

Also, from what I understand, it isn't rare for CS students to be somewhat overwhelmed when starting programming in the real world. In the real world, the technology stack moves very quickly, while most universities are still focused on things like Java. Possibly because these languages are better at teaching you skills that get you into good habits, but I'm not sure.

A word of advice, don't get caught up in chasing every new language, framework and technology. Choose wisely and learn what you're going to need for the next 5 years. Ruby is very much in demand at the moment, and javascript is growing considerably, both because of client side and node.
Couldn't you send this equipment and a large power source separately into space and then outfit it to the shuttle containing the people? Once in space, isn't the weight constraints a trivial issue?
That sounds nice, but is a little empty. There are plenty of people who we now consider incredibly important figures (artists etc) who died broke.
It seems to require 10.8 and above! Haven't gotten around to updating my OS. Regardless, just looking at the screen shot I really like the color scheme and design. If you don't mind, here is a shameless link to a simple Chrome Extension for Hacker News I made: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/programming-news/g...
The human body is basically code 2 all the time. It's just that it can fix itself, until you get code 3.
He finds these "emasculating"
Hi Rex, I am currently working on a live demo. But, how it basically works is your company has a subdomain e.g yourcompany.testimonialboard.com - this is where all your testimonials will be displayed like in the screenshot.

To get your customers to share a testimonial on your Testimonial Board you would need to redirect them to yourcompany.testimonialboard.com/new, then they will be able to share a testimonial about there experience with your product. You would have full control and can delete any unfair reviews.
I like the app a lot. I wrote down a bunch of my basic questions I had after using the app in a top-level comment.

Suffice to say, I'm keeping it. I'll keep the praise to this comment and the questions to the other ;). I like how simple it is and true to the theme.