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TRAMP & eshell would help you achieve 100% your local Emacs productivity on remote machines, and 100% smaller (you actually don't need to install anything on remote machine) :-)
The best startup you can found in your lifetime - Your Family
My brother and dad play guitar like crazy, combined they have over 20 guitars of all types. My dad has built 6 or 7 of them, both acoustic and electric. My dad recommended Yamaha as a good beginner guitar, simply based on the value (quality/cost), and they have pretty good QA so the beginner guitars are very consistent.

I recently decided to pick up guitar as well. I specifically wanted to learn acoustic (electric is a bit easier to learn), so this recommendation is narrowed to acoustic only. I read a bunch online and was leaning towards the Seagull S6 ($359) and the Yamaha FG700S ($199). I went to a couple guitar stores in NYC with my brother and he played a bunch of different acoustic guitars under $400. I didn't tell him my preference for the Seagull and the Yamaha (after all, I know nothing, he has been playing for 30 years) - and he ended up picking the Yamaha FG700s as the best option for a beginner. I'm very happy with it so far. The Seagull is another great option, but it is a bit more money.

I would avoid the Yamaha "starter" packs. A tuner is $9, picks are generally free, a bag is cheap, and you don't need the DVD. So the junk they throw into their "gigmaker" packs isn't worth the lower quality guitar.
I guess your best bet would have been moving to London or Cambridge (or perhaps Munich or so).

A Polish co-worker from my former job in Cambridge went back to Poland, and now `tele-commutes' to Cambridge. He's doing Haskell.
As ianlevesque mentioned in the link below, http://peerjs.com/status is a good overview of current state of data channels. As Firefox stabilizes their WebRTC data channel support, I will implement it. Hopefully there will soon be cross-browser support as well for data channels.
daigoba66 wrote:

""Except he was already allowed to carry it. He was just not allowed to show it to anyone."

Assuming that's the case then he could have weighed the possible downside (almost nil) to showing the device to someone on their deathbed (with nobody else in the room of course) vs. the risk in asking Steve for permission and the potential repercussions of doing that. [1] Almost daring him to either not respond or to say "no" instead of "ok". I suspect there is more here than meets the eye. [2]

[1] Certainly a risk greater than showing the device to someone on their death bed.

[2] Shows the level of brainwashing more or less like asking the Priest, Minister or Rabbi for a pass on a ritual that has been drilled into your head. After all only you yourself know you have committed the transgression.
Not quite the same, but you may be interested in the IKVM type provider prototype[1], which allows you to write F# scripts directly against JAR files (using IKVM in the implementation).

[1] http://colinbul.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/f-ikvm-type-provide...
See I look at this and absolutely amazed. I wish I could make something like this but I have no idea of how to event start.

I tried making a Settlers game in Python/PyGame and so far all I have been able to do is generate the board: https://gist.github.com/sareon/5268205 - I've been told I am not properly discretizing the difference between the drawing of the game and the logic of the game which is going to hinder the development of the game.

I have a BSc and an MSc in CS - focusing on NLP and Machine Learning, so I have an idea how to program, just not how to program games like the Minecraft clone or my own Settlers game. I've tried looking for tutorials and resources online and I've followed the InventWithPython which showed me how to make a simple game similar to how I started making my own. Clearly it was inefficient for a larger game.

What are some good resources out there that can help me learn how to make games such as the Minecraft clone or even how to make my own settlers game actually be a useable game?
Right url: http://www.hackertalks.io/
> But to say that the entire market is fully random is to claim that the efficient market hypothesis holds, which it clearly doesn't - not even in weak form.

Of course it does. All evidence supports the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), and note my use of the word "evidence". A contradiction would have to be a series of funds that applied a given, predefined (internally) strategy and (very important) didn't reveal its picks to the public (to avoid the announcement effect). Such an experiment hasn't been done, and those cases in which a specific strategy was applied have been universal failures.

Let's say for the sake of argument that there is a surefire winning strategy as is so often claimed in worthless investment books. If it were to be recognized and then applied, it would become the new market norm, everyone would apply it, and its differential value would evaporate overnight. That hypothetical experiment merely supports the EMH.

> Anyone who wants to claim that the EMH is true needs to explain the equity premium puzzle, the success of value investing and the persistent outperformance of momentum investing - among many other price anomalies that I could name.

Those result from a combination of the announcement effect and insider trading. Berkshire-Hathaway is successful because people expect it to be successful, and who invest in the same stocks when they're announced. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The only fair, scientific test would be a strategy that is applied in secret, not in public like Berkshire-Hathaway, and in a way that doesn't tweak the market itself by way of large purchases that create their own following of fanboys. In other words, a pure computer model that is defined in advance, not tweaked enroute, that doesn't actually invest but only models hypothetical investments, and that shows its value over other systems in perpetuity. There is no such thing, and the EMH is true.

Remember the Null Hypothesis, the basis of modern scientific thinking. The Null Hypothesis assumes something without evidence is false. All evidence supports the EMH.
I highly value legality of doing anything not immediately life threatening in my house because it's my last line of defense. Last line of privacy.

Even if you take the street, the workplace and the indoors away (by the means of tight and hostile control) your home is still your home. And if you gave up your home as a step one you will not have a place to fall back, a place to default to.

You can no longer say "Screw you guys I'm going home".

Now all your life depends on others (authorities) agreeing to let you do whatever you are doing, because you don't have one place where you are that authority.
I'll be up there working in our SF office, so I'll be spending a lot of time with locals.
Thanks for answers guys.
She just called me to tell me she don't want to type card numbers on internet (afraid :) ), so she will just give me money on hand.
Thanks for the quick reply. But one quick question just popped up. How can the prices be rising so fast? You don't see the USD having such magnitude of changes even in 10 years. So big issue is who's going to regulate the prices? Market forces? Are they up to the job with so many speculators just there to make a quick buck? Another big concern.

And it's a 'currency', meaning you are supposed to spend it to buy stuffs. But now everyone are getting all they can like skyrim hoarders, hoping to make a quick buck. I can't forsee any sane merchants using it as a form of currency. Who's to say that the price won't go up by $10 the next day or come crashing down? Your bitcoin can be worthless or a boost in revenue just because 'market forces' say so. Horrible form of currency but great form of investment. Cheers.
I like that idea. Will implement it shortly.
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Correct :) Discovering new music is awesome. Plus someone put me onto Songkick. Awesome discovery
Vim counterpart everyone? :-) http://vimcasts.org/

Being a fan of both, a lot of cool things from Vim to could be brought to Emacs workflow.
That's crazy. Crazy crazy crazy.

Spend $400 and you can get a really nice guitar. Totally sufficient for anything you need as a beginner.

Take the other $1600 and book yourself lessons for the next 18 months. That qualifies as the same "cost commitment", but actually adds value.
Unless I'm really mistaken, NTFS, as a file system, can delete an open file; Windows' Win32 subsystem simply forbids it. You should get the same behavior when mounting ext2 from Windows, and you should be able to delete open files when mounting NTFS from Linux. It was a design choice that I personally think is idiotic, but it's at the Windows subsystem later, not the file system. For that reason, no, I assume ReFS does not let you delete an open file.

In terms of functionality: ReFS is a subset of ZFS-like system. That's not been available on Unix for decades, and since ZFS is patented and both that and Btrfs are controlled by a competitor, I don't fault them for making their own format. What I am nonplussed on is why ReFS is missing old Windows features like links, which (despite another poster's claim) are used rather heavily, by the default Windows install, no less.
Already done :) http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1bau70/trying_so...

An issue would do just fine as well
I've been managing the whole thing via the UI. It's been great
Haha I should have guessed!
Huh?

Sparse files are used extensively by Hyper-V for disk images. You really want them--especially on Windows Server, which is the only platform with ReFS right now.

The base Windows install uses symbolic links to unify things like "Documents"/"My Documents" and other key areas, without which legacy programs will not work properly. I cannot comment on other Windows deploys, but I'll add that my team uses symbolic links heavily on NTFS both in development and production, and that the plethora of articles on adding a link command back to PowerShell seems to imply we're not that weird.

And at least SQL Server uses NTFS transactions for its magic.

Maybe ReFS2 adds these back, but they will absolutely be missed.
I made a room which anyone can join. Would be cool to see how it scales.

http://rtccopy.com/#KJMHud6Q

Edit: Incase anyone is interested, I have a chat log up: http://ancarda.net/rtccopy.log.txt
Well theres "touristy", the theres "touristy". Last summer I went with a friend to visit southern Utah. We did a day in Zion National Park. It was cool and utterly beautiful. Then, because she knew the area and had friends there, we went off into the actual wilderness of the Grand Staircase. We hit some real back woods areas, explored canyons and hiked a lot of crazy places. We rarely saw evidence of other people, let alone actual people. I think in the 3 days we were out in the back country we only saw 2 other people and that was close to (what passes for) a road. When we went back through Zion on the way home, I actually experience civilization shock - there were like 20 people visible at once, and other cars!

They were both great experiences but I value the latter far more for a couple reasons:

* I would never have been able to find it, known how to do that exploration, and been too timid to do it without local knowledge.

*It was an adventure rather than a curated experience. The park is great, but I never felt like I was seeing reality. Like going to Epcot vs going to actual places.

It was still a totally touristy experience. The locals thought I was cute for wanting to go wander in the desert to see places I had to walk for a long way to get to, without knowing anything about the desert. I was still just there to see the sights. Yet different - they all were really eager to tell me about their favorite spots off the beaten path.

I guess what I'm saying is that I tend to interpret, and mean, touristy as "not really worth the effort, it's too curated and sanitized and expensive. It's designed to Disneyify some approximation of local experience and does so poorly".

Similarly when I talk to people visiting my hometown of Chicago, I always recommend the Museum of Science and Industry, and the Art institute. "touristy" yeah, but also the stuff I would do once or twice a year when I lived there, and I still try to do it every couple of years when I'm visiting the family.
I've had 2 things that I thought weren't great but weren't terrible flagged and pushed to spot 301 in the last couple months. I don't know if they should have been or if it was excessive.

They were:

http://yourereallypretty.com
http://tommy.authpad.com/this-is-why-you-ship
When surveyed about a different runtime, I wrote in "common lisp". Not sure they took that one seriously.
Interestingly, I think it becomes even less important in graduate school, since only about half of your education comes from the classes you take, and even less for a PHD. After I get my masters, I expect I will be in a very similar position to a student who worked for those 2-3 years. He will be saying to employers, "This is what I worked on, and this is what I created, during my last 2-3 years," and I will be saying the same. The only difference is, I will have classes on top of that, and my work will be guided by an advisor, not a boss.
My bad on the spelling error. Fixed here: https://github.com/xzyfer/us-travel-checklist/commit/781b63d...

On the up side my shame is public :/
NetBSD turns 20
Science research: three problems that point to a communications crisis
My team just went through more agile training, and one piece of advice I found interesting was to consider keeping the managers out of the standup if it's not working. The meeting is to help others on the team, so that's the only people who need to be there.
I was about to post a link to Instinct [1]. I've recommended your site to a couple of people after seeing it on HN when it launched, and both of them have loved it. Congratulations on building a great looking site with a novel approach to learning to play guitar from scratch!
[1] http://getinstinct.com
Only in academic circles does EMH stay true. Time and time again, reality has shown that EMH is not applicable, or exists in a very weak form. One need only look to the LBO bubble and the dotcom bubble to see counter-examples of EMH.
Advice from the Road - 7 Tips for Traveling
Sorry, i accidentally posted the URL without www.

The right URL:
http://www.hackertalks.io
This is a really good article. I was just talking with my friends on how it seems like LeBron realized that he can be unstoppable; which in reality and from this read, means he's more efficient. When you're efficient at anything, it always look like you're dominate and at times unstoppable. Take Apple for example: During 2007 - 2011, they were on a run where we all thought the world would be iEverything.

I think finding your efficient level is the key indicator to someone or thing looking unstoppable once in motion. Meaning, once your startup is off the ground with a business model and making money on said business model, your next step is to find the efficiency level for which you best operate on. This includes all aspects of the company, not just sales. LeBron is an efficient scorer but also an efficient passer and defensive player. It wasn't until all things were working together and not in isolation, when people were like "WOW!!!, I think he figured it out". So if sales and everything else are booming but you have a very inefficient product development cycle, you will not be at your peak performance level. VentureBeat had an article about Tibco; which details this about having great technology and rocking but a sales missteps; which didn't allow them to get to their true efficient/ peak performance level (http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/28/tibco/). This seems like the problem with Apple now. They don't seem to be as dominate and unstoppable as before; which could be by design but I doubt it. The management shakeup and recent hiccups with Maps and Siri, shows that Apple is now not as efficient as it once was.

I believe when your efficiency level is found, you take nothing for granted as LeBron mentions is the reason he has transformed as a player. When you work at being great and the best you can be, you find out who you are and what works the best. You also find out who you are not and what doesn't work. You exclude what you're not and what doesn't work from the equation and focus on the variables that work for you. Only you can stop you, once you found your efficiency level that gets you to peak performance.
Make managing FreeBSD not suck?
I have been told by many professors that I would earn more by directly entering the workforce. It takes a massive salary increase to catch up to 2-3 years of pay. Intellectual curiosity is really the only reason you can choose graduate school, or you will hate it.

I found my undergraduate advanced electives and research with professors exciting and interesting, so I decided I would rather spend 2-3 years learning more and researching, than spending 2-3 working my way up in my first few jobs.

I will probably end up someplace similar, but I will enjoy it much more, and I believe be a better person because of it.
Valve Releases Several New Linux Game Ports
That's just an extension of the "big city" effect. In general, attractive women gravitate toward big cities seeking successful men. I know that sounds sexist, but it really is a thing and it skews demographics. There are more dating women in NYC competing for fewer men. The situation in Nome, Alaska is reversed.
Any HR department that believes semantic analysis of Facebook statuses is a reasonable approximation of people's actual behaviour, interests and domain knowledge deserves the idiots they'll hire and the litigation they'll face.
So let's see... You say he had a 70% chance of winning, so if the prize money was 20 cents, each ticket had an expected value of 0.720=14 cents but a cost of 4 cents so a net of 10 cents. I'm not sure what you mean by '20-100 of the same number' - he could only buy 20-100 from each vendor? Let's say he can buy 100 at a vendor (if they're the same number and so the entire batch will win or lose, then that renders the expected net value a little worse a fit but whatever) , that's 10 cents 100 or 10 dollars.

In the US, minimum wage tends to come out around $7, so if he can hit one vendor per hour then I suppose he'd be showing a reasonable profit. But you also need to take into account wear and tear on vehicles, risk of accidents, planning your life around the lottery... I suspect with those included, it'd still be net-positive but not really that great a use of time and effort. Personally, I'd be doing it more for a fun write-up than to make money.
I am wondering where you guys draw the line between a standup and a status reporting meeting ?
>A quote: "And at least some physicists have been phenomenally successful as fund managers. Indeed, the fund that is widely viewed as the most successful hedge fund of all time, the Medallion Fund, was run for twenty years by mathematical physicist James Simons–the same James Simons who lent his name to Chern-Simons theory, which has been studied extensively by string theorists."

P Quant math is relatively easy to grasp, so much so that an undergraduate with some statistics and calculus background can understand it quite easily.

>All the evidence suggests that the EMH is true, that markets are unpredictable, and all successes are chance successes.

Markets are unpredictable, but people (read: rational, utility-maximizing investors) aren't. Generally there is a level of herd behavior that can be modeled.
I use a netgear readynas nv+. It's their consumer model, but it does the job for me.
It's not the fastest, but has good features and support from the community. You can even easily upgrade the memory ( voids the warranty I believe).

Only issue is if you only put 1 disk in (of 4 potential slots) the fan goes nuts. Runs full speed off and on.
Standups would make more sense if the team did not communicate during the day. The reason I think they are pointless is that when a blocking issue arises, you drop what you're doing and walk straight over to the person who can help you. I've never seen or heard of someone waiting until the following day's standup to bring up the issue (which is supposedly what the standup is for, right?).
I don't think that was the takeaway. I think the vulnerability was that she could see the pattern in the hand-grease on the phone. It wouldn't have mattered if he hadn't used a common pattern, because the path of the finger would still be obvious. The fix is to wipe off your screen after you lock it.
That's a nice quote, but it's not really true. Check out cloud seeding [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
And? That makes his point about ridiculous risk models no less valid.
P2P doesnt really work with URLs though as you need to be online for the recieving end to get your file. Some traditional filesharing/upload site would work better in that case imo.

For a P2P scenario it makes sense to have something like a chatroom.
Another example: The advent of the car or plane did not reduce the live time spent on traveling but expanded the ways.
People and their priorities and motivations for giving a slice of their live time to a particular kind of activity do not change greatly because of technology.
While that's true, I think a little additional context in the title wouldn't hurt.

... exposed [to hazardous chemicals]
Does ruby have real multithreading?
PeerPuzzle - cooperative maze solving in the browser
What's a standup? I didn't see it defined in either post.
Wow the response has been way beyond my expectations. 13 issues in less than an hour :) too cool.

FWIW this isn't about being lazy. The intention was to tap into the minds of like minded locals, and past travellers for hidden gems. Anyone who's travelled to Melbourne, Australia (my home town) knows that that is the only way to experience Melbourne.

My hope is that this will reach some demi-viral state and be forever remembered in Google for anyone else wanting to experience SF the way I do.
It's a process that is very close to what often happens quite naturally around the time everyone on the team has arrived at the office (or online).

This is exactly the behavior I have seen of well functioning teams. Usually there is a period when the person comes in, maybe after coming up to speed on their email where they get informed and up to speed on what is happening with everyone, if anyone needs anything, what people are working on, and then get to work!

Standups are just a formalized approach to what can be a drawn out process for an individual, and in some cases may not be "normal" for your standard introvert dev types who sit at a computer all day and perceive meetings as multi-hour long chores that are inflicted on their participants instead of quick high quality bursts of information distributed in an efficient fashion (face to face).
This, a million times. (Which is how many I feel like I've said it so far.)

Conversely, this particular dysfunction of standups is a useful index of how much the corporate culture leads people to feel like they must justify their existence.