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Ask HN: How to channel excitement for new ideas back into the current project?
I deeply want freedom. Freedom from having to work for someone else, freedom from basic financial problems and freedom to work full time on the projects I have queued up in various to-do lists and brainstorming documents. To this end, like many of you, I spend a lot of my free time working to build some kind of revenue stream that will allow me to achieve this.

Now, I am very good at finding time to work on projects outside of my day job, and I am very good at focussing on that project - for a while. Then I hit mundane parts of the project and the excitement dries up. I keep working on the project of course, but then what happens is something comes along, whether a distracting, time-expensive feature in the project that's not required for launch/MVP, or an unrelated idea altogether, and it starts to steal the available "excitement mindshare" I have. The project then slows to snails pace while I start to try to juggle multiple projects or subprojects, the first being what I know I need to keep working on, and the second existing because I can't get it out of my head.

When I try to clear a budding distraction from my head by writing it down, the act of writing it down becomes a days-long exercise of brainstorming that steals from my core development time, self-fuels the fire of excitement about the idea, and that ends up turning into an early-stage prototyping of the idea, further stealing time from what I originally committed to.

Excitement about ideas that are NOT what I'm currently trying to bring to completion are deeply distracting and destructive to my productivity. But excitement fuels productivity in a huge way, so how do I take the excitement I'm feeling for a new idea and channel it back into what I'm supposed to be working on? Is it possible to forcefully reallocate that passion to where it's needed most?
Euclid's Algorithm is certainly Algorithms 101, his discussion of it - far from it:

http://www.keithschwarz.com/interesting/code/?dir=euclid
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It's probably the other way around. Babies learn their first sounds, and languages, as they develop, assign those words to the moms and dads.
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They're lying or confused, the data I have is definite proof. 9gag's password and ours were hashed unsalted with MySQL's PASSWORD(). I'll reply on that comment.
with South Korea's GDP per capita being 10x that of India, I would've expected a more than 2x difference. So this would imply a much lower difference between manager and worker incomes in Korea than in India. Basically Korea's better social equality smooths down what should've been a 5x-10x difference to a mere 2x one ...then again, my understanding of East Asian economies is not very good, and they are know to be economically "weird", so I may be quite wrong on this.
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I want to smell that.

Thanks to the OP for bringing back fond memories of my chemistry days. Color shifts and weird smells were the shit back then. :)
Between threads, you rely exclusively on PostMessage anyway. You can't directly call into a routine on a different thread, so SendMessage to a window owned by another thread just posts the message to a special queue that's serviced before the regular message queue, then blocks until the other thread's window procedure processes the message.

In all boils down to message-passing: in Windows, the win32k is the trusted third party that mediates interactions between different window-system clients. In the X11 case, the X server and the window manager work together to do the same job. The architecture are fundamentally similar.
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All of the problems were much worse 35 years ago. Yet, in spite of all that, India has made progress. I assume you are very young - I am approaching 45, and I am more optimistic now than when I was at 25.

I am not just being optimistic, I am putting my money and my time where my mouth is.
This should be solved by removing tax-exempt status under 501c4 for all parties of any persuasion.

Then remove tax exempt status for all religious organizations which is a huge scam anyway.

This would be win-win for both stereotypes of the right wanting to "widen the base" and the left "liking taxes".
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My last Android app sales figures and why it's still great to start a mobile app
Yes, would be great to see a live example of client rendered tiles.

I believe their ProtoBuffer approach sounds promising and their position in the mapping / OSM community is strong enough to get this to some kind of standard.

Have seen a few client vector-based approaches before. 2 of the better ones:

https://github.com/jywarren/cartagen

MapDroyd - was a product of OneStepAhead - now seemingly part of Cloudmade ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapDroyd - still in Google Play with screenshots etc search for MapDroyd )
Here's some relatively recent worldwide estimates:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/android-powers-devices-worldwide

You might want to pay particular attention to the device category Android is running away with. I found it surprising.

Separately, the timing of that article (dated April 8, 2013) makes its manipulation transparent. Talking about Android's US market share peaking mere weeks before the 2013 flagships (GS4, HTC One) land is almost as stupid as claiming the iPhone has peaked based on the quarter before the new model is released. Of course, the bases are covered because they mention the GS4 launch lower down, but somehow that isn't reflected in the clickbait title.
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> There no 'shitty conditions'.

Based on my 2 trips to India - Mumbai and Chennai - this is either naive or dishonest.

I'll go further, and say that out of all the roughly 50 countries I visited, which include Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, Indonesia, Phillipines and Solomon Islands, conditions in India were The Shittiest. Sorry.
A great academic who taught me once said of a PhD (paraphrasing); "It's not going to be your best work and it'll not be amazing. It's just your trade union card. Nobody gets really good at research until they're 10 years in."

Pragmatic advice. The problem you solve doesn't have to be paradigm-shifting or world-changing, just a bit above what humanity already knows [1].

w.r.t your question; pick an advisor you know you can work with for $x years first. Read papers before you pick your topic and keep looking for "holes" - these are where you can make your little dent.

[1] : http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
"Amr is a systems and software engineer who has been programming since he was a kid. He likes The Matrix, assembly language and computer security."

please dude, go and read some more on computer security. this is fundamental basics completely wrong. this worries me.
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I had a similar issue where Firefox didn't like Namecheap's certs, but I started including the chain certificate as well and it worked great. Maybe something like that had the same affect in that case?
I went to work at a startup after an MSc. I was there for little over a year, and now I am back in Grad school (the same where I was, in the UK).

Most of the differences you describe I experienced as well, except that holidays could be planned at a much shorter notice at our company, even though workdays were considerably longer (10 hours).

I also had to argue for, and then introduce, automated testing, and some other good practices that I'd expected to be industry standard (was nevertheless nice there was room for this, and it was appreciated in the end...).

After a while, though, I missed the research, the self-development, the thinking about broader problems, and also, even though the team was great; the social side of things (especially as the hours left me exhausted in the evenings and even into the weekend). I guess I'm someone who is happiest and most creative when working 8 hours or so, and not tired. I also missed my friends in Europe, and the life-style there (walkable cities, no abject poverty, etc).

As for working on important problems, yes I loved what the product tried to accomplish, and our company mission, but 80-90% of most peoples time was spent on bug-fixing, repaying/circumventing technical debt, and at best relatively minor features that most users probably would/should never notice. So on balance spending 10-20% of ones time on a new real-world problem, versus, say 70-100% on a theoretical one, might still end up in favor of the latter as for making a difference...

Everybody should make their own decision on grad-school vs industry, but trying both is definitely a good idea.
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>Samsung is hurting Android

Maybe. But without Samsung there is NO Android.

No mobile maker makes any money of it worth mentioning, including Google, besides Samsung. The disparity is so big, it's not even funny. The majority of Android devices shipped ARE Samsung.

If Samsung was to stop shipping Android stuff, maybe someone else would pick up. But if Samsung Android devices were to disappear altogether magically, Android would have like 10-15% market share.
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Out of interest, if you run this using a cron job, what happens after the call has been placed - does the server keep running? I've had a need for a sort-of volatile web server to respond to requests like this before.
You didn't look well enough:

http://translate.google.com/#en/ka/mom%0Amother%0Adad%0Afath...

(Though for some reason, GT translates English "mama" into Georgian "mama", meaning 'father'. But then, one should really not use GT for linguistic research …)
Google's commercial support is shit.

And Google could very well delete (or block) "those company accounts" without thinking twice.

After all, it's not like "company accounts" are sacred. Especially when the company is some 3-4 person shop in Iowa or something.

PayPal blocks such accounts all the time.
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The amount of vivisection that will take place to bring this genetically modified monstrosity to market makes it too unethical to bear for me.
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When compared to digging huge quarries into the earth, physically extracting gold ore, processing it and shaping into blocks then burying it back underground again (in vaults), it's not actually that wasteful.
it gets quite addictive when you want to get a good score. A small tip, make squares (2x2), this will clear the colour from the board.
That's surprisingly good. As in; for a complex route across London and factoring in one-way streets it produces something that looks realistic.

Only allowed me to pick car as a mode of transport, and unrealistically suggested I could get across 14KM of central London in 14 mins, but ignoring those things this is very nice.

Would love to see the path output of this added to Leaflet and a standard form of API emerge for Mapbox, Cloudmade, Google Maps, etc.
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Not so far, though this means they can experiment with that.

Part of the challenge of rendering maps quickly is simplifying features, clipping and filtering the data. E.g. you might have a layer containing really high resolution national boundaries. Most tiles won't even contain any part of it, and those who do will either contain a small subsection or a vastly simplified version. If you were to try client side rendering based on that, you're potentially looking at gigabytes of data to transfer to the client.

What they're doing is essentially doing all the steps apart from the final rasterisation, and then storing that vector data on a per tile basis, so that they can process only the relevant vector data - whether to serve it up as is, or rasterise it.

One major advantage is that things like styles (line widths, colours) can be modified without having to re-render the entire map data set. Instead you just have to on-the-fly rasterise the already prepared tiles, which you can do without totally killing performance.
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These are mainstream political groups that are opposed to excessive taxes and spending, they have nothing to do with tax avoidance schemes.
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This is one amazingly good project and the demonstrations are really well done which bring the whole project to a forefront. I will be curious to see its usage and adaption upon launch.

The whole project, though, is very much dependent upon a camera, are there other feasible usage scenarios when operating without the camera? Because there will be "vitriol" poured privacy issues over coming months.
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Javascript crypto does not work. The server can the manipulate the JS to send back the text, so it could be server side in first place. And serverside crypto is worse than useless.
Have you considered that your day job is a revenue stream that lets you work on the personal projects you want?

If that's the case, then just give yourself permission to make what you really want to make.
Spotting trend setters on the web is going to be a little tough because of how large and segregated it is.

Some datasets people use is Wiki based around comments / edits or who created a page first which became popular in the end.

You could also use Facebook likes (facebook.com/me/likes) where each hlike is time stamped.
501 c4 organizations already have no tax-exempt status-- all advocacy donations are currently taxable.
2 or 3. It's an interesting philosophic argument though - if he knew that pointing at things and saying that word led to others almost always giving him what he asked for, does that mean he knew the meaning of the word, or is he just aware of its effect? Is saying "mama" and expecting mom to come any different, given that it's not an actual full imperative sentence?
Miller also lied to Congress and the public about the IRS targeting program.
Wouldn't (most of) the shortcomings of HAL you mention, be overcome by Collection+JSON [0]? It seems better suited as an already existing media type that accomplishes what you try to do with JSON API.

[0] http://amundsen.com/media-types/collection/
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I would say that it's not much better out of the box but you can combine forms, formsets, custom validation, 3rd party helpers like django-cripsy-forms and support with something like KnockoutJS in the browser and voila :)

It would be great if there was a ready-made add-on combining all these areas but I don't know any personally. I also suspect think that writing such a generic helper might not be a great idea as everyone needs something a bit different, so using the mentioned lower level components and combining them on your own could be the best way to go here.
Vim is often called a modal editor, but I think it in fact has fever modes than GUI editors. In vim, I usually need only 2 modes (command, insert). In Notepad, each menu is a mode of its own right (File, Edit, Format, Help)... And to get as feature-full as VIM, editors will need much more ad-hoc modes.

I think vim's strength is not being modal. Its strength is having less modes than other editors.
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It reminds me of this blog [1] where a chemist is essentially listing many terrifyingly explosive (One notably will "vigorously" react at 100K), corrosive, or smelly things he's read about in the literature. Well written and entertaining :)

[1] pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with/
No, no! He's always a pleasure to read. But then I come from a long line of cynical curmudgeons and this stuff always reminds me of my (now deceased) uncles.
The audits were in an election year and we are now learning included many conservative budget organizations, not just tea party groups.
At least we can all agree that this story, just like Benghazi, comes from, as you put it, crazy right-wing paranoia.
Google, on several occasions tried to send me the wrong way down a one way street
I will prefer to be "not so rich" in a country where majority is "not so rich" rather than be "super rich" in a country where majority is "super poor".
I don't think any of these groups are involved in tax avoidance or evasion schemes. They are political associations working on tax and budget issues.
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I'd imagine the economics of variable / nonrecurring engineering costs are different at that scale. Their tech might only let them make 200MHz chips instead of 2GHz, but couldn't they just make ten times as many of them?

It's been a long time since CPUs have seen much of a bump in clock rates, after all - nowerdays it's all about smaller features allowing more cores/cache in the same space. If you don't care much about space as your process costs are dominated by setup rather than wafer costs, wouldn't you just use more space?
I love Eurovision. I don't really care for most of the music (some is enjoyable, though), but it's so fun trying to predict who will vote who.

Europe is so predictable...
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Re server-side validation that adapts to the incoming data, I think it's easier to write a small mixin that fits your needs than to use a generic library (assuming there's one).
I may be wrong, but the impression I got from this article was not so much that Bloomberg reporters were using the data to source stories about their clients, so much as using the data to connect with their clients and use them as sources.

Whereas reporters from other news organizations would have had to ring around and fight to speak to a relevant source, Bloomberg reporters had direct contact details at their fingertips, as well as information telling them exactly when they are logged in at their Bloomberg terminals.
Don't forget OruxMaps and OSMAnd (capitalisation as you like it). Both are Android apps that support vector data as well.

Also KothicJS, a JS renderer.
You are simultaneously arguing that we should be using a natural language and that the language of mathematics is too ambiguous. I think you have not looked very closely at natural languages.
In my language Malayalam, mother is 'Amma'. Maman or more correctly 'Ammavan' is uncle.
Wow Ezra Klein gets it completely wrong. I think he's confusing 501 c(4) and c(3). c(3) are traditional social welfare charities and donations to them are tax exempt, c(4) are explicitly for political lobbying and donations are taxable. (I worked as an executive in this space for a decade). c(4) cannot get involved in elections (they can't call for the election or defeat of a specific candidate) but they can do "voter education". But in any event, the donations made to a c(4) are not tax-deductible and are private. By the way, the c4 privacy rules emerged out of the civil rights movement, when there was a concern about the government punishing people supporting civil rights. Many groups-- think Sierra Club-- have both a c(3) and a c(4) and have internal accounting in place to keep track of it all.
Haha! This will piss off some people on Freenode who always send you to a pastebin if you have more than 2 lines of stuff to paste! :)
This mockups are really selling me the whole Glass thing. So many useful features to be developed!

Too bad the API Google released a while ago is so limited.
Interesting hypothesis on app sales. The apps that I've seen do well more long term are not necessarily apps that are ever seen as "hot", but more of a brand growth steady increase while providing lasting and growing value. Example would be Spotify, Kindle, or Instagram. They have a service attached that makes their iOS app not their identity. This makes sense because iOS apps are usually a product, and service oriented offerings are more of a complete company offering. Products even outside of a mobile app store have a shelf life. I think if you want to make sustained sales in the current mobile market you need to think beyond a small iOS app and into a larger service style offering.
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Depending on which measurements you are talking about, experience is largely irrelevant- as most of the "objective measurements" we are talking about, are about the quality of the UI itself, not the specific quality of the user.

here are some
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOMS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fittss_law

Regarding modes, I encourage you to read this 1973 study, which spawned the first modeless text editor.

http://www.nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/1973_User_Stu...

I wish I had ready access to the piles of studies that show modal interfaces are bad. I trust they exist. I just haven't seen them myself!
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> And the real win of using a modern editor is that the core keys (arrows, shift-arrow to select, control-arrow to jump by word, etc.) also work in thousands of other GUI apps, so you don't have to mode shift to be reasonably productive in a Firefox text box, for example.

That's key to how I work. In a typical day I jump around between Komodo, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, UltraEdit, XML Marker, MarkdownPad, Araxis Merge, Word, Google Docs, Notepad, Evernote, and a few other editors. Thank goodness basic editing works the same in all of them!

Quite often I'll have the same file open in more than one editor and do some of my editing in one and some in another. I can save changes in one of the editors, switch to another, and it loads my changes and I pick up right from where I left off in the other editor.

Why would I do this crazy thing? One example: if I've got a file open in Komodo or IDEA or whatever and I'm ready to commit it, I always diff it first in Araxis Merge. I'm likely to make some final changes to the file at that point. (Left in a console.log, anyone?) I can make those changes in Araxis or in the other editor I'm working in - and it doesn't matter which, they both work the same and pick up each other's changes.

So, I don't have to take sides in any editor wars: I use a bunch of 'em! :-)

To add to your scripting list, Komodo is scriptable in Python and JavaScript, with a pretty thorough object model you can use from either language.
My feeling is that the title of the article rails against companies who think they need Big Data when they don't.
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