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Speaking as someone with 17 years' professional animation experience, I've seen a lot of people try to come up with newer, better, easier ways to do animation. I've tried most of them, because my workflow revolves around doing things in the fastest, easiest way possible.

What am I currently using? 3D Studio Max. (and Motionbuilder, and some high-end mocap technology, and a lot of outsourcing.)

Seriously, it's a hard problem. I'm not saying "don't try", but it's a hard problem.
Agree, the second post is a giveaway - plus some words French professionals don't use such as "plan pension". Same for the thord. The first post is really good though.
That being said, bad ideas from the 1990s internet have a bad habit of being reinvented as multi-zillion dollar startups. I guess I need to start reading old copies of Wired for inspiration.

Funny you would say that. I (among a lot of other people) have certainly noticed how cyclical this industry is; and I also think that it's very easy for a technology to fail, not because there's anything wrong with it, but just because it's "too early".

And as it happens, I have this bad habit of saving old magazines - so I actually do have a rather large collection of old issues of things like Wired, Red Herring, Business 2.0, Infoworld, ComputerWorld, Information Week, etc. packed away in a closet somewhere. I actually am thinking about digging a box of those out one day, and spending a few hours just poring over old issues, trawling for ideas and inspiration.

In fact, now that you mentioned this and reminded me of thread of thought, I think I might just do that this weekend.
Cancer can kill quickly but doctors rarely give specific timelines, at least in the US. "30 days" seems suspicious, if only because most doctors hate giving specific amounts of time. (If the person lives half as long, then the family gets angry because they thought there was more time. If the person lives much longer-- sometimes an order of magnitude more, given the complexities of misdiagnosis, new treatments, etc.-- then there's a different kind of blowback.)

I would guess that it's metastatic cancer. Mentioning the liver is an indication. Once the liver's involved, cancer gets very hard to treat. Typical chemotherapy is killing the cancer by flooding the body with poison, and doing that when the liver's compromised is often fruitless (and painful).

Most likely, the doctors have stopped treatment, in which case 30 days is a reasonable median, but he'll be essentially functional until the last 2 weeks. However, there are cases (although they're quite rare) of people living for months or even years after that happens. Spontaneous remission is uncommon (less than 1%) but it does occur. That's yet another reason why doctors don't like giving specific timelines.
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I'm French. She says it because of the wine, but maybe it has to do with his illness? Maybe not...
Yeah, I'd call Motionbuilder the king for character animation, too. Lovely tool.
> The effort required to try and explain aspects of what I'm going through, usually with little success, is often far more detrimental than any benefit they could hope to provide. Being distracted from the problems, even if only for a short while, can be blissful and hugely appreciated.

> On the other hand, I'm usually happy to be treated differently by people that have had similar experiences to me. I can often communicate to them in a sentence things which would take hours of conversation with somebody who'd not been there before.

I very much agree with both parts of what you've said here. I'm curious if & how you tend to balance between the two?

Generally when I'm having a bad time just having some casual distraction works fine, especially from someone who doesn't know what's wrong.

When I'm stuck in a rut, just having a few friends who can stop me bullshitting and keep me talking works wonders.
'by the sea' crashed my x server!

CentOS 5.9 / Firefox 17.0.6
RSS peaked in 2006 and has been dying since. I suspect it was from the rise of social networks. Though not a replacement feature-wise, social networks have been competing for time and attention from users since day 1, and RSS readers lost. Google Reader was too late to a declining trend, and it was just a matter of time before it was going to get killed off anyway.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=rss#q=rss&cmpt=q
Isn't it presumptuous to say that this isn't a 'normal' reaction? I have no idea what a normal reaction to being told you have 30 days to live is.
Even if you have seen real (non-movie) instances of this, I would assume different people would have different reactions.
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Gladio is a very interesting topic! Especially since a BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) group appears to have to been involved in the Münchener Oktoberfest-Bombings from 1980 killing 21 people.

I think both events are related.
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/anschlag-auf-das-oktober...
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Yeah the discard it right into there domestic database...
‘What about somebody in a coal mine — wouldn’t you say he works as hard as you? Why should you get paid so much more than that guy?’

If this is a question to yourself, then my response is: start sending part of your paycheck to the guy in the coal mine. Don't blame someone else for society's ills and not be willing to fix such problems yourself. Find a miner, adopt him, send him half your paycheck, keep tabs on him: how the job's going, how the family's doing, etc.

If this is a question for me, a creator of software, then my response is: I build things that enable new activities, I don't perform a task that maintains someone else's status quo. I (as a freelancer) or my employer (when I'm an employee) have found someone willing to pay what we charge. Period. How am I able to do that? By learning. Continuously. By adapting to changes in technology and the market. Why do I get paid more than the coal miner? Because he has settled for that life. If he needs something more, he needs to learn how to attain it.

But maybe, just maybe, our coal mining friend is doing what he loves. If he's happy ... leave him alone.
After reading day 2 and day 3, it started to sound fake
We're hiring :)

(we = Mozilla Paris)
One of my family members has just discovered he has pancreatic cancer. It usually has an extremely poor prognosis because it is often caught too late and the disease has already spread to other organs. 1 year survival rate is 25%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic_cancer
I don't know how. But one way I can think of is to not make any long-term plans.

All your plans and goals can be achieved in one day. You finish the day reaching your goals. You wake up next day, find yourself alive, you make new goals for that day only.

Rinse. Repeat.
I think you are completely reasonable. Exceptional claims requires exceptional proof, and this blog only has a claim and no proof. I don't see any reason to believe it.
If people can't be responsible for their own children maybe we need to start controlling who has children.

What passes as "parenting" in this country is an absolute joke.

Just set up broadband in a new house today, this news makes me ecstatic that I didn't go with BT and went with an independent instead.
I also stumbled over "plan pension", I have not heard anyone used that wording before. Could it be more common in Canada ?
Fair enough. I know better than to bet against pet owners with disposable income.
>For US citizens it is really hard to get rid of their citizenship

Not sure about that. I've heard that you just need to go the embassy and you can get rid of it quite easily. However getting citizenship of another country may be a bit difficult for anyone in these times. You don't really want to remain stateless right?
I think you may be overestimating the capacity of the education system to change. I'm now a year removed from High School, but in my class of 350 there were maybe 10 who could program proficiently. Only two (myself and a friend) knew what linux was. I would say it wasn't treated as "cool", but certainly regarded with a wierd respect.
Does the same on my Thinkpad W520 - thought it was something to do with my panel.
Yes and that more people don't pay attention is shocking. Just ask yourselves this,the NSA isn't supposed to spy on Americans, why on earth is the Utah data center in Utah? It's nearly the farthest physical location from the supposed targets...
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Possibly, but also consider that English and French are very close. English vocabulary is largely lifted from French (there's the well known statement ascribed to Alexandre Dumas - that English is just badly pronounced French), and while there are some differences in sentence structure, they are fairly basic when you are mostly writing in present tense like here.

His post is written in very clear, straightforward French with few or no fancy flourishes that might complicate the translation. My French is decidedly not the best, and I have no problem reading the original at a decent tempo - there's the odd word missing from my vocabulary that I had to figure out, but that's it.
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>>You are assuming that most people fulfil their potential.

No, I'm really not, I'm saying that people have different levels of intelligence and you can see this as they come out differently from the same environment.

You seem to have a rosy view of everybody as smart and equally capable if they just jolly-well gave it a go. This is just not the case.
I really like the cleanliness of your layout. But I find the color scheme rather annoying.
The choice to use red for headlines is a pretty bad decision (sorry), I can only recommend you tone it down a bit or even chose a completely different color scheme. At least give us the option to change the colours ourselves.
Otherwise, great effort!
That's already done. There is a nationwide child porn filter that was implemented roughly 10 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(content_blocking_sys....
If I were to walk down the street in downtown Washington, DC, stop persons I took to be college-educated professionals, and ask them to identify Michael Ventris or to identify Linear B, I don't think I'd get above 5% on Ventris or 10% on Linear B, and both are generous estimates. With Fox's book that will change briefly, but not for long. With numbers like that, does it make sense to describe Kober as unsung? More unsung perhaps.

"Ventris was the very model of a solitary, tortured genius - so much so that the deciphering of Linear B has often been portrayed as his accomplishment alone."

I happen to have here a copy of The Decipherment of Linear B by John Chadwick (Cambridge University Press, 1958). Chadwick certainly portrays Ventris as brilliant, but says

"His brilliance is witnessed by his achievement; but I cannot do justice to his personal charm, his gaiety, and his modesty."

That doesn't sound particularly tortured or solitary. Chadwick does mention Kober, by the way. Page 35 is largely allotted to her work, which section ends

"I do not think that there can be any doubt that Miss Kober would have taken a leading part in events of later years, had she been spared; she alone of the early investigators was pursuing the track which led Ventris ultimately to the solution of the problem."
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Granted. But if the existentialists taught us anything, it's that if you stop and look, I mean really look at your life, you'll find how thoroughly inconsequential it is.

Which is no comfort at all. Quite the reverse. Ignorance really is bliss.

I find the intellectual argument comforting because I can focus on the things I can control, the things that are within my sphere of power.

I used to be very interested in politics. These days I either ignore it or treat it as entertainment. Because I have no control over it, why drag myself down with it?
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Vote Republican: Patriot act created
Vote Democratic: Patriot act abused

I'm not sure where this leaves us, which is worse?
The burglary analogy rests on the assumption that we must leave the house unattended - it doesn't carry over to children surfing the net. No filter will work reliably enough to allow worry-free unsupervised access. Making porn harder to find might just make people look harder. Consider the implications of every young child downloading Tor and checking out the services their parents think don't exist or are blocked.
Or people sick of some PR firm's bullshit stunts, jerking people around for a few more follower or clicks. When things don't add up, we take notice rather than just wishing it to the way it ought to be.

It may very well be that the story is true. But when you see obvious giveaways, not only is it valid to doubt what is written but in my opinion a damn public service. I felt sad after reading the post, reflecting on my own mortality, and fleeting times. Then I felt sadder that some A-Hole may be deliberately trying to manipulate negative emotions. Perhaps nothing is off limits.
He either lives in NY or Silicon Valley. In middle America there is no such frenzy.
Why not put in minimum effort, and do something like study or develop your skills?

Or put into place unit tests into the code you do write. Or do awesome work on what you are meant to be doing? Is this at all possible?
Pretty much all EU publications as well.
Elizabeth Warren's research would be a good place to start.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A#t=8m25s
"then fail in alarming ways when you least expect it."

That's basically the M.O. of all completely automated systems though. Especially when concerning non-trivial things like language translation. Stuff like that requires intelligence in many cases to choose the right word based on the context and information the speaker is trying to communicate.
French grammar is very similar to the English's one.

A text translated "word for word" to English from French, using the later grammar, will almost look readable. Strange but not really wrong.

Most errors will be from an over-usage of perfect tenses ("I have visited" vs "I visited") and wrong superlatives ("most fast" vs "fastest"), as these are the biggest differences between the two languages.
You say this because we practically live in a post scarcity society. 500+ years ago people valued hard labor that brought food because food prevented starvation a vary real and horrible thing. Now, food is an evil that brings heart disease and obesity. Our desires for food and our well being are out of alignment. Value is now a function of are desires with little connection to our needs.

Stealing from people was never thought of as a productive economic activity, but legally things like patent trolls that act like stealing are legal. So, I suspect you could creat a society where virtue and value are at least aligned and historically they may have been closer. However, we don't live in such a place.
Looks like the site is down?
Perhaps you've been very lucky or found some especially naive people (right out of grad school, perhaps). Your rates immediately struck me as the kind of rate you would quote if you'd never, in fact, tried to hire somebody skilled. I allow the possibility you have been lucky and successful.

In general you'll be paying upwards of $250/hr for a machine learning specialist (sometimes upwards of $500/hr if they have a modicum of talent and experience) and more than $120/hr for a front-end webdev who can claim anything more than "I've heard of jQuery." Those are contracting rates of course; hiring somebody at salary has its own costs.
Not a game, travel, and it was the site shown, fiksu. A $10,000 experiment.
Why is so significant that he is a "college grad"?
Every time I see "REST Client", I always say to myself "You mean, web browser?"
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Alcohol has been linked to pancreatic cancer
>I build things that enable new activities

I would be cautious with this callous mentality towards the miner. I wouldn't jump so quickly to the conclusion that he/she is not "learning. Continuously" as you say you are. The miner may very well be. The issue the article raises is a good one, what validity is there that someone can put the value they create so much higher then another.

What happens one day when your profession is no longer well paid? Think for a minute that you did not have the mental capacity to compete in the new 'tech world' in 20 years. Would you expect that you are paid in accordance with your lack of ability, or would you hope you are still given an equal shot.

Personally this article hits at the heart of the somewhat libertarian style commentary on Hacker New. One that I myself am all too engulfed in as well. Perhaps we aren't as valuable as we may think?
Let me know if you need to hire people who remember the 90s. I am ready to wear pastel coloured t-shirts, too-loose trousers and wander around the office saying "GBQ" instead of "traction".
I doubt that'll work - the PirateBay is currently blocked in the UK. If you change your DNS settings to use a non-UK server, it still returns the filtered IP address as they're silently intercepting lookups for banned domains and returning a non-authoritative answer.

All they'd need to do is add in the 'adult' domains and that'd block the simplest workaround.

You could still set up a non-UK VPN and bypass it entirely though ;)
"...When are you going to understand that a conservative Libertarian (as opposed to extreme and nearly anarchist) approach is the only path to recovery?..."

I think this is the issue in a nutshell. Partisanship. Even people who do not like the Demopublicans... are 'partisan'. I know it was probably not intended, but your post provides illustration of the issue by way of example. I'd wager you, like the average Democrat and Republican, would vote for whoever towed your party line. And this vote comes regardless of whether or not the party line is good for the US. If a given policy is good for the US, then great! But this is not a necessity to gain your support... it is incidental.

The important thing for Partisans is not continuous improvement, but continuous compliance. It's far more important to a Partisan that we do things 'their way', than it is for us to improve ourselves.

We need to move away from Partisanship toward an environment where each issue is judged on its merits. Without regard to preconceived grand ideas that underlie some Party's philosophy on the 'right way to do things'. This is the only way we will get the continuous improvement we are looking for. By abandoning the, sort of, 'sacred cow', ideas that have gripped the nation's political discourse on every front.
Thanks. As always HN delivers the goods.
I don't think she's worried ... I got that as her making a joke.
I was just discussing over lunch that I really don't understand why AirBnB doesn't just offer cities the ability to add 'tourist-tax' on top of the AirBnB rates.

In the end it all boils down to cities not wanting to give up the revenue stream they get from tourists, which is also reasonable since it does cost the city money to care for tourists.

I'm convinced AirBnB's position would be much stronger if they would just say "Sure we can tax rentals at X%/$ for your city! Sign this document to give us clearance to run AirBnB in your town and we'll flip the switch in our software."
Your first paragraph is inaccurate. The IWF[1] does operate such a blacklist, but it is not secret and they are not involved in the blocking of piratebay by UK ISPs.

[1][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation]
I'm not sure about your timeline though. I think there will be an 'escape' condition, like another war or something to distract the people from the real issue. It might take well over 3-4 years.
I have 4X the RSS subscribers to my Twitter subscribers, my programming blog handles both. RSS readers make consuming an article much faster than reading links from twitter.
you should build something on your own that solves the problem, then open source it, then quit.
The only thing we always have is our reputation. I suggest that relying on others to be nice is a good way to lose it, and that knowing we didn't do the right thing in a certain circumstance is also bad for our own self-esteem.

If the poster would like a reputation as a nice guy - then sure, he could leave without saying much and hope that nobody says anything bad about him, or even remembers that he worked there.

If he'd like a more proactive approach, then he could try to leave a reputation as a nice yet strong person, a competent person who was brave enough to try to help, but also polite enough to escalate it quietly.

Imagine being were offered a job at Enron, or with Bernie Madoff, knowing what we know now. Who would take it? Who would steal away into the night if we found ourselves there? Who would first try to do something about it or at least document that we saw things were wrong and/or try to escalate?

I would hope I would be firmly in this camp, trying to be someone who is unafraid to live to my own values, not those of others.

To reply on the divorce example:
A thoughtful discussion about why things are not working out between two partners is always in order, even after the divorce. We are all trying to learn. But just as the example of bad breath is not the root cause of a divorce, some of the symptoms in the original post are not the real problem.
Runtime? Huh?

Whether it's static or dynamic is language-dependent. Example: Java in particular does erasure on parameterized types, so generics are only compile-time.
If true my educated guess for the disease would be a form of leukemia, although in its acute form is unlikely that the affected are left well enough to travel.
If I could take rss feeds from the N web sites I like to get new from, and pipe/merge/filter that into a live twitter stream.

that would be kind of useful.

If I could share that with my cabal, and use the clicks or upvotes to optimize the stream, that would be nice.

hmm..
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I'd love to read the piece on Douglas Hofstadter.
I'm not sure about the percentage with or without cap. Most of the transactions for the service that we're building will be in the $500-700 range. With us taking a flat percentage, the merchant taking their percentage, and then payouts to clients. As you can see, there are a lot of levels of processing and selling the merchants on a percentage is difficult enough and then charging them a percentage again on a payout will be seen as nickel and diming them.
Wikipedia has an article with some description and a huge list. It's interesting.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Frenc...)