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> Such concerns are not too surprising in thoughtful adults who are going through mid-life crises. However, it is a matter of great concern when these existential questions are foremost in the mind of a twelve or fifteen year old. Such existential depressions deserve careful attention, since they can be precursors to suicide.

This paragraph explains why it is relevant to focus on gifted children.

I can attest to that as I still have rather vivid memories of standing on the edge of the roof berating myself for not having the guts to actually jump.
Gifted children are intense? Has the author ever actually been around children? They're all intense. That's the nature of children!

You mean adults aren't intense?

Wow, now I feel lonely.
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I just finished it recently, and will add to your recommendation. It's a great read for what seems like would be dull subject matter. A great analysis and history of the often overlooked but just as important other half of globalization: logistics. =)
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> I've often thought that in a warped, twisted way totalitarianism gives meaning to life for certain people. If it opression is so intense to make life worthless, then one has a cause dearer than life itself - to fight this opression. This struggle itself is meaningful. Many 'hero' movies are structured in this way, the 'good guys' have a cause, usually around defeating some kind of evil, that gives them ultimate purpose.

An even more disturbing take on this is that totalitarianism also gives some people a more sinister cause: the oppression itself. I think many people in the various surveillance agencies in totalitarian states actually believed in what they were doing, and many even enjoyed it.
Wasn't the point of the original Routers article that GS owned the storage warehouses and therefore could (and did) control the speed/amount of aluminium being shipped out, against the wishes of those who owned the metal. i.e. GS have huge control over the supply of a finite resource. Saying 'well the price did fall' doesn't undermine the argument that GS were controlling the supply to their own benefit since we don't know what positions GS took on aluminium over that time.
"Journalists" are not given special rights by the 1st amendment, which states that all of us are entitled to freedom of the press (not freedom for the press).

In the internet age, we are all journalists and therefore we should all have the right not to reveal our sources for what we publish.
Yeah, I always wondered how the so-called existentialists aren't just yielding ground to ideological fundamentalists.
The Economist needs to read up a bit. There is strong support for lead as the primary determinant, and not just correlation.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
Jesus christ. I argued for a Bill of Rights while participating in Youth Parliament here in Australia, and used USAs typically strong defence of freedoms as my evidence.

And now all of that has been systematically ignored and weakened over the past few years (of course, it could have always been like this and I just hadn't noticed). It's a dammed shame, and I am no longer excited about possibly moving to Silicon Valley: I don't think I'll move at all anymore.
Well, maybe I'd be getting worse if I wasn't taking them... How can I know, right? :)
Yes, of course. Two a day max though.
> To be credible, a skeptic can't be ignorant.

No. To be credible, a skeptic must begin by asking honest questions.
I see project managers as facilitators:
- they help us, the developers, to get the job done
- they are the buffer between the client and us

On the project that I work for about 2 years, no PM has any experience in programming Perl - one is coming from an economic background and the other was a java dev. We get along really well - we are colleagues and partners, not in a boss/slave relationship.

They have to trust us that we get the job done and we don't bullshit them and we have to trust them that they don't overpromise and they hold our back against the client when that's needed. Until now, everything works perfect.
I assure you: everyone else is having the same Special Snowflake Thoughts as you.
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In Australia at least, yes. Many have been found in contempt of court and jailed because of it. Does the right to not self incriminating extend to incriminating your source?
But... I thought to suggest that women need men was sexist and misogynistic? Oh, but it's okay to ask the opposite, I see. My bad.
Really? Here I thought HN mostly attracts white or East Asian mostly-male, mostly-20-30-something computer programmers who live in orbit around the Silicon Valley start-up industry.
> Wouldn't it be easier to simply not worry about gender at all and simply use your sex in any way you please?

The people who do this fit into the box marked 'genderqueer'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer
Do you mean its not explained correctly or its not in the quickref? Its not enabled by default because it changes the behavior of many things, for example what \d and \w match. The user has to decide for himself what flags to use.
Wow, thanks for taking the time for the recommendation, will definitely check them out.

I am a slow reader and so its a good investment of time for me to read a book, which is why I value book recommendations over randomly picking up books.

Regarding TULOB, I have found that fiction or books of philosophical nature tends to be highly subjective. It also depends on my state of mind during reading. For instance, I tried couple of times to read "The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", and I stopped reading after few chapters. Which is very rare, I usually force myself to complete horrible books, but for some reason I couldn't read it. I will give it another shot this year.

Cheers.
I believe it's a big mistake to use the phrase "everyone feels down every now and then" to cutify what can be a life threatening mental illness.
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Well, I can't post a bunch of links. You can google yourself about the 8 forms of vitamin E (4 tocopherols and 4 tocotrienols) and why taking only one is harmful. Also, many supplements mix tocopherols and tocotrienols, which nulls the effect. Same with taking resveratrol with quercetin, which is the most common formulation.
Who will now want to whistleblow on the government for illegal activities, when the NSA will strongarm any media that you speak to?

This will actively encourage corruption.
No its not but feel free to send me an email on contact@regex101.com so we can talk privately :)
Another literary cure for the Great Sadness is Isaac Asimov's [The Last Question](http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm).
I think you just need to delete your cookies or use another browser. They allow you to read a certain number of articles per month.
> By suggesting you don’t need project managers, you’re saying that you, an engineer, want to do this work and my question is, “Do you or do you not want to be an engineer?”

I have a problem with that sentence. I read it as a false dichotomy. In fact, the good project managers I have met came primarily from a strong engineering background, with additional manager traits, and had more than just some interest in engineering problems: they not only understood the problems, but also were able to participate in those discussions, as they were respected by other team members for their technical ability.
Well, journalists will have to come up with a way of having people send them scoop without revealing who the scoop senders are.
Well, magnesium oxide and calcium carbonate (worst form possible) without vitamin K and D3 (at least!) to direct your calcium to your bones and not arteries is pure crap, sorry!
Articles about court cases should properly cite the case and link to the decision. For court case that went on for years and involved reams of documents entered into evidence, something's probably gonna get lost in the reduction to a couple paragraph summary. Isn't it weird that nobody reads court documents before railing against the outcome? It's not that hard to read the opinion and dissent, identify the judges' perspectives, and follow their arguments. Even if you have no background in constitutional law or relevant statutes, you can pick it up as you go along.

Anyways, since I can't find the decision I can't really figure out whether I should complain and do nothing about the court or the law.
I've like many of the ideas. Inspiring. +1

I don't understand very well how would you like to implement the "93 Shell Output Pinning". Usually I do that with an array variable.
somebody should undertake to analyse his handwriting...
> the possible future headline "Women and poor worst hit as consumer good prices skyrocket due to aluminum shortage."

Actually, I'd expect rolling blackouts long before an actual Al shortage.

(Reasoning: Aluminum is one of the most abundant metals in the crust, but it's never found pure. It's always found in an ore, and the cheapest way to refine the ore is very electricity-intensive. As a side note, aluminum was once a fairly expensive metal; the tip of the Washington Monument is made out of it, which was an extravagant expense at the time.)
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In the end all psychology boils down to our brain circuits. It is interesting that nature has shaped us so that we have a constant existential anxiety, maybe it even served some evolutionary purpose (or maybe not, and it's just a side effect that becomes more evident to the few gifted children)
Not even 10 years ago this same kind of post could have been written except the complaint back then wasn't that investors were boneheaded but that "Canada is full of entrepreneurs who don't think big enough and aren't aggressive enough!"

That narrative is, mostly, dead. Thankfully.

Now the entrepreneurs in this country have left the bad investors in their dust and the angel and VC community is playing catchup.

The author's point has some merit but it is hardly "the reason" we have so few billion $ companies.

The point worth making is: we are making progress. If we take the time to quantify it I'd guess that the ecosystem here is evolving more quickly than almost anywhere else in the world.

The other point being missed entirely is that there is no barrier for US investors to invest in Canada. Many (tempted to say most but I'm not sure) tech/web seed and A rounds in Canada now have some level of US (read: valley) participation. There are no legal or economic barriers to cross border investing anymore. The idea of a "Canadian investor" is becoming completely moot.
I completely agree. Your comment should be required reading for every "gifted" child.
That's interesting.. Where do you draw the line as far as Microsoft relatedness goes? Is your motivation more to make sure you never contribute to Microsoft goals, or is it actually never to be exposed to Microsoft technology yourself?

Is there something Microsoft affected you personally with or is it their business practices in general?
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Here's the decision: http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/sterling-ruling.pdf

It's 118 pages, have fun.

I found it at http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/19/fourth-circuit-guts-nat...
Wasn't something like that published recently?
You are not paying for the education, you are paying for the signalling. And the signalling is basically auction.
You mean "L-1". These are visas for people who've already been working for a US company, to transfer to the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1_visa

TN work permissions (usually not really a "visa" as such, and note the lack of numeral) are for Canadians and Mexicans to work in the US, and have no tenure requirement with the company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TN_status
What you've said fits perfectly well with the sentence you disagree with. The person who came from a strong engineering background is probably not doing much (if any) engineering work now. That's totally fine and for some teams/companies/products, is exactly the background you need.
Singapore has recently made work visas much harder to acquire. But I agree, it still is a decent place to live, and the economy is doing better than Europe. (I moved here from Britain last year.)
Besides the argument about JS, the thing that is holding me back the most is their "cloud service".

"The Relay connects WigWag and third party devices to our cloud service, which allows your stuff to interact with many Internet services, such as email, Dropbox and Twitter. It also makes your sensors work together, so they and the rules they activate are smarter."

I can't really understand why this cloud connectivity is required? But personally I feel quite some reservation towards storing this kind of data remote.
And here's the response from Open Rights Group. http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/cameron-demands-act...
The traditional way is mixmaster remailing - mail a letter containing a letter, with instructions to remail the innermost letter, in blind cover. It's a physical instantiation of the way Tor works, and the way early email mixmasters worked. You can use additional 'hops' if you are worried about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixmaster_anonymous_remailer

That said, the problem is that most of the time the data you're sending outs you in some way.
Good luck, this benefits everyone who may need this service, unlike the screw-the-community-we'll-just-take-care-of-our-9-5 big company buses. Definitely need more ideas on how to improve commuting around this huge place stuck with the 60's transportation.
"real books, utility books, classics"...Really? Again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4527506
I *think* Yahoos European Generate New Password page, is not working
Can someone confirm this please? I am unable to create a "strong" enough password for my own account - I believe there maybe a bug in their "strength" checking mechanism. ( Ofcourse it could be me - but I highly doubt it - I have spent 20 minutes trying any combination of random characters in the world. )
Why are you even talking to mining investors about your tech startup? I've never heard of a tech entrepreneur in Canada taking that angle before. Everyone else talks to tech focused investors. Have you tried that? Happy to help....
It works the second time you try the beta code, the first time also didn't work :)
ok, I'm gifted and depressed, how can I get a job ?
Every good engineer is able to discuss tradeoffs.
There isn't, and never was, any protection for journalists.

Journalists wanted to believe there was, and frequently acted as if there was, but there isn't. This is just affirming that well known law.

Now you might say it would be a good thing if such a law exists, and journalists certainly think so - and would have an easy time spreading their message. But as is no such law exists.
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This is fairly common in Europe and other countries as well. It is not matter of law, but contract signed with your employer.
Also...

Observable.throw(Exception.new("woops!")).subscribe(Class.new(Observer) do
[...]
end.new)

http://rxrb.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#lib/Rx.rb (bottom)

Even if the method were named sanely and consistently `Observable::on_error`, I still don't want to write code like the above.

BTW, I don't see any class variables in the re-opened Enumerable module.
What are you talking about? Quote from the kickstarter:

"Under the hood, the average transfer speed for your data will be around 30Mb/s"

That is megabits/s, pretty far from 100mbps. At home between my boxes I've got 1Gbps, why should I be unable to utilise that speed? That's just another argument to why it should be Free Software so I/we can run it on any hardware.
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There never was this sort of freedom for journalists. The fact that you think so is just a testament to how easily journalists can spread their messages.

They always wanted there to be such a law, but there isn't and never was.

I am not saying it might not be a good thing for this to be the law, I'm just saying it never existed.
well it's not just about boredom, it's about the feeling of connectedness to others.
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Microsoft attempted to destroy humanity's crowning achievement (so far): the World Wide Web. Totally unforgivable.

Now: people sometimes use Microsoft products, and they're often beginners. I will write software that runs on Windows, as that's often the people who need help the most.

But contributing directly to a Microsoft product is too much for me.
In the about page I mention what version of PCRE is running, and from there you can get to: http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt
> If I was the law firm, I'd fire the lawyer.

If I was Rowling, I'd fire the law firm if they didn't.
Would you trust a doctor in a T-shirt?
Yeah, I want to back up my media as well (around 90 GB), but I want my backups to just work. Tarsnap would have been fine if not for the cost, so a tool that combines EncFS + SSH + rdiff-backup will be ideal for me.
The worst was the one who was an ex-programmer and would add ridiculous technical requirements to everything. We spent 1/4 of the time writing useful product features and 3/4 of the time working around those requirements.

But the best company I worked at eliminated project managers about halfway through my time there, not because they were bad per se but because they simply weren't contributing anything. Teams had good contact with clients so had an understanding of which features were wanted (the team lead did have to prioritize client feature requests, but that wasn't a whole lot of work or argument). Engineers were perfectly capable of allocating assignments with a reasonable balance of fun and not-fun (and honestly I don't see how a PM is supposed to save you time there, unless they know what everyone on the team likes and doesn't like). And written, rigid feature specs would only have slowed us down - developers were trusted to have a reasonable sense for what a feature needed to be.
You cannot be compelled to testify against yourself (or your spouse, law client, etc), but you can be compelled to testify against someone else, which is how subpoenas work.
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As you mention in edit, airbnb is not a US only service. I have no stats to prove that, but I've always been under the impression that suing is some kind of national sport in the US : it may not be that bad for the rest of the world.

An other thing I think : US certainly won't stay behind if it becomes a sufficient economical force in the rest of the world. They will adapt their laws.
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>If the EPA tried to explain random deaths as being caused by fans when they weren't actually? Yeah. It would.

How exactly do you know that "they weren't actually"? Do you have an autopsy that states otherwise? [1]

That the EPA marks such use of fans as increasing "thermal stress and health risks" is an indicator that there ARE health risks associated with the use of fans. If those risks can involve death is up to dispute (without further analysis), but it's a first step towards this hypothesis.

You characterizing them as "random deaths" is a circular argument. It pressuposses what it's supposed to prove. I'd rather go with science and choose my words carefully.

[1] Oh, and to prevent any reading comprehension challenged idiot (tons of them on the intertubes) that would jump and shout: "the lack of an autopsy is not proof that they were indeed caused by fans", I never implied such. I only imply the reverse: that without an autopsy we cannot say they WERENT caused by it.
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Doesn't bash already do something vaguely similar though? I noticed it can complete flags and options now. zsh has been capable of this for a long time too.

It doesn't convert between long and short options or sort arguments but it does help you by offering the completion which means less typing and slightly less memorization.
Are you referring to strongbox? Strongbox only works if the institution operating it cannot be compelled to sabotage it.
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Thanks.

The nice thing about court cases is that they're divided nicely into parts that consider different questions before the court. You also get an entire section called "Background" which I hear is useful.

But even before you get to the background, just by reading the first page, you get a more nuanced view of what's going on. The decision's split up into seven parts, of which only part I and VI saw unanimous agreement. Judge Gregory dissented for parts II-V, and Judge Diaz wrote his own opinion for part VII, concurring in part and dissenting in part. Also, you can see that in some questions, the lower court's affirmed, in others it was rejected, and some questions were sent back to it.

What other nuance can we pull out of this from reading just a few more sentences?
The word's meaning is so twisted in the media as someone that steals information and breaks into systems, that I doubt society will ever adopt the correct meaning for it.
Australia doesn't have a '5th' to take in the first place. It can be used against the common citizen that they refused to talk to police or to testify in certain circumstances. It's not going to prove that you're guilty, but it is allowed to add context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence#Australia

This being said, since the internet came of age, Australian journalists have hardly been behaving in a way that would suggest they deserve increased protections...
OTOH, AirBNB in this mode might be a response to those permit, regulatory, or customer service issues becoming too bothersome and routing around them like a broken wire.
I have been working on a startup idea for exactly this purpose. Something that is much better than posting bunch of links on various places, bookmarks and emails. Announcing CoLearnr - A platform where topics can be socially curated, discussed and collaboratively learnt. Very happy to share the dev site since have not launched the main site yet.

http://dev.colearnr.com/finance

I researched MOOCs as part of my thesis and found that the platform they use and their business model is not so great! Is online learning as simple as watching video heads with a bulk standard discussion forum? Very happy to share some of my findings from the research.

- Online learning platform should be built for learners and not IT administrators. This is where moodles, blackboards all suck!
- Online learning should be engaging and distraction-free. We can learn a bit from social networks, how they show all the content inline and make it engaging and addictive.
- Online learning should make it easy to link knowledge and build conceptual maps. For example, based on the topic you learnt, the platform should show the other topics that you could learn so that you can generalise (broad knowledge) or specialise.
- Online learning should suit modern time-constrained learners. For example, typically all these platforms offer just one way of visualising a topic which was originally decided by the curator or the IT administrator. But learners need various views. Won't disclose a lot on this, but for example, a view showing only recently added materials, a view showing only the items to read etc could be intriguing.

Please feel free to take a look at my effort and let me know your thoughts.

tl;dr CoLearnr - a platform for collaborative learning
Loved the idea of EmailMetaData. I was thinking on similar lines on creating a smarter email system for businesses.