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In my personal experience, motivation is secondary (but closely related) to passion.

Generally, when one has an issue with motivation, then he or she may not have discovered his or her true passion in life.

You have to find your passion.

If you do not find it, then it is likely that you will never be truly motivated.

However, once you have found your passion, then you will find that it is literally game on in your life. You will wake up earlier, because you have engaged passion in your life, which will bring motivation to your actions. You will be bringing the thunder. You will be firing on all 12 cylinders. You will not want to sleep more than is necessary, because you will know from deep within you, that you want to bring what is inside of you to others, and to the world.

Ask yourself:

1. "What am I truly passionate about?"

2. "How can I deliver what I am passionate about to others?"

Answer these questions, back the answers up with action, and you will see motivation unfold in your life.

I wish you every success.
"ATL has no set up..." Please. See my comments above regarding angel investing in ATL and VC firms in GA, etc.
Default Bootstrap just doesn't feel right for this kind of thing :(

A 'posted (time) ago' thing on the main page would be nice.
And the textareas could use some additional padding sometimes (http://puu.sh/3OGbF.png)
Wat. It already happens. I don't get free hosting for my sites.
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Could you edit your post to clarify what you mean? The comments show this as an example of when not to convey your point using sarcasm, as everybody stopped reading once they read one statement.
You can tunnel it through Tor.
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> due to the language's embarrassing lack of TCO

TCO is a runtime property, not a language property.

Anyway, you have clearly not been doing your research and its not my job to do it for you.

Bye.
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You can't use the fact that the numbers will be skewed as evidence that drugging must be common.
That's not what the strawman fallacy is...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman
As nice as the machined metal looks, they'd cost pennies to produce as injection molded parts and would be just as functional.
> spending around $2,000 ($1,000 in 1988 dollars) to buy a shelf of the standards documents

The ISLISP standardization group did an interesting workaround for this: http://www.islisp.info/history.html

An ISO committee to standardize the language was constituted but stalled on doing any real work drafting a standard. While they waited around, the community drew up a draft standard, which was published as a public recommendation to the ISO committee, with the draft put into the public domain. The committee then voted to adopt the community's draft as the standard unchanged. So now an official ISO document is available for the usual fee, but you can get a predecessor document that looks surprisingly similar, for free as a PDF.

Of course, this requires everyone on the committee agreeing to not really take the ISO process seriously. You might wonder why one would bother with it at all then, and in this case it seems to have been to reassure clients that ISLISP is stable by getting it an ISO standard.
http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/pub_prosecuting_alcohol_facilitated_...

references

Arizona: A.R.S. §§ 13-1401 and 13-1406; Illinois: 720 Ill. Comp. Stat. 5/12-13;
Kansas: K.S.A. § 21-3502; Maine: 17-A M.R.S. § 109; Missouri: R.S.Mo. §§ 566.040 and
566.061; and Wisconsin: Wis. Stat. § 940.225.

And claims these as case law for

> • Either statute or case law specifically outlaws having intercourse
> with a person who is too intoxicated to consent.
> In these states,
> the victim’s intoxication negates the element of consent, thereby
> showing that the sexual act occurred without consent.

IANAL.
"I feel badly because the mechanism that allows me to feel is broken."

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang reference, love it.
Exactly. Anti-authoritarian people are like fairies. Even if they would exist they shouldn't because they're dangerously not conforming to our single-minded view of the world ;)

That wasn't really my main point though. Obviously freedom and security are a tradeoff but they're intrinsically related. How much more freedom are you willing to concede to live in a safer world ? How much taste of the life are you willing to remove to live longer in a bubble of safety ? Not everyone has the the same level of acceptance and it's only natural that some try to fight back the current trend.
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I know that when I started I couldn't even begin to search because I didn't know what I was trying to search for. Eventually you learn the keywords through some trial and error and experience.
The other thing is knowing which sites are better quality.

I don't have that many years under my belt but it's hit me a few times that if you can search things better than someone they seem to think you are smarter. Maybe more for the non-tech people.
It is OK. However if you are making a community project you should definitely change your logo to be distinctive of existing projects. Please fix. The original project expressed their desire to be visually distinct and it would be very nice of you to respect their wishes.

This will remove the unnecessary distraction for you. Note that this is not without precedent. Mozilla renamed Firebird to Firefox because of the community's opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox
Maybe I'm an exception then, because I can't relate at all to this. I've got enough interesting thoughts inside my head that takes up most of my concentration, so I would not have time to care about what others do and don't.
What is a good one?
Here is an older one:
http://www.hatebook.com
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When I was doing this, I was leaning toward going the 3rd approach, but it seemed a really momentous undertaking. That would definitely be a boon to the future of PaaS projects though, because it seems like OpenSSH doesn't really have the use-case in mind, plus I hate the idea of hacking something as fundamental as OpenSSH on my machine to do development work on a single project
Yes - this is what I meant, though I think it's also what I wrote. It's not prior art; it's obviousness, and the USPTO defines non-obvious as published, co-mingling the two. So we see lots of patents for obvious tweaks from one platform to another. For example, the same functionality ported from local computer programs to web-based systems, client-server architecture, and now mobile all seems to qualify as non-obvious. In reality these ports are entirely obvious to anybody who understands that the underlying tech is basically the same.
I was more disappointed by the "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED" text written on the wall. Being exposed to meme-y nonsense every day would have a severe impact on my job satisfaction.
Again, at the most that says we don't have good data, however according to wikipedia (and it does seem to be well referenced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_rape_drug and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_rape#Drugs_used_in_sexual_...) even studies that are designed to catch this stuff don't seem to get much over 1-2% for rohypnol where alcohol comes in closer to half of cases of suspected drug assisted assault.

I really want to stress that I don't think that in any way diminishes the awfulness of the crime, I just wonder if (like stranger danger) we don't overemphasise the worst-case at the cost of the mundane (people known to the victim, alcohol)
Why do you, non-cryptographer people, think that encrypted GPS is perfectly secure? Pretty much all crypto implementations have flaws (numerous SSL/TLS discovered and fixed over the years, Android package signing, Xbox game code signing, etc.)

GPS encryption was designed 20+ years ago. It is almost guaranteed it has (known and unknown) flaws.
Except, you run that check to make sure your not running afoul of someone's trademark restrictions/ using a logo associated with an existing brand. (Which, unless I am missing something here, they are not.). They should have run it, but just because they found your result doesn't mean they had to scrap something they (allegedly) did themselves.

If they came up with it independently(a very legitimate question given the similarity of the --- very nice by the way --- logo, but one they seem to have evidence for) then there seems to be no moral problem or even a legal issue.

You're basically claiming "I thought of it first, there for it's mine" which is both legally wrong in the US for copyright(independent creation is a defense) and morally bullshit in the same way that Amazon's one click ordering patent is.
Noticeably, "mining bitcoins" was not on the list of prohibited activities in Thailand on the article. Of course, mining bitcoins is relatively useless unless you can eventually send, receive, or otherwise exchange them...
That's a fair point. I would think that it's a bit of both, rather than either/or. It's worth pointing out though that just because it's less scary doesn't mean it's less problematic.
Haven't used landline for a long time but the more I've used Skype, the more frustrated I've got with it. Really really frustrated on some days. Even plain old-fashion analog telephony was better experience I recall. Maybe there's something in this Plivo SIP thing that could take us to the next level on telephony.
Using your logic, we can conclude that no one should be able to use the wheel, because at some point in the past someone else invented it?
For text chat TCP works perfectly fine. IRC and XMPP are the prime examples.
I thought the time saved by lifehacks was usually devoted to writing blog posts about how you've been doing X for 3 days now and it's amazing.
And mortgages:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/12/us-wells-lending-s...

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-12-21/business/35287...
I kinda get your point, but your analysis as far as capitalism/greed etc seems more ideological than logically rational. The problem as you state it isn't insurance, its the inelasticity of health insurance. Simply put a significant amount of people will pay as much as they can get their hands on for even a marginally improved outcome if their life is on the line. Conversely very few people will refuse life saving treatment based on price, IF they can somehow get their hands on the necessary money, even if they feel it is a 'rip off'.

Your stated areas where american healthcare is efficient are optional, cosmetic surgey, lasik etc...

Not to say insurance doesnt play a part, just saying you havent presented a solid logical arguement.
This reminds me of a project by another HN user, @zackattack's compassionpit.com. I think it's shut down now but it was growing last time I spoke with him - you're probably onto something.
An hour in, a complaint about icon-plagiarism-via-anonymous-bikeshedding-session is still the top comment on HN for a software project with ambitious technical goals. That in itself is a strong argument for doing one's own work and creating original icons. Assuming for the sake of discussion that Tox is or could be a technically superior solution, do they really want that obscured by this sort of extraneous bullshit?

EDIT: and now I remember where I've heard that name before, as well: http://testrun.org/tox

Perhaps a rebranding effort is in order? That sort of work seems to be right up /g/'s alley? Google is your friend!
EzGraphs: just because you don't find the topics of...

- patents

- DRM

- mass surveillance

- privacy

- censorship

...interesting, doesn't mean that others do not. These are all very real issues happening now and affecting the tech industry (you know, the livelihood of most people that post here).

I know, for example, many programmers start squirming when these issues come up because they're of the personality type that 'don't want to rock the boat' but technical and 'political' issues overlap in a major way.

Certainly you wouldn't find these recent posts more relevant than the topics at hand?

Dropbox’s San Francisco Office

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6121234

Bootstrap 3 RC1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6112141
Well you might be aware that our federal government is divided into three branches. The President doesn't get to decide what the laws of the land are, that's up to Congress. So Congress creates a department, funds it, sets limits on it, and then the executive branch uses those funds to do the job. It get complicated, but to be specific, elections don't change laws. You would have to elect enough representatives to change the law, a president to sign the law, and then the courts would have to accept the law as constitutional.
If you need extension, you wouldn't use this pattern.

If you need to avoid this technique entirely because you're so frequently needing to unit test private methods, you have a design problem, not a testing problem.

Readability is subjective. Personally I tend to find this style a bit more readable than trying to use a naming convention to indicate privacy, as suggested later in the article.

Tooling -- any real world examples of this? It seems to me tooling would only need to worry about the public interface, not the private details.

"True privacy is a bad idea in OO" - You didn't limit this statement to javascript, so I just want to say this is ludicrous. Access control is an extremely valuable tool when you're building a large system where development may be spread amongst many teams. If you just meant client side JS, I would say your statement is debatable.

When you utilize true privacy, you're taking a very disciplined approach to building software. You prevent monkey patching or tinkering with the internal state from components who should not be concerned with that object's internal state. When you need changes, it forces you to think about how your changes impact the overall structure of your application, and whether you need to restructure aspects of your application in response to those changes. Without true privacy, sure, you could just patch some "private" method and move on with your life. As you utilize this technique more and more, however, and your application grows, it has the potential to turn into a big headache.
Alright, I guess I'm the voice of the GT Establishment here.

I'm certainly not going to argue with anyone who says "A year ago, I’d hardly heard of startups. Neither had just about anyone at Georgia Tech." But I'll point out that our early-stage incubator, VentureLab, just got ranked #1 in the frickin' WORLD (out of 150 universities) by UBI. And we've been doing that for 12 years. And ATDC is consistently ranked as Top Ten in the country, and we've been doing that for 33 years. We just graduated our third Flashpoint cohort. So you might want to dig a little more deeply before you throw around "no one" and "never"...

That said, I'm loving the energy and the enthusiasm I'm seeing here. We're major fans of Startup Exchange and the rest of the undergraduate startup scene. I've found that most undergraduates seem reluctant to step into the Centergy building; they feel more comfortable at Hypepotamus. That's cool, we're friends, but don't forget that there's a heck of a lot of resources here in Centergy if you can get past our oh-so-corporate lobby.

Here's a post I wrote a year or so ago about what I'd like to see happen with GT undergraduates:

http://academicvc.com/2012/10/01/drownproofing-2-0/

Finally, a lot of this thread has talked about Atlanta in general. Traditionally, Atlanta hasn't been a great B2C town (although some folks are trying to change that). We do great B2B startups, and we do great hardware startups. There's a lot of the economy that doesn't read Hacker News. You're young; don't limit yourself.
So, the problem is that bandwidth is limited. There isn't infinite bandwidth available. You're dissatisfied with the way a monopolizing ISP is choosing to ration bandwidth.

Your solution is to have the government, through legislation, control how bandwidth is rationed? Yes, by all means, instead of degraded YouTube performance, let's just cut everyone's bandwidth across the board to some idiotic bandwidth guarantee. As if the government would somehow magically be able to better ration bandwidth than the companies that, you know, actually provide it.

A better solution might be to get rid of regulations and try to lower the barriers to entry, so that it's easier for smaller startups to get into the same space as the ISP's. "But limited infrastructure, blah blah, whaa whaa." Shut it.

Google shouldn't be the only company with the ability to create new infrastructure (like inflatables). But since regulation around internet infrastructure has to be micro-managed by so many levels of government, it only makes things harder for the non-Googles.
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Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1205/
Its older and in some ways a simpler tried and true formula of "Hey, did you know Americans are the pinnacle of psychological reactance?"

Better known as reverse psychology. No nation of people on the planet are better at it than the Americans. Free them from the merger of .gov and religion and they'll demand a re-merger and join whacko cults. Free them economically and they'll become slaves of mortgage banks. Free them in the workforce and most of them will idolize being corporate drones. (nearly) free national parks and they'll watch sitcoms on TV instead. Pay off debts means go shopping so you're poor again. Lose some weight results in go pig out. You get the idea. You can write a billion of these stories about Americans. Self destruction is the national psyche. Its a pretty boring story once you get the pattern, although its funny to watch from the outside if you've checked out of it.

In this particular case its merely a "news" story that freeing people from some drudgework means American drones will of course true to their nature logically bury themselves in more drudgework than ever LOL. At least the dumb ones will, anyway. I could have told you the outcome, and even probably lines from the "news" story, as soon as I heard what the movement proposed to do.
Here's the latest FCC report on broadband ISP speeds: http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america/2013/February

Unfortunately it doesn't measure real content providers so it may not detect peering problems.
excited to see what you'll be able to achieve in the next few months and so excited to be a part of it!
I think this is grey area and I have personally used bitcoin mostly for bypassing international transfer fees.
Indeed.. upon closer inspection all that happened is this guy approached the Bank of Thailand and (foolishly) deferred to their authority to ask if he could trade coins using their bank. This always results in bankers telling you no, and no surprise they said no, but doesn't mean you can't use cash on the streets, just so long as no banks are used. Thai parliament hasn't passed any laws declaring virtual currencies illegal.
Not sure it's solved, but I added some additional firewall rules to block certain types of ICMP packets that they were sending and added some additional logging for when it happens again.
I had the same impression, basically the core arguments presented in the article really were a rejection of OOP information hiding, not really the specific technical implementation of using closures for information hiding.
"I recently read Functional JavaScript and can’t physically recommend it enough".

I believe this is a must read book for all advanced JavaScript developers. Michael Fogus uses UnderScore.js library by Jeremy Ashkenas, to teach functional programming using JavaScript. It changed my perspective on how to create reusable javascript functions that are easy to maintain.
From reading job ads, I think most people work in the languages you mentioned.

HN is more oriented towards python/ruby/objective C because it's demo is making relatively simple applications as fast as possible, and critically don't have legacy code.

C# and Java have moved a lot in the past 10 years. You could say that Scala is the next natural transition for Java. Microsoft have a really compelling offer in terms of Azure and .net 4.5, and have a functional language of their own (F#) if they take off.

Personally, I'm watching C++11. It is really transformative, making the language feel much more modern (even sort of python like). If it improves C++ productivity enough we may see a resurgence, although I think it does too little to make coding for parallel/asynchronous natural.
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Nota bene: Sculptfab is an experiment made by Sketchfab on top of the amazing SculptGL tool developed by Stéphane Ginier, in order to make the workflow of publishing a model to Sketchfab easier :)
Sure, I agree completely. But they're both systems languages. I write systems software, and Go already has barely any traction in the broader software community (outside of Hacker News...), so I have to choose what's easy to learn and has a reasonable level of support.

Languages always succeed based on support (documentation, community, tooling)--not features.

I brought Go up here because it stands the best chance of inheriting the role that C and C++ occupied for systems software, and which Python is also taking over. That's why it was created, so developers could have a statically-typed systems language that wasn't C or C++ or Python or Java, since all of those were unsuitable in various tasks for one reason or another.
I've had it happen to me as well. I was very young at the time and only had two drinks the entire night. Luckily I was with safe friends, so it could have been worse.

Shockingly once at a party I was offered to buy rohypnol. I was lurid. I certainly don't look like the type of person who would buy drugs, much less from a random stranger...
Doesn't this description of the OSI way look similar to how the W3C works?
Perhaps we should have a separate section or tab on here for political news if it's very important to some people.

I, for one, like HN because it doesn't have all the usual political news nonsense that mainstream news has. The privacy debate is great and all, but it doesn't substantially help my or anyone's lives on here. In 400 years, it's not going to matter whether the NSA read your emails or didn't read your emails. And realistically, reading another article about Edward Snowden impersonating Tom Hanks in a Russian airport terminal isn't going to push the meter toward or away greater privacy an ounce.

However, if you find informative, non-buried-under-political-stuff articles on HN that contribute to you building your business empire that changes the world for the better a little bit... that probably will still matter in 400 years.
I'd think I have very high expectations on my self, but that don't make me compare myself to others. The reason I aim for perfection is purely philosophical. If I don't make things as good as I can, why do them at all? Only people who do things for worldly matters like money and status, walk around and compare them selves to others in this silly way. :S
I suppose you could write a small Go app to use the groupcache library, and call that Go app from your non-Go app co-located on the same machine.
Just out of curiosity, is drunk driving not driving in your jurisdiction?
Yeah that's what so confusing about this.

I'm filtering martians/bogons, which I see getting blocked constantly.
I wish MBA's would knock it off with their everything is easy meme. Yes - software, including apps, can be created in two months. In fact we can write them in two hours, or take two years; it depends. Buried in your post is that your partner split so you spent 24x7 obsessed on coding which, IMO, is the right way to learn, and sometimes even the right way to work (in bursts at least; doing that for too long leads to -- in MBA speak -- massively diminishing ROI for your time). In any event congratulations on getting your app out, and welcome to unwritten secret society of computer programmers who have published software.