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> Am I the only thinking that working on a project like this would be awesome ?

I would hope so, but you likely are not.

The usual reasons are the mortgage and childrens education funds. Thank you for not smoking.

The defence (what a misnomer that is) industry has lots of very clever people working for it as well.
Great overview, as I started in 1992 I remember all of this :-) I moved into mobile development some years back, I kind of lost what happened since 2006. I was a ColdFusion developer in the good old days.

What you should also consider doing is creating a page with some sort of chart / grid / flow / overview of the various technologies (Javascript libraries, scripting, database etc.).
Part of the problem I see is that there are so many open source solutions that’s very hard to work out which one you should be going with as your stack. There are all these terms like Bootstrap, Frameworks, etc – how do they all relate to each other ? If only someone would put together some way to explain all of them you would have a killer site on your hands for newbies and oldies! :-)
For the life of me, I could never understand what compelled americans to switch from monday first to sunday first.
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I used getsomeheadspace.com as a guided meditation guide. I recommend as it definitely helped my ability to focus. It's basically training for your mental muscles. This helps when your brain wants to dart off and do something fun by giving you a bit more of a chance to gently guide it back to what it's supposed to be focussing on.
> That is jumping to conclusions and assumptions.

Sure. I didn't arrive at this through reasoning, it's a contingency. I hope I didn't leave anything non-obvious out:

* In most places, you have to afford the school and you need the grades/SAT scores (academic merit).

* In Sweden, you don't need to afford the school: you only need the grades/SAT scores (academic merit).
I'm all for avoiding sexist jokes and comments, but I can't really see what's wrong with this.

Are we becoming so puritanical we can't even admit that a male person is attracted to a "naked beautiful woman"?
+100 for EFT. I don't care that there isn't a rational explanation for how it works; I tried it with a "let's prove this wont' work" attitude and had to accept it was effective for me.

Over the years I've tried psychotherapy, counselling (of the discussion variety) and EFT combined with counselling. The latter has been by far the most effective at bringing change. Those around me see the difference.
I don't think it can be underground, since Musk said it would cost $6 billion to build. Also, the plan is to build something similar for east-west coast travel, and underground would be even less possible.
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Now, a CLAHE implementation on top of SnappyCam .....
I'm afraid I don't follow. Perhaps my english is not the best.
gratuitous plug would you mind checking out http://streamscience.co and giving me feedback on it? Its designed to give close control over scheduling and giving advice on hashtag selection.
LTS: Long Term Support, it is a version that the editor/community will support for a long time. Here you find the policy for Ubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS .
Are you in the business of creating experiences?
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It was not written by the queen.

"The speech, devised by Whitehall officials at one of the most fraught Cold War periods..."
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He didn't say the tube were going to be evacuated did he ?
If you are going to put something in the air, evacuationg th lauchpad seem to be a bit pointless.
I like the joke, but to play the devil's advocate it's slightly sexist to assume the mathematician and the engineer are both male.
How? Crown is just a process that sleeps for a minute at a time, checks the config file, forks a process if needed and repeats plus some logging. The only reason WP does not implement that is because shared hosting will kill long running processes.
Working in Japan.
They showed us Threads in primary school. I don't remember much of it to be honest, other than finding the accents hilarious (as Lancastrians we were brought up to fear & hate the Yorkist dogs).

I think it shook up the teachers more than us, but I guess that's to be expected. We were too young to really have felt the paranoia of the times.
Yes, this looks to be ColdFusion doing very weird things by randomly interpreting strings.
I just realized, I have a similar problem. I've bookmarked the thread and reading every comment on it. Thanks for asking the questions :)
I've been out of the loop for a while. How long is speculation about the master plan supposed to go on until Musk reveals what it is?
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Hello HN.. Created it as lerning project for nodejs. We use it at our office on fridays ;)

Comments / suggestions / welcome

PS : Check the beta branch also , it has latest commits.
They surely will because even with taxes it will be order of magnitudes cheaper than illegal one.
How many friends can you really connect to on them though? Would be very few people that could say everyone they cared about actively used an open/ distributed social network.
Even in fairly "optimistic" attack scenarios over 50% of the UK population were expected to die immediately in an attack:

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Leg

For those interested in UK government cold war planning I can strongly recommend Peter Hennessy's book "The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010":

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Secret-State-Whitehall-Cold/dp/0...

One particularly chilling part describes how early UK estimates thought that it would only take a small number of H-bombs to destroy the UK as a functioning society, resulting in the following:

"Hennessy tells the story of a jokey 1961 encounter between Khrushchev and the British Ambassador, Frank Roberts. The Soviet leader asked how many H-bombs Roberts thought would be needed to wipe out the UK. ‘Six’, he replied. Khrushchev chided him for his pessimism. He said that ‘optimists’ estimated it would take nine — but reassured him with a twinkle that
the Soviet General Staff… had earmarked several scores of bombs for use against the UK so that the Soviet Union had a higher opinion of the UK’s resistance capacity than the UK itself."
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Sure, but that's frowned upon in the international community.
Coupland absolutely nailed it.

I used to get sudden moments of fear that the 'flash' could happen at that particular moment when it struck. I can vividly remember these happening when I was a teenager.

Looking back it was a terrible thing to grow up with, a constant fear of immediate death without warning.

Somehow while the danger is still present the immediacy of the fear has waned as I have gotten older. Although now I worry about my children it's more of a vague worry about their future than a immediate pressing fear of a the 'flash'.
If people switch from GCC to Clang/LLVM in enough numbers that Apple think they can get away with it, Apple will, in a heartbeat, close the development of Clang/LLVM and make all new versions proprietary.
"You can't quit, No-one else will hire you, you're poisoned for good now, you might as well do all the grey-ethical stuff now" could be the new line for manipulative slimey NSA managers to use against their employees now.
Yes, when I tidy up the code in the next version :)
Until August the 12th at the most.
All it takes is one piece of code in the chain deciding to "helpfully" "fix" cases where people have stringified null values in a system that stringifies null to "null" by "translating them back" to null, and voila, you have a broken system.

A lot of problems like these are down to programmers that try to fix bugs by fixing the symptoms.
No it's not.

If one were male and the other were female, the joke wouldn't work.

If both were female it wouldn't work, as (if you're male like me) you're aware of our inherent and unfortunate sexism (our rational brain shuts down upon viewing an attractive female).

The difference between sexism and acceptable behaviour is knowing this limitation of our selves and acting respectfully with the other sex.
HN users often view PHP and those products built using PHP with disrespect. Sure they have their problems, but these products have been around for an eternity (in internet terms). Lots of programmers wouldn't have long standing careers without them.
> > it's starting to really gnaw at me

> Good.

I'm not sure whether that is good at all. Of course, we're all different, but what worked for me was quite the opposite of this: I learned to accept myself the way I am.

Like you, I've grown up being the smartest of the class. Other people had to sweat and I could just sit it all through. A result was decent grades and a complete lack of discipline.

If I'd be me, but with more discipline, I'd probably be doing my work better and faster. Maybe I'd be more successful, by some measure of "success". But that's not me. That's somebody else. In fact, that somebody else doesn't exist. With my "lack of discipline" come other traits that most super-structured people don't have. Creativity comes to mind. I'm also very well informed because I look around on the net a lot for stuff that interests me, such as open source libraries. My colleagues are often amazed that I know these things - all they know is what they learned in that .NET 4.5 class half a year ago. I'm sure you recognize this, becausr you wrote something along similar lines in a comment further down this thread.

This is you. People are willing to pay you a big salary for something that you only effectively work on around 3 hours a day. That's nice. There's nothing wrong with that. Other people work harder than you, maybe you work smarter than some.

There's a chance that there's someone out there who's just a smart as you, just as creative, and also very disciplined. I doubt it, but that's possible. Accept that. You were the smartest guy in your class, but you're not the best-performing person in the world. That's fine. Nobody's perfect, and neither are you.

Once you accept this, once you embrace your lack of discipline, you can let it work for you. Yeah, yeah, some days maybe you didn't work on that thing you said you were going to work on during the morning stand up, but you might've very well done something much more valuable.

It's very difficult to grow if you're completely unhappy with where you are now. Try to be happy about what you got (difficult, I know), and then continue. It'll be easier.
"Does requiring people to sort their trash actually work? What sort of feedback and enforcement is in place?"

No it doesn't. I live in so-called 'progressive' Holland where separate waste collection has been done for years. It's not efficient now any more (in 2013 we have better waste separation methods as was had in the 1990's) but people have become conditioned to 'separating waste = green' that it's hard to reverse now. Plus, the whole infrastructure exists now anyway, so the switching costs would take another decade to make back - an investment for which there is simply no room in these times.
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There is also Peter Watkin's excellent "The War Game":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Game
I took the story as Bob leaving because of being uneasy with what the job entailed. My comment was more saying leaving a position he found morally objectionable is the most he can do in this case.
"Actually, the Swedes really do believe in this. Everyone I know conscientiously sorts their trash."

Too bad they're wrong though. Talk about 'Stockholm syndrome' (get it? I'm so funny)
Sure, they can claim that's the reason why they didn't hire you. But if you can show in court that that wasn't their actual reason, and the actual reason for not hiring you was illegal, then yes, you can win.
Yes. Why just yesterday I read that male time travellers are pigs for abusing their information advantage to start relationships with women. That's sexist and also no woman would ever do anything like that even if she were allowed to time travel as the principle protagonist.
Makes sense really. Someone over qualified for a job will probably take this job and continue to look for a new job and if they find one quit and move on. You don't want to hire someone only for them to quit in 4 months time.
Yeah, but it matters who says it, right? Otherwise you could get a newsreader to deliver it.
I got fooled because I trust the Atlantic Monthly, which has been around for some 150 years, but apparently The Atlantic Wire is something altogether different. This is the second story they've blown recently.
Your post could've done without the first paragraph - the "I prefer that we kept all politics off Hacker News" was sufficient without the over-the-top generalisations like "anti-American granola eating hippy".
The original assumption that the joke is sexist relies on presuming that the joke makes women into objects used only for sex, but not vice-versa for men. So by claiming that the joke is sexist I think we can reasonably assume the person making the claim believes the engineer and the mathematician to be male.
Lots of big hints there for forward thinking developers to pick up on. Haskell for a large simulation project, GPGPU shared memory datastructures, 120 hz clock with physics interpolation, benefits of functions without side effects, performance benefits from elegant design rather than complicated optimization kludges.
Looks really good. Let me be the first here to request an Android version!
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In theory. In practice, no airline would let you board without a passport when going on an international flight.
Yeah I really could have done with the tab order being a bit better. And flipping the card when tabbing would definitely help.

Those of us familiar with data entry get really used to tabbing.

It doesn't tell you if you go wrong either.

I surprisingly liked the idea and execution though (putting the other issues aside.)
You don't need help. You will hear a lot of advice, but none of it addresses your problem.

The issue is, above all else, you haven't found something that lights a fire in your gut. Something that forces you into action through sheer hunger and excitement.

Ignore all the tips that help you ignore your inner feelings to achieve what you don;t really care for.

It too me until 30 to find that which lit a fire inside me, until then I worked and 'tried' to motivate and push through procrastination.

What can you do? Experience life. Try different things, when you find the what i'm talking about it will be as clear as day.
Libertarians don't like recycling because it's a political intervention into the market.

Not only do they dislike that on principal, if people start to like any one particular intervention (which many people do with recycling) then it undermines their entire political approach.
Thank god Apple didn't do it!
I was in a train going North-East from Beijing (can't remember where we were going, or more to the point, whether it was a 'rural' train or not) as little as 5 years ago, and the grandmother in the section opposite the corridor from us made here grandson go nr 2 right there in the middle of the train. Every time the train would swerve, the turds would roll from left to right and back :O| Cultural differences be damned, who in their right mind would accept this as a common practice...
"people without experience or connections"...

You should meet some recent batches. The founders are generally pretty rich with experience and connections nowadays.
The decision not to manage "nicknames" (通称名) under the new immigration law because they aren't necessary from an administrative standpoint is illustrative of the disconnect between the people making these laws in Japan and the people that are subject to them. I realize that this is inevitable because foreign residents can't vote, but it's frustrating that the government doesn't seek input from them when formulating new policy that will have large effects on them.

Because of the difficulties in using foreign names with Japanese computer systems and paperwork that you mentioned, 通称名 ("nicknames") are essential for many foreign residents. Some groups have been using them for decades now, so even a cursory attempt to get feedback on the new laws would have identified this problem.

Still, some groups of special permanent residents have organized and successfully overturned some of the more odious aspects of the immigration law, like the fingerprinting requirement for alien registration. In particular, the Korean special permanent resident community has some degree of influence on policy because of their size and organization.

Given the general ignorance of the central government (and the immigration bureaucracy as a whole) towards the real needs of foreign residents, I see this decision as ignorance on the importance of 通称名 rather than an attempt to quash the rights of foreign residents. In my experience the local governments tend to be more sympathetic towards the actual needs of foreign residents, perhaps because they have more prolonged interaction with them. (Though as with every government organ in Japan, the interpretation of the law varies wildly depending on which clerk you interact with.)

Troubles like the ones you describe are a large part of why I registered 長瀬ダニエル as a 通称名 and use it for everything I possibly can.
Just thinking on the legal side of things. What is the worse that can happen if one of the publishers want to screw the startup as they never published anything about them?
From the article: "So, in the last 2 years, we’ve had number of frameworks that simplify the client side development – Backbone, Ember, Derby and Meteor – and my favorite one, AngularJS."

These are not all the same.

Meteor and Derby are full, integrated stacks (from data to UI and back). These 2 frameworks aim to simplify not just the client-side, but more significantly they aim to simplify the client -> server API -> database communication.

Backbone, Ember, and AngularJS are client-side MV* frameworks with the aim of providing structure to client-side SPAs, and where the developer can use whatever server-side framework they choose.

Lastly, Backbone/Ember/AngularJS/another MV* framework can be used with Meteor to help structure client-side code, so this is not really an either/or decision.
The other consideration aside from cost is that seismic activity, even minor, can skew a tunnel. (Edit: for deep tunnels, that is. I have no idea about tunnels right below the surface.) That's bad news at high speed. I've given the tunnel approach some thought.[1]

And I keep hearing people trying to apply Hyperloop to coast-to-coast travel, but I don't recall Elon every saying anything about that long of a distance. In fact I recall him specifically talking about "the right city pairs", which implies some kind of distance limit.

[1] http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=1050
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I try not to recommend pop-psych books, but The Power of Habit taught me some useful tricks: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400069289/ref=as_li_ss_tl?....

The upshot is that you can't stop this part of yourself. You can only redirect it. You have a rich set of impulse-reward cycles triggered by the thought of beginning something difficult. You can't help responding to the triggers, but you can change the routines and the rewards.

In other words, you can't win by fighting. Don't swim against the current. Use your existing bad habits as a frame for new better ones.

Somebody else mentioned that you might be bored. Perhaps you are unchallenged. You could be lacking perspective and proper role models. I would encourage you to take yourself out of the startup scene (which is largely vapid nonsense) and try something more viscerally challenging, intellectually engaging, or just out of the ordinary. Find a research job, work in the theater, go to sea, volunteer in the third world, backpack around the world, teach classes to your friends or kids, pick up a craft like glassblowing or carpentry, build a house, WWOOF, etc.

Did you go to college? If so, what was your degree?

(Shoot me an email if you want to chat – I'm a few years older, but was in a similar position not too long ago – skiptracer at gmail.)
"It's actually much more efficient. Sorting is expensive. Collecting cans is trivial."

Nope. 10 years ago it was like that, not any more. Sorting technology has gotten much better. Here is the thing: you need to sort anyway, even if you collect waste separately, because you can't rely on everybody being 100% correct in putting stuff in the right container. So 2 decades ago when people started collecting separately, the sorting stations were partly automated and could only process relatively small amounts of 'pollution' (e.g. cans in heaps of paper), and the rest was done manually. Nowadays machines can handle much more capacity, and the overhead of collecting things separately has become higher than the costs of processing everything from a big heap of mixed materials.
Planck length and time are curious; but incompleteness is a mathematical construct, so it's true for all universes, simulated or not.
I'm forever failing to grok some websites, even though I've been working with and looking at them for years.
I'd not heard of that, thanks! It's also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrGg8PfkbZw
Working in Italy.
960 boxes, representing 80 years.
This is something people frequently ignore, and point to the areas of the US being culturally diverse as an excuse for poor school results or high crime. This annoys me slightly as it carries an implication that there are some ethnic backgrounds which are inherently bad\stupid\poor\whatever.
Beware, watching threads may lead to spending the afternoon staring at the wall with a blank expression for up to four hours after it finishes.
> I'm not going to speculate about whether x86 or ARM will "win the battle" or whether they will co-exist

I don't care about a 'battle'. Just most computers, probably a dozen, around me use ARM.

> Collecting evidence to back outrageous claims is left as an exercise to the reader.

That's a trivial task.

> I'm not interested in "transcendental superiority" arguments.

WTF?

> CLOS doesn't have users,

BS.

> and hasn't influenced object systems in prevalent languages; period.

True scotsman argument. Actually for that it is relatively unknown, it has influenced a lot languages and a lot of researchers. There are a ton of non-CLOS literature and systems, trying to adapt stuff like Mixins, MOP, Multiple Dispatch, Generic Functions, ...

That languages like Java doesn't has anything of that natively is not CLOS' fault. Java just recently was catching up to some kind of closures. Give the Java maintainers a few more decades. Java does not even have multiple inheritance.

CLOS' Multiple dispatch is also now present in unknown languages like Haskell, R, C#, Groovy, Clojure, Perl, Julia and a few others.
Perhaps without realizing that, but essentially you've just described the Pomodoro Technique, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique :-)

It was also my technique for studying for exams through university: 45 minutes of focussed study, followed by a 15 minute break for tea, lunch or fun things. After six of those, I could stop knowing that I had a day well spent. (And as a bonus, I mastered 3-ball juggling after my Algebra-I exam ;-)
I'm in a similar position, but I find that the major factor that affects my procrastination is my emotional investment in the product I'm making. At work, I don't really care about the application I'm building - largely because the quality of the existing codebase makes me depressed. However, when I get home and work on my own side projects, I code like there's no tomorrow, and have no problem with focus. I haven't had the opportunity to test my theory yet, but I think one way of tackling procrastination is to make sure you're in a job that you really care about.