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We are in every way a publisher. And no, meditation is not BS. Google the scientific evidence. 30% of the US population bill themselves cultural creatives. They embrace yoga, alternative healing, meditation and more. We cater to that market. Another 30%, such as you, are billed modernist. They tend to shun religion, and by default anything that smells of spirituality. Both are opposing cultural ideas - but just because you don't believe in something does not make it false.

To understand this, read the work by socialogist Paul Ray.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cultural_Creatives

Now we cater for the Oprah audience - the cultural creatives. And have a crazy loyal following.
I agree with you here, Gioele. The balance between foundation and progress is an important one to strike.

In theory, a full understanding of the foundations of any subject will, in the end, lead to a more complete mastery. However, if you do not give a learner enough "Why am I doing this?" to support their early stumbling steps, you risk losing them entirely. Imagine if you were forced to read the entire K&R C book before writing your first program. I know I wouldn't have made it.

When I was a bartending instructor (past life), my boss told me this Yeats quote (misattributed I think): "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire".
This is incredible. Readability, speed, interface, just a great job all around. Maybe mobile web apps are the future after all :).
It is! Doing it right is the hard part since opentype is limited to very specific kinds of substitutions, so you don't get nondeterministic random, but you usually get something that appears random-enough. The canonical example of actually nondet-random is the font Beowulf[0], by letterror, i don't know that i can do it justice here, research it a bit to really get the story.

Two contemporary examples: Bello Script[1] and Trixie HD, although lots of people are really pushing opentype's features these days in novel ways.

[0]: http://letterror.com/fontcatalog/fontfont-beowolf/

[1]: http://www.underware.nl/fonts/bello/features/how_does_it_wor...

[2]: http://trixiefont.com/story/index.html
> Are they instructing the PMs etc., or are they acting on their orders?

What does a consultant do? A UX designer is basically another name for a consultant who, by training, knows a lot of stuff about the experience your users will have with your product. Like with any consultant, the relationship can be anywhere from asking them direct questions, to getting them to make you mock-ups, to modifying your product, to having them tell you what to do. As with any other consultant, you hire them for their perspective and experience, not for some particular skill.

A UX guy is not necessarily good at creating pretty designs--although he'll be able to tell you, using user-testing et al, whether a design is pretty. And so forth, for each thing they do. It's not a collection of skills; it's an approach.

(A similar question might be "what does it mean to hire a scientist?" Not skills; approach.)
Did you even read the article? The article says nothing about bypassing network traffic. It talks about emails from americans to foreigners being sifted for keywords.
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Not to dissuade or disagree with your thoughts, but your opinion about evilness of this program will change over time. For example, when you get stuck (God forbid) in an unwarranted situation or a legal hassle and then the same NSA program you passively protect now is used to check back on your past data/behavior and then pull out useful subjective information and taint you with phrases like "infamous former contractor" and so on ... Have you thought about this?

Objectivity is a logical illusion.
I like the idea, and the hardware seems good, and I could afford it, but the real turn-off for me is that it's just a one-time thing. If I am going to commit myself to another mobile platform (although I use Xubuntu on the PC), I want it to have some future. If the thing breaks after 3 years, what I am going to do? I will have to change the platform again when I buy a new device.

I actually question what the Canonical is doing when it comes to this. I bought Asus EEE with preinstalled Ubuntu 12.04 recently, and it's great. However, you cannot upgrade to 12.10 because the proprietary video driver for X is missing. So what they're thinking? If they want people to switch to Ubuntu (and I would love that, that's why I bought this netbook), then they have to commit to it as a long term goal.

It seems that everybody is so impatient nowadays that if success doesn't happen in one year, they kill the project.
That's because FL (Free/Libre) is at least slightly different from the O (Open) part of the acronym.
If we use multiple tools to finish things then it will decrease your productivity.
I basically use Asana for my project where the need is detailed task management. and Any.Do for small things which will slip from my mind, which works cross platform.

Basically the problem we are facing is a need of an intelligent list, which will understand our needs. Instead of a dumb one, something which reminds me of my tasks will work based on context.
I am from Brazil, and I see even cleaning ladies talking about snowden and curious.

Also lots of people I talked think Obama is a idiot asshole ( different from Bush, viewed as a evil asshole ).

Also our government even invited Greenwald to give explanations on our Senate, our senators are very concerned.
This is an unrealistic joke. Scraping by paycheck to paycheck like many folks and you're supposed to save near 50%? And my company just told me my healthcare premiums are going up another 10% without any cost of living increase in the past 5 years, all other costs have gone up every year.

Obviously this chart is totally useless other than to simply say save what you can. Last I calculated it, I would have to work a little more than another 100 years to retire. So, I'll be starting that new saas when I'm about 120.

For the first time in awhile here, we're doing worse than our parents. Dang baby boomers.
Well, no. All those people who were already doing those things are UX designers now. I think the point of the rename is mostly that "UI designer" is limited and derogatory in the perception it encourages, like "code monkey" or "web designer." Nobody just does UI, so nobody is, or was ever, just a UI designer.
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Exactly. Most major (and minor apps) are already retooled for iOS 7 (or are in progress) -- so something not working on iOS7 is often obvious to the developer, but he/she can't release an iOS 7 update until iOS7 is released. So bug feedback is pointless from beta iOS7 because those bugs might already be completely fixed and ready for release.
It was:

Prior to a fairly recent overhaul, the technology licencing office (rough quote from memory from Tech Talk, the Institute's official newsletter): "focused on the details of licencing vs. doing a lot of licences" and averaged a little over 1 per year (!!!). Given that I know 3 of those, the LMI Lisp Machine licenses and the same plus Macsyma to Symbolics....

They notoriously screwed up the 3D core memory patent ($40 million lump sum to IBM vs. the offered 1 cent per core) and a synthetic penicillin patent. Either could have paid for a complete replacement of the entire campus. I very strongly suspect these weren't the only screwups, and e.g. Symbolics scammed an exclusive license to Macsyma mostly to keep it out of other people's hands, one reason Wolfram was able to beat it sort of starting from scratch.

Back then, when the prime rate was over 20%, and inflation was over 15%, MIT was getting a much lower return on its endowment. I want to say 4%, but I'm not sure. MIT does a lot better now, but that is also recent.

It got its charter just as the Civil War started, and set up operations just after. So as noted it doesn't have the 2 centuries or more of additional compounding alumni donations the famous Ivies have.

Not sure when it started, and it was again fixed only fairly recently, but the alumni magazine, Technology Review, was dedicated to telling most of the alumni that what they were doing was evil. And again by then the Institute apparently had convinced a lot of alumni that it couldn't be trusted with unrestricted gifts. In its favor it never tried a Princeton Woodrow Wilson Center type donation theft, then again I don't know of any other top school so brazen.

Ah, it also was wretched, not interested or perhaps in part stymied by city government (which hates Harvard with a passion, and MIT gets some of the blowback) in making money off of local real estate. When I showed up the Kendal Square area had that bombed out sort of look, in part due to NASA deciding after JFK's assassination and LBJ becoming President that, oh, on second though Texas is where we should build our space center. There was almost no housing, let alone vaguely affordable and safe, to be found close to campus. I'm sure that bit of MIT's studied indifference to student welfare didn't escape some of the alumni who were the sort to later make a fortune.

Bottom line: not a lot of money to grant to students, and a total focus on needs based aid. And, hmmm, rather obviously students like me who were crushed by the intersection of the financial aid policies of MIT and their parents would never be in a position to donate a lot of money, and not inclined to donate much of what we do have.
sigh Scientology is a cult. Silva Method is a health program. Try looking it up before making associations based on your ignorance.
Is VSCO Cam the next Instagram?
Yes, and it's a UI. GUI is a strict subset of UI, as is CLI.
Typo. I'm sure Putin would like to get back to the USSR days though.
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Take Me Home is the second studio album by English-Irish boy band One Direction, released on 9 November 2012 by Sony Music Entertainment. As a follow-up to One Direction's internationally successful debut album, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home was written in groups and has an average of just under five songwriters per track. Largely recorded and composed in Sweden during 2012, Savan Kotecha, Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk, who composed One Direction's hits, "What Makes You Beautiful" and "One Thing", spent six months in Stockholm developing songs for the album, and were able to shape melodies around the members' tones.
The album's songs are characterised by metronomic pop, vocal harmonies, hand claps, prominent electric guitar riffs, bright synthesizers, the pitch-correcting software Auto-Tune, a homogeneous sound and message, and rotations of lead vocals. The members' voices are presented individually on the record, and its lyricism speaks of falling in love, unrequited love, the insistence that flaws are what make a person unique, commitment, jealousy, and longing for past significant others. Take Me Home garnered mixed reviews from music critics. There was praise for its quality of production, while criticism hinged on its generic, rushed nature.
Another problem with people conflating "UX Designer" with "UI Designer" is that if you put "UX" in a job title hoping to get "UI" folks, you will get the wrong people. I have seen this first-hand now with two companies: the job title was set by someone who didn't really understand the difference and instead of getting qualified visual/interface designers applying for the role we got people who draw boxes and arrows, extremely low-fidelity wireframes, and user researchers. Not people who cranked hard on the actual product, but people who did a lot of "meta" work that only affected the product in passing.

In larger companies there may be a need for "UX" designers like that, but at small companies when people all need to wear multiple hats, you don't just want a wireframer or flow diagrammer... you want a designer who can think about the overall experience, then design it, then create the actual pixels, then hopefully write some front-end code as well. I have yet to meet anyone who considers themselves a "UX Designer" to be able to do any of that.
The academics are interesting, but I'm talking about the more tangible microeconomic concerns: How can an author get paid for their book if anyone can print their own copy? What investor would invest in a movie if it can be downloaded for free? There are possible answers to these questions, but I'm skeptical whether replacing copyright completely with alternative business models and hobbyists would result in the same level (and quality) of production.
>"40% short term bonds (which underperform long term bonds)

This is not true. What if you are buying during an inverted yield curve? Do you think buying long bonds, today, with rising rates on the horizon, would do better than rolling short bonds?

The real mistake in the article is assuming there's some "safe" allocation ratio(60/40 or 40/60!). There are periods (like now with bonds, or stocks in summer 2000) where buying certain assets are a recipe for disaster. But we do anyway. People are going to have to become far more financially literate about their financial futures.

>There are no massive events that wipe out returns. We've had two in the past 13 years.

There is no need to "assume" those things away when planning long term. For example, equities have recovered their value plus more since the 2008 plunge. The people who lose are the people who sell into the panic (or those who happened to be retiring right at that moment, bad luck). But volatility happens. If you held on, you're back on track.
HN just needs a buffer/digest, so you only see posts that spend some time on the front page.

http://eplenum.com/news?days=.1 posts that have been on the front page in the last 2.5 hours

http://eplenum.com/news?days=1 posts that have been on the front page in the last day

....

http://eplenum.com/news?q=slashdot&sort=lastUpdate,desc
FWIW Obama's cancellation of the summit is getting rave reviews from basically every major paper I've looked at. Conservative-leaning ones think Obama should go farther, liberal-leaning ones seem to acknowledge that Obama has gotten nothing from trying and it's time to quit proving Einsteinian insanity correct.

All of them note that there was way more going into this decision than Snowden; his was the proverbial straw on the camel's back.
Is it GB/s or Gb/s ? Even SATA3 maxes out at 6Gb/s
Superb job. You should build an RSS app.

One small nitpick: On Ask HN page you can open the threads only if you click on the comment link. Clicking on thread names doesn't work.
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I take no credit for this. I found the link for this in another Hacker News thread [1] and thought that more people should know about it, so I submitted it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6177361
There's a pretty simple explanation.

It's called tenure. As a result of tenure, the official policy of the university is "Aproi moi le deluge"

One symptom of this is continuous handwringing about problems that never go away. If you look at CACM, for instance, they've been running pretty much the same article about "Why don't women major in computer science?" every two months for every twenty years. Physics Today, on the other hand, runs an article about every six months about the terrible academic job prospects for physics PhD's. (The last 10 Einsteins we created all went to work for Goldman Sacks)

Because a professor doesn't personally have skin in any game (he can't find himself on the street) he's really got no reason to address problems that affect his field or academia as a whole.

I know some people who talked with Don Knuth about libraries and open access and Knuth displayed his ignorance: "there's no problem, we don't need libraries, I just read all the journals for free on my computer." He was ignorant of the facts that: (1) the library at his school cuts a huge check to Elsevier every year, and (2) people outside the ivory walls don't share his privilege.

It's that kind of thinking that keeps science behind a paywall.
I knew Wade in undergrad. A mutual friend said of him, "Someday I'll get to say I knew Wade way back when."

A LifeHacker post is a LifeHacker post is a LifeHacker post. For the details you want, Wade's blog is here: http://wpfau.blogspot.com/

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Well, end of May. I think they are traveling.

There's room for both.

Another good newsletter is Pingdom's weekly summary, but it's not php of course.

We should probably have an "ask HN" for good weekly newsletters but I guess we can only read so much.
Well the current age for independence is 24 so it may have been the same when you went.
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Very good! I think kind of old though?
There is and always has been a massive overlap between technology and politics, especially computer technology.

To try and have a purely technical forum without any politics at all when dealing with the subject of computers, would be to ignore many of the main players and originators and also the motives that led to the existence of much of the technology.

The current news with the NSA is political, sure, but it is also as technical as it gets.
Wow you seem to already own this phone. That's amazing!
Note that the $0.04 price is likely "cold storage" via glacier, which is cheap for write-only storage ($0.01/GB/month) but it's much more expensive than S3 for retrieval ($50/million requests to S3's $1) and there's ~4h round-trip to get data back according to Colin's old analysis of Glacier for Tarsnap: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-09-04-why-tarsnap-doesn.... I'm guessing the data in cold-storage will not be interactible-with or visible in the interface.

Note that the second-to-last paragraph of Colin notes the possibility of tarnsap "glacializing" a complete machine dropping storage costs to 3~5c/GB/month, but it not be readable or deletable save by "deglazializing" the machine (15~20c/GB) to move the data to S3 for retrieval or deletion.
Why? dragonwriter managed to immediately pick up on what I meant. Would my opinion have been more plausible if I used 13-letter words and quoted Steinbeck instead?
1. Because they're very serious about making it easy and convenient.

2. Because the Netherlands are very, very flat and densely populated.

3. Because cycling is completely normal
I'm not sure, but I think it's some kind of attempt at funny.
Things aren't that hopeless.

The point is that you invest in something which has greater growth and dividends, as well as something secure.

Right now I'm very young, so I just put a certain amount away into Canadian bank stocks and other stocks with a history of ever-improving dividends.

I think there's one particular guy somewhere here in Canada which retired at 30-something on a fairly plain job by investing in solid stocks for the long term.
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@etaty Thanks much for this effort!
Looking forward to a user guide. Also did your redis-benchmark gets to 200k+, if not this will be one hell of performance mark. And even if it does, what the heck, its very hard to find use case which saturates this rate of inserts(except may be data generation frequency in cern reactor)
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No one is ever speaking on behalf of anyone else, unless that someone else explicitly invited them to do so.

I beg to differ. In fact, it's very common for people to extrapolate based on their own experiences and speak for others whom they see as being in the same situation, whether the situation has to do with race, economic status or sexual orientation.

Therefore, if people are arguing for a policy that affects many people, not just themselves, their proposal should be backed by some expertise other than just personal opinion.
I think the approach they are taking is that of sports cars.. You design a concept device, do a limited run with early adopters and premium buyers, and then the advances and concept-validations that happen trickle down to the mass-market devices and everybody wins..
Yeah, the data I have is pretty much just old projects, photos, stuff like that that I archive for sentimental purposes, and that I never really need, but don't really want to delete either.

I'd be fine with something that's basically just "keep this data for me just in case all my other backup locations go down".
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I wonder what the purpose of this fiction is. I like to think it's a subtle jab at love -- a powerful, irrational emotion.

"Kenji's impulses and behavior are not entirely rational or genuine." That's love for you.
Reminds of the line from Spaceballs: "now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb."

Seriously, what an amatuerish-looking mess. White text on black, no clear navigation path, I can't imagine any random end user actually using one of these sites.
Luckily for me i'm doing neither, then.
I'd much rather see such a tutorial about how to do this without Three.js — this high level, you're not /really/ doing anything with WebGL directly. It's like a tutorial for the DOM just going, "so, we're going to use jQuery".
Really someone needs to do a marketplace to buy and sell these projects. I'm sure a project that has customers is worth something.

deadstart.com
restart.com
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I’ll just leave this here. "The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan... Stalin Did" http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/29/the_bomb_di...
I made a font like this once. I can't remember what tool I used, but I drew the characters with a mouse (at the time I did a lot of drawing with the mouse, so mouse writing was nearly as good as pen writing). It use to be online even just for the hell of it. Now I'd probably have to look in the backups.

The big problem I had with my font was that some characters were quite bigger or smaller than others, despite it "fitting" into the same size box. I wonder if they managed to fix that some how
The fuck, man? A retirement thread? What is this, Old People News?

Retirement is for middle-class fuck-ups. If you don't have a major, live-anywhere-you-want-and-never-have-to-work-again hit by 40, then what the fuck did you do with your life? If you're halfway smart, you'll be financially independent (startup exits, at least two, plus passive income) by your mid-30s. What the fuck are you doing? Go out and raise a $800,000 seed round!

I don't actually think that way, but a lot of people do, and when you compete for jobs (usually on wage) you are in the market with them. They depress wages (if they aren't thinking about retirement, why should you?) but they also push up demands in a lot of those bullshit cultural competitions (such as the need to live in Manhattan in many NYC firms) that get very expensive and kill what you should be saving.

That is why, barring unforeseen technological or economic changes, most people in the VC-funded bubble world will never be able to save enough for retirement. To save requires being smart, and you're typically going to be competing (on wages and rent) with people who are stupid.
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But the US is becoming increasingly oppressive. The Snowden case is just one of many examples of that.
Good. The text I'm referring to is in French. Can I expect him to write perfect French on a legal document?
Good try, but these won't wash. It's hard to argue against it because the facts seem quite clear and straightforward.

1. If the origin of the investigation is revealed to be illegal, the entire investigation is thrown into question
and the resulting evidence could be suppressed.

2. Random traffic stops are illegal. There must be a reason for every stop.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/531/32/case.html
Really interesting. I'll try the Rediscala driver and let you know about performance then.