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I'm happy for you.

I have a friend in a similar situation to you (in terms of travelling/freedom/finances). It doesn't inspire me to "find a better job". Frankly, it makes me suicidal (I don't mean that in a hyperbole way). I look at how successful he is and I think; I could never be that successful. He will be cavorting around the world carefree for the rest of his life, and I will chained to a cube (whether at this job or another, doesn't really matter) until I'm unemployable and on the streets.

Getting a better job is nothing like what you and people like my friend have. You guys are in such a different realm, and although I enjoy following along with his adventures, it also hurts when he (and I hear a bit of this in your post too) can't understand that most of us will never and could never be in that position. 90% of new businesses fail. I barely have enough savings to last a month if I was out of a job, so the risk of trying to start and grow a business is much more likely to put me into poverty than it is to put me into financial freedom.

When I encounter a service worker, such a waiter, customs official, bus driver, etc who seems rude and snappy, I try (this is hard for me) to think about what they might be feeling. They could be having a bad day. Maybe someone yelled at them. Maybe their boss is cruel and belittling, but they can't find another job. Maybe their kids or spouse is trouble. Maybe the table before me left a religious tract instead of a monetary tip.

I realize your post is tongue-in-cheek, and intended to be funny (and it is). But it's also a bit hurtful. I can imagine that exchange, and the customs official is completely demoralized. The question in your hypothetical dialogue are entirely legitimate: they need to know where you've been and what you're up to. Your responses, although accurate, are made in such a way as to say "I'm better than you." I know you don't mean it that way. The same as I have to spend time away from facebook just because the endless stream of travels of my friend depress me too much, I sometimes just need to not know about them.

I don't know if you've ever actually said that dialogue to a customs person, but I only request you think carefully. A lot of people struggle with self-deprecation and/or depression. And an exchange which it makes so clear that he/she/me are stuck trying to pay the bills and work two jobs while other people are free and have it all just drives the depression that much deeper.

I don't say you should give up anything, or that you didn't work hard. I'm sure you deserve everything you have! Please just don't rub it in the face of a stranger who is lower class than you :(
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All the top guys in SC I'd heard of had APM in the high 200s at least.

Maximizing APM is more like agility drills in football: a basic foundational skill whose lack will prevent you from executing even if you have a great meta game.
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Useful if you want to visit Israel and Arab countrys and both Greece and Turkey.

My college at an arab civil engineers aid that the FO was normaly quite understanding about this.
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Plenty of people, I haven't been to the US for 10 years.
I can confirm your findings. Twitterbot grabbed three copies of both /robots.txt and the DM'ed URL.

Weird…
That is a closed form expression, but it is not O(1) unless the processor can raise a number (an inexact floating point number, no less) to a power in constant time. The closed form expression is still O(n) because of multiplication, and the result isn't an exact number unless the constants are run out to enough precision for the value of n that is being computed.
oh boy, would you be surprised about NL and CH.

you don't like the draft in the US, which never gets executed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Switzerland
"Compulsory military service concerns all male Swiss citizens, with women serving voluntarily. Males usually receive initial orders at the age of 18 for military conscription eligibility screening. About two-thirds of young Swiss men are found suitable for service, while alternative service exists for those found unsuitable."

you cite rules about firearms and business as a downside in the US? the most hilarious thing ever. come over to Europe, please, and try to buy a handgun. plus open a business.

no fucking clue about the world, but spewing BS.

talk to leftist/liberals in the countries you've listed, please do. they all complain about the very same things. we have had biometric passports here for a while now, etc.

the big difference between the US and Europe? The US has the means to actually execute their ideas. the EU is slowly moving towards the US model by joining forces and sharing resources.
It would be nice if this included some sort of WPM test.

I could easily just Google "WPM test" and take it, but that just turned me off on carrying on with this.
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Unfortunate story, but also very different than my experience with US border control. As someone who travels outside the US many times a year, including to somewhat odd places (last year has included Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Malaysia, Ukraine), I've never had a single problem or spent more than a minute talking to anyone from customs or immigration.

Of course, the TSA is another story.
> Kreditech can determines your location and considers creditworthiness based upon whether your computer is located where you said you live or work.

Um... How does it determine your location? Your IP address? Cause that's really a good indication of where your computer is physically located. Hint, our work traffic is routed through company headquarters halfway across the world before reaching Kreditech's website. Now Kreditech thinks I am lying about where I am located. Great.
Actually, if we could get 50% of all engineers and technophiles to flee the US, the insanity would have to stop. (How would they continue to pay for it?)

May not be a terrible strategy going forward if the US starts looking like an end-stage Weimer Republic, especially since people will have to flee anyway.
I'm headed back to Phnom Penh after 3 months of Euro summer. Haven't bumped into many coding types back when I was there (Jan-May) but then I've been staring too much into my own codez all the while.. wanna hang for hacker coffee after 4th September, then just get in touch!
Coming across like an entitled bitch is asking for trouble esp if vallywag get hold of it and starts monstering you.
Keys left seems to just be standing in as a surrogate for time. Sure, try to use your time valuably. And maybe blogging is a good way to save time by avoiding repeating yourself.

But I'd start with silly consuming-not-creating timesucks like TV, movies, even reading HN ;-). These eat more of my time than email.
I really like this. Thanks! For some reason I'm fascinated by palettes (I never use them for anything though) and simple pages like this is nice because it's easy to save them. (I never remember them otherwise)

edit this may not be the right place for feedback, but I see no e-mail and won't bother with twitter: The "Starred x times" text does not update when I press random. Also, in Chrome it seems that the star button works but it has no feedback at all which seems buggy. Also I can't understand the rightmost column since the box at the top is totally empty which also looks like a bug to me. Otherwise, great service!
agree. Those who replied "thanks" in the thread do not have any sense.
Around 50% of the games I play, are micro practice. There are a lot of tiny mechanics, that when worked into real games and executed flawlessly, put you ahead.

For example, spent a few weeks trying to defeat the 30 level terran baneling micro map. I got to a point where I was able to get to the near end every single time I played. Then I tried working it into real games. It took a bit of practice but now I have near perfect marine splitting micro which puts me ahead of a lot of players.

Then dropship/heal micro. Worker fighting micro and tricks.

SC2 is so much more than just strategy, so many tiny little unit tricks to do. If you nail the mechanics and you're also decent in strategy you will make it so far.

>when I found myself training for some micro, I knew it was time to give it up.

What why? It's just another facet of the game. 50% mechanics 50% strategy.

At the upper echelons of SC2 it's less about builds and micro, but more of knowing who you are playing. I play the same people over and over again for the past 4 years. I know what works with some players, I know what doesn't with others. Strategy migrates into pure mind game play.
I think I'm starting to see the writing on the wall for CyanogenMod. I can see one day Google going after them if they remove some functionality from their ROM's that Google really wants in, and their ROMs become used by say - tens of millions of people.

But Google would be really, incredibly stupid to do that. The Reader outrage will seem tiny compared to the outrage they will get if they mess with CyanogenMod, who's used by the most core users of Android, and most vocal ones in the Android community.

CyanogenMod also has a lot of good will with those users, while Google's good will is diminishing by the day. Jeff Jarvis said recently that Google has only done well when it has done stuff for the users, not against them. If I were Google's CEO I would imprint that in my brain before doing something really stupid in the future.
Nope, not a one, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabless_manufacturing for some more examples (like Qualcomm) but in general actually owning a fab is considered old school.
Software makers pay PC manufacturers top dollar to install bloatware on PCs, which pretty much negates the Windows cost and allows them to price Windows PCs lower than any Ubuntu alternative.
I love the Bug squash part, It's a very good way to tests debugging skills while providing value to the community.
The State Department will sometimes grant a second passport if you can prove you need it - like if one of your visa stamps is known to get people killed in your new destination country.
Because he'll be dead?
I agree with your point.

The larger implication (not withstanding using documented or undocumented API) is violation of general assumption that Chromecast will be open and idie friendly than the Apple TV.

Even if the OP had used a documented API, the developer warning is clear that any and all API can be changed.
Thankfully, Immigration/Customs is not run by the TSA. Immigration/Customs appears to be orders of magnitude more competent and professional.
Difference:

"Independently of Glen, Ronald Ridenhour, a former member of the 11th Infantry Brigade, sent a letter in March 1969 to thirty members of Congress imploring them to investigate the circumstances surrounding the "Pinkville" incident.[36][37] Ridenhour had learned about the events at Mỹ Lai secondhand from talking to members of Charlie Company over a period of months beginning in April 1968. He became convinced that something "rather dark and bloody did indeed occur" at Mỹ Lai, and was so disturbed by the tales he heard that within three months of being discharged from the Army he penned his concerns to Congress.[36] Most recipients of Ridenhour's letter ignored it, with the exception of Congressman Mo Udall[38] and Senators Barry Goldwater and Edward Brooke.[39] Udall urged the House Armed Services Committee to call on Pentagon officials to conduct an investigation"[1] (emphasis mine)

This was two months before the public heard about it, and corrective actions were already beginning.

"In November 1969, General William R. Peers was appointed to conduct a thorough investigation into the My Lai incident and its subsequent cover-up. Peers' final report, published in March 1970, was highly critical of top officers for participating in the cover-up and the Charlie Company officers for their actions at Mỹ Lai 4."

The general sense is that whether or not Mai Lai was sanctioned, once congress (e.g. the people) got wind of it they began to look into it. An Army general looked into it (and the cover up) and sought to find those responsible and punish them. It wasn't enough, and Mai Lai added more fuel to anti-war demonstrations, but it was far more than we get today.

Our congressmen sit there watching public videos of war crimes, and do nothing except prosecute (and put pressure on other governments to prosecute) the people responsible for leaking and distributing the evidence.

That's a big difference.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre#Reporting.2C_co...
I took a flight once and I carried on my coin collection. All that metal set off a red flag so they took me to a private room to examine my collection. The TSA was generally polite, but at one point while shuffling my collection around the table a coin fell on the floor. My favorite coin. It was a commemorative coin for Operation Enduring Freedom that my cousin gave me. Other than pictures, it's the only thing I have left to remember him by. As I picked the coin up from the floor, with newly minted scratches no doubt, I couldn't help but think of the symbolism.
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That's because those discussions usually hinge around changing the way we live in some way - be it more expensive consumer goods/utilities or what-have-you.

Either way, any increase in the cost of living (unless directly attached to 'creating jobs' whatever that is) is inherently evil and wrong. Therefore, a close-scrutiny of, in my case, US foreign policy leads down an evil and wrong road.

Beautiful, isn't it? We want increased transparency in public and private areas, we want less violence, we want less exploitation of third-world workers, we want, we want, we want. BUT, as a whole, we're not really willing to sacrifice much of anything.
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Except that it seems a lot of those in the press are actually against the leaks, and against the press that report upon the leaks. They have good relations with their government 'sources' and want to protect that relationship.

I think they should just leave 'independent' journalism and just sign on the government payroll as PR reps.
I wasn't insinuating that you go back from whence your family came. I was trying to point out that it is in human nature to migrate to somewhere that holds the possibility of a better life. Not knowing the culture or language is not as big of a barrier as people are making it out to be.
That's basically all you need to know about the entire article. Bleeding money from a mortgage, he decides to build his own game engine. He is an industry professional of many years. I am surprised he didn't see failure coming from the start.
Legend has it that Urs Hölzle sorted out their Java problems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_H%C3%B6lzle#cite_note-1
> Cross borders with blank drives. Re-image when you're at your destination.

I'm guessing you don't actually travel very much.
It's odd that we still "stamp" passports, allowing border guards to see what countries you have visited in the past. This information should not be available to any authorities by any means, but especially not appended to your identity documents. Afaik, only Israel has a correct policy on this.
Or maybe he'll get a typing course. Not all change has to be for the worse.
They found better programmers who rewrote the whole thing from scratch. At least, according to the "In the Plex" book.
I will continue to opt out. Not a fan of the new machines.
>Once you play at top competitive tier in SC2, every other game is honestly a joke.

You could say this about top-level play for a lot of games. You just happen to prefer SC2.

I play competitive Counterstrike:GO. People often think that FPS games are simple, just a bunch of people running around trying to shoot each other in the face. That's like saying a game like SC2 is about gathering resources, building bases, and raising armies. It isn't entirely inaccurate, but it's definitely an oversimplification.

There is actually quite a bit of strategic depth to games like Counterstrike, and being able to shoot accurately is less important than knowing what you are supposed to do in any specific situation.
And driving patterns and browsing patterns and places you frequent and type of drinks you consume and job history and exercise frequency and weight and what you watch on TV and stool sample and reddit karma and sperm count and number of icons on your desktop.
> Can someone enlighten me?

I think you're taking it a bit too serious.
At least here in Berlin many supermarkets only close at 22 PM or even at midnight. Haven't yet found any that are open on Sunday, though.
It uses Cheerio for scraping, but it also lets you use selector queries to grab a subset of documents, whether the document is HTML, JSON or another format. It also lets you request multiple documents in one HTTP request, and a few other things.
Check again, this has nothing to do with your FICO, it's about some companies who are lending to people who don't have that sort of credit score, or another that is lending to small businesses that can add social media to FICO in their decisions:

"Borrowers grant Kabbage access to their PayPal, eBay (EBAY, Fortune 500) and other online payment accounts, disclosing real-time sales and delivery information. The company says it can determine a business' creditworthiness and put money into its account in just seven minutes.

Once a small business is getting credit from Kabbage, it also has the option to link up its Facebook and Twitter accounts to the site, which could provide a bump in its "Kabbage score." The small businesses that do are 20% less likely to be delinquent on their loans, Golin said."

The article's real title is a lot better, although still link baity: "Facebook friends could change your credit score"
Yes, that is what I was thinking but someone else just reminded me that your line would be only US citizens. I'd be in the other one with all the other non-US people.

Therefore, if any wrath is unleashed on me it won't be because of you. Carry on!
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I believe that's why some forums have an archiving past a certain time of the last post.

Although, I believe that if there was something interesting going on in the newer comments you might not feel so disturbed about it.
It's a semantic nit-pick about the definition of 'science'. He seems to have written an article about it here if you're curious: http://www.arachnoid.com/psychology/index.html

Take it with a grain of salt though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6194296

Either way, this argument is rather orthogonal to whether-or-not the situation is actually 'worthy' of future investigation. So it could still be useful, however the relative maturity of the field limits how accurately we can assess that.
And here is my response to Shaddi:
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i used to also like having a physical copy as well, and don't mind paying a bit extra for it, but for me it just got too time-consuming ripping cds that i rarely used for purposes other than display afterwards.. i have sort of started building a small vinyl collection though as i like having that physical tie-in and find it looks a lot cooler as a collection.

easytag looks quite similar to mp3tag, though unfortunately it seems the windows version is really out of date. i'm not sure about mp3tag on wine as i've used it exclusively on windows 7/8.
A lot of that 300 APM is from the early stages of the game where people are spamming actions like crazy. As the game goes on the average tends to come down. I do envy the players that are able to maintain 220+ in big battles though, but I only envy them if they're microing well and queueing units at the same time.
I think they mean "Journalist" vs. Journalist.

edit: in fact they outright say it in the article, except the opposite way:

"The larger sense I get from the criticism directed at Mr. Assange and Mr. Greenwald is one of distaste — that they aren’t what we think of as real journalists. Instead, they represent an emerging Fifth Estate composed of leakers, activists and bloggers who threaten those of us in traditional media. They are, as one says, not like us."

This is honestly shocking to read in the nyt. I've been commenting to my friends that the nyt has been going down hill over the last couple of years, but this is kind of absurd. The idea that some how recording everyone's communications, or war crimes in iraq and afghanistan, is not news worthy is really sickening.
For what it's worth, during the years I actually had these conversations, I doubt I ever made as much as a Customs clerk. I'd bring in maybe $20k in consulting and product income over the course of a year, which was enough to travel on but likely not enough to pay for, say, the apartment that the clerk lived in.

There's no requirement for privilege, or even "living wage" to lead such a lifestyle. As such, I appreciate that you thought I was somehow successful, but by most objective standards, I was just a homeless guy.
>> I wish they would stop calling this "science". It's embarrassing to real science and scientists.

> I'm curious why you say this.

Because it's not science?

> And if they are able to reliably induce that sensation in people through that situation, then I think it's worth investigating why.

Yes, but psychologists never seem to get around to asking "why", only "what". There's a bit more to science than observing interesting phenomena and publishing descriptions. Psychology is in the midst of a historical upheaval because they only describe things and don't try to shape theories -- explanations -- about what they describe.

Scientists eventually get around to crafting theories about their observations -- theories that can be applied to new observations, that predict things not yet observed, and that can be falsified by new evidence. Psychologists don't do that -- over a period of decades, psychologists has given up on theory-shaping and now limit themselves to observing and reporting what they observed.

And the chickens are coming home to roost. The director of the NIMH has recently decided to phase out the DSM, psychology's "bible" and a central authority for psychological clinical work, on the ground that it's not scientific:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

A quote: "While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity."

In the long term, neuroscience will produce the sorts of explanations -- theories -- that psychology seems unable to produce. That time hasn't arrived, but current events suggest it's not too soon to begin to phase out psychology's failed effort to craft a theory of mind.
How fast is "insanely fast", and is that your speed when testing your speed, or your speed when actually writing (code, emails, HN comments, etc.)?

Personally I hit ~105 when doing a speed test (no idea where this falls on the "reasonably quick" to "insanely fast" scale), but would never hit this when I have to think about what I'm writing, as opposed to just ignorantly copying text put in front of me.
I certainly avoid the US for any connecting flights to Central and South America (I live in Europe). I've also been avoiding vacationing in the US since I experienced some rather rude TSA agents at Miami International a few years ago, although to be fair I have seen some of the US and wanted to expand my horizons.
To obtain that information, you have to invest resources first. Therefore, it is a game that requires you to make decisions with imperfect knowledge.