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I think you are making quite a few generalizations. I've on multiple occasions coded for over 12 hours straight. With regard to all-nighters, I've had them stretch to noon.
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Thanks for this. Here's the video[1] if anyone is wondering where one can find it easily. It is about 4 hours long.

[0] http://vimeo.com/61857758
1,500 chars to explain how typing is unnecessary. I hope you see the irony.
don't think for a second he didn't realize it himself

Realize what? That he was being funny or clever? Certainly, he can be both. That doesn't change the fact that he made a serious claim, and one which, whether or not he was being funny or clever, I believe he meant to be taken seriously (and you appear to believe that too--but see below).

Or are you saying that he realized that he was, in fact, advocating a new kind of redemptive truth, after he'd just said there was no such thing? In that case, I disagree: I don't think he realized that, because if he had, that part of the article would have been different; at least, it would have been if he is intellectually honest (and I have no reason to believe he isn't--but see below). Either he would have taken out the claim that there's no such thing as redemptive truth, or he would have taken out the claim about utopia, or he would have made some argument attempting to reconcile the apparent contradiction between the two.

You could, I suppose, be saying that he did realize the apparent contradiction, but it was OK because he didn't mean the claim about utopia to be taken seriously. If that's what he meant, then he would not, IMO, be intellectually honest, because he clearly believes that "having a multiplicity of options and the liberty to pursue them" is a desirable state for society.
Russell Brand's submission of evidence to the committee on addiction in the UK really can not be missed.

http://youtu.be/O_LHuII-jYQ
I was a philosophy major and I now work as a software developer. While my primary goal in studying philosophy wasn't to improve my chances at getting a job, my studies certainly prepared me for the problems I would face as a professional developer.

Learning how to think logically, approach complex problems, and structure coherent arguments, are important skills that you gain from studying philosophy. Perhaps this is why the mid-career median salary for a philosophy major is, according to PayScale Inc., more than that of several other science or business related majors (with only a bachelor's degree, 10 years after graduation) [1].

As an aside, philosophy and computer science aren't as unrelated as one might think; there are some interesting scholarly works that examine the philosophical foundations and implications of topics in computer science (android epistemology [2] is a good example).

[Unfortunately this comment is related more to the article title than the article content since the latter does not address this topic directly.]

[1] http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-Degree...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_epistemology
You can only recover past versions of Office documents. The "Recycle Bin" only stores items until it is full or for 30 days.

It can't be relied on, basically.
The actual data disagrees with you.

https://www.spotify.com/us/about-us/2012/
A few electronic music acts might disagree with you here. Daft Punk? Skrillex? The Prodigy? A lot of importance on sound design here, and it is major enough to be on topic on most of those debates.
There's some information on the Plover blog:

http://plover.stenoknight.com/2013/08/introducing-stenosauru...

http://plover.stenoknight.com/2013/08/hands-on-with-stenosau...
While all estimates are relative to the context, I disagree that fundamental research is. Fundamental research is about discovering or inventing something nobody has ever done before.

What will be discovered or invented is an unknown; it may be unknown that it is unknown. Research is basically an open-ended search process. There's no foreseable end-state to base an estimate on -- though there are terminating conditions we can use to end research (ran out of money, made amazing discovery that will be passed to engineers to commercialise, gathered sufficient data to write publishable paper etc).

Take the linked post's example of AIDS research. How long will it take to cure AIDS? There is simply no way to know. We can produce estimates, but because it is a research problem, any such estimate would have to have wildly broad ranges to be accurate ("somewhere between 10 and 100 years").

In cases of pure research, you can't estimate the end-goal. Until it's over you may not even know that there were new end-goals you were unaware of (eg. 3M's Post It notes).
Similar to: https://zmap.io/

And the recent HN discussion on ZMap: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6226105
So are you telling me this does not have a wonderful GUI where there is a big massive button that says "SCAN INTERNET" ?
I agree with that estimates are largely about a [false] sense of control, but this is a tough sell when dealing any company with budgets and stakeholders that have to go ask their boss for a finite number of dollars to trade for software.

Often times, this is a one-time ask. You get money allocated once, so you better get enough to build the whole thing. You can't go back and say, "hey boss! look what we got with the first $10k, can I have $10k more?"

If you are a startup or dealing with a 4-figure project from a local business, then sure, you can probably skip estimates.
How is this is even remotely related to Hacker News? I mean, remotely.
I can assure you that diddy has absolutely no musical theory background nor any composition skills in any meaningful way.

You don't need to be good with theory to be good with composition.

But again the point is that there is absolutely no correlation between being great a musical theory, talented performer or experienced composer and the ability to make money from music.

The ability to make music has to do with the ability to be an entrepreneur.
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> Wasn't talking about uncertainty at all, so I'm not sure why that comment.

Because you wrote:

> in software projects the country is not just unknown but potentially unknowable

Which is uncertainty.

> I'll repeat myself then: the task of diving into a problem to estimate its time is, for many problems, approximately equal to the time to solve the problem.

Non points-scoring questions: does that happen to you often? Can you give an example? How did you know that the time to estimate would be equivalent to time to implement?

I agree that estimates themselves have a cost/benefit ratio and that sometimes it is going to be negative.
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Apple also touted the G5 as the first 64 bit workstation but neglected to see that many of us were running 64 bit SPARC workstations at the time. Not to mention SGI boxen.
>Consequently, the personnel churn that used to produce dominant new ideologies in academia. The relatively few new faculty slots went to people who believed in Deconstructionist ideals.

I think that's a key point about "postmodernism". It spends a lot of time speaking of "text" as power play but it's continued orthodoxy in academia is itself a deliberate power play. As a result there's a lot of group-think and closing ranks.
To be fair, they announced the closing as part of the big "spring cleaning" post back in March. It's just now it's actually happening.
The Tesla Motors Perspective.
Why a city?

Use it against US naval forces, or strategic facilities. Or just light it up somewhere convenient.
> Consumption doesn't improve economy or humanity in general. Neither does production. If you want to help, start automating things.

I'm not sure you know what any of these things mean.
If only Frank Zappa had lived to commentate in the 2000's.

Russell brand is looking more and more like the Wilde or Shaw of our times. This piece considerably raises my estimation of him.
zmap!
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Can someone clarify? I'm not sure what end goal the article is driving at. Are we aiming for more free time?

If that's the case, then I fail to see how automation helps. Companies have incentives to hire as few employees as possible -- it cuts down on administrative overhead, like the necessity of sending out a check to each employee. The result will be as many full-time employees as possible. The workers displaced by automation then move on to make other goods (perhaps napkins) or provide other services, with the same incentives to work full-time, and nobody has any more free time. The end result is just more goods to purchase, which the author seems to have disdain for.
I'm really excited for Ghost for the simple reason that it's written in Node. That means if this really takes off there will be pluggable modules that can do anything that you'd like without adding to the code base. I think it would make a lot of sense if the core team doesn't add much to the initial code base and rather iterates on the UI right and works on growing the community because that is what is going to make the project take off.

Really smart move by Microsoft, if for no other reason than tons of people are going to be saying "wait, whut, where do I install this?" soon and if deployment is first class to Azure at least they'll have a lot of new people in the door.

Also I think there's plenty of room for evolution in blogging. There are so many places that we create content now whether it be audio, photos, video or microblogging and there isn't a widely used way of curating your online self at all of these mediums. My personal website is on Syte (https://github.com/rigoneri/syte) for this very reason that it displays my social network content next to my blog posts in a way that is more coherent than just a widget.
> Why do we need to bother with repeatable experiments for social sciences?

So we aren't lead into error by well-known cognitive biases and/or outright fraud, both of which are known to exist as they can be demonstrated through repeatable experiments.
What are you looking to do? If you're interested in web development, I highly recommend learning either Ruby and Ruby on Rails, or Python and Django. You do mention that you "want to learn building something from scratch" though, in which case I wouldn't rely on a framework like Rails or Django.

Have you thought at all about Go (http://golang.org)? It's very similar to C with a great concurrency model. It works well for web servers and, for the most part, makes you work from the bottom up.
"The gist of why estimates are hard: every new piece of software is a machine that has never been built before."

This statement is simply not true. Every new piece of software can be broken down to pieces that are very similar to other software that had been done before. This is actually the secret to providing a good estimate.

What generally screws up estimates are complications that arise. Much of it actually has to do with pre-existing code as opposed to new code. If you were to build something from scratch and had a team of experienced engineers, I'd bet that you'd get a pretty damn accurate estimate.
Not necessarily.

Would the US risk a major incident with China or Russia if India and Pakistan decide to lob small nuclear warheads at each other? What if one of those powers aligned with one side or the other?
> In our economic system, those entities should either (a) progress us towards discovering the real value of those goods to their consumers or (b) be punished by the marketplace.

Speaking for a moment only about the everyday man's necessities of life (luxuries are not included; food, shelter - and music (i.e. culture) are), it seems to me that letting reign that tentative and fickle process of price discovery is an act that can potentially cost dearly. When biodiesel fuel was once thought to be a promising source of energy a few years back, prices of food promptly shot up and this resulted in the poor having difficultly affording food.

Now, I am aware this makes for a tenuous argument if we're talking about music, but I don't think it is outright inapplicable. Consider not the one-off luxury item, consider items you expect mass public to consume in large quantities -- consider itunes, a highly scaled platform which can now just sit and take in money. Indeed itunes bears a responsibility by virtue of it being a highly scaled avenue to buy music from -- unlike a local store which can only dream of seeing such business traffic, to charge reasonable prices. I think any such platform is obliged by social responsibility to charge a reasonable price. That in a purely capitalistic economy this is not a reasonable expectation, I think is one of its great faults.

tptacek, I'm sure I am being rational here, but what value is my confirmation of this to you? :) I have elsewhere on HN made note of my socialistic views, I recognize it is not proper of me to digress into vague political tangents (they're the worst), and I apologize for having done that, I'll stop here.
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it hypnotized me to upvote!
> "A Novel Method for Applying a Trivial Modification of an Already-Known Algorithm to Some Type of Specific Data"

This is how science builds on itself. Every well-known paper has citations to 'lesser' works which laid the foundations.
As someone who spends 40 hours a week (and 60 - 70 lately) coding Verilog for FPGAs I'm always excited when something domain-specific hits the front page. I have no idea what a PL Troll is, though, so I think I missed the point of the entire post. Anyone care to elaborate? Google is not helpful.
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Or he realizes he doesn't understand the hard core mathematical basis, but knows to go looking for the most efficient algorithms for a given problem type.

The history of computing is largely dominated by software which got done, not done perfectly.
I'm a p-zombie. When is anyone going to write a book about what it's like to be me?
Miss? I've never used multi-finger gestures on a touchpad. Mostly because I don't use touchpads. I think that kind of interaction feature came about after I had already written them off as annoying. But it seems like I'd have to significantly remove my focus from the home row to do that - instant disdain.

I just looked it up and it appears as though these gestures you speak of are used for scrolling, swiping, zooming, and alternate clicking just like on a tablet.

I use the alternate button (left mouse button for me) for alternate clicking.

I use the middle button for scrolling.

Swiping, I think is to switch apps? That would be alt-tab.

Zooming is usually some key combination or key in combination with a left or right mouse button drag.

If you don't use the pointer it's probably just a matter of getting used to and tweaking the settings. Make sure to go into the mouse settings and play with both the trackpoint firm-touch, light-touch sensitivity as well as the operating system's pointer speed. Then just practice. I've even gotten to the point where I can do a half decent job playing a FPS with the trackpoint. I wouldn't try to compete in Quake Arena with it, but for casual single player use it's quite alright.
Either JavaScript (and by extension, Node.js) or a mobile language (Objective-C or Java, pick the one for the phone you have). Python won't solve anything for you that you can't already solve between C or Perl.

While learning that, learn a tool like RabbitMQ.
>Fewer are willing to admit the culturally-exploratory, finding-yourself vacation experience we read about on a travel blog has pretty much the same level of benefit to society.

Totally lost me on this line. What's the point of being alive if you're not going to have experiences like travel. That pretty much only leaves work as an option to fill you're time.
Another also relevant – especially for people who'd rather buy the hardware than put it together from parts: http://dev.moorescloud.com/ and http://holiday.moorescloud.com/

Its (effectively) a RaspberryPi and an Arduino on a custom board, with Wifi, 4Gig SD storage, and 50 RGB Leds – with a bunch of software (based on top of ARCH Linux). At the current intro price – my RaspberryPi based imitation cost more in parts that the Holiday @ $129 (even though I'm using WS2801 driven leds and don't need the outboard Arduino, a 'Pi + SD Card + power supply + USB WiFi + 50 WS2801 LEDs cost me over $150 - the LEDs alone cost me $90 from Adafruit (a while back now)).

(I said "effectvely", 'cause it's actually an iMX233, not the Broadcom SoC on the 'Pi - it doesn't have onboard video or ethernet, but it does have a USB wifi adapter inside.)

(Full disclosure, I've doing a bit of web-service architecture and devops for them…)
I just installed using the MSDN "RTM" version, not the preview. The option is there, it's just intentionally hidden, and the first page gives zero indication it's possible to use a local account. You have to start the MS Account creation step, then at the bottom of the screen you'll see the option to skip.
Laws surrounding murder by and large aren't all that important. If it wasn't illegal you'd just have mob justice filling the gap, as murder is generally frowned upon quite severely by society.

Ideas surrounding freedom, liberty, and privacy are very complex, easily confused, and often forgotten until its too late. The laws around these things are mechanisms which help protect what you're country supposedly holds dare.

But in answer to your actual question, would you believe them if they said they hadn't?
"Simply put, the newspaper headline is WRONG"

I think there's a fuzzy line, but that fuzziness could be in my own head.

In my LLC I had no employees. My company made money, and I did an owner's draw when I wanted money from the company.

I worked, but I didn't work as an employee. The work laws target employees, not owners, and I think that's the distinction the article is trying to make.
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I'm also a kinesis fan having used one nearly exclusively for the last 4-5 years. For me the concave layout is nice, it makes it easier to reach the keys, but it is not the key ingredient. The thing about the kinesis which would make it very hard to change back to a standard layout keyboard is the thumb based meta keys.

I've looked a the Ergodox myself as well as this one [1] which I'm not sure has a name yet. I read about it originally here on HN [2].

[1] http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=44940.810
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6297356
I didn't read any general statements about the humanities until people read a laser-focused discussion of deconstruction and said "he's attacking the humanities!". That's like reading a scathing Yelp review of a dodgy restaurant and saying "he hates food!"
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> Every utterance, every decision has the inherent option of an opposition.

To the extent this is meaningful at all, it implies that it is not true in the slightest, which makes it difficult to take seriously.

> This is not fundamentally different to the scientific method. The atom was thought to be the smallest, inseperable unit (hence the name) before it could be found. However, in finding the atom, we realised that it is, indeed, made up of smaller parts, which in turn are again made up of smaller parts.

Until that process bottomed out, of course, and bottomed out based on evidence, not philosophy.
Well it certainly drives me nuts from the other side as well. Perhaps the best skill I walked away from liberal arts school with is to listen to a roomful of people over the course of 90 minutes, understand their individual arguments and find consensus or points of disagreement that need to be further hashed out. At work, no matter where I've worked, the big issue I see over and over is people talk a great deal but fail to listen to each other. A roomful of people doesn't always have to agree, but it kills me how many times I've seen disagreement at work take the form of "we'll all keep doing our jobs the way we individually define them without really discussing that it doesn't give our product a cohesive direction." I'm biased but I believe this is at least in part because college education for most people lacks students engaging each other's ideas.
A number of cities now have a technology called shotspotter. It's basically a network of acoustic sensors on rooftops that are designed to detect gunfire and alert the police. Many big city police departments have a major problem where a shooting will take place and the cops won't find out about it until someone stumbles into a hospital, at which point catching the bad guys becomes much harder. Lots of people are unwilling to call 911 either because they fear retaliation for snitching or they don't trust the cops or they're apathetic and they don't think any good will come from reporting a crime. I imagine one motivation for this twitter scanning technology is similar - if they're monitoring tweets in real time they can get a precise location of a shooting and also the twitter handle of a witness.
Lets not confuse things here.

It is not because of their skills around sound design that they or any other become popular. It has to do much more with timing, culture etc.

Again there are many great great sound designers and and composers out there that will never see any fame at all.

It's much more complex than just the music itself.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6388222
> I believe the answer in this case is you latch the signal, and use a local copy.

So the latch is local to both, and therefore not using a signal from another module?
I'm going to second this. It definitely took a while to get used to, but once you do...

That said, a big downside of using a non-standard keyboard layout is the number of mistakes you make when you switch back to a normal keyboard (laptops, colleagues' computers, etc.)
Turkey and Afghanistan do not come close to sharing a border.
While I'm mostly in agreement with the rest of the article, I think on this point that cultural exploration does actually benefit society to a degree, because it results in people who are better educated about the world and less xenephobic/racist. If you spent a gap year in a particular country and have friends there, you're much less likely to support a war against that country.
I do think it is hacking, and I think that is a skill comedians pick up from observing their audience in the years of perfecting their craft.

In this context, it is even more interesting because his hack of sorts takes place in the environment where the state, industry and media are assumed to be united unquestioningly, and apparently at their most vulnerable since cracks form in the groups sense of self (possibly on an unconscious level since everyone in the group during that moment is probably not going to be actively contemplating the union of the state, industry and media and what effects that union has on internal group dynamics as a whole)… now I wonder if people like him are pen-testing for possible exploits to their hacks or "just for the lulz" or a little bit of both? ;)
Teenagers don't care about copyright for the same reasons teenagers don't care about tax law or healthcare policy--they have nothing at stake. When teenagers grow up into adults, and have their livelihoods at stake, they will care about all these things.