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You guys need to take responsibility for your unhappiness and go find a job where you aren't treated as a cog. I say that with complete sincerity. Find a better job.
but iwork applications are $10 each, and garageband and imovie are $5

These are enormously complex, rich applications that supplant historic applications costing hundreds of dollars. If Garageband is $5, it makes it that much more difficult for anyone not making a significant application with a team of developers to demonstrate value for a couple of dollars.
TIL the verb "to lase".
Just use a lava lamp.
I find the labeling of people very frustrating.

People often have very good reasons to pick the labels they do, but those reasons are often fairly nuanced. The only way to respect that nuance is to honor the label. And you don't even have to be Neil deGrasse Tyson to run into relabelling.

Whether that relabeling is done by a Pew poll that labels you as a religious person because you attended a single religious service one year because you were curious about an unknown slice of culture, or by a friend trying to soften your image by labeling you as something they think is less offensive, it's infuriating.

I can't imagine how frustrating this has to be for someone who actually has the burden of having a voice that people are interested in hearing; when someone reduces a careful and intimate response to a fairly personal question to not only a single word, but the wrong word.

It makes me sick.
Hi everyone, OP here. This is the story of HNdigest.

You see, I've gotten so much good content from Hacker News. Some days, I'd have to keep up with the top stories and happen on a great JavaScript library, or a really educational blog post. Then I started to think, what was I missing on those days where I was too busy to check what's making top news? I really started to worry about missing all the good content. So, I set out to create HNdigest for myself so I could sleep better at night.

Now, what I'm planning on adding soon _may_ excite some of you. I'm planning to add the ability for you to choose the topics that you want to subscribe to. So, if you never cared about politics too much, you won't be bothered with it....more Python links coming your way, good sir (if you're into that type of stuff).

Anyway, it's been and I'd love to hear what you think about it.
Interesting! Totally going to check them out.

There's a quote I saw on Tumblr once- "Before diagnosing yourself as depressed, make sure that you aren't, in fact, surrounded by assholes." Similarly, I think a lot of my ADHD tendencies (I really don't want to call them that- feels like I'm shitting on people with actual ADHD) come from the fact that I've spent a lot of time in an education system I hate.

But I have no idea, of course. Maybe there's something to all this. I don't think it's so black-and-white. Will check it out. Thanks for sharing. :)
My solution is to be a moderately unattractive male with facial hair, lead a boring life, and keep my clothes on when in front of my computer (although the later is probably a mitigating factor).
"um yeah nice, just ... remove the comments. And whats that tool? You can use Emacs for that! And we already have a mechanism for that just put a sub in <that> namespace and name it on_db_<whatever>_insert_trigger!"

Then I go home and write pure OO coffescript/C#.
The company is great, but we have very different views on how software should be desigened.
That's a terrible website. Sigh. I went there and I still don't know anything about it, except its marketed at women only. And I can't tell if they have any other electric bike - their links are broken.
> The problem seems to be that if an insurance company is funding the defense then they have the same incentive to pay a settlement rather than fight that anyone else does

Not true at all. The difference is that the individual needs to factor in the cost of one defense (tens of thousands of dollars at a minimum - PLUS the chance of loosing and then going out of business) versus the cost of the settlement (perhaps a few tens of thousands of dollars). Financially, it makes no sense to pursue the case.

The insurance pool needs to factor in the cost of ONE defense (tens of thousands of dollars at a minimum -- PLUS the chance of loosing and then owing a court's determination of a "reasonable cost" for licensing the patent for all the pool's clients) versus the cost of ALL the settlements (a few tens of thousands of dollars times how ever many clients the pool has).

A pool doesn't need to get very big before it's financially advantageous to pursue cases you are likely to win and to settle cases you are likely to lose. (By comparison, for individual companies, the best short-term benefit is gained by settling in ALL cases.)
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The definition for 'HUD' must have taken a left turn somewhere. A display you look down to see, taking your eyes off the road, isn't a 'HUD' its a 'display'.
This. I've recently had some successes with an app called "Way of Life" on the iPhone (or its Android equivalent, Hab.it). It's half way between the bucket filling an fire lighting methods, but it's so quick and easy to use, I've actually managed to use it for 6 weeks now. I realise that doesn't sound like a lot, but this is coming from someone who can write a diary for 3 days max and to-do lists last a week or so.

The idea is that you put in a behaviour and tell the app whether it is bad or good, and then every evening you spend 10 seconds telling the app whether you did it or not. Very soon you have a red or green patchwork of your life's choices to stare at on a daily basis.

The bad: I've been pretty honest so my results aren't great (about 60:40 green to red).

The good: I've had many occasions where I'm at the tipping point of doing or not doing something and thinking about getting that green square for the day has nudged me to do the right thing. Which I figure means it's worth it.

Since buying the app, I've lost a few kilos, been to the gym twice as often, reduced my computer games usage, almost stopped biting my nails, and cut out 90% of the fizzy drinks in my diet. Stopping eating chocolate seems to be a persistent problem though...
+1 - totally agree. It's good to see a product described in a different, fresh way. Bugs me when people criticise people's projects, when half the time they've done little themselves.
I was wondering what a 'degree in computer networking' consisted off. Entry level Cisco and Microsoft certs and then sending you on your way?
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No. That appears to be a marketing ploy. There appears to be no way to buy it without joining "VIP". "Regular" price is just to tell you how much you "saved" to make it look like you're getting a great deal. It's the oldest marketing ploy in the books.
1. You're not running your db on node. It's unlikely that your data will disappear if it turns out node has a bug -> the failure case is much more serious for mongo on docker.

2. You run the even versions of node (noted as stable) in production - they've literally set things up so there's an acceptable way to run node in production.

3. You're showing people how to make a production environment on a system who's creators do NOT want it to be in production. Sounds like a bad idea to me.
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You are right. I made my statements in reference to claims in the article like "This technique (...) may some day provide a software alternative for those who can’t afford high-end glass". The technique can definitely improve the image quality of a given lens, but it will never allow a "cheap" lens to replace an expensive lens.
If noone knows you're using it, the device might even be better than a software RNG.
Please don't down vote this guy for being "wrong". His view point is seemingly widely held and very appropriate for this conversation, even if it is not completely correct.
Your long-winded reply of "just use tabbed browsing" does not address the fact that this is a sloppy UI choice. You're also implicitly stating that when someone makes a website it's ok for them to base their design decisions around the assumption that the user will be using tabbed browsing in such a fashion.
You have no idea. Not only do these plebs keep paying a few hundred a month for beers and pizza instead of giving it to me, they are constantly playing ping-pong in the same goddamn building. I don't want to work there so much that I am offended by the job description.

</sarcasm>

I actually don't want to work somewhere like that and I also have a family history, but it's not necessary to call it idiot-juice and act like these businesses have done me personal harm and these people are all stupid for enjoying it.
Parents != school staff. I don't think anyone asked parents, "Let our IT staff monitor your child's location and activities at all times, on campus and off."

Even if it were parents alone instigating this, I'm not okay with conditioning teenagers to get used to this kind of surveillance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_Hv-Rrq...
What about Pocket?
Spot on.

Most [serious] companies will have catered breakfasts/lunches/snacks on a regular basis. They don't advertise it as part of the "culture" nor do they offer it as a form of compensation. They just do it becaise it's convenient to the workflow and creates a positive feeling in the workplace if done right. Fruit deliveries, lunch once a week, snack cabinet, pizza night, ice cream social, etc. all boring yet part of what's considered normal behavior. If you work at a company that doesn't then you should ask yourself if the bosses actually know what they're doing or care to provide the basics or their employees.

Alcohol in the work place is a serious problem, either existing or waiting to happen. Just ask your favobrite insurance company. Also, if some clown in an executive position brags about the size of their weekly binge-drinking bar tabs as a reason to work for them, walk away. They're trying to ply you with drugs in the same way a pimp does a prostitute.
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The older I get, the more I agree with your point. That's why I'm planning to complete a bachelors degree in CS, IT, or CE. It does make a difference.
You should write a tutorial on how to do this. How do you theme the form?
http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
Oh boy are you looking at this wrong. Only someone from a western country with a middle class wage could so utterly fail to distinguish between a choice between two costs in resources to a choice between a cost of resources and one of no resources.

Think of this another way. How many chocolates can you afford at a cost of $0.20 each? How many can you afford at a cost of $0.10 each? Now, how many can you afford at a cost of $0.00 each? The experiment artificially avoids this by manufacturing a situation in which purchasers only had a one-time choice, but the purchasers didn't necessarily know it was a on-time deal. For all they know, they may be faced with the same choice every time they go back to that store, even if it was advertised as a one-time deal. We get on-time offers pushed at us all the time these days.

So, is a marginal decrease in cost of $0.10 equivalent in both circumstances? Of course not. A cost in resources is always a cost. A cost of no resources is not a cost at all. Comparing two different costs is completely different to comparing a cost with no cost at all. To understand this, instead of adding costs together over a few transactions, try multiplying them by many decisions instead and you'll see that multiplying by zero has some very special advantages when it comes to resource preservation.

What I think is happening is that analyses like the above are considering only individual translations, but App store users download many apps. Multiplying costs over many purchases, even small costs balloon while free is always free no matter how outrageously you indulge your App store downloading habit.

That's without taking into account that not everybody considers buying a cup of coffee in Starbucks something that requires no thought or consideration. I certainly don't think that way for a start.
To which I can only answer, "Why are there Monte Carlo nights at volunteer fire departments?" It's just one of those things Americans have. Nor is it an innovation: I knew someone who competed in this 40 years ago.

If you want to move the the US, it will take you five years to become a citizen, and another seven before you can run for senate. If you wish to run on a program of abolishing Miss Teen USA (which of course the senate has no power to do), sure, I'll vote for you. But you might find other matters more pressing.
I almost suggest having a different interest and taking CS courses to compliment it. CS is generic enough that without something else that you can use it on, it seems pretty bland.
This is distorted based on the idea that most people pay more than $0.99 for a cup of coffee - which is not true.

I think the price of a "Cup of Coffee" needs to be defined here. Coffee can be made for $0.07/cup [ http://thekrazycouponlady.com/finance/a-wake-up-call-a-price... ].

People who buy coffee at Starbucks are buying a luxury version of a luxury item + they are buying time in a public venue. Does Starbucks actually outsell (in numbers) coffee made at home? seems very unlikely to me. In fact most people buy coffee in a supermarket, which is seems almost free when you actually make a cup (you don't pay everytime you make one).
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Ask HN: I am 33. Is there still time to make a career in web development?
I have an architectural and design background and this slowly stalled my life once there is no money anymore in this field.

|My skills in computer science:

I have an amateur level of HTML and CSS (means, I can do most of stuff but I will take longer than the 'professional') and have few notions of javascript. General notions of computer science, programmming languages (Autolisp - Autocad script language).

|General skills:

I'm above average with numbers and above average in UX design, Photoshop and Illustrator. I am interested in web development and everything related.

|Questions:

1) Am I still in time of making a career in Web development? Be realistic, you don't need be political correct. For example, would you hire me?

2) What could be my niche market in your opinion?

3) What skills to should I improve? Java and C I feel to old to learn it; PHP seems already past for me; Ruby/Rails or objective C probably would be easier to catch up and compete; an excellent level of Javascript could be relevant to have a position in the market.
Out of all the possible questions, why is that the one we should be asking?

That seems a bit to 'she was asking for it' for my liking.
I'd prefer the suit, but note that referring to the toggle as "professionalism" is going to go right up the nose of the ping-pong players.
> is totally a fascist looking to hunt down fellow citizens for the state.

That is exactly what it is.

http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/
As you suggest inflation would significantly reduce your available buying power.

That said I'd guess you could live pretty cheaply if you owned your house outright and were frugal.
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Or he might have been simply killed for sport. Or because he wanted to be. Or insert claim here
Ground-up dried shit is some of the most expensive coffee!

(Of course I'm talking about Kopi Luwak)
We just showed a captcha after enough failures. If we saw a massive spike of failures, we'd just add their ip to our firewall and disappear of the net for a period of time. This stops 99.99% of the attacks. For the rest of them, the feeling was that if they wanted free porn badly enough, then it was free marketing for the company.
Very well put, a nice mix between "job" and "fun". Except that most employers want their employees to do the "job" part of everything and do any "fun" parts in their spare time.
If what you say is true, it's a bad sign for the future of hardware. If we fundamentally can't leverage existing libraries, we can't build the standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants complexity pyramid that allows for such reliable, rapid development in other spaces. It will always remain a niche field.
why do you make 100k while the cleaning lady who provides you with health thru a clean infrastructure should just suck it up and call it work?
My take away from this article is teach your children about digital security and always keep webcams covered or hardware disabled.* There will always be people willing to do this and it will probably continue to be technically feasible for the foreseeable future (if not "as long as we continue using computers) so preventing it at the demand side isn't realistic.

Children/teens are apparently being digitally raped (I think this is a reasonable description of blackmailing/coercing a teen into doing "what I tell you" over webcam)... it baffles me that we place so low a value on the sort of computer literacy that could prevent this. Hopefully cases like this will cause enough outrage to give hardware producers the kick int he ass they need to fix this issue & alert parents & others to this issue.

* Why the hell don't cameras & mics have hardware switches to turn them off?? Wifi hardware switches are common on laptops now, why doesn't this basic defense covering an obvious, proven attack vector exist??
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How are you going to monetize getsimpleform? I like it.
Google has stopped federating with other Jabber services. They have replaced the GTalk Android app with the Google Hangouts app. They have started pushing people (forcibly) towards Google Hangouts instead of Google Talk. How long before XMPP support is dropped? I don't think we can claim that Google will keep it around for certain.
At the moment it's much worse: the opening statement about his view in Wikipedia is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Tyson#Views

"Tyson has argued that the concept of intelligent design thwarts the advance of scientific knowledge."

Which as far as I see he didn't say in that specific form and which can even be interpreted by ID followers as "so he said that ID is stronger than scientific knowledge" (using the meaning 2 of thwart: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/thwart "To oppose and defeat the efforts, plans, or ambitions of").

Try to change that to his message that "ID is stupid" which would be less manipulative recapitulation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEl9kVl6KPc

With false first presentations of Einstein as "a pantheist" and Tyson as somebody who appears to acknowledge the strength of "ID"(!) at this moment religious fanatics obviously succeeded in their manipulative influence to Wikipedia articles.
I don't think so. The PRNG will at least be less biased.
Too bad that they aren't stored in the cloud. I want my bookmarks to be synced across my devices.
In the first case I suspect it simply got flagged by enough people that it got penalised. Here's its ranking history:

http://hnrankings.info/6455391/

The discussion you link to shows the usual conspiracy theories, but this seems to me to have all the usual hallmarks of enough people thinking the item is inappropriate and just flagging it.

If you hang around long enough, and pay really close attention, you start to see the dynamics at work. Most people just throw up their hands and shout "Conspiracy! Conspiracy!" and demand answers from TPTB. But frankly, this just looks normal to me.
Nobody seems to be addressing the author's recommendation about specializing instead of being "just" a software engineer. Is specialization really the road to less boring coding? As a recent entrant into the working world I find myself thinking that may be the road to more interesting work, but don't have much of an idea about what the day-to-day work of a specialist is.
how would a ponzi scheme help? LOLOLOLOL! (shitcoin 4 lyfe)
> act like these businesses have done me personal harm

Two of them have done me serious personal harm. I can quantify the financial harm (it's somewhere north of $200,000 at this point). I can't quantify the psychological harm, nor, at this point, can I quantify the stress-related physiological harm.
If this is your take away from this article, you need to have your compassion module re-calibrated. ;)
frankly, it sounds like she could have simply taken the initiative and wrote the script on her own time. seems like she could have simply done it over a weekend, and it would have been worth it if she truly felt that it would save her an hour per week.
No, I was in no way implying that she was asking for it. There's no 'blame the victim' from me. I'm glad the person who did this was caught.

I dislike the existence of beauty competitions that are aimed at children. Miss Teen USA is aimed at ages 15 to 19.
Not if one user is on Google Hangouts, and the other user isn't. Google dropped federation a while ago.
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That, and a lot of bots are created with point-and-click builders, such as ZennoPoster or uBot Studio; while training the bot to do a specific task, these negative captchas would be easily missed.
I really agree with your sentiments here.

I would say that if you work on a very large scale system with an explicit way of how things are done and there is extreme rigidity in doing anything differently than the job gets tedious quite fast.

I would venture to say that most developers do not fall into this category and have more autonomy (even if that is just building a CRUD web app). Most code isn't peer reviewed and the emphasis is on getting results. Within those boundaries one can do so much to keep things interesting.

I also find it interesting that as developers we sometimes feel frustrated that the end users don't understand or care about the complexity of the implementation and how much may have gone to just that single push of the button on the screen.

How much do you care about the complexity of your car, or the countless bridges that one may drive through? I can sense the complexity behind it but at the end of the day, I enjoy that is come down to turning on the ignition.

Every profession has these issues. Ask the newly grad civil engineer who's tasked to work on a bridge. What do you think they get to do? They get handed the mother of all books on how a bridge is built and everything important that needs to be considered. Their job becomes one of plug and play as there is only so many ways one can build a safe bridge. I had one of my professors relate this story and he couldn't handle it. He went on to graduate school and become an engineering professor.

For better or worse, we get some say on how that bridge gets built, as long as it stays and functions as a bridge by the end of it.

I find a lot of developers just give up, shifting responsibility from internally to external factors. It's hard to see someone just going through the motions, not evening really trying because the job has become "boring". It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as the company starts to recognize this and eventually puts someone more inclined in the same position.
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