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My question is why was Yale hiding and protecting the president of the Brazilian Supreme Court?
I made a to-do list webapp with a twist just for myself, and it's been really helpful.

The twist is, every Wednesday, it calculates how many of my goals I've accomplished during the past week, assigns me a grade, and sends the grade to three of my friends, to help hold me accountable.
As an aside, I love the needless interactivity on what is essentially an image.
I'm gonna up-vote for irony because the site's currently 404ing for me (jk guys, happens to the best of our personal sites).
As an aside, I love the needless negativity on what is essentially a nice interactive map.
This makes me wonder what the market share of Firefox Mobile is on Android. Does anyone have numbers?
Also this: http://keithcirkel.co.uk/jwerty/
She said she was told she couldn't go in the building not go on campus. Although she did go into the building it seems like a disproportionate response considering it was a wide open public building.

But yes this isn't tech related news OP should post this on reddit.
Not really it's very well established and unambiguous.
Shocking, isn't it? But he goes on to describe GTD concepts that would make TODOs meaningful as if he is the original source of said ideas.
It also seems that SpaceX's ships for recovering the Dragon spacecraft are heading for the recovery zone of the F9 1.1 first stage. http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1nd0qc/american_isla...
It's amazing to think that, even after all this time, the Internet can still shock the shit out of us.
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I wasn't being negative, I was just pointing out that the map features weren't very useful in this instance, yet they were included.
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I use Omnifocus which mixes the concepts of projects, todo lists, and calendar scheduling together into a very flexible package.

I don't like that all my data is in a proprietary format but it's the only tool that's helped me get my chaotic business life under control.
Thats my experience too, if somebody don't want to use a tool, then it is irrelevant if it is the best tool in the world.
Like all things, there are two sides to any story. This reporter was barred from attending the event, and got into a bad situation and is angry at the outcome. Take what is said with a huge grain of salt.

Now. I don't know why she was barred, maybe it was a conspiracy or maybe she just didn't follow Yale's procedures for attending an event. However barring someone from attending doesn't mean they are trying to hide someone.

More likely than not, the reporter is trying to garner press because she feels slighted.
Sure, it's more money, but it's more or less the same social class and economic position. It's enough to be teetering on the top end of upper-middle-class (compared to engineers making $100k-$150k salaries), but not enough to be truly wealthy, like people who cash out large IPO shares, or consultants/lawyers/etc. raking in 7 figures.
I maintain a lot - and they work for me.

One recent addition to the set has been a 'simple/tired' list - where I queue mind-numbing renamings etc.

It's useful when I just want to do something that requires no thinking at all (at very start of day or late at night).

Haven't found any better storage system then a .txt file yet.
Lots of great information in this thread, thanks all!
The SRT-01Es will also use electronic generators to make a whooshing noise, at least when in the pit lane to alert mechanics.
I would think a common racing term is sufficient as answer here: The faster the better.

Did F1 historically slow down or speed up various technological advances?
Similarly, will FE speed up relevant tech if it becomes a hit like F1?
I don't see why not, as I can see many ways where FE can contribute and/or be a testing ground for tech.

Conductive charging on the race track

Battery tech, the sky is the limit when the manufacturers will always want a full hours worth of power with the best output
The only to-do list that I've actually used for more than a week is Any.do. I really like how you can organize your tasks vaguely based on time (Today, Tomorrow, Upcoming, Someday). Adding that solves a lot of the author's problems.
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Right, world commodities such as oil only differ by government taxes or subsidies. And of course, oil is the lifeblood of any industrialized nation.

Anything imported (which is probably a lot for most nations) is going to be about the same. In the Philippines, a lot of cheap stuff gets imported from China that you may not even be able to find in the U.S. because it's total crap. So, that can opener might be cheap, but it won't last more than three cans.

Land prices is another big modifier. In the Philippines, rent is generally cheap even if the land is expensive. There might be a lot of demand for buying your land, but a business isn't going to pay you much for rent if it's having to work off margins from selling cheap products in an economy where most people are making less than $6 per day. The same goes for residential. Jack up your rent and the only people who can afford it are the top few percent and foreigners.

Where you save a ton in developing countries is on labor, which affects the prices of everything just like oil does. And then of course you have savings from services provided to you directly such as medical.
Can we get "(for me)" added to the topic here? There's no such thing as an organizational system that works (or doesn't work) for every person out there.

I personally use Taskwarrior[1] for work (because I'm in the terminal all the time anyways), and aside from a couple of edge cases, it's the simplest and most effective thing I've found.

Our group uses a JIRA[2] instance that I've customized the heck out of to make an effective "This is what needs done, grab this if you have any spare time" system. The motto is "No ticky, no worky" - anybody doing anything work related generates a ticket for it. We've got shell aliases hooked into the web service, so anybody can just do a command like:

ja awesomeproject 'Finish work on the gonkulator' inprogress

For home and personal, I'm a fan of Any.do[3], it's a Chrome webapp and native Android app. The Chrome app lives in a button on the top bar for easy access, the Android app stays in the notification pane and shows what you should be doing next, and it has this feature called Moment where it runs you through your pending tasks once a day, and you mark them as done, to do today, or to do later. Great way to make sure you keep visibility on stuff.

[1]: http://taskwarrior.org
[2]: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
[3]: http://any.do
Resque Bus uses resque-retry and resque-scheduler to do exponential backoff. That is, it will retry immediately, 2 seconds later, 4 seconds later, and so on up to several hours.
It was a little tricky to make sure it ended back in the right application queue, but it worked. If it was put in another one, it would crash because the code to process it would not line up.
Gerasimov fractal. Fractals in prime numbers.
> Do you have any examples of forks being made due to someone asking for donations?

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Brakes and Tires are two big things where advances have come from racing. Audi's FSI technology was originally built for the Audi R8 LMP.
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With so much mention of 10x on HN I'm surprised Grant Cardone isn't on here or at tech conferences selling his book. That brings me to my point, a car salesman selling 10 times as much cars as other salesmen is clearly 10x, how do you determine that for a developer? To me it seems like there are so many variables that such a distinction would always be incorrect.
So, effectively, Python is not enough - you and your team have to be experts in C/C++ too?
Just to clarify, I was arguing against "shielding employees from the emotional burden of the full truth." I used that phrase to characterize what I felt was the author's thesis, and from there, to take a few issues with it.

When I said that there's a "fine line between shield...and creating..." I was basically trying to say what you guys are saying here: that 'mediating' the truth is a really dicey proposition.

I may not have phrased this as clearly as I could have, as evidenced some of the responses.
I certainly think the idea of using a calendar instead looks more useful, as presented here. It does put you closer to actually DO what is on the list as it includes planning and time considerations. Perhaps a To-Do list is useful not to forget the things you must do, before you actually add it to a calendar. But I often find a pen and paper to be more suitable for that.
Why 2-br instead of 1-br/studio?
Incredible.

For everything being known by all, it would take O(N!) edges for N vertices. Which type of satellites could hold under this throughput? It's just purely incredible!
This planning and review phase you describe is the first step in a GTD workflow.
I agree

Jonnathan needs to be careful saying stuff like that can make people think your going to rip them off good luck recruiting with that perception hanging round your neck.
I've been using http://workflowy.com for the last couple of years to organize my work and it does work.
Twitter REST Api and oauth login facilities seems to be feature complete and many 3rd party client apps use that. (Tweetbot, at the top of my head)
> I don't like that all my data is in a proprietary format but it's the only tool that's helped me get my chaotic business life under contr

I really wish there were a good task management system that:

1) Supported GTD
2) Is cross-platform (or has an open API).

I've hacked together my own with a combination of my own scripts and the Toodledo API, but their web UI is pretty bad (and even their API is annoying to work with - look up their authentication flow and you'll see what I mean).
I thought the same thing too, but I guess if there's two of you working, then two minimum-wage jobs "should" work. You can apply the same sort of reasoning by assuming 2 people are paying for it

Still frustrating that people will somehow defend the minimum-wage/rent disparity.
I wonder why ;)

(For context, see my previous comments)
The difference between $150k and $200k is often home ownership. Personally that's a pretty big difference to me. I'd like to see numbers about consultants who can support a family of 4 and a mortgage on the peninsula.
Oh come on compared to doctors and lawyers 99% of techie workers are not that far removed from the garment workers locked in the factory except we dont normally get OT.
"If you're not even willing to explain the rules of the game to your own team how do you expect to win the game?"

"...It's not you against your employees"

With all due respect, that's not what I was saying. Or at least not what I was trying to say, and if I was unclear, I apologize. I said "it's not the CEO's job to educate employees on the finer points," not that the CEO shouldn't discuss these matters in a frank and honest manner if they come up. And I took great pains to state that the employees and the CEO should be on the same page, with the same incentives, on the same team.

I don't disagree with you here, nor do I find what you're saying to be in general disagreement with me. If I phrased something confusingly, again, that's my fault.

I believe the CEO should explain his decisionmaking, how he's structuring the options, how those options affect employees, etc. I don't, however, believe the CEO should be totally responsible for proactively explaining financial minutiae and what-ifs -- plenty of great educational resources are available about those subjects, and the CEO can (and probably should) provide employees with guidance about them.

Of course, that being said, the CEO should answer any questions the employees may have, and should answer them honestly. Furthermore, he should give those employees a fair deal in the first place.
I'm a partner in a startup, we aren't to the hiring stage yet but once we hit that, I'm going to push extremely hard to make sure that's part of our hiring process. I want team mates not just employee's. I'd be a piss poor team mate if I don't explain the plays.
When reporters are getting busted at prestigious American universities for just being there, the other side of the story is plain to see.
I'm not agreeing with the "Apple is dead" stuff, but size-based arguments might not be the best: IBM was humongous at one point as well (granted they haven't quite disappeared now either).

When you start falling from the top, it takes a while before you hit the ground.
I have to say, I'm really baffled by this comment. I have no idea how you got to here from what I wrote. Jacques's comment I understand and respect, but yours feels like a pretty big mischaracterization of my post.

I felt I argued pretty strongly against "ripping off" employees. Here are a few lines from my post:

"give them enough options so that they will win when the company wins, and so that their incentives are aligned with yours."

"And the CEO should not use her superior financial knowledge or position to take unfair advantage of employees who might not have as much information or financial savvy."

It is never okay to rip off employees, or to take advantage of informational asymmetry to give them a raw deal.
Can we get "(for me)" added to the topic here?

Such a disclaimer (or rather "for some people") could be added to almost every lifehack / productivity tip / work habit / fitness technique / etc.

Work at home / in the office / in the cafe / for yourself / in a team / pair programming / standing desks / morning walks / coffee brewing / IDE tools / soylent / fasting / feasting / work-life balance / pretty much everything else.

People make absolute statements of universal truth to pitch their confidence and certainty, but really it seldom applies to more than a small subset.
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+1. When you're concerned with ensuring every single developer can read, understand, and rewrite your code, you don't have a place for the best; because the average and worst devs won't grasp what the best does.
Nascar also runs about 10-12 more races per year than F1.
Google.com doesn't need SEO, but does need high performance and wide compatibility. Perhaps that explains all the validation errors?
It actually makes it unusable on a mobile phone browser.
Perhaps because a 2br is typically less than 2x a 1br. So you can divide these numbers by two and also give the city an affordability benefit-of-doubt that people would pool living spaces.
I agree that getting by in SF on minimum wage jobs is likely impossible, but at the same time for most of human history separate bedrooms have been a luxury.

It'd be interesting to find out if two people could afford a studio or 1-br for 4 jobs or fewer. (I'm guessing not, but you never know.)
Thanks for submitting this - given the nigh-eclipsing popularity of SpaceX on social networks I hadn't heard about this recent launch or Orbital's recent activity at all.
Even if a 2-br is less per room than 1-br, with minimum wage jobs I'd think you'd be looking at lowest cost, not most efficient price.
"(for which, as contractors, they probably charge up to a hundred a day)"

I assume you mean here "£100 per hour"?
Well done, nicely cutup neighborhood polygons on gorgeous base tiles.

Obviously something is wrong with Financial District, I don't think the data you are using was accurate there.
The data authorities in France had ordered Google to comply with its national law by defining specified and explicit purposes; to inform users about how it was processing their data; to define retention periods for the information it holds; to not proceed, without legal basis, with the "potentially unlimited combination of users' data"; to fairly slurp and mine passive users' data and get consent before storing cookies on their device.

But Google has declined and criticised French data protection legislation by claiming the law is not applicable to its online services.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/27/google_refuses_to_co...
GCHQ has problems with not being able to pay the going rate - but as you say it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Last year I charged $64/hour to do embedded software development. I made around $75k, but i only worked about half the time (75k/64 = 1172 hours). I lived in Chicago and my client was 3 hours away in Fort Wayne, IN.

Good money, low overhead working in the attic (pun intended!), and worked on site about half the time (stayed with a friend who lived there).

That dried up earlier this year and I was getting tired of Chicago, so I applied to a bunch of full-time jobs in California and took a 110k/year embedded software job in San Diego. I miss contracting and working on my own hours, but this larger salary, awesome benefits, and stable income are nice too. Though I just started working on a hardware start-up on the side. I'm hoping this will get big.
Families do exist, you know- even in San Francisco!
Battery on the Surface Pro 1 is anywhere from 4 to 6 hours on average for me. You can squeeze out 7 with all wireless off, and using it only for typing. The Pro 2 addresses the battery life. It adds 20% more.

One of the most useful features for me, is the (pen)handwriting recognition on the Pro. I have terrible handwriting, terrible. I take a lot of notes in OneNote, and then convert them to text. This way I can share with my team, all the info I jotted down, in a "professional" manner. A few typos come up, usually upper vs lower case.

The pen is my favorite feature, I use it in Illustrator and Photoshop, daily. Running Ps and Ai, the battery will last about 4ish hours. Not bad, but not great. I usually will hook up an external monitor for Photoshop.

MSoft needs to work on communicating the pen, is not a stylus. It has pressure sensitivity, and lets you rest your hand on the screen while writing. A major difference from the iPad stylus(es).
have you any experience with alloy? http://alloy.mit.edu/alloy/ - that seems like it's aiming for a middle-ground somewhere between coq and crossing your fingers.
IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari all have locale-dependent defaults for HTML. The process used is essentially: user-override, BOM, higher-level metadata (e.g., Content-Type in HTTP), meta pre-parsing, and then a locale-dependent default (Windows-1252 in most locales). Anything labelled "ISO-8859-1" is actually treated as Windows-1252 in browsers (they differ only in ISO-8859-1's C1 range, so Windows-1252 is a graphical superset).

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/... has the detail of what all browsers implement nowadays.
I really mean "charge whatever the bloody hell they feel like". I just let my fingers type the first thing they thought of :)
For most of human history indoor plumbing has also been a luxury.

Though you're right that a 1-br + living space should be "decent" for 2 people (the 2-br probably has a living +kitchen too, so is probably not bad in living arangements). Studios are usually a pretty tight fit (euphemism) for 2 people I'd think though.
Going back to the ur source I woudl suggest "hardcore" for DA and "softcore" for recce and sigint type work :-)

its a William Gibson reference for you youngsters
All the "if you're not paying you are not customer, you are the product" talk aside, I find it risky to use free SaaS for work because it most likely doesn't have a viable business model and could go under any moment.

That's why in the StartHQ SaaS directory (https://starthq.com) we clearly mark which services are free. This is not meant as a positive sign, but as a warning.
Taking it too seriously isn't very 'adult' either.
Exactly. TODO lists work very well on short term tasks. Daily programming tasks for example, that are put on a TODO list and then completed one by one for example.
This should probably be the number of such jobs needed to rent a room walking distance to BART or Caltrain in the whole bay area. But then it wouldn't have an obvious agenda.

Is anyone surprised that cities are expensive or that a city that dramatically restricts construction of high density housing is even more expensive?
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I don't know the details, but it is possible for a USB keyboard to support N-key rollovers. As an example:
http://www.corsair.com/en/support/faq/vengeance-gaming/
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I think Nintendo blows both Sony & Microsoft at getting those type of controllers right. Sony's PS controllers have the unfortunate effect of causing blisters with its rigid/abrasive d-pad for some more intense games (Mega Man X6 comes off the top of my head) - heck, I've even got a blister once from the d-pad from playing an RPG! The analog sticks are also in a strange location for the PS controllers when it comes to FPSs.

Microsoft's...the d-pad is just atrocious.

What Nintendo does right is get the combination of location of control inputs right and their soft, but responsive, d-pad. Game selection is another issue, but controller-wise, I haven't seen anyone beat Nintendo at yet.
Interesting post from the spacex subreddit. It looks like we might get to see a recording of the first stage return (if it works).

http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1nd0qc/american_isla...
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Supply of housing in SF is limited (mostly due to the same sort of do-gooders who make infographics like this one), and demand is what it is, and that sets the price. Living in a 2BR in the city proper is not a necessity. It's a luxury. Living with one income in a two bedroom is by itself a luxury. There is no reason we should expect it to be affordable on a minimum wage salary.

Heck, when I lived in New York, I lived in a 430 square-foot apartment with a wife and a baby while making six figures. And I was a 35 minute train ride away from Midtown!
As usual, "afford" means "make roughly three times the rent".

Take a look at Outer Mission, which has a monthly rent of $2150 and an affordability of 4.0.

10.24 $/hour * 8 h/workday * 21 wd/month = 1720 $/m
4.0 * 1720 $/month = 6881 $/month
6881 \approx 3 * 2150

So while having 4 incomes is recommended for living there, it isn't actually needed. You could live there on a smaller income by being careful about your smaller expenses.
Made by Stephanie May. Here's some comments about this map on her blog: http://www.mizmay.com/2013/05/Rental-Housing-SF.html
If you definition is loose, then you could probably say that. Generally though, using a TDD approach would result in some form of a test suite that can be used to continually assert the correctness of a program.

Personally I attempt to write tests whenever possible, even in a new problem domain. However, I generally only write some general "black box" style tests to start.
I did. Two hours later, only one person upvoted it and around 20 person upvoted the $200k+.
I change keyboard layouts depending on (natural) language, though that's just personal preference.

I think that flexibility of style has been getting less and less favor recently : a lot of languages are starting to "force" some elements (such as indentation) , and go has done the most intelligent thing ever and ships with a formatter so that there's only 1 "right" way to write things.

Formatting issues is the source of so much bike-shedding, despite that it really shouldn't be much of a productivity sink in 99.9% of situations.