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My attitude towards major decisions comes from an incident in my childhood. I make them and then see whether they stand up to the lesser tests along the way - reason and reality.

It's not willpower for me, it's not even trying to focus on something. It's making a choice and meaning it - really meaning it: I'm gonna do this, you'll have to kill me (or the idea as the case may be) to stop me. Then I've got something to work with. What that decision is at the time isn't the most important part. Try to talk yourself out of that decision - depending on the time and resources, try to get other people to talk you out of it - if you fail then do the thing, if you succeed then don't. If it gets far enough, throw the dice and accept what may come with the knowledge you gambled as well as you were able.

The important thing for me is to make that initial choice. I find that works much better than indulging in doubting a course of action that I can't really define. Hesitation is often just another word for freezing, panicking or running away.

...

Not that I think that my style of thinking is suitable for everyone. I wonder whether the sort of choice making I'm talking about here is something that everyone can do. For instance, lots of people seem to have the fear that if they get attacked they're not going to act as they want to - which doesn't really make sense if you have the experiences to know you can make a decision and mean it.
The Fisher bullet space pen is cheaper ($20) and better design IMO.
It's not the original, but its still the better version ;-)
Chinese site says Foxconn forcing students to make PS4s
reason i never bought lenovos: i cant see them before i buy. takes a month or more to arrive. you cant return if you dont like, despite no showroom.
You might not know this, but Mandrake (of Enlightenment WM and VA-Linux fame) is just recently now become in charge of computery people and things at GoDaddy. I hadn't thought to make the association until you put it out there, but he is a straight up hax0r, and I kind of expect that if his underlings hadn't already picked up the news and done this on their own, he would be momentarily busy reprimanding folks until they did. If we didn't know, it's one thing, but GoDaddy are not the ones who got the NSL in this case. So, why wouldn't they?

Feds or no feds, GoDaddy's business is international and they are responsible to us all, just like ICANN. These companies/NGOs have been accused of being tools of the US government enough times without actually being accountable to the US Government (well, that's ICANN, I don't know about GoDaddy). I don't see it so much as striking back, as it's like... not being giant tools in a public forum kind of way.
This is How Square is growing so quickly
Hm, even more so than Mercury?

You might be right, though; hard to judge. Both sides were definitely in a hurry with designs.
Did you accidentally submit this to the wrong website?
Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works
The article isn't trying to explain the origin of "zero day". The article is defining it in the context that it's used for the benefit of their readers.

> That vulnerability in Internet Explorer was known as a “zero-day” because Microsoft, the targeted software maker, had zero days notice to fix the hole when the initial attacks exploiting the bug were discovered.
Advertisers want engaged, affluent users. Affluent users don't like getting trolled or harassed (supposedly). Real names create accountability, reducing trolling and harassment (supposedly). An application of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, if you will.
If enough of your friends had the desire to do this, you'd have no use for a facebook account to begin with.
pretty sure the pen still writes faster :P
> when I two-day ship mouthwash

I try to be nice to them - if I don't need it right away I'll pick the slower shipping.
Introducing Oxide (embed a Chromium-powered webview in QML applications)
That's ignoring the tax deductions for mortgage interest and property taxes as well as home value increase.
Mad at Congress over the shutdown? Have a drink and tell them.
AMD launches app for broadcasting to Twitch and optimize game gfx
Unless you have a model relase, its not clear you should be publishing the likenesses of others. Facebook is using these images for commercial purposes, period. While this is a devil's argument case, its not without merit.
Eliminating facebook would definitely prevent any pictures with you in them from being shared. There's just nowhere else to post pictures, and nothing would ever replace them.
Actually, part of the problem is the academic experience of believing that applying functions is hard and pushing bits is simple. It deceives delusional academics like yourself into believing it's just a matter of doing the work and not really a real computation problem at all.

No, in the real world, it's exactly the opposite. Nobody cares about writing a function because generally that's the simple part. Do it however you want. Deploying the system to take inputs and feed outputs, now that's the hard part. Where do those inputs come from? In what form? Are there security requirements to gather or push data? Do you store-and-forward or don't you? What protocol? Stateful or not stateful? Transactional or not transactional? The problems involved in "move these bits in this format on this machine to those bits in that form on that machine over there" are in fact so complex that you can't even prove it to be an NP-complete problem because the problem itself transcends algorithmic analysis. It is much more a social problem than a technical problem, but the social problem is so massive that any simple-minded technical approach will fail to address the scope of the issue and in every case I've ever seen, simply makes the problem worse.
Why not just have it be a static method like stringWithFormat?

+ (id)stringWithFormat:(NSString *)format, ...;

This of course already exists, but if you wanted to do a Rubyfied version of it, then just follow the same general pattern.
Also, part 2:

http://hal2020.com/2013/10/10/the-future-of-microsoft-part-2...
When I was an undergrad (a year ahead of Gates, 72-76), Harvard had only "intro to programming" undergrad courses, so those of us CS (well, applied math) majors who arrived at college already competent at programming pretty much just took all grad CS courses for 4 years. The faculty were enlightened enough not to care that we weren't grad students.

Gates was certainly one of the brighter undergrads in those courses. I don't know if that makes him a "CS giant," but he was no slouch.
They can - profit per square foot actually goes down as the size of the house increases. Will be interesting to see the demand when this project gets completed http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/29/san-franciscos-tiny...
Looking at 2013 exits (or financings) is missing the mark. VC is a game of 1000x returns. And those returns have come from companies like FB, Google, etc. Most of the value of YC's portfolio come from Dropbox and Airbnb. All of these companies are decidedly consumer companies.
its like the myth that the F35 is too expensive compared to equivalent planes and that it's already outdated.
and a zillion other stories.

in fact, the more the US citizen think of this that way, the more obtuse the downwards spiral. This is a classic, actually.

If you can't verify the facts, don't believe bullshit just because "its trendy".
Of course this is your right.

On the other hand, unless you have some rational reason to not have your existence recorded, this sounds like passive aggressive self-destruction and hatred.
I've been using and following Groovy for varying degrees almost since the first release... I'm not sure what you're getting at. As far as I can tell, the only real, persistent, commonly-cited flaw with Groovy has been performance. And that is a fair criticism, but - at least for what I'm working on - not a "deal breaker". And I'm still optimistic that the Groovy team will eventually be able to follow in the footsteps of the JRuby guys and do some big things to take advantage of method handles and invokedynamic to speed things up. But even if they don't, Groovy is fast enough, even if it's not exactly setting the world on fire.

If there are any other serious complaints about Groovy, I haven't heard them, and/or haven't encountered them myself.
I agree with the sentiment. I bought at about 2X my salary with plenty of savings in the bank and a combination of bad luck and weather (Sandy) have required over 10% of the house value just in functional repairs in the last 2 years. If I had bought at 4-5X my salary and had the same issues completing the repairs would have been much more stressful or even impossible.
I use the same thing to construct NSDecimalNumber instances. N(100.5) instead of [NSDecimalNumber decimalNumberFromString:@"100.5"]

SO handy.
So... what drivers will these machines be running?

The linked article doesn't mention this possibility, but perhaps the reason that Valve made no mention of AMD machines is because AMD's Linux drivers are complete and utter crap.
This is Amazons sneaky way of getting around the sales tax issue. Have the exact same item available at the exact same price from a third party.

This way they can build local fulfillment centers (which force them to collect sales tax), and yet not actually have to charge it.

It doesn't work for every item, but it does for quite a few of them.
Ummm... no.

How much did you spend on accommodations? If you commuted, the answer should be zero. In four years, someone who paid for a dorm racked up a 40K tab.

I commuted and yes, I did not have the "animal house" experience. I made up for commuting by joining a lot of activities - archery, squash, karate, etc. Met some fantastic people who weren't in CS - still in touch with some of these folks a decade after school.

Key insight ... save every penny.
It's sarcastic in tone and if you are under the impression that it is republican sided then you only read the title.
As one of the comments on the article points out, it's amusing that Steven Pinker is one of the cited critics, given his own record of writing intellectual feel-goodery.

Pinker: "To begin with, the findings of science entail that the belief systems of all the world’s traditional religions and cultures—their theories of the origins of life, humans, and societies—are factually mistaken."[1]

[1] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114127/science-not-enemy-...
To be fully honest, I'm not entirely sure. I don't like the idea that photos of me end up on the web and stay archived forever. Something about that is chilling. In a post-PRISM world, I suppose my way of pushing back is simply asking for the right to be forgotten. Rather than asking people to never post images online, I just ask them not to take them.
Looks good, nice to see spotify integration in an app. Though I'm curious as to how you're getting around section 3.3 of the libspotify (assuming its use) terms of use, or if you didn't know about that then I'm here to throw a warning at you...

3.3 You may not sell the Application, charge Users for
use of the Application or otherwise derive any income
from Users’ use of the Application, such as through e-commerce
initiated via the Application or the sale of any advertising,
sponsorships or promotions on the Application itself.

Not trying to be that guy, but having your spotify streaming access revoked could leave you with some angry customers :)

There are also some smaller clauses in there that may restrict the streaming from multiple providers. These terms don't seem to be based on any kind of logical reason though.
Of course it's a win-win. The money those low net worth households save doesn't disappear: The poor spend most of their income, and as a result, the money that was going to a more inefficiently manufactured product is now being spent on something more economically competitive. A burrito at Chipotle or a pair of sneakers or an Android phone.

Nobody's entitled to a job, but when Walmart trims inefficiencies, it ensures that consumer spending is going towards the products of more efficient producers at their own stores and elsewhere, adding jobs where they can be the most productive.
I've heard that overwhelming majority of those who found gold in various American gold rushes never became rich from it, even if initial find was significant. Success rate (defining as keeping the wealth for a number of years after the find) from the point of finding gold was something below 10%. Can't find the source as it probably was one of the gold rush museums I've visited.

Interestingly enough, most of the guys who made out like bandits were bankers and merchants selling good for prospecting. Nordstrom (the founder of the retail company) was one of them.
Just another marketing ploy by T-Mobile, their service and coverage isn't even close to their competitors. I see this as more of sign that things are crumbling.
The problem people have with the format implementation is that no matter what you do, it's either obtuse shorthand, or incredibly verbose.

The reality is, that NSString needs native formatting sugar. Anything else would really just be a hack. I'm not particularly even happy with the [@"Hello ":@"World] syntax, either.
From the sound of it: any.

The initial run has Nvidia, Valve has been working with Intel on their graphics drivers, and are going with AMD for some sort of run of Steam Boxes next year? Sounds like any. I don't see how that is too surprising; that is how they roll on Windows too.

What I find surprising is the idea that AMD must necessarily be out of the running. Both the Xbox One and the PS4 are getting AMD GPUs, so how irrelevant could AMD possibly be?
Sorry if my point was not clear. The article suggests a new insight into the venture landscape by A16Z given their shift away from consumer startups. Just trying to point out that the shift has already happened among VCs towards enterprise so this is not new.

Whether enterprise is a better area for VCs or not is a separate argument.
For a moment I thought I was on 4chan or something. The fact you create a throwaway account suggests your just a troll out to provoke a reaction. I don't do either of those 3.
The overflow when converting from float to integer is undefined behavior
Watch migration of eagle Arnold from Slovakia to (probably) South Africa, on a google map: http://spravatanap.sk/web/index.php/component/content/articl...
The page is in Slovakian but Google translate does a good job.
Wasn't expecting to find this on Hacker News but good read
Do you have any connection to Evan Weiss?
This is the part I don't understand. ok, we shut down Facebook tomorrow. All those people talking about you aren't going to move to LiveJournal or whatever? Are we going to shut down flickr and wordpress, too?

Good heavens, imagine the clusterfuck it'd be if everybody ran their own server, as advocated by at least one HN post per week. You'd never be able to shut them all down!
It's likely that Dropbox probably makes way, way more money from enterprise than from it's consumer business.
The Top Things That Terrify the Internet
3.2 Billion Valuation? Wow Founded in 2009. Very impressive. How long till their margins get squeezed?
I worry about this when I listen, but in general I agree with the other commenter that they do pretty well at giving a voice to real experts.
In what way is it self-destruction and hatred?
The pens are still made by the Fisher family in their factory, which moved from Van Nuys, California to Boulder City, Nevada (as I myself did -- Boulder City is a neat place to grow up).

Their current challenge is actually finding American sources for the pen's parts, to keep it a 100% made-in-the-USA product:

http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/nevadan-work-ceo-space...

You can tell I love this company. Did I mention the Field Notes branded pen?

http://fieldnotesbrand.com/spacepen/
> Facebook actually will recognize if a name sounds "too fake" and reject it

Not all fake names! About six months ago I went to interview on-site at Facebook. I have two Facebook accounts, a legacy from before testing accounts were actually available on the platform. One's my real account, the other is under the name of 'Johnny Appleseed'.

When you arrive at Facebook you check-in using the e-mail address you've been using to communicate with your recruiter. What I didn't realise was that Facebook's systems then automatically look up that e-mail address, and pre-populate your visitors badge with information from that account.

So the upshot of this was that for the rest of the day I was 'Johnny Appleseed'. Given I was interviewing for a iOS role this raised a few eyebrows with my interviewers. The receptionist told me this happens a lot for software engineering interviews.
I would be surprised if a Steam Machine with AMD hardware comes configured with anything other than the fglrx driver. The open source driver radeon driver is still lacking in performance.
Seriously on some level of informtion security, if people need to talk about real life it can be pretty powerful information if we do not forget so seriously.

Computer give us information aged weller, posts people trust with their very real life, because of that fact information-life-and-death is no longer our primary fight for humanity, if infopsychotech functions that we truly can not forget alll our friends.

Our real diasporas may have real life informed people who can respond to all our lives equally intact, if with infotech promises we can relate, can be a humanizing force if humanity can no longer delete our life facts.
There was a good article in The Magazine a few weeks ago about the world of high-quality pens. Unfortunately it's only available to subscribers.

http://the-magazine.org/24/penultimate
> Land was less scarce.

True, but this is also Denver. It depends on the location.

> Different amenities - doubt you saw many granite countertops or stainless steel appliances in the 1910s

Pretty sure your fancy 1910 house has been renovated more than a few times. Homes actually require maintenance and upgrades to be livable.

> Sparse (or no) plumbing/electricity

In 1910 I'm sure they had something. But see the previous point.

> Fewer building codes/regulations

Again, the home should have been upgraded unless the codes/regulations were superfluous; grandfather clauses only take one so far.

As an investment, a 3X appreciation over 100 years sans property taxes is still a quite crappy return, but at least you (and your progeny) get to live in it.
I wonder about that too. The thing that seems to remain constant is your monthly payment which is of course influenced by the interest rate. So presumably a high interest rate would make a lot of home prices go down.
Make non-responsive sites look a bit better on phone screens
BlackBerry co-founders considering bid for company
Actually we went to High School together, but we are not related. That would be pretty cool though if we were.
Can you list which enterprise companies had these large exits?
This right here is the real problem I had with the space pen. I used to use them religiously until I was losing one every couple months.

The ones without the clips are the worst, because they'll roll off of anything. They also had a nasty habit of falling out of my pockets when I sat down/got up. They are excellent pens though.
I read the whole thing, but I couldn't tell if it was a parody or an actual rant, and leaned towards it being legit. However I see I missed the giveaways in the hyperlinks.
The resulting lists are quite similar but not identical, so i've analyzed them to find sets of languages that always or almost always appear at the top. I also made the corresponding 'most disliked' lists to find the most disliked languages.

On every 'most liked' list out of the above with some sort of control for wellknown-ness[1], the two most liked languages are C and Python. On every corresponding 'most disliked' list, the most disliked five languages are coldfusion, cobol, visual basic, actionscript, php.

Looking at various lists, the next most after C and Python liked usually tend to be lisp, scheme, lua, haskell. Then clojure, rust, erlang, go. Then sql. Then assembly, C#. Then ocaml, F#.

And after {coldfusion, cobol, visual basic, actionscript, php}, the next most disliked usually tend to be groovy or java.

In other words, the partial ordering seems to be approximately[2]:

{c, python} >
{lisp, scheme, lua, haskell} >~ {clojure} >~ {rust, erlang, go} >~ {sql} >~ {assembly, C#} >~ {ocaml, F#}
> ... >~
{groovy, java} >
{coldfusion, cobol, visual basic, actionscript, php}

It's interesting to contrast this 'most liked (controlling for wellknown)' ordering with the most (like+dislike)d counts, whose top 9 items are javascript, python, java, php, c, ruby, c++, sql, c#:

* Python is both extremely liked and extremely well-known

* Javascript is extremely well-known and is both liked and disliked.

* Java is extremely well-known and very disliked, and PHP is extremely well-known and extremely disliked.

* C is very well-known and extremely liked.

* Ruby and C++ are very well-known and both liked and disliked. SQL and C# are very well-known and more liked than disliked. Haskell and Go are moderately well-known and very liked.

* Lisp, Scheme, and Lua are not well-known but are very liked, and, to a lesser extent, Clojure, Rust, and Erlang.

[1] by which i mean, the six lists (like/dislike), ( (likeDirichlet/(likeDirichlet+dislikeDirichlet)), lower bound of confidence interval at 95% level ), (like/dislike)log(like) ), ( (like/(like+dislike))log(like) ), and ( (likeDirichlet/(likeDirichlet+dislikeDirichlet))*log(likeDirichlet).

[2] where >~ means a relation that holds for many of the lists under consideration, and > means a relation that holds for all of them.
You have a point. You could find someones profile by entering their username or their ID but that's impractical. After thinking about it, ultimately it doesn't make a lot of sense; if you have a Facebook account, you should be able to find people using friends-of-friends or by other means.

I guess the primary use-case is to help prevent cyberbullying?
So then:

Women are more attractive to me = sexist

Women are more attractive to me, therefore I choose to only date women = sexism
If you're near the beach, try surfing, and especially at the end of a long day of work. Not only is it great exercise, but also can be a very transformative experience. Refreshing in both the physical and mental sense. This gives me motivation and focus in other things I take on.
An Introduction to Python programming – A Free Online Course
Wow, Larry Ellison predicts mobile web at 47:00.
simple:
i do other things. i take breaks. i work a healthy 35h a week or so (of actual work, not of checking imgur/facebook/reddit/emails/coffee/what not)

i think its well covered elsewhere. if spend too much time focusing on work, you'll lose that focus entirely.
But why are all preferences "unfair"? What about preferences in partners, i.e. heterosexuality or homosexuality?
So does anyone have an alternative? I've seen various suggestions of upcoming alternatives, but nothing concrete.
Are BlackBerry's Parts Greater Than the Whole?
My point is, given the state of AMD's drivers, I can't imagine that anyone would want a Steam Machine with an AMD card.

Consider the options:

* AMD GPU / fglrx: good hardware, terrible drivers.
* AMD GPU / radeon: good hardware, good but incomplete drivers.

Why would anyone interested in gaming opt for a dramatically worse experience by choosing AMD? You can't play games with the radeon drivers, and the fglrx drivers don't work.

It's not about the hardware. AMD's hardware is great. You just can't actually use it reliably when running Linux -- you get to pick between having a working, but limited, set of features (radeon), or having the full set of features and crashing once a day or more (fglrx).