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> overall, being poor is a very bad business policy

>> It's bad business, but you may have a lot of incentives for it, given that welfare subsidies and services you may get in many US localities pay more than minimum wage job and in some localities more than average wage job.

Wait, what? If you have the choice of making more from welfare, than from a job, picking the (hypothetical) better financial option is an incentive for you to stay poor? How's that? If the alternative is to make less doing more work -- surely minimum wage is more of an "incentive" to stay poor?

(Lets not get into the discussion of "rich" welfare receivers and such, I'm just curious how you could see choosing the option to make more money as an incentive to stay poor, vs making less doing something else -- now if the person had the option to get a decent job, then that'd be diffrent?)
Or anti-globalism, anti-exploitation of developing countries. Contrary to popular belief, there are valid practical benefits to keeping things within the US economy.

For example, outsourcing manufacturing jobs to China does hurt American workers... and China doesn't operate under the same environmental and labor laws, so it's not exactly fair.
I used the jetstream in the article for a while and it was one of my favorite pens. But I hated the fact that it sucked at writing on very slightly moist paper (I'm left handed and my hands perspire a bit when taking lots of notes) which is why I moved on from it. My current to go pen is the Uni-bal 207. Just an anecdote for any left handers out there like me.
G.K. Chesterton is one of the most under-appreciated wits and writers of the last few centuries. And he makes some great points about the "self-help" genre in that excerpt. But he's also being a little glib here, and we risk losing some of that nuance when we just repost his excerpt.

Is 99.99% of the self-help industry bullshit? Probably. No, let's go even further: almost assuredly. And to Chesterton's point: even the authors who aren't bullshitting us might be drawing upon very personal experiences and idiosyncratic circumstances that we can't replicate. So be it. But here's the thing: nobody's ever gotten massively successful at any endeavor, skill, or enterprise without trying. If nothing else, books like Jason's may provide a boost of motivation and a wake-up splash of cold water (literally or figuratively) to those of us who've temporarily lost our paths or our focus. And if it does that for even one reader, it's served its purpose.

I don't get the impression that Jason is selling snake oil or magic checklists here. I do get the impression that his book could probably be summed up in a few sentences, and one of those sentences is probably "Get off your ass!" But a lot of people could benefit from hearing that. I know I could from time to time. I spend a heck of a lot of time writing on HN, daydreaming, and putting my biggest ambitions on hold. If this book slaps me across the face and tells me to get my shit together, so be it. Maybe I'm the kind of person who needs to pay $8 to learn that lesson -- and if so, $8 is pretty cheap compared to the opportunity cost of never learning it, or of allowing myself to forget it.

To Chesterton's point, no book about success is ever going to tell us how to be successful. But books that motivate us, that provide us interesting skills, and that -- if nothing else -- remind us to stay hungry and buckle down, can tell us why we're not as successful as we want to be. From there, it's up to us to figure out what to do about it.

Publishing magnate Felix Dennis wrote a really interesting self-help book, cheekily titled How to Get Rich. The book is essentially a very long-winded way of saying that what worked for Felix Dennis worked for Felix Dennis, and it probably won't work for you -- but, as he puts it, and as I'll paraphrase, 'Nobody ever became extremely rich without wanting to be extremely rich.' And by that he means, becoming extremely rich (or successful by any other metric) has to become a laser-guided focus, to the exclusion of all else. It's a very difficult choice people have to make, and in fact, Dennis argues that it's the wrong choice for most people. Regardless, we need to be cognizant of our choices on a daily and even hourly basis, and that's a lot easier said than done.
No option for recovery by the person whose account it was. Facebook is probably still holding the data. I hope I got out early enough that I may have actually gotten deleted at some point. I can't remember how many years ago it was, but it was after a few facebook creep cycles (things like this that hit the news) not super-early like some people.
Or maybe they are actually loosing the ability, like loosing the hounds of war! But I doubt it.
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For that matter, pocket calculators programmable in BASIC started becoming quite inexpensive in the mid-80s.
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I've worked with contractors that own have built web applications for the government.[1] Sadly this par for the course with respect to the scalability and usability of these sites. These teams are typically only concerned about following documentation processes and meeting their security standards. I can't cite anything to prove this, but I'm really not going the route of slander, just speaking from personal experience.

[1]http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2013/aca-contractors...
It should be accessible by them, though. If someone's publicly posting information being related to you, you should be able to know about it.
The value of most FAILED startup can be salvaged from the team, you will never see a startup with a valuable/popular product gets acquit-hired.
Sure, the team has value as engineers, but a company that keeps failing with their products and keeps "pivoting" puts doubt on the value of their founders as entrepreneurs (they may still be brilliant engineers).
VCs like to invest in entrepreneurs (especially entrepreneurs who are also engineers). So the quality a VC looks for from a team is drastically different than the quality a bigger company looks for when they acquihire a team.
And in fact they do exactly that with phones.
For everyone complaining about using Android without a touch screen, you have obviously never done it. I have an MK808 and MK908ii Android stick (the latter of which uses the same chip set as this Lenovo) with a Logitech wireless keyboard+track pad combo as my media center. It works flawlessly, and the latest Chrome build is fast and stable. I can access my NAS and stream movies over Samba without worrying about the format, or having to have the NAS box do any stupid transcoding etc.

Best $65 I've ever spent ($130 including the keyboard).

I own a Chrome boom as well, and while I can see the benefits of ChromeOS, Android is vastly more functional. For example, the method I outlined above for streaming movies wouldn't be possible with ChromeOS unless I booted another distro in a chroot(like with crouton).
The decreasing relevance of suburbia is an important story. Urban living is popular for very good reasons.
You should look at the 16-bit VM Woz wrote for the Apple ][

http://www.6502.org/source/interpreters/sweet16.htm

Anyway, Engelbart, et al, had figured out all this stuff 10 years earlier.
The fact that #1 and #2 are Chromebooks is worth mentioning. I found that surprising.
Excellent. It's a pity this isn't getting more exposure.
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I think a symptom of the New Transparency is that journalism is going to have to be produced by people who actually care about being read above all else. Advocacy journalism, advertising, status journalism, and hobby journalism. I, for one, welcome our new passionate overlords.
Does this map prove that China discovered America before Columbus?
First was Dr. Dobbs Journal and now GDM. My favourites magazines are all dead now :(
Too sad.

Just want to say that the mentioned book "The Right Stuff" exists also as a 3 hours movie from 1983. You'll find it on youtube, too (two parts).
I really recommend this movie to everyone who's into spaceflight. Full with details and beauty, a true homage.
Usually, companies have to get your permission to use your likeness. If we extend existing law, facebook would be completely hosed.
A mailing list archive is a web site that happens to draw content from a mailing list.

Of course that's useful - good documentation is important.

Is the best way to write that documentation a mailing list? I seriously doubt it.

And that said, I'm not discussing 'googling for mailing list archives to solve problems', I'm discussing 'attempting to email the list to solve problems'.
How do we explain C++?
I'm a long time Boulder resident (10 years with a 3 year stint in NYC). I'm also co-founder and CTO at OpDemand. Our office is on the Pearl Street Mall in downtown Boulder. AMA. ;)

Boulder is a fantastic place for startups, but keep in mind it's a city of 100k people. I happen to love that; others find it limiting. The community is very supportive, everyone knows everyone, etc. The bar/nightlife scene is better than your typical college town, plus Denver is close if you want bigger clubs/DJs/bands -- and don't forget Red Rocks. The most amazing thing to me, though, is the food scene. The quantity and quality of restaurants rivals big cities, and has to be seen (or tasted) to be believed.

Feel free to PM me if you have more questions re: pot, etc.
of course, smart phones were anticipated to have this gentrification effect, and were incentivized and designed to maximize it while reducing the owner's control over it. i.e. you will not find apps were you can pipe the valuable data into your own sorting criteria to expose the type of product you're looking for, instead the app developer is incentivized to control how the user would use an app to shop, in the same way finding iApps is a made to be a huge pain in the ass.

Nothing new though, it's the same manufacturer/distributor/retailer model used since forever. Now that smart consumers can bypass the distributor in a lot of markets, the consumer becomes "too powerful" and capable of making decisions that subvert macro economic controls needed to keep control of the direction and pace of technology and other development.

Before you know it, you'll be buying mini reactors for your house on Silk Road 2.0. Nuclear power countries aren't so hot when every family household is a nuclear power.
The most famous of the seven Mercury astronauts, John Glenn, is now the only survivor. As the article kindly submitted here reports, Scott Carpenter was the only astronaut who was also (later) a deep-sea explorer, living at depth in Sealab for a month. These were the childhood heros of most Americans in my Baby Boom generation.
I think valve would probably say they're trying to go the PC gaming route. that's traditionally been valve's market. Steamboxes don't exist to kill playstation and xbox, they exist to take over the PC gaming market from windows and the threat of the microsoft store on windows 8, which is clearly aimed as a competitor to steam.
Just in time for the Q3 2013 Advanced Micro Devices Earnings Conference Call. Thursday, October 17, 2013 :)

It was interesting how they had this announced. First they said "we certainly are planning to make AMD hardware for SteamMachines, but ask Valve yourselves" and then Valve issued a press statement (probably slightly under pressure).
Thanks for that, I had no idea.
People can tag non-facebook users in photos. You can't 'block' it unless you have an account.
Unless I'm mistaken, this library provides CAS for haskell: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bits-atomic

Though if you were only affirming that it isn't a language construct you are correct.
> anti-exploitation of developing countries

No problem with your other points, but if you have the chance, ask some exploited laborer in a developing country if he would like you to stop exploiting him.
It's not just that. As there is a (fluent, but still) correlation between money and material goods, it's not the same to be able to save 5% of 20K a year, and 5% of 200K.

One way I like to look at it, is how long would you have to save up to have 20xmedian (net) yearly income in your area in the bank? That is, after subtracting whatever reasonable living expenses, how long would you have to save all that's left to have 20 yearly incomes in savings? Because at that point, barring financial crisis -- you should be able to live off the interests -- at roughly median income.

It's actually a pretty small number -- the point at which you could reasonably retire just on your own savings pretty much indefinitely.

But it's something that is generally impossible to do unless you are "well off" -- and not at the bottom of the pile, so to speak. On the other hand, as soon as you start making "real" money (say 1.2x median income) it becomes almost trivial if you deem it to be a goal worth trying for.
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Why is it popular? Serious question.
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the shell command "ls" also does that. If you have huge quantity of files under a directory, use "ls -f"
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Show HN: Eventbrite Event Change Notifer
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Hi did anyone build this yet?
Would really love your feedback!!
I thought it looked great. Then I noticed it was following me around. Easy solution: just make it immobile like an ordinary logo.
The problem only exists if you have it. It doesn't really exists, but seems to exist if you let it exist. Ostensibly this advice seems not helpful as it doesn't solve the problem, but by not acknowledging it, the problem is solved. You can of course choose to manifest this problem as another problem that is solvable, which can mean mid-life crisis etc or whatever task you seek to be productive at.
Simple script to notifies you if event is modified. I originally used it to notify me when a disrupt hackathon ticket was available. I probably should wrap it into a webapp, if people are interested.
‘Dutch sandwich’ grows as Google shifts €8.8bn (~$12bn) to Bermuda
At 5km up the difference is miniscule, back of the napkin says the difference is ~-0.01 m/s^2. Which is pretty small to use as a classification filter. All the way up to 40km it's still only ~1.2% weaker.
I use a few like this in some of my helper macros[0] that I usually pull into my iOS projects.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/numo16/3407652
They do keep previous names, so that if you search for someone who was married, you'll still get their result.
You can't actually say that it's "a huge outlier", simply because it's the only small bird for which we have such data.

There was never any reason to think swifts had sleeping patterns anywhere close to those of albatrosses, condors or storks. Albatrosses, condors and storks also all have vastly different behaviours and live in completely different environments.
You don't. People change the way they schedule events, or more likely they make an exception for you. A lot more people do that than people who just don't invite me to things.

They want me there, so why shouldn't they make an effort? If they don't want me there at least that badly, why would I want to be there? Luckily, I don't have that problem - people text me, or email me, or try to run into me or something.
Does Hadoop replace a traditional Database?
It would be painfully easy for Steam to integrate some hardware polling with a database ranking the parts to give a rough estimate of how well you can run any given Steam game.

I'd argue it surely beats sitting on decade old hardware an entire console cycle. That was probably one of the primary motivators for SteamOS as a consolesque platform - Sony and Microsofts inertia circa 2012 was presenting a gaping hole in the market, and Nintendo's Wii U was (and still is) underwhelming. If Valve could get an open platform with vendor competition and constant product iteration in the living room, it would cement them there as much as it did on Windows digital distribution.

That plan might not have come to complete fruition the way they were hoping, though - both of their chief competitors will have months and a holiday season ahead of them, and SteamOS hasn't announced any launch titles or exclusives to attract early adopters (of the whole living room platform and haptic controller, at least).
Designing Great APIs Means Valuing Laziness
Thanks. I was not normalizing, and wanted make sure it was OK.
I have to add the obligatory pitch for just using RubyMotion. I use it/love it, and def recommend it for those that have become a bit annoyed with the verbose-ness of obj-c.
Going through a tunnel broker should be a longer path than a direct connection. Also, services based on the kindness of strangers aren't sustainable.
Swifts drink in flight, you can often see them flying very close to the surface of water... a bit like water bombers.
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That looks nice. Could you provide it as a web app instead?
Visually Impaired Turn to Smartphones to See Their World
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Will be a lot easier for tech workers to get to, though this might be less of a good thing if it brings more distractions to the entrepreneurs and engineers there.

On the other hand, it's more convenient for hosting e.g. hackathons.
The code is pretty easy to read - shouldn't be hard to add that functionality yourself with the File API. We hacked it quite a bit for what we needed, it's a nice script and the author is responsive for bugs. Thanks enyo!
Yes you can. But it's stupid to have a whole house and not have any of that.

I've so far lived 3 months in the Valley and those houses are ridiculous. Super big, with a yard that is huge, but useless for anything other than parking your bike, possibly having a few deck chairs, and keeping the front-lawn perfect for absolutely nobody.
Yay, ad-hoc bullshit reasoning to justify nationalism!

If there are good reasons to do something a certain way then there is no need to plaster nationalist labels all over it and employ nationalist propaganda. Those are just weak excuses for nationalism.

Also, more often than not anti-globalization is just disguised nationalism. At least the brand of anti-globalization that would say something like “100% US made”. Yes, globalization has serious downsides – but only because it happens with nations still existing.
The New Yorker recently ran an article with a bevy of scientific studies on redshirting [1] which confirm Gladwell's latest thesis that adversity improves performance. The relative overachievement of immigrant populations tends to support this view as well, but of course you may have selection bias there.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/young...
I suspect this is more of a PR move about their focus than anything else. We'll have to see how it plays out, but as a16z grows, I'm sure a ton of Series A deals are trying to get an intro, this leads to overhead and a mass of companies that a16z doesn't feel are a good fit for the exponential returns they are looking to get. Get rid of those companies by saying we don't do series A. But they'll still get deal flow through their contacts, and I'm sure if an amazing Series A opportunity comes through, they'll jump on it. Nothing here is stopping them from investing, they're just saying "if you're looking for Series A, don't come to us".

My question is how does investing in YC companies at seed stage, but then blanket refusing to invest in those companies Series A deals reflect on those companies? Or is this another reason to state loudly that they don't do Series A deals? That way it doesn't reflect badly on the early stage companies that existing investors aren't re-investing. Then, if they do decide to invest in a YC company series A, it's a positive response, rather than the expected.
I grew up in the Bay Area (and currently live on the East Coast) and I was not sure whether "The City" would refer to SF or NY. I guess it goes to show how myopic TechCrunch is that they didn't recognize that as being ambiguous for a national audience.
When I read, "In The City", I thought they opened a branch in NYC :-)
IBM's Java 7 and 8 beta's already have this. It's called Packed Objects and it lets you have have high density data with no pointer chasing along with a much cleaner interface to off-heap languages like C/C++/C# and even languages like Fortran/COBOL etc.

http://www.slideshare.net/mmitran/ibm-java-packed-objects-mm...
and
http://www.slideshare.net/ZeroTurnaround/ryan-sciampaconerun...
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While staying focused in a startup is important, it's nice to have freedom to explore new ideas and thought processes outside of the core product.

I've seen plenty of startups hyper-focus on one product and fail because they couldn't position their product in the marketplace properly (seeing the forrest-through-the-trees).
I ran into this when developing with postMessage as well. This Stack Overflow post pointed me in the right direction: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13167302/did-ie10-change-...
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Does working at a standing desk consume more calories than sitting?
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A minute of weightlessness... :-(
Because cities are where success is. People who are already rich like living in the countryside. People who would like to become rich need to live in cities.

Also:

Cities aggregate enough people that you won't be the only person like you.

As a sub-point to the above, if you're looking to meet any other people, for whatever reason, you'd want to be located in a city.

Things that are for sale, are generally for sale in cities. Want to buy something? Your best bet is a city.
Normal ballpoint pens do not need gravity, they just need gravity not working against it. Normal ball point pens work in space. The space pen is probably more durable for other reasons.
I love the idea of RM and would like to give it a try, but I keep hearing murmurs about memory management issues and other little glitches that crop up from time to time. I also hear that these kinds of problems get fixed very quickly, but the idea of being stuck even for a short time while waiting for a proprietary abstraction to be patched up makes me a bit hesitant to reach for it for a serious app. Are these concerns overblown?
FWIW, the issues with pledging and redirection have been fixed since yesterday. We're up to $2500 towards the TrueCrypt audit, as well.
Interesting when read right after this from another z16z partner: http://bhorowitz.com/2013/10/08/cash-flow-and-destiny/
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> Is it possible that when they are on the ground, they aren't completely still - will their motion on the ground be mischaracterized as flight

Well, actually swifts can't even walk and have a very hard time taking off from ground. I don't know their behaviour once in Africa, but while they're in Europe you only ever see them in flight, on phone cables or clinging on cliffs. They fly straight to and from their elevated nest. I doubt very much that these situations would look the same as flight.

Also... I think you guys could just try to have a little bit of trust in the knowledge of people who obviously know swifts better than you do. I think you can trust them for having studied their data a bit.
> If I work twice as hard as you at the same task, you should not make as much as I do.

If you're struggling to program something and I do it easily, you should be compensated for your incompetence?

Work shouldn't be defined by effort but by results -- and that isn't always reasonable to quantify (which would be needed if it was to be the basis of a (fair) reward system).

I agree that "perfect equality" isn't an ideal (in pretty much anything). I do thing equal opportunity is a worthy goal, though.