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Eh, all fairly expected situations concerning the non-standard and non-profit nature of it.

The lack of commercial software could be resolved with homogenization but OSS developers are too busy bickering over Drepper, RMS, and Zed.

Those fools aren't merely highlighting a problem, they are the problem and more attention needs to be paid to the matter of pragmatism. The mainstream parts of the Linux desktop need to be homogenized before this particular problem will be resolved.

Schism is not choice. Schism is the destruction of a good choice for the sake of producing multiple poor options.

Schism is the definition of the Linux software environment.
Tangentially related. Asking "Why 5 times"

"Taiichi Ohno is known to have said that "having no problems is the biggest problem of all." He viewed problems not as a negative but as a "Kaizen opportunity in disguise." Whenever problems arose, he encouraged his staff to investigate the problem at the source and to as "ask ‘why’ five times about every matter"

http://www.shmula.com/382/ask-why-five-times-about-every-mat...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
By far one of the best articles posted on here regarding the tragedy. food for thought?
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observation without judgment seems very similar to the idea of mindfulness explored in vipassana meditation.
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This is nice simply from the perspective of getting a new install up and running. And the add-on collector plugin makes keeping your plugins in sync simple too.
See also the list of "The Public Elites," high schools with stringent entrance requirements, ranked separately.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/137421/page/1

My high school alma mater is nowhere on either list.
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Hey Look, MIT students. A Leftover FEMA Trailer.
The similarity raises a question for me--what are the defining characteristics of a vocation without longevity? What do I do if I like this computer stuff, and hate doing management stuff, but just turned 30 and can't claim anything near "guru" status?
I thought this was an interesting study but, after spending a few minutes trying to find patterns in the data, I finally hacked up a quick null hypothesis graph in Excel and it looked virtually indistinguishable:

http://blog.figuringshitout.com/another-way-to-lie-with-stat...
Haven't been testing out Bing like some of the others out there. Just took a quick look at Bing news search--they incorporate news results with top blogs? That seems interesting to me. Is that unique, anyone know? I don't see it in Google News.
Yes, vipassana meditation changed my life.

But I want to follow Terry Pratchett's lead and teach unobtrusively. He's really good at it. So, as a step 1, I didn't ever use the words Buddhism or meditation.
First off, the story of Craigslist is a great story and I hope it continues its successful path -- estimated $100m in revenue with 30 employees, woot!

On another note, wouldn't ebay have to report some sort of value for its 24% stake in Craigslist? Couldn't you determine the company's value from that, even though they are private?
Zero to 60 in full sunlight: University of Michigan's solar racer
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or you could just get a portable solar charger that works with a multitude of devices like this one for <$20 shipped world-wide: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.9134
C++Ox: The Dawning of a New Standard
Study difficult things in college. Practice working on things that are too hard for you. If what you want is "free time to learn computer things", why are you spending time and money to go to college?

Try to keep in mind that, as a high school student, there's a good chance that you don't really have any idea what real-world math, physics, or chemistry are all about. [1] College is like a new world. Stretch a little. Explore. Don't be like my friend who got an entire bachelor's degree in English after being discouraged from studying science. Turns out she didn't really enjoy English that much. After graduation she moped around for several years. Then she decided she might go back to school to try pre-med. And an amazing thing happened: She took some physics classes and turned out to love them and to be really good at them. The chem and biology went smoothly as well, and off she went to become (last I heard) an aspiring neurologist.

Try challenging yourself. You might like it more than you think. Take at least the introductory courses in a bunch of fields. I think it's malpractice to leave college without at least trying to get through: A couple of biology courses (a general course and a molecular course), math through calculus, first-year chem (aka "basic applied quantum mechanics"), and at least enough physics to understand basic electronics. (An actual course in electronics would not hurt, if you can find a good one.)

If your school has even one linguistics course with a half-decent lecturer, take that; if not, at least read Pinker's The Language Instinct. An anthropology course is a good idea. Studying foreign languages can be fun. I kind of wish I'd found time for that music theory course. I never studied economics and that was probably a mistake.

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[1] I mean, sometimes you get lucky in high school and get to take classes from amazing, inspired teachers with a great grasp of the state of the art. But often you don't.
"'As the speed increases you're starting to look at 50, 60mph; there's a considerable amount of power consumed by each additional mile an hour,' Dowling said. 'There's a trade off between energy and time.' To determine how best to expend the vehicle's energy budget, including the power in its batteries, the team has developed software that models the vehicle's performance."
Are we human, or are we dancer?
Miles O'Brien is consistently surprising in his depth of thought. (Or depth of assistants, i'm not sure...)
Poll: Name the Hill Ravers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA8z7f7a2Pk&feature=player_embedded

inspired

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/06/guy-3.html

and more.

Can we give him and his deputies some labels before their true details are unmasked in the regular press?
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enlightenment on the down-low! Sneaky.
Thought 1: I want to make a forum. Here's how I will make the front page that lists all the forums, making it clean and easy to see the most popular stuff, even if it's older...

Thought 2: But wait. Do I need a front page that lists all the forums? Am I optimizing instead of thinking?

Thought 3: Are forums really the right tool for the job?

Thought 4: How would I recognize the right tool for the job? What does communication mean? How does this change on the internet?

I do this, but unlike the author I've come to regard it as generally a bad habit. Too much thinking gets in the way of doing. These days I try to avoid over-thinking everything, and concentrate on just making something - anything, and seeing what happens when I launch it.
But does "no-commitment" mean the phone can be used on any carrier? Since you can only order it directly from AT&T, I'd guess that it can't.
Amen. The best decisions of my life were spur of the moment ones. You can't generalize. People are vastly different from one another. Two guys with the same degree from the same school will have varying levels of success in life. Personality and initiative are not taught in school... they can't be.
Here here[1] !!!

As what Seth would term the No. 1, I have found it hard to find #2 and #3.

People with skills have good jobs and responsibilities. Enticing them to believe in working for a startup is very difficult.

One key step is they can see themselves being that exciting #2 and #3 and bring the crowd to start dancing [as such]

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[1] See poll for comment on Raver himself : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=650958
instead of imaginary iteration just switch to actual iteration. at some point you run into technical/time constraints and the problem is solved for you.
Arggggh, why did you have to bring that up? I'm going to have to drink it out of my head later today.
Why telecommuting is tough for small companies
Godin was probably drawing an allusion to Guy#3 being the "tipping point" of people to join.

As far as detractors...somebody could have just as easily poked fun at Guy#1 (mock dancing, throw a soft object at him, etc.), thus invalidating his own self-absorbed ecstasy, and probably making it more difficult for the observers to be converted into participants (not to mention detracting from the overall mood of the purpose of the festival).

I think a more reasonable explanation for how participation precipitated would be to look at it from the perspective of influence and the time for that influence to propagate throughout the crowd. Guy#1 takes a few minutes to influence Guy#2 to join. The two dancing together takes less time to influence Guy#3, and then the three of them take VERY little time to attract a small group, and then the whole festival jumps in...

I think that there is some value in calculating the time it takes for the group to go from one participant to many participants to see if there is an exponential growth rate taking place.

That might take the effort out of squinting too hard.

;)
I think you're missing the point of the article by focusing on her. They may have been able to find a more sympathetic subject to focus on, but the point remains that many freelance workers are now facing a decline in demand, and they are really an uncounted part of the unemployed economy.
It depends on what your goal is. My goal is to innovate in design. So for me, it's definitely the best course.

But, think about applying those 4 levels of thinking to your problem with overthinking. It works great on personal issues too. ;)
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I think Guy #3 is MORE of a leader thn Guy #1... Guy #1 is absolutely the 'out of the box' thinker BUT Guy #3 is more rational, sees an opportunity, and is probably the first to really give 'credibility' to the movement.

Guy #2 is a wannabe.
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Original poster here: the photo blog is a good place to start: http://msf.ca/blogs/photos/ Many of these blogs are remarkable, though, and I thought they fit HN character really well.
Apparently idea that computers exclusively run the AirBus has been debunked:

[...] THE SYSTEM WILL NOT FIGHT THE PILOTS. The system just gives me the best the airplane can do at the moment without me having to stop and consider my conditions.

If I as the pilot deflect the stick left, if the autopilot is engaged, it will be disengaged for me. The load factor is considered and the airplane will begin a maximum-rate roll in the direction I deflected the stick. I keep holding the stick and the airplane will keep rolling up to the limiter. That's when Normal Law is active. If we're in Alternate or Direct law, there is no roll limit and I can roll the airplane onto its back and crash it if I desire. [...]

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1261521&cid=282...
Wow, thanks for taking the time to do this in-depth writeup. Really cool to see what all goes on in milliseconds of time.
Democrats tend to view the poor/needy as people who were unlucky. Redistribution is justified as evening out the results of chance.

Republicans (excluding the 'lefty christian' ones such as Bush [1]) tend to view the poor/needy as financially/etc irresponsible people. Redistribution is not justified, being mainly just a tax on responsibility.

The example given in this article supports the Republican view more than the Democratic view.

[1] I use 'lefty christian' to describe the ones who support both redistribution/social spending/etc, but differentiate themselves from Dems using christian nationalism.
ExpectJ: Java implementation of the Unix "expect" tool
How USAir Turned My Grumpy Mood Around
It sounds like you are describing ConcurrentHashMap

(using ehcache or ConcurrentHashMap+putIfAbsent is almost always the right choice for shared access in my opinion, unless you can prove there is a bottleneck)
Why would anyone mod this up? It's full of shit, and amounts to ranting about having read _The Selfish Gene_ and not having understood what it was actually talking about.
A terrible situation + good & creative customer service = A Customer Advocate. I love it.
A Real Whopper: Black Hole Is Most Massive Known
Japan Creates Robo-Chefs to Take Over the Kitchen
I do run a company. It grosses a few million a year, so I'd be in the position to "get the gist". These posts may be helpful for people who've never done a startup before, or are very early in their current one, but are not useful for people such as myself and many other HN members at a similar or later, greater stage than myself.
The site has site search, and this article

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolphil/reduction.html

is on point to the submitted article here on HN.
Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04
I respectfully disagree. Its like I entered the Magic Kingdom - this place is disneyland for computer dorks. It hits you immediately.
Extends beyond 2 of course. Mostly startup/entrepreneur centric view, but applies to any large scale project/design work. Additional observers refine knowledge of our collective state of awareness.
Juicy description pdf. Looking forward to language multithreading, and concepts/variadic templates (no more wrong template assumptions).
Ask HN: What do you use to organize your thoughts for a new website or project?
I'm in the early stages of planning a website, and for me this means jotting down lots of thoughts and ideas as I work to develop the feature-set, user roles, descriptions of expected model/view/controller structures, and other pieces of information that go along with every project. Previously I've used a basic text editor to organize this information, but given the scale of my new project I'm finding it lacking ... particularly since I have a need to share and collaborate with a business partner on some of these concepts.

I've tried a variety of tools ... both online, and offline ... but my desire to keep the project concept private until it's ready to launch, and my paranoia about how private the online "note-taking/project manageemnt" tools really are have left me going back to a text file for organizing all of my thoughts.

What do others use to organize this type of information? Is there something better out there?
Love the play by play. Was aware of the handshake after that I thought there would be some matrix like kung-fu fight scene...
Seriously, thanks for the share and kudos to the author.
Innovation: Behind Microsoft's full-body gaming interface
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Bingo. I remember being an undergrad watching all the other majors play frisbee while we suffered. "That's ok", I remember thinking "this has to pay off. I mean, why else would we be doing this and not enjoying life? Wait until we graduate, then we'll see whos living it up!"

A dot com crash and several cube jobs later, those same folk are living in better homes and driving luxury suvs while I am pondering how I can escape the hell that is a modern day software cubicle job....Guess the joke really is on us.
Interesting. Is what you might consider "real content" (i.e. longer form, more substance, not popcorn ideas) lost on the web? Or is there still a place for it? I notice that when I write shorter articles it's much easier to get coverage for it than longer, more detailed articles that I personally find more interesting.

PG has postulated that it's an inevitable fate for communities like this because the short, easy to digest pieces are simple to view and upvote. Longer, meatier content is more difficult to digest, and thus receive fewer upvotes, even if the people who finish it find it more interesting.
Well, you're missing the point of insurance. A hundred people might need to collectively save a million dollars, but acting independently they would need 10 million. With the self-employed the tragedy of the commons would kick in mighty fast though.
But in a work environment it's often not your choice to pick what you work on. I tended to find that those with the experience were set on legacy systems, and the new technology went to contractors, or were outsourced. And no matter what your 'application experience', any chance at employment elsewhere became based on your 'language/platform experience'.
C++0x standard is in "real soon now" mode for quite some time. I'm definitely excited by the possibilities, but somewhat unhappy over the current state of compilers, see e.g., http://wiki.apache.org/stdcxx/C++0xCompilerSupport and http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html

In such as scenario, writing code that runs with different OS-compiler combinations while leveraging the cool features such as concepts, lambda expressions and closures, variadic templates and unicode is going to be difficult in the short term. Of course, if a project sticks to a single compiler, then it won't be much of an issue.

Nowhere near the power offered by LISP, but huge leap of convenience while writing in C++
It's a cycle of awesomeness.

I'm not convinced... It's an interesting article, but it seems to me this cycle can just as easily devolve into mental masturbation. "I'm thinking X. Am I thinking this because Y or Z? What's the meaning of thought anyway?" Keep doing this for too long and you might turn into some kind of philosopher.

Now, I agree that some self-examination is essential (as Socrates put it, the unexamined life is not worth living), but I'd argue that what's needed is a balance between thinking and doing. And doing requires putting aside all those fabulous thoughts and focusing on the task at hand for a while.

The two are not exclusive, nor is one superior to the other. They are a bit like Reason and Passion in Khalil Gibran's writings (http://www.katsandogz.com/onreason.html):

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would two loved guests in your house. Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows -- then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky -- then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion." And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.
im in a similar situation at the moment. My friend and I are taking a very low-tech approach. A few beers, pad of A4 paper and a couple of pens seems to do us very well.

We model UIs, entity-relationship's and use cases all free hand. I think it's a lot quicker than using something like visio, etc to mock-up ideas.
So you're letting them off on a technicality then.

I wouldn't say Google are getting off on a technicality. I'm just saying that the premise of the article is false given that Google has shown in the past that they are trying advertising in many sectors (not just online) and so, their market position argument can be assumed to be correct, regardless of whether they dominate one area of the total market that they address.
Getting asked to MS and Google to pimp your website is a valid excuse to crow about it, IMO.
Can't you edit it to fix the link?
I assume one of the editors will fix it at some point... or you could resubmit.
I created a new project on Github which I use solely for the wiki. I use it to jot down ideas, take notes, etc. I've found it a great way to keep organized.
Ask Pg / YC: Common Stock or Convertible Debt?
As what I understand, YC and other clones ask for 6% (average) founder's stock for their initial high risk investments in the new startups.

So just wondering whether someone starting new should follow the same formula of offering founder's stock (with no control) to 3F (family, friends and fools) from whom they're borrowing money (<$25k) or is it better to offer convertible debts? what are the pros and cons? OR is there any 3rd option?
It's already accumulated a fair few comments, I don't think resubmitting would be appropriate.
The entire dance party constituted a tiny minority of the people within eyesight---there were literally thousands of people on that hill who could see him. There were a bunch of people already dancing closer to the stage and all over the hill. The reason anyone started filming him in the first place was because they were laughing at the funny drunk/high guy.

As jnorthop's theory that "he was not dancing to attract a crowd"... yes he was. Seth's particular version of the video starts just after he desperately implores some nearby people to get up and dance with him. Evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frd0CPYuZgU

Interpret that ;P
Pivotal tracker for every possible feature or chore related to the site. Omnigraffle + some wireframe templates for mockups. Then a paper moleskin for jotting down thoughts or drawing (sometimes pen and paper is better than all else)
I've wondered the same for -ages-.

Why isn't there a law that -requires- any employer who provides insurance to contribute the dollar amount they would put toward an employee's plan to -any- private plan the employee wishes? Currently you need a fairly generous employer to even offer you a cash 'bonus' for waiving company insurance and buying private. And even then, it's very rarely comparable to what the company would have paid on your behalf to the group plan.

And why are 401ks tied to employers? Why can't employees choose which 401k provider they wish, regardless of what 'group plan' their employer might prefer? Or an easier alternative: why aren't employers required to offer matching into a private IRA if an employee waives 401k matching?

We champion the power of markets in the US, but then we have all these communal, zero-choice, easily-corrupted corners (particularly surrounding employment) that are a huge drag on those same markets. 'Private' insurance and retirement in the US are tantamount to a 'company store'.

Allowing the self-employed to pay unemployment insurance taxes is the same sort of thing in my mind. Why -not-? If they want to pay in what any employer would and their claims to benefits are the same as any other employee, why the hell not?
My grandfather was programming for a similar length of time before he retired. He made his last money maintaining mainframe assembler and Cobol programs, though. (He jokingly described himself as a classical philologist for computer languages.)
> They may have been able to find a more sympathetic subject to focus on, but the point remains that many freelance workers are now facing a decline in demand, and they are really an uncounted part of the unemployed economy.

That may be your point, but the article was about something else.
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So write smaller programs. Use a higher level language.
Not sure if it will help, but one tool I use at concept stage is FreeMind. I like it for forming a structure to a site.

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page