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Napping in the afternoon (the hottest part of the day) is common in many cultures as well.
Is only getting 7 hours of sleep a night, really that bad? I personally like sleeping. I would hate to try only get 2-4 hours a day.
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Thanks for describing this specifically. Quite a few PhDs and some Masters students would definitely qualify for this. There are many folks who get stuck in the H1B labor farms who could be out there making amazing shit if not for this situation.
As I think I've said, but may've neglected, I've absolutely no problem with you arguing your point (either directly or through secondary sources). I only object to lack of respect which makes my job harder when I need to criticize someone's position, because I run the risk of sounding like you.
That's pretty much what I do now. My daughter (at one!) still needs a bottle around 2-3 am, so I'll feed her then tidy up or move the wash to the dryer or something. I think it's at least worthwhile to explore how you sleep, even if you're not trying to do the whole polyphasic thing. Just sleeping at a regular time every day, and timing your wakeups to coincide with a sleep cycle can make you feel better and give you a lot of extra hours on the weekend (no sleeping in!)
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Not everyone is using software in a standard office environment. I have a CNC machine running Windows NT 4. Its a production machine; I need it running, period. I have another running Windows 2000; its a tooling machine, also essential. I have PCs running various CAD and CAM programs which cost 5 figures, and are not negotiable; I simply need them at all times. I need my server of all our past work available at all times; I need the network to be equally available. I can't afford the disruption of trying to get all this running on a new OS because Microsoft thinks I have nothing better to do. I have product to get out the door.
Now, I haven't seen one line of Notch's code. I have no idea if it's well structured or spaghetti. I would make an educated guess and say that there's a lot of the basics in this project that have been ported over from the Minecraft or 0x10c code.

This last point is rather unlikely I think. I spent more than one or two weeks worth of time watching the various screencasts you can find on twitch.tv of Notch coding (I find it highly relaxing).

He usually writes everything from scratch. He doesn't copy & paste from other projects because he's experienced enough to pretty much to just write down the code he wants. He also hardly ever looks up documentation (besides using autocomplete for library methods). Also, he practically doesn't write any code comments in these toy projects.

He's extremely productive in my opinion, and can easily spend hours at a time coding. He does a lot of play testing and small gameplay fixes, even at early stages.

I've learned a whole lot just watching these videos. For instance that we don't have the same taste in music :-) But thank god for twitch.tv.
I'd just like to point out that their first kickstarter didn't make even half its goal. We all talk about how we wish more money was devoted to research like this. Skip your latte today and toss them a fiver.
" More Americans attend college today than ever before: this year, 42% of young people 18 to 24 years old."

This is why education costs so much nowadays and the product is so poor. Everyone has the right to pursue learning. But, these folks aren't owed anything because they've sat through enough classes to earn a BA.
...external services that we don't have direct control over...

Adam B. has control over posting his passwords to public sites. ".hgignore" is handy.
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Another country?
Can you get the debugging screencast to cast from your computer to your Chromecast?
Once the stem is over, you need to switch to the H1B. Also if you were born in Canada, Singapore, Chile, Australia, things are easier.
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Google and Apple seem to adopt similar advertisement policies
Browser support is listed in the documentation (http://github.hubspot.com/sortable): IE8+, Firefox 4+, Current WebKit (Chrome, Safari), Opera.
In the article linked it says "Both personal and commercial licenses now include 1-year upgrade subscription. For more information on the new pricing and licensing options for IntelliJ IDEA, please visit ..."
can you expand on how you got Spotify as a Canadian? I've been wanting to do that for quite a while.
The title has been changed. What was it before?
I realised 2-3 hours after my blog post, and rushed to redact the last names from the post + pdf. I have now also redacted last names from the screenshots. Sorry about that! But thank you for letting me know. :)
yes, I know it was a joke. Kill of the snakes and the natural mouse and rat population would increase.
gees thank you for all that Junto!
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>The resistance can then be immediately removed and boost would become available instantly because it would be spinning near the full-boost RPM

You don't need to remove the resistance to get boost if you've only used the resistance to avoid overspeed. You've limited the turbine to max RPM and thus max boost. You only need to remove resistance or even reverse it and have the electric motor spin up the turbine when the RPMs drop below the boost value you want.
Seems like acting nefarious is more profitable than doing the right thing.
It's off topic though, isn't it? It's not in any way about the article. It's tangential, I suppose. That's why I think several people hit the 'flag' link. Just for clarity - I didn't flag it. It was already [dead] when I saw it. I'm just guessing.
Wirth had (has?) a famous heuristic where he would reject any optimization of the compiler that didn't make it faster to compile itself. Since optimizations add code and thus cost something to compile, this is a clever way of testing cost/benefit.
Thanks @eropple for the effort to download and provide feedback. Much appreciated.
Agree on whole comment and about the need to connect with customers, but there is a subtlety with this line I would ask you caveat:

> Whatever they like doing, it's most likely not anything called "computing" and they just want more time to do that thing but find themselves too often distracted by "computing" to do it.

You're right, but unfortunately there are a lot of instances where the data initially shows otherwise. One naive way of looking at Google glass, for example, is that the early adopters did want wearable computing... and from that conclusion other electronics manufactures should make more types of wearables: watches, pedometers, shoes, etc. Surprise, surprise... many of the wearables have failed (looking at you Samsung) despite based heavily on the initial market research because they didn't actually do anything useful.
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Outside of America there are far more sports that don't try to even the playing field artificially. Motor racing (I don't know much about non-F1 racing anyway) is pretty much the limit in the UK, team games generally work on the free market, individual games can generally be dominated by great individuals.
Perhaps obvious, but why not add some of Ray Bradbury's own short stories to the list?
I'm on Linux and installing a virtual box with a Safari browser just for that seems like too much trouble. I have access to my brother's iPhone but it's annoying for me and for him to have to push my changes to a staging site then go "hey can I use your iPhone for a second" every 5 minutes.
The original behavior, where a substring pins the full original string, is also how Go's substring slicing works. I much prefer this behavior, as it lets you profile and add a copy yourself if you find yourself pinning large strings. The Java change to do a copy for every substring seems like it harms the general case to help out poorly reasoned code.

While the tracking of intervals with a tree is certainly impressive, it is a lot of complexity to again (in my opinion) support poorly written code. If you know you are going to only use 10 bytes of a 1 MB incoming HTTP request, make a copy.
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Haha, we were so quick to dismiss him, if only we'd known.
dba7dba: it's hard to tell. You should send an email off to info@ycombinator.com and ask why you were banned and if they could unban you.
One of the facts that is not widely appreciated -- unless you have visited the site of the assassination -- is just how short a distance we're talking about. I remember thinking that it couldn't have been more than about a hundred yards. According to Wikipedia, the distance from the sixth story window to where Kennedy was when he was shot in the head is 265 feet. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_r...)
"Bundler is scheduled to die in under two years time"
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I don't understand your complaint. Let's take it on say patents.

Similarly:
(1) Your company is sued for patent infringement. You protest that you aren't violating the patent and are being unfairly prosecuted.
(2) You are found to not be infringing. You then announce that you've been found to not be infringing.

I don't see what's wrong with that.
Depends on where OP was born really and how many degrees he has. The employment based Green card process is terrible if you were born in China or India, or don't have a Masters degree. Otherwise, it is not that complicated. There are enough folks who get a permanent residentship through work in a couple of years. Also, the green card lottery is an option that everyone (who is eligible) should try for.
The e-verify process is very easy and if you have incorporated your startup you can go ahead and do the e-verification yourself. Keep in mind that you are employee of your own company, so as long as the company is registered you should not have the 90 day unemployment problem.
Ask HN: Inevitability that social media users become publishing entities? 
It seems to me that in the near future all content advertising will be done by social media users by posting content they like to get paid. There are a few companies like Virool, MyLikes, Engodo etc. already in the space. If you could scale this then you could create an arbitrage in which a company could create publishing entities out of individual social media users and have them post content to their feeds and pay them on a CPC basis based on the amount of impressions their posts generate. Is this the future of advertising and is it even sustainable?
Hahahahahah Access? Those poor souls.
The primary reason no doubt is because it enables him to deliver over the web. There are other languages for this but I have no doubt that in Notch's case I have no doubt its because he feels he can be productive in it and that is because it is similar to what he knows. He was asked on reddit why he chose java and he had a really simple answer:

"Because I know it"

Given the massive language debates that are out there I thought this was pretty refreshing and indicative of a successful person whose focus is elsewhere.

Myself I think Dart is a massive improvement over java and I could probably debate it all day. But then again I'm not as successful as Notch, maybe I should ease up on the debating.
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EME extends HTMLMediaElement to let it talk to Content Decryption Modules, which must be provided elsewhere. This is just a standardized API for being able to handle protected content. I do not understand all the hyperbole surrounding this.

You're also a bit off your rocker if you're trying to paint "the copyright industry" as some kind of secretive cabal of people who just want to cram DRM on users' computers. Not to mention the fact that sites that don't use this won't even be affected by it. The vast majority of websites out there won't even care, and the ones that do care already have a solution to deal with protected content today, it's just a crappy solution (e.g. requiring Silverlight). Hell, using EME to handle protected content is a far better experience for the user than requiring the installation of a third-party plugin that can has far more capabilities than just decryption content. So if anything, this actually limits the scope of what protected content playback code can do on users' machines.
Awesome! I think the landing page could do a slightly better job at explaining the problem Luna solves.

"Delivering your packages when you're home for the night" sounds nice, but why would I want my packages delivered at night?

I looked at the blog and it perfectly explained the problem: "How many times have you anxiously awaited a package only to come home and find that dreaded little slip hanging from your front door?"

Why not put that on the landing page?
Honestly, you're never going to be able to replicate the iPhone without using the browser engine it uses. These Chrome Dev Tools will have nothing to do with iPhone Safari.
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Thanks for the feedback, Raphie
>If you think there's a 1% chance that a Bitcoin could be a million dollars, then buy 0.01 Bitcoins or something right now.

That only tells you whether to invest, not how much. I.e. if you think there's a 1% chance a bitcoin might be worth a million dollars, that tells you you should buy it if it's worth less than $10k. (and then probably half that again to cover the delay)
That is so funny. I was thinking the same thing exactly!

Slightly unrelated, I also wonder about stomach sleepers. it seems like all of these things are designed for back and side sleepers. I know that stomach sleeping isn't considered "healthy" (for back/neck reasons) but there are some things that just are the way they are.
Nothing has ever been developed in F1 that has made it into road cars? What about active suspension, sequential gear boxes, etc?
I think we've moved into the post-enchantment era, where non-enchanting, ping-anxiety is king. People are addicted to the social feedback.
Which is fair, but seeing as how many people were confused (I was), it's probably not a good wording.
Yes, people tend to focus more on the tools rather than the product. As long as you don't do things like using LOLCODE for a huge enterprise app, the language and environment you know are more important in making something rather than things like text editors and IDEs.
> I could imagine the FBI simply deleting the wallets but does anyone know their actual policy?

Pretty sure whatever their policy is, it isn't "throw away $150million of seized assets"
I removed the last names from the blog posts and from the PDF, as they could be indexed by Google. I have now also removed them from the screenshots. Thanks. My intention was not to negatively affect these developers careers.
What was the logic behind rubygems adding support for Gemfiles? I can see why Gemfile.lock support is a good thing, but adding a new, incompatible runtime dependency resolution mechanism to that provided by Bundler seems like an odd choice.
"Supply and demand" at work.
Yes, but I'm not sure the author knows.
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It's impossible to make a complete evaluation based on what you've provided here, but I'd lean towards no.

One problem is that I don't know exactly how you'd define the field. That turns out to be a critical step in putting together a persuasive narrative.

The other thing, at least on the cases I worked on, we never had a case that was just sort of scrapping by. We got a 2-3" binder and filled it with evidence. We tried to hit as many categories as possible, not just the minimum, and in each category provided more than one example.

On the other hand, I only worked on a half dozen, and they were all successful (although we did get an RFE on one), so I can't really say I know exactly where the line is.
Excellent Idea! My Amazon Prime account makes me automatically turned off by delivery charges. $6.99 is too steep per package for me (mainly due to the low cost of the items I purchase), but I would definitely enroll in some tier type pay package. $X for Y total deliveries or $1.75X for 2Y total deliveries.

edit: clarity
i want to know too... fyi, the second address has 4 btc...
Yes, you don't often find articles directed at underlings on HN. That's old school Napoleon Hill.
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I wonder how a modern day CanAm car would compare to F1 cars. At the time the CanAm cars were producing far more power (Porsche 917/30 ~1,580hp) than F1 and still had to handle.
Fantastic. This is really an excellent post. I particularly enjoy the code snippets along with each example.
Great, thanks! The Internet Explorer one was the one I was probably most curious about. I'll have to give it a test go and see if I can go ahead and use it to supplant the older sorttable in my script ;-).
Does ayone know if any of the other music services focusing on concerts and/or merch or similar?
I know he tried Haskell. I agree with him on a lot of points he made there. But:

1. He investigated it long after he had already been successful using something more mainstream. If you are starting something up then I think it would be good advice to use what you know and get on with it. If that's Haskell then good for you. If its not then don't waste your time. Get on with the product.

2. Even then he didn't finish rebuilding his game because he was drawn back to his day to day work. The guy is just product focused.
The site doesn't mention the !! command.

The !! command is used to repeat the previously issued command.
I like the idea. Though the $6.99/package is more than I'm wiling to spend. I order most of my stuff online and packages delivered to my apartment during the day will be stolen. I currently have to get all my packages delivered to work, but for some people that may not be an option.
I disagree here - you've either lost the data or you haven't. You can make guesses as to the expected resources of the attacker, but if you're wrong and the attacker has more resources, then you might as well have not even bothered.

As an example, you have some fairly non-sensitive private health records. Here are three approaches:

(1) No security at all. You hope nobody is going to bother taking them and using them for anything malicious.

(2) You put in decent security, but a contractor for a new feature left open a vulnerability you didn't know about.

(3) You make sure everything is secure and have security audits over the code that closes the vulnerabilities that a contractor made.

The data for (1) and (2) get hacked and used in a bigger hack on a different service that results in money being stolen.

Now you could say that (1) gets an F, (2) gets a B because at least they tried, and (3) gets an A+ because the data wasn't stolen. This is rubbish - both (1) and (2) resulted in data being stolen and lost customers / lost money / insurance penalties / whatever. The security teams for both (1) and (2) failed utterly and get an F.

If (2) had guessed correctly and nobody had actually devoted those resources then (2) gets a flying colors because the data is safe - but it's just pure gambling. Gambling with security will always be a losing bet in the long run. Rather just make it secure. Going off some strange 'expected resources' is just asking for the time when your data somehow becomes valuable and those resources get brought (or more likely, one of your employees annoys the wrong person with too much free time).

Explaining to your customers that their email addresses weren't valuable enough to do proper security is a great way to lose me as a customer.
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Just in my opinion, the manual process is a concierge service, which people may be willing to pay $30/m for if they're getting $300 of value (a real person to work with).

When they switch over to the self-service version, they have to put more of their own time in to using your system and lose the expertise of the concierge person, and the value proposition may not be > $30/m anymore.
Curses to you. I want to know, today. You think the internet has conditioned me to be patient? No! I want it now.
Where would a noob to this kind of stuff start? I'd like to draw a rectangle to the screen. :)
I'm interested in this as a cheap way of providing time-limited encryption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6511690
Tesla requested the investigation. I didn't read a claim about being poorly treated. (I am not saying that such a claim does not exist.)

"Second, we have requested that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conduct a full investigation as soon as possible into the fire incidents."

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/mission-tesla
My point isn't invalid. Communication is messy, and this is an example of that.

"I was in the middle of the ocean!"

Did you think I was in water? You're wrong. I was on an island that is in the middle of an ocean.

"I stayed in a hotel in New York."

Did you think I rented a hotel room? No, I simply stood in the lobby.

You can't say that because someone says something without constraining it with every detail, that the communicated point is incomplete. Communication is a loose protocol.
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Now let's have a fork that uses remind[1] syntax.

[1]: http://linux.die.net/man/1/remind
A lot of kids are attending college because it's a status symbol for their parents, and I think it's been that way since the 90s. I remember being in high school and hearing about my friends getting in big fights with their parents because they did not want to go to college, which of course was unacceptable in white upper middle class suburbia.
Just gave what I could! Hope this help!

SCIENCE!!!!!
Ask HN: Will you give me some fraction of a Bitcoin?
I've been looking at Bitcoin a lot recently, and with the recent post regarding Bitcoin messenger, it looks like there may be other uses for the currency than simply spending it (or speculating). But, it seems that my laptop sucks too much to actually mine even a tiny fraction of a coin (after two days of trying I've so far yielded no results using GUIMiner).

So, in the spirit of the Holidays, and to help fund my experimentations, who among you is willing to send me some fraction of a Bitcoin? Any amount will do!

My Wallet Address is 157cVXoxtFyjsscsd1quTPWV62BMhZ4epC (I think!)

Cheers!
right, I thought you hand't RTFA :-)

2000 mice for 2 million snakes is unlikely to make any meaningful difference but will test if the approach can be used as a way to control the snake population... I guess!
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