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You're been raised on Horatio Alger myths.

You've read Paul Graham's essays that exhort you to throw away your youth to work for him, in exchange for a lottery ticket.

Your mind is a collection of lies, and facing this can be depressing.

Or you can try to bolster the lies, you can pretend really hard that the lies are real, you can be inspired to place yourself in an economically vulnerable situation where your boss will likely economically abuse you.

You can be filled with fervor and stand up and make your life better... by sacrificing your body to enrich lazy bosses who don't give a shit about you, your health, your life, your family, your future.

You can stand up and buckle down to 60 hour work weeks until your body has been used up, at which point you can look forward to a life on the couch taking painkillers.

Look buddy--just because it makes you temporarily inspired doesn't mean it's good. What's the reasonable response to current economic conditions? Economic conditions where Wall Street and the 0.1% get greedily rich by just siphoning off the wealth of the country--not to mention crashing the economy. A country where the rich get rich not by "hard work" but by writing inspiring speeches to get suckers to do hard work.

This is just the world, bro. And the appropriate response to such a world is feelings of depression. And then after feelings of depression, feelings of fervor... not to be an economically abused slave, but to stand up with fervor and a desire to make ALL of our lives better, and to OVERTHROW the capitalist system that places us all in subservience.

The fervor that this should drive us to is a fervor to guillotine the 1% and take their money. As soon as the 99% realizes it can vote itself more money, all our problems will be solved. But the 99% right now seems only to be inspired by calls to slavery, not calls to freedom. The 1% have no compunction about voting themselves more money, or tricking you to vote them more money. Why are the 99% such fucking idiots that calls to slavery inspire them but calls to revolution don't?

Basically, fuck you for being an easily manipulated tool. You are what is wrong with the world.
A Chill Over British Press
Motorola doesn't manufacture the Nexus phones.
Yeah I've interviewed in Seattle and Chicago mostly. A couple half day visits sounds like a day's worth to me. :)

You're right I'm talking more like 4-6 hours... but at that point you need to schedule the entire day for it so you can be on time, leave room for extra time to talk if the employer wants, etc.

So again, it's not that it is exactly 8 hours, but that it pretty much takes up a day.
Page 10 "Я из Одессы я просто бухаю." translation: I'm from Odessa I just drink. Meaning his drinking a lot of "Vodka" ^_^
There are two editions of the 5, so they are probably moving in that direction. That, and older models do a reasonable job of filling the low end niche...
>They can even be good boyfriends if you understand how to handle them--Leonard can benefit Penny with his intelligence, devotion, and wealth even if he isn't cool.

You seem to be implying there are many fewer nerd-couples than I've actually seen.
Anecdotal point, but my Mom is much happier to get an update with a new phone than to have an old phone updated.
Canada has a points system. You'll miss out on a lot of points for not having any higher education, but you can recoup some of that if your spouse matches the template:

http://www.workpermit.com/canada/points_calculator.htm
It's dangerous! Usually early mornings people are really tired, I tried to go out before first light a few times, I felt that I am endangering myself.
He actually criticizes both Democrats and Republicans. I don't think it's fair to say that he was a strong representative of the GOP.
I would say going for some kind of niche is the only way to go these days, if there are too many other apps in your category you're going to have issues. I would even venture to say the games part of the app store is the hardest section to crack you have a lot of competition so you really need to go niche.
Steeri: Apple’s Answer to the Google Driverless Car
Google is interested in building Android as a platform. Having 80% of your install base stuck 4 versions behind[1] is a crappy way of doing it. Even after they've moved more and more of the platform into the Play frameworks you're still leaving users without a bunch of improvements to the core platform, not to mention security fixes. iOS is miles ahead on this front exactly because it controls the hardware. That Google doesn't do the same now that it also controls the hardware seems short-sighted.

Building a 150$ great phone would allow them to set a feature/quality floor for the market. If they forced their suppliers so the hardware in these phones is properly supported upstream, targeting new versions of Android should be pretty easy. When Ubuntu launches a new version it doesn't need to go and retrofit it to the thousand different types of laptop out there. The state of Android though is that the GPU/Camera/whatever drivers are binary blobs locked in to a specific kernel version.

[1] https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
Its the modern day "cool runnings" story :). Go Paul!
That's awesome! Can men wear it, too?
I can't wait for a Verizon version (apparently 1Q 2014) to pare up with PagePlus, so I can dump my VZ contract and only pay half of what I do now.
That is also a potential problem with an HN spin-off not being run by the same people.
> like software, the necessity for a patent system is a lot less clear.

Software is a terrible example, since every story such as this one demonstrates how absurd and stupid software patents are. It is plain as day.
I've entertained similar ideas... amazing that he went after it and didn't dismiss it immediately.
Communities are made of people. Software alone is only half the story. The problem with reddit is redditors.
Could anyone explain to me what it means "native" versus "non-native" graph processing in that slide show? Ditto for "native" versus "non-native" graph storage. I simply have no idea what I'm supposed to picture when I see that.

Also, on the neo4j.org page, the claim that "graph data model['s] expressiveness supersedes the relational model" seems a little bit spurious, seeing as, as I understand it, the relational model and graph data are both anchored in first-order predicate logic, and therefore should be able to do the same things essentially (although Codd-style RDBMS with a little bit more fuss regarding the necessary schemas).
I cast a second vote for Yes, Minister. The sheer stiff-upper-lip poshness just makes it all the funnier.
A rather contrived explanation.
I bought 3 moto g's and on the day they arrived switched the entire family to tmobile. I had enough of Verizon and now my bill is $100 a month. Can't beat that.
What about a fax machine from 1800

The Pantelegrafo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLhWSb8pcB8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelegraph
And the Mac market share compared to PC market share shows which is far more dominant.
main ones that come to mind: clinkle, dwolla, venmo. but the particular company doesn't matter so much as the clear market trend: fees are in a race-to-the-bottom mode right now, and within 10 years i fully expect them to be effectively 0, if not actually 0.
The parent post ask for "research proving patents do more good than harm", not for a theoretical problem which patents might do some good, regardless of the potential harm it might do at the same time.

The big elephant in the room problem with patents on medicine, is that government trade the life of some poor people for the incentive that some people might be more willing to invest in medicine research with patents rather than without it. We don't even ask if there is an alternative ways for the government to intervene, and use an 200 year old approach which creates value by excluding people who can't afford to pay to get access to medicine.

When people builds nuclear reactors, we ask what the potential good vs the potential harm there is. If we don't people die, which is why there is regulations. With patents, we have chosen the path of causing deaths, and we don't even ask if the price tag is worth it.
Can we please stop promoting the "democracy sucks" meme? It's not as if the Chinese are actually planning in that long a term; they're using markets now like everyone else.
Just the regular "NSA/Google is evil/wake up people" troll.

Ignore and carry on.
Why is this not called Updog???
One goes to conventions while wearing a cosplay. At the convention, one might also play a fantasy RPG or CCG/TCG, read comics, watch shows, or go to a rave. One will most likely partake of all this while really, really drunk.
The problem is the 88 keys don't just produce 88 notes. The combinations also produce unique sounds. Of course there aren't 88! factorial combinations in practice, but you couldn't get the necessary range from 8 keys.
How am I implying that?

Read it like this:

They can even be good boyfriends if...

TBBT is suggesting the tentative possibility that the BEST among the nerds, the best looking, the smartest, the richest, could maybe be worth dating. Maybe.

That's all.
One reason why is because Americans are more atomised culturally than people from, say, Mexico or Guatamala. Americans believe that you should live independently after you graduate from HS (or else go to college) and don't generally want to live in a home with multiple families or even the same family consisting of multiple generations under a single roof.
You are maybe from Bulgaria or Romania, right?
I'm very interested in Elixir but I'm having trouble understanding the benefit of the 'upcase' example at the end of the article. Compared to a single function with a conversion table, a function per character seems like a tremendous amount of overhead.

Is the purpose of implementing upcase this way to make it more easily parallelizeable in the map/reduce sense?
Re "set working hours": I think a lot of it goes back to early Industrial Age, when blue-collar people worked a lot more than now, as much as 14-16 hours/day. Most of their life was work, there wasn't any structure around it, and they worked for a single factory (the same factory, it didn't make sense to move around, or maybe there was only one factory in their town). Set working hours (limited at 8 hours/day) were a limitation imposed by the workers (or unions) against being over-worked (8hrs/day is much better than 14-16hrs/day). In most countries, this is still established by legislation.

Re "defined pay schedule": In some fields, you can get paid by a percentage-based commission (real estate, car sales, middle men in general, actors, movie directors etc). That's not always practical, and some employees prefer a fixed monthly salary (versus the insecurity of a percentage).
>... The current administration is slowly trying to create a country that has the ability to fight a war. I’ll continue to fight against this law, because it is the beginning of such a country. —Unemployed, 53, Yoriko W●●●

That is a great reason to vote, and an interesting way to look at secrecy laws.
This is an excellent point. I know I've been guilty of the pattern: "provide detailed directions for a poorly documented build, then spend years maintaining them in blog post/comments".

Better would be to actually contribute to central project documentation, I suppose.
The divide between "High end" and "Low end" devices is beginning to blur. The improvements to high end devices are providing diminishing returns, while all the "essentials" have trickled down to low end devices.
Glad to hear it! Going over the list and reading Higgs's comments made me feel less pressure to produce on infinitesimal time scales.
Markets still remain supply and demand driven. Industries that have roots in college educations have appeared more stable because the number of people with degrees has historically been relatively low. When we have more educated people than jobs that benefit from such an education, incomes will drop and it will become difficult to find work.

The trades are starting to gain appeal right now because people have put more emphasis on getting a college degree in the past decade or so. That leaves fewer people able to take on trade work, which pushes for higher incomes and better jobs to the people who can. At the same time, college educated people are finding it increasingly difficult to find meaningful employment.

Of course, if people follow Rowe's track in the future, it will swing back the other way again soon enough. That is why smart investors go to where nobody is showing interest.
Here's a mirror that was pointed out last time this wiki was posted: http://bash.cumulonim.biz/Bashism.html
Vine in the domain name is the fastest way to get a C&D letter.
Facebook May Add "Sympathize" Button
... or how the published research will only be available from behind pay walls - if at all.
I kind of wonder if that's because a lot of updates are rolled out poorly to older devices. On my previous two phones, I've ended up running CyanogenMod or another third-party ROM, even at the same base Android version at the stock OTA updates, because many times even the RC versions run better than what's getting pushed by the carrier. Verizon customer here though, so I don't know if other networks are better about that. I also wouldn't be terribly surprised if that effect (wanting a new phone over an update) is intentional.
Ask HN: Are you happy with graphic design on London Underground?
Maps, signs, leaflets, boards, etc.
Right move to target market in India and China , its way affordable than Iphone 5C and comes with the brand name too.
Yes, I was disappointed in Mike Rowe that be basically wrote off the whole problem as people not willing to do hard work. Everyone is willing to do hard, physical labor where you risk handicapping yourself for life...it just has to pay comparatively well to office jobs.

Then again, people around the world are competing for the same jobs nowadays, and obviously those with lower standards of living are going to do them for much cheaper, and all those manual labor technical jobs that don't require a mastery of English are going to go to China until the living standards equalize.

Bottom line is make sure someone in a poor country can't do your job (probably an intellectual, specialized, English speaking job), otherwise be willing to compete with China.
I would like to leave VZ too, but I'm simply too afraid that the coverage will not be there on tmobile and at&t - and especially I need to consider the WAF.
The article describes "stretched-hide membranes stitched around the bases of the receivers". This is actually a big improvement on the "tin cans on a string" model.
And look where it got NT. POSIX gone. OS/2 gone. NTVDM gone (on 64-bit).

Ultimately we are left with an abstraction layer which abstracts nothing because Win32 is the base level abstraction for all the other abstractions now. Metro, WP etc run on top of it all like a massive house of cards throwing 0x80004005 around to piss off devs. If you know the difference between Nt and Zw you'll get what I mean :)

It's all a big shame because the NT native API[1] and NTFS are absolutely flipping marvelous.

Compatibility layers got destroyed by virtualization as well.

Whole emulation layer thing was a bad idea for NT and this as well.

[1] Totally undocumented other than the leaked Windows NT/2000 source code a few years ago.
Easy there...Its not in 'inverted commas' for nothing. After all, the point is that the Brits copied the US model because the 'thought they were onto something'. Also, It may help to note that the UK <had> previously a policy of charging US students 3x cost prior to the increase in fees. Which seemed like a deal only a crazy person would take.[1] But...The US/other foreign students were still paying 1/2 price vs what the US-based schools cost, hence they viewed the 3x cost as a bargain. So, the Brits might pay $5K, the US would pay $15K and the North American Uni's would charge $30K. Theat is, notwithsatnding, the US students were paying 10x in their home country for the same services. After the changes, the UK students may pay about $15-20K pa, closer to what they charged the non EU people before. And the others (non-locals) are paying double that, much closer native costs for them. And thus a no-arbitrage position.

[1] There is a long history of "fleecing" rich foreign kids at schools, where they are looked at as cash cows. This is both true in the US (where they pay 'retail' with no financial aid) and in places like the UK/EU where locals are heavily subsidized.
That is exactly correct, for wind instruments at least: and in fact, some wind instruments have more than 10 holes or keys. But many combinations produce identical sounds, limiting the range of the instrument. The limiting factor on a wind instrument is the fact that it can only play a single note, (yes, with resonant frequencies, of course) and the length of the instrument, which determines the lowest note it can play.
I'm not a Republican, but I work with mostly Republicans in some of the charities I'm associated with, and at least anecdotally, that statement seems completely unsubstantiated, and carries about as much weight as "all Republicans are racists" or "all Democrats hate the rich".
I'm not sure what the claim is here.

Kids need diapers for a few years, which we can basically assume is constant. Meanwhile, lifespans keep increasing (especially in the past average-lifespan, say 80 years), and I assume adult diapers are used for significantly longer per person.

At even a 1:1 birth/death rate, given a long enough average lifespan, I would expect more adult diaper sales unless we find better / permanent fixes for whatever causes the need for adult diapers in the first place.
Correct, spin-off site operators need to be trusted not to be P&D moles. However, mystery odds beat certain odds of P&D message control (as seen in Reddit).
What kind of tanks were you diving with at 4500psi? I worked for a scuba shop for a couple years and we never did even a hot fill past 3400 on an aluminum tank, never mind steel tanks.
Aren't the actual options "IMAX 3D", "Standard format 3D", and "Standard format HFR". IMAX and 3D aren't mutually exclusive.
In my experience, leaving emotion out of the decision making process usually yields more optimal decisions.
I'm not sure the linked data is correct. The charts from the 2012 SHEEO report [1] shows revenue/student increasing from $10,869 in 1991 to $11,095 in 2012 (these are 2012 dollars).

Here is the page with links to the 2012 report and data: http://www.sheeo.org/node/631

[1] http://www.sheeo.org/sites/default/files/publications/All%20...
Talk about a "knowledge economy"!
I just installed them, doesn't seem to impact the speed of Quick Look.
I love watching race for enabling next billion people with cheap smartphone. We will see double of people on Internet today just in five years.
Very neat, I'm impressed. But your extension asks permission for data on all sites, if you'd limit that to vine only it'd be great.

Shameless plug; I made http://vinetuber.com/ a while ago but I think vine is limiting me.
Unfair to compare Iphone 5c with Moto G. Iphone 5c vs Moto X is a more meaningful comparison.
Using neural networks to solve AND, OR etc. was how the book[1] we used in our course introduced and compared neural networks. The simplest NN were just logical circuits.

[1] http://books.google.no/books/about/Fundamentals_of_Neural_Ne...
IMAX 3D
Well, all I can say is that until last week I was still using my Nokia 6500c. This Moto G is the fist smart phone that for me does enough to warrant the price; UK £120, unlocked. So, I bought one.
Is this a real world problem with real world consequences?

It is my understanding that the nuclear waste can be stored safely without too much cost. It is also my understanding that there are ways to re-use the already used fuel rods, effectively 1) making them radiate less 2) getting "leftover" power from already consumed fuel.

Psychological footprint fueled by ignorance however... Well, that borders religiousness. Maybe education and awareness helps.
You are right, I have added IMAX 3D.
http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listenin...
Yep, consistently crashes Chrome 32.0.1700.41
Nah, this one is credible: http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listenin...
How do you entangle a pair of black holes?
I've got good recommendations on Lenovo A820 (http://www.gsmarena.com/lenovo_a820-5462.php) which has about the same price but a little lower.
What would you buy? A Moto G or a Lenovo A820?
A sustainable business with larger profit margins is usually better to have than one with smaller profit margins. Also, a business with clients who have deeper pockets is better than a business dealing with those who have less disposable income.
In perfect world yes, but quite often documentation that does not agree with ruling party gets torched.
Will workout for beer.
> The trades are physically hard labor

Mike Rowe agrees with you, so what's your point? Of course it is hard. Mike's point is our culture is becoming increasingly averse to engaging in hard, physical labor, even in the cases where compensation greatly exceeds that of many other fields.
Rake task to publish posts in jekyll
It is not the degree, it is the specialization. If I were you I would take 2-3 months and learn everything there is to know about a very specialized subset of tech.

When I was at Microsoft I hired a guy out of Russia who was self taught, but knew pretty much everything there was to know about Forward Error Correction in Mpeg Transport Streams. So we go him a work visa.

From the work Visa after a time you can convert to a Green Card.

Talk with a recruiter, find something they will need lots of that they can't find in the US. Learn everything there is to know, and get sponsored.
She was so low-information that it almost seemed like a setup. I mean, really, she asked the most superficial, talking-point-like questions that provided him with perfect runway to espouse his views.

If he was going to write a script to allow him to peddle his world view, then her part would read exactly as it did. Almost too perfect.
Could anyone explain to me what it means "native" versus "non-native" graph processing in that slide show?

One of the leading native graph processing engines is GraphLab (http://graphlab.org/); however, the creator of GraphLab, Dr. Joey Gonzalez, is now focused on GraphX, which is essentially GraphLab built on Spark (http://spark.incubator.apache.org), which is a non-native analytics platform.

Building a graph-processing engine on a general processing system like Spark makes pre-processing and post-processing much easier.

See "Introduction to GraphX - Presented by Joseph Gonzalez, Reynold Xin - UC Berkeley AmpLab 2013" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKEn9C5bRck)

Also, a bunch of advancements in graph processing are coming down the pipe, which will be released in a few months (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6786563).

Ditto for "native" versus "non-native" graph storage.

See this post by Dr. Matthias Broecheler, the creator of Titan (https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki)...

"A Letter Regarding Native Graph Databases" (http://thinkaurelius.com/2013/11/01/a-letter-regarding-nativ...)
The Copenhagen Wheel [video]
A heads up to the Porteus site operator, if they read this: HTTPS Everywhere redirects requests to https://porteus.org, which reports the following error: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long.
I had to make an extension because it acts as a blocker so I can modify the request headers before the request is sent to emulate the mobile app. Also, I need access to all data because of the cross-origin requests. Also, I needed all the requests to come directly from the user and not my server, as it would get banned probably. It literally emulates using your phone.
A single gourd on a string is a musical instrument in several cultures.

I don't think that's the case here, but it might have been how it was invented.
Northeast, but I'd like to move to the west coast when possible.