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I was surprised about the article content about the brain taking up to 4 hours to ramp up in the morning. I usually work (mostly) from home and I find the three hours when I first wake up from about 6 to 9am are my most productive. I usually then take 2 or 3 hours off for hiking or other exercise, then start working again. Sometimes I also work for an hour after dinner.

I am working as a contractor on-site at Google right now, and it is challenging working non-stop without long breaks. I get into work by 6:30am and the first three hours is great (quiet, almost no one there, and also that is my best time of day). I find that short 15 minute walking around the block breaks don't really reset me back into work mode like a long hike does.
+1 as well.

I'd say it can be just as difficult to track down and fix a bug than solve a novel problem. In fact, in many cases it can be harder and require more creativity in how to go about discovering the bug, if we assume that the bug fixer didn't write the code nor design the original solution.
Ha. Same deal, except we were using usenet, in the 80s.

I got an email from a sysadmin saying, "Hey, you've got all this mail queued up for her and she left this job a couple of months ago, should I just delete it?"

Didn't marry her, that one didn't have a happy ending. :-/
That assumes that DNA always means exactly the same thing for every organism, which - AFAIR - is not true. Information about the organism is encoded both in the DNA and the workings mechanism that uses it to construct proteins.
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I've seen lots of these "x-role free" companies: no managers, no sales department, etc. Inevitably the function that those roles take on end up on somebody. Companies will sit in denial about it for a very long time, even making up weird titles to pretend like they still don't have managers, but ultimately they'll end up with them in the end because that's how they have to interface with the rest of the world and many of these roles exist because it's how work naturally breaks down and how people naturally specialize.
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This is cool :D
He's already said he would return if granted amnesty. I agree with nothing you've said.
AHHHH...I'm stuck on HN,wired and medium.
I scratched my head after reading your comment, and waited to see if anyone else would say something.

Colin's problem was that his (hand-written, from the looks of it) crypto primitives allowed him to use AES-CTR with a non-incrementing counter. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to say that in relation to a comment about "rolling your own protocol." I see that as a low-level problem.

Further, you've pulled a misdirection talking about TextSecure (which looks great, by the way). They don't roll their own crypto algorithms, but they have definitely tweaked and modified the OTR protocol for their own purposes in order to make it more secure. I'm left wondering why TextSecure is held up in contrast to someone who uses their "own" secure messaging protocol.

Whether or not this Telegram app is trustworthy (the lack of full source is suspicious), I have no idea. I would personally pick TextSecure over it.
This is not unlike how 'fast' screen updates are done on the Apple IIGS. The fastest memory operations on the 6502 and 65816 involve the stack, so one ends up mapping the stack to the top of framebuffer RAM and pushing a lot of values onto it in an unrolled loop. The unrolled loop is itself rewritten by other code to provide the data for the next update.

Apple developer support themselves described this idea in Technote #70, http://www.1000bit.it/support/manuali/apple/technotes/iigs/t...
VAT is a tax on "value added". So a (VAT registred) company only needs to pay VAT on the value it provides. Eg: you sell services for 1M NOK/year, you then have to claim VAT from your customers, totalling 250K NOK. But, you also pay for hosting, hardware etc, for say a total of 300K NOK -- so you subtract the VAT on that 300K (7.5K NOK) from the VAT you have to pay the government, and pay 250K - 7.5 K in VA tax.

(In reality you might do a lot of these deals b2b, and not actually transfer/invoice the VAT -- but that's the basic idea).

Oh, yeah, also not a lawyer, but a Norwegian.
Most managers will instinctively delegate dreadful tasks. That's part of the fun of management.

I wonder if there's any managers around who also code? Maybe 50% of their time could be management, 50% coding. Nothing like getting hands dirty with the company code to see where things are at.

Shared management roles could also be an option. Or, manage by committee? There's enough design by committee happening, surely we can all jump in on management decisions?
> like everything else!

Is the same true for currency conversions? If I convert my Krone to Dollars and then back again when the exchange rate is more favourable, will I have to pay taxes?

Genuine question, I don't know how forex trades typically work.
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If humanity could understand Anarchism, it would allow all those guys to live in their own utopias.

But well..it seems it is easier to fight about stuff that is so far away from the main and basic points that it all seems like just another invention of the financial system to control through endless diversity. "Controlled Chaos". I would love to hear R.A.Wilson on this.

The "anarchist anarchists" I know concentrate on education, patience and gathering&storage of information. Many of them decided that it needs to get a lot worse before relevant masses of people become so desperate that they will accept such a different way to think.

They belive in a "true anarchist revolution" because it would not devour its own children but allow them to play their games as long as they like and let them stop or leave when they have enough.
Wouldn't performance be better with VMWare Fusion? I think it includes even 3D acceleration.
Please add this to the list too

http://www.shopperoye.com
Let's see it on github!
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This is a pretty good article, and Space Invaders is a very simple game (as it should be it, it was one of the first!) so it's easy to follow without being over-complicated.

>> The more aliens there are on the screen the longer it takes to get back around to moving the reference alien. At the start of the round there are 55 aliens.

>> That’s 55 interrupts or almost 1 second to move the entire rack. At the end of the round there is only one alien left.

>> It moves 2 pixels left or right 60 times a second. That’s about two seconds from side to side.

This is a good effect and a lot of other Space Invaders clones don't get this right. If you made one in the last 15 years your hardware was likely fast enough to move 50 ships 30 times a second and you didn't have to move one ship per frame. So you didn't get that weird wavy effect to the ship movements like the original arcade version.
The rich gave themselves low capital gains taxes and shifted their income to be capital gains, so the income tax rate is less and less relevant.

Just as an example, Mit Romney's publicized tax rate was around 14.1% in 2011 on income that very comfortably puts him in the top income tax bracket. He just doesn't pay income tax on it.
WL Gore & Associates has over 10 000 employees and operates on a similar structure (and has done for decades):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._L._Gore_and_Associates#Cultu...
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I'm extremely suspicious of the word "naturally" there. What nature are they conforming to?
The author is describing at least 3 positions on his post, it is insane to be responsible for the amount of work that it requires the proccess of building a web application.

It would be better to hire 3 different amazing people on their field (front-end dev, back-end dev and designer) and most of the times you will get a better result. two heads thinks better than one.
I'm not quite sure I understand it either, though this does execute phpinfo.

$variable = "{${phpinfo()}}";
echo "$variable is fish";

I feel I've missed the point.
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I applaud this. This is the spirit we need to succeed in space.
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Haven't seen this, sitting in Germany. But do I understand it right, that NSA told everybody, the helped/messed with BIOS-Versions from different vendors, to "help us all (TM)".

Do I really want the NSA to dabble in the BIOS of my computer?

[tinfoilhatoff]
Position of what? Why?

Given following markup:

<label for="foobar">Lorem ipsum</label>
<input id="foobar">

Does

write('omg', 'Lorem ipsum')

write into #foobar? Just to clarify since position of those two elements might not be similar at all.
"Kellogg’s discovered, was that employees were happy to work less when they were paid 12.5% more per hour, meaning the company was able to offer more jobs"

I don't get it, how were they able to offer more jobs when they paid the same wage (6hrs/day with a 12.5% increase)?
Alternatively, teach this little man chinese.
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You could of course buy the gold from a bank in the EU, and leave it there (in a safety deposit box or something).

I don't know what the legal (tax) status of that gold would be (Norway has a modest tax on savings/holdings (1.1% for a total net worth above ~142.000 USD) -- so as a private citizen you might have to pay tax on that -- or, where you're keeping it if tax is applicable there)).

As others have mentioned if you want to import it legally, you'd have to pay VAT.
I think that headline is slightly misleading - Google is running an argument in court that as their service is supplied from the US then they can't be sued here in the UK.

If the courts decide otherwise then Google has quite a lot of assets here in the UK in the form of Google UK Limited - obviously tiny compared to the US parent but still a pretty substantial organization by any objective measure.

I tend to side with the claimants (I believe that is the correct term in England - it is pursuer here in Scotland) that as they have a .co.uk site and substantial operations here in the UK they should be directly subject to litigation in the UK. If they were a US only operation then fair enough - it would seem silly to sue them here in the UK, but they have long outgrown that status.
Haha same here… anyone care to explain?
=Previous discussion=

Telepathwords: A New Password Strength Estimator (schneier.com) - Dec 6, 2013 - 81 points - 64 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6860987
Because intelligent, educated folk don't blindly accept the claims of others without scrutinizing them?

I don't see it as negativity. People are bringing attention to the details that marketers typically omit (perhaps intentionally). If anything, these are positive discussions as we're sharing our own views and experience to give others more information to allow them to make more informed decisions. (i.e, whether the claims of security can be trusted in this case.)

If you want comments that are always happy and positive about every claim made by marketers, there's plenty of other places on the web for that.
That post a has an info-graphic to explain Norway's economy that does not include Norway =)
We need more of this. Challenging children to greatness is what keeps things interesting.
Yes, it's THAT hard. I'd read many good books and still feel bad looking on my first attempts in protocol design.

BTW, IGE cipher mode isn't well known for being strong.
Beautiful. That was like a 15 seconds inspirational movie.
This is how it is executed:

$variable = "{${phpinfo()}}"; // <- Execution happens here
echo "$variable is fish";

If you pass a "{${phpinfo()}}" via GET, it is not executed. The execution has to happen later - e.g. by eval() or /e.
I agree that it's interesting and that it is a problem. You could see from mapleoin's comment that closed source software is not looked at favorably. I can see why, but as I said if we want to sustain full-time development of this project, we need an income. One approach that's often used with open source projects is to develop the software for free and then charge for consulting. But, with a tool such as Helium that aims to be extremely simple, I don't see much room for such services. I'd be extremely curious to hear if anybody has an answer to this problem.
Nobody mentioned the death of the transfer / promotion especially via merger mania?

In the olden days, like my grandfathers time, major corporations had facilities all over the country. So its highly likely if you live in WI and a job the next level up opened, odds are it'll be in TN not next door, well, you moved to TN. In my dad's generation all those facilities closed except for perhaps one or two, and mostly offshored, and all expansion is of course offshore. So imagine you work at one of the last Milwaukee Tool plants still open in Georgia today. You won't be moving to the Milwaukee mfgr plant because they'll be no promotion at the Milwaukee mfgr plant because that plant closed in my dad's generation. There might be a fantastic promotion job opening in mainland China, Taiwan, or perhaps Korea, but its unlikely you speak the language and are willing to drag everyone in the family along. So that's why the guys working in GA are not moving all over the country; nowhere to go.

This also relates to merger mania. My dad always worked for the railroads in the 60s thru 90s. For a couple railroads. Usually in their HQ IT dept. So lets say he worked for the Milwaukee Road Railroad and wanted to move. Well, he could get a job at the Soo line, or the Wisconsin Central (HQ in Chicago, never figured that one out), or CP, or CMSP, or SouthShore, or ... In fact he worked at quite a few of those places at one time or another. Now, of course, there is just the CP which owns them all, or whats left of them all, and the relevant part isn't that 10 or 20 jobs have converged into one, because the workload is constant (actually increasing) there probably still are 20 or so jobs, in fact there's probably 30 due to expansion. The part of this story that's relevant is all 30 of those IT jobs WILL ONLY be at CP HQ in Calgary Canada. When promotional opportunities open, it'll be in the office next door, not Chicago or Milwaukee or Minneapolis or wherever the CMSP was based because those offices closed a generation ago... Therefore no one who works for "the" railroad in the upper midwest will be moving for work; either you already live in Calgary and already work for CP or you're unemployed.

This is hardly specialized to IT. There's ONE really big national retailer in Arkansas. There used to be dozens of (now failed) department stores employing about the same number of people.

This is also fractally self similar at smaller scales. Three regional womens clothing stores have collapsed and one regional has adsorbed them and/or their traffic. Its not just national level. Much as there were 10 railroads employing 1K in each city and now there's one railroad employing about 9K in one city, at a city level there used to be ten machine shops spread across the city each employing 20 people, now there's like two machine shops each employing 100 people.
Describing functional non-coding DNA as junk is obviously incorrect, but the fact remains that most non-coding DNA is indeed non-functional, and therefore junk.
(iirc) If you're communicating with another TextSecure user then the messages go via the internet rather than over SMS
Why move when you can stay put and the government keeps extending benefits?
Or better yet, use a cert signed by a trusted CA and pi it in your app.
It is a common misconception to label Anarchy as a society without any rules or social norms.

That would be Anomie. (Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie)

Edit:

> So people come together as collectives, which represent them? Would these collectives presumably agree on some standards? And enforce them? Isn't that democracy?

Yes, but in the US you have a representative democracy where you vote for some party which then makes changes or introduces new laws without asking you or anybody else.

In an anarchy you would not only be asked to vote on rules, you could actively take part on the creation of new rules.
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I just want to point out, however, that there are other open source frameworks that do the exact same thing. Utility libraries like this are rarely closed source because the target audience is working in code (and there are also security issues to think about). End-user products can get away with being closed source because non-coders don't give a crap about the nuts and bolts of your program.

Hate to be blunt, but your business model isn't viable. If you want to monetize, you either need to provide a service to developers or a product to end users.
Looks interesting, thanks for sharing ^_^
"Lawyers for the search firm are expected to tell the judge that a similar privacy claim was recently struck out in the US and that no European regulators are currently investigating this issue."

I think Google's lawyer's need to return to school. Those statements are completely irrelevant to this case.
And similar fun probably keeps going on the latest consoles, considering they have massive GPU sharing memory with the CPU, the devices even support atomic operations between GPU and CPU.

Incidentally that reminded me. How does one get to these positions? As the API's are closed there is no real way for an outsider to learn the ropes.
Nice to see the results of your previous post!

> I was so afraid that PayPal would freeze my account that I called to let them know that I was going to sell a book and that I might have a few sales.

You know something's wrong when your customers are fearing you. Seriously, how did PayPal end up like this?
Well, you can still relive some of this by writing code to target an emulator or, more modern, an ARM chipset.

Also, the quality of tools nowadays is so much better than what you would've used back then. So much so, in fact, that these old machines could even become pretty useful as a learning tool since they're (relatively) simple and allow much easier testing and debugging since they can be used effectively as some kind of VM.
I don't know about Norway, but this great article was posted on HN about US tax implications of Bitcoin once before:

http://www.bitcointax.info/

The main point I understood was that when you deal with bitcoin (and I am not an accountant, and this fellow is not your accountant) there's a "realization" event where your asset is realized into a gain, I think it's called a capital gain, and like selling your business after putting your own capital into it for many years, that is the moment where you owe taxes.

It's not any point of withdrawal, since you might argue "it's not realized, it's just numbers on my screen until it hits my bank account" but this accountant would argue more conservatively that even if you are a US customer of Mt.Gox (and therefore can't get access to your USD without paying a bribe or taking a trip to Japan? I think that was the last story I heard, not claiming firsthand knowledge)...

If you pay $100 for 1BTC and sell it for $1250, and buy 1BTC at $850, you have $1250 of income and $950 of expense to offset.

You will not be able to claim only $400 of income and you may not be able to defer that tax payment (on $1250 minus whatever percent of $950 expenses you can claim against your business' net income.)

This is not exactly how forex works and I believe the US situation wrt. Bitcoin is exactly like the Norway situation given this news, from my limited understanding. Hopefully someone with more background will be able to give a better explanation that actually answers your question, and point out if I'm wrong on something.
I suggest that you pick up any git tutorial out there. It will soon become less of a black box.
A lot of haters in this thread. To be expected.

I've been following this space for a while and telegram is the best app out there right now. The usability is great and they are trying to do the right things when it comes to security.

The apps are open source and can be audited. I fully expect there to be bugs, that is part of the process! You would be insane to trust your life to a crypto app thats been around a few months. So yes, there will be bugs. But that doesn't mean they should just give up. In a few years this could turn into a really nice , secure app.

I think their big competition will be: Textsecure, also a great app and better for security due to OTR. But the iphone app is still in development as is their data channel. Once those are complete, they could take the #1 spot.

Also, hemlis is one to look out for. But they take about the same security approach as telegram but seem to be less open so far.
Why is this stupid frat house bullshit on the front page of Hacker News? We can do better than this.
> the relational model is very powerful, albeit quite abstract, and most data we need to deal with can be made to fit into this model

Maybe, but it's awkward. Graph or tree structures are still painful to store in relational databases, and a lot of problems turn out to involve those shapes.

> We have a working, declarative query language that Just Works(TM), for which we have written very good optimizers.

Maybe, but the tooling is still terrible. Where are the libraries? Where are the IDEs? Where's the integration that makes it easy to call procedures in my application language from SQL and vice versa? General-purpose programming languages have got better and better in the last 25 years, while SQL has stayed static.

> So, to sum it up: Exactly why should we abandon this?

Look at the ORM problem. Why do people continue to use these horrific bloated, leaky tools? Because it's really nice to be able to store and query in the native language of your application. We need storage tech that's better at supporting this.
Programming is not a Craft
It seems to me that people are not moving because they have already moved to the most desirable places and are mostly content with their situation. Even with the recession, things are nowhere near as bad as they were pre-1940's.
Congrats, Pedro! I met him at MicroConf Europe - very nice guy, so it's good to see this.

> Seriously, how did PayPal end up like this?

By having lots of people out to rip them off.
This… this is almost certainly why chickens' heads track more "smoothly" than humans. We don't need our heads to track; our eyes can with much less effort.
It is the funniest reason I've ever heard. There's crazy shortage of talents in Moscow and SPb, so any employee will hire a gay, a centipede from Tau Ceti or a satan and shower him with money and lots of perks if he is good in programming. However, lack of gay developers is definitely not the cause of this shortage (after all, their rights are protected by Constitution and being in top 10% of citizens by income, IT people in two russian capitals have more options to defend them - living in Russia is not comfortable, but it's not dangerous as well).
For example, there's a natural split between people who need to spend their days quietly writing software and the constant interactions and distractions of sales. It's almost mentally impossible to do both, not because either job is hard, but the context switching means software never gets developed and when writing software, possible customers never get called and deals never get closed.
hey sspiff,

yeah dustywusty submitted a pull request with some pretty good little changes in.

I am actually trying to think of a way of sort of hosting discussion on the different issues but kinda struggling on a strategy with regards to how to get people to supply their input. I can use issues on github but when it comes to UI and UX design I'd love some kind of forum almost for it to show balsamiq mocks or the likes.

Any idea with regards to this issue would be awesome.

Thanks again for the input! it's really appreciated.