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Here's a tip I've picked up from the stock market. If everyone is talking doom and gloom, buy in. If everybody is talking about how bitcoin is the greatest thing ever and people are starting bitcoin investing clubs and "the price is going to keep skyrocketing!!!!1"...it's time to sell.

So, it's going to be slightly more regulated. Big deal. People say it has no value, but it does. A bitcoin, at this very moment, is worth ~732USD. That sounds like value to me. On top of the value people give it, it has value in that nobody owns the network, nobody can regulate transactions used with it, and anybody with access to a computer can trade it for goods or "real" currency.

I think people who don't like it a) are uninterested and sick of hearing about it b) lost all their money by buying on peaks (or just never bought in when it was $0.20 and are pissy about it) or c) don't have a clue what they're talking about.

At this point, it has to be treated like a volatile stock. Does it have value? As much value as someone is willing to buy it off of you for. Will the price go up or down? Impossible to tell. Is it going anywhere? Doubt it.

I predict that as more people adopt it and as it becomes more mainstream, the value will increase logarithmically and stabilize.
If I'm having a day where I am not getting much done, I stop trying. I close and leave the laptop and my phone at my desk, take a notebook and a pen, and go to the local library, where I sit down and write for an hour or two a discussion of why I am not getting anything done, and what I can do about it. The next time this happens again, I repeat the process, except I also reread the entry (yes, you need to keep the journal around) from the last time, and see if there's any patterns.

Leaving all your electronics behind, taking an old, analog medium (pen, paper) and going to a place where people are required to be quiet (library, not office, not coffee shop, not co-working space) is essential to the process of figuring out what's distracting you.
Something about the authors writing style just rubs me the wrong way. Kinda like an advert that was carefully crafted by a team with the sole purpose of triggering a specific emotion.

That being said, I did actually learn something from that wall of text: The fact that Glass needs to be specifically fitted to the wearer is definitely problematic. I'm curious how G will work around that from a logistical PoV.
He's in marketing and a technical evangelist. It's his job.

Yes, I find him really annoying taken unfiltered. But when he's good, he's really good.

Sadly, writing on social media reveals his greatest weakness. He really needs to write for someone who tosses out about 90% of what he generates.
Initially, it was Joel's promise:

forums suffer from giving you lots of bragging and (may be) a half-bottomed solution lost somewhere deep there -- and here it is all on the same page, and cleaned up and nicefied in pursuit for points.

Sadly, the nicefiers turned onto questions' quality at some moment (which is my main objection), and also the "we don't like fun" mechanistic attitude creeped in (probably due to the mods turning into "human robots" more and more).

btw, during the first year or so, there was a site called "Crap Overflow" -- whose author (whoever he was -- are you reading this, pal??) was a visioner, as it appears now :)
Sorry for the super-long delay in replying, HN has been particularly flaky at my site.

> If the talent can't afford to live and work in the valley, they won't.

One way to make it affordable for talent to live and work in an area is to increase their wages. There is a point at which Google et. al. would stop increasing wages and just move out of the area, but I strongly suspect that we're very far from that point. Moreover, I was talking about SV businesses increasing wages in SV in order to prevent people from moving out to NYC, or cause folks from elsewhere to choose SV over NYC.

> In short, it's the engineers and designers making it expensive...

Yes and no. An influx of people with a high earning potential into an area with a fixed number of apartments for rent does raise rents. Those rents would be lowered if the city (as a whole) would permit enough housing to be built quickly enough to accommodate the influx of workers.

I totally agree that the best way to bring rental rates back into shouting distance of sanity is to embark on massive build projects. If you look at my comment history, you'll see that I strongly support this sort of thing. I'm just not foolish enough to believe that that sort of project is likely to get started anytime soon. Sure, we've been hearing rumblings from the Mayor's Office. I seriously doubt that any project of his will make a substantial dent in the housing shortage.
I hope Google Glass is a bait-and-switch. It's a low-resolution UI and they are getting constant user feedback of how users are using it (e.g voice vs touch usage). I hope what really is happening is that its driving the design for Google's Watch.

However, post-Snowden I don't see myself using either.
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It would be awesome to see something like this with code - on hackathons especially.
Rent control is what allows anyone who's not in finance to live in SF. Look at the price of a condo to get an idea of what city-wide unregulated rents would be like.

The thing that's eating SF from the inside out is the dire lack of new apartments. Build enough and the city will approach affordable for the average worker.

(Sorry for the huge delay in posting. HN has been unusually flaky at my site.)
No social media accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. I think that's at least half the battle.

Good advice from YuriNiyazov too. "If I'm having a day where I am not getting much done, I stop trying.". I think it's important to pick your battles. You won't be productive 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
I'd like to try out this curl command. I'm not using macports, though. Like many people, I've switched to brew since some time. Is there a quick way to see if my curl install is compiled with 'ares' whatever that is?
Yes, I (and many others) have exactly same problem. I feel like I'm getting better in committing to specific goals over time though.

One of the key things here is to think about what you want and clearly define your goals. But you may find yourself in the situation when it's hard to understand what you want. Then, I think, it's ok to play around with small projects shorterm without strict commitment. This helps to try many different things and finally find what you like.
Please note that he seems to be using the old Proxy API.
what happened to Stypi? their last blog entry is more than a year old (which usually is a sign of death/abandonment).
That's what my ISP does. What's worse is that sometimes their dns servers fail intermittently (something to do with fragmented packets and retrying DNS queries in TCP mode).

It did take a while to figure out what was causing the intermittent DNS failures. "My ISP is hijacking all port 53 traffic" was fairly low on my list of possibilities, I must admit.

Fortunately it's not that hard to run a local resolver that forwards queries to an external resolver on a vps on an alternate port.

I'd switch ISPs, but I live in a remote area and my only other choices would be satellite or cellular, so I'm stuck with them.
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You should try KDE 4. Actually is very madure and more comfortable of using that Windows, also is reliable as actually is very rare to see a serious bug, and if this happens, KWin/KDE recover itself alone in seconds.

The only problems that I have (sometimes) actually with Linux are graphics drivers.
The G4 (USD,EUR,JPY,GBP) may last for somewhat longer than the other fiat currencies, but that does not detract from the fact that currency crises in the smaller fiat currencies are very common (think Argentina).

People who live in a G4 country are apparently incapable of imagining that the situation elsewhere is seriously different than in their own country.

There are lots of Mickey Mouse fiat currencies around issued by the banana republics that keep debasing them until they collapse. Even the Russian ruble is a joke that became entirely worthless, three times, in the span of two decades.

Instead of dollarizing during a monetary crisis, as these smaller/weaker fiat currency areas used to do in the past, they may elect to bitcoinize.

If that happens, you could end up with an entire country using bitcoin. As soon as this happens, nobody will ever manage to eliminate bitcoin in that country.

History does not repeat itself. Collapsing currencies now face a prospect of hysteresis. Reintroducing fiat currency will not work if people have already moved over to bitcoin.

With smaller fiat currencies collapsing one by one -- as they always do -- bitcoin will keep growing stronger and stronger.
> I'd rather just agree to disagree on philosophy and economics.

I'm sure you would. I'm armed with a long list of time-honored principles that allow a big player to anti-competitively grind a small player into the ground long before any real competition can take place.

You are armed with your faith in the market.

> Where we disagree is whether or not it is possible to create the conditions for a truly competitive market primarily by reducing state involvement. I believe it is.

You hit the nail on the head: I believe that there are a handful of important markets where the "more freedom!" approach not only doesn't lead to optimization, but leads to counter-optimization.

I take international comparisons of health care costs/efficacy as my evidence.

> In my opinion, fears of private monopolies are generally unwarranted, that most "natural" private monopolies are flimsy and temporary.

If only I could force reality to comply with your opinion, I would be a much happier person.

> I fear more the monopolies created by the government, such as the monopoly that "licensed" physicians hold

Seriously?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_heal...

I fear a "free" health care market more than I fear a single-player "govrnment monopoly."

I also object to the use of the term "monopoly" in relationship to the government. Market monopolies have direct incentive to screw you for whatever they can, and they get to keep the spoils. The government has checks and balances that frustrate the process, and the people involved get to keep a far smaller fraction of the spoils. Market monopolies are worse.
> If everyone is talking doom and gloom, buy in. If everybody is talking about how bitcoin is the greatest thing ever and people are starting bitcoin investing clubs and "the price is going to keep skyrocketing!!!!1"...it's time to sell.

Right now there are plenty of people in both camps. What do we do then? If we're just talking about predicting Bitcoin's price, I don't see that we have much reason to believe we can do better than chance.
I remove the distractions. Quit email, IM, IRC, work from home in a quiet place. Few people have my phone number, and they know not to call me unless their hair is on fire. The right kind of music can help too.

If I'm struggling to focus, I do some exercising, go for a walk (sunlight helps) or just take a break away from the work and come back refreshed. If I'm still struggling, I just give up and start again the next day (where possible - deadlines are a good motivator too, but not if overused). If I can't focus because I'm tired, I take a nap. I reserve caffeine for emergencies ("must get this done today") and with a two week cooldown afterwards (you'd be shocked what caffeine can do for you in a pinch if you haven't built up a tolerance from constantly abusing it).

Most importantly, look at what you're doing. I have little trouble focusing on something I want to do. It's the tedious bits that I struggle with, and so if I find something like that, I try to eliminate it as much as possible. This means picking your projects/clients/job carefully, and not rating money as top priority.
Yes, but if you statically link, the LGPL requires providing a way for a user to switch to a modified version of the library (e.g. a .a of the rest of the application), which is more hassle than just using dynamic linking.
ports > brew!

But seriously I don't know how brew works, though looks like the code supports the option:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...
What is the purpose/point of google glass?

From 97% of news articles / reviews google glass is a voice activated camera. While this is mildly interesting it's the only use anyone has for the device. Who cares about this feature? It's not especially new, exciting or a good user experience.

If google could distill google glass into a single statement like "1000 songs in your pocket" we might understand it.

What is the equivalent statement for google glass?
Rob Pike wrote a blog post "Thank you Apple" (sarcasm) because of the problems he was having with his iMac and Apple's software.

http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/09/thank-you-apple.ht...

Linus Torvalds is said to be using the ChromeBook Pixel as his primary machine.

http://www.geek.com/chips/linus-torvalds-is-making-the-chrom...

As for Miguel De Icaza, he's eating his own dog food, as he now makes his money selling an IDE for iOS development, so of course he's going to choose the Mac because that's where the toolchain is.
It's Scoble. I guarantee he's not carefully crafting anything other than his own thoughts. I appreciate the fact he calls out his emotions in his posts - why blame him for your own emotional response to reading it?
I've always found some sort of sound blocking helps me focus, even in relatively quiet environments. I used earplugs almost 24/7 until it started I started having some issues with my ears and realized that's not really a good health practice. Since then I've been experimenting with sound blocking hunting ear muffs and noise isolating/cancelling headphones.

Also many years ago, I discovered this thing called Holosync which is some sort of binaural beats thing that's supposed to help your brain. After just checking the site now it seems really new-agey and psuedosciency and I'm not really sure if I would wholly endorse it. There are a bunch of different meditation "prgrams" that have a strict regimen, but then there's an epilogue CD with two tracks in particular (for Alpha and Theta brainwaves) that I just listen to on repeat and I've found help me immensely. Nothing else I've really experimented with has worked as well.
Go somewhere that isn't a regular habit of yours. At home you have certain patterns of behavior, the same at work, your location matters.

Find a neutral ground when you want to focus and use that location or ones like it as a way to both isolate yourself from common distractions of your normal surroundings, as well as to set the scene for your focus.
> Reintroducing fiat currency will not work if people have already moved over to bitcoin.

Why not?

> With smaller fiat currencies collapsing one by one -- as they always do -- bitcoin will keep growing stronger and stronger.

Why would Bitcoin be immune from the factors that cause fiat currencies to collapse? If strong fiat currencies can suddenly lose value, it seems likely that Bitcoin could suffer the same fate. Do you have reason to believe that Bitcoin is different?
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A goPro mounted like an alien beacon on top of the rider's head could be a clear signal to a-holes that their behavior will easily be recorded. I could see a whole secondary market in decoy helmet mounts appearing. Google Glass might just inspire more rage since it lacks the goofiness. Drivers may get a sense of levity from the goPro. It's like seeing the antennas on little cars that make them look like remote controlled cars... so cute - "Go ahead. Cut me off. You're just the cutest little two seater I ever did see!!"
Agreed, the comparison I made to double spending wasn't very good.
I'd say the core concept isn't doomed, but amongst the 'lean-back' (tv, dvd) and 'lean-in' (Laptop, tablet) UI modalities: the 'in-your-face' glass modality is certainly going to have a struggle balancing age old social norms with disruptive tech. Especially when there are good reasons for the social norms.
"Some say…" is the Fox News way of saying "we just made this up on the show that preceded this one".

Unless someone can actually call their conclusions and numbers into question using actual facts, then it's just anti-Apple whining, whether it's him or "some readers".
I think it's more likely that cam_l was from a country where the term "liberal" was associated with the concept of Classical Liberalism.
They were acquired by Salesforce: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/01/the-team-from-yc-backed-sty...
A large number of their transactions are uncategorized. They have no way of importing bank statements...so If I joined in middle of the year, its not helpful. I have no way of projecting for future...it doesn't let me play with various scenarios and set goals accordingly. And finally, I hate it when they say "save for big purchase or vacation". They promote savings only as a way of selling more stuff to me.
Before cutting off all your social-media sites (including HN), there's intermediate steps you can take to break the kind of reflexive habits that crop up without discipline:

1. If I just want to limit the temptation to Tweet or post about something on some service, I just log out of it. I might still check the service to read some things, but not being able to participate or respond sharply limits the time I spend on it.

2. If logging out doesn't work because you reflexively log in, due to your password being auto-completed when you visit a website, change your password to your accounts to a long gibberish string and paste it somewhere in a text file. Everytime you want to log in, it's 2 to 3 extra steps to find that password. Usually that's enough for me to not care to try.

3. If you're on Chrome, StayFocusd is a great plugin:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej...

You give it a list of sites to blacklist, which you can either limit the total time you spend on them or completely block them for an hour or two.

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After that are longer term things...The Pomodoro technique is good...I use a static white noise app on my iPod and time it for 20-30 minutes, during which I don't even switch away from my coding environment for any reason (except for an emergency stack overflow lookup)

And meditation...it's hard to get into at first, but if you set a time for something short, like 5 to 10 minutes, it's not too hard to ease into. It's a great way to start off the morning because its a short, relaxing exercise involving discipline.
I wouldn't either (would probably just go for the cheaper one if I was going Mac Pro which I am not) and the 8-core might be the better upgrade anyway looking at the Anandtech review.
And I've seen likewise from Bitcoin proponents. As far as I can tell, “Belief in Bitcoins” is the technolibertarian equivalent of “disbelief in evolution”.

I can see plenty of good arguments for non-physical currency. Bitcoin seems to combine the downsides of the Gold Standard and the Euro, though. Deflationary currency is a bad idea. Giving up control of one's currency is a bad idea.
I read it all, and to be honest I think I agree the most with http://bugs.python.org/issue3982#msg180441 (.format may be making some things simpler, but it goes against the idea of well separated bytes -vs- text)

But really, I just don't like how http/ftp/similar protocols were designed in the first place. They're mixing binary and text in the same stream. That's ugly and when you have strict rules about text encoding in your language, the implementation also turns out ugly - what a surprise :)
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Some might argue that the same could be said of Bitcoin cheerleaders and deep economic understanding of money...
I am in full agreement with what you've written. Distinguishing between fraud and theft was a bit pedantic on my part.
That's probably why the multi-hundred-dollar fluctuations lately. There's also not really enough chart data (or volume) to facilitate technical trading.

You're right. If you have your money in bitcoin right now, you are taking a pretty big risk. However, I personally think that if the past year is any indication, there's not really a cap to the value it has at this point. It could add another few 0s to it's value by next year (subsequently taking other altcoins with it).

At the very worst I think it could drop down to ~100USD, but to go past there would be really difficult as it spent a lot of time building that base between 100-150. Still, that's about 80-90% loss if you were to buy today.

You'd be stupid to put in your life savings, but if you like high-risk, high-reward investments, it might be worth it to throw a few grand in.
Same usual mistake: Google Glass is NOT a proper HUD (Heads Up Display), or a proper form of Augmented Reality. It doesn't project anything on the main vision area, but only on the little screen on the upper right side.
In support of barik's comment, I want to add that conference papers in computer science are peer reviewed, and the top conferences have an acceptance rate that is usually less than 15%. Simply, conference papers, rather than journal articles, is where most innovative computer science work goes. This is very true for systems, languages, software engineering, databases and HCI, but less so for the more theoretical areas.

This topic comes up when talking with researchers outside of computer science so often that the Computer Science Research Association wrote up a memo explaining it: http://cra.org/resources/bp-view/evaluating_computer_scienti...
Don't think about the work and just do it.

Often times you find an excuse to distract yourself because you think the work is tedious and annoying. So stop thinking about how annoying the work is and just do it.

Don't try to manage your tedium, don't use tricks, don't use any systems. Just sit down, tell yourself to stop whining and just attack the work.

Oh and modafinil. :)
Here's how I "solved" this in myself: I use the streak feature on github. I work through books and projects, and just push them forward 20-30 minutes a day, every single day. Since starting in March, I've read and done the examples/homework for: Let Over Lambda, F# Programming, Clojure Programming, PLAI, and I'm almost done the second chapter of SICP. I've prepared and given a meetup talk, invented some neat stuff, and all around really enjoyed my increasing mastery. It's been the most productive 9 months of my life, and I don't really feel like it's much of a strain. My mind has calmed; my focus increased. I cannot recommend it enough.
That being said, I wonder what the chances are that Apple will use the same socket for the Haswell-EP CPU daughterboard. Is there anything obvious that'd prevent them from doing that (e.g, chipset compatibility)?
> Honestly, I don't really care. The NSA can read whatever they want of mine.

Hmm. You know what? I care. I don't want the NSA reading your stuff, because they're doing it in my name. I believe they're violating our 4th and 1st Amendment rights, and I want it to stop, for me and for you.

If the government is violating our rights, the damage goes beyond anything resulting from the actual violations. The real damage is that we have a government that does that.
I would have said "hands-free city navigation", but everyone - Google, the "explorers", people who meet them in the street - seems to be preoccupied with the photo/video applications. I don't know if that's because the device is actually defective for that purpose in some unobvious way, or because people just can't look beyond the video-recording use (or if not that, the notification-firehose one).
agreed. The doomed feature highlighting everything that would be cut would be invaluable.
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That would probably be insightful, but at least we have commits.