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> Spending a few hours over the evenings and weekends is totally doable, and within a few weeks you'll have gotten further than you may think!

That's true. I do try to do stuff like this bug it's hard to find meaning, though.
What a waste of a Mac. I'm all for the novelty of doing something neat with Apple hardware (System X, macminicolo), but this machine isn't suited for headless closet-sitting. It's meant to be on a desk in Pixar, NBC or another live video venue, rendering things in real time and lighting up 4K displays.
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Ask HN: How many people have actually upgraded from windows 7 to windows 8.
Now that windows 8.1 has been released, how many of you guys who actually code have switched off of windows 7 to move to windows 8.
imo "socialism" is bad, except for things like infrastructure and utilities, you could probably make a very convincing case that open source is digital infrastructure, and I would probably agree with you, but we arent talking about open source.

I never suggested that we should'nt be encouraging more hackers, the point I was making is that the article is suggesting that the hacker stereotype is bad because it makes people feel inferior.
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I'm curious! Which startups were presented in a "Show HN" at some point, and have since become much more successful (by some definition of success)?

Examples: Dropbox, Buffer, Watsi.
To be fair, IIRC, you've been programming for longer than many people on this site have been alive.

(I listened to your interview on Javascript Jabber.)
Sounds like something from Harrison Bergeron.
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Again, I realize that the amendments are worded differently. What I am claiming is that there's a reasonable argument that perhaps the principle behind the First Amendment should include the prevention of such contracts.

Also, I will note that you point out that the specific words are important in your first point, but miss it your second.
You mention that the First Amendment is about not allowing the government to regulate speech. But the actual text says that Congress is not allowed to "abridge" freedom of speech. Abridge means to limit, shorten, or cut off. Clearly, a law that invalidated contractual limits on speech would not in any way be abridging that speech.
Because at that point the whole world was believing much more in egalitarianism.

USSR and all its satelite countries for sure (however hypocritially for those at the top), but also the US, who had a booming labor movement, increased work rights and salaries for decades since the "new deal", etc.

But even the most hardcore believers in capitalism thought that automatons (industrial robots and such) will bring a society of less work and increased leisure -- for the same kind of salaries or purchasing power as before.

If you watch Star Trek for example, it's like some kind of egalitarian future world. Same as what's happening in a lot of science fiction books, Asimov's included.
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It's not at all obvious that he would be prosecuted under that law, assuming he was prosecuted at all.

And this has nothing to do with whether it's the prosecutors fault or not (although their behavior was clearly morally reprehensible).

The point is that he likely did not know to expect 'the time'.

You have committed numerous felonies. Did you consider 'the time' before you committed them? http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.asp...
I bought a low end lenovo after loving their high end models at work.

They were crappy (you order online, there's no place to see them). I hated, but there was a $200 restock fee on a $300+ product, so i just gave it to a relative when i was visiting.

two days in Brazil and the mother board died. I called lenovo, they gave me the number of a local shop. I called the local shop. They arranged to pick it up. I had linux dual boot and some personal data there already, So i gave instructions that the HD would be out of the device. no problem. they missed one or two pickup schedules, but when they finally picked it up they confirmed it was the dead motherboard, replaced, tested, returned. I put the HD back in and all was fine.

lenovo: 10 for warranty, 0 for retail experience and product satisfaction..
The old adage remains true, that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. If I took out a short position on Facebook, what's the likelihood that it would pay out before I'd burned through my life savings?

We're all thinking about it because right now it's a very good time to be a coder, and pretty much every time that's been true, something awful has happened pretty quickly. We're all just invested enough to get burned by it, but not well-heeled enough to put our money where our mouths are.

Maybe there's an advertising bubble (I still see a lot of ads for ad-supported services), maybe it's something else, or maybe these toys we've made actually do create a trillion dollars of value to society. Either way, we're along for the ride, and there's little we can do to hedge against it besides being better than the people around us, and hoping to survive the next round of layoffs.
what system are you running such that viewing a pdf takes 20 packages and dependencies? How are you on hacker news if you can't get your system to view pdfs?
I thought about doing flask, because I love Python and it would be way easier than monkeying around with Angular. But most of my code is D3, so it's a lot of javascript anyway. And by doing angular, I basically upload one page to the user, and then from there out, they never touch my server. (Data is served by Cloudant - a YC comp). So even though I've had > 10k page views, my server is hardly touched. And everyone gets really responsive interaction since it is all done in the browser, occasionally waiting for new data to serve. So, while this was painful to build, I can really see the allure of client-side single-page apps.
They could feel the texture with their fingers (I couldn't tell any difference) and the security strip was a tiny, tiny bit longer than it should have been on the fakes.

Even after they told me what to look for, I couldn't tell.
The controller is already responding to changes in balance at an extremely high rate. How do you think these things fly in the first place?

Like an earlier poster acknowledged, the current hobby grade gear is not really engineered with industrial use in mind, but that's a fairly simple engineering problem which has already been solved by the groups who are using drones commercially (i.e. the military)

I have no doubt what so ever that Amazon, Google etc have the engineering chops to bring the software and hardware being used in drones up to an industrial grade.

Don't assume that because the first thing that you thought of upon hearing "delivery drones" is infeasible that the whole idea is unworkable. It just needs an engineer with a little more imagination

Edit: a couple of obvious solutions to your battery/controller failure mode would be a) use redundant controllers. They're small enough that you could easily have two or more running in tandem and checking eachothers integrity, and b) if you lose main battery you can autorotate down and land somewhere reasonably safe. If you use EDFs/shrouded blades they aren't a safety issue, and building a map of safe landing zones for a city is not a huge ask for somebody like Google.

Now for somebody else willing to use their imagination: what do you do about cheeky individuals interfering with your drone during delivery?
Perhaps someone like this?

http://pando.com/2014/01/02/from-coding-to-the-catwalk-this-...

I'm not really saying we need to promote pizza and staying up all night coding, it's that we need to maybe make it more inclusive, to encourage more people to join the tech party.
Well, in my opinion the view a young person can develop by reading a site like Hacker News is a skewed reality of what it is to be a software engineer, a hacker.

One example of this is what I will generically call the "Google Interview". I know brilliant engineers how have done massive non-trivial projects that have generated millions of dollars in revenue who could not pass such an interview.

The other aspect is the constant exposure to the language-of-the-day and framework-of-the-day club. I can see a young aspiring developer becoming utterly disappointed when realizing it is nearly impossible to keep up with it all. Where do you start? How do you learn this stuff? Someone could very easily think they are not up to par if they can't walk in these mythical shoes.

The truth is very different from that. There's a huge world out there for software engineers. There are real problems to be solved. And, no, not everything in software engineering lives and dies on a web browser or a smart phone.

Is the OP saying that she needed to feel like a hacker to feel legitimate? That would be sad.

What the hell is a hacker anyway? Definitions abound. In many ways it is more about how someone might approach hardware and software problems than anything else. You don't have to be YC material to be a legitimate software engineer. One could very easily argue there are tons of software engineers out there doing far more important work than almost any YC developer has done to date. Most of them are invisible. Think about the people writing code for MRI machines, aircraft avionics or even your car's ABS system.

If you are young and love software engineering please don't think that building websites is the only way you are going to become somebody in this business. Explore what's out there and dare to learn about other interesting problems you might be able to solve.
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It could be just a strange coincidence but I used to own a paintball company called Gangstar Paintball. I met with JT Sports (at the time owned by Jarden Group) in Bentonville, Arkansas about selling my company to them as well as a project I was working on at the time.

It used a series of technologies in the loader to track a user, their rate of fire, the guns fps and track its location.

I have a Non-disclosure agreement with them around this technology that would be up for expiring August 2014 (it was signed August 2009 and was a 5 year agreement).

Granted this implementation varies from mine, it sounds all too familiar. I was using a series of directional antennas to triangulate the players location on a field, instead of GPS because GPS's resolution is roughly 10m.

It is safe to say 2 things:
1) This implementation will never work as they are selling it.
2) There is an eerie connection to my conversation with JT Sports and this (the paintball world is very small).

Perhaps it begs resurrecting -- if this industry can get some $$ from VC and crowd funding, my biggest problem starting up (capital) might not be an issue anymore.
I think it's important to pick and choose how we conduct ourselves in life carefully. I have met many smart people. Some do alienate others around them, they are "intellectual bullies." Others are reserved and/or withdrawn, neither encouraging nor discouraging others. And yet others are encouraging to all they meet.

I'm not in the same category at all, but I think of people like Feynman, he was not shy about criticizing policies he disliked, but he also worked tirelessly to bring more people into science.
Don't confuse what he said.

Upgrading a hacked copy of OS X running on hardware it was never designed to run on is pretty painful.

Upgrading OSX on Apple hardware is a breeze.
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I had some natural advantages, my mother was a systems analyst, and I had some early precocity.

But I also ran into some very encouraging people at key moments in my youth, for example there were various students at UofT who encouraged me to tinker with WATFIV and SNOBOL programs on punch cards. Some even let me use their terminals to play with APL.

I cannot say what would have happened if they had shooed me away and/or called security, but I think that my longevity in programming owes something to people who were welcoming.
"It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains. "

Yeah I'm not sure why people would buy this.
Hacker in this context doesnt mean breaking into software and stealing stuff.
>So his predictions were not really that different to a 'cold reading' that a psychic comes up with - remember the hits and forget the misses.

No, his predictions were quite accurate on the technological side, but for the societal side they were based on prevailing ideas of the day (which didn't necessarily apply later).

For example the "moon colony" would have been a very real possibility, if the US has kept the same determination of space exploration. It's not much harder than the ISS to setup something similar on the moon, just the budgets are not there.

As for his food prediction, we already have something similar ready to be commercially available, with Soylent. Not to mention that compared to his era's food (mostly home cooking, no HFCS, no prevailing fast food chains), today's food is 500% more processed and lab made.

Anyway, they are called "predictions". What did people expect? Genuine prophecy?
Funny, my friend with a pebble loves using his in the shower. His girlfriend thinks its weird when he reads funny texts and is laughing in the shower.

Some people don't want to be that connected though.
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Krugman criticizes bitcoin because it has no utility while consuming resources. As a counter-argument, they bring up Krugman's habit of flying on airplanes. Okay, so that argument proves one thing only: You have no real counter-argument. Just admit it.

Back when I used to trade stocks, I discovered an unnerving psychological problem with it: No matter the news related to the respective company, having $100,000 riding on it makes you a cheerleader. I was holding Merck when the Vioxx scandal came out, and I somehow tried to justify that to myself--no matter how many people it killed. I think this phenomenon is common. Okay, so you own worthless hash strings, and because you paid real money for them, you're their cheerleader.

When you sell, you'll be their detractor. That always happens, too.
>Does it seem like cultural commentary has also improved in the last 50 years? I am young enough to not remember what it may have been like when Asimov wrote originally, but it strikes me that Vice is a relatively contemporary sort of a thing.

Cultural commentary? If anything, it declined a lot. Once you had people like Normal Mailer, Tom Wolf and Hunter Thompson doing cultural commentary, and many more besides.

Now it's mostly puff pieces, and 90% of it is about who said what on some bs tv show (and twerking).
This is the point I making, she is hardly famous for being a successful hacker, and that's the problem. If you want more diverse role models they have to achieve something, this whole article is look I am pretty and smart isnt that amazing? If anything it is making things worse.
You make a good point, my job is to make it simple for machines to differentiate between two people, a task a human could do easily.
> It describes how the federal government, after the epic failure of the healthcare.gov rollout, is reviewing how it manages high-tech projects.

FYI: The reforms enacted by the ACA does not consist solely of the healthcare.gov website, it is a small portion of a much larger picture. So I wouldn't paint ObamaCare as a epic failure just because the website was having issues the first few months of it's rollout.
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From personal experience, this resonated with me, complete from the rocky start with high school CS in Logo onward.

I know the feeling, and (though I'm male) I recognize many of the waypoints described. And I, too, don't feel like a real hacker. But of course, the word means wildly different things to different people. Even though I love programming very much and I'm doing it all the time, and especially doing it for fun, it was only after joining HN that it dawned on me I could be considered a hacker in some circles.

Still, my primary definition of being a hacker is someone who is insanely active in hacker and cracker culture, someone very interested in systems security, someone who knows to debug a defunct DSL modem given only an oscilloscope and a bit of tinfoil. That's not me.

If I were to apply for a VC program that looks for hackers, I'd probably feel like a bad fit or a complete fraud. Nevertheless, I probably am a hacker. Labels are always an imperfect solution.

One other thing about getting people to program: Male or female, I wouldn't know where to start either. In school I was literally the only kid into actual programming, out of about 500 students. It was only much later in life that I made my first actual programmer friend, and I also recruited an unhappy English major into programming, but most people just aren't interested. And of those who can, and by necessity must, program most would never do it in their spare time for fun.
I would guess that the abuse has increased for Best Buy and Game Stop.

Game Stop now only offers returns for pre-owned games 7 days after instead of 14 days. My guess is too many people used this as a way to test games out or beat single player games for free.

Best Buy's return policy is down from 30 days to 14 and even on an exchange I needed a driver's license last week.
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Good point, and there are other important changes that should be communicated like increased storm severity, and associated risk of floods (which we study in my lab), higher precip in some areas, less in others, and, I'm sure, lots of other stuff I don't know about. If I could figure out how to express all of that stuff clearly and concisely in between being yelled at by Bill O'Reilly, I guess I would have a different job title :)
It's clearly advice, not an order.

Don't be so defensive.
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We're a far way away from seeing what digitization and automation will eventually bring.

The Arab Spring would not have been possible if not for social media and the internet in general. It is a perfect example of machines helping the commoner. What then happens, when machines and software become powerful enough to automate even the more complex aspects of society?

It's not a matter of if, but when. We have to actually allow it to happen, but so far there has yet to be a society who hinders progress without crumbling in on itself. Are we to be so naive as to think we'll be the exception to the rule?
I think shrouds are probably safer. For saw-stop to work the blades would need to be quite heavy duty (vs. the thinner blades that are common now - those would simply snap off if you tried to stop them in a hurry!), and heavy duty means more load on the motors, lower response time etc.

Additionally, if you're going to allow the blades to hit anything you more or less need to accept that it will result in a crash, even if you stop them immediately. Better to just guard them from contact in the first place.
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I disagree that silence should be the default, I think that whatever the majority of people in the environment want should be the default, with the understanding that we should try to accommodate everyone. If I was the one developer out of 8 in my office that thrived on quiet, I wouldn't have punished the other 7 by mandating that silence should be the default[0].

If you're in a loud environment and need quiet, then communicate that to your boss. Ditto for <insert productivity issue here>. They've got a vested interest in you doing your best work, and will try to make it work the best they can for everyone. If they don't, then they're probably not worth wasting your skills on anyway (plenty of fish in the sea). But if you don't speak up, then you've no one to blame but yourself.

[0] Pertinent side note here, after about a year of working in the loud office, the owner mandated that we stop the distractions. No more TV, fewer breaks to mess around, etc. He thought it was affecting our work, and boy was he right (but not in the way he thought). The net result: Our productivity went down. Measurably. Strange world we live in, eh?
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