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I've learned to define success as the whole package -- a brilliant career that results to me coming home to an empty house or a house full of people who resent me is not success.

I try make work a 40-hour a week thing, which is often a losing battle. But you need to try and make those 40 hours as productive as humanly possible.
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NIST Initiating Review of Cryptographic Standards Development Process
The problem is when it gets upvoted above the other responses it just becomes confusing.
"Conspiracy theorists" are indeed loons, but it's not because of what they believe it's because of how they arrive at their conclusions. Conspiracy theorists consistently apply the same basic logical framework on every line of reasoning. It goes a bit like this: "X is the established mainstream view of topic Y, however there are inconsistencies in X or non-intuitive aspects to X, therefore competing theory Z must be true". This is an incredibly erroneous way to reason about anything, and it's why any and every crack-brained theory under the sun (from the moon landing being faked to the pyramids being created by aliens to the "phantom time hypothesis" to the illuminati controlling the world, and so on).

We absolutely do not need to entertain these illogical "theories" with no basis in fact whatsoever. We should entertain a reasonable level of skepticism when it comes to accepting the establishment view on anything, but that's no excuse to abandon reason or the necessity of evidence. A "theory" without evidence is just an allegation.
I Wrote a Digital Goods Payment Solution in 2 Hours Last Night
That's not really true. While there are EU-wide standards for many products and regulations, which can make this job easier, there's not a true single legal framework. Look at Google in Germany for example.
I had a strange problem appear after I spilled tea on my 2010 MBP last year. Continually, kernel_task was using an entire core (150-250% in top) and no amount of reboots could fix this. The built-in hardware diagnostic indicated it was not compatible with my Mac, and I could find nothing else that apparently was wrong. My computer was running very slowly though, and the system load was always over 4.

Finally I found through research that this is somehow related to power management. Apparently the system will have the CPU loop simple operations to prevent the processor from doing actual work and heating up. Sure enough, disabling power management by hacking a kernel extension made the kernel_task problem go away. My Mac has run perfectly for three months ever since I made that fix, after being nearly disabled for a year.
There's a tradeoff between collision resistance and fingerprint string length. We chose MD5 because people are comfortable with it in ssh, it's a shorter string to verify than something like SHA-256, and because we planned to make your peer's entire public key base64 available if you really wanted to go that extra mile (currently not available).

What would you prefer personally: (1) MD5 fingerprint for convenience AND entire peer public key base64 available if you really want; vs (2) just a longer SHA-256 fingerprint.
Because extensions can provide useful functionality that's not provided by the browser. For instance, ad blocking or developer tools.
No. While it's true that ζ(-1) = -1/12 and that the ζ function plays an important role in physics, your reasoning is fallacious.

If X implies Y and we know that Y is true, that does not mean X is true. So just because the video reached a "correct" conclusion does not mean that the means by which they reached that that conclusion are sensible or even consistent.

If I threw a dart at a dartboard labeled "What is 1 + 2 + 3 + ...?" and it landed on the section marked "-1/12", would you believe my answer? Would the fact that it happened to land on "-1/12" and also agreed with the ζ function lend credibility to my dart-throwing method of proof?

Indeed, if I encapsulated the methods used in that video, I could use those methods to have 1 + 2 + 3 + ... turn out to be any number I choose. This is the problem with specious reasoning — one can use it to reach any conclusion.
Parametricity is definitely not impossible to violate, but it's generally morally correct to assume it mostly holds in Haskell. Parametric polymorphism helps make that workable. Further, type classes help to tag code that does use reflection.

You can always get around things, but languages that make a strong commitment to keeping reasoning as a priority are qualitatively different from those that do not.
>willing

There was an important word there that you seemed to miss. I didn't say that he who sacrifices more will always win, but they do have more options available to them, so to speak. Please don't think I'm advocating sacrificing health and family in the name of success, far from it. I just don't like this post facto moralizing that glosses over the difficulty of choosing between working late on something that might be critical to the success of your enterprise and going home to see your wife and kids.
It's more than just terser notation for numpy-style operations. Q (verbose K) reads cleaner than numpy code - closer to English, in fact, without giving up any speed. K is the terse mathematical notation for that language.

K has 3 types: atoms, lists, and dictionaries. (atoms can be int, char, float, symbol, time or function). No objects, no strings, not even files. And yet, it is enough to express many algorithms concisely and efficiently, with bugs largely reduced to the class of off-by-one family.

The syntax is not just a superficial aspect of the language - it is fundamental to its evolution.
Unlikely at least at this point in time relative to us. In the point in time that is at their location perhaps.
I don't really want to take a leg in this thread (there are pragmatic reasons one may chose to put a foot down on whichever side in practice, and doing so now won't mean anything really to anyone), but it was interesting that the 3rd argument stood out to you (as did I) as well, as probably being one people would chose as being most rational (setting aside whether things like backroom trade agreements on a supranational scale like TPP have no effect on an "average" persons life, however obvious things like this may appear to some). But it is interesting to talk about, so here I go.

If one were to consider #3 valid, then one would have to consider what people do in their lives to be "average". Setting aside any possible governmental motivations in #2 and omitting the chemicals part (to not be side tracked in this thought exercise), some would consider it fair to say "average" people probably fill a great deal of their leisure time on #2 and talking/thinking about #2. And if we assume that the rest of the time is spent working where independent thought is not necessary for workers or applied on such issues, then #1 could be a possibility simply because time is not taken in leisure time to pursue #1 since that is filled with things dealing with #2.

But then again, the arguments rely entirely on what it means to be "average" (and who would be considered non "average"? People in power? People not in power who do not engage in #2 and by extension #1 may be void as well [what do non "average" people do for leisure that does not involve entertaining anything to do much with #2, while remaining incapable of independent thought since not engaging with #2 might be considered independent thought by "average" people who are generally assumed to be preoccupied with #2, if one we're to imagine such an interaction?]), and there's some kind of implication in #3 that on non "average" lives the arguments won't hold to be true. And if the arguments don't hold for non "average" people, why would they hold true for "average" people since we're talking about conspiracies in systems (governmental/corporate/etc) that are to affect all people on some level? Maybe someone could draw up some truth tables to show this more clearly? :D

Edit: made in reference to this parent comment for future clarity: http://i.imgur.com/3k5KK05.png
Now the big question is...

Are they accepted? :)
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I'm curious to see some sort of data on hours worked on startups if that exists. I would guess that the grunt workers feel that they are obligated to work ceoHoursWorked + 3 as you mentioned and the ceo imagines she has to work gruntHoursWorked + 3
http://git-projects.herokuapp.com/
Here: http://www.usnwc.edu/Academics/Faculty/Thomas-M--Nichols,-Ph...

>Thomas M. Nichols is a professor of national security affairs in the National Security Decision Making Department, where is also the Course Director for Security, Strategy, and Forces. A former Secretary of the Navy Fellow at the Naval War College, he previously taught international relations and Soviet/Russian affairs at Dartmouth College and Georgetown University. He is a former chairman of the Strategy and Policy Department at the Naval War College, for which he was awarded the Navy Civilian Meritorious Service Medal in 2005. He holds a PhD from Georgetown, an MA from Columbia University, the Certificate of the Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union at Columbia, and a BA from Boston University.

I think the definitions of [1]"public policy" and [2]"social science" here are meant strictly, not as generalities.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_policy

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science
"on a brand new 15 retina MBPro"

You have a warranty. Use it.

Complaints here do not solve your problems.

If Apple cannot solve your problems, within the terms if your warranty, they will offer alternatives (eventually) - up to and including a refund.

I understand people want to raise issues to "public awareness" that they feel are something Apple should pay attention to. And in the case of the original submission, VERY SPECIFIC details were figured out - and Bug Reported to Apple! Apple even closed some of the reports as a duplicate. They know about this problem - and it's for a new OS that has only been out for a handful of months - and the issue is for specific hardware builds.

They are working on it.

You, however, have a laundry list of real issues - USE YOUR WARRANTY.
I'd like to see some D3 + Flask action.
I don't know why you were downvoted.

This is something I hate about rich people. You're not a better person because you can take 8 weeks off each year and therefore get to actually know your kids. You're just luckier. Enjoy being rich, go ahead, but don't pretend it actually makes you a better person. Making better choices isn't as meaningful when life hands you all good options and few bad ones.

It's like the rich girl in college who drinks and sluts it in 43 countries before freshman year but insists that, because of her superior travel, she's somehow superior to the middle-class schlub who didn't leave New Hampshire until he went to college. Until you're 25 or so, being well-traveled is an accomplishment of the parents, not the person. (And after 25, no one really brags about it.)
pointsIterator++;

Works on Iceweasel 17.0.10.
Any more information about your project? Sounds interesting
I suggest trying CoffeeScript if you want to a cleaner version of JavaScript. Not that that answers your framework question.
This link worked for me to bypass the paywall: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/opinion/the-whistle-blower...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/higher/history/democracy/chang...

Or any general history text from say the last few hundred years.

There was also a lot of opposition to translating the Bible into vulgar language as opposed to having a Latin speaking elite interpret it for the peasants and yeomen
Angular docs aren't that bad. No, they don't even exist.
How to use RSpec to check your system installation
They wouldn't get ad revenue from me anyway
If I were CEO, I'd probably work long hours, especially early on. But I'd do most of that time from home, so people can leave at 5 or 6 if their work's done. Not because I'm a nice guy, but because I'm realistic and know that working at a sprint pace when it's not needed is going to enervate people and leave them unable to handle a true crisis.
Intel to cut more than 5,000 jobs in 2014
As Abraham Lincoln famously said, the problem with internet quotes is that you can't always verify their authenticity.
Assuming that the mail system had sufficiently detailed logs, she could have asked her university sysadmins.
I've been running into this problem with my 2013 MBA. It happens on wake, and the only that fixes it is a reboot. I'm getting pretty fed up with the issue since it's tanking my battery life and there seems like nothing I can do to fix it permanently.
"people who want to punish Congress for this or that law can’t name their own member of the House."

If he really was an expert, he would see the underlining problem in this, instead of hatting the consequences of that problem.

Maybe if he was an expert in any engineering field he would know how to identify a problem instead of generating bigotry on the consequences.
Should add jashkenas [0] to "WHO TO FOLLOW".

0 - http://github.com/jashkenas
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> But you have to do it as soon as you get in, put your feet up, watch teevee, allow an hour to pass and it all goes wrong.

I totally agree with this. If I plop down on the couch right after getting home from a day of work, inertia tends to keep me there. I'll become almost annoyed that I'm hungry and begrudgingly get up to microwave something really fast. If I go straight to cooking and doing other chores as soon as I get home I tend to eat a much better meal and feel much more relaxed once I do sit down.
If I may make a sweeping overgeneralisation and phrase it poorly, immutable data structures tend to be logarithmically worse (esp. in terms of allocations) than mutable structures. But if your language or runtime can prove that a reference is unique, then that overhead can be eliminated because the runtime can simply mutate with no one the wiser. And these languages tend to use GCs in which allocations are cheap, besides the fact that sharing saves you on copying. There are many factors at play.

Source: professional Haskell and C++ programmer extraordinaire.
Thanks for the heads-up. Not that I want to learn anything about HN's ban system, but it's interesting to see that the hellbanhammer can be wielded on a per-thread basis.
Pressing the spacebar in a browser has the same effect as the PageDown key.
Is this supposed to be satire? I can't really tell. On the one hand, it looks like he's legitimately trying to defend these views, but on the other, when you step back and look at them, they're so obviously faulty that I can't really interpret it as anything other than parody. Take this sentence for example:

"Fundamentally, it’s a rejection of science and rationality, which are the foundations of Western civilization itself."

There are so many things wrong with this sentence it leads me to believe that he's not being serious. "Ad Hominem" is one of the most well-known (if misused) logical fallacies in existence, and nowhere in the scientific method is "trustworthiness of the scientist" a factor (instead, the ability to reproduce results is of the utmost importance). The fact that "Western civilization" relies on experts is a notable rejection of purely rational or scientific views, not a foundation of them. This rejection is necessary to live in Western society (I'll get a lot farther trusting textbooks are correct, and verifying as need be, than giving similar credence to a mad man's rantings), but it is a rejection of rationality and science nonetheless.

As somebody who is clearly well educated, he must know this. But then he goes on to defend Western civilization as part of his argument, and it puts me at a complete loss as to who this is attempting to parody. One of the final points, as well, makes it read like a parody of authoritarian arguments that simply don't exist in any major discourse I've seen:

"And yes, your political opinions have value. Of course they do: you’re a member of a democracy and what you want is as important as what any other voter wants. As a layman, however, your political analysis, has far less value, and probably isn’t — indeed, almost certainly isn’t — as good as you think it is."

So your point is that democracy wants our opinions, but our reasons for our opinions are worthless? Who could think that makes any sense? The whole piece is full of these sort of bizarre statements. Who is this "expert"?

"Tom Nichols is a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College"

Oh. Turns out, sometimes the character of the person making the argument is relevant: He probably does believe this.
The EU is the world's largest economy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nom... ). Reason enough to invest there.
No overheating?
Mostly. Mona is k2/k3 (described in this post). K4/Q is much much cleaner - so it is easier and preferable in my opinion. You can get a free(gratis) 32-bit interpreter of that to play with; but if you insist on free(libre), kona is acceptable to dabble in. There's also J, which I think prefers purity and mathematical aesthetics to practicality, that you may like.

(J is a different language; both J and K can be traced back to the origin of A, a 20 C line implementation of an APL dialect)
This seems great. But if you have kids and this is your main or 'only' interaction at home, you're going to miss out on a great deal of their lives while you are working weekends, holidays, etc.
It is much better than nothing though. And loving your contribution is a great thing.
Not arguing against just pointing out that children change the whole game (if you care about watching them grow up in a meaningful way.)
Yes, god forbid I have a phone and want to use it with the purpose for which it is intended to be used.
Do not confuse the right and freedom to do business and sell your products/services with lawsuits (not established laws & regulation) that may arise from specific regions. Lawsuits != law & regulations.

In the US, when Google got sued for tracking Safari users when they had opted out, Google didn't have to settle in all US states but only some. This "Germany example" is no different.
If you boot into recovery drive and go under Utilities -> Terminal type 'resetpassword' and in that same window there will be a ACL ( OS X Access Control Lists ) reset for an account. If you do that when you reboot, it prompts you to make a new keychain before logging you in.
>I think it's more abstract. Europeans are much, much less likely to find understanding among friends and family for the idea of making sacrifice of any kind (of which long hours is only one kind) for "work".

Europeans are much less likely to understand the idea that a startup isn't "a job" and that starting your own business isn't just something you do to work from home, have less hours and (especially) not have a boss.

So, in essense, European don't believe in the gold-rush kind of startup culture. Seeing that only 1 in 100 or less companies ever make it, that's quite smart of them (well, us).

For the "less hacking spirit" somebody else said, I disagree. Heck, tons of hackers are from and in Europe (from Guido to the core KDE guys, and from projects like VLC and Haskell to OcamL).
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The days of phoning in with a 1200-baud modem or collecting embossed card impressions are long gone.

A typical small-shop retail arrangement is to have the POS terminals behind a NAT router which is behind another NAT router that also serves up the customer-convenience WiFi AP.

When a terminal wants to put through a charge, it simply makes an HTTPS request to the payment processor. One or two seconds later, the request comes back, declined or accepted and here's the approval code. At that point, the POS sanitizes away the credit card details and applies the credit tender. Enjoy your latte, ma'am!

To hack such a system, you need to get onto the POS LAN. E.g., maybe there's a store server on the with an SSH login, which you've uncovered after breaking into the corporate above-store network. Or maybe a disgruntled employee installs malware from a USB stick.

Then you exfiltrate the captured swipes, hopefully without leaving enough tracks to get caught. E.g., the malware periodically uploads the intercepts to some FTP site to which you can get access. Or, in the case of the disgruntled employee, it could simply involve dragging the files to the USB stick.

Between the store and the payment processor, we should be safe, given we're using HTTPS. However, payment processors have themselves been hacked. E.g., Heartland†.

†http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/01/payment...
I think this discussion highlights something very important about any Darwinian system, be it inter-species rivalry or free market competition: evolution has no higher ideals. Whatever is best at domination will dominate; whatever is best at spreading will spread.

People put so much faith in evolutionary processes as if they believe that evolution honors some kind of Platonic ideal. Evolution is a cold process, and it does not give a shit about you or anything you hold dear, unless what you hold dear is conducive to dominance in the specific arena under discussion.

Not to say natural selection is bad or good... I'm just pointing out that it's a value-neutral process, and I think it's a good idea to remember that, especially when we get the urge to derive norms of behavior from evolutionary evidence.
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Coffeescript isn't javascript, though.
Huh. I didn't say they're not conspiracy theorists, did I? That's putting words in my mouth I never said, in other words a strawman.

Labeling anyone and everyone as "conspiracy theorist" because they are talking about a conspiracy doesn't make them all the same, that makes as much sense as treating all humans like serial killers because Charles Manson was a human, too. Is realizing how silly that is a No True Scotsman, too? Please. To use big words, too, this is orders of magnitude below the standard of HN.

When drug dealers, who conspired to deal drugs, are busted, does that make the police "conspiracy theorists"? Why not, since they technically are? Because more often than not, that label is used to lump legitimate concerns together with kooky ones.
"If a startup wants to reach a similar customer base as a startup in the US it will always have to deal with 50 different markets with 50 different legal systems, 50 different marketing channels, and 50 different social networks."

* You don't need 50 markets to get to the same size, you need 5. The population of the just the 5 main Western European economies: UK (63m), German (82m), France (66m), Italy (61m) and Spain (47m) totals (317m) which is more than the US (314m). The GDP per capita in the US is slightly higher ($49k in US versus $41k in Germany, $39k UK, $40k France) but at roughly the same level.

* Under EU laws, you have free movement of goods and mostly (almost) a single legal system covering things like e-commerce.

* Language is not really a barrier. For B2B stuff, depending upon your industry, then English alone is probably sufficient. Translating a product or marketing material is hardly a difficult task these days.

* Assuming by social networks you mean things like Facebook/Linkedin/Twitter, then they are the same across the EU.
I have the feeling that every "good" message about Chrome is followed by a disastrous one. This time it was the funky "audio feature" on tabs, followed by this.
Chrome developed a scary creativity with good and evil stuff.
I used Chrome once because everybody was telling me how fast it is. It wasn't. People just couldn't add all the processes properly. Since then it was a roller coaster I won't jump on anymore. I use Opera as an reference alternative to FF.

btw: my parents end up with Chrome every time I come by on the Windows. Installed through some update (Java maybe?). Is there any way to block this without taking all installation rights from them?