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Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America, by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews.

Yes, it's by far the best biography of Gates, and extremely detailed. However, the first edition was published on January 21, 1994.
Baboom - Kim Dot Com
Kim Dotcom is a maverick.
> It's much higher than it is or other races. When you dig into the data, it usually turns out that stereotypes exist for a reason

You'll find blacks and latinos are overrepresented in all negative socioeconomic indicators. But I'm sure that they're all deliberately choosing to have die younger and spend more time in prison.
You can set a limit order on your favorite exchange. It will sit there and sell them off for the price you specify as people are willing to buy them. Of course, if anyone is selling them cheaper than you, yours won't sell until theirs are gone.

Alternatively you can just place a market order a few times per day for a week. It's more work, but we're really only talking about ~1 minute of work per $200k or so. MtGox handles more than $10M in Bitcoin sales per day and they represent a minority of all exchange volume.
Exactly.

Not being content with what we have and not being endlessly amazed by it is what propels us to drive for even greater advancements instead of standing around like remnants from an ancient society completely gobsmacked by a guy making a quarter appear out of our ear.

Yes, we live in the most advanced times ever and there's lots of awesome stuff. Let's go make more awesome stuff.
If it's any consolation, I'm using the metric system on the backend and plan to add the ability to change your default units. I don't want hike.io to be US-centric.

Multi-trail circuits are not really supported at the moment, but I like the idea. You could hack your way around it currently by creating a "master hike", call it Annapurna Circuit, and then link to the other sub-trails from the master.

I've created issues for both of the things you've mentioned - https://github.com/zaknelson/hike.io/issues
I'll have to go search for some, I've only got my own experience :D. Give me a day or two, I don't mind getting some for you.
>Most interesting to me, this is the first stable release supporting netmap(4)

is this similar (or better) to linux's pf_ring ?
But that's exactly the point the guy in the article makes: he has done that since forever and it's not particularly tiring, but he wants a better solution.
First of all I said tea leaves and not bags and second of all what the hell is wrong with cutting your own hair if you can do a good job of it? My brother liked simple haircuts (buzzed to a certain length) and my mom always cut his hair in the kitchen because it was just easiest. Anyone who keeps their head shaved probably isn't going to a salon either.
Avoid Rails Plugins.
> He's not even remotely close to being a billionaire, a pretty hefty exaggeration. That would require that he mined nearly 10% of all bitcoins.

My bad, sometimes I forget just how big a billion is
:) And how would you go about dismantling the inegalitarian economic system?
> The entirety of humanity’s knowledge is – of course – free

Really? Isn't most of the important, peer-reviewed, scientific stuff behind academic paywalls?

> you live in the most amazing time imaginable

Sorry to put a downer, but mankind has been marvelling at their own progress since the dawn of time. In 100 years people will look back at the primitive beginnings of the information age and marvel how much better things are in their current time.

There's plenty wrong with our current world and societies. I can easily imagine a world where technology benefits us better, solves more problems, societies become more equal, etc. etc.
The problem is getting paid by Mt Gox in dollars, euro etc as many horror stories exist of people not being paid for months or ever

Other exchanges would also have similar issues, and would hit you with all sorts of antimoneylaundering questions if you try to withdraw too much
In another thread somewhere, it was said that with Roslyn they are holding off on adding new language features as every item they add is another step from completing Roslyn. Once it's out the door, there will be another flurry of features added.

Having said that, I already hear people complaining about the pace of new .Net frameworks and language features being too fast. I think that the community seems to be split on whether to add new language features or not
yeah, but... emacs. Would love something online to draw tables, though.
I wouldn't have thought to take apart a simple water boiler (at least not in recent years) so that was enlightening. Sometimes simple but functional designs can be fascinating, after getting to used to doing less with more (arduinos on everything) rather than more with less (completely mechanical control systems).

I have a zojirushi, but only with three temperature settings. Maybe I should mod it to fully variable... although I really want to make a teapot with a built in thermometer more than anything. The water heater wouldn't cool fast enough to really make the variable temp worth it.
Because smoking is still a powerful political issue, both in terms of smokers and lobbyists. Cigarettes here in Australia are nearly $1 each, and all cigarettes must be sold in an olive drab box with a graphic picture of a diseased body part and health warning - plus the packages must now be hidden from view by the vendor. The rather wealthy tobacco companies fight it all the way, right up to petitioning the UN trade bodies on their own dime.

Sometimes it's quite amusing - the argument against the olive drab packaging was "it's a waste of time, the colour of the packaging won't change tobacco sales", to which the only sane response is "then why are you taking out multiple full-page ads in every paper?".

You also can't just make it illegal overnight, since it's a notoriously difficult drug to give up. Hence it's being gradually phased out.
Gasp, a car that's been on the market for almost twice as long and costs less than half as much sold more, how crazy is that?

Still, I actually test drove a Leaf a while back, nifty car, and I applaud Nissan for doing what they are doing. Amongst the snooze fest that is the Japanese auto industry these days, Nissan definitely has some of the most interesting line ups, from affordable, super car performance (GT-R) to pure electric city commuter (Leaf).
The most powerful tool on the web is still words... And if your words are good, people will read them. [1]

There's something incredibly powerful about this piece of work and about the world in which we live. That's why Justin's single web page was translated in to 20 languages and shared over 8,000 times in just a few hours. [2]

[1] http://justinjackson.ca/words.html

[2] HN Submission & Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5913381
Step-by-Step Cross-Browser Testing
Make it a Javascript (just put into Favorites an icon that links to javascript:(function(){...})() which creates and inserts a script block into the currently open site (Yale site in this case) which loads the big .js from a server.
Users browse the regular Yale page, click on their icon in the Favorites bar and the page extends so it can look and perform however you want it to look and perform - unblockable!
Many people don't want to spend $250/mo on gas. Whether they do or not is separate.

I had a Nissan Pathfinder once and it was okay when gas was $2-2.50/gal (16 gallon tank, $40/wk, $150/month). Once it got to $4.00/gal damn right I found alternatives to driving that Pathfinder. The 20 minute walk to the store in the hot, Florida sun didn't seem so bad anymore.

I have many friends who bought SUVs (for the "utility") and commuted way out from the exurbs. They had no choice but to eat the cost of $100 fillups while looking for cheaper alternatives.
You might be interested in "Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering" and related "Laboratory" course that start today on Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/course/eefun

https://www.coursera.org/course/eefunlab
1) yea
2) yea - js is very similar to C only you add pointers, also ux design is important for desktop apps but not backend, ui fundamentals things like putting a button in a box to lay it out and binding a click event to it copy over well to windows/linux (qt/gtk/tk) gui kits
3) yea - email me jg_work at kify dot com if you want some resume help/suggestions

your experience is good - you can definitely land a job.
any other questions?
To counter the general conviction of some Americans that only American males innovate and start startups?

Now, we need some examples of "I innovate but I do not run startup" to counter the idea that starting startup is the only way to innovate.
Also who ruins tea with milk and sweetener? Tea is a beautiful thing on its own. Maybe you think tea is just tea because you can barely taste the tea over the milk and sugar?

Also good tea is still cheap tea - only a few cents a cup.
> My guess is if it werent't for Wozniak, Steve Jobs would have found himself another Wozniak or would have put himself into a situation where he would have not needed a Wozniak.

Unless you're religious or believe in fate, Jobs life would probably be very different. He could become a successful artist or car salesman or crack cocaine dealer, but unlikely a tech visionary.
I'm positive I'm not schizophrenic, I've smoked my fair amount of weed during my youth and, while I enjoyed it very much, now if I take a single puff of a joint I get very anxious, and I have had a more than couple panic attacks due to it.

It's taken me some time to forget the good times I had when high, and associate it with anxiety, in order to stop myself from thinking "Yeah, I'd like to smoke a joint now". So while I had no withdrawal symptoms, it's taken me some time to remove the psychological "addiction".

Marijuana may be a drug with a lot of positive health benefits but may exacerbate psychosis and panic attacks in healthy people too. (i.e. not schizophrenic or with other major mental disorders)
Suddenly it is easier to understand the person's behavior (but not justify it)

It kind-of sounds like the reverse to me. You're justifying the behaviour by imagining a situation where you would react the same way, thereby saying that you're no better than they are.

What you're not doing is explaining why they behave the way that they do. Whatever you imagining, odds are you're not correct in your guesses.
Show HN: Fetch your last tweet (to show on your site) hassle free
It turns out that out-of-shape cops are make fairly effective killing machines when you outfit them with automatic rifles and body armor.

And, since the US Defense Department can donate excess hardware to police forces, most of the gear comes at a very heavy discount (because it's already been paid for by tax dollars).
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/07/militar...

As a result, it's not at all uncommon to send a team of local policemen in assault gear to arrest a drug dealer or other minor criminal, or anyone accused anonymously of something horrid -- that's the basis of swatting. Hopefully they get the right house, and don't shoot anyone else or their pets, but it typically isn't a big deal even when the cops screw up.
Animating Ground Overlays in Google Maps iOS SDK
Another Ebert declaration ('Case Closed.') where he betrays an incomplete understanding of the topic at hand. I personally liked 'As a editor, he must be intimately expert with how an image interacts with the audience's eyes.' contrasted against this part of guy's letter: 'Somehow the glasses "gather in" the image'.

Not to mention, of course, that there is always scope for better tech to come along. Sensationalism, thy name is Ebert.
Reminded me of the famous sketch Everything's Amazing & Nobody's Happy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E
there is a project called ethereum that is about to be announced. New codebase.

http://ethereum.org/ethereum.html
About Hiattus: a platform for writing and publishing, anonymously
I hope they add exploit mitigation techniques like ASLR (already being worked on for 11) and close the gap to OpenBSD and Windows. Even DragonflyBSD has some level of ASLR. As Theo said adding is one thing but actually enabling it in the default configuration is what counts. ASLR is just one piece of the puzzle and for 11 they should seriously consider implementing enough to match OpenBSD.
>>> too much consulting (I later changed the way I organize my gigs and balance this with product work, by using WiseCash itself),

quick question if author is listening - how did you reorganise your consulting gigs? Any detail? I find I cannot persuade anyone to wait more than two weeks so I can actually plan - any ideas?
I'll have to go search for a link. But it was during the keynote unveiling of the original iPhone if I remember correctly, where actually two of the engineers came to him to demonstrate the capacitive touch screens or panels that were only just beginning to receive main stream attention.
EE BrightBox routers can be hacked 'by simple copy/paste operation'
I thought about a similar thing recently; and I concluded that what most people make (in money) is completely undeserved in terms of work they do. (At least, in my case, I am SW developer and I am sure I wouldn't myself pay for the amount of work I do - there is like 3 orders of magnitude difference of what I would be willing to pay for a feature and what a feature costs to develop.)

The point is, we should stop thinking in terms what we deserve; if we truly were making what we deserve (for our work), most of us couldn't live.

This idea is related to labor theory of value, which is simply wrong. Currently, thanks to organization and machinery, the vast amount of work needed to sustain our lifestyle is not done by human beings, but it's simply granted to us.

That's one of the reasons why I am against libertarianism. Strict meritocracy, while nice in theory, would mean utter poverty for most people.
Hi,

Thanks for your interest in Freshdesk. If you can email me: saurabh@freshdesk.com, I will be glad to get on a call, understand your requirements and take the discussion further.

Best Regards,
Saurabh Prabhuzantye
Private npm base on mysql and simple store service for company.
Say what you want about Kim Dotcom, the guy is a marketing genius.

Before Megaupload he was virtually unknown out of tech/finance circles. Now my mother knows who he is. Albeit, she calls him Dotcom Internet.
Other people finding your dream job to be boring is benefit.

The less people who choose to compete for the ludicrously overpaid, relatively straightforward knowledge work that is so much in demand at the moment, the more of it you and me get to break off for ourselves, and the more people will be willing to pay us to do so.

Good thing we can stand the boredom, but it's a living, eh?
Kim Dotcom’s Answer To Spotify & iTunes—Baboom Will Soft Launch On Monday
So this happened last night...what do you think of the new design?
Merchant adoption.

Nobody wants to pay for new EMV-capable payment terminals; heck, at a conference I went to two years ago, people were still using carbon copy credit-card processing machines (!).

In the SF Bay Area, every merchant that uses Square as a payment processor can only process mag-stripe transactions. Square supports neither Chip and PIN nor NFC/PayPass/PayWave transactions -- by design. (This leads to a "better customer experience", IIRC.)

OTOH, the huge machine-learning machinery built by credit-card processors in the US has helped mitigate much of this risk; I've had enough false positive declines that I'm confident that the fraud-prevention systems currently used, while expensive, work in 90+% of cases.

Edit: I should mention that in Canada, Chip-and-PIN roll-out occurred concurrently with the roll-out of NFC/PayWave/PayPass, so the "increased" security of PIN was offset by the ability to read your credit card wirelessly. The banks mitigate this by limiting PayWave/PayPass transactions to ~$100 (it's meant to be used for things like going to McDonald's or Tim Horton's/Starbucks).
How to Make Love: A 1936 Guide to the Art of Wooing
Like in Flickr but instead of pictures you share data sets
Hello RyanC,

It's Scott Thomas.

I'm gay.

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India successfully testfires nuclear-capable Agni IV missile - China.org.cn
That's a different discussion entirely :-)
It seems (correct me if I'm wrong) you're assuming I'm not from Europe/not using DirectDebit. If that's the case: Both isn't true - I own a CC for roundabout 3 (4?) years, but don't trust it/don't use it a lot.

That said: I see a weird trend over here as well - it seems stores are regularly switching between the card&pin method and the braindead 'just sign here' way of things. So my card can probably be abused, albeit not online and not at any ATM.

I don't think we disagree a lot: There are still huge gaping holes that aren't hard to exploit. But that's still no reason _not_ to use the card&pin system (-> see article). We shouldn't stop there and wear a smug face, 'Europe is secure, we are done'. But in the light of this article we're still better off.
They should have just put Pirates of Silicon Valley in theaters, as opposed to "Jobs". Sure, it wasn't just about the guy in the turtleneck, but it was fantastic.
I never used megaupload ... but casting the first stone is always dangerous.
Two wrongs make a right, right?
Since Twitter changed their API to require authentication on every request about all the sites I've made got broken. They all had this "Last tweet" bubble that suddenly didn't work anymore. Now I fixed it. Instead of changing every site back-end code to contemplate an authenticated request to Twitter's API, I made a separate web app that does that and only that. It accepts cross-origin requests and delivers your last tweet in additional formats to fit your need. It even auto link your URLs and mentions. Now I made it public. Hope you enjoy it.
Obama's interview with German TV: "It'll take time to win back trust" [video]
Front running is when a broker trades in front of his client. The broker has a fiduciary duty to act in his client's best interests. If I trade ahead of you because I can guess your actions, that's just me kicking your ass.

Incidentally, if it's acceptable for Charlie Munger to sell in such a way that others will suffer the price impact of his trade, why is it not acceptable for HFTs to do the same thing? In both cases, it's just one trader playing short term games against other traders in order to make money.
the best jobs go to someone whos friends with the boss or who is a perfect culture fit and whiz kid. dont stress about that. being a hotbed of talent you will have so much more competition.

heres a great plan if you want to get one:
1) make an open source project - can be anything
2) contribute actively to 1 open source project thats relevant in the business world your job hunting in
3) note these projects on your resume and highlight a few things you did/problems you fixed that show why you kickass (made backend 1000% faster)

profit. and it will take 1-2mo.
Obama NSA reform speech. Here’s the video and its analysis.
Wait, what? What Debit Card do you use that works without PIN?
Might want to work on the search.

I typed in "Goat Rocks", since, well, Goat Rocks. No results.

Then I clicked "Discover", which prominently featured Glacier Lake, which has the intro text: Glacier Lake is a hike within Goat Rocks Wilderness in western Washington state.

... Shouldn't that have come up in my search then?
But then you're comparing apples with oranges when discussing average household income. Median income seems like a better metric, since Latin American countries have a much broader income disparity than the two countries you mention.

Parent was exaggerating of course when he mentioned 99% (and certainly doing a wink to the Occupy movement). Still, unless Mexico City massively changed since I last went there (2009), I can only agree with his assessment: you find a lot of run down areas when you leave downtown.
I really like that my carrier is hacking around odd tools and releasing them on github. That being said in this case, as soon as the iPhone supports html5 vibrate, I'll be turning it off as soon as I can. I fear advertisers will abuse this feature way too much
I don't think he can gradually control the power, just turn it on and off. A thyristor or something for kilowatts of power would be expensive. This makes a PID controller excessive: just heat until it reaches the target temperature and then turn it off. Turn it on again when the temperature has dropped a couple degrees if you want it to keep a temperature.
It's an opportunity. They used to call it the American Dream.
ECL needs new maintainer
Or maybe they follow few people because of limited resources. You can't infer someone's humility bases on the amount of people they follow on twitter. Why do they follow "big" people? Maybe because they are friends, someone they look up to or just someone they want to keep track off. In other words, the exact same reason you follow someone.
I'm selling 50 Colored Coins for $2,500 each. They're backed up by the gold I have securely stashed in my potato cellar.
Did they also confiscate everyones scissors?
Web Design Trends 2014 - The Top Predictions
It's worth bearing in mind that bitcoin might never have reached the position it now holds if early adopters had not spent their coins as freely as they did.
Yeah, I agree that not every subject is worth arguing about. But if discussion is what you are after, then you need to know what you are talking about, or against. The nuclear program of Iran is a great example. You have done the research to know that those who are experts in the matter don't think Iran has a nuclear weapon program. The others are not prepared for the discussion.

(This certainty about Iran was actually news to me.)
You have no idea how to actually write an informational comment rather than hinting at some received wisdom and greater general understanding without actually revealing any of it, wrapped in condescension which actually lands far of the mark and fails to address the points raised here, do you?
Douglas Adams's final post to his online forum
How Secure Is Your Data Storage?
Most of the recent things I have read have been a summation of this study - http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/08/21/sf.sot... In particular I think I noticed http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/gender-societ... Which mainly discusses how many women leave STEM compared to over fields and to do what.

However if I didnt find any emperical studies to backup my anecdote I wouldnt really care, unless I have some reason to believe everyone I talk to is a habitual liar I will carry on considering it a real and upsetting problem. Problems are still problems and can even be worked towards without having an scientifically rigorous process applied to their definition.
"the Microsofts, Apples, and Oracles of the world that happily vacuum up their code may not be the there in their time of need"...

What about the Linux distro's that didn't lift a finger but continue to ship OpenSSH? Its that kind of attitude that make working with the OS community hard. Someone will bad mouth your involvement even when you are doing the right thing in other area's.

Did anyone even approach those companies? How about Unbuntu or Redhat? Are they supposed to read people's fucking minds?

I'm glad that OpenBSD got it's bills paid...but this guy's blog post might as well read..."Hey, some European guy paid OpenBSD's bills. Alright! Oh yeah, Fuck Microsoft (or Apple) because they didn't help." What the fuck?

Just for the record...I gave. I wonder how much they raised besides the bitcoin rich guy's contribution.
Bellard: Prolific hacker? Yes. Entrepreneur? Not so much...

(As an aside: a former French entreprenuer that immediately comes to mind is Jean-Louis Gassée who founded Be Inc.)
Just a question: Doesn't "entrepreneur" totally sound French? I'm French so it's obvious to me, but I'm surprised you fetched a dictionnary to back you up. Do English speakers need to be scholar to guess it's a French word?