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Ask HN: Should I submit my short story to a mediocre publishing house?
I am not an established writer. I plan to send my short stories for publication.
Recently, I came across a contest which states that I will get a chance to be published, if my short story is good enough. The thing is that the editor seems to a self-proclaimed author with just one novel.
Should I send my story ? If it gets selected, would it boost my confidence?
Or, will it result in making me look mediocre to an audience who might ignore this book and my future books considering that I had ties with a mediocre publishing house ?
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To be honest, I don't know if my honesty will hurt me later on. I didn't want to sugar coat the reason. Startups don't die until founders quit. You always have a way to make it work if you want.

We had founder issues early on and we parted ways after we shut down the first product. I then led the company to ship second and third products as a solo founder. I could have quitted then but stuck on for another two years. I wasn't ashamed telling people the truth because I know I have given my best.
> but today's bottleneck isn't hardware, it's developer productivity.

That's until you try to scale things.
Marshall Plan is the exception, not the rule. Otherwise, they usually burn tyres which have little economic value. However, these pictures terrorizes investment and the people. This can result in a bad economic season which start a roller-coaster effect. Unemployment -> more unrest -> more unemployment...
If you were to ask current mainstream american media sources they would claim it isn't journalism because they are 'activists'. Ala the treatment of anyone who is covering the Snowden leaks without being sympathetic to the US Gov.
Not sure about the downvotes, but talking about the influence of who buys personal computing devices, almost no-one cares about the above. Cloud stuff disappears? You open up somewhere else and mobile devices are fine computers/computing devices. Almost no-one who is non-tech is buying laptops. And those are the same people who don't care about 'your data', data privacy and all that. They read about it in the paper, have no clue how it affects them and then start up Facebook and forget about it. And that's 30+ers. Kids < 20 really don't care about any of that. My cousins drop their tablet while playing and just open another Gmail account because they cannot be bothered to write down the password. And they do everything on those things.

Unless you're talking CAD/CAM, game dev, 3D modelling, movie/music editing, sci computing, people are simply not buying laptops proving mobile devices are great computers for 99% of the world. Oh yeah; they don't care about the OS either; they care about what 'others' in their situation have; they buy what their friends have or what looks good when sitting at the hairdresser.
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The specific rationale wouldn't be something one could really explain in less than a few pages for each of those.

The overarching reason is that each of these books had a huge effect on intellectual and cultural history across a long span of time. To demonstrate that, one would need quite a bit of space, and ultimately it would amount to giving someone an entire education in the intellectual history of most of the world over the last 2500 years.

It seems rather futile in any event. Pointing out the highlights of Plotinus' influence would involve referring to a large number of other authors and texts and movements that are even less well known, e.g. Marsilio Ficino, the Corpus Hermeticum, and Renaissance Neo-Platonism.

I am pretty sure that for most of the authors, however, a good Wikipedia entry will throw out a few sentences that give someone an idea.
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"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." ―Princess Leia
Consider this - Yushchenko let the people decide. Do you really think Yanukovych will do the same in next elections? Will Yanukovych just let the people vote him out of the office?

He has no chance to win again in honest elections, and he already faked the elections before orange revolution. He was in prison twice for theft, he is a criminal. How do you think people can trust him to do the right thing? His family become very rich very quickly. He jailed opposition candidate. He changed constitution to make it harder to protest.

The EU partnership thing was just the last straw. People don't want to be stuck with Yanukovych forever, and now is last chance to get rid of him.
Reading the report, I can't say it's objective - on the contrary it's rather biased, but it doesn't try to conceal it.

That alone made it more useful reporting for me than many other things I've read about the situation recently where I had to try to figure out what the hidden bias is (and account for it appropriately).
My point is that this approach causes harm. It's like treating heavy bleeding by applying a tourniquet and sending the patient out the door. It's medically unsafe, unsustainable patient care. This is not simply a question of budgets, it is a question of how society views mental health. This kind of treatment indicates an "us and them" mentality where mental patients are viewed as second-class citizens. Your wording, "extreme problems" also hints at such a dichtomy, although I'm sure you didn't do it on purpose. There are other ways to say this: Basket cases, crazy, insane, psycho, major issues, etc. A neutral term would be "very ill" or something like that.

My examples of attempted suicide by overdose or "self-influcted gunshot wounds" definitely qualify as "extreme problems", so it is clear that there is a different way to do this.

I am aware that your comment probably just meant to say that the system is set up in an unfortunate way, and that you probably don't represent the views I describe here. But from my perspective it appears to be much worse than just an underfunded system.
You should never leave a sensitive device like your laptop unattended. A sophisticated attacker can replace your bootloader with a backdoored version that stores the encryption paraphrase to disk in plain.
This is not a revolution. The political type of society is not going to change. The rioters are not supported by the population.
You don't have to refresh the page, you can just click again to get a different face.
Thanks Alex. Glad you enjoyed it.
Half the Latvia left to UK. Others to follow.
Seems like a genetic algorithm would be a great fit to produce a letter arrangement given a target silhouette
And that is why so many of you go abroad to work?
If you applied and failed, would you want that information to be public without your explicit consent?
Gurdjieff was influential for some 20th century folks, but it seems a little ridiculous to put him anywhere near, say, Marx or Mao. I suspect Seymour-Smith was a fan, or at least his circles held a disproportionate number of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._I._Gurdjieff
This is actually the opposite of the current circumstances.

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

Benito Mussolini

So the merger of the State with investment banks, oil companies and others in the 1% that fund the rise to power of politicians is a corporatist state. Now while the politicians praise those that fund them to power, they wage wars on "the other" in this case Muslims overseas, which while helping oil companies, investment banks etc also gives them a boogie man to scare the public into submission and help consolidate their power to do whatever illegal activities they want, such as spying on everyone or kidnapping now renamed "rendition" etc. The fact that this article is so easily dismissed shows how bad things have gotten and how unlikely it is to end well for any of us.
UPA is very controversial - it was responsible for mass murdering whole villages during WW2 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_... )

> The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943 when a senior UPA commander, Dmytro Klyachkivsky, ordered the liquidation of the entire male Polish population between 16 and 60 years of age.[7][8][9] Despite this, most of the victims were women and children.

That's one reason Poles (while we fully support independent democratic Ukraine and it's partnership with EU) feel very uncomfortable supporting people that call themselves UPA continuators. Ukrainians have the right to choose their heroes, and Poles want Ukraine to be independent (geopoliticaly we like the fact that we have very small border Russia very much, also Ukrainians have similiar culture and language). But if they want people to support them fully they could do well abandoning the UPA symoblism.
I acknowledged that it was a risky strategy, but the alternative is to not get noticed at all because the buyers get stuck comparing checkboxes rather than realising that feature creep can make for an unwieldy behemoth.
"In the late nineties, some of the Linux distributions were also already viable. E.g. I remember introducing SUSE Linux at my high school in ~1998, and back then it could be installed by a reasonably technical person. Which was not that much different than Windows 9x, given all the work that was usually required to install device drivers, etc."

I strongly disagree with this.

In 1998 Linux was not easy to use. Sure, KDE, etc, was nice, but to get to a minimally workable system it was hard.

I know, I did that, coincidentally in 1998 as well.

Getting the video drivers to work, very difficult. Find the right driver, install, etc

Configuring Dialup, hard. Using dialup, hard as well.

After that, sure, it was nice to startup KDE and browse the web.

Linux, as a "unix clone" was good if you had standard hardware and a permanent configuration. Then you can justify setting up wvdial like it was (and probably is today)
You are right.
We should have tried to sell harder before building. Lesson learned.
To be fair thou, we did interview about 10 companies before even prototyping to get feedback. Two of them ended up paying after we launched.
Either because he is stupid, or because he got pressure from Apple (or fears to get trouble if the link is circulated outside of Germany). I guess Apple does pressure a lot of website owners behind the scenes... but of course the other option is more likely :-)

Seriously, under German law the forum owner has no way to forbid people to link to his site - unless they are insulting him, misattributing content, etc.

Here is the original link (now removed):
http://hackintosh-forum.de/index.php?page=Thread&postID=9493...

Here is the google cache:
https://www.google.com/search?q=http://hackintosh-forum.de/i...

Normaly, I wouldn't post that link, but there is (as far as I could see) nothing problematic in that thread, and the content is already posted (with permission of the original author apparently) somewhere else, so the whole thing is incredibly silly.
The CIA is a poor example. The motivation isn't there, it's not really their style, and they are rather incompetent. More importantly, if it were an American plot of some kind, the US news media wouldn't be ignoring it, they'd be going on and on about a Ukrainian Democratic Revolution etc. etc. To orchestrate something like this and not hook it up with massive Western support would be futile.
You seem to be reluctant for changes. Ok, protesters against Yanukovych try to at least _revert_ the situation back to the one before Yanukovych.

People have democratically elected Yanukovch in hope that he will be the next "Kouchma" (second president of Ukraine), who grew up Yanukovych politically. But the difference between Kouchma and Yanukovuch started to frighten people with every new Yanukovych step from the moment of his inauguration. The part of Ukraine that voted for Yanukovych is now also shocked. It is Yanukovych who changed the situation and brought awful changes.
Note, he wrote story in English to make it repostable in western internets, so to influence public opinion in necessary way, namely, "people came out against Yanukovich".

You know, kinda push our western friends to intervene.
To be fair, in Tokyo only a few subways lines have such safety doors.
Would really like to see some clojure->python dialect. Hy seems more "experimental" which is also great.
My favorite part is the demo. In the stricter definition of Demo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demo_%28computer_programming%29
Based on the story, this did not happen in Scotland.
Hardcore Python fans will always defend it. I am just asking to think out side of the box.

http://evanfarrer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/unit-testing-isnt-e...
While I sympathize with the protesters, the disdain you speak of should surprise no one.

First, Yanukovich won the last election when his opponents were in power. I think this is a good enough indicator that he has lots of supporters.

Second, the Ukrainians went through all of this already in 2004 and apparently nothing particularly good came out of it. The country is in the same place it was 10 years ago and Yanukovich can hardly be held responsible for that.

Just to add a personal anecdote... I've met a random Ukrainian couple while vacationing recently. They didn't speak Russian at all, so most definitely not from the east or other pro-russia kind of Ukrainians. And when asked about this uprising they expressed complete and utter apathy. They had zero hopes for their lives to improve regardless of the outcome.
"It doesn't really matter." The Starship Enterprise "is a thing of itself and it has a vitality forever."
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A lot of things and links here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/

A fixed cam view of a part of maidan, online 24/7 so far:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/euromajdan/pop-out

and last, but not least:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/press-club <- the live coverage is spotty, but do look for "olya" in the sidebar (you have to click "more" for them to show up) for some guided tours around maidan and interviews with protesters by an english speaking journalist. Highly recommended.

There are of course many more feeds and videos, but you will find them all in the above subreddit (in /r/europe and /r/worldnews, too)
"If the developer/community of a language, framework, library, etc. etc. haven't taken the time to write good documentation and provide some examples,".

I couldnt agree more. It takes a lot of time and sweat to make a good library or framework, writing up some examples takes very little time in comparison and when the developer/team hasnt gone the last mile here, it usually makes me think they havent done it with their framework as well.

Also "What do people think of documenting first" well, theres a great talk by Tom Warner about README driven development that is just about this, and Im a huge fan of it. Work out how you would like to use your library before you program it, and as an added bonus you have documentation at the end.

Also as an added note to other devs reading this, I care much less about "API docs" because I get the same thing from just reading the source. Id be perfectly content with examples.
> If there's a need, some of them - probably hundreds of them - would find their way to the hostilities.

Everything will end very quickly if real guns pop up.

To the disappointment of protesters.
Study: Believing You’ve Slept Well, Even if You Haven’t, Improves Performance
Tssk, tssk.
I didn't mean to imply anything about the protesters one way or another. My point was purely about the reporting itself and perhaps about citizen journalism in general.

As a citizen of the European Union I am very much in favor of forming closer ties with Ukraine and eventually welcoming them into the EU.

But of course that can only happen if a solid majority of Ukrainians actually wants it. I'm unclear about whether or not they do and hence whether or not the protesters represent the will of the people.
Not yet a good bet
> whatever anti-EU crap The Guardian produces this month (Some newspapers in UK don't like EU, they write nonsense about legislation...

The point is a good one, but you may be confusing the Guardian with e.g. the Daily Mail or the Telegraph, both right-wing anti-EU papers. The Guardian is centre-left, and neutral/pro-EU.
Another good one is dstat[1]

1: http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/dstat/
This is definitely not true for the EDM scene where even successful artists want to get on the big promotion channels (no music videos, just sound).
Poll: A Political Voice for the Freedom of the Internet?
Do you think the freedom of the internet needs defending? (Yes/No)

If "yes", then:
Various organisations, such as the Free Software Foundation (FSF) try to lobby for it. Is this enough? (Yes/No)

If "no", then:
Is there a need for a political party, such as the Pirate Party, to do this, possibly more effectively, through the political means? (Yes/No)

Please answer and justify your position.
Just type in google: cache:http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/63e60612-827c-11e3-8119-00144...
I get things are better now. I type this on a 2013 Macbook Air. This is my main, personal dev machine. I understand the levels of improvement we have achieved.

But Apple has a truly novel design with the new Pro. Even the machine in your link has 1 CPU fan, 1 GPU fan and a power supply fan. And it's still quite empty and not that small. No one except Apple is even trying.
Having a track sampled in a remix or mashup might seem good for the original artist, but that doesn't mean their record label won't try to shake SoundCloud down for cash. Especially if soundcloud start making money (and why else would VCs have invested?).
Exactly. This idea that for every issue there must be two valid viewpoints each with good points is fallacious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
Steve Wozniak seems to have been omitted from the credits in the slideshow that starts at about 20:40, and yet he appears in it at about 29:28. I wonder why he wasn't listed.
My example of the PS3 was the same as iOS — Sony is the only way to get games on the PS3. People don't seem to have an issue with this like they have an issue with the App Store. In fact, the same thing applies to the NES. No one seemed to complain until it was the App Store. Why is the expectation different?

I have mostly found the rejections I encountered from Apple to be good things (I've had about 8 - 10 app rejections over the years). They have always led to me improving the app for the customer (e.g., include battery warnings, make text more visible, ensure app complies with child privacy laws, don't include placeholder artwork, and so on).

The App Store's curation is one of the things that increases its value. Even though developers hate it (and perhaps feel slightly disrespected by it?). I'd argue that its been a good thing.
And you are repeating this 'rather bigoted saying' here why?
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Yes, but that was exactly my point. Video game consoles have been around for ages, are closed ecosystems, and no one minds. The App Store decides to do this for phones (which were at the time, pretty closed ecosystems anyway) and everyone gets upset. What is the difference?
it is impossible to setup and use without deciphering thirdparty guides. and even then it is awkward and painful to use. I wish they would restart with a useable GUI and highly limited but well working feature set.
If people are not allowed to go abroad at all for 50+ years, they'll naturally flock in bigger numbers once borders are open.

To be fair, there's still a huge gap between post-ussr and western countries. But we're catching up. It takes time to fix what 50 years in ussr did. Some people want money & stuff fast, they go abroad. Other people prefer to work on rebuilding their country and/or see more business opportunities in developing market.

By the way, it's not only ex-ussrs emigrating. I heard more and more Spaniards and Greeks come to Norway to earn more :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia#Ethnic_groups is closest to the demographic graph of Latvia, for example. It stopped to grow right after Russian occupation ended.

Take a closer look to the conditions in which most people live from where you have come. Or at their prospects in life. Or prospects of economy. I think that will change your opinion slightly.
Perhaps those to blame should each be made to pay 1% of any award. Hardly a devastating amount but enough to feel something for all the pain they cause.
This site really needs to link to gutenberg. For example http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300
The lack of sugar coating is exactly what made this interesting reading.
Low tech? Partly, but its success, I think, will depend heavily on the night tech of the mobile phone and the internet. If those weren't available, those in power could probably have ended this days ago. And [nitpick], I don't think they had lasers in the Peloponnesian war.

Also: what's the rationale for having manholes locked from the inside in a government sector? I can see a reason for locking manhole covers to prevent people from getting out of them to attack nearby targets, but if the lock is on the inside, that wouldn't help, would it?
The early Macs used ADB (Apple Desktop Bus), which uses a 4-pin mini-DIN as its physical connector. PCs use PS/2, which uses a 6-pin mini-DIN. They're not compatible at all.
This makes me curiouser and curiouser every day - are you guys typing this citation brackets by hand or there is something I'm missing?
Typing them by hand. :)
A very long read, with a lot of noise, that might be refreshing, but I personally did not like.

Some facts that I learned by reading this article:

"Now, for ARM machines, the requirements are significantly more evil: they state exactly the opposite, that it must not be possible to disable Secure Boot and it must not be possible for the system owner to change the trusted keys. This is bad and wrong. It makes Microsoft-certified ARM systems into a closed shop. But it’s worth noting it’s no more bad or wrong than most other major ARM platforms. Apple locks down the bootloader on all iDevices, and most Android devices also ship with locked bootloaders."

My understanding is that it might become bad for Linux on ARM devices. How comes that there was no big reaction to this?
Strange that Ukrainians I know all support it.
In a nutshell: No, not in a business context IMHO – if only because using a new app or service just to migrate away from it later takes a lot of money and time for a business.
And former Georgian President Saakashvili is coming to the USA to teach, as a Senior Statesman: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/News-and-Media/2013/12/20/Presiden...
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> If people are not allowed to go abroad at all for 50+ years, they'll naturally flock in bigger numbers once borders are open.

Or there aren't any real jobs left because EU destroyed real production left from USSR.
If you want to monitor all log files for security purpose, I can recommend OSSEC: http://www.ossec.net/

And OSSEC Web User Interface (ossec wui):
https://scottlinux.com/wp-content/gallery/site/ossec_web.png