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I think that Paul Graham has great powers of observation. He seems to know what makes businesses successful and what problems in the world need to be solved. I am sure he spends a lot of time thinking and analyzing (whether consciously or unconsciously, I do not know). It is apparent in his essays that he is a brilliant person who enjoys making observations (and he is an artist, which involves like 99% observation).

Paul Graham is really great at what he does. I am sure that you have personal qualities that are great as well. You should try to leverage those. It is good to admire others, but you must forge your own path to success. Words of wisdom can only do so much. In the end, it is the effort and strengths of the individual that matters.

I don't think that you should care so much about helping people. Before you label me as a bad person, I think that if you think too much about helping people, if you believe that you have a social obligation to do so, it can be very exhausting to the heart. Doctors sometimes face "compassion exhaustion." You should strive to be a good person, give when you can, but to over-exert yourself by making yourself feel guilty for not having helped people or improved the world is counter-productive. I say this because I went through the same thing. There are many small ways you can help people and have a big impact on their lives.

I strive to make myself into a person that I would admire.
I dunno, all video content is DRM-encumbered, and yet I can choose from a whole range of media players that support all the formats commonly used for cracked "illegal" copies.

Sure, none of them are made by the mainstream brands that the entertainment industry has a hold over, but that was the same for MP3 players before Apple made its move. (And a bold move it was, because everybody knew the only thin iPods were being used for is to play "illegally" obtained content.)

Also, DRM is merely a weapon. Copyright is the killer.
Drm is primarily used in practice to do market segmentation. The rest of this comment is not available in your region.
> I'm primarily a UI designer by trade but I found the skills easily transferable.

Would you mind highlighting a few of those?
The Nelson sofas seem to have seats that recline slightly, which would make putting them together into a bed unworkable.

But the Nelson daybeds (http://modernica.net/day-beds/view-day-bed-series/) are very close to what he did. Good eye to notice this!

It's worth saying that modernist furniture of this type can be relatively easy to copy and riff off of. The Eames furniture and accessories are another touchstone of the style.
Summarised succinctly by this image: http://cdn.techpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/gxzev.jpg
I'm not sure about all cats. My cat ignores mirrors - even previously unseen ones - altogether, at the same time he reacts to youtube videos with cats. However, when he has seen himself in the mirror for the first time in his life he behaved like it was another cat, for two minutes or so.

Divide an almost identical uniform background with a piece of glass, block smell and sound if possible. Put two cats on the opposite sides of the glass and observe their reactions.
Put mirror in the place of glass and observe reactions.
I can bet the reactions would be drastically different, and not just for cats.
Subjectively, it seems I've been seeing a lot of odd downvotes lately, both on my comments and others'. Haven't measured anything carefully, though.
Well ... kind of.

"'My own research suggests that first offers should be quite aggressive but not absurdly so', Galinsky says."

Make the first offer, but only if you're pretty sure you know at least as much as the other side about what's reasonable. If you're not in the right ballpark, an absurd offer gives the other side the right to sandbag, knowing that you don't really understand the playing field.
Well done guys! Question though, if a debit can settle out of my checking account through my debit card (ie my Simple account) in minutes at a traditional merchant (gas station), why do you credits take 1-2 days to settle?
"A good negotiation is one where both parties walk away equally unhappy" - I can't find who first said this but if you know please attribute appropriately!
I would only want to start with an opening price if I was fairly certain what the offer range would be. Without that info you may just hard-bargain yourself a lower salary. If you ask for something that is totally out of line with the expected range then you do risk an employer writing you off as too expensive. In my experience though, if an employer wants you and you ask for too much - they'll usually at least tell you what their upper limit is and give you a chance to consider it.
It seems to me that making the first offer is sort of an "advanced technique". Ie, it's probably optimal, but you have to be decently skilled at negotiation to pull it off.

I think the reason "Let them make the first offer" is such common advice is because most people, when faced with the prospect of choosing a number, usually go too low, perhaps out of discomfort with appearing arrogant or for fear of losing an offer entirely. The former's probably the bigger concern for engineers, given how notoriously bad at appropriately valuing their own skills they are. The latter is rare in tech, but is occasionally a legitimate concern for other fields with worse job markets.

Also, generally speaking the hiring party is at a strong advantage by virtue of both information (They know how much they're paying other people, and how much they've offered to people who've turned them down) and practice (They've carried out salary negotiations dozens of times before, while the potential employee has probably done it at most a handful of times.).

Given that, it's probably safer to let the other party open the field, and hopefully negotiate up from there.
He has money to lose - like most Bitcoin investors.
At the very least, it was smart of Microsoft to make the leadership change on the cusp of these new developments. If successful, they can point to Nadella being the catalyst. If unsuccessful, they can point to it being the last gasps of a dying regime.
This end user always wants to be free to make copies of his products, use them without an internet connection, share them with family members, and use them on any platform of my choosing, even converting them to a different format if necessary.

No DRM system will allow me to do that, because that fundamentally challenges their control over the product. I'm happy to pay more for a product without DRM, but they're usually not available.
That sounds vaguely similar to "Functional Core, Imperative Shell". I merge state management and coordination (together, the shell) so that the logic (the core) can be composed of pure functions without coordination overhead. So far I've done very little testing of the imperative shell.
This is a great book. Although I must admit it kind of "washed over me" a bit too much. Perhaps it was just the java.. I think I need to re-read it to be able to synthesize the ideas in it, and connect the high-level ideas to the examples later in the book enough to be able to get the same results in my own work.
I kind of skimmed the post, so maybe I'm missing something, but what exactly is the "architecture" described here? Dynamically-typed languages will allow the passing around of objects of different types as long as they implement the necessary methods. This is a nice property in some cases, but a lot of times I'd prefer to have static-typing and well defined protocols. It seems like that post ignored the more important parts of the discussion.
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I've always thought it would be nice to write a program that auto-generates a TV programming schedule by time of day. The first problem that's prevented me from doing it is that my TV shows aren't divided up for commercial breaks, which is half of the appeal.

ToonamiAftermath is the prototype for exactly what I'd like to do. TV shows with commercial breaks and bumpers, streamed 24/7 constantly. I haven't been able to figure out how they (he?) was able to pull it off, other than cutting files and making each day's playlist by hand.
Excellent comment. Reminds me an idea from Soccernomics (a great book on soccer by economists who happen to love football), that a club manager is mainly a PR person and goes on to statistically prove that he has almost nothing to do with the teams performance (except very rare exceptional cases). While it certainly doesn't 100% apply for CEOs but there is something in common.
Most people will live their entire lives never having ever been truly alone. Even when you are in your house or apartment alone, you still know there are people in the neighborhood or walking down the street and we don't really appreciate how much of a comforting effect this has on us.

I have only felt truly alone twice in my life. The first time was on a platform installation in the North Sea. Imagine being surrounded by all these huge machines and pipes running autonomously without a human being in sight. The second time was at the bottom of ocean in Monterrey bay when my diving team had all disappeared to go back to the boat and I found myself with just 3 feet of visibility and no one else around.

Both times, I felt an impending sense of dread and panic creeping up on me. It was like being in room 101.
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I know both Woody Allen and Larry David have used that line. I doubt either of them were the original, but still it's a good line!
I love thinking up intricate software design patterns as much as the next guy. They'll cater not only to the current requirements for my project, but also to all possible future eventualities. It'll allow me to, by simply changing one or two lines of code, change my entire database backend, implement system-wide magic caching and to expose my HTTP service as a custom telnet protocol.

The issue I have with posts like this is that they are decidedly NOT just about thinking up wild new designs. Instead, they claim that these designs are somehow BETTER. Unless you can give me a real world use case, I won't believe you.
Show HN: My first android app – an addictive turn-based puzzle game
You are once again leaving out the important bits that don't fit your story.

The facts are an example of regulation arbitrage, not some fatal flaw in Title 2 / Common Carrier. The 'Fatal Flaw' is the FCC doesn't say "All consumer facing ISPs are Common Carriers under Title 2" but "Technology X is under Title II and Technology Y is not".

Even from your own article "In this case what has Wall Street's heart all a flutter is the possibility for Verizon to shed all union-related workers and their pensions."

Dumping a ton of long term liabilities [pensions, union contracts] is the core reason. Divesting of some high cost DSL markets for an infrastructure provider [which is the regions they are talking about in the article, Upstate New York isn't exactly a market with roaring profitability due to low population density] is a secondary concern in that article and it basically said they invested 24 billion?

Title 2 doesn't require Union workers.

It also isn't a reasonable comparison to say "Title 2 Technology A lost to Non-Title 2 Technology B because Title 2 doesn't work" with such weak evidence. Why yes, investors want to reduce liabilities and cost centers. Magically, if you can enter a market with a lower liability and costs [due to less regulation] you prefer that option. If that isn't an option, magically, the market functions on an even playing field and everything competes on the merits of the technologies.

Somehow, magically, in places like Europe you get better ISP performance per $ with similar profit margins. Maybe the problem is not too much regulation, but how the regulation is being applied?
Depending on the type of wood, 1k might barely cover materials. Walnut for instance might be pretty close to $1k for a table. I recently built a dining room table out of Red Oak, and it was close to 300. Red Oak being one of the cheaper hardwoods available in New England.

[because i'm shameless.. here's my table http://i.imgur.com/6RBAEkc.jpg]
Somewhat off topic advice - if you're trying to convince people of your views, calling things "evil" rarely works.

I'm willing to believe that DRM doesn't further the interest of society, but evil? I don't think you can say that considering the real evil that exists in the world.
Great to see you guys continuing to add new ways to move money.
> Similarly, any criticism of overcomplexity

Come on. Nobody is defending "overcomplexity", which is by definition a rather indefensible position. The issue is the frequent arrogance exhibited here by commenters who insist that certain commonly and successfully used design patterns have no place in the world.
That's what functional tests are for. But if you're doing TDD there's no point in constantly running your functional/acceptance tests.
Yep, that's very nice code, except:

user = getUser(1)
company = getCompany(user.companyId)
longresult = process(company.getSomething)

is a) simpler (because that's what your normal code looks like), b) performs exactly the same (as fibers basically do the same thing, only transparently), and c) retains context (like ThreadLocal variables).

So if that was the only way, I'd say, fine. But once you have lightweight threads, they are always preferred (even Scala now has its own poor-man's lightweight threads in the form of async/await).
It could be as simple as a misplaced tap on a touchscreen when trying to scroll.
If 40 more Novena laptops are ordered, everyone gets a radio module
People want a fair playing field, but is title II the best way to achieve that? Does anyone know of a more effective solution?
based on what I read here about making the first offer, I'd agree

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Too bad that neither Balanced nor Stripe support sending money to people/companies that are not based in U.S. I guess I will have to wade through the Paypal Api !
Spot on thank you.
I'm not certain about this notion, but I bet the media executives have done the math: DRM probably results in more profit due to lowered casual piracy than decreased profit due to people pirating out of DRM-protest.

And I wouldn't consider standardized DRM "overreaching preemptive policing". Compare that to the existing legal consumption options and you'll realize that this "policing" has been happening all along.

Look, its great to say that everybody should be nice, but you've got to realize that this existing control is the backbone of the big media industry. Without DRM and the control it ensures, there is no way to ensure advertisments get watched. The ability to track the success of an ad would be lost. As it stands, media consumption is very easy for the industry to monitor and control. This is a huge industry with enormous power- why would they give that up over some upset rights activists?

I'm all with you when it comes to indie studios. If the non-DRM party is going to win, its going to be with our wallets. I'd love to see more indie video and music. Maybe new non-DRM offerings will win out, as we are starting to see in the game industry.

tldr: At the end of the day, if you want to consume mainstream media, you've got to put up with the mainstream consumption hardware/software.
Best completely depends on your use case.

My advice is to try a few and run your typical project scenarios through them and decide which is the best fit for you and your team.

Top 3 recommendations:

1) Asana http://www.asana.com
2) TeamworkPM http://teamwork.com
3) Trello https://trello.com/
I’ve only been in the STB business for seven years now but I’ve worked with people who are much more experienced than me. The death of the set-top box is predicted annually and I am afraid you have joined that long pantheon of people who have prematurely declared it deceased. I will now let you know why I am quite sure you are mistaken:

1) Set-top boxes aren’t a technological solution, they are a business solution. I know of one company who did actually eliminate them, but I am not aware of any other company who has followed their lead. The real essence of set-top box is about maintaining customer ownership. If the pay TV companies, and remember that a large portion of the market globally is satellite not cable, want to own their customer they have to own the access to content. Content access involves managing the user experience that the consumer sees, managing the programme guide, managing the channel numbers is an especially valuable business and managing interactivity.

2) Samsung has been in the set-top box business for a long time and they aren’t a dominant player in the sector. People see Samsung’s consumer electronics business and they see one big player, when in reality it is a conglomerate business with different leaders fighting for their budgets/resources/customers. The TV business has nothing to do with the set-top box business, nothing at all, they are completely different business units with different agendas and different tools. Samsung’s entry in to RDK is about as significant as that of Humax.

3) CableCARD: This is an predominantly American phenomena, in Europe there is the CI(+) CAM, but most Pay TV operators won’t allow it to be used because of the perceived security risks. The other interesting feedback I have from people who deal with the US market is that CableCARD is a PITA, so support is always going to be an issue.

4) All operators complain about the capital cost of set-top boxes, an asset that sits in the field and causes them support issues, but none of them want to dispose of them entirely. This is why the predominant trend in set-top boxes is towards thin clients with cloud services. Unfortunately copyright players have made the introduction of services in this area difficult. Add to that the USA’s fragmented local content offering the regional deployment of cloud services isn’t trivial.

Overall your post is very US centric and in my many years of travelling the globe working in television the one thing that I see as being constant: the USA is not typical of any other TV market. The USA has its own technology, its own legal problems and its own logistical problems.

While there might be an increase in cord cutting/shaving around the world the risk to cable operators is mainly for those that don’t adapt to the needs of the consumer. Those companies deserve to suffer, because nature as well as economics always shows us that those who don’t adapt die.
A book I read about negotiation some years ago included the principle "shock 'em with your first offer." In other words, make the first offer (which you should be the one bringing up) so favorable to you in its terms that you nudge the other party into budging from their position closer to yours. It's worth a try.
> why in God's name did you use Rails

Because it is actually a very good, mature application server with lots of sane defaults and good, mature plugins, even if you aren't using a database. Basically, people are interested in using it for more complex applications than you are, because lots of its conventions are still quite good for those applications, even if it makes sense to reject or reconsider some other conventions that don't work quite as well.
This is one of the cooler blog posts I've seen in a while. Very nice.
Ask HN: Dual boot OS on SSD, store data on HDD
I recently built a new computer (yay!) and am trying to set up the OS's right now. I've currently got Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 8.1 installed on an SSD (both are working fine). Now, what I'd like to do is store all of the data (i.e. games, docs, videos, etc.) on the HDD.

Has anyone done this before and could maybe give me some advice? I've found lots of information about how to do this with just one OS (i.e. boot Ubuntu on SSD, store /home directory on HDD), but I can't find much about having two OS's and attempting the same thing.
Very interesting. I "diagnosed" (not a doctor) my father's early-stage Parkinson's a few years back when I went home for the holidays and noticed a resting tremor in the classic "pill-rolling" motion. No one had mentioned anything to him about it and a resting tremor is unlikely to be noticed by the sufferer.

I got him to see a neurologist, whose more accurate and professional testing confirmed my concerns. But this looks like a great early-warning system.
Introducing the Visual Studio Online API from Microsoft
New and Free Printable SAT test Sample Questions
Humor is essential for humans to cope with stress.
> [ I don't like that content ]

But how will you know? You can't judge the content if you haven't seen it..
Http://www.game37.net/play_games/sunny_meadow_5_differences
Are you making the argument that the existing QoS for power and water are both optimal? If so, for whom are they optimal?

Many people purchase bottled drinking water via delivery service b/c they deem the quality of tap water unacceptable for consumption.

Many people invest in UPS units, backup generators, etc. b/c they deem the reliability of power from the grid unacceptable.

Imagine if the power grid had an additional 9 of reliability -- it would save hospitals tens of millions of dollars on redundant power backup systems, significantly reducing the cost of healthcare. From this vantage-point, the poor quality of grid power is subsidized by those who need life support systems... this seems horribly unfair.
I go hiking alone. Most people think I'm crazy (for some reason I don't understand).

There have been times when there was absolutely nobody. Actually, I enjoy going hiking really early (say, around 6am), because there is nobody.

But I find pleasure in it. As the article says, the environment and landscape help me transcend my feeling of loneliness.

On a side note, I may be a slightly different case, because I suffered some traumatic/dark experiences when I was a child. The feeling of anxiety and fear was crippling, until I found I could cope with it if I voluntarily search it out when I am feeling well.

So, this feeling of hiking in the dark, being alone, and isolated helps me control and overcome my fear and traumatic experience.

The only drawback is that if I don't do this every so often, including exercising, I can slip back to some depression.
Since people who understand the issue understand that Mozilla is incapable of developing a Hollywood-approvable CDM, if we had just announced the intent to do EME, it would have raised a big unanswered question: Where is the CDM going to come from?

Instead, whe chose to talk abour EME when we were able to answer that crucial question.
make source-dist sounds promising. I know we've been cross-posting threads, but I'll just thank you here. :)
> Market forces have been undeniably screwing us for the better part of a decade.

Excuse me? What's been screwing us in broadband is precisely that market forces are not operating, because local governments have been giving sweetheart deals to particular providers.
OS threads by no means suck, but they can't make certain assumptions that lightweight threads can about thread behavior. They're great for a lot of processing, but not so great when they have to constantly block and unblock.
SlashGear has a good story, http://www.slashgear.com/inside-the-nokia-here-hd-maps-putti...
Relevant – http://www.databasefriends.co/2014/03/favorite-relational-da...

It's a recent poll about favorite relational database and Postgres came first by far.
I can't help but wonder why we come to such broad conclusions of fact about the mind, when there are plenty of data points that show there's quite a lot more to the story than "isolation is bad". If I were a serious scientist of the mind for example, I would need to include data points from India and Tibet masters in to my research, who are well known for having studied the mind and have data points showing the opposite. It strikes me as a cultural basis at best to not include those data points, how do we even considered this science really?