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What do you do when you believe that you can do great things but something that you have no control over is holding you back? You believe that you are good at what you do and are meant for great things but you have to do your job even though it doesn't do justice to your capabilities. How do you cope with that? Seeing your future as an underachiever pains you. What do you do?

This is what I call the "hero myth." We're all inculcated with the idea that there is a heroic destiny before us from a young age. The stories we read, the movies we watch, the parents and educators who teach us beseech us to "believe in yourself and you can do anything." This seductive myth gives us the escape hatch from reality that lets us believe we are special and that everyone else is normal. It's a terrible myth and responsible for many summer blockbuster movies and burning out many bright, young people.

It's bullshit. Do things. Enjoy your time doing them. Don't worry about what other people think. Every person who has done great things is feeding the tulips right now. You will one day too.

As for dealing with having responsibilities: get used to it. It doesn't limit you. You have be more tactical with your time and learn to cut away all of the fluff and focus. It tests you to learn what you truly appreciate.
Your reaction is normal for a late-majority adopter [1]. But early-stage startups are looking for the innovators and the earliest of the early adopters. When those people get to the point of saying, "OMG, I want it!" they will indeed sign contracts or pull out a credit card.

The point of asking people for money is exactly to separate the people who really are early adopters from those who are just enthusiastic.

A great example is Kickstarter. You may be unwilling to buy a product based on little more than a dream, but plenty of people are willing to take a gamble on something risky when they care enough about it. The rest of us wait until the product has come out, has been reviewed, and have friends using it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusions_of_innovations
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I'm happy StartHQ user, specially when i'm looking for github repositories or just checking up a latest version of some software packages.

For example, it comes very handy when i want to search latest releases of core.async.

One option is use `lein search core.async`, but it takes time to download maven index and its info is limited. But startHQ ables me to search it on github, bitbucket, stackoverflow and versioneye simultaneously.
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It isn't that type of store. It is just online webfront, and is in fact just a re-release of one of the older products in yahoo's portfolio (Since they effectively no longer have search or category based guides).
Simple question, simple answer: It's been flagged because it doesn't belong here.

Simple followup question, simple answer: Why, you ask? Just pull up the comments and read a few of them. Ouch.

We tend not to encourage topics that attract crazy angry people who like to fight with one another on the internet. There are plenty of places for those people to fight about whatever they like, but the front page of our little community is not an appropriate place.

If they must fight here, they can do so on page 29. And looking at that article, it appears they're still doing just that. Good luck to them.
> ... avoid network effects in the beginning if at all possible. It's a whole other level of pain...

Can you explain what you mean by that? I thought network effects were good. No?
Sure. Money's definitely best. But if you don't actually have a product, asking for money can be tricky. The LOI's not as good as cash, but my point is that it's way better than, "Sure, I'd pay for that!"
Wouldn't it make more sense to make suspected "black hat" SEO not contribute to a websites rankings but also not hurt it?

It's always been an issue that someone can purchase links on spam websites and harm competitors, I would imagine that Google knows about this.

I don't see any advantage to harming a websites rankings because of these questionable SEO techniques.
If everybody did that it would cause a demographic crisis. Who exactly do you expect to be looking after you when you are retired (growing your food, manufacturing your medication, diagnosing your ailments etc etc) and only 0.01% of the population have had children in the last 50 years.

Other people having children is actually a vital service to the rest of society. Or at least those of us hoping to live for at least another 30-40 years, which will require a younger generation to provide the goods and services we will need to stay alive.

This point seems to be missed by a lot of libertarians (who are frequently childless single young men) in their anger about parents getting support from the government.
Yeah, you were right.
And after a lot of MSU games.
Despite the few odd drawbacks to this approach mentioned elsewhere here, I think I speak for most of us who have worked in a corporate office when I say...

FxxK YEAH!!!

Give the surplus email the "FAX machine" treatment! ("Office Space" reference)
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Apple is rumored to be working on a watch, correct? May be you could wait for that one :)
What makes you think a degree that is good for your employment chances today will still be relevant in 15-20 years time?
I saw this headline and my first thought was "what is this? 1999?"
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I can understand the need for smaller runtime, but why a dedicated board? I mean, what not on top of arduino/pi/other existing board?
Remember that a million years of evolution has made humanity naturally discontent

That about sums it up. The drive to always want more is just how humans are. If it wasn't, the human condition would never improve. However, you need to recognize it for what it is and don't let it control your own happiness.

The older I get the more I realize that doing what I want to do now is much more rewarding that doing what I think will make me happy years from now.
I'm not really a huge fan of Python. None the less this is a really interesting project... makes me wonder if something similar could be done using Scheme.
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Agreed, my fault, it's not the same type of store - Amazon register is for in-store swipes while Y! is for online store.

Yet, my understanding is that previously they didn't have the built-in payment processing and from the screenshot it looks now like a streamlined process without the need to setup your own gateway or Paypal Payments Pro or whatever it was called etc. IMHO it would make sense to clearly state the processing fees.
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Recently bought a HydroFlasks, but was disappointed to find it is not dishwasher safe. That put a huge damper on my enthusiasm. (Mainly because while I might remember, I'm sure the other people in my family will not.)
The site seems functional and simple - which is good I suppose.

I like to check places to visit,shop,eat,drink based on cities.

Just few suggestions though,
1) It needs proper search feature.
2) Its going to be loaded with lots of
blogs probably on same city? So, how would you handle that? For Eg: If I search for say 'Dubai' then if I got more than one results how can I filter this out.
3) It would be nice if I could navigate based on categories on map. Like 'eat','drink','shop' etc

Otherwise, well done! Looks good to me.. :)
The first paragraph stated what I found that the blog didn't make clear to me. i.e. what was he selling and why was his account suspended. Items the blog didn't mention.

The second paragraph gave my opinion on the blog post (on which side I fall) and my reason for my opinion. Specifically point out that either way I didn't think they did anything illegal ... but possibly (not necessarily) immoral.

The third paragraph asks anyone knows the details about how the sales pitch was worded in the play store.
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I gotta back Matt here. While none of the three of us would endorse the iMessage key exchange model, the truth is that the team that implemented iMessage crypto have kept more communications safe from dragnet surveillance than everybody commenting on this HN article combined.

I personally think there is a good middle ground where identity management is invisible to most users and customizable by users with more challenging threat models. That is what we are aiming for.
Fair enough, and yes there is a lot of unnecessary email sent.

However I do think there are perfectly legit emails, particularly in a large organisation, that have a very limited shelf-life and qualify for both should-be-sent and should-be-auto-trashed.

Examples - "Are you still heading up that project?" "Hey, I have this tech issue, can you help?". In both of these cases a quick reply would be useful, but in a week's time it's likely the issue has gone away or the person is now so stuck they'll remind you about it.

I guess you could argue that email is not the appropriate comms method for those questions...
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Ask HN: Can someone with no visa (or wrong visa) create a Corp or LLC in USA?
Just curious, can someone with no visa (or wrong visa - tourist, F1 international student, or even with H1 Foreign Worker) create a Corp or LLC in US?

If so, how can the founder of the LLC or Corp continue to stay in the US? Does it mean creating an LLC or Corp in US guarantee the founder a work visa? Or they still need to find visa sponsors?

Thanks.
sorry, but IMPA indeed was a determinant factor in his prize. Much more than the french institution.

You would be right for any other world class brazilian scientist. BUt IMPA is one institution that can support a world class scientist here in Brazil.
I believe I procrastinate for similar reasons and my techniques for getting around it is similar to yours.

However, I do consider my past and future selves as different people in my mind. I am someone who talks to himself constantly. I've added talking to my past and future selves. I will say, out loud or mentally, "Thanks Past Me." There is something about being grateful to my past self for things I have done that have made my life better today, that makes me more able to do things that will make my life better for my future self. And I think a part of it is that I know, because I am grateful to my past self, that my future self will be grateful to me.
I've written about something similar -- http://goo.gl/SbveOA -- though in that case I was about making proclamations on behalf of future you.

In some ways the theories are at odds. My argument is that people often view their future selves as the identical person that they are today, just in the future. That they can't identify that the future person is, in effect, a very different person. This article posits that people view future person as a separate person altogether, and screw them anyways.

It is a fascinating topic that you can waste away a day contemplating. Ah well, future you can do what you were supposed to do today.
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I like it. It harkens back to the original vector art version from '79, although you really should make the asteroids look more asteroid-y. If you make them circular it's still quite easy to do your collision detection and they'll look a lot better.
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"No, it's inflicted by a broken society."

No, it's not. The broken society didn't make the woman pregnant and give birth. Also, 'broken' sounds really melodramatic.

"In a working society, at least a working first-world society, everyone has at least a basic standard of living."

Is having and maintaining a Ferrari a basic standard of living? No? Well, that's how expensive kids are, no, they're even more expensive.
That is a very ambitious basic standard you're setting here. Obviously, this is going to cost uninvolved people heaps of money just because everyone thinks they are entitled to make as many children as they want regardless of their ability to support them. It's a huge burden on everyone else's back. The pinnacle of selfishness.
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I want to somehow pin this post. Very well put.
I'm fairly sure BBC podcasts are available worldwide.
I see quite a few images from shutterstock. How do you expect the beauty of this site and the images posted by users to scale?
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Hold on. The iMessage key exchange model works in part because it has trust anchors; it's not a pure peer-peer system. You can see the tradeoff it makes by looking at any discussion of iMessage ever and noting how people discount its security because of those trust anchors.
Alas, this isn't a logic problem, it's a values problem.

* I've been trained by my fascist, FOX news, libertarian upbringing that business comes first, even if it subjects 99.99% of the population to utter misery, sickness and death.

* I've been trained by my socialist, marxist, tree-hugger upbringing that people come first^H^H^H^H second (after seals and endangered fungi), even if everyone goes bankrupt and starves and our enemies overthrow and kill us.

Yeah, the "other guy's" values look pretty stupid, don't they? (pick which ever "other guy" suits your fancy)

Even if the other guy's values aren't a caricature, it's still hard to agree on what should be the outcome.
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Hi HN,

I'd love to get your input on bookmarking services. I've been using Kippt (http://kippt.com/) for over a year but, as the service has evolved, it's becoming slower and clunkier.

Here's what I'm looking for:

- Quick way to bookmark

- Ability to tag pages

- Easy way to search by tag or page title

- Nice to have: full text search based on the page's content

A couple options out there that I haven't tried (let me know if you have):

- http://pinboard.in/

- https://gimmebar.com/

Looking forward to your thoughts / recommendations!
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Not to discount the very real problem of the eroding middle class -but spending/saving habits in America are real problems. Half of Americans are saving nothing [1]. 27% of households than make over $100k/yr say the can't afford everything they need [2]. Average house size in the US has about doubled since the 60s [3].

[1] http://time.com/98152/americas-savings-city/
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/schor-overspent.html
[3] http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/02/todays-new-homes-are-1000-s...
I created a notepad document two weeks ago to track a.) each day that I do not move my car (bike everywhere instead) and b.) each meal that I prepare myself and eat in. I have ambitions to start tracking some more day-to-day goals like these.

I'm giving this app a shot to see if it has benefits over the .txt file. Thanks!
>It might be a generational problem.

I am 32 and I am in a similar confusion.
It wasn't me, but you posed an non-intuitive distinction without explaining it, which makes it difficult to discern what you're trying to claim.
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* Open my garage door

* Shopping list

* Location based reminders (e.g. remind me when I am at the shop)
>4 days of doing my own project

May I ask what kind of project it is?
Ask HN: How important is it to feel challenged by a potential job?
So I just interviewed with a software company. It went really well and they made me an offer that meets my salary expectation. The team also seems friendly, and I feel like I'd enjoy working with them. But there's something missing—namely, it feels too easy.

Is it reasonable to think a company might be too good a fit for you? That its work might not present enough of a challenge?

If so, how do you distinguish between a reasonable sense that a job won't be challenging enough and an arrogant one?

Also, one implication of it not feeling challenging enough is that I suspect I could get a higher salary offer somewhere else if I did a proper job search (this was just a one-off application).
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Nothing about this looks 1999.
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But still happens, happened to me when I turned 18 in 2004. Even though I was in college and already working as an intern, I only managed to get out because I have an uncle who is a navy official.
I was thinking it would be interesting to create a 'low-income life simulator' where people could be presented with all the problems of an American with low income. With limited resources, and branching scenarios, you would attempt to 'solve' your way out of it. It would be interesting to see the reaction of people who blame low-income people for their own troubles, when actually playing this game.
Many parts of this write up have a resounding similarity to my journey! Thanks for sharing.
Too bad Sundar Pichai intends to ruin that whole "advantage" (and also the security one) by introducing Android apps into ChromeOS, instead of creating a use case based UI (taskbar, Android apps within windows) for Android, like they have for TVs, cars, and wearables, and then use that as a more "full featured" OS (which Android already is compared to ChromeOS).
You can become financially independent with considerably less money. I know someone who at 30 sold up, moved way into the boonies on a hobby farm. He's got enough in the bank that he can live off the interest.

Now he just potters around his farm. Grows all his own vegetables and fruit, raises chickens and cows and is getting "richer" by not spending all his interest. So him and his wife get to spend all their free time with their kids, which is what they wanted.

The reason most people will never become rich is simply because they increase their expenses the more they make.
I'm just speculating, but maybe for low-level driver standardization?

I've used devices with python projects on the pi and some of the driver setup can get tricky.
This elitist attitude is why I have no faith in typical "security experts" improving the overall situation with communication security for normal people.

Widely adapted open-source "bad crypto" can:
- Raise user's level of awareness about security.
- Create a market that can later be serviced by better crypto.
- Encourage creation of infrastructure that can be later used in better crypto.
- Encourage investigation of better UI.

Also, other poster are right about increasing the difficulty of executing an attack.
1) The Url isn't exactly memorable.

2) I am able to traverse your directories eg http://itripd.com/js/

I don't know about apache so was unable to find a web config kinda file

3) I tried some sql injection and got this response "The URI you submitted has disallowed characters."

I assume you are doing this manually rather than using sql parameters?

4) Inline CSS...yuck

5) Links like this http://itripd.com/trip/4 arn't very friendly.
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I love Go because it fits in my head. There are tons of applications for which Go won't be the best fit, but Go is fantastic for some others.
Any society that does not structure itself such that each adult can be biological parent to at least two children without significant penalty to their own quality of life is not going to be stable in the long term. That's not even a full replacement rate.

I can see a case for "People without f(N) money shouldn't be allowed to have an Nth child, for N>2." It would be quite the intrusion on liberty, but I understand how people who act as K-strategists wouldn't want their offspring to be overwhelmed by r-strategists.
They're not usual in the UK (which is sort-of part of Europe).
> Seriously, your car/house/clothes are too nice, and you have them because society makes you feel less successful if you don't.

Stuff makes me happy. Moving from a tiny apartment with a small everything to a spacious house made me much happier. It's comfortable. I now have a wonderful kitchen to cook, which I enjoy doing, that I just couldn't do as well before. I have a view out my large bay windows. It's great.

Driving a nice car is awesome, especially if you commute longer distances or like road trips. I enjoy a comfortable luxury sedan with power.

I'm much happier with nice things. Society isn't telling me I like my large flat screen tv. I am because it looks stunning on my wall.

I agree with what others say here about debt though. Don't go into debt to buy yourself a bunch of crap you don't need.
Do you know if anything similar is being done in MotoGP? I know the communication with the riders is much more limited, but I'm curious what they can get and send back to the bikes themselves, perhaps communicating via the instrument panel.
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