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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?

It sounds like your someone with ambition. You know you're capable of great things and wouldn't be satisfied with anything less. I'm like that too and I thought a lot about it.

IMO, the ultimate goal is to be happy, so the natural question is how these ambitions translate to happiness and whether you could do better by taking another approach to happiness.

Other approaches might work for other people, but I suspect that they wouldn't work for people with true ambitions. I suspect that people with true ambitions are so driven and motivated to do big things that they won't really be able to rid themselves of these thoughts. If you try to settle down into some nice relaxing lifestyle where you should be happy, you'll always be haunted by the thoughts that you could/should be doing something better.

Note: I'm saying "suspect" a lot because I'm only 21 and am not too confident in this hypothesis.

So if you're ambitions are a core part of you, I suspect that it's best to pursue them. And if you need to get yourself some stability in the short term, don't worry about it. Do what you can with what you have, and think long-term.

- - -

Also, I hate the idea that smart and ambitious people can't pursue their ambitions because they need to pay the bills. I wrote about it here - https://medium.com/p/f4902d078f58. I think you'll be able to relate.
I believe they used to have different wheel base chassis' for some circuits - not sure if this is now banned.
That depends on the details. Did the seller explain that he was selling free content? if there was any deception, then the crime is not in the sale, but in the method -- possible misrepresentation or fraud.
I think you're confusing happiness with pride.
db versioning is something our [primarily .net] team is just starting to try to pick up. It's a new concept to some of us, but really not sure what our options are in the MS/.NET world. This post is well-timed!
Note to Yahoo.. there was this company Viaweb you purchased like 15 years ago, oh wait never mind I'm sure you remember.
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Nothing's for sure but you can live pretty comfortably on ~$15k a year and it's pretty easy to earn 1.5% more than inflation on $1 million.
I think they may be referring to the oringinal Yahoo Stores aka ViaWeb.
It's easy to forget that - perhaps for most people - there are ads on the web, and, yes, browser toolbars that open pop up ads.
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Reminds me of the good old days of Bitcoinica: http://i.imgur.com/TTMjGvB.png

50% swings in minutes.
Video of Ferguson police gassing news crew and dismantling their equipment
Maybe it could be done with an iBeacon attached to your zipper?
> The "Share Economy" (Uber, TaskRabbit, etc.) has the potential to make this both better and worse.

Incidentally, while its a pleasant (for the industry) propaganda/marketing label, these things have nothing to do with sharing. They are routine sales-through-an-agent, and are no more about "sharing" than selling a house through a real estate agent is.
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This could perhaps be made easier to use if you had a UI like this:
You phone pops up a message saying: "Hey, I notice you seem to be in the same room with Bob! We can increase security of Bob's messages to you my exchanging a fingerprint. Do this now? (Yes/No/Woah, Bob isn't here!)

If you click yes, you then exchange fingerprints using eg QR codes, and the authenticity of messages from Bob are retrospecively checked

Problem is, it's not obvious this can be done without compromising privacy of location.
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I'm fairly surprised they're not using Bitcoin. Must be eastern Europeans who aren't worried about law enforcement.
The re-release of Wasteland (http://www.gog.com/game/wasteland_the_classic_original) uses the original game with a custom version of DOSBox (https://s3.amazonaws.com/inxile-wasteland/dosbox-0.74-Wastel...
) doing something similar to add in updated graphics, sound, and and voiceover text.
Are you sure though? "...show pictures of websites and apps I've made..."
Wow, I missed that the first time. Looking at it now, they pop out immediately.
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I legally cannot talk about the details of the acquisition, but it usually means "not glamorous" :)

There's much more to the story, I had blogged about it but svbtle deactivated my account for no reason and is unreachable. If you're really curious about the story I'd be happy to converse privately over email.
Considering that it just came out, no.
This has little to do with minimum wage, it's purely driven by profit incentive.

Assume there is no minimum wage, or a really low one, what's to stop them from both paying less, and aggressively trimming the hours?
Hopefully robots by that time. Anyways, I'm not really interested in living past the age when I'm too old and unhealthy to work. Sounds awful.
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The notion of a printer/scanner group, or producer, or team doing QA is one that makes me want to laugh, then cry.

Printers are such unimaginable sources of pain, such a crippling tax on everyone forced to interact with them in any way, that it's hard to imagine anyone working to produce them in any standard, structured way.
wow, thanks for the quick response.

Does it mean a foreign national can 'legitimize' their business just by registering an LLC or Corp in US? What I mean is that there are many startups that are not registered in US, and usually have a credibility issue if they want to launch internationally. One way people can get legit quickly is by establishing a US presence, why? because most (if not all) legit famous startups (FB, airbnb, uber, lyft, whatsapp, etc) are US based company.

then they can start scamming people (i.e run away with customers money), or if things don't work, they can just escape and not paying the LLC/Corp tax.
This is why standardized tests like the SAT deduct a quarter point for wrong answers. There needs to be a "penalty" to keep the expected value even.
Has the use of Coverity on the kernel lead to any improvements in Coverity itself, aside from the mentioned email feature request?
It does indicate a concept of future. What it doesn't do is use a different tense—the key verb is the same as when talking about the present. It's a subtle distinction, but he is arguing that this lack of differentiation in verbs has an impact on internalizing future events.

And while you very well could make the translation from whatever the original was to "It will rain tomorrow," it might not be a literal one that preserves the original tenses, which would obscure exactly what he was trying to point out.
Great project! That can be really useful for rooms in retirement homes being equipped with such devices.

Regarding the voice controls on either Android or iOS I can only imagine how well that would work for my grandparents, speaking a German dialect, given that even my (way less dialect) German is a hassle with voice input on either those systems.
Google reinforces undersea cables after shark attacks
Consider this from Google's position -- they see an activity that will make them look irresponsible or in collusion. To minimize damage to their reputation, they might want to stop the activity even if they can't fairly redistribute the ill-gotten gains afterward.

Also, if legal authority decided to step in, Google would minimize their own liability and exposure by stopping the activity rather than by allowing it to continue.

It also serves as a warning to others who might want to sell content they don't own -- it discourages a repetition of the same behavior.
Enlighten me how that is slavery? Bear in mind, in my example people have the choice to go there, or not.
The potential for this has been around for a bit, though not a long time. It's great to see it getting some traction. iOS/ARM support was added in 7.8 which is now the standard with Haskell Platform. Now we need tools that target and deploy our apps to all platforms :)
Is there much benefit to using Octopus as opposed to an extra MsBuild step that does a publish?

I've had TeamCity set up to do continuous integration/deployment without much pain so I was wondering if I'm missing out on something or it's just a different way to the deployment/publish step?
The solution is not at all straightforward, this whole thing has been a game between blackhat SEOs and google for many years. The spammers make a move, google makes a move, spammers respond ad infinitum.

The problem is that spammers / extortionists can adapt their techniques much more so than Google can.

They care solely about getting paid, they don't care about building a brand, offering a good service or anything else. This allows them a huge degree of flexibility when finding ways to attack their less nimble adversary. They can transition from selling viagra to extortion with ease.

If it was straightforward, a company which employs many of the most gifted, technical minds in the world should probably have figured it out by now. Also, it's very unlikely that Pagerank is even in use at all at this point.
I think the issue is more with how the software enables crazy dehumanizing things like demand scheduling.
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I love that first line. In my opinion it neatly sums up a few things about human behaviour.
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> Widely adapted open-source "bad crypto" can ... raise user's level of awareness about security.

You know that study that showed that people wearing seatbelts drive more recklessly, effectively exactly compensating for the increase in safety provided by the seatbelts?

I have a feeling people who think they're using a secure cryptosystem will speak much more freely than those who don't--meaning that the net effect of convincing users to use "bad crypto" is giving the global passive adversary† more interesting morning reading.

† Do we have a name for this guy in cryptography placeholder terms yet? Nathan (the NSA agent), maybe?
The bigger question will be how can we build more humanism into our managers.

Software is just a tool. Ultimately, managers are the ones who need to be educated on the impact of their decisions.
True, but I think the original poster would have mentioned this if it were true. But consider -- how do you value-add a public domain work without getting into copyright problems? It's not as though he wrote a book of criticism or satire of existing works.
Is it written in Perl?
You state that as fact, but it seems highly unlikely. Please cite your source.
You entire site needs to be available only over https. Otherwise login cookies and passwords can be stolen.

How to setup a free SSL certificate on apache. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
Part of behavior cognitive theraphy is counting occurrence of negative thoughts throughout the day. So I would like a button that I can press without looking at the watch, and have each press recorded and time stamped.

It's not just CBT either, there could be other events you could want to record, like each time you drink water, or some such. Opening phone to do the record is too disrupting, esp if you're with someone.
What about the hedonic treadmill? You say you're happy with your big TV, but wouldn't you be even happier with a still bigger TV? You like your luxury sedan for commuting, but wouldn't you be even happier if you had a Ferrari to drive on the weekends?
Nothing super new; just a Strava app with a map and directions and some stats.

Perhaps a few swipable screens. Map - swipe - next instruction - swipe - stats.

This would be so nice while biking.
I don't get it. If the naive page rank uses a sum, then why would you get penalized for being linked by a shitty page? Worst case scenario, you get nothing from those links.
It really depends on the type of startups you are talking about... security is obviously more important for companies involving financial transactions (say, all the bitcoin-related companies) than others.
I'm your age. All you need to do is find your passion and work on it after your day job. If you don't like your day job find another one.

Money alone doesn't bring happiness because happiness comes from within and not from external sources.

Email me if you'd like to talk more.

You'll get all sorts of advice on HN but at the end of the day all that matters is that you're happy and excited to work on your goals everyday while providing for your family.
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Essentially what happened is that Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex allows you to trade with leverage. There were approximately $28M USD worth of leveraged orders and they were margin called as the price fell. This created a feedback loop that resulted in the flash crash.
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Kickstarter and Indiegogo provide so many advantages to indie entrepreneurs. Network effects, a large number of people with credit cards on file, free marketing and indexing. Also, when you see a Kickstarter link you know you are being asked to crowdfund something.

Open Tilt would be more beneficial for companies with marketing teams or an already known brand.
But all pleasure comes with pain/attachment/fear, the two are inseperable.

Now your decisions in life are dependent on making sure you still have those comforts that make you happy. You will miss out on adventures because you are scared that you won't have a comfy kitchen. What you own owns you too.
It's easy to hand-wave this as being obviously true in a multi-threaded environment, but the strict left-to-right evaluation in C# means you might hit this even in single-threaded code. Interesting.
You sound somewhat anxious and depressed, feelings I know well.

It will help you to have some tools to deal with these problems. CBT and DBT are two such tools, and can help you manage your thoughts and mood. Counselors teach these tools.
Thanks! Just sent you a message.
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Papers Please! has some elements of that, but of course it's set in a fictional country.
Current biggest reason is likely that mortgage interest rates are being minimized by gov't so that banks can unload the houses they're holding at higher prices. When house prices rise, rents tend to as well.
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Oh dealing linkspam is far from straightforward, its a veritable arms race. My comment was with respect to Sybil attacks. And agree totally with your comment about use of Pagerank, hence my comment that I doubt sum is used anymore.
Agreed. His happiness must be going through the roof. Bravo.
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I assume you could just deploy to an Azure/Rackspace/Other VM or to a physical server rather than an AWS VM if you decided to, there's nothing PAAS specific here. Is that correct?
What really makes you happy is the experiences the stuff affords you. Movies and sports are enjoyable. staring at a nicely mounted TV that isn't showing any content is a fleeting novelty. The kitchen isn't enjoyable on its own. It's only wonderful because it allows you the experience of cooking. A two year old Infiniti G37 the same price as a new Honda Accord, but it comes with all wheel drive, and 330hp. Maybe its not the same status symbol as a BMW or Mercedes, but you'll have plenty of time to look at those two cars in your rearview mirror.

I think this gets to the heart of form vs. function. Don't buy things because they look cool on your wall, or in your driveway, or in your kitchen. Buy things that make it enjoyable to watch movies, comfortable to drive on long trips, and enjoyable to cook with.

Favor function over form.
What degrees offered 15 years ago are irrelevant today? Honest question here, as someone who dropped out of college 10 years ago, I've no idea of how academia works in that direction.
In Ultima IV (1985) the spell for exiting a dungeon was the X-it spell (activated with the letter X).
Did I mention prices at all? (You've slipped into some other scripted debate, with fuzzy political euphemisms like "making ends meet", which is only tangentially related to the point I'm making about the topic of this article.)

The point above is that the system has many, many parameters in constant dynamic adjustment. Setting a minimum on one that's easy-to-observe (hourly wages) in law doesn't just cause that one value to change.

The adjustments happen all over. Marginal workers aren't hired or kept-on-staff. Hours of operation are trimmed. Outfits run on slimmer crews. It's harder to find someone to ask a question. Lines for check-out get longer. Facilities go a little longer between restocking/cleaning. (Minimum wages mean grosser store bathrooms.) Unregulated, harder-to measure benefits get trimmed. The topic of this article, schedule predictability or flexibility, is just such a benefit.

And it doesn't require conscious tit-for-tat book-balancing action by employers for these trade-offs to happen. As they notice they're making less, adjustments happen. (Or, smaller businesses that are slow to adjust simply become uneconomical and leave the market: minimum wages benefit Wal-Marts & McDonalds, with their expert formula operations, over intuitive "Mom-and-Pops".) Over time, since more people are now eager for extra hours at the legally-mandated higher salary, it's easier to place more informal demands on those people, like "you better take every shift when offered, or it won't be offered again".

There are likely some good workers who'd prefer steadier work, in predicable shifts, at a lower wage. That agreement is made illegal by minimum wage laws, and they are forced to compete with a larger group of people looking to scoop up shorter, more random, higher-paying shifts.
the more interesting network side is the link between car and garage - renting a high bandwidth private circuit for sports events is SOP these days and has been going back to the 50's or 60's.
So it has been done before! Awesome!
I know there were suspicions that Bitcoinica did that intentionally, and were making money by forcibly liquidating people's positions through fake price swings.
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They're different from their traditional competitors in that they increase the utilization of one's pre-owned assets. I can use the same car for commuting as I do for moonlighting as an UberX driver, for example. That's pretty innovative, whether people like to admit it or not.
"...that Java was calling Haskell as C via it’s Foreign Function Interface (FFI), which in turn was executing correctly (including its Runtime System), and calling SDL’s C API also via the FFI. It meant all communication between Android, Java, Haskell and C was working fine..."

Is this efficient? Will end users notice any performance hit from all of these layers?
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This was true until recently, when Google started penalizing sites with overwhelmingly shitty link profiles.
If we're going to be handed blatant marketing spam, I'd somewhat prefer it not be subtle.
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#1 makes it seems like the white man just went over to Africa with a big net and starting catching Africans. In reality, most slaves were captured people from other tribes whom there own people sold/bartered to the European slave traders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery#African_part...
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No offense, but this would kill 90% of the consumer based start ups we are all working on. Endless consumption is what has made America the best place in the world to start a business.

Just a thought.
I'd love to see some real-world examples on the front-page. I think I get the concept but not sure how I'd actually use it in a chat app.

Cool service - I like the approach.
I can't stress enough how discouraging is the fact that browsers rely on so complex standard body. And current way they evolve leave little hope. It definitely benefits web in a way, but rising complexity makes for a security nightmare and i wonder how close it brings browsers as a kind of software to limits of sanity and comprehension.
Kindle is rather high end and doesn't have any audio options - or am I missing something here? The last kindle that did was the Kindle Keyboard(Kindle 3) but even then it couldn't read all books.
If workers really didn't have any bargaining power then they'd all be paid minimum wage, whereas in reality just 5% do. Workers are not fungible, people don't start being productive until they learn the ropes and some people are better or worse at their job even after training.
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Quell riots and looting.

You don't need trained snipers, full body armor and APCs to do that. Not for a town of 21,000. They were sandblasting saltines.
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But still, they could have asked 10% more if they used Bitcoin.
Wow this is sexy. Nice work 8-)
If the US dollar fluctuated like this, it would cause huge problems to world economy. But if it happens to bitcoin, it's the most innovative thing to have happened to the world economy ever!
I’ve seen something like this before (I forget where or its name), the idea is sound, but it added alot of sensationalist stuff as well, which would allow someone to dismiss it at as a whole.

It also threw in some points where the “character” made a bad decision, which led to really dire consequences. Someone could easily conclude “they are poor because they made bad decisions” but it doesn’t highlight how if you have the money bad decisions don’t compound the way they do when you don’t.
Podcasts and Spotify have completely replaced radio for me.
> I thought network effects were good. No?

They are. But you shouldn't rely on them in the beginning because they won't be there.
Oh man, I've had to work on projects with serverside form generation (python people are really into this stuff for some reason), and it's a huge pain. Backend engineer thinks it's going to be way easier or something not having to write templates, however on the frontend, the code generated by these tools is always weird and different from the rest of the markup. No thanks.
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Google's official position is that even though they're penalizing sites for incoming links, negative SEO is impossible. So yeah - good luck getting any help from them.
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Buying stellars from a stranger, online. How not to get ripped off?
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It could be viewed as a tragedy of the commons economic issue. Where a small pool of workers who have some self-interest driven needs (e.g I need money) in place drive a market to a condition that is no longer functional (e.g. nobody can make a living wage).
DevOps cuts out the unnecessary middle-man
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You said there was $28M in leverage before the crash. Do you know what the leverage is currently?
It’s web performance, let’s not call it WebDevPerfOps
I don't disagree with that. If Go suits your needs, then good for you. My rant is related to my general dissatisfaction with the status quo and personally I expect more from new languages.