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HMV also is the best single book ever written about the process of science, and the way scientists actually think. I can't over-state this. I read first read it while an undergrad in engineering in early 80's and during my graduate work in physics slowly came to realize it was the only book I'd ever read that accurately described what I was learning to do as a scientist.

Even though the narrator is nominally a mathematician, his approach to problems is fundamentally that of an empirical scientist, and has nothing at all to do with the cartoon hypothetico-deductive nonsense that philosophers have foisted upon the world as "scientific method".
Machine learning will go a long way to improving it, I think.
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Just to add on to what sologoub stated...When I started IT many moons ago, I had a nice linear progressions of jobs and pay. We moved from an apartment to small house to slightly bigger rural area house. My job felt steady and I liked that with a young family. When I was ready to move onto the next position 2007 happened.

Now any move I make in the field would likely end up being a step down or lateral move in pay, based on the many recruiters and their position offerings I speak with. It's just the nature of the current economy. I make good money, but the cost of living has now outpaced what good money means and my pay has stagnanted if not gone down with health premium costs.
Ah yes, a heads-up display for cars is just like a missile or a prison.
I can't believe this is #3 on hacker news...
I rode hard trail growing up and now have a full suspension and I think it is definitely worth trying especially if you ride on any sort of roots or rocks.

Technology has improved a lot from the first few generations of suspension and even climbing a modern suspension design that isn't intended solely for downhill will isolate pedal bob from bumps and nicer rear shocks will also have either a lock out or inertial damping/"pro pedal" or lock out feature that helps even more.

I actually just got back from a ride the included some climbs up through some steep rock gardens and I feel the rear suspension can actually help keep traction better so you can stay seated and just grind things out over the bumps instead of having to stand and throw the bike around if that makes sense.

The descent is no contest, the bike just stays much more in control and I don't have to use my knees like shock absorbers as much.

And I'm on a bike I paid $1400 for on fall clearance though it is a more trail oriented then enduro oriented bike meaning it has only 120mm of suspension front and rear (it is an older BMC trailfox tf02).

I'd like to give a hardtail ultralight 29er a try at some point as well though.
> This is because our society has conflated education with acquiring skills which can be used to create value.

It's even worse than this. Society has conflated credentials with education.

It's not necessary that someone learns 'marketable skills' during an undergraduate degree. However, it _is_ important that they develop their ability to think and to learn. Those in themselves are not marketable skills, but help greatly in acquiring marketable skills later.
What other proof does anyone need that Comcast hates net neutrality? It should be a clear reason to tank any of their plans for acquisition of TWC.
It wasn't the cornea, but an artificial lens that was responsible. [0] UV passed through the artificial lens, but not through our natural one. It was replaced because of cataracts.

[0] http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/14/165202/followup-u...
With proper formatting i'd actually give it a read...
I don't know anything about the validity of the facts and would have preferred a third-party or peer reviewed source.

But surely someone's opinion about the consumption of psychedelics, and the credibility of their research as a scientist are quite separate things.
Not sure I understand. What does the actor in the commercial have to do with the product? (disclosure: Navdy investor)
> When I started IT many moons ago

I can't help but think that referring to technology as "IT" might be part of the problem. Nobody I know who's doing technical product development calls it IT. In my mind, that term connotes working as a glorified support specialist in a large corporation.
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It's hard to pin down a "typical" book of Lem's, but there are certain themes he returned to time and again.

1) The role of probability in life: "Chain of Chance" and "The Investigation" (the former is much the better book)

2) The role of scale in our understanding of the universe: "His Master's Voice", "Fiasco" and "Solaris" all touch on this, and are all excellent (I have a special fondness for HMV as a book that describes how scientists actually think and work in a way that nothing else I've encountered does)

3) The role of systems of control in the future of humanity: "Memoirs..." and most of the Ijon Tichy stories fall into this category, and are in my view his weakest work, although "Return from the Stars" is a brilliant book on this theme.

4) The role of cybernetics in the future of evolution: "The Cyberiad" etc.

The problem of the "silent universe" (explored mostly deeply in "Fiasco") is also one that comes up repeatedly, including a long and interesting essay in "Imaginary Magnitude".
FWIW, this is also quite possible with Vundle. I keep my plugin management in a separate file which also contains the Vundle bootstrap logic for new systems. This stanza sets up Vundle if it isn't already installed...:

https://github.com/jwhitley/vimrc/blob/master/.vim/bootstrap...

... and this one after the plugin definitions installs the remaining bundles:

https://github.com/jwhitley/vimrc/blob/master/.vim/bootstrap...

(I haven't updated this to the new "Plugin" Vundle syntax yet; the change is local but not pushed.)

That said, features like vim-plug's postupdate hooks are sweet.
As a motorcycle rider, these things scare the hell out of me. Drivers already pay little enough attention; do we really need more distractions? Jets have HUDs, but they also have much less traffic, highly trained pilots, and computers and air traffic control watching out for things the pilot misses. Car drivers have Siri.
Only at a tiny few companies, in a handful of (high cost-of-living) cities offer salaries that high, and only for a small number of roles. Sure, tech workers currently have it slightly better than most, in this down economy, but that's not saying much.

Also, years of experience doesn't matter after a certain point. Tech, programming, etc. salaries don't increase linearly with experience forever. After some time (5 years or so), your salary will stop increasing, even moving from company to company, and when that happens, the skyrocketing cost of health care, housing, etc., which do increase year after year, will mean your standard of living will decrease over time.
VR hardware will come to next generation console, that is xbox and ps. Both are working on this. And most likely they are the ones who have a potential market at this moment.
Hmmm. I don't see the distinction. They are collecting a ton of data by a small army of corrupt proxy servers. Without authentication it's just like a new protocol. And hardly a challenge when we know they are already doing it on ssl connections.
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The support of DMT consumption is hardly the most troublesome part of that TED talk, although it might be the political reason TED banned it (it's a TEDx conference, by the way). In that talk, he also discusses in detail the immortality of the human soul, telepathic communication with personal benevolent deities, and mystic healing. While he does hurriedly hedge these claims with the sentence "I'm making no claim one way or another as to the reality state of these entities," the entire talk is very clearly extrascientific, and in my opinion pseudoscientific.
Do your research and watch for deals or used bikes. If you are comfortable working on or learning to work on bikes you can buy online otherwise the support from a local shop will be worth more then what you save.

mtbr.com is great for reviews and has a deals forum and page. bikeradar, pinkbike and some other sites that will crop up in google are great for reviews too.

For reference I bought a new bmc trailfox tf02 with slx components for 1400 a few years ago and a friend bought a well used but well maintained specialized enduro for 900 last year...i'd say these prices are about as cheap as you should expect to find a good full suspension bike though hardtails can be had cheaper.

There are tons of cheap but not great bikes out there. A good rule of thumb is to not get anything that doesn't have disk brakes and ideally you want something with Shimano hydraulic disk brakes as they are great and easy to maintain. Cheap full suspension is to be approached with extreme caution as it will be heavy and bouncy when you try to pedal it.
I wonder how soon using this will be illegal in some states. Something like this should only provide an interface to your phone's maps and just maybe help with phone calls. Nothing else.
There is some evidence for paleolithic civilization in southern Turkey (which is mentioned in the article but not central to it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

It is relatively unsurprising that there should be bursts of civilization before the wheels really got turning, but crazy people citing Plato's fictions are not worth much attention.
Even if he wasn't in the video, those ads have such a distinctive visual style, low-key dry humour - its either a Sandwich Video or an homage.

Your best approach is to go in an entirely different direction.
The problem is not about how he treated the patient. The patient got better for whatever reason, so c'est la vie

The problem is when you take that one patient, and hold up that one example as proof. That is bad science.
Credibility of the person delivering the message.
OT: Are you from Africa? If not, I am ready to help you get a new laptop if you can start a fundraiser.
Archive.org comes to mind, I've noticed them asking for help a few times.
You can run some tor nodes.
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Over-produced? - Have you watched a TV ad?

It was short and simple shots of making coffee. There is no narration, hardly any music. Subtle stuff.
Imma let you finish
Really, what's the point of beginner bragging about list of random tools he uses for programming?
For those interested in learning more about why Haiti is so impoverished,
Junot Díaz wrote a great and powerful piece a few years ago in the Boston Review.

"Haiti’s nightmarish vulnerability has to be understood as part of a larger trend of global inequality."

[1]: http://bostonreview.net/junot-diaz-apocalypse-haiti-earthqua...
"I'd insist to not star Adam, because it is somewhat distracting from the message of my startup. He is basically everywhere, and it sort of gives me a strange (but negative) sensation of devaluation of the startup. Am I the only one who feels this way?"

That seems like a very inside baseball concern. I really doubt your typical consumer has any memory of the actors in a typical consumer web product video. I mean, going through this list, I've seen a lot of these videos over the years and didn't realize they were all made by the same people until it was pointed out here. I'd also venture to guess that he appears in a lot of them to cut the costs of the video. More people involved in making a video means higher costs.
So essentially you agree that at least a quasi-totalitarian world will be needed in order to "protect" the environment.

Of course, your premise is that people will just roll over and take it. A more likely scenario is a world war that would make WW II look like 3rd graders throwing sticks at each other.
A JavaScript clone of Nu Pogodi, a Soviet hand-held game
I'm afraid science is more complex than that. It's true that you don't have a proven theory, verified to the point that it can be considered settled, until you have a statistically significant sample, a control group, and several replications. But a lot happens before you get to that point. You can't test every hypothesis you come up with; there's no time. The hypotheses that are worth testing have to be sorted from those that aren't.

In fact, the medical literature is full of case studies. Do they prove anything? No. But they suggest things to try in subsequent cases that seem similar -- and if a technique finds enough success in practice, maybe it's worth doing a study on.
Aside from the main guy being in all the videos, I thought their website was incredibly well written and provided a great explanation of their services. Refreshing as far as professional services websites go.
Ask HN: Is this a good idea for a startup with a chicken/egg problem?
The chicken/egg problem I refer to is that our startup will be valuable to users when there are a lot of users. I think it was Paul Buchheit who said to start with something a few people love rather than something a lot of people kind of like. That's the advice I'm trying to adhere to with this idea. The challenge my cofounder and I face is that we're attempting to disrupt a very entrenched method of doing something. Our target users express that they'd love if our process became the new norm, but can't afford to neglect the traditional system while they wait.

So we intend to make our users fall in love with our vision and ethos before our service provides them the value they deserve. To show our gratitude to initial users we'll help them achieve their short-term objectives within the traditional system we intend to disrupt. Is this a good idea?

Hopefully this analogy will clarify any misunderstandings.
Imagine Lyft when it started. An initial user goes through the effort to try it out, but there isn't a driver available to pick him/her up. Should Lyft show its gratitude by helping that user get a taxi?
Of course it is. Though it could be said the same of natural intelligence too.
If it's not a fabrication, it's more likely the customer was running a Tor exit node and that caused some problems and Comcast told him not to run an exit node. Which is somewhat reasonable, as it's a pain to deal with abuse complaints.
I read it as some deserved ridicule of malkia's comment.
Texting has largely replaced phonecalls. Therefore most people expect you to get back to them within a couple of minutes, not hours.

I have used, and have seen others use, texting in real-time applications where immediate response is required. Like texting someone that you're at the door (and the bell doesn't work) instead of calling them.

Generally the younger you go, the more texting is expected to be instant communication.
Over-produced is an interesting take on the only “spec” commercial I've ever made simply because I love the product. It cost me about $300, full disclosure. Meaning it's actually the most under-produced of our videos.
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I'm not sure what I did to luck into my company being on HN today (thanks, coldtea), but if anyone has any questions about Sandwich, I'm here for you.
Don't drive with a passenger. Don't listen to the radio. Don't have your kid in the car. Don't drive with your dog. Don't think about work. Don't scratch your head. Don't...
Design is an essential element of functionality. I had to click on one small link at the top of the navigation bar to get to the most important information: Users.

Then I had to scroll through a list of people, pulling out various tags and keywords that might have been interesting to me.

I gave up finding what I was looking for, but not before clicking on 'Search' at the top. The search wasn't an autocomplete field, so I typed in something, hoping for the best. 0 results.

A good design, IMO, makes the most important function the most obvious feature. It makes the most complex task the most simple to complete.

For this site, I could have used a sortable and searchable data table that let me both browse, search, and communicate on one page.
They are extremely expensive
I am similar age rage. That was what it was called back then. What is it now?
I don't think it makes sense to go into detail because this stuff is rapidly changing as we figure it out.

The principle is that we want to do as little manually as possible.
Yup, the difference between a taxi and an individual though is the taxi company will create an individual llc for each taxi so if a given taxi is in a bad accident they will just bankrupt that llc and try to skip out on paying anything.
Interesting article but man the first section could have used some more graphics. Drawings of the sphere/circle he talks about is included with almost any antenna datasheet and looking at the pattern for various types of antennas is helpful.

For example, the last page of a datasheet [1] for a ceramic chip antenna (size of a capacitor or resistor commonly used on small electronics like smartwatches or glasses with -0.5 dBi gain) shows the sphere in various cross sections. The last page of a datasheet [2] for a "whip" antenna shows an E plane pattern (looking at the side of the antenna as it stands up) that looks like a pattern from a Rorschach test but the H-field (looking down at the antenna) is almost a perfect sphere.

Most (all?) of these diagrams come from RF testing rooms like the one in this shot [3]. You can't see it in the photo but usually in the floor is a rotating platform with a coax cable carrying an RF control signal coming from the testing instrumentation.

[1] http://www.johansontechnology.com/images/stories/ip/rf-anten...

[2] ftp://ftp2.nearson.com/Drawings/Antenna/SG102N-2450V2.pdf

[3] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Large_Dri...
Sorry - I should remember the audience. My wife always just says I do IT when people ask, so it's kind of ingrained in my head. I'm a developer (or whatever other term you want to use for that). I've worked from small teams (which are the best) to large corps.
Negative association arising from re-using the principal actor already associated (in the OP's mind) with a failed product?

Perhaps, something akin to actors getting typecast into certain types of roles throughout their careers (grumpy-bloke, evil-bitch, hipster-douche, vaporware-shill).

BTW, these are just examples and not a reflection on Adam Lisagor or his work!
This isn't the first time I've heard this. It's not common but not unique. Even a few bigger clients with more at stake in terms of brand voice have shied away from asking me to be on camera. That said, it's usually at my discretion which projects feature me and which don't. There are ones that make more sense for me to be the guy, and ones that make no sense at all, and for those projects (roughly 4 out of 5 of our videos) I'm happy to put someone more suitable in front of the camera.
In '79, there were not as many women working either. A single income household was normal.
The prices on those bikes are ridiculous. If you buy something like that please buy it second-hand from someone that had more money than brains and thought they were going to lose weight by buying a bike rather than using it. Usually these go for a fraction of their new value in mint condition once the new-years vows have worn off.
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Re: cutting costs, that's not a consideration at all. On-camera talent usually accounts for less than .5% of one of our projects' total budgets. There are probably more people involved behind the camera than you'd expect. And it can actually be quite a bit costlier to have me on camera, while I'm directing as well (and I can be a real diva).
> "I'd also venture to guess that he appears in a lot of them to cut the costs of the video."

I'm nearly 100% positive is it intentional that Adam stars in most of the videos, and it not due to cutting costs. It is calculated marketing and probably a requirement by Sandwich. Their clients: Ebay, Groupon, AirBnb, Square, Coin, Warby Parker, Jawbone, and Lyft can afford to pay for an actor or actress.
You have not travelled on a budget in Asia. Some accommodation is very basic.
No.

But seriously, it's a cute toy. But it's essentially a pager in a ring. As a wearable it's not going to last long with an OLED screen and Bluetooth LE. Another thing that I need to charge every night? For me, no thanks.

It's going to be a must have for those geeks who MUST have every cool toy going - but is it going to last long? I somehow don't think so.

I'm quite disappointed with the state of wearables at the moment, and I personally think it's a dead end. But I guess it's just about getting product out there and bought, not about having something actually useful. So in that regard, it'll have some measure of success.
ASK: Customer Exclusivity in exchange for investment + product acceleration?
Customer A is the market leader in a smallish but growing market. They love Product X and want to invest in its development in exchange for limited period exclusivity. This includes direct competitors, but also excludes much smaller players and customers in other spaces.

Product X is a powerful differentiator for this small market, but with the help from Customer A, it can grow its wings and expand into larger spaces. In essence, the product NEEDS Customer A to use it for it to reach its full potential.

What is your opinion on the deal?
Adam and Sandwich video are pretty much the reference in the "startup videos" industry, specially for "live action" videos. They have such a distinctive style and premium quality standard attached to each of their videos. Even though they have a very specific style, they always try to stay innovative and craft original concepts, which is very inspiring. We made a "behind the scene" interview with Adam a little while back when Sandwich really started to get popular http://startup-videos.com/blog/startup-videos-interview-sand... definitely worth a read if you want to learn more about his process.

That being said, there's a lot of other very innovating and smart videos made by other studios/startups, and if you're curious about them, a good place to check out is http://startup-videos.com (disclaimer: I'm one of the cofounder of the site).
I'm a jazz musician, and even within the last few years, I've seen musicians pull out pages copied from those old Tune-Dex cards.

>>>>> The law had attempted to express a prohibition but that prohibition had been repeatedly ignored, and hereafter it would be permanently ignored. There were no further federal trials surround-ing bootleg fake books. Compared to the new problems raised by record and movie piracy from the 1970s onward, prosecuting fake-books was no longer worth the effort.

Today, the most common mechanism for enforcement of performance rights for copyrighted songs is to go after the venues that host live music, rather than the musicians themselves. A restaurant or bar that hosts live music will get a visit from a representative of ASCAP or BMI, to arrange for a license that covers the performances of musicians.
I've seen a bunch of youtubers I watch - most prominently Linus Tech Tips - advertise these guys, but I never knew they had a viral video.
It's interesting to read what BBC thinks about that [1].

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/bbc-isps-should-assume-heavy-vpn-use...
I take your point. I try and be extremely meticulous and selective with the projects I take on. But this is the tech world, and much like an investor, I can't always know what products will survive all conditions of the market.

I do have a reputation for picking strong contenders, and that has probably been my best asset in bringing interesting new projects. If it starts to happen a lot, that my clients fail to deliver on the promises they ask me to make, then I have to adjust. But for now, my track record is pretty shiny.