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Quiet in conscience, calm in their right; confident their ways are best. [1]

> I would say that a lot of us dream of being able to lead entirely self-directed lives that financial freedom can afford. Therefore, why is it bemoaned when we see the very success that we dream of unfold for someone else?

A lot of us do share that dream, but many feel most alive when they're part of a group movement. There's a little of each in everyone, but it's easy to understand how those who lean strongly to one side or the other might not be able to see through the eyes of folks across the gap. I think that, for the most part, any backlash against Notch isn't fueled by jealousy from those who aspire to the position he's reached; rather, it's from a sense of betrayal and abandonment from people whose core values are loyalty and unity.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHH17-cMOu0
It's just a reflection of the state of maturity/pace of development of the industry. I remember when people used to replace their computers once ever two/three years. Nowadays, it's more like 5-7 years.
Long ago in the dark days of the internet, before Facebook and social networks, and Reddit, everyone communicated using a group chat service called IRC.

On IRC people often said very funny things!

Bash.org is a collection of user contributed quotes from IRC conversations. When you would see someone say something funny on IRC, you would instantly load up bash.org and submit your quote. Moderators would then approve the ones they thought were funny. If they were actually funny they would get upvoted.

About two years ago the site simply stopped updating with new quotes. People like me, who had incorporated bash.org into their "I have 30 seconds to kill, type random urls into my browser and hit enter" process still visited pretty regularly in desperate hope to see a new quote.

Finally a few days ago, after years of silence, a new one appeared.
After seeing this article, I looked into my music library in my iPhone, and sure enough, there it was. What a jarring experience. Especially since I've been wanting to clean up my music library for a while now, to get rid of old songs that I don't listen to. I don't appreciate Apple thwarting my efforts there.
Correct. The album was simply added to everyone's iTune's Library, if on your iDevice under the iTunes & App store settings had 'Music' enabled for 'Automatic Downloads' then any new purchases (including free) would be automatically downloaded onto your device. If you don't have that setting enabled, the album wasn't downloaded.
It's 10 lines of very obvious code. Isn't that a good thing? Do you really need stack.New<T>()?
We just banned 50 accounts that were created to vote for this story. That's so egregious that we're also banning the site and the submitter, at least until we get a promise that this will never happen again.

All: it's not in your interests to do this. Your votes probably won't count (none of those 50 did). Your story will probably get penalized (that's why this one went nowhere, long before any moderator saw it). You risk getting your account and site banned.

The software catches most of this. Moderators see the rest. And if all that fails, your fellow users will probably sniff it out. Half the emails we've gotten lately are about astroturfing and sockpuppetry. HN users really hate those things.

There was no need for this perfectly on-topic post to walk and talk like spam.
uTP was developed to work around bufferbloat-challenged DSL/DOCSIS CPEs, smoother is a reasonable characterization for it. It has since gotten some NAT traversal abilities as a bonus.
It's the circle of life!
> Medium-to-large employers spent an average of $521 per employee on wellness programs last year, double the amount they spent five years ago . . .

The question from me wouldn't be whether or not they work, but are they worth the time, money and effort that is put into these programs?
This deserves way more than 70 points in 2 hours. If bash.org isn't up HN's alley I don't know what is!
Once enough is coming up through grassblades then farmers can cease giving it to the cattle directly. The holy grail of Unlimited Tramadol!
I dunno, when I was a kid, my brother and I would play Legos for 6+ hours a day, for days on end sometimes. And we developed such intricate settings and plots that it almost felt like we lived in a Lego world for months. I don't think Minecraft is fundamentally different in that respect.
>encroachment of humans into wilderness areas...

...has nothing to do with overpopulation and everything to do with tragedy of the commons and destructive corporations. Brazil's rainforests would be cut down regardless of what the population of Brazil was.

>The biggest 'man-made' issue here is more 'man': mindless reproduction and consumption without any regard to the future.

And it's stunning to see the charge of "mindless consumption" being thrown at areas with the highest population growth like Africa, when their rates of energy and food consumption cannot even compare to those in the developed world. They're miniscule [1][2].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_con...

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_energ...
You could easily argue that everything that ever was or will be is natural, not really sure why the word is still used to describe products.
Whenever I have a question like this I turn to The Wirecutter, they usually deliver.

http://thewirecutter.com/leaderboard/printers-2/
Personally, i believe education is the biggest problem around here. Starting at early ages, and going all the way to college, learning, getting involved with what matters and working is just not so common here. I am a college dropout (dropped from mechanical engineering), but i code since i was 13. And i am yet to meet any graduate that loves and/or knows so much about theoretical computer science as i do. People just want a comfortable job, they don't want to, or don't feel like they can, have an impact in the world (of course there are exceptions).
In the India launch at least, Android One is launching with FREE mobile data for OS updates and Play store downloads.
They charge for every page you want to access. They have a monopoly on said pages.

How can it possibly be neglected given the revenue stream?

If they don't wont to make the old data available, they should just release a freaking dump. People will gladly take care of providing it for everyone, at zero cost.
It can be better if it is compiled from a strongly-typed language. This gives benefits you'll never get from raw Javascript.
PayWhirl begins accepting submissions for its subscription services marketplace
Did you decide to open source these projects? We love the idea and would love to see how it works. Thanks!
I find myself firehosing ideas all over the place. Knuckling down to execute on them is the tough bit.
You mean a PR firm?
Don't discount this as a way of getting non-apple fanboys talking about apple. Hell, I didn't even know U2 was alive... now I am talking about them.

I am sure it wasn't the intended purpose... but there's a lot of pub on this... and it certainly doesn't seem to be affecting sales.
How Three Idealists Became Ed-Tech Entrepreneurs
My iphone 3g loaned to me by a friend after my wife dropped two Android G1s (yes, really. She loves the keyboard. LOL) is barely useable. It had IOS 4? 5? and was sluggish to the point of frustration. I can't help but feel the same may happen to my ipad 2 when IOS 8 comes out. On the other hand Google stopped updating my Nexus One with Android 2.x on the device. Sure you could run a hacked port of 4.x but again it was sluggish. Your choices are semi-usable and secure and fast but dangerous.

There's really no motivation for Google to keep issuing security patches for Android 2.x when there's a $129 4.x device floating around. And Android One does mention making the devices affordable. It isn't exactly green tossing a phone ever two years, but if they're priced like a commodity at least isn't as teeth-grindingly troublesome either.
“Giganews is an FBI Operation”
It makes me wonder about the mindset of the people setting these kinds of policies.

It's easy in hindsight to cast aspersions, but to me it seemed prima facie an 'invasion' of a private space. Like, Apple decided that owning a U2 album was now mandatory.

I'm reminded of that Page quote last year where he dismissed any Google Glass privacy concerns.

I don't have a good articulation for this yet, but it seems an awful lot of people are blind to the alienation these systems are capable of causing.
Actually (again, nitpicking because I love Bittorrent) the reason it was created is to allow smooth day-to-day operations of a computer with a long-running bittorrent client and several other shorter-terms network applications, such as web browsers, chat applications, VoIP softwares, multiplayer games...

The goal is to make sure that bittorrent automatically takes full control of the interface when nobody else is using it, yet quickly gives control to whoever needs it when needed, without manual intervention from the user (the notorious "set speeds to 10% to not slow down your web browsing").

That said, uTP being based on UDP gives the nice side effect that NAT traversal is effectively possible.

http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0029.html
The 520/1 are regularly on sale for $59 and less no with no contract
Chapter Two of Peter Thiel's New Book
I asked Peter if I could post some of his new book on HN. Here is Chapter Two, which I think will be interesting to people here.

Party Like It’s 1999

Our contrarian question—What important truth do very few people agree with you on?—is difficult to answer directly. It may be easier to start with a preliminary: what does everybody agree on? “Madness is rare in individuals—but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule,” Nietzsche wrote (before he went mad). If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

Consider an elementary proposition: companies exist to make money, not to lose it. This should be obvious to any thinking person. But it wasn’t so obvious to many in the late1990s, when no loss was too big to be described as an investment in an even bigger, brighter future. The conventional wisdom of the “New Economy” accepted page views as a more authoritative, forward‐looking financial metric than something as pedestrian as profit.

Conventional beliefs only ever come to appear arbitrary and wrong in retrospect; whenever one collapses, we call the old belief a bubble. But the distortions caused by bubbles don’t disappear when they pop. The internet bubble of the ’90s was the biggest of the last eight decades, and the lessons learned afterward define and distort almost all thinking about technology today. The first step to thinking clearly is to question what we think we know about the past.

A Quick History of the ’90s

The 1990s have a good image. We tend to remember them as a prosperous, optimistic decade that happened to end with the internet boom and bust. But many of those years were not as cheerful as our nostalgia holds. We’ve long since forgotten the global
context for the 18 months of dot‐com mania at decade’s end.

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This is potentially good news. My sister has schizophrenia, and not a day passes when I don't worry about my 3 year-old son being diagnosed with this terrible disease.

I'm not a scientist or an engineer, so maybe somebody who has read the published article can help me out here. I wonder what the percentages mean. How do they determine whether or not someone has a 73% chance of being diagnosed with the disease? And what does that mean exactly?

On the other hand, this research raises even more questions. For instance, I wonder what steps you could take to help a child with, say, a 60% chance of being diagnosed with schizophrenia? Are the genes like switches, in the sense that certain environmental variables can flip them on and off? If so, I guess there is a lot that could be done to help someone who has a good chance of being diagnosed.
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"Customers are free to use their Xfinity Internet service to visit any website, use any app, and so forth."

Any app, but not on any device as I found out when I tried to activate HBO GO on a Roku. Apparently if Comcast is your ISP, you cannot use HBO GO on your Roku (or PS3 for that matter).

EDIT: You can see what devices are supported here:
http://www.hbogo.com/activate/
Following your logic, I want to congratulate Microsoft for the mandatory Windows XP Service Pack 2--the most popular software download ever!
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with the way he works or toy projects or experimenting or not knowing beforehand what will be successful. I'm just a bit concerned that if he actually takes the attitude of (paraphrased) "if something I do is appealing to many people I'll abandon that and find something nobody cares about," he'll end up shortchanging himself and others. And in fairness to Notch, he probably does mean something more nuanced, transitory, and reasonable.
Apparently Android one is for people under 40 only.
(judging by the video)
In case you are interested, i love Python and i am currently looking for new challenges. : )
This.

Content providers don't seem to understand the value of permanently discarding unwanted content. They don't grasp the scale of the typical user's music (or book, or game, or whatever) library, and the user's mental capacity for managing it. I've stopped using Starbucks' "pick of the week" precisely because I _don't_want_ most of what I download & hear from them; I've already some 500 albums that I bought & know, and don't need hundreds (or just dozens) more unwanted one-track "albums", or even full albums, cluttering up the list. I'd like to give a new album/band a chance with a free download, but not if I can't make 'em go away (be it at all, or with convoluted effort) as most I don't care to keep.

Worse, AFAIK Apple still hasn't restored/fixed the swipe-and-tap-to-delete option for music put on a device via iTunes Match. Allowing the notion of having a vast permanent collection of all my purchased audio content in the cloud (whether I wish to keep that content or not), there's no sane way to remove downloaded material from individual devices. I've several large fragments of audiobooks taking up gigabytes on my phone which I desperately want to delete, but the only way seems to wipe ALL "music" and re-download what I want (and with some pretty scary-worded warnings in the process).

Yes, content providers, there's some content I've "purchased" but no longer want. Please give me a way to remove it from my life, permanently.
Its strange because it is there, but it didn't actually download. You can stream the songs and you can download them. Maybe they should have pushed a notification from the music app saying "Free music if you want it"
Speaking of 'free download':

The album was shown as purchased in the iTunes Store app but there was no way to download the files, i.e., to have the album in my own library instead of just the ability to stream it via the iTunes Store.

A well-known BitTorrent search engine let me solve the issue.
I found this article a while ago that does a good job of detailing how psychiatry is absolutely not a science, and shouldn't be treated as such:

http://www.arachnoid.com/psychology/aspergers.php
oh my god. that is an amazing tool. really hard to say but I don't think I caught everything or remember everything I read but do feel like I can understand what I am reading. I keep trying to sound out the words and give up and begin look at the words only like pictures. its a surreal experience.
Thank you for the interest. I am using it for rapid prototyping and for websites where personalization is not top priority.

* I know... I don't think that's achievable with the structure I'm using though

* In line 690, where it says `border-color: #333;` within `.burgermenu:before,.burgermenu:after{}`. This is due to lack of Android support for the font.

* Did you remember to set the viewport meta tag? http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/quick-tip-dont-forget...

* Is it related to the last point? Can you share an screenshot, please?
Security Weaknesses of Apple Pay for In-Store Transactions
I would say that there is no doubt that depression can be caused by a person's own beliefs about him/herself and the world. So it seems unlikely that such an explanation could account for all forms of depression.
Without a doubt that is likely. But, you are missing the part where robotics will also likely significantly raise standard of living. It is also extremely likely that advanced robotics will have a further polarizing effect on wealth distribution.

In general society is moving towards significant increase in monitoring and automation, technology is making it simpler and cheaper to do so, I do not foresee reversal of this trend baring a catastrophe class event. This means that we as a society will have to seriously reexamine privacy as a whole.
Sounds like a pretty good deal for Interscope:

"At one point Thursday afternoon, 26 U2 titles charted simultaneously on iTunes top 200 albums rankings, Apple and Interscope Records representatives confirmed to Mashable on Friday. Meanwhile, U218 Singles landed in the top 10 in 46 countries."

http://mashable.com/2014/09/12/u2-album-itunes-chart-apple-r...
All models are wrong, but some are useful. This model has proven useful.

These symptoms do cluster. Most people never ever experience halluzinations, but then they also experience delusions or other psychotic problems, relatively specific social problems, paranoia, etc.

In some sense this is a human-readable equivalent of logistic regression. Because schizophrenia isn't as well understood as some other diseases, you can only make "exact" models about meaningless abstractions, or create fuzzy models which allow meaningful treatment decisions.
But what if I have other U2 albums in need of removal?
I couldn't disagree more. There was indeed a very dark age due to Microsoft. I often wonder what a world full of scientist and engineers that had the highest quality software available to them would have been like. Instead we got Microsoft's monopolistic and predatory business and consequently we have all suffered. If you perceive Apple as being controlling then you must not have lived through this Dark Age like I did.
My old roommate just emailed me about this, he and his girlfriend are both working on the project. One thing they noted:

> The project is getting kicked out of our current building in November. We are looking for a new home for a few months. Somewhere in the south bay. Light industrial facility would be great but some office space with some large open areas (former cube farm) would work too. An aircraft hanger would be awesome....but we are not holding our breath....any decent space will do. Please get in touch if you have such a space / know someone / can pull some strings :).

They are also having a 'Friends don't let friends build alone' day in Mountain View in early october. Email me (profile) and I'll forward it along if you're interested!
It will take a generation or two for research like this to have any impact on practical diagnosis or treatment. The medical establishment is extremely conservative.

Consider the case of H. pylori and ulcers. This 2006 page from the CDC says, "Recently scientists have found that most ulcers are caused by an infection". (http://www.cdc.gov/ulcer/consumer.htm)

What is "recent" in medical research? Over two decades: http://www.cdc.gov/ulcer/history.htm

That is, the "recent" discovery of H. pyloi as the primary cause of ulcers was made in 1982, and general adoption of antibiotic treatment was still a work in progress in the late '90's and early 2000's.

On this basis, the current results--which will be difficult and expensive to replicate because the study is uniquely large and well-designed--will have at best a generational impact. Again, this is not entirely a bad thing: medical conservatism keeps doctors from doing a lot of harm, however frustrating it might be for those of us in the innovation business.
Microsoft wouldn't pay $2 billion if he open sourced it. So they'd get a smaller payout.
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Is this truly random? The first ten or so that I clicked through seemed to be HUGE open source projects like modernizer, cocoapods, less, etc. Not just random projects by random people. Did you hand select the list it chooses from? Not a bad thing if you did, I'm just curious.
> Famine is also - it occurs in the places least able to deal with ebola

The areas currently buckling under Ebola have not been the regions of Africa most affected by famine in the last few decades, most of which are in the Sahel and Horn of Africa. And which were caused by political problems. Other than that, I'm not sure what this means.

>"Global warming" - we could reduce emissions by reducing population without changing the per capita energy consumption.

This would be true if you reduced population in the West and in Asia but the energy and food consumption of Africa is absolutely minuscule compared to the rest of the world.

See the references in my other post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320473

>Strife in the middle east?

Israel has a relatively low birth rate.
So could you boil down your argument for "limiting circumstances" for me, then? i.e. X is bad because Y, etc.

Credit exists because different people/entities have different time preferences for money, which is a value differential. Sure, this can be influenced and skewed based on life-circumstance.

e.g. one of the posters in this thread noted how "10,000" in debt helped them get through a very troubling time in their life and how they're very grateful they had access to it at the time. Are you going to say that it was "not okay" that the creditor helped him with that? Are you saying that they should have given him/her the money for absolutely no reason, no profit, nothing? Are you implying that lending is okay if it's for charity? What, really, I can't even fathom how you can hold your opinion as logically consistent.
Lots of links here.

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2013/11/gluten-an...

There is also rising evidence that gut flora correlate with various mental health issues.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/09/gut-feeling.aspx

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-bacteria-may-e...
The article doesn't mention it, but I'm curious if Watson involved in this (or similar efforts) at all.
Hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen are natural. But this arrangement of the atoms does not occur unless humans want it to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramadol
Have you looked into laser printers? I've found that for sporadic printing they're much better than inkjets, and not too expensive as long as you don't want color.
>>you should have enough money to enable you to take care of your kids into adulthood, because doing so otherwise is negligent

I would phrase this as "Society should be structured such that money isn't a concern because there is a safety net for everyone to be caught in aside from the extreme cases like say that "octo-mom"[1] situation.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadya_Suleman
This really is a fantastic rundown of Azure websites and scaling on Azure.

As always Troy has put loads of effort into writing a really high quality blog post that shares some really useful information for devs working on this stack (and for non .Net devs too).
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