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Barely anything will be true the way you want it to be unless it belongs to a math closed world with axioms.

> I always wished I was better at drawing. I've put in some concerted effort at it multiple times (like not a ton, but enough to realize that I am frustratingly non-talented at it).

Concerted effort how? Because that matters.

> If my parents had truly made me believe the 10k hour rule, I might still be trying to make that happen instead of following my true talents, which I've achieved a pretty high level of achievement at.

Make WHAT happen? Are you comparing yourself to someone else? what kind of mastery are you seeking? How do you know that with enough practice you wouldn't have reached a sufficiently good level (where this is, is the key) at it?

> I'm not saying you should steer kids away from things they are interested in, or tell them they can't succeed. I'm just saying: help them to know themselves, and don't plant in them the idea that 10k hours will magically make them awesome at anything.

As a rule of thumb, enough practice will probably make you awesome at something, yes.

But you have to make those hours count. There needs to be PROGRESS.

Also, you might never catch up with the "greats" who had a head start for one reason or another but that doesn't mean that "practice makes perfect" as a vague general rule is true.
> As I said, it's probably not 100% true, but that doesn't matter.

It matters to me. If you were my parent and you told me the 10k hour rule even though it wasn't true, I would be really annoyed that I couldn't trust the adults in my life to tell me the truth.

I am sure that not everyone feels the way I do about this, but I feel this way very strongly, and you don't seem to acknowledge that anyone could possibly prefer a truth-based approach to this.

> Again, what's the alternative solution to motivate people to try hard?

Well one way would be: "Everyone who is good at this put in a lot of work. No one started out knowing everything."

That, unlike the promise that 10k hours promises anything, would actually be true.
So why not "Windows X"? Oh...
I thought we were discussing why Germany has better passenger rail infrastructure, not whether there are technical merits for building it.
Says a person who did not register for HN with their full legal name.

What do you have to hide?
Getting a vape has been high on my list of priorities ever since I've become more invested in my health, which incidentally wasn't a concern until after I began smoking regularly.
The issue of real name policies has come up many times before, most noticeably with Google+. From what I've seen, people tend to fall into these three camps (guess which one I fall into):

- I don't get it. Why does it matter. Just use your real name. It makes everything easier for the rest of us.

- I get it. Pseudonymity is important. But it's not worth the added noise / decreased quality on this site, so take it elsewhere.

- I get it. Pseudonymity is not only important, but something that should be freely available to anyone who wants to participate in this service. We all have different identities depending on context, and not everyone maps their legal name to all (or any) of their identities, so let's be sure to make room for those other identities too.

That's obviously an overgeneralization. But the response from camp #3 is definitely what caused Google to backtrack. It's interesting that Google's policy (only permitting your legal name or something close to it) was originally more draconian than Facebook's, who seem to only care that the name you use is the on people would know you by in "real life."
A great idea to be sure, but I think the capital costs at the beginning would be really tough. If they are going to make their own data network they at least need to buy spectrum, which is insanely expensive (high millions to low billions).
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Such as?

App compat's out (ie. "Run this program in compatibility mode for"), too many libraries. They'd never get an accurate enough list of affected programs.

They can't change the reported OS name, too many apps display it; and it'd be crazy weird (a bug for all practical purposes) to have programs claim they're on "Windows 10" while the box says "Windows 9".

Probably can't change the format of the name either, ie. "Windows(tm) 9" or "Microsoft Windows 9" or whatever; I bet tons of apps just check for "Windows " as well.

It's an unfortunate choice, but I don't really see an alternative if they wanted a numeric version number.
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I would say they deserve them because we want to live in a 'society'. If they are contributing to society - even just by serving lattes or creating poetry to someone like me who desires caffeine and art, and I in return contribute something that doctors, nurses and professors want, then I think they deserve it.
I certainly would if it has entered my country with out permission and would drop missiles on my land!
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Because startsWith is a Java function, and most other Windows applications would be in C or C++, which has a few more variants is a bit harder to search for (especially with the lack of any public regex code search engines).
If absolute truthfulness matters greatly to you, I would like advice from you about how to live life happily in face of the fact that we live in a deterministic universe that gives us no free will (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_determinism), and that we evolved from primates who kill and rape, and it's potentially in our nature to do the same. I'm serious in asking this, because I think you might have a good answer. These are truths (and I presume they are truths to you too) that are hard to reconcile with, at least for me. How do you reconcile with them? I apologize profusely for the digression, I don't think it's a ridiculous one though, as we're basically now talking about epistemological limits of truth anyway.
> As a rule of thumb, enough practice will probably make you awesome at something, yes. But you have to make those hours count. There needs to be PROGRESS.

This whole argument is like a weird combination of confirmation bias and "no true Scotsman."

Confirmation bias because yes, everyone who is good put in the time.

But "no true Scotsman" because if someone doesn't get good, you can just say they weren't practicing right.
Thanks for sharing what you've learned. Many of the points seem insightful.
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I am not a very technical guy, (so I'm up for any opinions from you techno guys), but from what I've read about Matchstick, google chrome, apple TV, Intel TV etc is that none of them seem to be able to offer up the content people are expecting these day (what they are used to getting from the various cable-satillite monopolies including live TV channels. Triniti Comm seems to be offering a great solution to high cable costs without sacrificing any content. In fact they are claiming that they can offer up to 470 channels including all the pay TV channels like HBO and Netflix, in addition to making peoples TVs into fully functional web browsers, making and receiving phone calls on your TV, home security, video conferenceing etc They also claim to be developing something called ala carte TV, which means just paying for what you like to watch. I would personally be interested in that. I'm sick of paying comcast over 150 bucks a month! I also heard they are going to be their own ISp starting this winter. I found this website to be interesting... www.thetrinitisolution.com What do you guys think?
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This was a pretty sad read. I JUST visited Container Park in Downtown Vegas this past weekend and it seemed to have a pretty good crowd with both locals and tourists.

I do believe though that if it weren't for my knowledge of the project I wouldn't even know about the area. In fact, many locals I've met still don't know about Container Park. So, they do have some marketing to work on I guess.
If you're satisfied with LTE you already have four choices for that. Most people don't believe that wireless can ever be a substitute for wired broadband.
But he was a hacker, not some commenter on hacke--er... hm.
So maybe dumb question but did they take into account the age of the participants? That is the older people in the study would tend to has less sense of smell and die sooner.
> Law enforcement's failure to even try going through proper channels speaks loudly to how little they actually respect the law.

Why do you say they aren't going through the proper channels? Law enforcement officials have just as much right to make their viewpoints heard through the press as you and I have. If they feel the need to seek new legislation, they would need to make the argument in advance in order to gain support any bills being proposed. Unless the Supreme Court thinks otherwise, I doubt a constitutional amendment would be necessary, but that depends largely on what was being proposed. I haven't seen any evidence that any law enforcement official is disrespecting any law with regards to this issue.
They changed their pricing for the crossword subscription too, limiting the back catalog and forcing an upgrade to iOS 7. They lost a long time subscriber, who will probably be switching to Android since that was the only thing keeping me on iPhones.
> The pace on the MBA could be described as "plodding" at best.

Mirrors my MBA experience at a Canadian university.
> ...if you want to audit a system against this type of attack, you'd need to examine how every packet coming into the system is handled and what data from that could set envs or invoke a shell.

Really? Don't you think its easier to audit the system to ensure that nobody's parsing the entire environment as if it was shell script / function definitions, threatening to execute parts of it as shell commands?

Here we're talking about a system made up of several different Unix processes, passing data between them through environment variables, command line arguments, input and output. This seems to affect how people think about the problem in an unfortunate way... Pretend instead that all this happened within one process, e.g. a Ruby program - who would then be responsible for the vulnerability - person A who stored a HTTP request header in a variable or person B who decided to call eval() on that variable?

To me it's quite obvious that person B is at fault.
Yup:

And despite taking issues such as age, nutrition, smoking habits, poverty and overall health into account, researchers found those with the poorest sense of smell were still at greatest risk.
As a (presumably) gender-normative person, you can't be expected to "get this issue". But, hopefully, with a bit more knowledge you'll begin to get it and understand why it matters, and can genuinely put people in danger.

There are many parts of the world, including in the United States, where hate crimes against transgendered people are common. This includes cities that we like to think of as progressive and gay friendly. Trans people have been beaten, and even murdered, simply for being trans. So, to be trans in the US, and in many other places, is to live in fear that the wrong person will discover your identity, where you live, etc.

Further, drag personas may very well be the primary social identity of a person. Their friends know them by this name and identity, and may not know of any other. But, when they go to work, go shopping, etc., they may have very different persona that they keep separate from their social identity for their own safety and well-being. People can still lose their jobs for being trans. Trans people can be, and often are, treated very poorly by medical practitioners (particularly poor folks who have fewer options for their medical care). Trans people can be treated very poorly by the legal system in child custody cases. Likewise, trans people arrested for crimes often receive stiffer sentences than non-trans folks, and may experience discrimination and humiliation in the prison system. It is dangerous, on so many levels, to be openly trans.

Transgender is recognized to be a real thing, and not a "disorder", by every major psychological and medical organization in the developed world. But, the popular opinion has not caught up with the science. And, so people who are trans have significant hurdles to leading a happy life free of being bullied, preyed upon, and generally having a lot more challenges than folks who identify as the sex of the body they were born with.

In short, saying, "Setup a business page for that persona or whatever." ignores the reality that trans people live with every day. Revealing that one is trans to the world at large dramatically increases the risk of being trans.

It sucks that our world and society is this way. Someone should be able to dress up fancy on a Saturday night, without fear of being beaten for it, fired from their job, risk losing custody of children, or be denied appropriate medical care. But, we don't live in a world where that's true. Those are the realities of being one of the most hated minorities.

Facebook's policy made it harder for trans people to exist in peace. So, the apology is warranted, and the clarification of the policy is useful. Though, I think it probably doesn't go far enough. And, I think their reasons for being so insistent have as much to do with the value of knowing someone's legal identity, as it does with their assertion that it is the "primary mechanism we have to protect millions of people every day, all around the world, from real harm."
Haven't they? I thought x86 was now basically just a legacy compatibility layer on top of significantly more streamlined and optimized RISC-like operations.
4G speeds is pretty much the state of the art in production ready systems. While there is a lot of speed available on LTE, once it is shared across a reasonable number of people the performance drops. This is why bandwidth caps are so tight on mobile networks, they can't have all their subscribers pulling 200gb of data a month, else everyone is going to get DSL 1 speeds.

This problem is a fundamental issue of RF Spectrum, and these problems tend to be addressed by blue sky research that occurs at a university.

Google is trying to address this in the most cost effective manner possible... google fibre. Wireless is unlikely to be any cheaper then simply rolling fibre / copper to every home.
async/await is trivial to mimic with yield - run the outer-most generator in spawn, use yield* with "async" methods, and use yield with Promise-returning methods. Projects like Regenerator already know how to convert yield to straightforward JS. So you already have the transformation the C# compiler does.
Have you tried Seroquel? That stuff is insta-knockout.
> It has nothing to do with it

[Citation Needed]
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The whole article is about suicides. It's in the title, it's in the first paragraph and continues throughout. The article isn't about anything except for suicides.

And the word "suicide" is much clearer than "kill you" -- which is so vague it sounds like it could be recreational drug overdose, for instance.

Sorry, but there isn't the slightest thing "baity" about it.
Yep, that's <float><int><float> and doesn't typecheck since you missed it too, my point is made :)
came here to say this. probably getting 15 frames per second during scroll. interestingly also 15" retina MBP.
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Surely this is less effective than finding a few excellent charities and giving them a large sum.
> Yes, but is it true

It appears to be working out so far for Dan McLaughlin. He was a professional photographer who quit his job in 2010 with the goal to get on the pro tour in the golf circuit. He's about 5000 hours in and has a handicap of 3[1], which (I believe) puts him in the top few percentage of golf players. He started from no experience with golf, and is working his way through the game pretty systematically.

He may not make the pro tour by the time the 10,000 hours are up, but he's definitely increased his mastery of the game pretty significantly over 5,000 hours of practice.

I'm a little unclear about your anecdote; you're saying that even with incredible amounts of focused practice, some people will never be good at some things, and then as evidence you say that you never really put in that much effort learning how to draw, but you could tell that you would never be any good. Those two situations aren't really the same at all, and I don't understand why you're comparing them.

There are definitely limitations to practice; I'm 5'6" and weigh 115; as a result, I'm never going to excel at something like football. My body just isn't cut out for it, and that's something I came to terms with a long time ago.

But for drawing, the pencil goes where you push it. Unless you're physically unable to control the pencil (and you may be! I have no idea), I have trouble understanding what ineffable quality one person may possess that would put their ability so far out of reach from somebody else who's simply willing to put in the work.

[1]: http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/jun/07/dan-plan-mclaughli...
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I prefer to imagine the world where windows version names mirror street fighter version names.

"Super Windows X Turbo: World Warriors Edition" sounds pretty sweet to me.
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Why? Doesn't that seem a little arbitrary? Streaming video just happens to utilize a lot of bandwidth. If the state of things were such that current netflix activity only utilized 5% instead of 50%, people would still be watching the same amount of netflix, but the statistic wouldn't seem as effective for comparison to a dystopia.

Further, netflix watchers are almost entirely composed of former/would-be TV watchers who ultimately end up spending less time in front of the tube because they avoid commercials entirely (adding up to a ton of time in aggregate) as well as at their leisure instead of when the TV guide demands they stop what they're doing to catch their show.
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DHH: Story I heard about Reddit post-$50M investment includes everyone not in San Francisco getting 1 week to decide whether to move or GTFO. o.0

Yishan Wong: Yes, we are relocating ppl back to SF w/generous relo package & COL adjustment, +3mos severance for anyone who can’t make the move, and no, the timeline for the move is not 1 week, but through the end of the year. Decision was also independent of fundraising.

DHH: Very sad to hear. Especially for a company like Reddit that's all about bringing people together for causes regardless of location. Also, are you claiming that there never was a deadline of 1 week? That it was "through end of year" from the beginning?

Yishan: Intention is to get whole team under one roof for optimal teamwork. Our goal is to retain 100% of the team.

DHH: Hey, at least the shit sandwich comes with a smile and a thank you. Guess everything is peachy then.

Yishan: Originally we asked for decision in 2 weeks but realized almost immediately that was too short and extended the timeline to EOY.

DHH: Man, that is some cruel shit. Was that such that you could have a full headcount before the $50M check cleared?
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Part of this is reflected in things like "Robustness Principle". This encourages programs to go out of spec and be creative with inputs to make things "easier"... but it only makes things worse.

SIP, for instance, has very complicated parsing rules (like HTTP) because the messages are designed to be written by hand. This introduces security holes as well as interop. But instead of recognizing this and trying to get programs to be strict, the IETF publishes a document where they gleefully list a bunch of crazy things possible in their spec, and encourage programs that guess at the intent of malformed messages.
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This is "too good to be true". A critique is here: http://jcoynester.wordpress.com/2014/09/23/talking-back-to-t...

In short - an unexpected result, based on a very small sample and trying to give even further implications (on effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy).
Even that is too consistent. Maybe Windows 10.1, Windows 10.1 Update, Windows 10.1 Update Extended, etc.

(I guess the downvoters haven't installed Windows 8.1 Update.)