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I've been struggling with this and need some help from you wiser HN folks.

I've decided that I won't make money the #1 factor in my life and I do try and put it into practice. I have more savings than my friends who do earn much more than me.

Lately its occurred to me that such idealism may have some negative consequences in the long run. In a society where everything is predicated on how much money you have - the healthcare you receive , the education your kids get , the college they go to , I can't practically avoid playing society's finite games.

My dad is a guy who's never played any of these finite games. And the end result is that not a day goes by when my mom doesn't complain about him and his ways. It's hard to find other people who share such a world view.

And personally too , it's been very tough. It's a pretty common feeling but I have it too , that I lost my way somewhere and now I'm at some place where I can't motivate my self to find a way out. And frankly , I'm not asking for too much. If I got a decent job with some interesting work I'd be thrilled.

It's natural feel envy and snobbery. Especially towards the folks who grew up with you. I don't envy Elon Musk because he was never a part of my life. But if I were a smart kid in his class who grew up with him , maybe I'd feel a tinge of envy :P . Because you both came from the same place you feel that you could have done it.

You should never ever feel sorry for yourself. Easy enough to say but I can't seem to do it. And that's destroying me.

EDIT:
Someone who actually walks the walk on this:
http://heuna.tumblr.com/post/2415073898/kim-ung-yong-a-child...
I love it, I always thing LaTeX documents are the best looking PDF out there, but I write Markdown files because that's so much easier.
Don't you mean CMS?
Things like this is why https everywhere must be a part of the solution.

The network components - your router, whoever might have gotten root on your router, your ISP, a relayer like a proxy/Tor/etc, a router on the border of your country, the target server's ISP - all of them should be treated as potentially hostile. It's not paranoia, since for all of those steps there have been well published cases where they have been actually malicious.
The only thing I was able to think about is how the whole article was send to them by some PR and they just copy pasted it. The language. The horror.
It's not any easier. You are just more used to Markdown and I'm assuming more practiced in it. I'm a lot faster in LaTeX than Markdown because I use LaTeX every day but only touch Markdown about once a month.
Does seem to be rather distantly related to camels, though?
Your company's website, kaleidos.net, is down with an "internal server error".
I'm curious about companies established in Spain because I'm a Spaniard that moved to Germany 14 years ago and since becoming a freelancer three yeas ago I've considered moving back there, but each time I take a close look I get discouraged.
In the page footer it says that Taiga is an LLC. Does it mean that you established it in the UK?
How's your experience running such a business in Spain? Do you think it impacts your image wrt. reliability or quality in comparison with companies in other countries?
If you want to generate LaTeX from Markdown, you can use Pandoc. Pandoc has various extensions to regular Markdown (including inline math, tables, etc.), so this gives you some flexibility when producing more complicated types of documents. In fact, Pandoc converts from Markdown to LaTeX to PDF when you choose PDF as the output format.
Do you fast 12 hour straight or do you break every 3 hours? I'm thinking of fasting too to keep my weight down but don't know what routine to follow
I am not sure of what “why" you are asking about, but my aim was to find the exercise routine that took the least amount of time and still achieved the desired result. 5 round of 30s flat out is enough to get my heart rate up to its maximum and this seems to be all you need to do to increase your fitness - at least to the moderate levels I want.

In regards the fasting and not eating afterwards there is some scientific literature that exercise after 12 hours of fasting followed by no eating for 3 does helps in weight loss. I can’t say if this is true or not, but doing intense exercise does reduce my appetite for quite a while afterwards. By doing this I can avoid eating for around 15 hours a day which doesn’t leave that much time for me to eat too much.
So how do I start with the warm up at home? I did notice when doing squats, I could hear some random noise coming from my knees.
Reducing the problem of inequality to envy is so totally, arrogantly disconnected from the reality of life on this planet that it makes me want to punch the author in the face.

This entire blog post can be summarized in one short sentence: "let them eat cake!".

Seriously, "Take the regular jobs."? What the fuck do you think the vast majority of people lucky enough to have a job are doing?

"Avoid conspicuous consumption." Well thank you very fucking much for that bit of helpful advice to the majority that have no fucking choice.

Envy is the standard lame excuses of the privileged that don't want to bother thinking about the consequences their privilege has for others.

His "finite games" are non-optional within a society of structurally growing inequality. You stop playing, you lose everything. Maybe not dramatically in one individual's lifetime (if, like his one and only example, you're lucky enough to be pretty fucking privileged to start with), but bit by bit, generation by generation, until there is nothing left but scraps.

That's what Piketty and Occupy Wall street were talking about, not about whether or not people can "choose" to buy a fucking BMW. Inequality is a growing cancer that gradually takes all choices away.
For a while the kindle fire was the android tablet - as a game developer you'd often sell more tablet games on amazon's app store than on google's.
It doesn't have to be free (as in beer) to have source code available. But it does require some out of the box thinking from the vendor - I deal with one licensed product, and they won't give us source code for the JDBC drivers. It's a JDBC driver! It's not doing anything revolutionary, it has nothing to do with the core competitive advantage of your product, ffs.
your statement ignores nearly a century of history and a bunch of technological facts.
Labels who requested that their songs be DRM free in the iTunes store during this era were denied that option.

Jobs called for DRM free music because he saw that he was going to run into serious anticompetitive charges if he didn't allow for people to use iTunes purchases outside of iTunes and iPods.
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So he goes from:

" Thing is, editors hated its bugginess
so much that the roll-out was
reverted shortly afterwards."

to:

" Their solution to
this was a WYSIWYG editor, which
failed for the basic reason that it
denies the fact that Wikipedia is a
program. "

Something tells me he might be making it up as he goes along! I wonder how successful Microsoft Word would have been with markdown editor.
One shouldn't ignore intuition, empathy, or a gut feeling. It's a useful signal. But that's all it is. There are true results that go against emotion, intuition, and just feel wrong. In math, Banach Tarski is a perfect example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox

If you want to use empathy as a hint to keep digging for a better solution, be my guest. I just object to using empathy as a basis for morality. Similarly, mathematical intuition isn't a substitute for a proof.
Well the 12 hour fast is basically from dinner the night before until morning the next day. This fasting is easy as most of the time I am asleep :)

The 3 hour fast afterwards is remarkably easy. I start to get hungry around 9.30am to 10.00am (around 2.5 hours in), but as I am usually hard at work at this time it is not too hard to resist eating until 10.30am. Other than this I eat whatever I like when I like.

One of the good things of this program is I only need one shower and I can cool down under warm water saving even more time. Most short exercise programs are much longer once you add in all the ancillary activities like changing clothes and showering - mine really is 5 minutes only.
Most non-English versions of Wikipedia have dramatically less content than the English language version, and even the more common language versions like Spanish seem to be significantly less accurate. Make whatever claims you want about what role we should play in English hegemony (blah blah blah), but that's one feature Wikipedia affords where the job is far from done.
Is there any editor that can produce that? Can I add custom latex extensions (e.g. for chemistry)?
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"As of April 2013 this list is no longer being maintained".

Although there's an alternative mentioned in the document.
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Exactly my thoughts. Having seen Amazon Appstore from inside I find it miracle that they got the eco-system working much less hoping that it becomes popular. The Appstore teams are split geographically but are expected to work on a shared code base/system. Let me not even get started on testing. app developers are treated like trash. Also you have army of highly paid, high quality engineers working on a plethora
of software products (like Coins, Maps API etc.,) most of which rarely see the day light; and even if they do they get used just by a few customers!

That apart, the Appstore UI is a joke compared to the pace at which Playstore is evolving. They keep parroting their leader's line that it's the content that matters more than the device but Kindle Fire is a failure in many ways in my opinion.

Amazon wanted a gateway to their media content which is a right strategy but they got the execution horribly wrong by forking Android. They showcased their silk browser during Kindle Fire was launched and I was dumbstruck that they couldn't foresee bandwidth is only going to get cheaper.

They could have launched a device BUT it should have been an Android device, not a fork. They could have developed a high quality media streaming app on multiple platforms, similar to kindle reader, Android, chrome browser, iOS and so on. But no! They had to fork the Android!! Now app developers would have to build their apps and submit to iTunes, Play Store AND the mediocre Amazon Appstore; no wonder the app selection sucks!

I sincerely hope they give up on this hardware madness and get back to focusing on pure e-reading experience (Kindle reader), AWS and e-commerce. I've been waiting for colored Kindle reader for half a decade now; and what about educational/technical e-books? That market remains completely untapped just because they haven't sorted out rendering technical books.

The kindle reader content team is getting stretched very thin because they now have to support App store and a myriad of devices! So no wonder the innovation on Kindle reader (both hardware/software) has slowed down significantly.

Saving grace in all this is that AWS's pace of innovation/product-rollout hasn't been affected yet, but soon it would also be impacted unless they stop money flowing into the sink.

PS: Please excuse broken flow of thoughts :-)
I wrote a kind of markdown to latex script to help me writing my thesis, based in previous versions of md2html.awk. It had some more features than Paperman, such as ((footnotes)), [[bib references]] and [(references to labels)]. It also supported several heading levels, an abstract at the beginning, and even had some support for images and tables.

It was never publicly released because, since it was for my personal use, required a serious amount of work to make it usable for more people and better (or at least some) documentation. Anyway, if somebody is interested, I have no problem sharing it.
Moving (and shipping) all of your belongings across country a few times will also kill the sentimentality, fast.
While the "spin it around" explanation is useful at a certain level, this "basis understanding" is useful in a different domain - quantum physics. Position and momentum are two such dual bases, as are energy and time. In other words, time and energy (for example) are perspectives. If you try to narrow a signal from one perspective, it will look spread out from the other perspective.
>What are the problems preventing empathy from being as good as the abstractions?

Empathy is a product of evolution, but the environment we spent millions of thousands of years evolving in is quite different than the environment in which we now exist. I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that deliberate, logical consideration of the optimal manner to act in a particular situation could produce more effective results than following what's essentially just an artifact of a selection process focused on making monkeys have many healthy, fertile babies.
It'd easily be significantly higher if they managed to quantify the opportunity cost in areas that are doing well (e.g., Kindle reader, AWS, warehouse automation etc.,).
I'm late to comment, but something which I'd like to point out is that this is done by the same team behind the Twitter trending topic prediction technique from a few years back, as mentioned also in the article [1].

When their Twitter technique was released, I spend a few weeks reading through Nikolov's PhD thesis (the advisor gets most of the the fame in the press articles but Nikolov's thesis has all the details) and trying to implement it in R. My observations at the time: extremely simple algorithm which would be shot down by most peer reviewers for being not very novel (the affiliation helps a lot here). That said, I believe greatly in pragmatism, and the approach was actually working well. What I did find out however is that their was a great deal of data selection and pre-processing involved making the approach hard to implement in a real-life, real-time setup. I get similar feelings from this work.

[1]: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2012/predicting-twitter-trending-t...
AFAIK, Hiding the price is not Amazon decision or new eggs decision. It is apparently the manufacturer's decision. Please see the links for more information.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=174014

[2] http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/35822/add-to-cart-to-v...
At the moment Wikidata isn't used/usable in Wikipedia at all, apart from coordinating the site links across languages.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say that the editor of Wikidata isn't easy to use, I think its interface is pretty straightforward.
you'll notice he's simply pulling from a feed in hopes to generate money from listings he has no control over via simplyhired.com. i'd go as far as saying this post is spam considering his only contribution was buying the domain.
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Could the downvoter explain why this didn't contribute to the conversation? I suggested taking an even handed approach, and to consider arguments based on their own merit. I also included a link to discussion with further related content. Why is a downvote warranted?
I'm curious, how much did Wiedeking personally profit from this scheme? How much would he have made had he continued "just focusing on making cars" as the article concludes he should have?
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Here's what I'd need as a minimum to make productive use of this:

* numbered list

* download LaTeX

What I'd consider paying for:

* a nice table editor - IMO this is the only case where it would make sense to divert from the text-input-only approach.

* Load LaTeX templates, have all of the common packages supported, so that I could just write papers online.

* Integration with DropBox and/or Google Drive
When I was younger and had the time for serious weight lifting I found that I could do heavy lifts every day without issue provided that I slept afterwards. I used to get up at 4 am and lift massive weights for an hour and a half and then go home and sleep for a couple of hours (I was a student at the time who never went to a class before 11 am, but that is another story). Provided I slept my body could handle the load of doing this every day and I got massive increases in strength in a relative short period of time.
I would be very surprised if Steve Jobs had a shrine to himself in his bedroom.

I'm not a massive fan, but he had taste and an appreciation of culture. I also don't think he idolized himself.
"Perhaps you could explain to me why the list has any significance? I don't see any relevance."

The _leaked emails_ of the Game Journo Pros mailing list, not the list itself. That's what I said. In them you can see Ben Kuchera putting pressure on other members to remove mentions of ZQ, Kyle Orland saying he would love to use his platform to support ZQ, Jason Schreier defending Nathan Grayson and so on and so forth. Then, starting August the 28th, a dozen major gaming sites put out almost exactly the same story that "Gamers are dead" in a 24-hour period basically telling their readers to get lost. Collusion and corruption exemplified. The Escapist is not at all comfortable with this and rewrites its policies and fesses up. Good on them. By the way, linking to articles written by members of this list and their sympathisers isn't going to impress me. It's what we have a problem with in the first place: biased, inaccurate coverage.

"Moderators deleting threads that go against the terms of service sounds pretty typical. What makes this any different?"

a) that they weren't anything to do with terms of service and b) the vastness of the scope. Examples: a thread on Reddit with 20 000 comments was deleted. 4chan suffered a mass exodus to 8chan because of deletions. Kotaku, RPS and Polygon refuse to allow any sort of discussion at ALL of this. This is what GamerGate supporters have a problem with.

"You seem to be claiming that a messy breakup justifies sending death threats to completely unrelated people. Perhaps you'd like to clarify?"

Certainly. For a start, let me say again: there is NO evidence connecting GamerGate supporters to death threats. None. The threats that were sent to Anita Sarkeesian? No evidence of links to GamerGate. The threats sent to Brianna Wu? No evidence of links to GamerGate. In fact, she was the one that made the connection (on national TV no less) where there wasn't one. A big fight on Twitter always attracts malicious third parties and we have STRONG evidence that Something Awful and GNAA have been trolling BOTH sides with threats. It's what they do. Both Nero and KingofPol have received physical items in the mail: a syringe and a knife, and have laughed them off. But the professional victims of the other side immediately publicise them and say 'see? see? Look at these GamerGaters!'

As I write this, a prominent defender of GamerGate has just been SWATted. He's immediately reported it to the FBI. That's what you do when you get harassed. You go straight to the authorities. You don't go on tour about it.
Yes, the only reason envy is related to this is that it's playing a substitute role for actual harm.

Here in India, you can actually say "look, starving children." "Look, these people need water." "These people need power." If I hadn't been stuck in a hospital for the past week or so, I'd have seen several people each day for whom empathy is a natural reaction. But it's pretty hard to inspire empathy for Indians or Africans.

In the US, it's far harder to find such people. No one would consider me a deprived person or particularly deserving of empathy (ignoring a temporary medical condition), yet I have far fewer goods and services than even most of the poorest Americans. This poses a conundrum for those who want to appeal to empathy.

That's where envy comes in. Don't feel bad for people because they have too little, feel bad because others have more.
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> It is pretty cool, but I was trying to implement a site where people could post stories and have an author badge appear on the page.

Meteorpedia, the site in the OP accomplishes this without joins. It has authors for pages. You just have to set up your schema in a way that's different from normalized SQL.
Basically http://www.webmd.com/men/features/exercise-and-testosterone
You could feed the proof to a (simple, verified) proof checker rather than check it by hand. Then you only need to check the statement that was proven was the one you wanted, without having to vet the code that spits out the proof line by line (until you actually hit a bug and the proof fails to check). I don't think it would be inconceivable for mathematica to implement something like that, though perhaps it's not really their core business.
Newest Macbook Pros have read/write speeds of about 900 MB/s, so they're only a factor of 2 slower than the ones from OP. And that has its use cases. For example, opening a big iPhoto library and browsing through photos, working with 1080p movies in iMovie/Final Cut Pro, having a bigger iTunes library. All of these will benefit of blazing fast storage.
It's totally possible to load balance websockets. You turn the web sockets into a dumb proxy that talks to your service. You could have a bunch of SockJS servers, with people connecting to different ones communicate with each other over the actual service. If you were building chat rooms you could assign rooms to specific servers, or you could tailor your service such that it works across a distributed system.
The "logic" of his ideas have been already unveiled long ago:
http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/200chomskylies.pdf
> Major websites like Tumblr, Kickstarter, Netflix, Etsy, Namecheap and Vimeo ran prominent warnings of an impending slowdown of Internet speeds if the FCC ends net neutrality.

Major props to those companies for helping the cause. While the issue is complex, it really boils down to something simple. The US government was formed with certain principles, some outlined in the constitution. One of those is free speech. Sometimes, the government has to step in and make sure corporations are respecting those principles. Net neutrality is one of those times.
mediawiki-mode in emacs seems like a good solution, and emacs has proven to be a good enough IDE for other programming languages.
Wherever you got your information from, they're hilariously wrong. I'm sincerely sorry that they made you look so stupid... red badges are for contractors and vendors, so you see them on the security guards and the bus drivers and the cafe workers. This is public knowledge (at the very least, Gizmodo published a sensationalized article containing this information like.... 3 years ago).
To solve this, the rental company could show a picture of the worst thing you could end up with in that class. Leaves the disappointment out with a statistically high chance you ending up with something better.
Participating for a year, there are certain tribes in HN who will down-vote moment it does not conform to their world-view. For example, anything against Google will get down-votes except from a very few people; while generally criticizing Microsoft and Quora will get you upvotes. MS does have some strong defenders, though - which Quora does not (except me). Also, anything which shows that libertarian or conservative economic principles are not working will be either knocked off from the front page, or occasionally flag-killed. HN is dominated by a set of people who have only one world-view which they think is right, and you better not speak against them for the purpose of maintaining "quality" (#sarcasm).
Neat. Also it would be a great feature if Github could integrate Rubocop "in-house" for ruby projects and any other similar, relevant projects for other languages.