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All of mine successful projects was created while learning new thing. I did learn Portuguese and can't find flashcards tool that I like, so I create mine, did learn to play piano and needed some way to practice sheet reading skill, so I created tool for that.

I am also wine maker and in need of one analytical tool and found out that it costs 30k, amount I can't afford (or even justify for business my size) so I found a way to create same tool that will costs just 3k.

First category is kind of simple: I do need it and the app is simple enough I can do it in few evenings so I just do it. The second category is something I really need and will be really happy if somebody else created it and because there is nothing like that on the market I have to do it by myself (and then sell it to other winemakers who I am sure need it as well).

The problem for me is the middle ground: something I found quite interesting (say nicely formatted tabs app with timing, sounds, fretboards...) and might use it from time to time. But the novelty wears off soon and I am not desperate to have it in my life. Still these kinds of projects need sustainable effort to make it work so I just keep working less and less on it and then quit.
Because it's been on position 1 of best standard of living in the world pretty consistently, and Switzerland is geographically central, well interconnected, business-friendly, and not part of the EU?

Just a guess :)

EDIT: It seems Vienna is on top since 2010, my bad. But position 2 is not so bad, and the other points still stand :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Surve...
Well sure, but what if you are someone on the internet who want's to bad mouth people he has no chance of ever meeting? See, I'm not saying that only slanderous comments would remark on the Flynn effect, I only mean that in the absence of chance to test a group of individuals, one might feel pressed to estimate. However, you justified doubt about the accuracy, very well.
> Before the birth of the torrent protocol in the early aughts, sharing big files, like TV shows or movies was virtually impossible

Unless you knew about usenet
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'Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.'
I don't see why you couldn't put trackers on the blockchain (or a sidechain?). Goodluck taking that down.
Simpler tax laws and more employer friendly labor laws would be a guess. Perhaps it's also easier for Google to get residency permits for its workers in Switzerland.
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Oh god, please no.
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Intel was relatively late to the game, their multiprocessor support started getting decent around the Pentium Pro. The Unix workstation vendors (Sun etc) had dual CPU workstations a while earlier, but mostly SMP was used in servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation_10

Feather in the hat for first multi-core CPU on single die goes to IBM and the Power4 in 2001, preceding Intel's attempt by ~4 years. (Trivia: IBM also sold a Power4 MCM with 4 Power4 chips in a single package).

(Yes some people managed to stitch together earlier x86 processors too with custom hardware, but it wasn't pretty or cheap or fast).
Nice try, Scott
or IRC channels
At the low pricepoints, Digital Ocean is better priced than Linode. But for more powerful VPS ( 6 Cores+ ), Linode does have better prices.
> Weakness is that they can (will) get lost in tools that do not.

Including, frustratingly, Linux's NFS implementation. A WONTFIX apparently.
IIRC the antenna was also _huge_ making it completely unpractical for handsets.
Interesting idea, you should clean it up into multiple files and put it on an actual repository. If you compiled all of Java's libraries, would you be able to self host the trans-compiler?
Sounds much better than paying £1000+ rent in London and taking a break from the fog.
I came up with the same workaround myself; then switched to influxdb, and my monitoring server's io-wait is still at 0% even with twice as many metrics coming in :)
Although, as he says, liking something such as the death of a loved one doesn't seem appropriate, introducing a dislike button at this stage would just confuse that further (some people liking the death and others disliking while both are trying to convey the same feeling).
how to you feel about the overloaded use of `=` in C?
Ask HN: How should I show sarcasm on the internet?
Specifically I'm asking about how to indicate sarcasm on HN. I've seen tons of different methods on different sites and I'm left confused about which ones to use.
I highly doubt this would ever happen. Any network lives and dies on volume and quality of content and Facebook is a great example of a site that (arguably) has both.

One of the key driving factors behind this is that anyone can feel comfortable sharing something on Facebook. If you're a naturally shy person then there's no need to fear downvoting, the worst that can happens is that no one expresses a positive sentiment. You can make everyone aware of something you're doing or how you're feeling with only the possibility of a positive response. That's fantastic and it's what encourages people to share.

There is an argument that you can improve the quality of what people see by having a "dislike" or "downvote" option, like Reddit, HN or StackOverflow. The big difference is that Facebook is inherently personal. I don't mind the fact that someone might downvote me here or on Reddit but that changes when I'm talking about something incredibly personal to the people that are closest to me as is the case on Facebook.

I can see that they may introduce a way to offer a different sentiment, a dislike where the meaning is "I'm sorry this happened to you" or "It's bad that you feel this way". A way of actively stating you find something to be "bad" or "useless" content is never going to be present on Facebook though. Or at least, I can't see a positive outcome from it.
We're growing so fast that shutting down hardware is the last thing we would ever do. We have the opposite problem -- it's quite challenging to provision hardware fast enough to keep up with demand. :)
I think the article misses the point of why piracy was a big thing. It was not always (necessarily) about getting what you want free of charge, but the free flowing access to the media and content. For instance, the reason Game of Thrones is watched via torrent downloads more than via HBO is because a large portion of the audience wants to either just watch HBO or just watch Game of Thrones. But to do that, you have to have an HBO subscription through some cable provider, who does not provide a direct subscription for only HBO. Thus, if all you want to watch is Game of Thrones and nothing else, your only option is to torrent/pirate it.
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It is indeed always interesting to see that it is not only the common words but also those little subleties, which are not noticable at the first glance, have survived in the different languages.

http://tyda.se/search/brista?lang[0]=en&lang[1]=de&lang[2]=s...
a few months ago I read an article posted here about how the cloud/vms has made TPB virtually impossible to take down.

What happened to that?
Thanks, I hadn't seen this thread before, I was actually thinking that an open protocol would allow you to have a fast/reliable/etc. backup in exchange of a share of your local storage.

Obviously if it's phrased like I'm paying to have other people use my bandwidth, that's a big issue.
Tokyo is saying they will have robotic Olympics in 2020 and it doesn't seem that far off.
Coming up: peer to peer chat (tox.im), hidden services (tor), distributed social networking, yadayada.. dont see how you can stop this, unless you turn off the power grid.
From an application developers point of view working with WinCE (and the automotive variants) was absolutely no pleasant experience.

When you want to implement entertainment stuff you want to reuse software and have it running on CE as well as your development platform. However the the compiler and library support is very limited. Don't even discuss about C++11 - you don't even get a normal standard template library :(
Even for all windows APIs you first have to look up if they are also supported for CE. Then there are kernel features that are so different that you also need extra code for it. E.g. normal Windows supports IOCP, CE does not and Linux does it completely different.
Maybe it's different when you build applications that only target CE. But when you want to have code-sharing between embedded target and normal PCs then working with embedded linux is here a much more pleasent experience where you can run the same code on the target and have state-of-the-art tooling.
"Before the birth of the torrent protocol in the early aughts, sharing big files, like TV shows or movies was virtually impossible"

This phrase is a bit misleading.

While not discounting the power of the torrent protocol, there were many p2p software before it which were more popular then it (napster, kazza, edunkey/eMule) .

The reason why sharing tv-shows and movies is so easy now then before is that we have broadband. In 2000 most people had dial-up.

If at all, the greatest achievement of the torrent protocol is allowing for discovery of files without a central repository.
You won't be able to dislike Mark Zuckerburg though. Presumably, they'll charge advertisers for the privilege of not being able to be disliked.
or FTP:s or Direct Connect...
A Dutch article about this matter drew a comparison with a functionality a long-time competitor of Facebook had (Hyves): a 'Respect' button. It's liking without liking it, and doesn't have a negative connotation (which Zuckerberg himself in the article says they don't want)
People might stare and laugh, but they will treat you like a curiosity, but as someone being rude. But be careful of tightly packed round tables, especially if hot pot is involved.
Vaccination increases lifespan which leads to increased resource consumption, and the planet just can not afford it. So until we figure out how to transcend into beams of light I'm against it.
For me it always starts as a need to automate something or frustration at a software that doesn't behave like I want.

I usually say "it's no that hard to do this" then to later discover once I am knee deep in code that in fact it's especially hard to do it right.
Obesity is absolutely a moral disease, in the sense that you don't get fat without eating yourself fat, as well as a disease of our society, in terms of our society producing foods that encourage people to eat themselves fat.

Broader factors certainly share the blame, but so do individuals. It is possible for almost anyone to be thin in today's society, in the same way that it was possible for almost anyone to get fat a few hundred years ago (given access to plentiful enough food).

Saying "it's not just down to the individuals" is fair and true. Saying "it's not down to the individuals at all, how dare you imply that it might be" is obviously wrong-headed.
I've been using my visa debit card (europe) without problem since more than a year ago
Web browsers don't belong on the list yet. They have some fits and starts in the direction, Servo is one attempt.
Facebook doesn't care about bad, they care about boring. Bad won't help their algorithms... Unless it's controversial enough to be interesting.
These rankings are really odd. They feel like they are only aimed at international business people who work around the world and take their families with them.
I like in Columbus, GA, which is right next to Fort Benning, one of the largest Army bases in USA. If these soldiers were included in the stats, then our numbers would look better.
I keep wondering where this comes from when I see misleading article titles like this one. From what I can see, they ARE NOT going to create a dislike button. The transcript of his answer to this question is:

“You know we’re thinking about it, on the Dislike button. It’s an interesting question, right, because there are two things that it can mean. And we’re considering and talking about doing one and not the other. So the one that we don’t want to do: The Like button is really valuable because it’s a way for you to very quickly express a positive emotion or sentiment when someone puts themselves out there and shares something. And, you know, some people have asked for a Dislike button because they want to be able to say ‘That thing isn’t good’. And that’s not something that we think is good for the world. So we’re not going to build that. I don’t think there needs to be a voting mechanism about whether posts are good or bad. I don’t think that’s socially very valuable or good for the community to help people share the important moments in their lives."
The FBI SHOULDN'T be able to wiretap calls though. That was an important feature, not a bug.
Why aren't they considered market participants?
Because the first development team I joined worked with a dying language, and then I moved to different teams using a language that was losing ground to things like Rails, Python, .Net (read anything really). I haven't kept myself up to date, instead blaming my tools (my 7 year old laptop with no battery) or the fact I have a partner/life and thus too busy to do (home)work in my spare time.

But i'm in a comfortable position too. I have a team who respects me and my input, I have good friends at work who i would hang out with any day of the week, I have decent holiday, increasing pay, great benefits... but I won't make my company a $million company, nor will I change the position of this company in many significant ways. Tech is not their focus, so suggesting we use Neo4J goes on deaf ears.

and so i'm still writing a language that should be dead... that few other companies would take a chance on me because of this... and still i walk the earth
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There is also an issue with disability benefits where they are structured with disincentives to work. The motivation to not pay disability to people who can work is understandable, but for people who can work some but whose disability hinders their ability to get a full-time job or one that's not highly paid, it's a disaster.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/07/aid...

This is a point that's not fundamentally liberal or conservative. Both sides should be interested in improving programs that have gratuitous barriers to work.
Or eDonkey.
Well, I need to ask what does this mean, I appreciate it if anybody can explain in with an example :)
Middle East wars creating more disabled people.
The BT protocol was a significant change in technology allowing files previously too large to share on traditional P2P networks to be shared.

Napster and the like were great for 3-4MB files, but anything larger would cause issues. You'd rely mostly on one-source, and if the connection to that source was shaky, the download would take days/weeks, even longer. BT changed this, and turned the idea of popular file=congested networks on it's ear completely. With BT, the more popular the file, the faster your download would go.
Bluetooth is not a small minority. It's a huge business, and Trafficcast is one of the leaders in this. Their product is called BlueTOAD. They're signing contracts with governments left and right.

http://trafficcast.com/news/

MADISON, WI October 18, 2010 - TrafficCast announced it has now finalized agreements with nine leading distributors of traffic signal and control equipment, enabling localized sales services and product support in forty-one states plus the District of Columbia for its innovative BlueTOADTM technologies.

MADISON, WI March 1, 2011 - TrafficCast International, Inc. today announced that Econolite Canada, Inc. will distribute its BlueTOADTM line of products, enabling localized sales services and technical support in the ten provinces and three territories of Canada.
… and just 2 months ago Microsoft closed Qik/Skype development office in Moscow, relocating willing developers to Czech Republic.
>> "Thus, if all you want to watch is Game of Thrones and nothing else, your only option is to torrent/pirate it."

I get your point but that's incorrect. Alternatives include:

- paying for the cable + HBO subscription and only watching GoT.

- waiting for the blu ray/dvd/iTunes release

Both those options allow you to watch GoT and nothing else. The problem is that people don't want to wait for an official release or want a cheaper way to get it 'right now' (i.e. a cheaper HBO only subscription). I think GoT is a big torrent is because it's not available on TV in a lot of countries or there is a big delay between the US airing and the local airing. Another reason is that people don't pay for something when they can get it for free. I would like to see how many people who torrent GoT (but say they would pay for it if it was available to them on their terms) would pay $3-5 for an episode via a torrent if there was a button to pay (and get it legally) and a button to get it for free (illegally).
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What? No. Facebook cares about keeping people engaged, and about making itself a part of everyday life. In that sense its okay for them if its not "exciting". It no longer needs to get people's attention, now what it has to do is keep people engaged, and that means having people enjoy it. At least that's my sense, whether they will actually do this or not I have no idea.
The NOT part of the EU is not to be considered lightly. It is possibly a great factor.
Here's the video Deepmind artificial intelligence @ FDOT14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGD2qveGdQ
Start up businesses are a gamble. Most fail. If you're middle class. that's ok. You can crash at mom and dads, and fall back on that college degree you earned. But the poor can't afford to fail. Gotta make rent somehow. At least McDonalds is a sure bet.
This seems gratuitously mean. Why not let pg write some essays first?
I was one of the kickstarter backers and I am quite disappointed in the product …
so far as I have dismembered the SpaceMonkey and the 2TB hard drive now is part
of my Synology NAS setup.

SpaceMonkey's features are at best rudimentary and only usable as a personal cloud
storage. Don't even think about working in a team (to be fair, the team is working
on sharing features).

The device used huge amount of bandwidth and made the network in my coworking
space unusable.

So today I can only recommend to look into a different solution …
I was going off what platz said in another comment, that |> flips the arguments to |> in the same way Haskells flip function does, which I thought the type signature of the the F# |> also indicated. I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding things.

I think the difference though is that the |> in Elixir is actually a macro that modifies the following function call's first argument.

So list |> Enum.filter(&(&1 > 0)) doesn't end up using filter as a curried function as one would find in Haskell:

Enum.filter(&(&1 > 0)) list

The end result is actually:

Enum.filter(list, &(&1 > 0))
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I have heard and used both flew out and flied out in the past.
Hm. That doesn't refute the core issue: faster germination time. It just nay-says the hype leading up to that conclusion. Again, more a criticism of science journalism than of those three scientists.
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Do you have anything to back that up? For example, I speak to (and text with) Chinese people frequently, and can say from personal experience that M.D (zero padding is unusual) is quite common. Less than a week ago a Chinese student asked me to look over her application to a Canadian university and I recommended that dates written like 10.6 be reformatted to, using the example, "Oct 6". Where are you getting your ideas from?

edit:

Here's an image of a flyer that I was given today, advertising an event of the campus Russian club. You'll note that the event is scheduled for "2014.12.19 19:00"

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e5fclcou9z39dl5/mmexport1418392916...

I think the question now is, where do you get off randomly spreading misinformation about topics you're obviously not familiar with?
The title is just wrong, the article clearly states facebook doesn't want a dislike button.

>"Some people have asked for a dislike button because they want to say, 'That thing isn't good.' That's not something that we think is good for the world.
Sure; I've answered that question on that test. It seemed odd at the time, to find an urban legend in the DMV test.
I tend to use </sarcasm>
Standard acceptable ways of showing sarcasm are

;)

:-)

:^)

</sarcasm>

at the end of your sarcastic statement. Largely the HN crowd doesn't like sarcasm, because it normally detracts from the discussion.
Since you are already on Heroku, NewRelic in combination might be a good idea. Their free tier can monitor DB loads, uptime, exceptions, response times, slow methods and what not.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. `=` is only assignment in C (or Java, or C#, or most any language I know of). `==` is comparison, being a different operator, one wouldn't say `=` is "overloaded".

Two different operations, two different operators. Yes, C famously makes it easy to miss the extra `=` in if expressions, but that's C specifically, and it's not the fault of the operator, that's actually the fault of automatic conversions from int to bool. Static languages designed after I was born usually require boolean expressions in their `if` statements explicitly.

But `+` and `+.` are the same operation. Or are you saying that adding integers and adding reals are not the same operation, and thus warrant separate operators?
@edwinyzh as I understand it, basically you deduct the debt from the profit and pay taxes only for the remaining amount. Wikipedia has a very short article on this [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_benefits_of_debt
He didn't say this. He said they're looking at other ways of showing "sentiment." He actually said outright that he doesn't think the "dislike" button will happen because it's "not good for the community."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2014/12/11/mark-zucker...
Haha, that's surprising. I've heard lots of stories about load balancing VMs to certain corners of the datacenter so the rest can be shut down that I figured everybody had unused metal at least at some point during the day.
Maybe I'm an addict, after all
I actually thought the link was a practical joke until I looked at the comments.
Yes, but not all companies can raise $50mm on credit. Digital Ocean is already well-established. If you're a start-up, people aren't generally interested in investing X dollars at a small percentage return.
In order to utilize those increased cores, though, developers will need to write code that can take advantage of them. Is there any indication of that happening? That's the second angle on this - even though writing parallel/concurrent code might in theory improve performance, it won't help if people continue to write single-threaded applications for everything except IO/Graphics.

I.E. It might be still more useful to build bigger 4-core processors, simply because all the developers and code out there are designed to take advantage of them - and a theoretically better 6-core processor would just end up with 2-3 cores always idling.
I'm not 40 yet, I'm 29, but I feel like I've only had 9 years to act so far and I have another 30-40. Look at how old Elon Musk is and he's finally hitting his stride. Still got time man.
Agreed, but I do love that moment where I'm thinking, "This should do X" and then realize, "Hey, I can make something that does X!". Then months later, I wonder what the heck I was thinking...
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