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Absolutely. Technology has evolved computing to the least common denominator, as it it supposed to do. This 'easiness' has nothing to do with critical thinking, analysis, and other thinking skills humans need to develop. There is certainly a place for computer-based learning; I learned more about Linear Algebra and Continuous and Discrete Signal Processing from machines than I did from any professor...but expecting to place elementary level kids in front of a machine and expecting them to emerge as Karl Gauss is idiotic.
Turns out it was a prank. Can't delete my post, otherwise I would.
Ask HN: What would we need to pay for?
A friend who wants to make an app asked me why anyone would need investors to help bring an app to market. She asked "what would we need to pay for?"

How should I answer her?
Wish I saw that advice! I didn't like the first episode at all, but the rest were great. My favorite episode was the Christmas Special, which is not on Netflix, but you can find it on youtube.
there's a list of sites that has remote job offers here: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
Like you say, a distinction has to be made between big and small schools. I did my undergrad at a college where the starting quarterback was a physics major. There were no athletic scholarships.

Where I went to grad school, that would have been unthinkable. There was a special major that most of the football and mens basketball players chose, one of the departments of "studies."

There's no university where the oboist in the orchestra has to be given a fake education. Indeed, most music majors these days wisely pick up a second major.
I appreciate your comment, but I prefer well paced shows and movies, and good writing. Slow pacing is bad, deliberate pacing is good. "There will be blood" is a deliberately paced movie. "Django Unchained" is a deliberately paced movie. "Fargo" is a deliberately paced TV show, they're all good. Slow is when the audience is looking at their watches wondering when the end will come.
Yeah, was annoying to have to google the stats. For reference the pear river delta has 63 million people.
And dwelling on how disgustingly annoying the online social justice movement is instead of solving its problems is one facet of geek culture that is just somewhat pathetic.

I think the difference here is that many geeks are of the mindset that it should be "easy" for them to help, both in action and emotionally. Constantly being berated for "not helping exactly the right way" puts people in a foul mood. The bottom line is that there aren't many easy-to-see benefits for non-oppressed allies. Basically many geeks see it as the less-privileged asking them for help, with nothing really in it for them except constantly being taken to task for not being immediately perfectly sensitive to all the issues women and people of color face.

It's a little disingenuous to both vehemently assume, expect, and require that sensitivity while at the same time saying "there's no way you can possibly understand the struggles we face". Can't have it both ways.
Cabs are also, by virtue of medallion restrictions, limited so that they are not always readily available at peak hours.
The computer is the "distraction machine."

Dead on. It's evolved to that point even for those of us that started in the 80s. Nothing but bright shiny things...a click away.
Software development is an engineering discipline.
This is so cool. Very interesting as an idea, hard to explain without seeing it I almost didn't click.

Side note: I tried to load this on Chrome for Android and it went very badly. I got redirected through two of those bright red "UNSAFE YOU SHALL NOT PASS" https pages and then finally got to a page that didn't do much at all. No idea why, worked fine in Chrome on OS X.
What did you find to be dumb about the episode?
You probably need ~1.7 to 2.5 million to retire, and even that's not going to be at 30
You only see that in densely-packed areas, though. I also live in Japan, and have spent a very large amount of time out in Saitama[1], where for the most part, parking is free as well.

Where I live, parking works as you describe.

[1] The prefecture next to Tokyo, for those that aren't deeply immersed in Japanese geography.
...while reaching out across your personal and professional network. If I were in your situation, which I have been (let go from a development job), I would file for unemployment while searching for another job everywhere you go.

Do everything it takes to prove to other firms that you got the programming skills to pay the bills (as Weird Al would say). Use the funemployment money to sustain life.

I can also tell you what not to do. Do not move back in with your parents if their hometown is small. I did this and I languished.
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Discover System Facilities inside Your Android Phone [slides]
In Europe and Asia, I'd expect so. In the States, fossil fuel interests have already mobilized their media campaign, pushing for new taxes to penalize local solar energy generation. They've had some victories and some losses, but as another poster mentioned, they don't have to win every battle - just enough to sow uncertainty on whether it'll be a good investment.
Saying this is about me personally is changing the subject. The alternatives in school and life to which I am referring are pursuits such as medicine, mathematics, programming, electronics, chemistry, politics, business management and so forth.

It's a cliché which I wouldn't think I would have to repeat, but I would love to see people get as excited about mathematics stars in schools as basketball players. I would love to see more people who get as excited about their city council as football drafts. I would love to see the money spent on stadiums and television sports networks spent on improving peoples lives in concrete ways other than entertainment.

It's not that I don't consider sports legitimate entertainment. Clearly people feel that their lives are enriched from participating or spectating. Great. Good for them. The problem I see is a matter of priority. Society as a whole treats watching other people play sports as if it's something as critically important, heck, more important than say, hospitals.
Retiring at 30 = being a boring person for your 40s, 50s, etc.

I think a better situation is to be financially secure by your 30s (be completely out of debt, pay off a mortgage, have money for children, etc.) and then have the ability to start companies or work freelance for the rest of your life rather than being a slave to the 9-to-5 grind.

I do like the concept of getting rich slowly and learning slowly. I would love to peruse multiple degrees (I already have two) just out of the love of learning and also meeting other lovers of knowledge.
I've been using dokku[0] for a while now and love how easy it is to just push random stuff up to a new subdomain. The other day I pushed up a doxygen html of an code base I was working with. I have my blog, portfolio site, random apps I use for myself, a cloud storage app etc.

It is definitely one more tool to learn, but it is pretty much a light wrapper around docker so it ended up being a great gradual introduction to the concepts and configurations of working with docker as well.

Be sure to install either the persistent storage[1] plugin or the docker options plugin[2] so that your apps can just use the file system on the server to make things a lot simpler.

[0] https://github.com/progrium/dokku
[1] https://github.com/dyson/dokku-persistent-storage
[2] https://github.com/dyson/dokku-docker-options
If you can get it to work... We've had lots of problems with LTO and arm-none-eabi-gcc.
Be careful, you are making too much sense! No, but this overly conspiratorial stuff is common among non-philosophers when discussing such matters. It's all about what one can conflate with anything with some mildly plausible excuse.
Solo joe climbing 8bits
I don't think it was meant to be believable. It was a parody. Also it seemed a bit autobiographical of Charlie Brooker to me (he was an anonymous internet critic first, then continuing criticizing the media that now pays him (TV wipe, weekly wipe, yearly wipe, etc.)). Also I think his wife was a casting show host or something like that.
Ask HN: What to do if you are ridiculously burnt out?
I'm in a partnership project where I am the developer and my partner is the marketer, and it hasn't felt like a partnership at all.

The app is written in AngularJS and Node-Webkit (gosh, I regret not using React), and I'm bad with time which my partner understands, but every week asks me to get it done over the weekend and it's been a month of that so far.

I'm working 7 days a week 10+ hours a day and I can't handle it, I can't eat from the stress getting to my stomach, and I can't sleep because I always think about the project. On top of that, I'm the only one expected to work these ridiculous hours, everyone else is usually 8 hour week days.

I just want to get this project done, start making money but also nicely (without explaining all the technical details) why it is taking so long.

What should I do in this situation?

Thank you in advance!

EDIT: Grammar fixes and separated in paragraphs.
No approach scales. Bitching that the collective vote here doesn't match your personal preference, though, is just silly.
I've never worked for a start-up in a development role before, but I think I would like it. I am 28, fresh out of grad school and working for a bank currently. I like my coworkers and the work but when I walk by management and I overhear "We're not a development shop," I get disheartened because banks are becoming data centers and have to be in the software game.

Take a look at...

Dwolla: they are out to destroy the Automated Clearing House industry.
Bitcoin: banks need to know how to interface with that!
Micropayments: same deal.
Mobile: OCR for check deposits!
Data science/analytics ("big data"): obvious.

Banks that fail to adopt a hacker culture because IT is a "cost center" (despite the fact that all operational units of any business are) will crumble.
This is actually how Desktop Window Manager (aka "Aero") on Windows and Quartz Compositor on OS X actually work. They're just setup with an orthographic projection and they don't rotate the windows at all.

That was actually a bit of a surprise (though I admit it shouldn't have been) with Primrose. If I pick dimensions for the editor that fit the window's aspect ratio, and don't rotate the view at all, then the editor pane can fill the browser window and it looks very natural.

I am not positive, as I don't have the spec laying in front of me and it's been a long time since I looked, but I'm pretty sure the HTML5 Canvas API is not hardware accelerated at this time. That is how I do the actual rendering of the text, using Text API.

There is another project called fontpath[1] that can read TTF and OTF font files, and another project from the same developer called gl-sprite-text[2] that can render them as bitmaps to textures. I've been considering converting my rendering over to using it. The process would at least be good practice in decoupling the code a bit more, as I think the tokenizer and keyboard system would be useful in other projects as well.

The keyboard code pages aren't yet complete for everyone in the world right now, but I think they go a long way towards making it possible to once and for all make good keyboard interactions in JS. And by completely implementing my own end-around of the browser's own handling, sticking to more of the older primitives, I am actually able to make for more cross browser compatible. I don't know if anyone noticed, but this runs in IE perfectly fine, and I didn't really do anything special to make it so. And if you just run the Canvas on its own, without the WebGL part, it actually runs on some relatively old browsers without any trouble.

[1] https://github.com/mattdesl/fontpath

[2] https://github.com/mattdesl/gl-sprite-text
He is 25, and he plans to retire at 30, in 5 years he may save another couple thousands more.
Let's put on the lower part of the "couple" spectrum and say he have 200.000, in 5 years he will have 400.000 USD. This money is enough to retire early with the 4% rule http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-need...

Maybe you are assuming that he want to live in the states, with the interest of this money he could live easily in Spain, Thailand, Argentina, etc...
Unless the app is completely self-contained, you're going to need to pay a hosting company to provide you with server hardware and communication bandwidth.

If you want to market your app to people, you'll need to pay for ads.

However, most investors aren't really going to be interested in funding something unless they're convinced that there's a good chance it can make a lot of money. If all you want to do is create a small-scale project that doesn't need to support a lot of users, you could fund it out of your own savings.
Modular CNC Controller Board Based on LPC1768 Cortex-M3 Chip: Aakar BrainBoard
The Prime minister screws a pig on television to fill a ransom demand. The shocker after the ordeal is the victim was released an hour before he did.

That's setting the bar pretty low. And for me, there were no redeeming qualities to raise it back up.
I think hatred on reddit is a complicated mess of legitimately bizarre people being given a forum for the first time, trolls, signalling, and groupthink, depending heavily on the topic and subreddit.

Signalling of social and political grouping is particularly prevalent and obvious on the internet because you can't rely on extrinsic or physical factors to demonstrate your social groupings. In the real world someone can rely on their appearance to telegraph a lot of things--clothing and grooming choices alone can hint at sexuality, politics, social class, and a variety of other things, to say nothing of existing social structures and bonds (who you surround yourself with also telegraphs a lot). On the internet, you either need to explicitly say these things ("I'm not straight", or "I came from a well off family" or "I'm a conservative") or signal them somehow, and there are areas where it's less acceptable to overtly announce your membership in a group, so implying it through general biwords for it is socially necessary. ("I'm filthy rich" or "I'm really, really smart and intellectual" or even "I'm really, really, really ridiculously good looking" all likely fall under that category. I think that generally the more desirable the category, the more it requires either actually costly signals--e.x. displaying expensive artwork in your home or donating lots of money in the case of wealth--to do 'acceptably'.)

You see some of it on HN, too, although I think it's generally much less accepted to negatively signal here--but especially in the more social-justice-y threads, you see a lot of signalling of people picking sides going in both directions, because that's something that HN doesn't really have any sort of unity on but individuals here feel strongly about. In this thread there was a perhaps unsurprising backlash against the author (usually backed up with some logic--which is thankfully required by the etiquette here) about why the posters were justified in their active dislike of sports.

In my experience most social signaling/biwording is fairly well summed up by the basic theory of "You will only expend effort signaling if there's (a) a chance you'll be mistaken for someone in a group you don't want to be mistaken as, and (b) there's a chance you'll be seen as being in the group you want to be in because of it."
If the APP itself taks care of monitoring when pix and videos are sent, then the SIM doesn't have to. And since the SIM is only for use with the app, your problem is taken care of.
It depends on the app. If it's something like Flappy Bird, you won't have much in the way of expenses. If it's something more substantial, you might need to hire designers and developers to build the app and make it usable. You may need ops people to keep it running. If it's not inherently viral, you may need marketers and a budget for ads and PR. If you're doing something novel you might need to file patents and hire lawyers. You might need to pay for servers, storage, and bandwidth.

All that costs money. It might be more than you have in your checking account. That's where investors come in handy.
I agree with your point about the obfuscation of simplicity and complexity. I've been thinking about that a lot lately.
Can you explain how it's different from or better than the RepRap Rumba?
I really liked all of them, but episode 2 was probably my favourite of season 1. It is over the top compared to other parts of the series, but not compared to other experimental far future or alternate universe scifi. For example: Dark City, Idiocracy, Cube, Moon, Battle Royale, Maze Runner.
Ratings Now Cut Both Ways
Why Japanese web design is so different
Unfortunately, I don't see how this solves the problem. The main problem for me is this part of my ISP's ToS: "Users may not run any type of server on the system."

Further, every ISP I've ever had has had some such clause. I'd have to get a business plan to actually be allowed to run a server. So who is this, or any home server software, even for?

(Or at least, who in the US)
If "Black Mirror" is too slow for you, you have the attention span of a gnat.
I'd say chill out, the project is probably not that big of a deal in the scheme of your life. I've been in a situation like that and most of the problem is your own thoughts reinforcing themselves. In reality you can pause work at any time. You can drop out of the project entirely. All it takes is saying "sorry, I'm not going to work on this any more."

So talk with your marketing partner and tell them you're working too hard and need others to help you more, and that you're going to take a week off from stress. Then try to think about other things. Go see people you haven't seen for a while. Come back after a week and see how your partner can address the work imbalance and see if you want to keep going with them. Seriously, just do it.
That's how it is in Mexico, too. They leave some unfinished faux-second-story attached to their building and never pay full property tax on the value of property-with-one-completed-story. Re: "who starts ..." why don't you search before you post?
Platform agnosticism is something that Qt exists to provide... Your point is taken that the Qt backend would need to be ported twice. For WP8+, I suppose that would involve a DX11 port of ANGLE for Qt5. Which seems to have been merged in, actually https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/52810/. What was WP7? DX9? Angle covers that, as well. So, I'm not sure why we're not seeing it, at least on WP8+ given that it does have native code support. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj6816...
I assure you, it's an international standard. In fact, this is almost certainly ghostwritten by the finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis.
The High Cost of Free Parking: http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf
Hawala – ancient money transfer
Ask HN: Installing Swift on ubuntu for newbie
Hi, so I don't have money for a mac but I installed ubuntu 14.04 and was wandering if there is a tutorial out there on how to install it on this system. Thanks
There are no overt technical reasons it won't run on Android. At one point, I did have it running in Chrome and Firefox on Android, but I had a lot of difficulty getting it to run without regularly crashing the browser and bombing out to the home screen. I don't know if that is an Android issue or a Galaxy Note 3 issue, but it was pretty reliably reproduceable in both browsers with just a "load this page, now refresh the page".

I also somehow broke the touch screen controls at the last minute. But I was really keen to get this project out by the end of this month. So I cut features to get in on my self-imposed deadline. I just shut it off to avoid procrastinating release, focusing on too many UI issues or trying to avoid crashing people's browsers when I haven't the slightest clue if there is anything I can do about it.

Most of my career has been working in consulting, mostly for the type of consultoware companies that make all the boring, MS-tech, CRUD projects. I've been freelancing for the last three years, but even that isn't ideal. I've always wanted to have my own projects, building the type of products I've always wanted.

Over the years, I've had a lot of personal trouble with procrastination of completing projects. 10 years of starting and stopping the same ideas, becoming dissatisfied with my work, and eventually growing bored of it and letting it rot on a forgotten hard drive somewhere. I've always known it was an avoidance tactic. By focusing only on the core technical issues, I'd never have to address the tertiary tech and management issues common to releasing any project. So that was another motivation behind this project: just get something together and get it done, out, and in front of people.

I couldn't be happier with the results. Yes, it's missing features. Yes, the server is kind of janky, being that I'm not a sysadmin and only even learned how to turn SSL on a few months ago (though I think it's actually my host's fault for not configuring some of my certificates properly). But I think it's pretty good for a month's worth of work.
This. Also, get your health sorted. Working too much and sleeping too little is terrible for stress and productivity. Causing more stress. And compounding. Try to get a solid sleep routine down and when you come back do laser focused work sessions and then call it quits after time is up.
Poor Greece. Exports so low. Wages and local prices so high. But nobody will hire anybody. They voted for the impossible. Better inject some more capital; they're expecting it.
I think a possible difference is that asking someone to share their experience directly invokes some kind of entitlement on the part of the asker.

This is something I really don't get. This attitude seems so dysfunctional and counterproductive. If I ask a question about someone's experiences, it's because I'm interested in learning more about that person. If they're not comfortable talking about it with me, for whatever reason, they need only say so, and I'll understand and not pursue it.

I believe in general I'm entitled to ask questions (with a gut-check as to how personal the question might be vs. how well I know the person, which might cause me to decide not to ask), and the other person is entitled to decline to answer. That's just how polite social interaction works.
I'm curious to know what's the program you use to take note?
The case for liberal optimism
http://lifehacker.com/quiver-is-a-notebook-built-for-program...
I rationally know that, but I can't bring myself to wilfully destroy life, even that of an insect, with the sole exception of if something is dangerous. So I can totally understand the reactions of those who don't have a high "everyday sadism" score.
Ha, no offense. I just wanted to emphasize that they are used.

In particular, I think they're more useful in applications than libraries and most Haskell code you can find in the wild is library code---so you end up not seeing them much.
I certainly hope so. I dropped out after the first 2, with the impression that it was among the worst shows I've ever seen. The second episode was just boring imo. The first was...well....a prime minister screwing a pig. I get that they were going for shock value, but usually there is a payoff for the viewer because the shocking part serves some larger purpose in a great story (like you might find in a show like Breaking Bad). No such payoff came in this case.