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Your opinion is very good. The "and then something magic happens" solution in fantasy is what really turns me off.

But in SF it is sometimes hard to distinct magic from plausible albeit far fetched science. Is FTL possible given the science of tomorrow, or magic?

If you want to have (imho) really, really good SF, chec out Ted Chiang. Very low production, but he takes science in SF very seriosly. His collection of short stories is some of the best I've ever read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_of_Your_Life_and_Others

Somebody else mentioned Anathem. And if one want deep mathematics mixed with wild ideas, language theory I strongly recommend it. It is hard to get going (at least it was for me). But very rewarding. Probably the best read the last year.

Finally, if one really wants to go the "no magic" route. I strongly recommend Netptunes Brood by Charles stross. The book is based on the idea that FTL is not possible, and as a consequence how the economics behind interstellar migration and stable exchange currencies works. Bitcoing and slow money. Just that somebody actually has been considering the finance structure behind generation ships makes it worth reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune%27s_Brood
Fortunately, not everyone who programs for the web needs PayPal integration :) If it's easy enough for people to switch, it will get there.
I never used a C++ web framework, how does this compare to the (few) other existing ones like Wt or crow?
I thought the bit on cars was timely:

> Ive acknowledged that he and Marc Newson, who recently joined Apple as a London-based employee, could “incite ourselves to a sort of fever pitch” of design distress; they’ll complain about things “developed to a schedule, to a cost,” or “developed to be different, not better.” He and Newson are car guys, and they feel disappointed with most modern cars; each summer, they attend the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where vintage sports cars are exhibited and raced in the South of England. “There are some shocking cars on the road,” Ive said. “One person’s car is another person’s scenery.” To his right was a silver sedan with a jutting lower lip. Ive said, quietly, “For example.” As the disgraced car fell behind, I asked Ive to critique its design: “It is baffling, isn’t it? It’s just nothing, isn’t it? It’s just insipid.” He declined to name the model, muttering, “I don’t know, I don’t want to offend.” (Toyota Echo.)
Several people including myself mentioned Ursula Le Guin, who should be #1 on any list of women authors.

Also, mentioning Mira Grant and Hunger Games on this thread strikes me as blasphemous.
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What's liking Apple got to do with that? Even if you despise Apple you cannot just ignore its relevance and the role it plays. Do you really think it's wasted effort to write a couple thousand words about a designer as influential as their lead designer – even if you think his work sucks or is just average or whatever?
Martin Hellman (yes, the co-inventor of public key cryptography) has a fascinating blog about the risks of stumbling into a nuclear war: https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/
Tbh he kinda fucked up. He waived his right to an extradition hearing in the Netherlands.

I am fairly certain the Dutch court would not have let him be extradited over this bullshit. Case and point, he is the only one to be extradited successfully and only because he went of his own free will.
Also, a fun fact. Ted Chiang writes manuals for Microsoft products. Here is a good interview with Chiang (which I think has made it onto HN before):

https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-01-04/ted-chiang-s...
I'd be very hesitant to call it physiological addiction - I find I sleep badly for a few days when I go from daily to nothing, but it's nothing compared to, say, nicotine - which is also actually pretty mild in the grand scheme of things.
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"I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59" By Douglas Edwards
Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0547416997
Some which I have re-read recently and still enjoyed:

William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy

Frank Herbert's Dune series

Isaac Asimov's Foundation series

Frederik Pohl's "Gateway"

Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a harsh Mistress"

Some which I remember liking when I read them many years ago as a teenager:

E.E. Doc Smith's Lensman series

David Brin's Uplift series

Peter F. Hamilton's Greg Mandel trilogy and The Night's

Dawn trilogy

Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game"

George R. Dickson's "Dorsai!"
Just putting it out there but knocking the "For Dummies" books based on the title is a bit pretentious. Sure, the title doesn't really make you look good but the books are often well written and informative. They have a great layout and serve well as introductory books.

In fact, I'd go as far as to say a lot of other books could learn a lot from the layout of the series. I've read many books and the dry books don't hold my attention for long. There is something to be said for books you just absorb.
Looks like a less polished version of http://www.thecaravanserai.co/?

Which was previously on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9022311
There's really one clear goal behind this: building Ive's image as a design genius, responsible for the major decisions behind Apple's products, in the same way Jobs's image was created. Why ? because it creates a unique image for Apple's products - the products of genius, which really helps positioning them as luxury brands.This is a common technique with many luxury brands.

But it's most likely a false image.Most likely Apple
's products design is due to the talent of many designers within it's halls,the unique culture within, and their intense attention to detail.
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Maybe the proponent should be looking for work in less demanding fields.
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The file most likely to contain such information would probably be the HACKING file, which I’ve seen many projects use to contain an introduction for developers of the software itself (as opposed to building instructions or the user’s manual).
Likewise. I'll read the books on Safari Books Online using the work subscription, just to fill in the gaps. I'm pretty sure I will actually learn something.
All of them are available online for free - as the other comment states: the logical division is so you don't have to buy books about things you don't care about. It's not about making more money.
The last project I was working on only edited the changelog file when a release was cut. As we tagged each release with a version number, it was easy to get the commit messages since the last release with:

lastTag = `git describe --abbrev=0 --tags`
git log --oneline --no-merges #{lastTag}..HEAD | cut -c 9- | sort

Then you just need to edit that list down to the relevant details.
This was part of a release script which also added things like increasing the version number, generating md5 hashes for the binaries, date etc.

If you have something like a changelog, it's important to keep the audience in mind. In this case the audience was mainly the internal test department and marketing. Testers also had access to the bug tracker of course and only used the changelog to get an overview. Marketing and support used the changelog as the basis for their communication with customers.
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I think this is because of "war on drugs." Officials decides that drug sellers and drug users are danger to the society, and therefore locked away (i will not argue about dangers, just stating what Nixon and most of officials did)
He's really bad at sci fi.

Inception doesn't make any sense (sense in terms of being sci fi, it's good entertainment).

Nor do the climactic action scenes in the Batman movies: a mega powerful microwave device that only affects the water inside of far away pipes and a portable, self sustaining fusion reactor that blows up when its battery dies.

The Joker's speed with setting up explosives is also a little bit ridiculous, but that's less of an offense against possibility than the above.
I've read the book and even contributed a tiny tiny bit with issues in GH (the book is managed through GH). While I didn't learn much I did gain perspective about things so I'd say reading it was definitely worth my time.
I started reading it ,but didn't find it very interesting. A summary would be surely far more interesting.
The Soviet Union was for the majority of the cold war and before on the receiving end of the aggression. For the most part it reacted to existential threats, like in the case of the Cuba missile crisis, which was preceded by the US placing mid-range missiles in Italy and Turkey. In most of the proxy conflicts each side behaved in approximately equally despicable ways, in most cases the US backed dictatorships, like Suharto in Indonesia murdered hundreds of thousands.

There also is no evidence that the Soviet Union ever intended to use nuclear weapons as an offensive measure, whereas the US toyed with the thought on multiple occasions (Cuba crisis, Korean war).
Valid points. Shouldn't have fed the guy but valid response none the less. 200 pages on a subject versus two or three 30 page chapters? Good call!
"their intense attention to detail".

Someone has to lead otherwise you'll get design by committee no matter how talented.
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Read them for free online, and if you're a tactile person and enjoyed the books, buy them. Probably the best deal you're gonna get!
Peter Watts's Blindsight - easily the best SF novel I've read in the last decade. I haven't got round to Echopraxia yet, but I doubt it'll fail to live up to its predecessor.

Also, while I have no use whatsoever for Stross's "Singularity" stuff, his Laundry Files series excels, especially for an inveterate old Lovecraft fan such as myself. If you want a taste, there are some shorts available online -- "Overtime" and "Funny Farm" are good places to start; "Equoid" is the most recent, but it's not representative, and it's also the weakest entry in the series as a whole due to its poor characterization and reliance on shock and gruesomeness rather than the more insidious sort of horror in which the rest of the series specializes.

I'm sort of surprised to see that no one has yet mentioned Heinlein; I know he's a politically divisive figure in the fandom, to say the least, but he's also the great granddaddy of the modern field, and such prominence deserves recognition. (Hell, he was pushing the Rapture of the Nerds before any of its modern adherents was even born!) Granted that his later works tend to bog down in self-referentiality and author tracts on the evils of Communism and the benefits of casual nudism; in his prime, though, he was an author and storyteller practically beyond compare.

In particular, his The Moon is a Harsh Mistress remains a classic among classics; The Puppet Masters even more so, to the extent of spawning practically a whole subgenre of second-rate imitations; and, for a lighter entry, his oft-overlooked The Door into Summer is a sweet story in which all's well that ends well and the importance of feline companionship in a well-rounded life is not overlooked.
At the very least you should inform potential customers that they require the correct paperwork in order to work in the countries specified.
I agree with your point. We are still at a "prehistoric" age in the development of C++ web servers.

All those high level tasks where hard in C++98. But C++11 and C++14 really helps high level programming. Silicon demonstrates that web development is now as easy in C++14 than is javascript, php, ...

The community just need to realize it, and silicon proves it by
building a core framework. It reaches the ease of programming of dynamic languages like javascript or php while keeping the advantages of C++: performance and compile time code verification.

Let's see how fast the community will adopt the framework and how the numer of middleware will grow...

Given all the money spend in optimizing dynamic languages like ruby, javascript, python, ... There is a lack of performance in common web application frameworks. Why not building from a high level language that is fast by design ? With C++14 and silicon, you can finally run you app without worrying about with VM/JIT will better optimize your program.
"Agreed" is also such a weasely claim.

And of course the "harm caused to copyright holders" is a farcical concept to begin with. You can't just take, say, the total number of downloads and multiply that with some fictitious amount of lost revenue and then claim that as damage, yet that's exactly what the rights utilization industry has been doing for decades.

This concept is based on the idea of physical theft. If I steal a truckload of soap and then sell it myself, the damage I'm doing to the legitimate owner is equivalent to the volume I stole multiplied by the original selling price minus regular shrinkage (e.g. lost sales because of faulty products, damage during regular handling or natural expiry).

Digital goods don't work that way. The "theft" of digital goods does not result in you having less products to sell. Instead it's more similar to the damage done via the "theft" of trade secrets. If I steal the Coca Cola recipe and begin giving away knock-off cola for free, I arguably cause damages due to lost sales, but it'd be ridiculous to assume that every "sale" of my product is equivalent to one lost sale of the Coca Cola company.

In fact, MegaUpload didn't even "steal" anything. If we want to use physical crimes as metaphors, it's simply dealing with stolen goods -- or more precisely: giving stolen goods away for free. And if one million users downloaded the same illegal content, they didn't give one million stolen goods away, they merely gave the same stolen goods away a million times.

It's not that copyright violations can't cause damages, but the current system for valuation of those damages -- especially in the US -- is entirely ridiculous and only continues to exist because the courts are either too apathetic or too ignorant (or sometimes both) to dismiss it.
In the cloud, I would think that a better alternative is to store temp data in Azure table storage / Amazon SimpleDB. This is cheap, scalable storage that avoid having to use the database when not needed.
For 22+ years I believed Foundation series by Issac Asimov was unparalleled, since first read when I was 10. It changed after the Three Body Problem, especially the 2nd and 3rd installments, The dark forest, The forever death. I don't expect to add more to the list in my life span.
I would not say the author was fawning, but it is obvious, and such articles try to explain that exact detail, that Jobs was and still is an immense influence. Writers need to – at least – acknowledge that, even if some people are tired of it.
Wrong. Zero. Do the math, they're not even close.
I'd also be interested in any horror stories - I suspect they mostly don't get written.

What I rarely see (which is part of my vision) is nomads successfully travelling the world with:
1) A Significant other / spouse
2) Children, and/or
3) Assets (eg, a house in their home country they rent out; a business that's worth something because it's more than them) [1]

Most seem to be single people in their 20s / early 30s, who talk of 'living on the road forever'. I fear (but again, this is linked to what I am creating for myself) many wake up one day and realise they have built nothing in their lives - true, the experiences are priceless and may be worth it, but I don't want to discover at 40 that I have no close friends, no family, that even if I knocked someone up tomorrow I'd still be in my 60s when the kids moved out, and while I've lived off $20,000pa for the last 15 years I don't intend to retire into decrepitude in Thailand but have zero net worth put aside to support me.

I guess I hope that comedown for those who experience it doesn't take away from the awesome life they've led for many years. But when they talk of doing it forever, maybe they're not appreciating the moment as much as they could. Maybe I'm just getting old.

[1] Loving these guys http://www.escapingexpectations.com/ because they actually tick all 3 boxes. Would love to hear of more.
It'll be a tough market to crack, largely due to its fragmented and illiquid nature (not to mention the structure that results from the role of the primary dealers). It might be the right time, with the regulatory restrictions being placed on the big/primary dealers' prop-ish market making activities but if the market does shift in the right direction for Direct Match (i.e. if liquidity shifts away from the primary dealers, if they agree to partake in a CLOB, or if, God forbid, the Treasury forces them to quote electronically, like the European governments do with MTS), I'd expect the existing players like NASDAQ and TradeWeb to be standing ready to jump in.

It's one of these markets that looks simple at first but there are lots of nuances that have caused it to take the shape it currently has. To be successful, I think Direct Match will need to do something a bit different than simply offering a CLOB.
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If watching Judge Judy is anything to go by (which I doubt!) demeanor is used in arbitration as much as incisive questioning.

You have a new email.

Judge: Do you think you're smarter than me?
Well Germany sold Israel 6 submarines that can be retrofitted as launch platforms for nuclear warheads.
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I'm not building a message queue

That may be the kernel of the problem here; you built a subset of a message queue without realising it.

RabbitMQ has a websocket plugin[1]. Just make your javascript connect directly to a RabbitMQ cluster and you have a solid, scalable foundation - almost for free.

[1] http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2012/05/14/introducing-rabbitmq...
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I submitted this tool earlier and you guys liked it. Today, I have some updates and a way to do the same without using this tool

Tweet Full (http://tweetfull.com) a tool that helps you get leads from Twitter. Instead of making this post a plug for it, I am going to give away the secret sauce so that you can use it without paying for the tool.

One thing that has worked wonders for me when it comes to marketing on Twitter is to feed my customers' ego.

I used Twitter advanced search to find people who were Tweeting with my keywords of interest. Then I would engage with those Tweets by simply Favoriting or RTing those Tweets. This was not as obtrusive as starting a conversation with them, yet it made them curious enough to check out my profile.

Then I would use a pinned Tweet with a great call to action (20% off right away) that would encourage them to click on my link. I also had a link to the startup/product I was promoting.

My Twitter analytics showed me crazy growth doing this. I was getting 2-3X impressions spending only an hour or so doing this. You can use this method for your own use without paying anybody.

Then I thought of automating it and someone posted on Reddit about Tweet Full (http://tweetfull.com). It had additional bells and whistles like I could search for people with certain words in their Twitter Bios (Twitter search doesn't do that), filter by their Klout score and most importantly ability to pick Tweets with certain sentiment. It is a decent growth hacking tool for Twitter that produces results.

With Tweet Full I am getting over 70K impressions on my profile a month and 1-2% of these people engage with me via Tweets. I use Tweet Deck to keep up with all of the accounts I manage and to engage in a conversation with those who Tweet Back at me. Many times it is automated "Thank you for Fav" Tweets but many a times I have gotten legit customers.

Hope you like it.
Thank you for the response. The family aspect is certainly something I do think about. I don't think I'll be having kids for another ten years, but I'd like to know that I could get a job in a smaller town than Stockholm, which isn't as easy as a front ender compared to an engineer. A kid needs a bit of nature, I think :)

Doing web is not as important as I might've made it sound in the original post. I just want to feel challenged at all times, and front end isn't doing that as often as I'd like it to. For now I'm moving into full stack, but I think the concept of machine learning is intriguing as well, even if it is very far away from where I am at this point.
Thanks for the links. They're actually linking to NomadHouse as "something more immediate and affordable" in their section on comparative costs.
That seems unfair in this case: if anything this article seems to be intended to raise the profile of the other studio members and acknowledge them by name.
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Pretty much the defining space opera, yeah -- I mean, it's set in the year ten thousand, what else can you fairly expect it to be? While I quite like it (and can't abide its sequels), I do concede it takes a peculiar taste to appreciate it on its merits.

the whole thing is a metaphor for the oil industry, no?

No, not really, or at least I think not deliberately; it's much more Lawrence of Arabia in space.
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Yea... this has been around for years.

JSP and ASP.NET have allowed for this kind of shennanigans in their "view state" (albeit, security is a configuration option away...) mechanism. It's not hard to extend it out to things flying back and forth to the user.

As for usability, these sort of things should be wrapped up in a nice container class; HMAC taken care of, and (probably) a key-value API presented. No fuss, no muss.

If there's no such library, creating one could definitely pose a security risk to any project without sufficient expertise, as this post appears to be endorsing.

Find an existing, tested, reviewed implementation that provides the API you need, and stick with it.
You better doubt it, Echopraxia fails to live up to Blindsight. Aren't sequels that match the original the exception rather than the rule?
How do you plan to market this? Seems like a crowded space.
If that means we get Jean Reno as Bora Horza Gobuchul, I'm in.
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Here in Boston, The Subway system has been completely shutdown by the snow and the executive in charge of the system has been fired. The MBTA performs poorly and consistently goes further and further into debt.

I wonder what a system built of self-interested-interested transport robots would look like, especially in times of disruption and crisis.
I think it says more about your ego imo. I mean you're getting worked up about a book's title to the point that you won't look at its content. Just because it insinuated you don't know said content.

It's amusing if anything.
I got hooked on SciFi with David Webers Harrington-Series which I found after enjoying the old Hornblower Series. Since then I enjoyed much omthe Kantaki-Cycle of Andreas Eschbach and the Collector/Justifier Series by Markus Heitz, even though they are what I would call typical german SciFi: Humans as nuisance in a peaceful and orderly Galaxy.