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>I cant understand why more people dont realize US is not a capitalist or free market economy.

Because the presense of "cartels, monopolies, government support and skeweing what and who gets the money" doesn't preclude it being "capitalist" or "free market".

There's the abstract "capitalism"/"free market" and there's the concrete reality, which is that it goes hand in hand with these things and always had.

It's like Christianity -- in theory it's this perfect thing touting peace and love --, but in reality it's involved in everything from the crusades and the enslaving on native indians in the Americas to present day right wing bigotry.
I aalso live in Australia, and I can offer a different perspective.

I grew up in Port Lincoln in South Australia. My father owned a couple of .22 rifles, I've fired shotguns a few times, currently live in Launceston in Tasmania, more than half the 30 odd guys I work with own one or more (mostly more) guns. None of them require a firearm for work purposes, they're all hunters / enthusiasts.

Most of the people I know are comfortable with guns. None of the gun owners I know are "odd/unhinged", and I think that is an uncharitable characterisation of gun owners in this country.

For many people firearms are amazing creations of metallurgy and machining, and hold artistic values in and of themselves, in the same way some people appreciate knives or swords, or cars or aeroplanes.
So, brand new battery, one day of use, and he was at 10% by 7pm and was "hyper-aware" about how little battery life he had left, triggering a "wave of anxiety." According to one analysis (http://www.ifweassume.com/2013/08/the-de-evolution-of-my-lap...), Apple battery capacity can decay by 15% in a year. This means that by next year, his watch could be at 10% by 5pm. No. No way. Heck no. Not happening. Really regretting that I didn't get in on the Pebble Time Kickstarter now.
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That's what makes this review great. Following the author around for the day while he uses the watch gives us a much better impression of what the watch can do and what it's useful for than a more typical technical review.
Interesting question. I don't think there's a perfect metric to rate software developers. One issue is that it's difficult to separate general software development skills from the area of expertise. For instance developing web apps, video games, distributed systems, compilers, financial software and so on... all require different types of expertise.
Mattress Sensor Only Silences Your Alarm Clock When You Get Out of Bed
Apple Watch in Healthcare IT
So if we could cause mars to heat up, would oceans form or would it start to evaporate into space?
I think blind programmers mostly just use ASCII braille, with standard accessibility equipment like braillers, braille notetakers, and screenreaders.
The difference between a job, a career, and a craft
I think its worth noting that 1) someone could end up doing all the exact same things, but for a different reason and be totally content that way. And 2) a lot of people go through their whole life dissatisfied and uninspired, and that isn't the end of the world.
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Thanks, we updated the link from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-cha....
I've been working with XMPP and a number of XMPP daemons. A couple years later I'm not a fan.
A good approach is to get an e-bike. Use a lot electric assist most of the way to work and pedal the way back. You also get less exhausted when arriving at your destination.

e-bikes are an absolute revolution for biking anywhere that isn't perfectly flat, I wonder what's taking so long for it to take over Europe.
It's like a boundless graffiti wall for developers... and a crafty/masqueraded way to farm (mostly) HN GitHub usernames!
I think the author is describing how the smartphone became revolutionary for uses that were beyond its initial incarnation.

If you look at the sentence in context, the preceding paragraph says it is the smartphone that "became the basis of a wide range of powerful new tech applications, from messaging to ride-sharing to payments." I think the author was trying to say that having the world respond to your "desires nearly automatically" might open similar "new tech vistas." That's how I read it anyway.

Also, please consider the new Hacker News guideline against gratuitous negativity.
Oh wow I was not the only one thinking about Jiddu K while I was reading OP's post.
That assumes they don't improve the battery life in software over the next year, which they probably will. But it also leaves you much less slack to install new and interesting apps on your watch. My original pebble used to last a longer than it does now, even though newer versions of the software have improved life dramatically. It's just so much more useful than version 1.0 that I use it more. It's OK for the battery life to drop from 6 days to 4; it's not OK to drop from 18 to 14...
Zazzy's New Marketplace Lets You Design and Sell Your Own 3D Printed Jewelry
Agree, yes it might 'wow' you at first, but when you see this used more and more on other sites, the novelty is gone.

What does it really add, other than slowing down your scrolling (my laptop: i7, discrete gfx) and briefly distracting you while you focused on the text.
No, what the clock says is primary, because it means that's what the people around me are doing also.

If it's only me moving my schedule, then I'm getting up an hour earlier, eating breakfast an hour earlier, starting work an hour earlier, getting hungry for lunch an hour earlier, finishing work an hour earlier, going to sleep an hour earlier etc.

It puts me out of sync with everyone else around me. Yes I'd get used to it eventually as would people around me and then I'd switch back half a year later.

If however the clock moves, then everyone around me is moving their schedule too, and we are in sync.
More importantly writing down all the unwritten rules would make the corporation actionable.
Just as a reference, you might like this tool - I've gotten great results with some really gnarly minified/obfuscated JS.

http://www.jsnice.org/
Gruber's review has it anywhere from 30-50% with moderate use at the end of the day. Only time it got below 10% was when he was doing "heavy testing". http://daringfireball.net/2015/04/the_apple_watch
It sounds like you would need the ability to access all the data on the page but not be able to phone home. Enforcing that sounds like a nightmare.
The employees get free prepared food etc, a consistent routine that suits their engineer mind, lots of vacation, flexibility to choose their own hours, leadership roles (and unlimited mobility) to choose their own work, until they retire and become angel investors. And they get a little greedy, so they need a few more years income before they retire at 40 and the hot startup becomes and over the hill bicgo.
Is there some way to get rid of the background animations in this article? I'm sure it seemed real neat in the design meeting, but it's very distracting. I couldn't finish the article.
> I believe most people would be a little uncomfortable if they knew they were in a house with a gun.

And most Americans would be uncomfortable going to a nude beach with their German friends. That says nothing about its morality or safety.
On the other hand, if you made something you could give to anyone who applied and was little to no work for you how many good candidates would you pick up that you wouldn't have given a phone screen to?
I think your problem is the crisis du jour, the 'hollow men' of our times. At its heart lies multitasking and sensory overload. With the barrage of modern tech/media, it's become so easy to tune into many little bits of nothing for hours/days/years (surfing the web, watching video, fiddling with your phone, hacking the web) that time passes effortlessly and invisibly. Eventually you look up and realize you're a decade older.

One way to deal with this is similar to how people meditate: 1) focus on being aware of nothing, or 2) focus on being aware of everything (while not becoming distracted). Either way, employing single-minded attentiveness will reboot your brain and help you generate your own thoughts again. A sense of purpose can arise only after you stop being distracted by the trivial racket of the world outside.

To begin, sit and do nothing for as long as it takes, til you get antsy enough that you just have to do something. Whatever that something is, it rose to the top of your list of stuff you felt the need to do, so that alone makes it important. So act on it. If later you run out of ideas again, then sit down and return to doing nothing until the cluelessness passes.

But whatever you do, DON'T mindlessly tune in, and STOP doing ten things at once. Those paths lead nowhere.
Except for being almost unusable on smartphones (or barely usable on devices with qwerty keyboards), and bitlbee's arcane syntax for joining MUC chatrooms, this is the exact setup I am using.
Audio Twitter with Apple Watch (20 seconds of audio is the new 140 characters)
WearVR is a new store for VR-games and apps
OP, ignore my speech if it's a bit too much. I suppose you just have to find a balance and take some natural breaks.

Please don't do this : "for days and work on my projects with hardly a break for food and sleep"...At least, question yourself : how much of driving oneself is excessive? Generally, we don't pause to think about these things, and that's why, when you take a break, you crash. The pendulum swings to the other extreme, tortoise and hare, yada yada... you get it. With a handle like "tastyface", I know you get it :-))

(I'm just kidding with you. Please don't take this as an offensive statement)
I do only one thing : I solve problems and compare my results every week or so.
From the Unthinkable to the Obvious: Security Testing with CI in 2015
New technology keeps drones from crashing and burning
Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus' SCG003 just (kinda) broke the Nurburgring record
http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

If your glass is half full, then of course we are living in a simulation. What is the halting problem for this simulation? That's the real question. IMO that should be true AI.
A conversation with Gene Kim on DevOps, waterfall development, and containers
Confidence vs. Skill
The issues you list (message archive being plain text, key management when multiple recipients are involved, maybe even transparently) don't seem to be XMPP specific.

Is there any chat system out there with end-to-end crypto and reasonable support for multiple devices?
A good thing would probably to have a way to see the requests triggered by installed extensions. Even checking this list once in a while and manually reporting the suspicious ones with a "report" button would make these rogue extensions almost worthless.
I've been using Conversations (Android) with Kaiwa for the past few weeks and it has worked very well so far: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conve...
I hadn't noticed that. Thanks.
> no team member should be working in more than one thing at a time

How do you do that? My company has many small products/projects. Can't staff them all full time, and can't schedule them to be independent (project A is worked on Jan 1-15, B on 16-31, etc). It is inevitable that you will be working part time on several things at once.

> If your scrum board shows a bunch of small tasks less than half-day work

Some tasks are half day. Get Windows installed on this server. And so on. Oh, you can make a task "get windows installed on the server, and update the FooBar documentation" but that is just artificial.

Not everything fits into scrum.
Crazy, I have almost the exact same story and the exact same setup. I replaced a new 400mhz Pentium 2 setup with that Abit BP6 board and ran the 366mhz processors at 466mhz or 533mhz when it was cool out (I opened the window to help cool my system). Probably wasn't the greatest investment, since the 400mhz Pentium 2 was still a really nice processor when I did this (early 1999, I believe, towards the end of my freshman year of college).

I ran multiple OSs: BeOS and Redhat Linux to do my CompSci work for school and then Win98 (which only supported one processor, of course) to play games, mainly Quake 2 and Tribes.
It was a genuine question, rather than trying to prove a point.

I know what you are saying, but most people outside of the US see gun owning as a pretty serious problem.
Microsoft Brings Live TV Broadcasts to Xbox One Users in US, Canada
The extremely short battery life also precludes one of the best use cases I've found for my Pebble: sleep tracking.
Math and physics look like a lot of fun. Does anyone know if the real fun only starts after like a decade of studying?
This website is written in a Lisp dialect.
Exploding Term Sheets (Sign or We’re Done)
I'm not sure in this specific case but generally I'd consider it a blind drop with GPS coordinates and a description of the drop site.
Police chief: “Paying the Bitcoin ransom was the last resort”
or even 50.
Thanks for the suggestions. Do they also provide the group chat support? As, I believe, the 'normal' XMPP protocol doesn't support groups.
It seems to me a Stingray is designed specifically to get around the need for a court order. OTW they would just subpoena the records of a cell carrier to get the information on a target they suspect.
Me neither. This is the first client that actually piqued my interest… but useful E2E encryption is still an unsolved problem, it seems. (OTR is a usability nightmare.)
Show HN: Wanna – a Want to (do) list – Android
Why We Sued the DEA: Mass Surveillance Still Illegal
Slack borrowed a lot from earlier UIs, too. It's not like Slack is hugely innovative in this department, anyway. You pay for the service, not the UI.
Android Arsenal – PagerDatePicker
Why is it garbage ? I am very much looking forward to being able to open my car and house doors using my iPhone. And in the case of my car those keys are very, very expensive to replace.

It is not inconceivable in the future to just take your phone and your watch and leave your wallet and keys entirely behind. This would work just fine in Australia for example where NFC is ubiquitous.
Getting Shit Done
yeah, could transcode anything to anything in real time and feed it to an appropriate player.

BeOS is the only OS which implemented the same UX of unix pipes in a way that actually made sense in a graphical environment.
What OS are you running? It's pretty straightforward to get going on OSX in my experience.
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I feel the same way. I actually do the same thing too. I end up talking with people i used to work with and seeing how much they've grown and their positions. I don't feel like I am bad. I've started my own consulting company and did over $500k in revenue last year, yet I will talk with these developers who are just so much smarter than me and do better than me and i just get crazy jealous about it probably from my competitive nature. I think its just a part of life. Literally just last night I had a real bad depression of what I have done professionally and how though I have a lot in savings and I've started my own company doing consulting work I locked myself in my room all night and started working on my own side project. It's not going to be big, but just to have it done and say that I did it I think would make me happy. In the end I think you just got to find what will make you happy and just go with that.
Yeah, same here. It was HTTPS everywhere's fault (or, rather, their fault for not supporting HTTPS correctly ;)
Another example is Andy Weir's "The Martian", which he originally published chapter-by-chapter on his personal site http://www.galactanet.com/ .
The only mean to a gun is to hurt people so comparing it to fruit or other useful tool is not very relevant imo.
> my wife told me that I seemed to be getting lost in my phone less than in the past. She found that a blessing.

This is the first time I've heard the value-add of the watch over the phone phrased in a convincing way.
On Gmail, you'll need to "revert to old chat" if you've enabled the "new Hangouts".
Great promo video for SoGrid
Taking into account that being a developer requires a really broad range of competencies (from "hard" knowledge about languages, frameworks, databases, systems and so long, through a variety of skills like analyzing, solving problems etc. to "soft" aspects communicating and cooperating with others, not to mention the business domain requirements which often are crucial) I think you should first focus on finding one narrow area you would like to improve and then seek for a right metric for it.

How to choose it? It depends on the reason why you would like to improve: to be more attractive on the job market? To spend less time coping with specific problems? To earn more money? To gain recognition for your work? To have more personal satisfaction from what you do and how you do it? etc. Knowing the "ultimate" goal can help decide what exactly you want to focus on, establish a baseline and measure the progress.
The daily standup is good for teams that are not functioning well. You describe how a well-functioning team does not need a daily standup.
Nope. An opcode fetch cycle takes 4 clocks, but a normal read or write is only 3.That's why an instruction like LD a, (hl) takes 7 cycles. I believe the GBZ80 always takes 4, but it's more of a separate 8080 clone that borrows from the Z80 a bit than an actual Z80.
Amazon Echo now officially does home automation
Winners might use drugs
I am visiting Tel Aviv. Anyone want to meet next week?
Hey. I am the CEO of Qbix (http://qbix.com), a company with apps being used over 1.5 million times a month by people in over 100 countries. We also put together some cool open source technology (http://platform.qbix.com) for others to use.

I'm traveling to Israel to see some family. I'm always looking to meet interesting people (developers, investors, entrepreneurs) and I'd be happy to get together for coffee or at WeWork to talk about what you do or what we do.

If you're interested, drop me a line, you can find my email at http://qbix.com/about
Tech’s peculiar relationship with social justice
See this for more inspiration (using pub/sub):

https://github.com/whee/rp
Show HN: Major update to iOS FMMosaicLayout library
Nameko for Microservices
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The Apple Watch marks a new stage in consumerism in that it is effectively a gift FOR your iPhone. It doesn't work without an iPhone but it makes the iPhone's workload a little easier. It's also precious, expensive and intimate. What better way to show affection to your beloved iDevice.
Maybe you'll be interested in Talqee [1] which offers a self-hosted version. It's coming really soon :)

[1] https://talqee.com
I looked through your code but the lack of correct indentation and excessive newlines makes it really hard to read.

Happy to have another look once you've sorted it out.
I'm from Iasi, Romania ;)
I do! A Rev A 66, IIRC.
Anko for Android
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I remember my first time seeing the southern hemisphere view of the night sky from a beach on Stewart Island, New Zealand (Horseshoe Bay) where there's virtually no light pollution.

The brightness and detail of that part of the visible universe was so mind bending I fell over and had a Total Perspective Vortex moment.
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If you don't trust your coworkers' ideas about what needs to be fixed right now, that's a separate issue.
Something like https://www.workingon.co might be more efficient.
Do you exercise regularly and get enough sleep? They do wonders for my alertness and motivation in the evenings after getting home from work. I have developer friends that don't do either of those and pretty much veg out after getting home.
https://babeljs.io/ gives a fairly good introduction to it, and allows you to use a lot of ES6 (and a couple of experimental ES7) features already. Has an in-browser repl to play around with it as well if you like.
Let it go. Stop taking a tally of your age every morning. You're young and you're doing well! Keep up the good work, and try not to stress about things so much.
I did a lot of experiments writing C++ to lock up resources in an effort to try and crash the system. It was very hard to do. It was amazing to be banging on the system and my tunes were still humming away! It is funny to hear others say this too.
The daily standup, if people actually stand and if it's timeboxed to 15 minutes, is the least broken thing in all of Scrum/Agile. Honestly, I think it can be a good thing.

No one (except for terminal middle managers) likes status meetings but the alternative (in many settings) to a fixed daily status meeting is random, unpredictable status pings from management which are far more disruptive to the daily work flow. I'd rather give status at the same time every day than deal with the irritation of a "What's happening?" interruption.

As long as people actually stand and the meeting ends at 15 minutes and there is absolutely zero risk of follow-on meetings, stand-up is probably more good than bad. Done properly, it eliminates the resentment and politics that come from the "Does Tom actually do anything?" type of speculation.

That said, Scrum is just horrible. The whole package is a bundle of fail. Senior developers will resent it and leave, and while junior developers may benefit from the structure, what they really need is mentoring and they're not going to get it when all the seniors are either (a) trying to make an acceptable "user story point" count for the week or (b) looking for other jobs. Scrum sucks. It never adds, it's either meaningless or it detracts.

If you're really not convinced, read my take-down of Agile/Scrum on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-developers-at-strong-compan...

I don't know why it is that all this Taylorist pseudoscience that failed in the rest of industry has made a home in the software industry. Fuck Scrum and fuck Agile, and this is not "excessive negativity" because I have seen that shit burn down (pun intended) billion dollar companies-- not meaning "the culture became something I didn't like" but "Scrum directly caused it to lose 80% of its market capitalization". That shit is fucking toxic.
> Hills can usually be conquered fairly easily with the correct set of gears

Clearly, no.

The center of London is very flat compared to Paris, and even going up via Regent Str to Regent's Park or further to King's Cross, it's not very hard. The first thing I do when I go to London is rent a Barclay's bike, and I enjoy it a lot (except that people use the wrong side of the road! what's up with that??!?)

Paris is different. Gears help of course, but you need to be in extremely good shape to get to the top of Montmartre on a bicycle; it's hard enough on foot.
Your point is my solution doesn't work for you because it would require you to purchase three of everything you would ever purchase? What an odd way to live your life.
You know this has already been done, and clinical depression is indeed considered a disabling condition, right? Check out the ADA and SSDI.
I know, but I also know judges often rule based on "common sense" and "intent" of harm, regardless of the letter of the law.

Surely the fact that documents say that millions of people have been spied upon with such a program means that the judge should allow a case by an organization like EFF or HRW go through, even if the employees of that organization weren't personally affected by it? There should be a "for public interest" clause somewhere, or at least as an unwritten rule.
Measuring the health of a startup through the lens of online marketing