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I live in Frankfurt, I've noticed the market here being really expensive. It appears from my perspective a lot of it is companies who own property investments, or individuals who own property as investments. Lots of regular people simply rent, sometimes for their entire lives.
So how do they know it's slowing down and not a mistake in measurement?
That slow rotation rate has always bothered me. Will be need a way to speed it up when we terraform it? Or is there a way to live with nearly year long days?
Or a Dutch company: http://specialisterren.nl/
Apple Watch: extremely ambitious, far from perfect
Total Recall? Well... the last five minutes.

"Get your ass to Mars."
+1. For anybody who struggles with this, I highly recommend reading Stephen Pressfield's The War Of Art.
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If each employee received $2.5 million on average, how many would stay?

I think it's awesome to distribute money between employees like this but wouldn't it have a devastating effect on the company?
I think in most cases it's due to compatibility reasons. The "better" technology usually comes later and is thus less compatible with the rest of the ecosystem.

I used to use Gnome in the Gnome 2.0 / KDE 3.x days. Even though I thought KDE was better, it simply wouldn't play nice with GTK and Gnome apps. Conflicting sound servers would crash, themes and widgets a mess between the two ecosystems, never-ending font issues.
Exactly. And the writing appears upside-down, naturally. After all, gravity points in the opposite direction as on the other side of the earth; that's why the Australians are called antipodes :-P
Would be nice to see some examples of each extreme, for each dimension.
SuSE Linux 5.3 -> fvwm95, twm, KDE 1.x, and I remember playing with GNOME 1.
Also was weird times, I remember that I manage to run GNOME using KDE as window manager.
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In addition to what the first paragraph says, I'll add that given the strong cultural bias there can be on such thing, I wouldn't put too much trust into such a tool except if it could be calibrated by a panel of the "other people" you are targeting.
It's a completly arbitrary choice that happens to benifit white males. Of course people are going to bring up racial and gender bias issues.
That seems very far fetched to me. Why would the pollution created by german coal power plants accumulate in and around Paris?

In my experience the big pollution episodes in Paris are when there's no wind to wash the smog away. It's definitely localized over the city (not that the air is not polluted elsewhere, it's just generally much worse in Paris).
I once had a taxi driver berate me at the end of a journey for not taking a long enough trip in from the airport. It was a 25 minute journey, Google says at the moment the same trip is 20 minutes and a trip to the center of the same city is 24 minutes. So the "most common trip for a tourist from the airport" would have been a few minutes longer given the same traffic and this guy thought it was appropriate to berate me for not living further out (the taxi lobby has been one of the groups blocking a train in from the airport too). I somehow doubt an Uber driver would have been giving me the same gratuitous negativity.
Take a break, spend some time somewhere nice and quiet– like a faraway beach, and sit for hours and see what comes to your mind. You're bound to be curious about something, interested in something. Day to day life has a way of wearing that down in people– we get so caught up in our obligations and our bills and such that we forget what we're curious about, what we're interested in.

Once you figure out what you're curious about, throw yourself into learning everything you can.

That, and serve others. Volunteer. Ask yourself– what do you wish you had when you were a kid, that you didn't? What do you know now that you wish you knew before? Then seek out people who're struggling with that problem, and help them. It feels good.
Thanks for that link, bookmarked, will definately watch. I don't exactly remember where the analogy came from so could very well be from him.
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No, it's a prediction of how those 224 people would perceive a face with features similar to yours, based on a linear regression between the automatically extracted features and the participants' evaluations of personality traits. If you wanted to study how appearance influences others' reactions, how else would you do it?
I remember that BeOS was publicised as the dream OS for multimedia creation.
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PHP is awesome. It's so easy, i never had to read a book about it. Powers the web, and is ubiquitous. Sweet deal, instead of learning 10 different trendy languages every year, i stuck to it for more than 13 years now, and learned other much more important stuff. Wanna do something too complex? You wouldn't use a scripting language for that anyway. There's a tool for everything in PHP and it's fast. PHP made me money, i havent found something that's better overall.
> An extreme reading of your comment

Right, there's no need to get all New Age enlightenment-ish about it. I am not even in disagreement with the Richard Hamming quote. All I'm stressing on is that it's title is "YOU and YOUR Research". It's not "YOU and WHAT-YOU-THINK-YOU-SHOULD-RESEARCH-ON Research".

I struggled with the exact same confusion about "it's supposed to be natural" vs. "real life == effort" for many years till I understood : you do what it takes when it's your vision. You put in the outer effort, but there is no inner friction. And this can happen across years of "effort".

For example, if you envision clearly that you want to provide your child with a home, and at the same time decide that you're not going to work 12 hours a day for it, and forego a Google job in preference for a more "boring" employer who pays lower but allows flexibility while still paying enough for the mortgage to be paid, why not? It will still look like dreary effort to the hotshot Stanford grad, but to you, each day, which is part of a designed self-directed life, will be lovely. So what if it involves some amount of will-power to deal with an abusive colleague, etc;? You'll live, because it's within YOUR parameters of tolerance. The same thing could work the other way round : you cannot IMAGINE working for Google, but for someone for whom it's been a lifelong dream puts in the "effort".
IMO, you need to figure out what you want. Stop defining your identity around what other people are doing.

A lot of these people whom you're fixating on now are complete shitshows. You're looking at the public persona of unmitigated success and awesomeness. The reality is almost always not so rosy.

Think about what you want to do when you grow up. Turn your computer off and go cut grass, hike, swim, or whatever for a weekend.
I really feel like we need a constitutional amendment disallowing laws that effectively make it impossible to have standing ( in the same way that we have a ban on ex post facto laws)
In my game engine I wrote for the Apple IIgs a long time ago, I used compiled sprites and maintained a 1-scanline-wide mask that I used to clip the compiled sprite to the screen edge.

This only cost one extra AND instruction and allowed the sprites to be clipped to any size rectangular playfield while still maintaining almost all of the speed benefits.
Hence my question - what kind of discrimination can exist in such a world?
I can't talk about that tool in public, sorry. It's also not so impressive in itself. The only thing that makes it awesome is that enables me to speed up a taunting task and enables me to do something else while my program works in the background. It might not be helpful to anybody else, because they might not spend that much time on doing that task. The code is also not really designed in any fashion to be applied to even the same task with just a little detail changed.
Thanks for the link. I was surprised that it was written by Larry Osterman. I enjoy listening to his stories about Microsoft. Have you seen his Channel 9 videos [0]? I really enjoy the checking in videos with Erik Meijer.

[0] http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Larry+Osterman
Absolutely. But, why to loan the money if they may not pay back?
Maybe they shouldn't loan the money.

But, wait.. if they don't loan the money, who is going to buy their goods?
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This is in (somewhat) bad taste. I'm not personally offended (I am not some puritan that cares about jokes on the internet that are in bad taste) but I want to just point it out to you, in case you do not recognize it. You're using/reinforcing connotations that autism is a slur and that to call someone autistic is necessarily a bad thing.
What's perceived as discrimination varies. Society at large disapproves of discrimination, so everyone believes "it's not me". It's harder to pretend something as overt as a policy against hiring women is anything but discrimination, as opposed to "just having fun" or "random chance".
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The emulator I was mostly using for development (DOSBox) doesn't actually crash itself, but here's a nice example of how it goes wrong. In the final part of 8088MPH there is an instruction that modifies the instruction after it, but then (on the real hardware) the old version of the instruction is executed (because it's already in the CPU's prefetch queue when the modification is made). DOSBox executes the modified instruction because it doesn't simulate the prefetch queue. I tried moving the to-be-patched instruction above the patching instruction but that made the code take longer to execute and it no longer met the precise timing requirements necessary for the best audio quality.
Finally I found out the correct version:
foldr (+) 0 [1,2,3]

1. + contains only special characters and must be used either as infix function (1 + 2) or be enclosed in brackets

2. You need an initial value for the accumulator. You are reducing a list to a single value, you need to start somewhere

Please, gurus of Haskell, correct me if I'm wrong, I've just recently started to learn the language
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I'm autistic and I feel disgusted by such announcement. I have worked hard, gained a PhD and that's why I'd be recruited into one of these companies.

If Microsoft could do anything, it should just understand an autistic perspective in the workplace and its often eccentric behavior.
Anyone know if/when this would get propagated to cyanogenmod?
In my country (Australia) I believe most people would be a little uncomfortable if they knew they were in a house with a gun. I'd certainly think the owner was a bit odd/unhinged unless they owned it as part of their employment (farmer, roo shooter etc.).

That said, I don't see this as a big deal. It's always been possible to mail weapons from a jurisdiction with easier access to them. Tor black markets just make it a little easier to organise.
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Ask HN: Anyone using a “no hands” setup for programming?
It sometimes happens that programmers lose the ability to use their hands due to accidents/illness. Has anyone here used / seen an efficient setup for programming (i.e. entering code in various languages) that works with voice recognition, perhaps combined with eye movement? Please share info (hardware/software/effective "typing" speed). I'm sure it can be implemented better than using standard voice recognition software and text editors.
Some doubtless are, but you can't really generalise. Attention to detail and patience for, indeed enjoyment of, repetitive tasks may be traits widely found in people with autism, but they're not universal: surprisingly little is.
ATMS of Santander Bank (Banco Santander on spanish) keeps using OS/2. I just saw it a few month ago when one got bricked and I saw the old nice OS/2 bootup splash screen.
^Yes. You don't describe yourself as ambitious, you reveal it through your actions. How you prioritize. How you manage your limited time and resources.

It's weird to say "I am ambitious and I waste time vegging out watching TV" in the same breath– chances are the "I am ambitious" statement is really identity performance.

OP wants to be seen as ambitious (not just by his others, but by himself as well). It's a comforting narrative to hold, but it's also damaging (kinda like a cigarette addiction– you enjoy the pleasure of the cigarettes but you start noticing that your health is going downhill).

The gnawing pain that OP feels in his chest– I'm sorry that there's no nice way to put it– is the realization that he's a fraud [1]. It's the dissonance between "I am ambitious" and "I am wasting my time". One of those things have to go.

And we're all frauds to some degree, because we all tell ourselves stories about ourselves that feel good. OP is working himself up into a brilliant, painful frenzy, and in a sense it's likely that he enjoys it in a twisted sense– just like how some groups of people enjoy the drama of social relations, and keep perpetuating it.

BTW, just for fun (but seriously, too)– the most accomplished people like this tend to be writers. Balzac, Proust, Dostoeyvsky– all of them did this whole agonizing woe-is-me thing, or represented it powerfully in their work. OP, you might just make a great novelist. Write a modern day Lost Illusions with yourself as the title character, and you might just achieve the success you were hoping for!
I tried the 'units' program on OSX. It seems that it does not recognise the 'millilightseconds' unit.
Neat, but not to knock the tech, use of Node seems like a little overkill? See https://github.com/j-baker/breaktime-sh
Dude. I didn't learn to program until I was 26. I learned HTML and CSS when I was 18 but didn't do anything with it until age 26. IF I had the same attitude as you when I was 26, I'd still be a mechanic and not the lead web developer at an award winning design studio. Now at 31, I am working on multiple startups outside of work. Why? Because I'm not old until I'm dead, or stop learning..
So you're saying no capable programmer would stick with PHP given the choice? what makes you think so?
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I'm diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum, with an IQ of > 140, and early in my career I worked at Microsoft.

This is a PR stunt, but I'm comfortable with it if it helps align people's optics to the idea that autistic traits can indeed be harnessed into a super valuable role in society. You'd be surprised how many people don't think that's the case.
> I've been working hard on my first big project, and I expect it's going to be a great one.

It's probably not going to be a great one (especially if it's your first). Don't build things for the success, you'll always be disappointed. Build them because you want to solve a problem and enjoy the actual work. If all you enjoy is potential future rewards of success, you probably won't be able to suffer through the long, thankless work it takes to get there.
Sorry if this is a naive question, but what is a "no standing argument"?
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OP here.

Believe me when I say that there's nothing more I'd rather do than what I'm doing right now. Not even in question. I love programming, I love the project I'm working on, and I love the ideas that are waiting to be worked on in my future. My heart fills with joy when I think about holding those finished products in my hands. When I get into the flow, I can zone out for days and work on my projects with hardly a break for food and sleep.

However, I have a natural weakness towards idleness. Like any negative personality trait, I have faith that it can be worked on. (If you're depressed or socially anxious, you wouldn't just accept these as the way you are, would you?) Internally, when I run into this problem, it doesn't feel like swimming against the tide; it feels like a massive speed bump that needs to be overcome, but that I know from experience has a smooth road ahead of it. I think it is a mistake to believe that every ambitious person is naturally driven, from beginning to end, solely by their ambition. Sometimes it's not enough.

Were I to succumb to my personality, I would sit in front of the TV, depressed and unfulfilled, for literally decades. That is not an option.
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Here's the answer.. If you never start, you'll never catch up. The end.
There are emulators (for other targets) which do emulate NTSC decoding properly, but until I did the research for this demo nobody understood how the CGA card generates composite signals well enough to be emulate it properly. I have some code which I hope to be adding to DOSBox (and any other emulators that want it) soon.
Happiness = Reality / Expectations.

Decrease your expectations and you will be much better off. Seriously. It sounds like you are probably in the top 1-2% in the world in wealth. Enjoy that and don't let the expectations that holds affect you.
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I would like to see replication handled with the introduction of a new type of journal: one that only publishes studies that have been previously published but are now backed up by additional, confirming studies. Maybe two replications would be enough.

It would be even better when paired with a journal of studies failing to reject the null hypothesis. The first journal could then base the publishing threshold on statistical power of the group, rather than a simple replication count.
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What confuses me is how every person I know with kids complains their life is over, they don't do a lot, they have no control, they have no time for themselves and their life is basically over. And this is a mid-30s guy with a lot of friends with kids.

And yet having kids is wonderful.

I joked to my friend it is like Stockholm Syndrome. You have no choice. You made your bed and must now live in it. Of course you are going to enjoy your kids, it is biologically wired into you and you also have to do it, regardless of how overwhelmed every other part of your life has become because of that one decision.

It has also become very trendy in the last decade or two to devote your entire life to your kids and to never leave them alone, to invade every aspect of their day to the detriment of a parent living their own lives. Extreme detriment. Constant parental involvement. Vicariously living life through your children. It's actually fairly distressing to see adults so subservient to their children. A very modern malaise, this was not how parents acted 20 years ago.

Never trust a parent telling you having kids is great.

I am personally undecided, but I'm deadly serious, never trust a parent saying having kids is great. It's quite literally like they're some sort of possessed zombie, everything they say is basically "HELP! HELP! This is AWFUL! All joy apart from worshipping my child has been DESTROYED!". And yet they all say "Oh, it's wonderful!" in the next breath.
Also, life isn't about a list of accomplishments.. Make sure whatever you do it affords you the lifestyle which you want to live. Rich and famous isn't necesarry and life style business' are complete awesome even though they seem to get a bad rap in the startup world. A business that simply provides jobs and pays your salary isn't good enough.. Everyone seems to need the billion dollar exit or its "not worth it."
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I'm trying to say that everybody has a valid point and instead of fighting over who wins all sides are recognized.
The worst standup I've seen was lead by a fitness fanatic tech lead / manager. He used his superior endurance to 'win' technical arguments by just talking until people gave up because they wanted to sit down. These were typically hour meetings, but could extend to three. I'd give them 15 minutes then start sitting on the table.

In my industry, the big problem is people trying to use agile to deliver fixed cost, fixed feature, fixed time projects. They'll often be doing this as part of a large organisation also working to those targets. If you want to deliver a project like that, you need to control change to requirements, and push the costs from change either into a cost bucket you can track, or back onto the customer. Because Agile encourages flexibility, other teams teams working on waterfall push changes towards the Agile team. If the interface between them needs unforeseen changes, or some extra business logic turns out to need to go somewhere guess who's implementing it. The axe falls on the project manager at the end.

I don't think scrum is right if - you don't have direct contact with users (i.e. a feedback loop), you don't have the capacity to change your product and drop features as you go.

It's worth agreeing, in that kind of organisation, the scrum will be happening at 10am, like you say.
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Your second sentence is more hostile than needed.

One of the reasons I ask Tom these questions that he is one of the more rational folks on HN, particularly on other issues. It's pretty clear that he realizes he made a mistake, hence the deflection. Making a mostly rational person feel attacked is only likely inhibit their logical mind.
Ah the nostalgia. In 1999 I was a sophomore in college and built my first PC that was all my own. I used the legendary Abit BP6 Motherboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6
I had a pair of Socket 370 Celeron 366a processors overclocked to 100mhz, which made the system think it had a pair of P3 550mhz cpus.

BeOS was a great OS for experimenting SMP. The CPU monitor in the video would show you the loads for each CPU and you could click the left side to toggle a CPU on and off. You could immediately see frame rates drop and the remaining cpu's usage spike.
Furthermore, university is a great place to grow socially and find friends, girl/boyfriends, and maybe even a future co-founder! (Sometimes I think our education system should have a social education aspect too. Networking, communicating, and even brown-nosing can all be very useful.)