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I've just switched the LeechBlock Firefox extension because you can delay the page loading (thus making you think why you went there in the first place).
Yes, you're right. Perhaps my original statement was a bit too extreme in that sense. I'd wager, though, that having the screen not be back lit at least reduces sleep disruption, that is, it fares better than backlit screens in that regard. I don't know if there are any studies that have proven this to be the case though.
You should combine this with some of the more notable markov tweeters..

eg. @erowidrecruiter

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Why do people suddenly care for others when they had enough of this shitty space rock? You gave no shits the last three decades. Given the rabbit-like pest that we are - why should you?

I want to end my life where and whenever it suits me. Hypocrites please stay away.
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Dang, they just casually leave a phone call going (through their demo telephony system), then do some apparently unrelated demo where they fix a bug that is causing another part of the system to crash, and then as a big reveal, the phone call they left up is still going untouched.
Very cool! Looks like you nailed the simplicity. I built something similar although a bit more in depth here: http://www.postergen.com
Wait, you mean there are other countries than just the US of A?
> One unfortunate downside to this implementation of trails is that it depends on having a consistent frame rate; it has been tuned for 60fps and will not behave exactly as expected at other rates or if vsync is disabled.

It's a very subtle effect, and probably absent in more recent CRTs.
>In many cases you kinda have to buy Oracle software. Buying the hardware is pure insanity.

The one thing nailing us to Oracle is proprietary vendorware we utterly rely upon ... and that's ramping up its Postgres support. Which we will be diving upon with great glee.
Also Cookie Clicker raises an interesting mathematical problem. I wonder if there is a closed form solution to it, or even a polynomial-time algorithm, or if it's NP-hard.

I posed this question once when I was copying and pasting a pixel to fill a line. Given a time cost of selecting & copying vs pasting, what is the optimal number of pastes before I should select and copy? What if the cost of selecting & copying is a function of the current size of the line? That is what Cookie Clicker raises, but with more kinds of "boosts" and whose costs also increase based on how many you've purchased.

Or perhaps you can also pose it in higher dimensions later (copying and pasting to make 2d squares, or even more complicated shapes).

I wonder if algorithms can be written to compete in Cookie Clicker-type games.
It's outrageously sexist. Plenty of women blame themselves for problems that aren't their fault - it's one of the reasons why many women stay in physically abusive relationships.
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You're not actually addressing the question. You talk about "harmless fun", which is a fine argument against "negative highlight", but is not an argument toward "positive highlight".

I'm very curious what Kiro thinks. I hope they clarify and weren't just being hyperbolic.
None of those are where the market is going to be in 20 years, that's where the market is now. Spamming is AIUI very competitive; likewise literal extortion and patent trolling.
What on earth is the use case for this - using something that's only available on Android on a non-Android device?
I am not sure but isn´t the magnet-in-finger thing just caused by kinetic energy of the magnet in response to EM fields? The magnet would move a little in the finger (e.g. vibrate) and your nerves perceive a sensation equivalent to touch.

The augmentation ends at the finger and the brain never has to adapt that much at all.

The hearing implants are a different story altogether because hearing is already fully developed in the newborn's brains [1]. So if you have hearing issues due to biomechanical problems in your ear, the brain wouldn't need to adapt at all when these issues are removed. You would merely form new memories from new sounds but the sensory processing works normally from second zero onward.

And if hearing is impaired due to neurological issues then I severely doubt any current implant technology would change that. That would need to be much closer to treating a stroke patient.

The human brain is extremely adaptable, yes. Much more so in young people than in old. And apparently there is some variance with brain region (responsibility) as well.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1061088/
This requires Flash. Is there any chance of a html version?
It wasn't an ad. Adblock did not affect the "have you clicked the button"...button.
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Well, and I don't think this is a nitpick, a recession is not the same as a depression. It would be good to get the original source for both of these facts to compare. Perhaps during recession, the number of "failures" is not increased quite enough to create the "generally accepted reason for failure" you might find in a depression.
Your actual video player app is built on a UI library that just uses the same thing this video player app does.

Sure, you could skip a layer and make your video player talk directly to X11, but it wouldn't be cross-platform.

The browser is both an HTTP client and a UI kit, and some people are starting to skip the HTTP client part, and use it as a UI framework, essentially a competitor to Qt or GTK. That includes editors such as Brackets, Light Table or Atom, video viewers such as the infamous Popcorn Time, and games such as Game Dev Tycoon.

Picking a UI library is always about finding the right balance between cross-platform, ease of development and memory usage. Kits such as node-webkit and the Atom Shell (used here) give access to one more choice, albeit one which may consume more memory (for now) than many other options.
Just as a side note, I am very impressed that you still power through working in web development with some design component from what you've been saying.

I have a lot of respect for that.
Read 'The tin drum' about 10 years ago. Didn't get a lot of it but I remember getting very fascinated with it. Kind of like Murakami but I found Murakami easier to read.
Time to read 'The tin drum' again.

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Maybe it's because by the age of forty you've probably run out of the steam that comes free, mostly from the external expectations of what you should do.

It's easy to finish school, go study something, then get a job, get a better job, start a family, have kids and pay for the bills because you don't really have to think much about what do you want from your life. Where did you come from? Why are you here? What are you to do here? What's your call in life? But the crisis that happens roughly at midlife brings those questions to the surface: "Is this all to it? What is going on and where am I in it?"

Men are not necessarily as socially integrated as women. Going through the big questions alone is something a lot of people simply don't survive. They are likely to lose their momentum in life, often get depressed, and at the extreme end some even kill themselves because too many old things turn out to be meaningless. Some become workaholics or develop a way to escape the emptiness and recreate purpose artificially. But a lot of men just lose the momentum, or a significant part of it. In contrast, more women talk to other women or therapists or relatives about what they're going through. In the average, it looks like that women seem to get energized in midlife whereas men seem to lose power.

It then depends on the man himself whether he's the kind who will eventually emerge and see his vision for life more clearly than before or who will lose his sight for life more or less permanently. Social circles with positive examples of what men can, at the best, grow into in their 40's and 50's could make a big difference but there aren't many of those these days.
It reminds me of The Wave, or the Blue Eye-Brown Eye experiment.
Why do you think you have failed?

Because the superficial rule set of your surrounding social group dictates so?

If you don't harm other people and every now and then make someone happy or smile - then you did not, do not and will not fail!

Guys like Donald Trump are failures [1] - you most likely are not.

Do something to reshift perspectives if you're stuck in one that makes you feel so bad about your life that you even associate this with the subject at hand. Travelling, reading, moving, meditating, ...

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1943873/
'Perhaps "This app would like to use HTTP for its API" should be a permission that the user has to explicitly give.'

Good idea.
I agree. A good VC is in for the long term and building knowledge (the kind you can base a consulting business on) is definitely a long-term goal. Also I am all for bootstrapping and not beeing dependent on VCs at all.
Another point is just how dreadful the Kindle store is. That is just a rat-infested cellar of literature. I'm not even talking about bad writers; I mean literal fraudsters.

And the personalization is useless. I have a very specific profile: history, statistics textbooks, classic literature, modern poetry. The front page of the store, right now, is offering me "Billy The Bug: Short Stories, Games, Jokes and More"; "Frontiers Saga 13", some kind of space crap; and "Highland Guard" (picture: weedy man with sword).

Plus about four 50 Shades clones. I used to worry about the age of Total Internet Surveillance; turns out Amazon can't even figure out my gender.
Maybe that is very obvious or something but I know for a fact that SJ had some connections to some very capable people in that field.

It might have partially been his cancer. I am convinced that he was on point nonetheless.
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So true. Statistically speaking, we can't all reach our goals and fulfil our dreams, because many people share the same goals/dreams.

By your 40s it is really hitting home if you have missed the boat. You're running out of time to turn it around, and those rutted-in habits are tough to break. You begin to realise how bad some past decision were.

Getting through this for most people is tough. Throw in some relationship trouble, career trouble, drug or alcohol troubles and it is a toxic brew.

I think it's why learning to fail is vitally important for everyone, and the current 'everyone's a winner' childhood treatment is a time bomb. People push self esteem by vacuously pumping themselves up with positive affirmations. But true self esteem is gained through competence. While a child might suspend reality enough to believe their crap artwork is just as good as the talented kid at the other desk, by the time you are forty you can't kid yourself any longer.
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I would take anything that Kurzweil says with a mountain of salt.
I assumed it was a reference to the infamous reddit 'test post please ignore':

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/92dd8/test_post_please...

which was the most upvoted post on reddit until about a year ago (a fairly significant achievement, given the enormous growth of reddit in the intervening years).
> Don't even get me started on founders vesting their shares. You build a company, you have sweat equity, but the VC wants to reset the vesting? Why ? You can't vote unvested shares. They will give you a song and dance about "what if a founder leaves?" Well, we covered that in our articles of incorporation because we're not idiots, but they will ignore that and insist that "all founders must vest all their shares". (this is more common on early VC deals.) That's straight up taking paid for (with equity) and earn shares and turning them into a class of potential shares. Nope Nope Nope. Give founders part of the option pool as an incentive, fine. But reseting is just setting you up to be sucker punched when they want to replace a founder (because they don't like how things are going and need a scapegoat, no matter that it's the worst thing for the business at that point. But Tada! All your shares you already earned are now vesting again! Look at that! Even thought the other founders don't want you out, you don't have enough votes!

I'm really interested in what you're saying but I can't understand what you mean in this paragraph. I'm not sure what part is your position and what part is meant as sarcasm. Can anyone spell it out for me? Thanks :)
Simple and obvious question: how much % performance gain does this typically give?
Well suicide can either be a cry for help or a decision that life isn't worth living. Maybe more men decide the latter.

I also think the financial/work aspect is being overlooked. At around 40 a man will be most likely to have kids/mortgage/wife to support.

For him, it looks like another 25 years of the same 9 to 5 drudgery. This is probably made worse by the face that his spouse is at home or working part time looking after the kids and is pretty much put to pasture, the hard part of her life is over, alot of women don't pick up their career after having kids and will rely on their spouse for support.
Awesome, thanks. I'm going to give it a try.
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Jason Davis explains how he gets the font size information for his d3.js word cloud here: http://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/about/

You might benefit from the same approach :)
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Yup. Witchcraft.
I think they hit their expectations more often.

Lots of women develop goals of having a family, a decent husband and stability in their life. Not all, obviously, but it is a common enough set of goals. Lots of women achieve these goals and gain a state of relative happiness.

Lots of men develop goals of things like sporting prowess, business success and material wealth. These things are much less common to achieve than a decent family life.

I think underlying it all is the fact that men are also generally more capable of violent acts, probably including towards themselves.
Isn't the whole point of venture capital that you take on a large risk in return for a large potential payout. VC is called "risk capital" in a number of languages for a reason.
The risk/benefit of genetic engineering to enhance the spectral resolution of the eye wouldn't seem to be justified for the case of elective "vanity" procedures.

Also, at least by some sources I found, the identified tetrachromats have an additional cone with sensitivity between red and green, not in blue. Are you conflating tetrachromacy from additional comes with tetrachromacy arising from aphakia (loss of the UV-absorbing lens)?
I don't see how this demonstration is anyhow useful.
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Just to chime in from the opposite angle, I, too, have a Paperwhite. I've had it for quite a while now, and it's receded to being a "once a month" thing. There's some reason that the act of reading on it just isn't as comfortable as reading a physical page. I'm not a "casual reader" when it comes to physical books at all, and I was hoping that the Kindle would help me avoid having to buy more shelf-space, but if the product is preventing "casual readership" from turning into "hardcore readership", wherever you draw those lines, it's hard to see a business reason for doing so.

I'll happily blame the justification, but there are other layout problems which also distract: image handling and inconsistent paging don't help in the slightest.
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Didn't finish reading the article, opened up the subreddit and then clicked the button. Wondered why I couldn't click it again and seen the side bar. So impatient. Forever purple.

"You only get one click" or something right next to the button would have been awesome.
Okay, that's a fair nitpick. It's explained by my careless use of words. Rates of completed suicide correlate strongly with a bunch of economic indicators: number of people without work; number of house repossessions; etc.
I'm 36 and I know what you mean, but I think this "success" stuff is the male equivalent of "being beautiful": something that society relentlessly pushes on us, which we should probably reject from first principles.
Same way as saving Guinea worm - by housing it inside your body (and mind).

The next question is why would you want to.
I can also confirm that Football Manager 2015 runs pretty well on a c4.8xlarge 36-core Xeon machine, for they eye-watering cost of about $1.65 an hour in Spot instance costs.

Always wondered if you could break even hosting leagues on there.
Dealing with failure gets tougher as you get older, just because you being to understand you have a limited set of 'resets' available, and each one is going to be tougher.

Growing ageism in the tech industry is a massive concern, however. But relearning the new thing every couple of years gets very old, so I completely understand how it happens.

Inner peace is the key - as you say - you have to give some missed goals the virtual Viking burial and let go of them. But I think you also need to set new goals or risk losing direction altogether.
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"The Royal Family" gets similar treatment. I suspect that it's a language thing---there are only two Anglosphere countries with presidents, and the other one (Ireland) has ~1/50th the population of the US and lots of Irish speakers, so if you see an English language post about "the President", then there's a good chance that it's referring to the US one. I'd like to see speakers of other languages (or Anglophones from outside the Anglosphere) confirm or refute this hunch.
Er, what? You only need the backlight in the dark. In the light, you have the light. That's what makes e-ink good.
Teenagers are obviously different than small kids, but this seems to be a more systematic problem than not failing small kids when they start school. Litteracy is only 99% in France in the 15 and older group, on par with the USA. I think that we can agree on the US system being broken. Looks like France is following suit. Given that, fixing the school system in France and learning from Finland does not sound like a bad idea.

Unless you have a better idea?
I haven't read it, but I'm thinking to buy it. I read few months ago other book (The shadows, what the internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas Carr) and it's a very interesting topic (more in current times).
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… but not on Voyage (they made sure in the new FW you won't do any of that).
1. Could be, I don't know the numbers, what about alcohol as self harm/medication?

2. Could be, I don't know the numbers but it sounds reasonable

3. Could be, then we should see that the numbers of suicidal attempts were as high for women in the same age.

4. Should be the same for women and men right?
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Basically, what user squids wrote. For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide
Add to that that men are incredibly competitive - in the workplace, in sports, concerning women. At the age of 40, you either made it or know a lot of other guys who did and start to realize you won't be part of them.

And of course, a lot of men have as much a skewed image of their success in life as women have concerning their looks. So even moderately successful types get depressed or kill themselves because they see themselves as losers.
I'm not sure what the mechanism would be here? What are you proposing?
"The Tin Drum" is really something - if you want what war-age Germany looked like without boring yourself. It's both informative and imagination-inducing.
The theory is that a warmer light wouldn't wear your eyes out, so you'd be able to keep them open to read and stay awake for longer, not that it would make you fall asleep.
To be honest, you don't read reddit daily :)
Sorry, I just accidentally downvoted you. I meant to upvote.
So there are as many attempts by women and men in that age? That is interesting.
I've had this happen to a couple friends. It seems to fit a common pattern and, as such, has a solution but I'm not going to talk about it online. Be open to breaking all the rules and rejecting everything you're told about how you should be.
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I worked at Cloudscaling for several years. It seems like this article simplified (actually complicated, read on) the issue too much by truncating it into its two "playbooks." I think the first thing that needs to be argued properly is why open source startups need to be analyzed differently from other startups. If you have a feasible (scalable, sustainable, etc) business model to make money with using open source software - say by deploying it and supporting it - then that business model can be judged by the same criteria as other startup's business models.

The issue of productizing software which several OpenStack companies have attempted is part a basic part of their business requirement for scaling - because supporting dozens of heterogeneous deployments is impossible with reasonably sized engineering & support teams.

This article implies that Cloudscaling used the first playbook. It did do the items listed on the first playbook, but it also did all of the ones on the second playbook too (though, while being a smaller startup didn't contribute as much code back to OpenStack as some of the larger companies/contributors).

Creating new success formulas - like these "playbooks" - ignores what we know to be true about the success of many great startups in our midst. There are patterns behind that success which are consistent. These patterns and factors have been written about extensively by folks like Paul Graham, Eric Schmidt, and the like. They rarely synthesize new complexities or factors when talking about what creates success. What they do is go back to basic principles. However, the data to analyze failed startups well enough to determine which fundamentals were lacking is rarely available - so we make stuff up. Company culture is a big one - and it may or may not have had a significant impact on Cloudscaling.