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It's neat that you still have it, though. Pretty much everything of mine from around then has long since vanished.

(though apparently a few utility programs I wrote for class were still being passed around after I graduated. I sometimes wonder how long that lasted, though by now they've no doubt disappeared as well)
I think this comes down to personal preference - I absolutely love them. I didn't even change the sensitivity/haptic feedback settings on my Voyage for a few months because I really had no complaints, and my changes have been minor tweaks to get it just right.

I think this falls into the whole 'You can't please everyone' bucket - my anecdotal evidence among friends/family/coworkers with the Voyage suggest it's a big hit.
Actually, you DO see such emulations, just look at Instagram, or people using tube amps to get fuzier sounds, listening to vinyl records, etc. It recreates the sound/image one remembers from their youth and thus helps magnify the nostalgic effect, enhancing the emotional recollection.
>With all due respect, and I can tell from your other posts you are grateful for what you have, but this needs to be put in perspective. That 16+ years of studying your ass off is an investment someone else made in you, hoping you become a productive member of society that makes life a little bit better for someone else while earning a living for yourself along the way.

So? People were investing those 16+ years of education to young people in the 50's and 60's too, and upon graduation they were able to make a much more comfortable living with less debt that present day degree holders do.

>In fact, the only time a life you are wishing you had has been common has been in the last 50 years or so in the developed world.

That's not totally accurate. There's this conception that the mass population lived as some kind of slaves, constantly working to the bone etc.

Now, they might not have had washing machines and trucks and running water, but tons of traditional societies had much better standards of living than people give them credit for work-wise.

In some of medieval Europe's agrarian communities, for example, there were over 100 days of what we'd call "bank holidays" per year. In other societies, in Africa, in Polynesia etc, the whole community more or less lazily went about their business, more like a '60s hippie commune than 19th century factory workers.
Nice, except "f*ck you, speaking anything else than English!". There are languages with more grammar forms than "zero, one, many", you know.
Dup of article just posted by same user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9366448
There isn't a hard cutoff, those are the recommended grades to receive an offer. I'm currently in the Computer Engineering program here and I can say out of my class, most had around a 90. That said, CE is one of the less competitive programs.

Here's a chart of the number of students rejected from Waterloo Engineering with averages 90+: https://profbillanderson.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/unadmit...
All but Marco Rubio have wildcard certificates without an apparent use for them. It looks like whoever built their websites was keen on using all the budget they were alloted.
have you tried /r/soylent? There's loads of discussion there on flavourings.
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I was under the impression that you can, though they might show up under Documents rather than Books - assuming you've side-loaded by sending the files to your kindle e-mail address. It's not something I try to do very often though, so I might be mistaken - they don't seem to appear in the Cloud Reader though.

In any case, since you can just open the files in the desktop version of Kindle, it doesn't seem like it would be such a big deal.
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In academia providing concrete implementation is often not valued highly; hence I would have probably fallen into the same trap (which I did anyways, but in a different area).

p.s. thanks for the vote of confidence though :)
I don't know. Before I was made aware of this, I tried tipping while in Japan. Several places people were very dismissive about it. Eventually I just stopped, because it seemed like people didn't want tips.
You mean like JFK and Bob Kennedy, prominent black leaders like MLK and Malcom X, and who knows how many more either in assasinations or in more sophisticated career killing schemes?
Note: since you wrote it twice incorrectly, the word is spelled 'duplicate'. 'Dublicate' could be an interesting word since it resembles double, but it doesn't exist yet.
Disagree; change "healthy" for "alive" and we could agree.

This is somehow the same distinction between mortality and morbidity. IMHO, mortality stats are pretty useless and we should always look at morbidity stats.
>the VPN is almost certainly going to run over TCP, while AppStream will run over UDP

OpenVPN offers UDP mode, and I believe Hamachi (the VPN software mentioned in the article) uses UDP by default as well.
It's really popular with ruby community not only rails, and from there I think it spread somewhat to node but I outside those I think linux is a lot more popular.
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What would a modern day 40 years into the future 'mother of all demos' look like?

I don't think it'll ever happen, not because of the technology required, because people have realised the value of 'teasers'. There's more benefit to announcing things that build on previous work than there is holding back for a big reveal. We (the audience) are more sophisticated and understanding; we don't need to see the final product to grok what the demo is telling us. Showing a single feature is often enough.
Well, I could smash my head bloody against mod_autoindex to make it present things the way I want.

Or I can spend 3 hours writing something that I don't have to think about ever again.
Removing physical buttons to turn the pages was a giant leap backwards. It's stopped me from buying the Voyage.
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Ideal recipe for "how to keep dumb person busy" ;)
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This may seem like an opportunity for active plumbers who will adopt faster and get more orders.
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Paul Graham advises companies to do things that don't scale: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

Respecting your customers and building meaningful relationships with them can, in some industries, be disruptive. For a company truly committed to user/customer Freedom, the respect part should come naturally.

And if you view Freedom-respecting technology as being part of an ecosystem rather than something developed in a silo, it is easier to overcome the apparent efficiency and simplicity of the proprietary business model.
I spend a few minutes watching the /r/thebutton (non presser) every now and then. My SO said WTF are you doing. I replied that watching the timer was just a valid form of entertainment as watching TV or playing the sims. She gaffawed. Boredom plays a big part in lots of interesting online 'games'? Art thingies? Social experiments? April fools?

The one I go back to over and over is Cookie Clicker (orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/) any time I feel like getting a watch that counts my steps or a Tesco Club Card or any other gamification device -- I play the master of gamification. Or I watch the button, 13 days in and 55, 54, 53, click! Idiot, 59, 58, 57, 56, 55, click! Idiot, 59, 58, 57....
I believe GRID at least partially runs on AWS

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/3/8146065/nvidia-grid-1080p-g...

>which is backed by Nvidia Grid supercomputers worldwide and Amazon Web Services
Every news-item in every newspaper published starts off with 'City,' for national news and 'City, Country' for international news. That's so customary I highly doubt readers would interpret it as the whole country being complicit, it's just a geographic label, not a stand-in for the population.
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My reading of “your house is not an asset” is “Robert Kiyosaki apparently failed Introduction to Accounting because he still doesn’t know the definitions of basic accounting terms.” (Except in very rare cases, like when the verdict against you for the neighbor kid drowning in your pool is more than your house will sell for.)
Yeah, the easily amused are always more satisfied.
Some love hotels in Tokyo already make sure you do not see a single human face in your stay. Room selection is done on a touch screen, door is opened with a code, and payment is done using a machine.

It feels like this hotel is just the next step as (as a few mentioned in this thread) tasks like changing & cleaning sheets are probably still handled by humans, albeit hidden.
We're going with the open core model ourselves. In our case focusing on commoditizing our competitors by giving away the algorithms while at the same time enabling companies to build their own solutions.

One interesting aspect of open source is the pitch for enterprise. It aligns your business model with the consumer's needs and if it's close to data (storage or analytics) the risk of a company going under or getting acquired doesn't leave them in the dust (ala apple/foundationdb)

Open core (like cloudera worth 4x horton) allows for the best of both worlds where you don't leave your customers locked in but you can still get licensing fees for added layers on top.

Edit: Let me clarify a bit. Open core is for company's who just want to pay for solutions also allowing them to serve companies who want to build their own infrastructure. There's some amount of lock in with open core, but if the core infra is open source it still allows the customer an easier migration path. In our case we went with an apache license for the core tech and sell a layer on top that allows for easier deployments.

While open source startups are rare I think it's critical for core infrastructure to be open source.
For Windows where are great commercial WinEdt and free TeXnicCenter.
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Add that people working as waiters (and Serving Workers in general) do have an actual salary.
"But as more people join the community, more will push the button, delaying the day of reckoning."

Wrong. Because : "Only accounts created before 2015-04-01 can press the button"

It's not a growth hack...
Allegedly it has happened and the button was reset.
In Ludum Dare 27 (I think), someone made exactly this game. A game with a collective effort to keep "the patient" alive. One player had to press space every 10 seconds or the patient dies. Although every player was allowed to press multiple times.

I think the patient survived for 24 hours or so, which is quite remarkable for the smaller audience. If I remember correctly, this little game even made it into some German online newspaper (probably Spiegel Online).

Unfortunately, I couldn't find the game for reference.
It's a question on where to spend funds. There are so much more important things to do that will have more impact on our society.
Who cares, their budget is in the millions. Better to spend the extra couple hundred bucks, and have it. They will most certainly need it (ex. donate.hillaryclinton.com, debates.hillaryclinton.com, vote.hillaryclinton.com).
This reminds when the Joe Lieberman campaign said their site was hacked when it was really just cheap setup.

http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/finding-liebe...
> you didn't notice them

There are four lights.

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

...anyway, the apparent presence of the motion trails would depend heavily on a person's use of the brightness, contrast and saturation setting per each individual television set.
As a young person living in the UK, it seems to me as if 'social mobility' is the zeitgeist, for lack of a better term. Everyone's talking about it.

There are two main issues I have with the idea. The first is that it presupposes a system in which some people are poor, and as long as it's possible for some of those poor people to climb out, we're doibg okay. I don't think that the issues surrounding that are worthy of further comment.

The other problem is that under capitalism it's fundamentally impossible outside of limited cases of entrepreneurism.

In order for a working class person to have the same lifestyle as a higher status person, they must not only match, but exceed the expectation placed upon an otherwise equal higher status person, because they have a head start.

Take homeownership in the UK. A 20something that has had a leg up into the housing market via parental donation or loan has an entrenched advantage forever. I could earn 60K GBP whilst my middle class (via birth) friends earn 40K and forever be 'behind' them in wealth terms.

I don't really have much more to say on the topic because I'm not sure how it could be fixed or what that even means, but it's been a central theme in my life since attending University.
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People in Japan know that Americans do tip and they will not be so surprised. Specially if you look like a "gaijin" tourist.

Some will even consider it fun to be tipped for first time in their life, others will find it offensive and will think that you are looking down to them. But, in any case, tipping is a faux pas in Japan.
This whole social hierarchy based on colors reminds me of Jasper Fforde's Shades of Gray.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_Grey_1:_The_Road_to_...
There's also a Linux version https://github.com/SelfControlApp/selfcontrol/wiki/FAQ
They bought it out yes, but the guy forked it and now develops MariaDB, which a few OS' have switched to after the Oracle take over. I'm sure he's enjoying still working on his project.
"The hotel will also have facial recognition, which will allow hotel guests to enter their rooms without a key."

Great, I'll be outside taking pictures of guests and trying to impersonate them.
I feel the same. I live in Africa and I have a deep intuition that technology can help improve people lives here, in particular in health and education fields. I really want to work on it but unfortunately I do nothing about it for the moment. I always have excuses to not try (for example: lack of basic infrastructure will make my ideas irrelevant, my ideas are dumb anyways, even if I build my ideas, there is no way somebody will use it, ...).
Life is a nonsensical activity. 90% of startups are a nonsensical activity, that's why investors spread the money around, 1 in 10 make it? The people in those other 9 companies may as well be watching the button ;)

It highlights the difference between hackernews and reddit. People here are highly motivated and have a goal (fame and fortune). Reddit users are highly motivated, but don't have that goal (entertain me!)
Have you got any insights to share on your suggested timeframes, e.g. changing linens "still 5 years"? How did you come up with those figures?
Thanks for the clarification. I did indeed get that wrong.
Have you ever actually experienced this or are you repeating the same myth? No one will be offended unless you're some kind of jerk about it.

"Do as the Romans do" is always the correct behavior, but in this case the potential for offense is entirely overblown.
I think that by "community", the author meant the subreddit community of people interested in the button. There are many people with reddit accounts that are still unaware of the button.
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> Once a month Amazon seems to make a release that outright breaks a critical flow in the app. For the past couple weeks I've had to use the website to skim through books because every time the app tries to open the store view for a book the app instead opens Chrome with "about:blank" as the URL. /facepalm

Had same issue, reported it, was told to uninstall and reinstall, no joy. Upgraded to Android 5.1 which included a new webview component update, issue fixed.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what holacracy is or how it works, this is the first time I heard the term.

But this:

> market conditions shift too quickly to allow management to have the sole responsibility for making decisions

rubs me the wrong way.

Making decisions and bearing the responsibility and accepting the consequences of past decisions, is the sole task -- indeed the sole purpose of management. If they cease making decisions then what good are they?

Now, if "holacracy" means that there is no management anymore, it may be fine; however

- the tone and the very existence of the memo seem to tell otherwise; there is something extremely funny about "mandatory self-organization"

- salaried positions are (to me) a little like a deal with the devil: you give up freedom, in exchange for peace of mind and not having to make too many decisions. This holacracy thing sounds like a trick by the devil in order to not hold his end of the bargain.
Yesterday I thought about this... I picking up Rails using the 'Agile rails 4' book (by DHH). I have done many Sinatra applications using the MVC model so I'm quite familiar with most concepts, all I have to do is memorise and get a better grasp of Rails structure and rails approach to problem-solving.

So I used a hack to create an easy 'note' solution adding this to my .zshrc:

n() {
# $EDITOR ~/.mynotes/"$".md
open ~/.mynotes/"$".md
}

nls() {
ls -c ~/.mynotes/ | grep "$*"
}

Then I just "mkdir ~/.mynotes". I keep mostly 'rake' and 'rails' commands and a short explanation in 'md' format. It works like a charm because most of the times, I just open the note and leave it open using MacDown (an MD editor with preview mode) + it can be synced via Dropbox and you could even add encryption if you wanted too. But I'm not sure it would work for teams, while StackNotes apparently seems to me extremely well suited for teams.

Good luck with everything!
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pkgsrc should still work on Solaris 10, and there are a few people in the community continuing to provide patches for it, but obviously a lot of us have moved onto illumos so the support and documentation isn't going to be as good. That said, the aim of pkgsrc is to support every system possible, so we will always welcome contributions.
She only died because server died if I remember correctly
If I remember correctly, the patient "died" after the game got too much press, and the server crashed. Instead of rerunning the game, they called it a success. Couldn't find it either, but I did not look too long.
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Oh dear. I now have images, thanks to numerous police/murder TV series, of a robot finding a dead person on the bed, carefully folding them up to stick in the waste chute, replacing the bloodied linen with clean linen, and going on it's merry way with no-one the wiser...
My problem is I have so little self control I just end up editing the hosts file. I need something with the same functionality that I don't know how it works so I can't circumvent it.
Sutton's law: that's where the money is. Even if it's not going to make you rich, someone has to pay for the research, and funders want to have funded big ideas.

Your last question is about right as well. All the most successful academics I've met are incredibly creative people, with tons of ideas. If you have the choice of working on two equally interesting ideas, why not pick the one that's likely to turn out to be big? That will also help attract smart colleagues, which is, as much as anything else, one of the big perks of academia (not that you can't get that elsewhere for better salary and job security).
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Same here. Assuming you game for 5 hours a week that works out to be under $300/year. Much cheaper than buying and keeping a gaming PC up to date.
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She was dead by that time so she couldn't have received it.
The community it's referring to may mean 'r/thebutton', not the whole reddit itself.
It's good knowledge to have before going to Japan, but encountering a Japanese person who would actually be offended if you were to offer a tip would be quite rare, I think. They're well aware tipping exists in other cultures. And they don't expect you to know the Japanese way of doing things. It could be interesting to see how they react if a Japanese person were to attempt it though. :)

Also, you could say a form of tipping does exist in Japan (kokorozuke), though it's quite different than what we usually think of tipping. The biggest differences being:
1. It's sort of a way of saying, "Sorry for the trouble" rather than "rating" their service.
2. You give the "tip" beforehand rather than afterwards. And it's likely you'll have to insist that they take it.

You can see this custom in high-end ryokans for example, but even then, it's not required or anything.
Isn't the very point of self-organization and self-management that you can't read how to do it in a book? It has to arise organically and be built through shared interaction.

Especially for software companies, I've always found the idea of using external workflow and management software to be a little bit abhorrent, like wearing someone else's underwear.

It should be your way of doing things, and software you use to help you is just a way of codifying and automating that. In the same way we customize our editors, we should customize our workplaces so that they reflect the unique sets of people and activities they contain.

And of course, other people have pointed out the irony of a hierarchical mandate for change to a non-hierarchical system. I am reminded of an apocryphal story of drug testing at a university. They had a sampling of senior executives, professors, and researchers go first, to prove that it applied to everyone. When a substantial number of them failed, the testing program was quietly shelved.
Ever since /r/thebutton reached HN we noticed 3 times the number of clicks we normally have around this time.
And before that it was "Diseased Newt". It's not like these names have ever been marketing-visible or descriptory. At least with this one it sort of makes sense, since 2015 is the year of the sheep in Chinese zodiac.

2015 Year of the Linux Desktop, obviously.
It's correct to say that in Japan one should not tip. It's not correct to say that it's considered offensive.

To seriously offend some Japanese people you'll have to do something crazy like stick your chopsticks straight up in your rice bowl. Then you'll see them really wince ;-)
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