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I think of two things when it comes to this question: the notion that you should regard relationships as "lines and not dots", and how to get meetings with people too busy to see you.

Steve Blank has a great article about how you need to provide value to even begin getting into somebody's space. http://steveblank.com/2013/08/12/how-to-get-meetings-with-pe...

Now you might say, I'm a student, what could I do? But there's a lot you can offer, from your story and perspective to the skills you have. Even just writing from the perspective of somebody offering value rather than just trying to take it makes it easier for you to get meetings with the mentors too busy to see you--the kind of mentors you should aim for.

Starting a relationship is always easier than maintaining it. You want to make sure you could grow with the person you're reaching out to, and that ideally, the conversations you have with them will be mutually beneficial. After a while, you'll be learning from them and they'll be learning from you as well--if you plan for that relationship rather than sitting back and trying to grab a "mentoring" session you'll start seeing your thinking about mentor dots evolve into long-lasting line relationships.

My last note on this is that it's also a lot easier to learn from people if you're working for them.

To sum up

1) provide value to everybody you talk with
2) think long-term
3) work for people you REALLY want to learn from
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I don't think systemd does follow any semantic versioning: each of the feature releases change the major version.
What gift card api are you using?
Sure, that's obviously the debate inside MS, or they'd done it a long time ago. But it's clear, despite the Windows Store touting app counts, that WP is just not happening. So providing a slow, limited emulator could help bridge the gap on essential apps, while not totally giving up. Otherwise folks like me that would really prefer Windows Phone, we're just gonna stick to Android.
Another round of this crap.

You know who loses when a "real" names policy is enforced? Native Americans, domestic abuse survivors, anyone who wants to express a political opinion without risking their job (or in some countries, their life), people asking intimate questions about sex, and many more.

You know who wins? Data brokers who want to buy your data from Facebook.

Provide me with evidence that using a "fake" name makes you more likely to cause abuse, and I'll eat these words.
I've talked to a bunch of them about Pizza Hut, and none of them have it, but I'm currently using TangoCard.
Well, the interesting content of the article is the handling of the incident by his companions and NSF rather than the details of what might have been the cause of Mark's death.

I'm not surprised how it went at all though, having had some experience on a French polar base I'm quite sure it would have been exactly the same, maybe with a bit more secrecy. I think it's fine.
Swear words don't break the HN guidelines. When we ask for civility we have in mind how people treat one another online. Swear words can be used to treat others badly, but they have plenty of other uses.

It's not a trivial question, though, and people aren't wrong to disagree. Cultural differences make for very different views here. In some (sub-)cultures swear words are uncivil and in others they are innocuous. There's no model that satisfies all these norms, so inevitably we have to disappoint some.

As a consequence of the above, we don't bowdlerize titles either.
Look at this from another angle. You are looking to be a student of someone. A few options:

The traditional advanced education path will usually form this sort of relationship. If you are fortunate, your bachelors program will allow you the opportunity to work with and learn from someone that can mentor you. If you haven't yet formed these sorts of relationships with your professors and are graduating already, you could start a masters/doctorate program in which you will be the student again and have (perhaps greater) opportunities to form these relationships.

Outside traditional education, you could find a junior developer / engineer position of employment in which a mid or senior engineer is assigned (or volunteers) to be your boss. Learn everything you can from this person, take their criticism, code reviews, etc. and improve yourself. Even if you are hired as a developer and there is little processes in place, you can take lead and find more senior co-workers that are willing to help you. Be direct and open about the fact that you're looking to improve your skills/abilities, and that you're not just looking for them to do the job for you. Don't take criticism personally, use it as a way to improve yourself and your code.

Outside traditional employment situations, you can participate in open source projects. Pick something and start working on it. Fix bugs, and ask questions about all the things you find. Be active in the IRC channel for the project, and/or the mailing list. Voice your opinion, ask questions, ask why things are done the way they are done, etc. Again, don't take criticisms personally, use it as a way to improve yourself and your code.

Go to hackathons, go to meetups, go to events and be friendly with everyone. If there aren't these sort of things in your areas, start them. Attend both social events and 'building' events where people are working together to build something together.

There is something you can learn from every person you meet. Establish this as your attitude.
There's another thread going on with the same question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9400288

Some of the answers there are very interesting.

As for myself, I got a chance to help a local body of entrepreneurs to organize their meetup events. Working closely with them has helped me make more meaningful relationships than formal mentorship/advice requests to strangers.
I wonder what the usecases are for this package

edit: maybe install it as a prank on your colleagues VMs
of course not. Embrace, extend, extinguish is all they want.
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> Guys, we've spotted the Mormon here

This was probably more of a misfired joke than anything ill-intentioned, but still, not ok to post here.
AFIK most cases of depression are triggered by life events.
Causative factors are usually not quite that simple (except maybe in the case of adjustment disorder?)

But then again this kind of discussion frequently gets muddied by colloquial use of the term "depression".
These days you'll actually need to commit rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
Sure it is; Google could stop doing business in France, and direct all traffic from France to a landing page saying that the French government has imposed restrictions they're not willing to comply with, so they're choosing to stop accepting traffic from France, and that you might consider contacting your government representatives if you want more information.
> I wonder why it took Ballmer getting out for a "developers developers developers" philosophy to actually be adopted.

At least from the outside I always got the impression he was stuck in the last decade where many thought giving our source code was only for unemployed linux geeks and competitors would steal your products. I'm not sure if he was really like that but that was almost my impression.

I know many who managed companies around the same timeframe that at least thought that way.
Yes. Microsoft has given the message, constantly, that they would accept pull requests. The workflow is still being worked out but many have contributed to many of the .Net components they have opened sourced.

Right now I think it's a semi manual process to bring code in house and semi automatic when it gets pushed into GitHub. At least that's what one of the last Microsoft engineers described when they were on HN a few months ago.
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You could try that on IRC.
I agree with your points. Yes, the current generation of displaced workers will be in trouble and yes if the changes are quick the result won't be pretty (re: illegal means of survival). Despite this history also shows that the long run is likely to go the way I proposed(?). I guess the real difference is that my approach is too macro.

Edit: Also, what about the opposite force? You can't displace workers and expect them to still consume as they did before. So regardless of how good technology gets I find it hard to reason that it should displace people at apocalyptic rate. If you put these workers in too tough of a position too quickly, they won't buy the very products they used to make. So entire industries themselves are restrained - otherwise everyone loses, including the industries that would supposedly gain. Sorry if I worded this poorly.
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You would send the paper to the most appropriate journals or conferences - just like you did whilst at university. Most conferences welcome "industry" papers. If you are an ACM or IEEE member, then you can get an email address as part of your membership package and that gives you a more "professional" image.

I know of several much published "researchers" who only show their consulting company as their affiliation. That is sufficient proof for me that it is possible.

If none of the foregoing feels right for your specific situation, then have you considered contacting members of your former university to act as co-authors?
This subthread detached from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9397270 and marked off-topic. A pity, because there are some substantive comments in it too.
They could be attempting to demo their 3d-printing technology with the smallest launch system possible. I imagine their competitive edge is in manufacturing, and they could be looking for an eventual partnership with a bigger player.
Building programs that generate cellular automata is a fun exercise in any programming language, even if it just spits out ASCII art.
A "natural monopoly" is basically any monopoly with a high barrier to entry, for example having a high infrastructure/start-up cost.

In this sense Ma Bell was a natural monopoly. Social networks could be considered natural monopolies for similar reasons.
far from it. TWS occurs in neutral locations (coffee shops etc) . no one's personal space (in the literal sense) is in the picture. Which is good actually, it lets you be comfortable both as the host and as one of the attendees, which tends to lead to authenticity.Thinking about it, there would be way too much already on the line if these were placed in someone's home from the get go.
Anything but XNA: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...
depth of field has nothing to do with sensor size, it's only related to focal length. the advantage of large/medium format is that longer focal lengths have a wider field of view than 35mm.
I didn't realize this was a translation! (Marie Curie was French/Polish, I could see Einstein writing to her in English.)

I thought it was just Einstein writing extremely strained English. If the original reads fluidly, then the translation...could use improvement. It's comically strained.
You can, you'll just need to re-hold them after upgrading them. "apt-get upgrade" still won't affect the virtualbox packages.

Though, out of curiosity, why virtualbox rather than kvm?
Even ten years later, it's always fun to see the submarine[1] breaching the surface on Hacker News.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The core team has reserved the right to break backcompat without changing the major version if they find a serious problem in 1.x series. So I expect that it will be a while (at least a few years) before 2.0 is created.
The -r enters the directory recursively, so it's the same result.
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I See Music Because I Have Synesthesia; I Decided to Paint What I Hear
Just finished "How to win friends and influence people?". A friend recommended "Crossing the Chasm" so will be picking it next.
I think in general, More People Are Becoming Inventors. Shows like Shark Tank, Dragons Den, etc. have made starting a startup (a.k.a inventing) a mainstream thing to do, and it is (slowly) becoming more common.
how is it a different mindset? you don't see B&W through your viewfinder? you see the exact same thing the color-covert-later shooter is seeing.

also, modern digital cameras with EVF allow you to see B&W through the viewfinder.
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In my experience, if there is something that is troubling or upsetting for me, I can tend to engage in distracting activities or thoughts so I don't have to think about it. This seems like a less extreme version of becoming emotionally numb in response to very negative feelings.

It might seem like that to you, but the two don't seem that similar to me.
Differences include the fact that you may be able to will your way out of your (somewhat healthy) distraction - or think clearly about it, care about it, or register it happening at all - while this is largely not the case regarding emotional numbness (pathology).

I think this gets to the core of our disagreement. You are implying that people without mental illness experience life in a way that is simple and intuitive. If you are unhappy, do more exercise. If you have a "seemingly" good life then you won't want to commit suicide.

I don't think that's what he's implying at all.
Rather, I think he is implying that those that have not had to struggle with depression has another perspective entirely, and thus have a very hard time intuiting what dealing with mental illness is like.
That's why you get that kind of simplistic "solutions": those that suggest them usually have no experience with or knowledge of the pathology in question, and are basically thinking of how they would attempt to remedy the situation (unknowingly basing their whole plan on how a healthy mind works).

There is a lot of discussion on introversion on HN, and one interesting post I read was saying how the advice to "put yourself out there" was not good because shallow interactions with other people could be just as unsatisfying a no interactions. The advice was to find ways to connect with people at a deeper level.

Apropos of introversion; there seems to be a great deal of confusion surrounding the term, particularly in relation to insecurity and social anxiety (as with terms that have their meaning muddied by colloquial misuse.)

Similarly "do more exercise" might be simplistic and bad advice for many people, not just the severely depressed. And people with seemingly great lives might commit suicide because they are deeply unhappy or dissatisfied about their lives. Do you honestly think that just because a person has the appearance of a great life, that they must be happy?

Again, lolo_ is talking about why "do more exercise" is bad advice in the context of attempting to cure the perceived "sadness" of an individual suffering with depression.
Healthy subjects, on the other hand, will generally see a rise in mood (short term).
Depressed subjects will subsequently return to their baseline of "shitty" - if they ever experience an effect in mood at all.
And regarding people with seemingly great lives committing suicide: Most of these would likely be diagnosed with some sort of psychopathology (although suicide itself might be debatable on a more philosophical level.)
>Breaking up Google because its influence on the internet is largest

Not the internet, the whole western world would be closer. I don't know anyone who uses the internet and doesn't use a search engine. And the very large majority use google.

Like I said, it's really how you approach the issue, even determining if there's an issue in the first place.

To me it's not about the company, they come and go. It's about the people, the structures the social aspects of it. No matter if it's Google, Apple or Coca Cola. They're just names and I think people should feel no great sense of loyalty to a company aren't working for or who's ideals they don't believe in.

>This isn't about equality for all

You're right, but you must have missed something. Because, indeed, I don't advocate equality too/for companies and especially not for Google (search). Comprehend for a moment the huge influence a subtle change in search results _could_ have. I don't want that power/chance to lay in the hands of stockholders and/or founders, until such a time that google's usage is down or google is better regulated. Because I feel that they are barely regulated right now. They appear to be able to do whatever they want with their search results. I don't say we should steal google, but they should be prohibited to manipulate current events for example.

Also the reason I'm not too concerned about Coca cola is because there's already rigorous testing and regulation for the foods that you can sell.

Furthermore I don't care about which soda is the most popular, I really, _really_ couldn't care less. I _do_ care about what the most popular search engine is. Because, and it's been said before, the person who controls education controls the future. And Google undeniably has a share in the metaphorical control pie.
Does KVM do anything like VirtualBox's seamless mode?
It looks like a "datalog database"
- Never work on things that won't sell.

- Keep up with market trends.

- Strategize marketing/sales first, implement later.
There's nothing to say that a communist or a nazi is going to do anything to take down Liberland. Isn't excluding someone for their beliefs a thought-crime kind of situation?
Google replacing URLs with breadcrumbs in mobile search results
If you end up with a child you don't want, don't sweat! You can let him or her starve to death.

From the linked article:

"But the parent should have the legal right not to feed the child, i.e., to allow it to die.[2] The law, therefore, may not properly compel the parent to feed a child or to keep it alive."
Funny thing, WPide has the emacs key binding as default.
The only thing more amazing that going to a TWS meetup is the thoughtfulness and care the founder, Ankit, puts into growing this community. Highly recommend checking out a tea time or letting a friend know who's in one of the host areas to join.
Companies follow a predictable lifecycle. E.g. several decades ago Netapp killed Auspex (and then acquired the IP!).[1] It's quite possible that one of these new companies will kill Netapp.

Edit: BTW Auspex had very nice hardware. But it was over-engineered and more expensive than Netapp. And snapshots on Netapp were better than anything Auspex had. So, more expensive hardware, inferior software. Not a good combination.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auspex_Systems
Will do. Every time I've felt inspired to, found the almost 1000 issue a bit overwhelming in searching, and like most, I want to help with open source but don't always have a lot of time. I'll find time to report it.
China's version of Y Combinator?
How could this article go on without discussing the issue of abysmal savings interest rates, pushing more people into investing rather than watch their savings dwindle in the bank?
I don't understand what the new cross arch flags do. Are they for cross compiling packages?
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That's seriously cool. What's the stability/speed like?
It'a limited by diffusion at this point for full frame sensors, but it would be possible to get more resolution from a larger sensor, which of corse is exactly what you get from large format film.
Well, I've only been programming for two years and I'm new to advanced concepts like compiling etc. There aren't really simple tutorials on how to make a database afaik, so I figured I'd just think something up and try it out. I realized it was an inefficient design, but I didn't know if it would be unusably inefficient or just slow compared to programs written by teams of CS majors. Only one way to find out, as they say.
Not these days; rm refuses to recurse on root. This can be overridden with --no-preserve-root or by appending a *.
You can't buy one new anymore, you might be able to find one on eBay or something.
Sounds like IBM... They can be pretty dysfunctional.
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The 'Waveglider' [1] by Liquid Robotics employs a variation of this. Tethered to a buoy on the surface, the main underwater vehicle is propelled forward by the wave's upward force acting on spring loaded foils.

[1] http://liquidr.com/technology/waveglider/how-it-works.html
I think there is also a question about whether such extravagant credits only easily capturable by large entities like Sony should exist - but I agree, the 'outrage' seems to be misdirected at some apparent malfeasance. No. The outcome was within the law; Sony was legally due the money.
FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000
The challenge is generally in making enough of the pre-cursors in enough quantity to make it cost effective.

So early technology, like charcoal :-), easy to make the pre-cursors. And for some silver halide films that is still true (19th century tech). But as you get to things that got their start in the 20th century and required a bunch of composite things to be in place in order to exist, those things may end up outside of the range of manufacturability (at a market making price).

It will be interesting to see the things that fall out from that.
I shoot both film and digital and I don't think they're at all the same. When I'm shooting film I pick lighting and development techniques that will maximize the chemical nature of the film, bringing out grain and so on. Certainly you can emulate those things digitally, but generally when I shoot digital I aim to preserve as much information as possible, when I shoot with film it's more about pushing against the physical limits of the medium. Pushing against the physical limits of digital looks like ass; when digital fails it fails ugly, because you fall off a cliff rather than rolling down a hill.
Maybe they could just re-introduce print x as syntactic sugar for galling a print function. Like in Matlab, where the operators (+, *, ..) are just syntactic sugar for calling functions add, mul, ..
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That's one of the best math articles I've ever read frankly.

I was just wondering the other day how to visualize a square flat torus, and I didn't realize that this was such a compelling mathematical question.
One of my favorite Fil groups on flickr is https://www.flickr.com/groups/onfilm/pool/ (Film isn't dead, it just smells funny). Some are very serious about their preference, some just like experimenting. Reading their discussions can be at times, enlightening.

Just to reinforce on the point of people wanting to continue with what they know and love, we still have people who mostly work on large format film or medium format film. Granted, the perception granted by the lenses for these formats, give you a completely different feeling from that of 35mm and smaller.

One thing film was better at than digital, at least a couple of years ago was dynamic range. You can have the bright sun in your filed of view and the surrounding area are not "blown out" (all highlights)
This is a killer Contract, short and on the spot, and easy to modify for your personal needs.

Thanks for sharing
C++ is getting nicer and nicer. The issue is mostly that compilers aren't implementing all the nice features yet. I'm looking forward to C++14 etc. etc., I'm not looking forward to finally having to port to python3.
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