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A whole article based on one blurb. That's journalism!

Well there's also a significant danger of security leakage if the girls talk about what their family is doing, I guess.

I'm interested in the same kind of stuff, but I have nothing really tangible yet except a prototype I work on in my off-time. Let me know if you want to chat.

http://galapag.us/

My friends in DC and in the military are following it since it's a big deal in terms of precedents for Arab/Muslim revolutions. But no one else I know is really paying attention to it.

At first I thought, "This must be an article from a year ago, so we'd be like, 'aw MAN, they dodged a bullet'." Then I was like, "Oh man, I hope they're not trying to buy up recently flooded property on the cheap." Then I was like, "Oh. California. X'ing out."

Former enlisted Army. Most of my friends with officer experience are still in. They are superb leaders. They're Marines and Army. I wonder if Air Force and Navy are having problems, because I don't hear too much about them -- the ones I do know left to go to school.

I would argue that the ongoing wars have forged some great officers and have exposed many more as being frauds (see most of the last joint chiefs of staff). I'm kind of happy that Gates just announced he'd push out 100 out of 900 top officers. Definitely need to cut out some of the deadwood.

I don't think the Army is damaged -- why would you say that?

Get rich or die tryin'.

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67046/robert-c-lieber...

It's also tough for people who are actually not in much debt, aren't underwater, aren't in financial stress. Because they can only make do with a few months unemployed. That's a small margin for failure/experimentation/following your "passion".

Nice, thanks for this. :)

I wonder how well food truck businesses stack up in this category. I'd expect them to be more nimble, more accessible, with better web sites.

Word. I want the hours, location, phone number, and menu. All in a format I can copy & paste into my email to convince my friends to go.

I rarely get any of that at a restaurant's web site.

No wonder that it's easier to google/yelp it and use their listings.

Anyone come up with good charts on this? Not that this is a perfect comparison, but here is "self interest" vs. "civic duty":

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=self+interest,civ...

Yeah, I listen to music without words while coding or typing. I'm listening to the Tron Legacy soundtrack right now.

However, if I'm browsing/wasting time online/working out at the gym/running, I definitely prefer stuff like hiphop to keep me entertained. I think this is because these are more passive tasks.

I went to Columbia's SIPA competitor, Georgetown MSFS, and received that mail via a fwd from an MSFS'er's friend at Columbia. All it says is "alumnus" and it's highly possible it's just some recent grad who is now some functionary at State or maybe even some junior FSO. Knowing a lot of new FSOs, they're all totally paranoid about doing anything wrong.I would not suspect right off the bat that it was some high-level plan at intimidation. It's probably someone being proactive, like I originally said.At best, it's still misleading because you didn't have more information to leap to "OFFICIAL STATE DEPARTMENT STATEMENT OR DIRECTIVE".

Under the basketball metaphor: a shorter player may outrebound a taller player. If you play sports, you know that there are some people who seem to react faster to everything, who seem to know where the ball is going, who naturally position themselves where they need to be before they know where the ball is going. You can teach some of this, but a lot of it is just that Money Ball intangible stuff.

Misleading. The alumn was probably just giving a heads-up on the matter.

From gawker (http://gawker.com/5705639/us-military-in-iraq-tries-to-intim...):

"State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson got back to us. She said that she's unaware of any State employees issuing any "directives" to any schools about what students should and shouldn't write on social networks. But would State look unfavorably upon a prospective employee who had written about the leaked cables on Facebook? "To talk about current events is one thing," she said. "Would talking about it make you ineligible for a job at the State Department? No. But to go into detail, and propagate information that was illegally obtained—I don't think that's a good move for anyone. Not Julian Assange, not Wikileaks, and not any U.S. citizen.""

It's easier to be passionate about something when you've always been successful at it.

Also, somewhat related: Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on how you shouldn't follow your passion but should go where everyone else didn't go. (link is a blog post discussing his TED Talk, which you should watch)

https://ramblingperfectionist.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/mike-...

Is that a cop they're talking to at the end? And why do they omit their names and blur out faces at the end, but still keep the guy's face in at the beginning?

Great video. :)

I can't live without Tab Mix Plus in Firefox. I want anything I click on to open in a new tab. Chrome hasn't been able to provide that to me yet although I guess I could just try to learn middle click or whatever.

I don't think that's the question. No one is always trustworthy. You hope to approximate the truth from multiple sources, and the diversity of agendas and perspectives provides the best prism to look through.

Corroboration, in other words.

Now picked up by the NYTimes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html

I learned a little bit about programming as a kid with those books that just had re-prints of BASIC game code. The time spent debugging my own typos was pretty valuable.

Here's some scans of the IMP Log:

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lk/LK/Inet/1stmesg.html

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I don't think it's showing off. No one is excluded from adding to the joke or building on a meme, so long as it's funny. In that way, it's more meritocratic. Yes, you have to learn what the joke is about, and it creates its own culture and language and community, but that doesn't make it exclusionary just because it's not common knowledge. Exclusionary would be saying, "YOU can't say that because YOU are new here."

The danger with the lack of sense of humor on HN is that it makes it all the more apparent when people shoot down others' ideas here, or give non-constructive advice, or willingly criticize play/experimentation/fun.

I think that says more about your perception of the world than online users' perceptions of the world.

My IRC channel had a no LOL policy too but now it's being used again...but only in a sarcastical, ironical way.

Schroedinger's Bar

I do love how there are overwhelmingly negative reviews of apartment managers online. But then there are also equally ridiculous positive reviews of the apartment managers, obviously written by the managers themselves.

Agree with random samples. Also need larger samples. Or something like a carfax for apartments.

By the way, you saw in the reddit thread that some guy offered the kid a job, right?

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/dk1au/hey_rgaming_i_...

Just saying.