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JavaScript programmers who have never used Scheme frequently repeat this patently false claim. Scheme has nothing in common with JavaScript other than that JavaScript has first-class functions.
> I also wish for less hype around the Node project

I'm tremendously amused that you write this when every other poster on HN is desperately trying to generate hype for their project/company.
I've started 4 projects in the last 4 months and am not more than 25% done on any of them. I wish I could concentrate better so I can spend more time on them, I really wanna see at least one make it.
Actually thinking about it, it should be possible to purchase it with an anonymous prepaid card and use a fake name? anyone knows good anonymous credit cards that I could get in Asia or Europe?
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solution: design the rss feed with "top readers" in mind, inject "calls to action" links in the rss feed (like "Hey you, yea you the RSS subscriber, you're an avid reader and I appreciate that! I give FULL CONTENT access via RSS in hopes that my most engaged readers will add valuable input to my posts. Click here to comment and I'll try to respond and maybe even attach our discussion to the article. (at least click through to see what others readers are saying!)"

Get creative! Engage! Raise your expectation of engagement for your most valuable readers. If a blogger is doing things right he/she will have designed his blog posts to be a valuable "conversation" (and therefore making rss feeds merely an "entry point").
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I love Andrew's interview but his headlines are beginning to get monotonous.
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Cool, title changed from "How A 16-Year-Old Built A $100 Million Net Worth In Under 10 Years".
I have said several times that I'm not talking about discrete classes, yet you insist on arguing that point. I do not think that race can predict whether someone is lower, middle or upper class. I do think that race can predict income. I don't understand why you continue to tell me what I meant by class when I have told you what I actually meant three times.

I understand the data completely. The family of four example was an illustration of the marginal utility of income. The point is that not only are $55,530 and $34,218 quite different numerically, but they're also vastly different in terms of the luxuries a household can afford.

You've spent so much time arguing semantics that you haven't even tried to disprove my assertion that households earning $55,530 and $34,218 will likely have different behaviors. If my assertion is true, then race is a valuable predictor of behavior.

Controlling for income makes no sense, as my claim was about outward predictors of behavior. No, I don't think black families and white families with the same incomes will have significant differences in criminality. I think that data does actually show that blacks commit more crime than whites even when you control for income, but I don't think the difference is big enough for it to be a valuable predictor of behavior.

Good night.
"readability" is feature book-readers care about, unfortunately most "consumers" aren't "book consumers" therefore if the iPad is designed for the average "magazine (ultra-light) reader" than it will be a "kindle-killer". If the iPad is good for the "reading on the toilet" it WILL kill kindle's chance of "tablet dominance", BUT kindle will still have a sizable market if it remains merely the choice "e-book". As long as Amazon manages to convert a large portion of book-readers to kindle-readers than Bezos could care less (and should be thrilled).
Nice job. I find it particularly useful when I want to open up a bunch of links I'm interested in without the need to right click.
"being able to focus"

I like the fact that he chose the word "focus" here, the main reason for my comment. People usually use the general term "productivity". Focus is a really important and usually overlooked advantage of the interactive style of development.
In hindsight all great events get this sort of deliberate, almost pre-ordained air about them. Especially if you don't look very closely, since basic official history acts like a PR platform for interested political groups. So +1 for digging into the uncertainty, self-doubt and haphazardness that is the creative process for these great artists.
This is exactly the approach we're going for. We're a distributed team and have been since the start, and over the past two years we've used a variety of weird and wonderful tools to enhance the communication between us.

While video conferencing is nice, we've never found it really adds that much value to our conversations unless we're show & telling. Screen sharing can be useful but it doesn't lend itself well to a fluid two-way conversation (only one person can control a computer/cursor/keyboard at once), and it's generally not instantly available - if we're already talking on the telephone we have to switch tools entirely, and if we're talking to someone outside our team it's pretty much pot luck as to whether they'll already have access to the same services we do.

We wanted something with zero setup. No registration, no downloads/installs, no login.. Maybe when HTML5 is implemented uniformly across all major browsers we can drop the requirement for any 3rd party software at all.

It's an add-on to your existing workflow, rather than a workflow of its own.
This seems to be extremely common among artists and musicians, which I suspect is because their livelihood is tremendously dependent on reputation as it is hard to objectively judge their work. They have very high standards to meet and very little room for error, hence the tendency for extreme perfectionism, even to the point of destructive behavior.

Johannes Brahms, who spent more than 20 years composing his first symphony, did not want to be judged on the basis of any of his unfinished works or personal letters, so before he died he dumped them all into the river. Jean Sibelius burned the manuscripts of almost everything he attempted in the decades after his final published work. Camille Saint-Saëns suppressed his now-famous Carnival of the Animals because he thought it was too immature for someone of his stature and that people would stop taking him seriously.

I think the effects of impostor syndrome become greatly magnified when one has a reputation to protect, especially if it's one that would persist after death. But I think most of us can find some comfort in the words of Sibelius: "Pay no attention to what critics say. No statue has ever been put up to a critic."
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Awesome! ...but passing on this for the sake of my productivity, for now.
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And that damn web browser they make.

(I make a web site. It works great in every browser I try... until I open it in Internet Explorer, where it's all messed up. This is not an isolated incident.)
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“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's 'at' somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming, you know? And as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be all right.”

- Bob Dylan
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Getting it into a lower gear would mean the engine's current RPM is at a level low enough for the transmission to allow you to shift it into a lower gear. You can throw an automatic into "1" at 80mph and it won't comply.
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First time in a while I've wanted to look up a non-technical or scientific book after reading an article.
Ctrl+Click (open in new tab) and Shift+Click (open in new window) work well too, if I'm understanding you correctly. If not, my apologies :)
Some of the highest grossing movies of all time are either comic book adaptations or science fiction or fantasy extravaganzas.
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If you enjoy programming, keep doing it and learn it.

If you don't, make friends with someone who does. And develop other skills along the way.

Once you've made friends/networked with some people, you can present your ideas to them and see if they're interested in working with you.
"the LCD American voter..."

Heh, that works on two levels--not just "lowest common denominator" but also the American voter who watches too much TV news on their LCD HDTV.
Peer review is neither necessary nor sufficient for science.
> But I think most of us can find some comfort in the words of Sibelius: "Pay no attention to what critics say. No statue has ever been put up to a critic."

Well then, there must be some statue-based analogue of Rule 34, because...

http://www.therestisnoise.com/2006/03/statues_of_crit.html
I got that, but that isn't enough. IM is almost as convenient. Again, I'm not trying to be contrarian here, I'm just saying it's not convenient if it's not useful. I don't think mouse drawing is useful. Maybe when more features come online I'll change my opinion... :-)
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just sent this email to the rapportive team (I'm guessing rahulvohra will be the first/only to respond since he's "on top" of this HN thread):

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When "mail.google.com" loads (the "inbox view") the emails from people in my crm/social networks should be "glowing" or "jumping out at me". I LOVE your guys' product as is, but won't you really be maximizing efficacy by splitting the inbox into two "virtual" inboxes: one being messages to me from outside my crm/social network and two being those messages from people already in my crm/social network.

If you add this feature, not only will you meet your desired target demo use case but open yourself to the use case for average consumers who would like to only see gmail emails from facebook friends (and ignore the rest, aka SPAM). In this case I'd recommend your web app living a "dual-brand" life and branch development (if i had to guess this would double your odds of being acquired by Google, Google know's email's on it's last leg so if your app can bridge the old to the new (Google Wave) for both consumers and business users than whats a few hundred million to nab them up? lol)

Good luck! Thanks for rapportive!

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Do you guys agree? (that the "inbox view" would be the "killer feature" of this app)
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You understood me correctly. However, ctrl+click still involves two input devices. :)
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Are we really downvoting facts now? I assume that the people who are downvoting don't think that the commerce clause should be used to grant congress such wide powers. I agree, but you can't just downvote the situation. You have to recognize the problem before you can fix it. So thanks, ryoshu, for reminding me of the part of the constitution that needs to be amended.
[Edit: 'its' changed to 'opposite' for clarity, 'there' to 'their']

1. "I have said several times that I'm not talking about discrete classes, yet you insist on arguing that point."

Regardless of whether or not you meant to be "talking about discrete classes," you were. Socio-economic classes ARE discrete classes. So if you are talking about some other type of class, it is a mistake of comprehension on your behalf.

2. "I do not think that race can predict whether someone is lower, middle or upper class."

An explicit contradiction. I'll quote you directly:

"In America, skin color is a good predictor of class."

So which is it? Is race a good "predictor" of class or is it not?

3. "I do think that race can predict income."

This is the same thing as predicting class. Income is both necessary and sufficient for determining class, so if you could predict income by race, you could predict class by race. But you cannot do this (remember that guessing 'middle class' over and over is not allowed as it isn't information providing.).

4. "...you haven't even tried to disprove my assertion that households earning $55,530 and $34,218 will likely have different behaviors."

Ummm...that's because the opposite is taken for granted in the model of class. The middle class interval is traditionally considered to be from 30K to 75K - the class intervals are chosen precisely because the buying power in each strata is considered to be effectively equivalent. Again, if you don't understand this, then you do not understand the nature of classes - it just is what it is.

5. " If my assertion is true, then race is a valuable predictor of behavior."

No. Even if your assertion is true, all it shows is that income is a predictor of class. Well, duh - classes are defined by incomes. Behavior has no relation to any of these variables - that is, bad behaviors are distributed in equal proportions across the class strata. Income may predict risk-levels associated with bad-behaviors, but not necessarily their frequency.

6. "No, I don't think black families and white families with the same incomes will have significant differences in criminality."

Exactly. So then, there is no predictive ability that race has for any arbitrary class strata. It immediately follows then, that race has no predictive ability in terms of class. QED.
Very cool. I wonder if they continuously update the correlative research and its implications for existing customers. That seems like the portion which needs the most work and I would hope you wouldn't have to pay $500 every few years to see the latest results.

I would definitely subscribe to an annual service that would ping me every time a new report came out with implications for me.
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"Fundamentally incorrect" sounds like a pretty nerdy piece of metadata to attach to a statement.
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Read Judith Martin's "Miss Manners" books and newspaper columns if you want to learn how to determine what is right and what is wrong in social situations. She has a witty writing style, and she treats manners like a science.

You can read her columns at the Washington post here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03...

If you're going to buy one of her books I recommend her Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior (http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0393058743)
Hmm,

Standard zoning laws prohibit greeting clients and similar business activity business out of one's home. This is indeed a constraint on property rights.

But zoning laws existed for many years before New Urbanism. As far as I can tell, the New Urbanism advocates mixed-use zoning, which would actually give a land owner more options than previously.

For all I know, property right may be dieing in this country but I can hardly see this as evidence.
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That's pretty cool, that's essentially what I'm talking about. Maybe this will be enough motivation for me to finally start learning a little Ruby :)
There's also this: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/the-wired-ipad-app-a-...

I think premium magazines are going to make a huge comeback on the iPad, with a lot of attention paid to rich media, professional design, and smooth transition effects (none of which the Kindle has).
I am going down that road at the moment and I don't really know either. Yes, business have money that they are willing to spend, but many are willing to spend the most for what they see as the best product. Things like "simple" often come across as immature. Maybe the mindset just needs to change, I'm not sure.
I'm an Aspie, processing verbal information takes too much attention - if I wait until the other person is finished I will usually forget what I was going to say. And if interrupted I will usually be unable to continue. Normally, I just keep my mouth shut and don't say anything.
That's just the thing. It's not wasted money. It's built into merchants profit margins.

If you start taking that profit margin away, they'd likely just raise prices to compensate.
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I'm really excited about this.

Also, the 'Submit Current Page' feature seriously just increased the chances of me actually submitting things.
I think the comments are just in proportion to how much the idea sucks.

I've said this before (You told me off for moaning about twitvid.io), but I doubt people want to hear the feedback "Yes that's nice dear, lovely" from HN. They want the real opinions of people.

We don't know the founders, so we can't asses them, we can only assess the idea. And this idea is a fundamentally bad one. Hopefully they change it soon enough.
>social interaction comes from the limbic brain, so trying to learn it the way one would mathematics is awkward and misguided

Not just awkward and misguided, nearly impossible. I am an Aspie with an IQ of 156 and can barely maintain more than short, shallow conversations (unless I start monologuing which isn't a "conversation" but at least I'm doing some talking then).
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This was so painful to watch that I decided to switch tabs and just listen to it. It was still unbearable. It's like a bad soap with arguing 14 year old girls.
Heh, that's rather humbling. But then, if I may borrow the wisdom of Cato the Elder: "I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one."
It's really unnerving how the woman can grin through her teeth while telling Dawkins to go fuck himself.

It really is unpleasant to watch.
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I'm sorry, how is this relevant to Hacker News? It's precisely because I don't want to be subjected to this I abandoned Reddit a long time ago
Indeed. I wonder why Richard Dawkins is doing this. He can't possibly think in his brilliant mind that he can convince her.
The full title should be "Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright and Nobody Who Participated In or Viewed It Changed Their Mind."
Agreed. I think "simple" matters more for consumers. Whether your product can increase revenue or reduce cost is probably the end goal of most solid b2b deals.
Validate? What? How?
The author sounds like: "I don't know a lot about computers, but these smart guys improved something something that used to take one day into 20 minutes, smart, fast, cool"
This article is useless.

Instead, link to the paper itself: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1645421&coll=GUIDE...
This has got to be the worst tech news article I've ever read. "Math is hard - but it sounds cool."

This one gives a much better explanation, while still being accessible: http://www.hpcwire.com/features/IBM-Invents-Short-Cut-to-Ass...

Roughly speaking, when you have a lot of uncertainty on a lot of random variables it's too hard to propagate the uncertainty through the entire model. The standard approach is to just run 'enough' iterations of a monte carlo simulation - while IBM seems to have come up with a more efficient solution.
It sure sounded like the guy was either on drugs, or spoke English as a second language.
Funny article with a link to http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1645421&coll=GUIDE...

Which doesn't open for me. But one commenter states that they calculated an inverse covariance matrix in n^2 and made the method scale well on a parallel computer
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The author might be a specialist type, which is cool. But who's to say that the 2 jobs cannot be done by 1 person?

This blog post sounds like: "Hire a software architect that can build Interfaces for programmers to implement."
People often ask me how to learn more about building web apps and I give similar advice (although I only talk about finishing projects, not culling them).

So many of us have a lot of ideas. We get excited about some and start building them. But not many get to the stage where they could go live. And of those we launch not many get maintained.

Without launching an app it is hard to get the breadth experience that having a working, live, active web app. You are forced to learn about marketing, design, taking payments, feedback, user interactions and so much more. So I encourage people to take a project they like and not only launch but maintain it. This obviously requires having a decent idea to begin with, but that is just part of the challenge.
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I meant that it makes the "craze" and the amount of teens using it worse. I guess if your goal is to make ChatRoulette a decent place then it's good.
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The message is not that you must finish all of your projects, but that you must decide whether you will finish them or not. If you decide to finish them, then just do it! If not, then store it away somewhere out of sight. If you want to go back to it, you can always pull it out again.

Unfinished projects create clutter, and for me (and a lot of people I know) clutter depresses me and makes me less productive. I'd rather have unfinished things filed away somewhere, than out in the open getting in the way of my active projects.