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Yeah, it's also a pretty weird attitude. Certainly not one that scientifically or engineering-minded people should have. If someone alleges that your physics experiment has a problem, the proper answer isn't: "Oh yeah? Well I've got tenure and recently won a major award in my field. What kind of physics discoveries have you made lately?" Scientists actually lose a lot of reputation if they start getting that sort of attitude--- it's been the sad fate of some late-career scientists.
It seems to me that what is really going on here is that the personalization is lousy. The point of personalization, one hopes, is to show you what you want to see. But you say the personalized version does not do that. That being the case, the personalization has completely failed. Which might answer the OP's question about why people don't like personalized feeds.

On the other hand, it could be that you are upvoting not things you want to see, but things you agree with. Tragically, many people do. In that case, it's your own fault (or the fault of anyone who does such upvoting, and dislikes the results); the personalization algorithm is doing it's best, but it's getting bad data. And since upvoting based on agreement is so common, this also might answer the OP's question.
You must know the email of the person who previously covered your products. Get in touch with them.
Don't limit your perspective. It'd be a better idea to move in with a physics major and a poet than with 2 copies of yourself.
For non-US residents you could use Anchorfree's Hotspot Shield.

I dont believe it's secure privacy/personal data -wise but it's an easy way to get a US ip address and gain access to sites like hulu. Be warned though, it is pretty slower than your usual unencrypted/untunneled connection.

If anyone else knows about a similar service please let us know about it.
Another vote for Taiwan.

People are friendly, the society is (mostly) free and you don't have to compromise your conscience. Food is great, diverse and safe. Granted, local driving habits are suicidal, but that not really different from the mainland.

The level of technical expertise around is very high. I've been doing hardware development in Taipei, and for about any component you can source vendor's field assistance engineer within a day.

The trade agreement though seems to be very heated topic there, with lots of lobbying pro and contra. But ultimately it is likely to come through.
Oh, absolutely. I didn't mean to say that anyone looking for him was being a jerk. I myself, as the maintainer of one of his projects, wish he was still around... the world needs more _why.
They can easily write an application that uses in-app purchases to allow the user to purchase (each week, or month) the next issue. What can the issue be? Well, that's simple, it can be HTML (5 if you want, or anything else) and then it can be displayed in a UIWebView within the application.
It's a great question. Why are people so bitter? We have several really good SmartPhone platforms to choose from today. Looks like the tablet market will be as competitive. So if we're not being forced into one platform and have the freedom to simply buy another product that suits our needs what's the real issue here? The post-PC era is going to be about making technology accessible to everyone. Is this bitterness maybe from the old guard who likes a world where they get to be the tech savvy computer genius their friends & family rely on? Or have they built their identity around being one of the privileged elite who are educated enough to do complex and interesting things with technology? Are they offended by the idea a company might choose not to design products specifically for their needs? There's definitely some deeper issues here. Also if Dylan was 20 today he would probably be more concerned about real world issues like climate change, human rights, the corporate take over of America, the ever growing inequality between the rich and poor, etc. I gotta believe his choice of which telephone to buy might be kinda far down the list of concerns.
I love how Steve does not really answer the tricky questions and only goes the "Apple is your savior" path. What makes me bitter is that Apple clearly gives a sh*t about porn or flash or whatever. Steve cares about the money, nothing more. And on this way he spits on the freedom of the users. But whatever.. i will again get downvoted because most people here feel attacked and will smash the little down arrow like a little kid that starts to cry when telling him that the teletubbies aren't real.
You're sacrificing freedom if the workers you pay don't give you free access to the source code you pay them to write.
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The motives may be complex but I'm guessing it comes down to Apple not wanting garbage clunking up their beautiful and "magical" device. Random runtime environments that Apple can't control? Hell no. Cross-platform apps that use the lowest common denominator of features and are slow? Nope, sorry. Apps that sit outside the walled garden that might be nefarious? Yeah, right.

Jobs wants elegant and beautiful apps on his "revolutionary" device. If it's not one or both of those things, then he's probably not happy with it and doesn't want users to see it.
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It's interesting how little we know about some of this fluid-mixing stuff still, despite the basic principles being centuries old, and simple versions of the experiments being standard school experiments. I guess they're complex enough that there's huge ranges of stuff where we don't have good enough theoretical models, so only know what's been experimentally measured? In this case, it was surprising to me for some reason that it's unknown how dispersants will function at mile-deep water pressures; surely there's some sort of model for that? Or is it just that we're not confident in the model?

Vaguely related, I ran across recently that apparently scientists don't yet fully understand the effect that makes drinks like ouzo and absinthe get cloudy-white when you add water, due to some sort of stable oil/water emulsion being produced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouzo_effect
I am not looking for "2 copies" of myself...

There are a lot of people on this thread who think what I'm doing is a good idea.

Please explain why that moving in with a physics major and a poet is a better idea than what I have proposed?
Maybe, but only until it becomes the default in Firefox.

What I don't get is why MS don't built adblocking software directly into IE: it would do more harm to Google than anything else they can do, and could be defended as a move to improve the experience for the user.
I'd be happy if Canonical actually managed to ship a browser with great font rendering out of the box. Oh, and a 64-bit build would be the icing on the cake.
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I believe what he means is make tailor your "story" to their style.

Maybe by changing your subject line to fit their typical "story" type. Like using LifeHacker as an example: "How my software improves conversions by 35% - overnight." - just something a tad bit sensational.

Also, you might want to consider doing "favors" for the bloggers, like giving them a free account & personal assistance in setting up some a/b tests for things like their events or contests, etc.

Also, you can try to reach them more personally (but they usually don't like that) - if you have a particular persons email, give that a try or twitter if they're following you, dm them or even a call, if you have skype credit. I believe Jason Kincaid from techcrunch is jkincaid here on HN, that's a starting point.

Lastly, you might want to approach blogs with smaller audiences, that are targeted, like smashingmagazine.com or appvita.com - something that 90% tech people read.

Good luck, I hope this was helpful.
The world has changed so much since Stallman started his crusade. I'm just don't think what he's advocating is realistic which unfortunately makes most of what he's saying irrelevant. You simply cannot avoid proprietary software anymore. It's a nearly impossible standard for even OSS developers & users to adhere to. Think about it. You can't drive an automobile. They all use proprietary software. You probably can't even ride a bike because the traffic signals are controlled by proprietary software. You can't own most major appliances. You can own any cellular phone regardless of the operating system it runs. I guess my point is by advocating this extreme approach Stallman is hurting the cause more than helping it at this point. A more realistic approach has some chance of actually connecting with a broader audience.
> Very high IQ people can be completely useless

... in the eyes of very low IQ people.

I agree with you here. The problem was not the mathematical models that were developed, the problem was that people don't know what risk means. Traders have the "it won't happen to me" attitude, so they go for the big gains. When everyone in the industry goes for the big gains, all paid for with credit from big gains that "will eventually" materialize, the industry has a problem. (An example is credit default swaps. If the bank that wrote you the swap fails, you have taken on more risk than you were expecting. When a bunch of banks fail at once, then all the banks take on additional risk, and also fail.)

Anyway, this was all predicted, but the shareholders of financial institutions wanted the gains that necessitated heavy risk-taking. And they reaped what they sowed. You can't blame the quants for this one...
It's just not optimally written, the major question should be:

Which application do you want to write that oh so really demands Flash and would give users better experience than going native?

I don't believe such an application exists!
It's good to be reminded that Jobs really does think he's doing the right thing. He's wrong, but he does seem to genuinely believe it.
Wow, Hacker News, I'm so proud. :) The post is short on details, so feel free to contact me if you're actually doing this and run into problems.
It's well worth clicking through to the video linked from the article. The illusion is very simple and very convincing; it's a simple matter of perspective, but even after seeing how it works I can't make myself see it "right".
and what has Steve Jobs literally made himself as opposed to telling others what to make? Jobs has made less than probably most people on HN. Let's hear it for the countless thousands of engineers and designers who break their backs for Steve so he can be literally lord it over those who obviously aren't the great "maker" that he is.
My guess is that your startup just isn't that interesting, especially to general audiences like Lifehacker. Your tool is a tool for making tools, which is not what the average Mashable, RWW, or TechCrunch reader really cares about. They want a shiny new service to show to their friends on their iPhone or something, not a tool that will help their company make money. They don't even have companies, or websites to optimize.

That's your problem, I'd guess. The group of people you'd appeal is too small. (Of course, on HN, the demographic is quite different, and you got 28 upmods in 4 hours... in the middle of the night US time. This is probably where you should pitch -- not as many eyeballs, but more eyeballs that care.)
Are 99.9% of python developers really using CPython?
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Just from the bullet points, I like "22. Nobody cares. Do it for yourself."

I am working on a project aimed at protecting the environment(check it our on my website if interested). It's a research project and we're short of funds. Tried applying to different grants, none worked so far.

People always ask me if I think it will succeed. And I always answer that odds are it won't, but even so, it was a nice ride and the important thing is that I tried.(I wanted to prove to myself that I can do something similar)
Well I too thought this could be a problem. But then I searched archives and saw that they have covered startups in this industry in the past.

See Clicktale (a tool to see heatmaps/clickmaps on website) for example. TC covered them and got 53 comments too

http://techcrunch.com/2006/07/11/watch-internet-users%E2%80%...

RWW covered CrazyEgg (another similar tool) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/crazyegg_measuring_webs...
I didn't notice it until reading your response, but I suppose there's a pun on 'pure'.

Pure environment, pure performance ('not wanting garbage clunking up their beautiful and "magical" device' as you mention), and also pure as in honest.

But purity is not really a word you want to overload.... Fundamentally incoherent to conflate two ideas about purity. And really deeply problematic. Anyhoo, thx for your thoughts.
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But unlike a physics experiment, the decisions about open or closed platforms are moral. It's the equivalent of criticizing Gandhi for some minor detail of his fasting, to which he says "no, this is how I will fast, because this is my fasting and my movement". "Oh, and when have you ever started a movement? Or do you just criticize others?"
We already know how much Steve likes the use of "freedom from"...

"We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts."

Yes, Steve, save us.
Steve cares about the money

That seems be contradicted by his $1/year salary.
Because you can talk/discuss something other than computer science / software development to them, hence you would not be limit your learnings in one direction.

I, for one, would not like to bring what I do for living to my home. If I need to discuss my CS ideas, I can find likeminded people at other places, (say where I work/study), but living with "like minded" people 24 X 7, is not something I'd like to do. (Unless I am starting a startup or something)
I think Steve Jobs has hired Dan Lyons as an email assistant!
It’s not really necessary to have the newest and greatest CS. Many designers I know skip a version or two and they generally tread carefully (i.e. take their time) when transitioning. Don’t judge designers by the version of the CS they are using :)
No, he is right. If you don't want to make great apps, you are free not to make them, or to make that what you think would be great with Flash for another platforms (but note that evan Adobe can't make the demo which doesn't crash on these other platforms(!)).

Exactly the selection of what makes his platform is what makes it unique and, to people who buy the product, better than other offerings.
I still have a life and other friends that I talk to about stuff other than CS and software development to...

I also have an intense passion for learning and can never see myself as "limiting" myself in one direction.

And, yes... The idea is to start a start-up. Hence why I am posting this on YCombinator. And mentioned Kickstarter.com in my link.
One thing I remembered from the Mint.com case - they were selling to the news not themselves directly but their by-product. What do I mean by that? In your case you can analyse your customer cases and find some interesting common patterns like "using word Love in the tag line usually gives 50% better results etc etc". Or "compelling tag line can not exceed 5 words - our research proved etc etc"
You have plenty of data to play with and I'm sure there are extremely interesting points you can make.
hmm...ok, so a political dissident can't criticize a brutal dicatorship because he's never created a brutal dictatorship before?
Meh. I know it's confrontational, and I don't mind the downvotes. I find it hilarious, apparently you don't. Sorry.
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Btw, it's this type of close-mindedness and insularity that leads to tremendous abuses in society. Witness the Catholic abuse scandals. Can one criticize the Church without being a member or part of its leadership structure or even without believing in God? I hope so.
You're looking for someone who is a fan of the same progr. lang. as you are, who uses the same text editor, the same VCS, and even the same libraries/frameworks. You're looking for a designer who uses the same version of Photoshop that you're using, or at least uses the version you think he/she should be using.
IMO:

1. You should not live with your co-founder(s). It's important that you can take breaks from the startup/each other by going home.

2. You should be friends with your co-founder(s), but not "best friends". A startup is a bussiness relationship which is incompatible with "best friendship".

This is my experience based on doing my own startup and watching others.
Except for that ridiculous moralizing about porn (firstly, the platform should not be designed to censor content and secondly, stopping porn by not having Flash seems stupidly inefficient), Jobs is perfectly right. It's their platform and they can choose what to offer. While not an Apple user, I am nevertheless thoroughly enjoying Adobe's problems - been burned by crappy Flash plugins on Linux and I feel a sane and open wrapper for video is long overdue. Go suck a bag of dicks, Adobe. Your indispensible Flash is getting less so with every effort such as this one.
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For one, Apple Computers.
Sounds like he was trying to simply draw a line under the conversation - it was clearly starting to drift a bit too far.
I didn't mention his salary.
> You simply cannot avoid proprietary software anymore.

Anymore? You really think it was easier in 1980s?

Over the years Stallman has singe-handedly affected the software ecosystem in very tangible and important ways. Yes he may look like Osama preaching from a cave in these videos, but make no mistakes, software landscape would've been different and even more sad place if not him.
And another one that didn't get it. The mails are not about Flash videos on the web. They are about writing cross platform programs that are not running on a flash plugin on the iPhone but are cross compiled to ObjC.

The "but developers can choose whether they want to write their programm for iPhone OS or for other platforms"-argument is so ridiculous, it makes me cry. In practice people have no choice but to develop for iPhone OS (because it's the biggest app platform) and then, if money/time/effort allows, write a second app for the rest of the world. And i think, as a developer i can complain and bitch all day about it, even if it won't change something. Of course, Steve can do whatever he likes with the platform. If developers like that is another question.
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I've sent Andrew Looney an email suggesting he do a game based on Kaxxt. Here's hoping!
Hi there. You are absolutely right X-Istence. I wrote that in the heat of the moment, as they say. I have already retracted the blanket edict in my reply to compay. Consider it doubly-retracted. Of course, I respect everyone's right to express their opinion.

What I'm getting here from _why's detractors is that your animosity towards _why is bound up with your animosity towards Ruby. I have never understood language wars. Each language brings something different to the party. I learn different languages just for the fun of it. We can be competitive and cheerlead our own corner but it's tedious when people start spewing bile.

I don't think you can project your childhood emotions onto _why's pulling of his online presence. We can only guess at why he did what he did. He disappearance and removing of the code and so forth that he was in control of does pose interesting questions in this age where source-code is shared and diaries are public. If it's important enough people will have copies and keep a hold of the bits they like. I can see how it would annoy somebody to feel like something of worth could be removed from the world so easily but maybe we'll have to get used to that. You could argue that _why had a social responsibility to not do what he did but surely we must allow him some personal autonomy as well.

For my part I'll try to understand your perspective but could you also try to appreciate mine? Thanks!
Reading your post cut into the profit margins of people reading it. Didn't it?
Try sites with smaller audiences to get at least some coverage. If your app is good big blogs might notice and write about it.

My personal experience: I submitted my app to MoMB - just a short email. The next day it appeared on Lifehacker (via Life Rocks).

Good luck with your venture.
Steve Woz, Steve Jobs, Bill gates and even Richard Stallman - all have commented on that post :)
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I agree with both these points, but I disagree that wanting yourself and others on your team to be paid for the work you do, no more, no less, is the same thing as being entrepreneurial. There are many attributes that make someone entrepreneurial and there are many reasons people don't just start their own businesses. Getting paid for the work you do instead of being on a salary definitely has similar unpredictability, so it needs someone to be less risk averse than they're used to in their regular 9-5, but I think it's much more about freedom and fairness and these are qualities any engineer (or human being for that matter) craves. If I know I will get paid exactly for what I do I'm free to work as hard or as little as I want depending on my interest in the current project and whatever personal circumstances come my way. There isn't this unhealthy pull/push that happens in partnerships where people are constantly expected to do x% of the work. And I'm also free to not let my work rule my life, I'm in complete control. I think those who want to get paid for exactly the work they do are more akin to freelancers than entrepreneurs, emphasis on the 'free' :)
>Smalltalk has been around forever and one of Smalltalk's strengths is that most of the implementation is in Smalltalk itself.

I think LISP is a good thing to look at as well. Even though it's not that efficient to write the implementation of LISP in LISP, it's practically possible with 37 operators. There has to be something with these languages where you can write the language in itself.

To be completely honest, I'm somewhat astonished that speed is one of the reasons to write the core in itself: Usually you would think it would be a reason to write it in a low level language.
I believe most enterprise systems are fairly expensive. Maybe you would consider building your own system? I have done a similar thing, by writing a plugin for Google Desktop Search that indexes TIF files. Writing a plugin is pretty straightforward. Now for the OCR part, there is only a few Open Source OCR engines, the most popular being Tesseract. The quality of Tesseract's results is pretty good and I believe is sufficient for many systems.
Same here. It's totally mind blowing.

I just don't know if I'd have the same problem if it wasn't a video but I had the subject right in front of me. But since it won a illusion prize, I guess my answer is already there.
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