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Where do you live? In Belgium 90m2 apartments are considered small, even for a couple with no kids. 120 m2 is standard for newly build ones, I'm building a few between 125 and 170 although these are luxury apartments. My sister bought a 170m2 one smack dead in the center of a big city (Antwerp), as urban as it gets in Belgium. Where I live now in the Netherlands the standards are lower though, especially in Amsterdam.
I have a feeling that's a guy they met. Maybe a guide or speaker. Other common features were a man with a striped shirt, and possibly a woman who talked about her extramuros life.

All of these have the same beard:
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/pat.html
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/nick.html
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/jesse.html
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/michael.html
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/david.html
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/kevin.html
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/matt.html
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/amanda.html
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/betsy.html

And these the shirt:
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/amanda.html
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/betsy.html
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/jeffrey.html
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/kyle.html
http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/james.html
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You could as easily call this Why People Fail. None of the points are limited or directly related to intelligent people.
> * Nexus One--Get updates immediately without carrier interference.

Keep in mind that there has been no official 2.2 release that has been widely distributed for the Nexus yet.

Aside from apparently some early review/press models there have been no general Over-The-Air 2.2 updates--people running 2.2. have had to manually install it.

(This is annoying. :) )
Cool. Except that completely misses the original point: do not centralize what you can avoid to. And do not trust a third party when you can avoid it.
OKCupid [...] tends to attract emotionally unavailable women, IMO

I find this interesting. Could you please say more about it?
I suspect pot-friendly merchant services is also a profitable niche.
You could put a temporary directory on your class path, and then unzip any jars into it. You could then reload Clojure source files, although I'm not sure if you'd be able to do anything about Java class files without a custom class loader.
Aren't there two tiers to this? Almost everyone will benefit more from the deeper networking you're talking about, but for certain paths, a second tier of "celebrity" and exposure based networking could be essential - Gary Vaynerchuk is a prime example of this in action, IMHO. He clearly has deep ties to a small group of people, but his "shallow" networking-en-masse skills are a big part of his new found celebrity.

Most professionals I know have modest networks where the relationships are usually strong, but the really successful people I know have a second, significantly larger network they can lean on and are "famous" within.
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can you think of any strange interpretations of "what is your background"?

like, could he have thought it was a question about his ethnicity, or anything other than career history?
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And by ignoring all the other projects and open protocols that target the same problem.

This is because interop with OpenId, OAuth, RDF et al is hard so hey, lets go shopping! ...I mean, lets roll our own from scratch, that always works.
In my personal experience, there's a great way for beginners of clojure to get up and running. It's called labrepl, by Stuart Halloway:

http://github.com/relevance/labrepl

It's so good that I think the clojure website should be linking to it. Here's the summary from the above link:

Labrepl is an environment for exploring the Clojure language. It includes:

- a web application that presents a set of lab exercises with step-by-step instructions

- an interactive repl for working with the lab exercises

- solutions with passing tests

- up-to-date versions of Clojure, contrib, incanter, compojure and a bunch of other libraries to explore

See instructions below for getting started with NetBeans/Enclojure, Eclipse/Counterclockwise, Maven, Mac/Linux command line, Windows command line, IDEA/La Clojure, and Emacs.
I don't understand the secrecy. What stops you from telling us you undergrad school?
They're just the sort of people I fraternize with - I don't mix with weak people.

I dare say there are plenty of weak people in the industry having problems - it just looks like gender discrimination because men are less likely to complain about or leave the industry over such harassment due to pride and lack of options.

Merely trying to make the industry more appealing to women (rather than "people" generally) is like trying to make Detroit more appealing to the rich. Until harassment and BS is stamped out for the people already in the industry, the people who have a choice whether to enter the industry or not aren't going to be easily persuaded. The garden should be weeded before we plant more seeds.
I'm not a pothead and I'll talk about flavor. In California you can buy stuff that taste like blueberry pancakes. I'm not exaggerating, it's pretty funny.
I wish someone would have addressed this post instead of just downvoting.

I wouldn't go as far as to say "root of all evil", nor do I think it's a companies responsibility to "make the world a better place" per se but "increase shareholder value" does usually end up meaning "current shareholders". That is, it seems to lead to short term gains at the cost of the long term.
I have a N1 and I am happy with it. Even though some newer Androids are perhaps slightly nicer in terms of hardware, I would also still recommend the N1 for the same reasons - I hate it when vendors impose their silly UI candy on me and in turn prevent me from getting timely updates.
It sounds like a trolling headline - he himself acknowledges the value of what he has learnt.

Some suggested in his comments that he should join a firm so that knowledge and experience could be shared towards finding the algorithm[s]. His reply to Henrik, "I’ve been wary about taking jobs at firms like that because of IP concerns. I always believe I am on the cusp of something great, and wouldn’t want to share my algorithms", is a factor in his progress, or lack of.

By working alone, he's more likely to earn 100% of nothing, when he could collaborate and earn a small % of a very large number.

That said, if he finds the algorith alone, then big congratulations and respect are in order for sticking to his convictions.
Good point, but I wasn't quoting verbatim - it was 12 years ago.. It was similar or "what are your qualifications?" A basic interview question, in any case :-) (FWIW, the guy was tall, white, English, in his 20s - not a typical group to be sensitive over identity issues, but who knows :-))
Only very few people have commented that, you are only 25! (I guess given the nature of the HN community :)

I don't think anyone can consider themselves a failure at 25, having spent 8 years learning a lot of programming, algorithms, data mining / machine learning and complex systems modelling.

It would be easier to think that if you hated what you were doing. But it sure doesn't sound like you do. So you just need to decide what you really want to be doing.

If it's algo trading, I concur with another poster that says go work for a hedge fund (or bank, or prop trading shop). It is super competitive, but they have the technology infrastructure and most importantly the capital. Getting in is not easy, but simply show them all your work (it doesn't work anyway, but is indicative of your skills and way of thinking). You will learn a lot, you may hate the people and environment, or you may love it even more. And then yes after a few years of experience you will most certainly be in a better position to go off on your own again (or do something totally different, by then you will really know if you like it or not!). Many top hedge fund managers / traders only started their own thing at 30, 35, 40, even 50... I know a dentist who became a prop trader. Anything is possible.

A PhD would be a great option IF it's for the right reasons. But if you want to do a startup (sounds like you might quite like the idea and you posted here on HN, so...):
- you already live on ramen, so no lifestyle change there;
- bootstrapping something can't cost more than losing money with trading algorithms;
- you already have many of the requirements: coding / technical skills, low-cost living circumstance, love to solve tough problems and a huge amount of tenacity in the face of failure and overwhelming odds;
- bonus: your interest in social systems modelling etc ties in pretty nicely with what's big right now and in the near future.

So if that is what you really want to do, go for it either alone (or find a co-founder), or find a small/medium startup to work for. To make the transition a bit more natural perhaps focus on ones that are data-driven and have machine learning / modelling at the core of their business. Think recommendations, systems modelling (www.flightcaster.com) and weather (www.weatherbill.com). There are many many examples of YC and other startup companies of this nature (many focused on the social network space).

Good luck in whatever you do decide to do with the next 60+ years of your life. On your deathbed you can post about whether you think you are a complete failure or not.
It's certainly possible in this case: There shouldn't be any problem with "actions strictly prior to a law being passed" -- the US Constitution frowns on _ex post facto_ punishments -- but everything described in the article is only legal under state, not federal law.

An aggressive attorney general could therefore decide to prosecute them as federal criminals. It's happened before; see, e.g., Gonzales vs Raich.
When HeLa cells were first derived, most of the benefits weren't even on the radar.

Excuse me? It was the first human cell line that could grow in culture indefinitely. Doctors and researchers immediately recognized the potential of HeLa cells. It took less than three years before the cells were used to mass-produce Jonas Salk's polio vaccine.

I am not exaggerating when I say that millions of people today owe their lives to HeLa. Had doctors been forced to do what you call ethical, those people would be dead. With so many lives at stake, the objections of the family (or the individual) simply don't matter.

For example: why do we know her name? This alone should never have happened.

Originally she was anonymized. Later, researchers wanted to get genetic information from her living relatives. Somehow the press found out. Perhaps a relative told them.
Isn't it better to adopt a Baynesian approach and directly model the complexity of the model rather than some arbitrary Ccomplexity?

To wit, P(model|data)=P(data|model)P(model) / P(data), which is to say that you calculate the probability a model is true given the data you see based on the probability you see the data you see given a certain model, multiplied by the probability of the model you are using.

I guess the problem in all this is we want* the model to be very complex, but we can't tell that complexity from overfitting (and it may be that no model exists so the only thing you can do is overfit.)
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Exactly. To me, clojure is anything but a language for n00bs.

I consider it best suited for people with extensive knowledge of the Java platform and at least good notions of FP, needing a way to write more powerful and concise code without throwing away a proven codebase or compromising performance.

Even if new to Clojure (or Lisp) I would not call these people n00bs.
> But how many non-geeks will be installing software outside that store?

Depends how strict the app store policy is I guess. If Apple allowed this option then I'm sure a lot of geek and non-geek users would take up the option.

> Personally, I'd think a multiple-store method should work best

Agreed. Payments would be difficult and I guess they would want to discourage a 'pirate store' as well. But different listing criteria would be useful.

> I was referring to the openness of the store, not the platform

>> Someone actually admitting that there's a benefit to filtering! Who saw that coming?

I don't think the idea that assisting users to filter their options was ever controversial or surprising. With your multiple-store idea the openness of any particular store wouldn't be such an issue.
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The part of java i DO hate in relation to this discussion about clojure is the very poor integration into the underlying operating system, be it windows or linux. You have no keys in hand way of configuring system wide libraries for example.

A very simple example would be, let's say i want to open mp3 files and get their metadata, in python and in clojure, from a clean fresh ubuntu install : The python way of doing this would be:

$ apt-get install python-mutagen
$ python
>>> import mutagen
>>> (proceed)

For clojure, i developped a whole website http://www.radiozerozero.com with clojure, and i wouldn't even know exactly where to start. It's totally dependent on your installation, whether you use emacs + swank-clojure, if you integrate with leiningen or not, etc. Granted if you are already fluent with leiningen and you know which library you're looking for, it could be fast. But that's the point, you have to KNOW what to look for and to know how to use it. Every programmer knows how to use apt-get. And if ubuntu doesn't have it, there is easy-install, with every python library you could possibly think of.

And honestly that's why i use linux for development. I don't have to care about those things.

Clojure is 10 times younger than python, and is very far from its level of stability, so it isn't a fair comparison. But when you start using clojure for real world projects, you'll have to do this comparison anyway.
Kind of reminds me of Google's mismanagement of Youtube. That's full of copyright infringement and yet folk seem quite happy to put their stuff on there.

I doubt they would have grown so big, or been able to win their recent lawsuit, if they'd had to green light every item that went up in advance.
Oh cool! Maybe you can help me here... The part I could not stand about java was getting tied up to an IDE. Every tutorial, book and "experienced" java programmer in college seemed to insist on one (mostly eclipse or netbeans). That just is a strcit no no for me. Btw, this is the same thing that's prevented me from getting on with the whole lisp family of languages. They all ask me to either work in some kind of a sandbox or learn emacs.

I want to get started in a way that allows me to code and ship a hello world program in vim/notepad (ie in a n IDE independent fashion) from day zero. I can handle complexity and steep learning curves. I cannot handle not knowing and fully understanding whatever it is that the IDE is simplifying for me. And I don't want to be treated like a kid. Tell me how to get my hello world app into production the same way people shipping code in that language do as soon as possible. Is there any way for me to shed my java and lisp newbieness?
Assuming 1K per hour iPhone guy is willing to take on your failing horrible project.... which of course he may since 1k per hour iPhone guy probably doesn't get a lot of contracts anyway... :)
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Of course there are benefits to filtering. There are however many different ways to apply filtering. Apple's app store and the Debian Stable repo are both filtered and curated, but no one would claim they are similar in either intent or approach. I want the App store to be filtered, but I want it to be filtered more like the Debian repos are filtered and, more importantly, for it to be just as easy to bypass the filter.
Would have privately replied (as this thread is a bit old now) but no contact details so:

On my iMac I find that Menlo has a very subtle fuzziness to its characters. Monaco (10pt) remains my setting for now. Despite being not very pretty, it is very crisp and the letters (aside from l and 1) are very distinct and legible.
Astroturfing == posting fake "grassroots" testimonials about the product/idea/company in question to make it seem like a lot of people care about it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

I'm sure it's pretty effective, especially if you only need to get a handful of people to notice your product. But it just feels so dirty...
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There's been a redonkulous amount of uproar over Apple's filtering of their own store. Often coinciding with people saying the world would be a better place if only Apple would allow their app, and if puppies fell from the sky, and nobody had to go to work, they could just bang on these drums all day.

Granted, it's the only store, so it's a different situation. It's just a nice reversal, where Android fanbois have been ripping on Apple fanbois for having such a closed store, and now the benefit of that closing is being made apparent. There's not much Android ripping here, most people here are at least somewhat geeky, and would love to see Android become bigger and better than iWhatever.

edit: as to the first point, I'll still say "very few", unless drastic steps are made to make it easy to choose from the very first interaction. There's a lot of change-fear out there in normal people - change means you don't know where your favorite button is any more, and it now breaks in new and exciting ways instead of the ones they could somewhat predict.
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I think the assumption is that these are possible reasons for failure after you discarded "not intelligent enough", which indeed could be a pretty valid reason.

The article refers to the remaining branches, thus the title.
Not a personal contact, but Jeffrey Zeldman, who I used to read about when I was finishing high school, is still around 15 years later.
It means he doesn't understand 'actions' in online speech.

I do nod a lot myself as an indication I'm paying attention, and every so often it surprises me when someone doesn't quite understand.
I'm not interested in your bonus points, but in the correct answer. I believe this is it: Large, liquid markets reduce economic friction. They make an economy larger, more diverse, and more adaptable. The low friction allows small changes in supply and demand to quickly propagate long distances, producing responses where otherwise the information would have been lost to the friction. You don't have to look far in space or time to find places where this "zero-sum game" isn't or wasn't available. Just look for poverty and lack of social mobility.

There is an economic progression from the switch from barter to money, to lending of money, to spread of risk by enabling minority ownership of multiple ventures (early corporations), to easier transferal of ownership in smaller pieces (allowing more of society to participate), to large-scale, low-friction, highly-liquid markets used by everyone, directly or indirectly. Each step further reduces economic friction, which lowers the threshold for economic activity to take place, causing more of it to occur, increasing the prosperity of the whole society.

Even if you lose money personally in the "zero-sum game" with unfortunate investments, you're still probably losing only a portion of the money you made working at a company that wouldn't exist if not for large, liquid, low-friction markets.
The Android market does not make me want to buy apps. This is its greatest failing.

Apple's app store actually feels like a store. It's fun to spend money there. There are many different ways to discover new apps of all types. Each one typically has as much info and screenshots as I want to see.

In the Android Market, I have the category charts that never change, the firehouse of junk and spam that is "just in", or search, which is only really useful if you already know the name of the app you want. The descriptions are tiny, the screenshots are ugly and often missing, and the comments are mostly YouTube caliber.

If they can't make it fun to buy Android apps then the whole platform is going nowhere.
#2 great idea ;-)
I have met Gary in person and he has a way of making you feel so good about yourself.

He is also a very practical man.

Great guy!
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Its keyboard is nonetheless a lot faster than using the onscreen one ... and when it was released it was the only device in its category to have a physical keyboard at all.
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The Laffer curve is not quantitative model or approach, it's a qualitative explanation or argument. Thus expecting maths is kind of pointless.
I've probably reported about 15 scam or infringement apps in the market to Google.

Zero have been removed.
What would happen if programmers had global mobility like footballers?
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Minor nitpick, compared to it not being open source, so it's not an ideal one to begin with. There's no reason a nearly-identical system couldn't be used as a paid-upgrade tool; just download the license file that was purchased in-app, and have the newly-updated application read it in.

It was chosen for conceptual design of something which has radically changed the application-updating playing field by being so successful. Normal people update regularly with Sparkle; how many have you seen ignore a Java / Windows / Adobe update for the thousandth time?
Correlation is not causation ;-)

Using simpler tools does not make you a better performer, albeit better performers seem to prefer simpler tools.
In fact being similar, but crucially different, to a published patented technique is apparently a good way to avoid both known and unknown patents, so this is a good thing:

http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/?p=420
So you could remove the first item and retitle it Why Motivated People Fail? Or the 17th and Why Patient People Fail. Hmm.. I could sell this idea to Mahalo ;-)
I agree: with this title, the author neatly sidesteps the problem of having to define 'intelligence' and ending up in an endless debate about whether his reasons indeed pertain to 'intelligence'.

'Not intelligent enough' can probably be dissected into another 20 points, each portraying a characteristic that is a necessary, but not a sufficient, part of 'intelligence'.

You are both right :)
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Oh, definitely not. I have to wonder what they can do, though? They don't offer legal indemnity (probably can't, who knows how much that would cost?) and it might not be easy for them to insert themselves into any lawsuit the MPEG-LA filed.

Even though they're the obvious target, there's nothing stopping them from going after the small fry to set a precedent, or just doing a SCO-style shakedown (only they'd presumably be more competent ... at least, it'd be hard to be less competent).

If I had to bet on what's keeping the other shoe from dropping, they either are still working on finding patents that might kinda-sorta read on VP8, or they're waiting for Bilski, with some possibility of both.

But that's just my guess. I mean, who knows what they're thinking?