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Sigh - easier said than done.

Hard decisions are difficult things to do with a stress-shot mind. Particularly when it's so easily framed as "admitting defeat"
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> We would need to do an experiment to verify your claims.

Unfortunately, software development productivity (and solution quality) is notoriously difficult to measure and perform experiments on. It is also expensive, time-consuming, and their conclusions tend to be shaky at best. The experiments' applicability is also heavily influenced by the uniqueness of each individual person.

Technology just moves too fast. I'm afraid anecdotal evidence is probably the best we usually can do when talking about how we work.
Much better. Thank you. :-)
> If your "novel" RoR application doesn't work, no-one cares,

Not true if you have lots of users, just ask Twitter. Fortunately, a Twitter outage does not cause massive ecological damage.
I disagree with this review. I was told I had to pay close attention so I concentrated on every last detail (a rarity for me in movies) and was able to follow the movie pretty effortlessly. My girlfriend was able to do so with no such hint (but maybe she is a lot smarter than me.)

This movie is a THINKER not unlike the mind-bender Primer, which almost certainly requires multiple viewings and a wiki page to fully grok. Understanding these movies is not supposed to be passive (giving you exactly what you need to know when you need to know it would enable you to be a passive viewer) and when the movie is over you're supposed to be thinking about what you just saw for more than 5 minutes and on more than a superficial level.

This movie was very good at what it tried to do. It didn't get bogged down by in-depth explanation of the technology involved in dream-diving, didn't give us super complex character back-stories, and didn't overwhelm the user with technologies to that world. I felt we were provided with a set of basic building blocks (in the form of world-unique jargon) and then given a tour of a complex world based on these blocks - and it was damn cool. If it had tried to do more than his the movie would have gotten bogged down.
I lived in Suzhou - just outside Shanghai.
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The front page gives me no idea of what I will get by registering, so it's hard to commit to getting an account. (Maybe that would have been remedied by the demo people seem to be mentioning.) It also does nothing to explain what the site does or how it works, other than a vague goal.
Honestly, I read the site, nodded my head, but then realized I couldn't get any info on what your application does. At that point, I left.

You should consider having some kind of description/screenshot on what your specific product does.
There is some random thought about optimism on the front page, and register/login buttons. I don't knonw why would I bother to register.
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As far as I can tell, there is only a single quad-band GSM + quad-band 3G/UMTS version of the iPhone; there don't seem to be any regional differences in the hardware. So as long as your target network supports a subset of those bands, you should be fine. In the US, CDMA networks won't work (Verizon, maybe others?), and in Japan you'll be limited to 3G as there's no GSM. Australia, like Europe, uses 900/1800MHz GSM, so you'll be fine.
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It sounds like you have a lot of the abilities and skills to be a back office, background type entrepreneur.

Your efforts to manage your mental illness goes a long way (for me, at least) towards your value. As a potential co-founder, I would appreciate the fact that you aren't a passive victim to your shortcomings -- you address them as best you can.

If your other skills were valuable to me as a co-founder, I would weigh those skills against your "shortcomings" WRT stability. Especially since you work at your shortcomings -- that would make me sympathize a bit. But more importantly, it reveals quite a bit about the quality of your character.

Now, on to the practical part: you still have to be a net positive for the startup. My personal bias is that having a programming co-founder is the single most important skill in a startup. The natural tendency for a coder is to have similar issues that you experience, even if less severe. Even if you're not being unfairly discounted due to your health issues, the problem is that you're unlikely to find a cofounder who can program AND is willing to be the business face.

And startups (in my limited experience) don't generally need IT / sysadmin co-founders. For my company (5 employees), we just use SaaS for any IT needs (dropbox, google apps, salesfoce, 37 signals). Combine that with our Mac setups, and your skillset isn't in great demand.

In conclusion, I first commend you for the efforts you put into combating your health problems. As a theoretical co-founder, I wouldn't be offset by those (it helps that I'm a middle ground type person, not really affected by daily highs and lows of a startup). However, the fact that your skillset is somewhat skewed (technical person who doesn't like approaching people and is also unable to code), I probably wouldn't be able to partner with you. I'm a coder who doesn't really like the face-to-face; it seems in my mind that you need to be one of those two personalities if you're going to fit in a startup with me specifically.

I wish you the best. My advice is that you continue working on your self-improvement, and that you really try to learn some programming. What languages have you attempted? If you can't do direct coding, then familiarize yourself with HTML or JS (frontend) stuff, or become an expert in analytics or email. There are always useful non-coding positions you can find; unfortunately, corporate style IT abilities are down on the list of useful skills.
This article by Alan Skorkin tried to differentiate between the Computer Scientist (Engineer in your case?), the Programmer and the Developer:

http://www.skorks.com/2010/03/the-difference-between-a-devel...

I agree that there isn't a standardized definition.
I got to the homepage and didn't really know if it was a game or what the heck it was. I only saw "Register" and "Login" buttons, some links to what seemed to be external sites, so... I left :)
http://sentientmachine.blogspot.com/2010/07/burnout-how-to-r...
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I jsut tried to review someone else's thoughts (which were about how the site design didn't display properly in the browser).

Unfortunately it would not let me submit the page. Using Chrome btw.
The iPhone has an UMTS radio that supports the following bands: 850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz. For GSM/EDGE it supports the 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz bands.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

In the US, AT&T uses the 850 and 1900 Mhz bands. (There's no other network in the US that has iPhone-compatible 3G service.)

In Australia, Telstra uses the 850 Mhz band, others use the 2100 Mhz band.

In Japan, 1700 and 2100 Mhz bands are used.

All of these frequencies, except for the 1700 Mhz band, are supported by the iPhone 4.

http://www.worldtimezone.com/gsm.html
I am thoroughly impressed, and excited for the prospect of unimaginably awesome web applications. I do have a few thoughts:

- How easy would this be to implement in another event-driven server, such as Tornado?

- I have an identifiable "mouse ID" in this app. Is this secure? Surely the security aspects of web sockets have been key in their design, but I am left with a bit of uneasiness with my browser opening a TCP connection to another server. I believe WebSockets will pave the way for a whole new class of web-based attacks, and possibly even highly mobile worms.
This is administrative rulemaking; perfectly ordinary. It could be set aside by a court if it were arbitrary or capricious, but that's pretty unlikely.
I had the same thoughts on the travel. That part just seems like "somewhere else has better places to travel." I live in the western US, which has some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Yet when I think about traveling, it is not around here.
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And some of Guido's thoughts coming out of Europython:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102306...
Please could you move your cursors out of the way? I'm trying to read the text.

Edit: This lame comment is the highest rated here? You disappoint me.
I'd like a Best of Hacker News that, like Best of Reddit, links to exceptionally interesting comments. The comments on HN are usually far more interesting than the stories, and often interesting comments are attached to uninteresting stories.
It would be interesting to hear from the author how the server is handling HackerNews traffic
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There's a "disable" button in the yellow box. That'll make them go away completely. :)
I have a Dell Streak eval currently. It's an extremely nice and well designed device with a beautiful screen and great battery life. The only knock is that it's running Android 1.6, but that will supposedly be remedied soon.

Really, I can't say enough about this device. It's great and far more portable than my iPad.
I don't think that achieves the same thing. First, it requires the user to manually filter out new stuff they aren't interested in, where as a machine learning approach will evolve as the content space evolves.

Think of it like email spam. You can setup manual filters to filter out email spam, but that is a constant and never ending stream of work for you. A simple bayesian filter like pg has described will require far less work and give far better results.

In this case, a machine learning approach is even better because it can bring up stories that a user will be very interested in even though the story would never make it to the current homepage.
When you say the site is "work friendly", I would imagine the site will still be added to many employers' list of restricted sites. I'm not sure that the actual content of the site would be the issue, rather the general category (i.e. drug related).

Medical marijuana is still not legal in most states. Viewing the site at work in a state where medical marijuana is not legal would probably raise a few eyebrows if noticed.
No, I'm sorry, but I can't use keyword filtering for what I'm describing. Let me explain:

What I'm talking about here is uncovering "latent" communities, if you will. As in, make a giant matrix with the users being the columns and the posts being the rows and then use the eigenvectors to make recommendations (see SVD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_value_decomposition)

The benefit of this approach is that I no longer have to be conscious of the topics I am filtering in or out. Even keyword based filtering is, again, a coarse estimation of relevance. I may be very interested in clojure, but I'm certainly not interested in every article that contains 'clojure' in the title.

An SVD (or similar) approach would filter my interests loosely on the co-occurrence of votes. That is, a vote from someone with whom I have high overlap is worth more to me than a vote from someone with whom I have never voted the same direction on the same post.
Bad example. s/car/computer/g. Computers are equally impenetrable for the average person, but they still somehow find ways of making reasonable decisions when buying them.
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If, somehow, hardware manufacturers were required to extend warranty coverage to unsanctioned modifications, we'd see a lot of push-back against this in the near future. The extra burden to vendors would make a good argument against it, but the great thing is that as it stands, it's hard to argue against this without sounding anti-consumer.
I was surprised by this. Sure, 250k is tiny compared to the current value of Groupon, but they were also in a superior bargaining position and had crafted a situation where the domain was practically worthless to the original owner. I would have thought they could have talked him down to <100k
I'm wondering if Javascript will start being heavily used server-side? Would it be wise to start learning JS and how to use Node.js or is it absolutely not suitable for production use?
Flux didn't change the appearance enough for me -- what I really want is to have light text on a dark background at night. One ugly hack is to use the Windows 7 magnifier tool to invert video. The colors are atrocious but you can pretend they are neon lights for night mode ;)
Great idea, I will make that clear & add some sort of visual as well.
My understanding is generally that you can get out of it just before it starts playing (by pressing the menu button, I think?) but once it starts playing it uses the same flag for the anti-piracy warning (or something like that), which prevents getting out of it. This issue does not appear on computers, of course, only DVD players.

Of course, this could have changed in newer DVDs or DVD players; though I haven't encountered any disk which has absolutely no way of getting out of the previews, but I tend not to watch many movies.

Also, I think that I have to point out that you are entirely free to mute the DVD and go off somewhere else until the previews are done, if you're unable to find any other way out of them; "FORCES" is a bit of a strong word, given that you were not (I assume) physically prevented from leaving. This is, of course, not an acceptable solution, but it does eliminate the discomfort of sitting through previews.
Exactly the point. Most prisoners today are sentenced in relation to drug crimes. A majority of those crimes are victimless, but violations of state or federal laws. As such these prisoners are without a debt to "Victims' and society becomes a de facto victim by having to divert tax dollars to their continued incarceration. Huge US Corporations are now "partnered" with prison industries throught the federal Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP) to use inmate labor to manufacture their products then sold to the general consumer. It is important for these corporations to maintain an available work force to fulfill their needs. While tax payers support prisoners through tax contributions, corporations take money out in profits. Visit piecp-violations.com for more information on this issue.
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I wonder why almost nobody mentioned "ethics". Besides the arguments in the blog post, is it morally OK to start a business in a dictatorship? I am not so sure about it.
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It's well known that Ted Turner has bipolar disorder. From my anecdotal experience, most other entrepreneurs do, too. ;)

If you aren't good at programming, you don't necessarily have to start a software company. I know many people who left software to start non-software businesses and they are doing all right.
The cursors looked disturbingly like flies. Pretty insane demo.
A step that depends on ITunes still depends on Apple's forbearance -- if they really wanted to stop this, they could have ITunes either (a) phone home reporting each 'restore' of an iPhone, and its previous state, by its unique ID; (b) leave a small notation in the 'restored' state about its previous state.

It'd simply be the digital equivalent of the stickers that indicate if a unit has been opened or exposed to moisture.
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Diff it!

Say we snap a cache frequently either centrally or locally. It would be so much easier to just diff the HN cache throughout each session with the last central cache or local cache to see what has changed significantly by highlighting or something.
Wow, you have a very patient wife. Guess true love does exist.
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Make it funnier, show us a maze and people trying to solve it in real time. Replace the mouse pointer with a colored token and constrain its movement to the walls of the maze.
I've started and stopped on this idea (mine has always been something along the lines of "Fireworks on the web... but better") several times over the past couple of years.

But I've always left it on the burner because, as technology stands today, it'd have to be an installed application. Importing a bitmap and deleting its background pixels, complicated vector drawings, etc. etc. would be impossible (or so damned difficult/manpower intensive as to make them near impossible) to build in today's browsers. And for me to be interested in sinking several years of my life into it, it'd have to be a webapp.

So, I just end up waiting for someone smarter/ballsier than I to do it. And waiting...
There are some discs that make it mandatory to watch something first. One example that kills me is the 2-3 minute long schpeal that plays in front of "Elmo's World" DVDs telling us about all the great things Seasame Street does around the world. On some discs, you can fast forward (not skip). On others, it is mandatory to watch the entire thing. This does pose a bit of a problem when your toddler needs his Elmo's World fix and you have to sit and wait...
I just spent a useless day not managing to get in serious productivity mode, and I tried 15 minutes of meditation -- I am SO relaxed now, it is like a short nap that also stretches your body and makes you high on oxygen... It's still very hard to control the flow of thoughts, but I guess that comes with practice.

I couldn't get in Lotus position, but this page at Wikihow helped quite a bit: http://www.wikihow.com/Meditate
As an IRC junkie, this is an incredible tidbit of info to find out. So all those wasted years of scripting irc bots could have real-world application at the highest levels of global warfare!

> LET'S PLAY GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR? Y/N
Hi, author here. While building this thing, the Node server had the tendency to drop out. I'm monitoring it with God (http://god.rubyforge.org/) now, so it restarts whenever anything goes wrong.

I'm genuinely impressed by how it's holding out now. :)
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This is excellent. For more reasons than one.

First of all, from an online marketing and technical standpoint, i love how you force me to try the app rather than giving me a chance to deliberate whether i want to try it or not. good play on invoking my curiousity.

Secondly, and more importantly, what you are trying to achive is very noble, and i mean that sincerely, and the way that you are trying to achieve it is rather amazing.

I go through a re-framing process such as this often in my mastermind group meetings, but to be able to automate this in the way that you have done is truly amazing.

I'm already hooked, and i hope your app can keep me there. This could be a life changer.
From my experience, it means you need a break or a vacation. Get in a totally different environment for a few weeks days and do not bring anything related to work.

If it is not possible at this time, you may buy time using a trick I have used in the past. Dedicate a part of your day to working (ex: afternoon) and dedicate another part of the days to something else entirely and in a different environment (spend the morning playing sport, walking, exploring the neighborhood, anything out of your work environment and off the computer).
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I'm guessing it's mostly the former. The sort of attack which involves -- for instance -- fake IDs and/or ninjas crawling through the ceiling is relatively rare, especially compared to online attacks (which are a more serious threat anyway).
To be honest, based on my knowledge of Afghanistan, and of military operations to date, there hasn't been substantial harm due to the release of this information. (I haven't read through it all, but just looking at some of the high points). To some extent, it actually helps US policy interests, and a really paranoid individual could think this was an intentional leak. (it makes it more deniable and polite to ratchet up the hate on the ISI if it is in the form of a "leak")

Given that it all appears to have been SECRET and not TS or TS with a codeword/SAP, it's only potentially "serious harm to national security", not "grave", and almost all of it was highly time sensitive. Flight schedules for helicopter missions I fly on are actually SECRET until they fly; afterward, they are basically public record. By waiting 6-12 months at least to release this information, the original leaker seems to have done a reasonable job of balancing OPSEC considerations.

The most serious allegations of leaked information so far are the diplomatic cables off JWICS, which would be potentially TS, and could cause lasting harm. As well, individual source names could be sensitive, although in my experience there is enough turnover among Afghans, as well as bad intelligence on the US part, that after a year or so, the names of any sources would be outdated anyway.

The newspapers can make a pretty reasonable first approximation of what in a body of information is particularly sensitive. This is all routine operational material, so the sensitive details are operational capabilities, individual sources, and other procedural details, items which actually have the least value to the public in being disclosed. The information which is most compellingly in the public interest is "what happened", which is already well known to any interested party. Given that this information was all relatively low levels of classification, there isn't anything super secret squirrel revealed here; anything super-secret squirrel would have been hidden from this classification as well.

I would like to see prompt declassification of as much as possible, and virtually every item in this release is something which should be declassified 1-2 years after the operation. Classification should never be used to cover up incompetence or mistakes or wrongdoing, only to protect national security.

There absolutely should be an investigation, and probably a court martial (assuming it was a military member who leaked the info). The trial would need to include motivations and other factors, but I can see situations where 5-10 years would be adequate, and maybe 25-50 (i.e. effectively life), but I would be very uncomfortable with life or capital punishment over this particular release. There are people from the cold war (Ames, Hanssen) who are vastly worse than this release, and they did it for money, not for any kind of "the truth must be released" motivation. They got Life, even though their information clearly resulted in the deaths of US affiliated agents, so I think that should be an absolute upper bound.
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Argh, just went through the full seven step program and the "I'm done!" button isn't responding!

I'm feeling frustrated ;)