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Look I am intersexed and I have dealt with such stuff all of my life. The one thing I have learnt is that we aren't blank slates, but we aren't mentally engineered either. It is true that environment plays a huge role in the development of a child, but please understand this.

Gender is something that is innate to your mind. Be it through proprioception or something more complex than that. It is etched in you in the womb and the way it expresses itself is something that is acquired in tandem with the environment. Now understand this too, gender is a spectrum. What most talks center around are the peaks of the two bell curves, but there are lots of folks on either sides. There are kind, sensitive men and abusive, viscous women. The truth is just like skin color gender isn't exactly something to go on when dealing with another human being. Some people tend to conform, but a lot of folks don't and those are the interesting ones.

I feel like laughing my head off each time I read such things. It is true that it sucks to be a woman, but it sucks to be a man too. I will say this again and again, when you see the spaces society creates as an outsider then you begin to understand that things aren't absolute. I am sub-human to most people, and my right to access a lot of spaces that most readers of this thread take for granted is fought out in courts around the world. To most people I am a freak, but they don't understand. They've been taught to see a world that can fit in neat boxes, only that nature doesn't really care. [edit: This sounds really mean and rude when I read it again before going to sleep. To any reader I assure you this was not my intention. I am sorry if I came across like that to you.]

What I am trying to say is that don't create women only spaces, or LGBTI friendly spaces, or anything like that. Create human friendly spaces. Embrace and accept the differences in others and only then can you see that the world is far more complex than any label we can slap on top of it.

[edit: forgot grammar and spell check. Sorry.]
Charging less for his products would have primarily benefitted shareholders and white-collar professionals in American and Western European corporations.

Why should he have benefitted them over abjectly poor people in the rest of the world?
What was that app?
There are some supply and demand issues with solar cells right now. The technology is evolving rapidly so large scale production is often significantly behind the times, and the new technology is sold at the same price per watt (with the maker pocketing the difference).

Edit for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanosolar 500 billion in investments and they still can't keep up with demand.
Here's what happens to me: when I eat gluten, I'm exhausted within a few hours, then for ~2 days after. I also have clear GI symptoms - bleeding, mucus, etc. (I've heard that exact symptoms vary, based on your personal level of gluten sensitivity - it's a spectrum.)

When I eliminated gluten for 4 weeks, I felt much better - normal energy, no GI symptoms. Then I reintroduced a little - breaded ahi tuna on a salad for lunch. Within 2 hours, I was exhausted, and I was absolutely worthless for the next two days.

My doctor did a Celiac blood test - it came back negative on 2 tests, and positive on the 3rd. I'm waiting on the results of a genetic profile, but my MDs said my self-experimentation is the clearest signal, and to stay gluten free regardless of what the tests indicate.
Awesome idea...doesn't help me much though...seems I am the only one from Jamaica on HN...which is kinda depressing.
"Capital Intensive"
In the physical world, there are alot of different businesses you can start where, as long as you do a reasonable job of executing ,and you have access to capital, you can have an extremely good chance of being successful. For instance, if you put a barber shop or pizza parlor in a town where there is excess demand for those products/services, you will likely be successful as long as you can execute.

Do you think there are any known web startup ideas that don't necessarily require ingenuity, but simply access to capital ($ and labor) and a reasonable ability to execute? I am willing to spend up to $200K. Is there anything out there where I can throw $200k at a problem, and unless I royally screw up at execution, I can make 30-40K per year in profits per year? I believe these opportunities exist all over the place in the physical world; do they abound in the virtual world as well?
Thanks. Hopefully jerf can provide some citations for the diagnostic utility of this. It doesn't sound promising, honestly.
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Absolutely. This doesn't exactly sound like Celiac, but you're clearly having an adverse reaction to something you're eating, almost certainly in the wheat products that you're describing.

At the end of the day for an individual, the diagnostic label is much less important than curing the disease, which it sounds like you're accomplishing via experimentation. Cheers.
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I continue to be amazed by 2 things:

1. How difficult it is to get a raw prospect to understand how my offering will benefit him.

2. How easy it is to get his money once he does.
I don't understand why people keep suggesting this hits primarily lefties.

I'm right-handed and I pretty much always hold my phone in my left as that leaves my dominant hand for doing anything useful: navigating apps, mousing, one-hand typing, fumbling through pockets, opening doors, etc. Why tie up my dominant hand just to hold something?
Congrats to Metaweb and Applied Minds. Those guys are uniformly brilliant and it's great to see Google sharing the deep interest Metaweb has in curating a great, accessible repository of semantic data.
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Best medical research is a bit coy on this front; they keep trying to make lab tests and such, but what you'll find is that all the lab tests aren't definitive. Biopsies aren't definitive, and like I said, I've got personal local evidence to back this up, though you can find that tidbit everywhere. The blood serum tests aren't definitive as discussed in the last discussion, and overlap with other conditions even when it does show there. The genetic tests aren't definitive because they remain unsure exactly what causes it. (There are ideas, don't take that to mean there's no clue, but they aren't sure yet.)

What it comes down to is that the best way to find out is to just do it, but, well, as much as I love Western medicine in general it seems to be a bit hesitant to recommend that, they'd rather have a definitive procedure. (Me too, honestly, but if we can't, we can't.) So it's not like I can point to a peer-researched paper. It's just that if you dig into any given test, it's agreed not to be definitive, and the net practical result is that while the best research won't come out and say it, the best way to see if you have it is the trial.

And as CapitalistCartr says, the telltale sign is that you will be sick as a dog, probably well into the next day. I experienced headache (or migraine, if you prefer, bad headache), nausea, the feeling of my intestines pulsing, and general lethargy, but I don't know that that symptom list is "official". What I am sure about is that there will be no mystery left. We're not talking "moderate chance of loose stools", we're talking "don't make plans for the next day".
Do they really have to be storybook material? I would say you should tell them stories of your own entrepreneurial experiences, and invite them to listen in on your business conversations with other adults. They can play on the floor or whatever, but they'll still listen.

As a kid, I always felt I was pushed out of these conversations, but money and business were very interesting to me... just as they are to any kid that has seen Scrooge McDuck diving in his moneybin.

Today, I love asking my dad about his entrepreneurial past. Things that didn't make sense as a kid make a whole lot more sense now, so I'm trying to fill in those fuzzy memories and learn all I can. These are the kinds of discussions that I want my kids to sit in on.
Part of the success of traditional tv, radio and newspapers is the shared experience with some group you identify with.

Perhaps, but most of the reason for the success of traditional tv, radio, and newspapers is that, until the last five years or so, there weren't really any viable alternatives. Only recently has content distribution become a non-issue; previously, it was a bottleneck.
That anime was really confusing. I'm not sure I could come up with a simple plain English explanation.

Was it a dream? A computer simulation? An alternate reality? I mean, really, wtf?
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But it appears to me that he is passionate about online marketing/market testing and Bingo cards is just the vehicle he uses to get there. Conversely, my business idea is my passion and doing things like online marketing/market testing is the vehicle I will use to get there.
I've left the software (well, web) world multiple times under different circumstances. I don't regret any of my hiatuses. Taking detours off your career path gives you a unique experience, a new perspective, and broadens your skill set beyond what you're usually able to pick up in a single industry. The cross-discipline experience (in my case, music vs technology) I've gained is priceless to me on both a personal and professional level and I'm very happy with the decisions I made. Go ahead and veer off the beaten path while you're young, it's only going to get harder the longer you wait. The financial ramifications of my decisions have not set me back very much, if at all, and what I may have lost in money I've more than made up for in lived experiences.
Without getting into details about digital modulations, yes, parameters such as signal strength, network congestion, user speeds, etc. do affect transfer rates.

The speeds quoted by phone providers are always the maximum transfer rates allowed by the communication standard used by the network.

To give an example with WiFi networks. Even though a router might support 802.11n and have a maximum speed of 144Mbit/s, if you're far from it, your transfer speed could only be 11Mbit/sec.
Yes it is, but there the focus on the customer is far less important than on the investors. This is part of something that makes Apple and some other companies unique.
Having seen it shortly after the dot-com implosion, it was a slightly disturbing experience.

And it felt like I knew both of them since ever...
I agree that something like "PrintedPraise.com" or something would suffice, and then you could also print praise on other review sites without it being weird.
In order to do what you are suggesting, infrastructure and education needs to exist. You aren't going to worry about working on your cool start-up if you need to cart clean water 2 miles on your shoulders every day and your kids are sick with malaria.
The thing I always keep in mind on stuff like this if often times when you take something you love to do and turn it into a career (versus a fun hobby), it seems to takes something away from it.

I think you'd find that to be the case in film-making. I actually studied film-making in college and decided not to pursue it because I had a bad feeling I wasn't going to be the next david lynch, and therefore the reality was I'd be shooting wedding videos for the rest of my life.

I decided it's better to have a career doing something interesting that pays well and pursue my hobbies like making music, or film-making for fun; if they grow beyond fun, great, then I could maybe take steps to make a career of it (aka, perhaps I AM the next david lynch after all...).
This feels like such a huge step forward, after dealing with the cumbersome tools and ugly auto-generated code from Microsoft's previous solutions, I gotta say that I'm impressed.
The name didn't immediately ring a bell until I Googled it: Metaweb == Freebase.
Great idea, Dale. :)

Check out Plancast and let us know if you have any feedback.

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Thanks! But it's an old post. :-)

I should probably clean it up, too. Some of the formatting got butchered in a server move.
This is huge for many reasons, but namely, this could finally lead to the "semantic web." Metaweb's video, which is linked to in the article, explains part of the "how".

The problem with the semantic web is that many need to embrace it. Many people need to tag text with these "bar codes" (uniquely identified entities). That can take a big effort and there has to be a ROI for this big undertaking. The other is that there is no standard. Well, Google just solved those. With a dominant market share, you don't need someone to agree on a standard, you just force them to--or else they lose out to competition. And as far as the ROI in tagging web pages? Well, what's the ROI on SEO? This will bring about a new form of SEO, except that Google can now undercut many of the search results and answer many of the queries directly--so that'll get interesting... and I'm sure Wolphram Alpha certainly agrees.

Google was also smart to buy Metaweb in order to give web app developers a good reason to use their entities and just FB's open graph entities.

Congrats to the Metaweb team! Freebase + Wikipedia are two of the best gifts to humanity.
Sorry. The URL was so huge I felt bad. When more than 50% of the message is a insanely long URL, something is clearly wrong.
I bet it can be completely explained by a combination of biological and environmental causes.

Just because the claim is made that there are biological differences between men and women does not mean that the disparity of women vs. men in startups is entirely (or even mostly) due to biological causes.

If you want more women in startups then you have to either change women or change startups.
Why don't they just start anodizing that shit going forward?
If my family and friends' experience is any indication, the drop rate is over 50%. So it's probably going from 55% to 56%: horrible to a teensy bit more horrible.

I live in Los Angeles. There are cell towers uglifying the sky everywhere. My favorites are the mock trees -- one in Burbank is a squat, fake palm tree with "coconut" repeaters. And despite the apparent ability to put towers absolutely anywhere... AT&T still blows.
I updated the title, thx
It might be shitty, but a good analogy is if you bought a PC with Windows 95 on it, would you expect to upgrade to Windows 98, keeping all your apps and data, then upgrade to Windows XP again with the same apps and data, and have everything work fine? You've gone 3 generations of software with the same data. Those SQLite tables (CoreData) probably need to be optimized in some way, and the easiest way to do that is start fresh and do a new sync. Or just live with your slow phone; either way I could care less.
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Holding naturally, Anandtech measured the iPhone 4 losing 19.8 dB vs the Nexus One 10.7 dB. Keep in mind that dB is logarithmic, so the iPhone 4 performs ~10x worse than the Nexus One in that test.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2
At the time it was python, databases, C, unix and java. A mixture of sys admin and development for online medical records. Part of the reason I left was because I found that I could not cope with how boring my job was. I do not compartmentalize very well. When I returned, I worked for a place that made a music player.
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Not that it's not cool and all, but long polling ajax is ancient tech, not really anything new or innovative.
Does 3GS reception improve with a case? I thought the iPhone 4 only improved because of the exposed antenna.
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I'm glad Gdgt ran this full quote. Engadget unfortunately dropped the first part of it from their liveblog (not really a problem, they're typing and submitting pretty quickly) but then ran an article that started "Apple's not really ready to say it's sorry about the iPhone 4 antenna design..."
Ask HN: Really detailed session analytics?
The simplest way to do usability testing is to sit next to someone and watch them use your website, but it also occurred to me that Javascript has access to all sorts of salient data: how far a user scrolls down on a page, how long it takes to fill out a form, forms that go unfinished, cursor position, etc.

Is anyone out there trying to collect and visualize this kind of data?
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Thanks :)
I agree and have heard the same from others...
Good thing is that several different unique ids can be interlinked to the same entity. I was using Wikipedia page_ids and IMDB's titles when playing around with it previously. It's a little bit messy, but it works.
And yet I can't get rid of the useless apps Apple installs (Stocks, YouTube, etc).
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I seem to always fail spoken interviews, but easily pass ones where I get to write code. As a particularly hilarious example, this spring I completely failed a phone-screen on the subject of 3D graphics, then sometime later I released a 3D terrain engine that is apparently the best of its kind in Flash as of today (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1500338). And I can't say I know much more about the subject now! I just tend to learn stuff "situationally" and immediately forget it when the problem is solved. That applies to concepts too, but it's like 100x worse for APIs: my work nowadays is mostly ActionScript and JavaScript, but I can't even fill a polygon in AS without having the reference open.
> Because I find a lot of entrepreneurs often will come now looking for capital or some sort of involvement in a start-up dynamic, and you feel that in the dialogue they’re afraid of talking about their own failure. And I’ll say, "Hang on. It’s okay to talk about it." It’s actually much more credible if you talk about the lessons you glean from it.

No one likes to hear someone brag just about their success.

See:
"The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6"

http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-psychology-of-entrep...
According to Steve (and others) you get a similar phenomenon with earlier iPhones, it's just that the "do not touch" zone is in a different place. So a case would help any of these phones.
If they unlock the Freebase data and associate UPCs/EANs/other bar codes and structured data around it (which Freebase has done in a hap-hazard fashion), they could really do some pretty awesome stuff.
I used to work at GovWorks. What I've found interesting about the movie is that it got started because Jehane Noujaim (the filmmaker) happened to be roommates with Kaleil just as he was starting a company with his buddy Tom. She began filming casually, and the rest is documentary film history. A few years later, she happened to be visiting some relatives and found herself in the Al Jazeera newsroom just as the war with Iraq broke out. Again, she started filming casually and ended up making film history for the second time. That woman really has a knack for being at the right place at the right time, and making the most of it.
If you've sold at full price to 5 customers at arms-length (people who aren't positively predisposed to you already), then sure, I wouldn't be surprised if you land 200 customers at $30/month. Dial up the marketing and repeat the process as prospects come in.

But until then, you have no idea what is going to happen.

(Plagiarized from Steve Blank...)
It's worth trying; I hope somebody does.
No, I mean something more specific: the suffixes that change over time. I'm curious if it's got a name.
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For that it's worth, the DoD doesn't actually define "cyber warfare". In fact, in 2006 it depreciated the concept of "information warfare" (http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp3_13.pdf). The closest concept the DoD has is "cyber operations" which are meant to "operate and defend the Global Information Grid" (http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf). Personally I don't think Scheiner focused enough on the fact that "cyber war" is essentially a media construction.
I read the whole thing as "Here, you've forced us to give you a case but it's ridiculous and you really don't even need it."
Ask HN: Outsourcing advice/references
I'm the CTO of a small startup that is bootstrapping itself. We have a couple of viable projects that need to be implemented - our vision is there, our requirements are there - time however, is not nor do we have enough money to hire someone to work for us. What we're currently thinking of doing is outsourcing the initial coding effort and then bringing it in house.

What we're looking for is any advice on how to best manage this process as well as any references to any reliable outsourcing agencies.

Thanks
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it greatly diminishes the fashion/status value of the phone

Relative to what?

Anyway, those who care enough about fashion will remove the case and only put it on when they need a little extra reception. Or, just as likely, they will flock to the third-party vendor who sells micron-thin transparent cases. That vendor is gearing up as we speak.
I am very interested in that "database dag". If it works the way I think it does, I think it will be far more significant than the source control part of the product. For example, I'd like to be able to put together a decentralized knowledge base. Who knows, we may see http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/05/04/open-data-github/ sooner than later.
How would have shareholders benefited more if the company is making less profit?
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Cultural enforcement starts at a very young age. I've seen preschool girls tell boys that they aren't allowed to play with the plastic kitchen because boys don't cook!

Now if there is a large pool of 40 year old women who want to start companies we could:

A) Provide an environment in which this is possible
B) Say that choice A is condescending because it's only due to cultural differences that they didn't start a startup 20 years ago

I personally will choose A because while I have no idea how to change a culture that is enforced by 4 year old kids, but I kind of think think seeing successful women entrepreneurs might help
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The reason that signal strength is measured in dB in the first place is because it corresponds linearly to actual performance based on distance. It is originally derived from the measurement of a signal needed to sustain an audible sound across X miles of telephone wire. Therefore, it's a bit disingenuous to base performance on the linear strength of the signal.
I was contacted by Google Pittsburgh about 4 years ago. So I went through their phone interview process. I got through 3 interviews and really thought I did pretty well. All three interviews were entirely about solving problems that are heavily algorithm based. After interview three, bam!, they said they didn't want me. I looked over my notes and thoroughly researched the algorithms in question, I had come up with rather optimal solutions. I honestly have no idea what went wrong. But then maybe that just means I'm not smart enough to work at Google. Entirely possible.

This experience bugged me for a while. Man what I would have given to see that guy's notes about me :)