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I do believe that they're offering the ability to allocate resources on their servers.

I don't think that you have to pay, and then host a dedicated server.
It wasn't until we had something like Youtube and widespread broadband that it became viable for even the poorest schools. That was only 2005. Look at how quickly stuff like Khan Academy and other things sprung up after Youtube launched.

That's only 5 years. Schools have to be conservative in things like this because the things they teach kids will serve as the foundation of their lives. Give it another 5 or 10, and I think we'll see an online component as a standard part of public schooling.
"First pick a positive integer at random."

Wrong already. There exists no equiprobable probability distribution for integers, so you cannot just pick a positive integer at random, you need to define a distribution and it will definitely be biased - some ints will get chosen with larger probability than others.
Gates has spent a lot of time since stepping down as CEO travelling the world and looking at ways to improve education.

I'd say he knows a hell of a lot more about it than most people.
Relevant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
I think the big lesson here is that non technical people that don't post on hacker news each day still don't understand facebook connect or they don't want to give all applications access.
When I was little, my parents and grandparents had a bunch of old books in their attics. I loved to go through them and read them, even though some of them were (obviously) dated.

How do you envision this scenario 50 years from now? Or even 20? Do you hand down your old dusty Kindle to your grandkids?

(Then again, if there's information overload already in 2010, I doubt that kids in the future will go around looking for more things to read...)
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"The bigger the government gets, the worse our small business does both in absolute terms and in terms of our competitive position. Anyone else out there running a small company with a different story to tell?"

For every aviation school, I imagine there are at least 100 small businesses right now experiencing the best sales they've ever had in windows, air conditioning, and anything else that involves the $1,500 tax credit.
Lynda.com pretty much owns the online training sector, as far as I have found. While it's not exactly the same, it is similar.
"With the Pro Subscription, you can invite three friends with Standard level memberships to play with you in any Premium level map"
That's really good. It means that four friends could divvy up the cost of the suscription, and one of them could always invite whoever is available to the premium maps. As long as they always want to play toghether, wich is common among friends playing the same game, this seems like it would be quite easy, and even cheaper than the Premium Suscription.
> An efficiency apartment in Denver averages $376 a month, or just over forty-five hundred a year, which means that you can house and care for a chronically homeless person for at most fifteen thousand dollars, or about a third of what he or she would cost on the street.

That assumes renters who don't try to destroy the place. However, some renters are considerably more destructive than others.

However, the big problem is that it assumes that homelessness is solely due to a lack of resources to obtain a home. If that were true, SF would have far fewer homeless and the shelters would be full.

Yet, many of SF's shelter beds are empty and folks who could be in the are on the street. Yes, they know about the beds - they prefer the street.

Are you really sure that they'd take an efficiency apartment? Are you sure that they wouldn't try to destroy it?

Someone pitching that as a solution should not only be aware of the possibilities but have reasons better than "an apartment is better than the street" because that's clearly not true for a large fraction of the relevant population.
We're looking at more high school and college education vs. Tech education.
Southwestern Washington (Vancouver, WA, etc.) seems like an even more cost-effective location (0% corp and personal tax in WA, although there is the B&O tax). I'm not sure if the tax/cost savings would make up for the general awesomeness of Portland and suburban/rural boredom of SW WA though.
Demo #15 rocks. I wonder if a modern Zaxxon can be created based on that.

http://js1k.com/demo/15
Ok, he made it through high school, kudos. Still, my point stands.
You should take a look at foreign education too. There's money in that. I just finished up teaching online ESL courses in Yeosu, Korea. There's a well established need for English tutoring and the rates for private tutoring in Korea can be around $50/hour.
I wrote this article over 3 years ago, while working at Microsoft. Ironically, I now work at Google. I haven't analyzed the numbers again since then, but I suspect the trends and reasoning are still the same.

I was surprised and delighted to see thousands of hits coming from HackerNews...more than 3 years later. Several search startup CEOs told me they showed this blog post to their VCs while raising money. Pretty cool.

Search is much harder than it looks. The "table stakes" investment required to operate a real search engine have escalated significantly since I wrote this. The competition is tougher, and winning just 1% market share is very, very difficult.

The new markets for search are hyper-local search, mobile search, social filtered search, and search automated action like Siri. Market share might be easier to win in these markets.

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Exactly! This sort of service can be provided internationally, nationally. You can spin it off and allow individuals to teach anything (Guitar, foreign languages, etc).
What has actually been done on this? Any backend work or just mockups?
> Intuitively it is obvious, but why is the relative reasoning incorrect?

Because in the reasoning symbol A is used to denote "expected value of a random variable representing the amount in the envelope you picked" but later on "expected value of a random variable representing the amount in the envelope you picked provided that you picked envelope with more money" and "expected value of a random variable representing the amount in the envelope you picked provided that you picked envelope with less money".

Error comes from splitting reasoning for two cases and failing to factor in the condition on which you split in your further calculation of the cases.

If you solve some equation and you have to split your reasoning in two (or more) cases, the while reasoning those cases you have to remember the condition that you assumed for given case and factor it in (possibly toss away some solutions).

I'd like to see some day less one dimensional way of writing down mathematic reasoning so one can see how information flows through through the course of a proof and errors like this would show up more easily.
Why don't you just upload everything to github and let the best man (team) win?
It being almost exactly 4 years in makes it seem a lot more likely that he's fully vested and is now looking at doing something new.

I personally think some mix of time-based and milestone-based vesting would make sense for founders. Basically, you get some of your equity for reaching product market fit on various metrics, some for profitability, and some for scaling. A lot of startup founders would move on after reaching one of those milestones. If the company is doing very well, but you just don't want to be in the "scaling" role, you could accept longer vesting of the remaining stock in a different capacity, maybe one where you can work on another project full-time.
Ask HN: List everything you know that is good/bad for our brains.
I have seen some good ideas on this topic here and there, buried in several HN comment threads. But I thought it'll be better off being a separate topic, aggregating everything good/bad for our precious brains.
Notice how I didn't say anything about wealth.

He did drop out of Harvard, no? Every dropout has an excuse in the end, I'm not going into that. I just don't understand what makes people so upset about this point.
While clearly not a criminal act, the act of sending scammy fake invoices is classless and shows the morals of the individuals involved.

To be in any way affiliated with swindling $29m in this manner is rather low and humiliating.
great, they were legally scamming people :/
> It's worth mentioning that they're writing for DSP systems.

Yes.

> More mainstream CPUs have a larger instruction cache (and smarter eviction policies), but the size of the hot code paths are (I imagine; I'm not terribly familiar with DSP) likely not much bigger, so that the problems they mention need solving less frequently for typical applications.

I'd have assumed the exact opposite. I assume that the size of the "hot enough" spots grows at least somewhat with the size of the binary. (It probably grows much slower than linear.) DSP binaries are smaller, so I'd assume that their hot spots are smaller even given "equivalent" programs.

But, DSP programs are different. Their data is more "regular" and their instruction sets are specialized for their typical uses. I'd expect better instruction cache behavior from DSP programs.

Fun fact - access times and feature sizes are related so if you maximize clock rates, the maximum size of a one cycle cache is basically independent of the access time. I suspect that almost all implementations can afford such a cache.

I suspect that the same rule applies to L2 caches but it's not clear that every implementation can afford the area. However, I suspect that implementations that have an L3 have maximized their L2.

DSP implementations are more likely to have traded cache size for dollars, so I expect that their caches are somewhat less effective on the same programs.

These two factors have opposing effects.
Reading other peoples code can serve as a substitute for talking to other programmers. I would suggest that you find other projects that are similar to yours and see how they did things. Is your way better? Blog about it. Even if no one reads it, it's good to get your ideas into words to help you think more clearly.
I feel pretty bad about assuming there was truth to this, initially.
Are you looking to sell the design or are you planning to give it away for free? If it's the latter, please do consider open-sourcing it.
Looks interesting. How shall I contact you then?
damage to their reputation (those sending the scam mailings) is deserved. The fact that it's legal to scam people doesn't change that.

They sent out scam mail that made it appear they would list people in the yellowpages, using a very similar logo and all. They were intentionally taking peoples money by giving them a false impression and then not delivering the value the people expected from the mailing. That's a scam, unfortunately it's not a crime.
I think codesearch can answer you: http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=if+lang%3Ahaskell
Statement 1 isn't true. If you have 10$ in the envelope, and it's the smaller envelope, you gain 10$. But if it's the larger envelope you don't lose 10$. The fallacy is that "x" refers to different things in each case.

Statement 2 is true but it isn't relevant, since you don't know the posterior probability given y. If the envelope contains the smaller amount of money then there is no way you can lose -- it's not a 50-50 chance.
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> I feel that this it ignores the greater purpose that mankind has. Greater then finding a mate. Creating and building. That is universal and is gender neutral.

Mankind doesn't have that purpose and may not even have any purposes. Many people value certain things, but that's very different.

Don't confuse what survival often selects for with purpose.
We had some backend work done by an Indian outsourcing company. You could continue with them and recode it, not sure you would want to though. We've got a lot of documents on what the site is about, and tech spec sort of stuff. We're also willing to commit a fair bit of time.
Would you mind talking about any lessons learned from offshoring? Was there anything you could have done differently to have a different outcome?
I really can't stand it when people complain about computer science education.

News flash - programming != computer science. It doesn't require a PhD to learn (or teach) Python or AJAX. In fact there's nothing inherently scientific about the day-to-day uses of that language. You want to learn to program? Go to ITT Tech or work on open source. Hell, you could land an interview pretty much anywhere if you spent 12 weeks watching the MIT Intro to Algos lecture and The C Programming Language. WHY DO YOU THINK IT'S AN INTRO COURSE?

If you want to learn how programming languages (syntax, grammar, compiler, interpreter), an operating system, automata, logic/circuits, Turing machines, AI, HCI, graphics, databases, MATH works and the theory and provenance behind all of it...you want a computer science degree.

Sorry your professor isn't teaching you the difficult inner-workings of jQuery.
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We're looking to sell the 'startup' as a whole.
What do you mean mate?
The less interesting version: A completely unprofessional company with a ridiculously unsubstantiated bid can't read rules.

Seriously, though, in bidding processes like this rules have to be enforced. One of the reasons the first, expensive round of bids got nullified was because rules weren't always followed.
You aren't asking for equity though, correct?
Some damage to one's reputation is an occupational hazard of doing disreputable things.

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Sure. Basically, I think the most important thing I would do next time if outsourcing to India is to find a company with a native English leader. If they have that, then the cultural differences can be minimized.

It's also how they want payments, how pushy they can be, and how they can't really seem to think for themselves. You have to have a rock solid brief, have everything designed beforehand (never have them design it).

Also, make sure you look at multiple companies, and bargain them down. Keep communication constant, and consistent.
I have to give it to the SEC though for even requiring such model. My dream is every financial product (from credit cards to CDOs) to come with the model and as standardized inputs as possible. People could then make websites like: WillIDefault.com that would show the risk you're taking - including the conditionals of the contract.
We're pretty flexible here. We'd like to discuss it further, we'd be happy to sell 100% outright.
The Student View thingie is full of errors. "Hallo" instead of "Halo", "dein Name" instead of "deine Naame", the proper base form is "sein". Conjugated: "Ich bin / Du bist / Er/Sie/Es ist / Wir sind / Ihr seid / Sie sind". I know, German is hard, but that should've been made by someone who knows a bit more about the language.

The chatbox, well, I'm not sure what they're trying to discuss, but it's nonsensical at best. Wanda Hoe isn't a common German name. It's also pretty close to Want-a-ho which probably isn't what you want.

There are lots of other errors. Not good. And "Learning will never be the same"? That sounds too dramatic.

/Rant. It's actually a pretty good concept. But it's just a concept without a good presentation.
If you're willing to give up some equity then I can get some work done for you. Sounds interesting, but would like some more info. Could you email me at Joshua.Estes@ScenicCityLabs.com

^_^ thanks
I don't think our designers first language is German! Sorry about that one mate :D!
It depends on the type of feedback you're looking for. If it's engineering based, take the suggestions of others and look for meetups or user groups in your area. Even at 17, don't be shy about looking for tech groups at any colleges in your area.
Um, you don't have a startup. You have some mockups. So, you're looking to sell some mockups?
A former GS pricing quant describes Slang briefly in a footnote at the following URL. It doesn't go into much detail, but maybe adds a morsel to what's been mentioned:

http://adgrok.com/why-founding-a-three-person-startup-with-z...
Because they're trying to sell it. This is an advertisement. Not a offer of something to the community.
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I'm sorry, but why is this here? Why is HN now a place to sell a failed project? I don't get it. If this were truly a "here, I started something, don't want it anymore, go grab everything I have from github" then great. But after reading the comments from the OP it sounds like they want to enter into a transaction to sell what little they have. Um... I don't read HN to be advertised to. Flagged.
We've got some code, some flash, and a whole lot of information on operations. The mockups are the most visual thing we can show!
If you look at their income statement 99% of their revenue is from ads.
We're trying to offer someone with some skills, the opportunity to get into a startup. We have genuine intentions. This was a lesson for us, and we think people smarter than us could take this far. We're either looking to sell, or looking to partner.
The code is of dubious quality, as you highlight in your post.
Please see my reply to your other question. I had no intentions of offending, or spamming you, and I am truly sorry if I did.
As Shakespeare says, "the readiness is all." It's one of those books that needs to find you at the right moment-- if you are not ready for it, some of it can seem like an odd mix of nonsense and hard work. If, on the other hand, you come to it after an advanced education in many of the topics, you might find it slight.

I re-read it, and Metamagical Themas a couple years ago, and was pleased to find how well it held up after all these years. Some books that are mind-opening when we read them as teenagers seem awfully thin decades later (yes, I'm looking at you, Robert Pirsig.)
I think part of the point was that an apartment creates a sense of responsibility and pride in ownership a shelter bed does not.

I don't think anyone's saying this is the one true solution, but it makes sense, and perhaps should be given more of a shot than it has been to date.
Why would you leave only 30 minutes before the deadline to hand in a proposal for billions of dollars?
Also, a valid comment. Where would be the best place to post this? Because I know this can help someone out here. Could be an interesting site a HN member could develop, I would support it, and I'm sure a ton of other HN members would!
My point is that the statement of a fact cannot be considered sexist. My own observations confirm your observations. Among my friends who parachute there are about 20 men and 2 women. This ratio is much higher than the overall ratio of men to women among my friends.

More observation than ours should be made before we conclude men have a higher probability to engage in physically dangerous forms of entertainment, but I would say it's a good bet they do.

At least in our society.

How much of it is nature and how much is nurture is what seems controversial.
I think this is a push by the investors to cash out. It boggles my mind (according to techcrunch) that they have $355M in financing. They are heavily dependent on organic search results that a re-balancing of google's algorithms could squash them.

What happened to IPOs for profitable companies, anyway? Even Facebook (which IS profitable) is going to wait to build their revenue and profit further before their IPO.
what kind of backend do you have? because if I were looking to take this on, I'd likely have my own ideas on "what the site is about". Tech spec sort of stuff means nothing. So really all you're selling is some mockups and whatever code you have - and if the code isn't substantial it would probably be more cost effective for me to recode it. I'm not trying to judge, I just think you may have overvalued what you're offering.
I believe the root of the paradox is that there exists no distribution of two variables A,B for which:

a) (A,B) always fulfills A=2B or A=0.5B
and
b) For any value of A, the conditional probability of B=2A is equal to the conditional probability of B=0.5A.
I can't think of a co-worker who wouldn't be annoyed if I told them "just get the excel sheet from my home directory."
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The main reason is that in the original competition, Boeing (a huge American company with senators pulling for it from at least one state) lost to a foreign company, which pissed off the protectionists and jingoes enough to want to run the whole thing over again.
> if there isn't a minimsft equivalent for Google/Apple ... that's a point in Microsoft's favor.

How can you possibly arrive at this conclusion? Are you implying Apple and Google censor and/or brainwash their workforce to think they are perfectly happy?
It is a pitch and would only be an experiment, but what if it works on a small portion of the population of homeless. Then I think its worth it especially to those hardcore offenders.
> We did research, found no true competitors

Is "true competitor" a technical term? Nearly everyone has competition, except a very small minority of government granted natural monopolies, like public utilities.
Nonsensical.
Just because something is technically legal doesn't mean it's ethical.

I've received their mailings. I'm glad their reputation is in tatters. That's where it belongs.
Did you miss the "having the valuable opportunity to see it up close" part?
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By true I mean very similar. We found a few generic services, but nothing that went for the angle we were going for. We looked into it, and our niche was a multi billion dollar niche.
I appreciate the fine sarcasm of your post.
I'll doubly recommend engaging the faculty and staff, regardless of subject. Especially for technical subjects where most of the learning is done outside the classroom.

The problem is, your adviser should be encouraging you to do this the moment you step foot on campus. It never hit me until after my junior year when I saw all the freshmen working in labs and such.

Think of it this way: If you want to be a journalist, you don't just take English classes, you work on the school newspaper.
Have you considered the possibility that many homeless people are specifically uninterested in the responsibility of an apartment? We're not talking about children or immature teenagers here. IMO the bigger risk with homeless people is treating them with condescension, thinking you know best what they should do. Maybe you don't.
Because I know this can help someone out here.

Most advertisers also believe their product can help someone out there.
Shoot me an email, I may know someone depending on the price..
Being homeless is offensive?