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I'm sorry, but I find the underlying point hard to swallow:

"Later, when [the company] did work, I realized that moment, while locking the front door that night, was when the company turned around. When we went from being in crisis mode to being a winner, for one very simple reason. I tried to visualize failure, and couldn't do it."

So, because you were unable to imagine yourself failing, you succeeded?

Doesn't this smell distinctly of self-actualization and other hocus-pocus? Especially since the article leads with:

" One night I was leaving the office and I knew the next morning I was going to lay off a quarter of the company and cut the salaries of everyone else in half."

So, you were able to recognize that you failed to provide one quarter of the company jobs which you presumably offered them and also failed to live up to paying the salaries of everybody else but you were, at that very moment, unable to imagine a situation where... you failed to save the company?

Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but this is, in the words of Winer "really convoluted and it's really wrong."
They decided to make some backwards incompatible changes after they had already announced 2.8 as the next release. They would have made it 3.0 but everybody was already calling the next release 2.8.
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.
I think of it as $11/ip; this enables me to do some interesting crawling and not get stopped by throttle limits.
It's not just 'easier', there are different orders of magnitude of work involved. Modding a complete game is like fast prototyping game design ideas with a very specific DSL.
I will just say the politically incorrect things:

Women are in general more interested in having babies than men.

Women are also just different than men in some way, not just physically, but socially.

We should close gender gap where possible, but we shouldn't insist on equal gender balance if women really don't like to go into the same career that men goes into.
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I read this when I was like 12... I really need to go back over it again
Well Cnet, you seemed to have forgotten about Grooveshark as a point of comparison, for they are doing fairly well. Or how about anywhere.fm (YC S07), which was so damn good before imeem (now myspace music) ruined it. But, I guess TechCrunch saw this coming (http://techcrunch.com/2008/01/28/imeem-gobbles-up-a-young-st...).

I really wish Apple gobbled up Anywhere.fm and slap it as cloud iTunes. It's really all a sad story.
Quite livable too - you can get around with a bike or public transport (or a car too, it's easier to find parking than in SF).

And: Portland has Powell's Books.

The problem is the weather: from October to as late as July, there is an awful lot of gray and rain. Not exciting, thunder storm rain, but steady, drizzly rain.

If you can handle that, it is indeed a great place.
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Things continue like this in the workplace too. Whatever the industry is you get into programming, the challenges are mostly the same. You run into the same problem time and again, because the problems that industry need solved are all very similar, and mostly not that complicated. Accept user input, shuffle the input through whatever language you are programming in, query/update a database, shuffle the results through whatever language you are programming in, display the results.

The business will demand these constant features, that are all mostly the same and when you've mastered what the business requires, it will be up to you to continue your education and improve your programming skills. Either by jumping jobs to one that focuses on a different area of programming... from a web stack to an iPhone app, or embedded systems... or you have to learn it on your own because work only need you to know the minimum required to get the product out and the minimum is only challenging and fun for so long. Learning to learn on your own is important, most programmers don't do it, they get to a certain level and do not progress.

I don't mean to sound discouraging, there is a lot of intellectual challenge along the way, and little is as satisfying as sitting down and creating a great product or solving a particularly difficult challenge. I always feel something is missing on days I don't get to program.
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>The Pro Subscription, which can be purchased for $3.99 per month, billed annually, includes all of the premium subscription features as well as:

The ability to start your own game server, specify a server location, determine the game mode and invite who you want to join you; [among other primarily social perks] [Premium is 1/2 the cost]

Ouch. $50/year for the capability to run my own server? Count me out.

Freemium is not a bad model. Users like it. It's not an excuse to charge more, however.
While it's not perfect, a college degree is usually a decent indicator that a person has at least heard of the stuff you want. A new way to quantify level or progression of a person would have to replace it.

There is no reason why the current Universities can't provide this for online courses. Online courses do not mean that there won't be any Profs and TAs. But you just won't be going to their office on preset hours and sit in a classroom on specific hours.

Undergrad education in certain subject really doesn't change from year to year. You could build a course and do small adjustments year to year. What you would provide as a service in my view is the human help.

What I hope won't happen is that Universities will turn into for profit course giving institutions. We need the R&D work done at Universities. I'd be suprised if the government would want to continue funding Universities as they do now if for profit website could do it cheaper. Do the current for profit school like the University of Phoenix do any research?
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What do you mean by "more interested in having babies than men"?

Do you mean that, because women are capable of carrying a child to term that they are more interested in copulating?

Do you mean to say that women want to have and raise children more than men?

I'm not sure I understand your point.

As to "Women are also just different than men in some way, not just physically, but socially", all I can say is this was much more true 50 years ago than it is today, but that doesn't mean that it's not true now. What I (as well as the author of the article) was trying to address is: Why?

"We should close gender gap where possible, but we shouldn't insist on equal gender balance if women really don't like to go into the same career that men goes into."

Who is advocating forcing people to do things?
I feel the complete opposite for my courses in mechanical engineering. The teachers really worked at it and I still use the text books to this day. It wasn't all about the lectures themselves but how they taught us to think which has become invaluable. For me college wasn't about the courses, but the curriculum which was really the value added experience.
Something like computer science may be learned strictly from reading but this isn't universal. Gates argument is course specific.
Why hasn't online learning trickled down to the lower levels? Public schools could really benefit from having a big catalog of online course material to offer students. I realize there's a need and benefit to instructor led courses but our entire education policy in the US seems to focus on the lowest common denominator. Why not let the best and brightest push forward with self paced learning? Give them more choices. Let them start focusing on their unique interests. This would possibly give teachers more time to help the kids who are falling behind. I would have done much better in school with self paced learning.
The OSI stack? That's even less relevant than sequential access algorithms! The IETF crowd had won that battle decisively before the first OSI committees even met, much less after they shat their gibberingly baroque standards documents into the world.
Ask HN: what do the startups use for their websites?
A lot of the startups these days have the exact same layout of their websites, with designs similar to this: http://www.rentmonitor.com/
Do they use anything common for putting up the website? or did they just all find it an effective design and built them the same way?
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Will it be fine lectures that make education so effective? Or just-in-time learning customized precisely to the user?
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I'm very curious about this too. Is there a product out there that could generate a simple product site that uses one of the standard templates?
Same here. I got it as a present from a friend. It took me about three years to read it. It's a long time ago and I really should read it again.
So A tells his number. Now the probability that A>B seems to jump to 0 because there are finitely many numbers smaller than A but infinitely many larger.

This is not correct. You said B chose a positive integer. Therefore, there are not infinitely many larger numbers B's choice can be.
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It works on your iPad/Phone/Pod too!
I think learning what HTTP, HTML and HREF stood for were one of the first things I learned back in the mid/late 90's when getting into web programming. Since H stood for hypertext in both HTTP and HTML I think a reasonable person would guess it also stood for that in HREF.
I've been checking out some of their EECS classes and they are very well made.
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It was clear what it stood for back in 1997. We must have went through some sort of very minor Dark Ages around 2008 which only plunged knowledge of HREF into darkness, but left everything else intact. :)
Things like this impress me: http://tryruby.org/

This could work for other subjects too.
This guy and I'm sure a lot of others could be pretty well off if there was some type of rural co-op they could live and work on. It could save a lot of money and probably help these people a lot by getting them out of the city.
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Yeah, especially given the common conceptions of mind at the time he wrote, I see one of his main enduring contributions being the idea that the mind is not something we have full, transparent, introspective access to. A few other philosophers around the time were getting at similar ideas (Nietzsche and Schopenhauer were both interested in the hidden influences that caused people to think and want what they thought and wanted), but the mainstream view was that the mind was fully accessible to itself, i.e. that all thought was conscious.

Of course, that isn't necessarily an endorsement of his much more specific views on male and female gender roles.
I kept thinking of those Russian dolls...
so are you a 32-year old C/Lisp wizard now? ;)
I'd like to see more datapoints for why you feel this way. And besides, one reason for a "layout" decision to keep prominent action buttons front and visible could be after successful A/B testing (see this for an example - http://www.abtests.com/)

I don't think any YC startup would want to piss off PG with a template found somewhere online - most YC startups do have a clear landing page with call to action items and hardly . Likewise, I am sure that was the reasoning behind this TechStars website you've shared. Of course, I would assume that since they've only crossed the demo day chasm, they probably might've borrowed some elements from online for lack of a full-time designer perhaps.
"Power-law solutions have little appeal to the right, because they involve special treatment for people who do not deserve special treatment; and they have little appeal to the left, because their emphasis on efficiency over fairness suggests the cold number-crunching of Chicago-school cost-benefit analysis."

This is exactly why programs like these won't take off. It's hard to present this kind of complex analysis of the behavior of a system to the tax payers for exactly this reason. The average person probably votes their conscience, not what makes the most sense from scientific studies, which are generally not widely published anyway. There's no simple moral argument to be made for giving homeless people free apartments that they don't deserve, and most voters won't think through a proof that has more than like two steps.
That incredibly a propos for me considering I reading this book right now. Thanks for posting.

I'm 150 pages into the book and it's quite interesting but I've seen a lot of the stuff elsewhere. What I find incredibly cool is how he connects different subjects with concepts he's explaining.
This type of layout is the landing page for the startup (product). It's similar across many startups because it works.
A Freudian explanation isn't the same as an based on "evolutionary histories". Her last paragraph is about changing perceptions of attractiveness.
Though I would advice anyone to get a designer if possible to make a good presentation, if you must, checkout http://www.noupe.com for random templates and designs and http://www.weebly.com for a simple drag and drop editor.
Next you kids will be asking where the word "car" came from (vehicular not Lisp), and whether Paul McCartney was ever part of a band.
I don't think it is happening right now; it's just something that could happen easily, and is something of a counter-argument to the idea that instead of just complaining, you should try and 'crowd out' the silly articles with good ones: it's not so easy.
there are other auction sites online. why aren't you using them, then? its not like ebay is literally the only online auction house. serious question, btw. not hypothetical.
and our collective response could be summarized as RTFM. :)
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The program still branches (decides which code path to follow) - it just does it with a different mechanism, for instance pattern matching.
I think you need to straight up name the university you're at and the subject that had the 1997 teaching notes. Unless you're doing a theory class, there's little good reason for them to be so out of date.
How do you know someone has read GEB? Because they tell you.
i won't deny that mom and dad aren't going to care about the difference, a la penny arcade, but, from the ESRB:

"Online-enabled games carry the notice "Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB." This notice warns those who intend to play the game online about possible exposure to chat (text, audio, video) or other types of user-generated content (e.g., maps, skins) that have not been considered in the ESRB rating assignment."

has any game "lost" its rating, or had it modified, or whatever, because of user generated content?
Good article. But I have to admit I was a little disappointed: with Freud in the title I was expecting, at the very least, something involving penises.
Oh, but the situation is even worse than that-- the Protestant work ethic already caught you (or us, or many people, whatever).

I'm talking about the assumption that exercise is some sort of pain for gain tradeoff that you would suffer through in exchange for a later reward, but is itself unpleasant or undesirable without the health benefits. This insiduous paradigm seems to be everywhere in (at least) American culture.

And so the magic pill already exists! And there's no patent. No copay. No HMO can deny you it. And it's fun!
What happens when you have no trouble visualising what will happen when you fail?

Sometimes it's quite simple to see. Failing means no rent money......etc.
Or be the baby at daycare - babies are super creative and really need to adapt to their environment fast :)
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Sure there are. No matter what finite positive integer you choose there are infinitely more finite positive integers greater than that number.
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I think the bigger feature is the ability to invite non-paying members to the paid maps. It's nice to know that the option to run your own server exists, but I don't see it being that widely used. In any case, there are very few games I've played for an entire year, and for those few games I'd have been happy to pay more for the promise of continued support and more content.
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"Everybody is fine", huh?

I'm not sure you can make that claim so casually.
It's similar in that it's easy to fool people into thinking about the problem incorrectly and coming up with the wrong conclusion.

People are very touchy about the monty hall problem and will refuse to believe that it's better to switch, even when confronted with numerical simulations of the problem.

As for this problem, it's more of a riddle than a paradox, the reasoning is erroneous but you may not realize that if you're not careful.

It's more similar to the 1 = 0 riddle or the 3 guys paying $10 dollars for rent riddle, tricking you into making a mathematical error that isn't immediately obvious.
I mention this event because it started with a couple of founders getting together for coffee last fall. We had just been at a startup event in HK that was very US centric and sorta top down. Dave McClure, who attended, suggested we build on that event with just some informal meetings between founders to help the community grow. So for the next couple of months, we've been meeting at coffee shops every other week. This built into planning a TechCrunch 50 style event and setting up a new co-working space (boot.hk). All of this motivated, organized and driven by local startup founders.

If anyone has any questions about startups in Hong Kong, let me know. Happy to share. If you can attend, the Hong Kong BarCamp will be Sept 18th this year.

Tweets about the event are tagged #sus2010
Except that lives are at stake instead of money. Not that I believe that this endeavor in Afghanistan makes sense.
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I think the real value of the web is to give students free access to the nitty-gritty details of potential careers. These details would not serve as a replacement for education (I feel that's impossible, since hands-on lab experience and access to expensive equipment, etc. are so important to competency). Rather, they would help to ensure that students are embarking on a path that they're sure they want.

Some people spend a couple of years and thousands of dollars before discovering that their major isn't really what they thought it would be. And by then, they're just unhappy; they have invested too much to turn back, and don't really have passion anymore. I strongly suspect that a lot of people who do crappy work simply got into this kind of trap; if they'd had the chance to find out more about other jobs in detail, they may have made a different choice of major, and been much happier and more productive somewhere else.
I think what kiba and Beatrice Pang are saying is that it is biologically ingrained in the psyche of women to want children.

The same way a hot woman is universally attractive to heterosexual men. It's how we are. I guess my second point is a bit irrelevant but I'm adding on to what Beatrice is saying: much of our behaviors follow a certain template to ensure the continuation of the species, there's a special synergy between men and women.
This is (pop) evolutionary psychology, not psychoanalysis. Freud's reasoning on why men are driven to become entrepreneurs, magnates, architects, artists is that the boy, sensing that he has been robbed of the organs required to procreate internally, is driven to create externally to assuage his loss. It's the male equivalent of Freud's theory of "penis envy".
Google stop supporting a product that not many people used, and it jumps to a thousand upvotes and remains on top for over a day, attracting hundreds of comments.

The CEO of a top 5 IT firm resigns after admitting to inproprietaries and sexual harrasment, dropping almost 10% of the stock price (around 10B of market cap) and the story struggles to make the front page and doesn't attract many comments.

This is really big news, and I am surprised that it isn't being covered more and more in-depth. I think it is fair to say that a large portion of HN readers, and the general tech/startup blogosphere, have no idea how the IT world works, who this guy really was, what his job was etc. If this was Apple, the story wouldn't die for weeks. Enterprise and hardware make up a huge part of IT, it is just covered poorly.

(Edit: there was a lot of hype around wave, granted, I could probably find a better example of less-significant events that attract a lot of attention)
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>Why must it be attractive for a female to be powerful in order for her to succeed?

There is an undeniable biological tendency to want to attract a partner. Hence, any human's behavior will tend (in varying amounts) toward striving to be attractive to a partner. This foments a tendency for men to seek "Success, wealth and power" while fomenting a tendency for women to seek "beauty and femininity" (to use the article's wording).
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And luckily there is no software at all in the machines that monitor your vital signs, decide how much medicine or radiation you need, route your ambulance etc.
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