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Here's an idea: get a job. After a year, you'll have plenty of ideas, maybe even one of your own.

I hate to rain on anyone's parade, but the thought of begging for ideas in an on-line forum is just so alien to me. The best predictor of your success in any endeavor is your own determination. With someone else's idea, you're much more likely to bail at the first sign of difficulty. Once you get a little real world experience under your belt, you'll find plenty of opportunities to encounter something for which you'll have real passion.

Your chances of success increase astronomically when you're working on something you "have to do". The only way to know if you "have to do it" is to have a little background and experience with it. Trading ideas like commodities in a place like this seems like the least likely way to find something you'll be passionate about.

OTOH, a "boring job" can be an incredibly fertile environment for start-up ideas. You'll learn what people want, see what works and what doesn't, and be much more adept at identifying opportunities. Oh, and get a chance to bank some money so that when you do start working on your passion, you can concentrate on that instead of begging for funding.

Sometimes the easy way out is just that: the easy way out. Get a job and pay your dues. You'll probably be very glad that you did.
I don't think it's a zero sum game. It's not either/or. For most it's both. You will have a smart (brilliant) phone and if you read a lot, a dedicated reader. The 2 form factors just don't overlap enough to do both well.
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This is by far the best vi/vim introduction I've ever read. Not because it makes you instantly proficient with the editor -- there are other tutorials for that -- but because it does an excellent job explaining how to use it properly.

In Vim, especially the GUI version, it's perfectly possible to just press 'i' and then putter around in your text file, moving around with cursor keys and Home/End and such, deleting, typing, and only occasionally dropping back into "command mode" (as it is often called) to delete a line, or search for something, or save the document (assuming the GUI version doesn't have key bindings set up for this already). I used Vim like this for over a decade, never really understanding the point.

As the article points out, this is completely wrong. You stay in command mode (called "normal mode" here, which gives it a different feel immediately -- it's the mode you normally should be in), and switch to insert mode only to type short bursts of text. Everything else is done in command mode.

While this seems weird at first, once you start getting the hang of it, it starts paying off big time. There are a zillion commands that do something and then enter insert mode. I used to think they were completely redundant; there's already 'i' and 'a' to do that, why have more? Because, obviously, when you spend most of your time in "normal mode", this allows you to execute a command and immediately start typing text. E.g. to insert a new line below the current one, you press 'o', and Vim inserts the line, indents it properly (if you have autoindent set), and is ready for typing.

While this is hardly heavy wizardry, once you know a couple dozen of these commands, editing becomes a very different experience. You just move through the text differently.

Anyway, the article explains this, and a lot more, much better than I can do it here. :-)
You need to have experience in trying stuff out before you stake your future on "The One Big Idea." Unless you've tried and implemented several, perhaps lots, of ideas, you won't know where the hard bits are.

When writing a thesis you have two problems: writing and the ideas you are trying to convey. When you need to write a thesis, start by writing something, anything, every single day. Non-trivial amounts, and expect to throw it away. by the time you have to write the important stuff for real, the writing is second nature and you can concentrate on the bits that really matter.

So it is with implementation of startups. Do it several times over. Pick something and see it through to launch. Don't expect to make money from it, but get a minimally working, not too shabby version actually working with other people using it for real. Until you have that experience, making a product to make money requires that you solve more problems at once than you have time for.

Experience failure to learn about success.
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Could you elaborate more on that ?
What particular changes did you make? timeframe, etc ?
I am asking out of personal curiosity, as I have just started to try and modify my diet.
Bird's eye view is really good. I will use Bing Maps just for that. I'm surprised they don't have anything like that in Google Maps.
You can make the drop in productivity relatively short (maybe part of an afternoon) rather than a week, but it's still going to be there anytime you learn something that's actually different.

If you pick up a new language (say) and are immediately fluent, have you actually learned anything?
Now all I have to do is get a startup to sell, then I can get a pet that nobody in my family is allergic to.

Great.
There are so many cheap RAM and CPU idle circles that you even can build data storages or programming languages on top of ridiculously inefficient JVM. ^_^

The point is that there is the kernel to manage system resources, which is very good one.
You forget existentialism has a clear definition of angst, despair and inauthentic living. That tie into what is "good" in existentialism. Essentially existentialism says yes happiness is good, but happiness supplied by drugs is an external source of happiness and is thus inauthentic. Poking yourself with needles, ie the act of consuming doesn't make you feel good, the drug does. Existentialism is in this respect where Eastern philosophies meet with the West. Read some Camus, or Sartre, but if you feel the need to see what existentialism is like with a higher power read Kierkegaard.
Canonical is a private company, and I don't recall any public mentions of finances. Where did you find information on their profitability?
this was part of my initial reaction.

when CouchDB is under concurrent load it does a "group commit" style write anyway and can batch nearly as efficiently as bulk docs. the only additional overhead would be the HTTP headers which is nominal when the documents are a bit larger than "hello world".

in general CouchDB does better under concurrent write load than single writer and while these kinds of optimizations on the client side can be impressive it's not actually what CouchDB is tuned for OOTB.
I took a trapeze class a couple months back that was pretty damn terrifying, but I got through it and had a pretty good time.

In January, when I got all excited about Webfinger, I proposed an Ignite talk on it to RailsConf in Baltimore, before I knew anywhere near enough to talk on it. They accepted, so I was forced to learn enough to talk about it well and get others excited about it. Also damn terrifying, but way way worth it.
Why? It conveys a piece of information. Would you feel better about it if instead of writing "private" in front of it, I would write a comment "it is probably a bad idea to use this method in your own code"? What would be the gain - it is simply more verbose?
I'm pretty surprised to hear that ATMs use Windows CE or XP as their OS. This seems like a perfect place to use a stripped down, hardened Linux or BSD.
vi keys are on hjkl standard position is jkl;.
Good for them! I've been reading books there for years. Well before ebooks was "in" again :)
A creator would be able to provide meaning for the last person 'in the system' who wouldn't be able to point at someone else to provide his/her meaning.

World of warcraft characters are not self aware, but if they were, my point is exactly that they could aspire to higher meaning than fun for players, by their own standards of morality and what they choose to be fulfilling.

You can feel good about shooting heroin, for a little while, and then you'll realise that it is not all it is cracked (pun intended) up to be. So you will most likely either revise your value system or you'll die of an overdose.

Just doing what makes you feel good is not a very good system of morality, since it obviously allows you to do good to yourself at the expense of others. People that have such tendencies are usually labelled either unable to empathise or psychopaths depending on how far they go in their pursuits.

What you 'ought' to do, is to try to define a set of rules for yourself that start from axiomatic things that any healthy and well thinking person can perceive as 'good'.

It's not a coincidence that most laws tend to start off from basic principles like 'property is ok' and 'killing is not' and work out a whole series of codified laws from there.

For a moral viewpoint on life and a feeling of satisfaction you could very well do the same, on your own almost without external input.

Some people will come up with extremely selfish sets of rules, which is fine as long as they fit within the legal framework and make them feel good, some will do much better than that.

And some will fail, and end up in jail or become ostracised from society.
This is some of the best advice I've seen on here in a while.
They sell solar panels in Menard's now, freakin' Menards (A mid-western version of Lowe's/Home Depot). I think they cost 300+ for 60 watts. I for one would love to put a bunch of solar panels up on my house, just for the cool factor.

Not to mention, centralized power is vulnerable. Terrorists, grid failure, etc. Something so vital should be so centralized. I'm going to dub the coming DIY power generation "Cloud Power", remember you heard it here first.
if you're going to have to sit down and power through a task that will take you a long time (cramming for an exam, a weekend marathon coding session, etc), operate in cycles of 20-30 minutes of focused work and then 5 minutes of something unrelated (preferably something entertaining/distracting/social). your mind will stay sharper, it'll be easier to focus, and you'll last longer before you burn out.
You could look into accelerating some of the common filters/operations in programs like Audacity, GIMP or some other open source media editor.
I'd like to add a caveat to this: If you go out and get a job, do yourself a favor and live as lean as possible while working it. Save every dime you can. That cushion will make startup life significantly easier.

Plus, you won't have a huge overhead draining you when you do finally make the leap. It's very easy to spend up to your income level when you start making decent money... but it's a trap! Keep your eye on the prize if you really want to start up.
True. I don't think viewer will mind a 10-15sec commercial in the middle of the video, as long as its just once or twice in an hour long video. Maybe even can have premium account holders who don't want ads and such.

I'd love to know if you had any particular feature you'd want to see, beside the obvious playlist capability, favorites, comments, rating and likes.
I'll guess it's 2010-02-02...
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> You can't artificially inseminate with an embryo though, only semen.

Of course you can. Fertilize the eggs in vitro then transplant them.

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My understanding is that a lot of good teachers would rather have more autonomy in their jobs than more money.

My son’s first preschool teacher was superb, because she paid enough attention to the kids to know when not to follow the Ph.D.-approved paint-by-numbers curriculum that was mandated by the school. Her contract didn’t get renewed (since she was a new teacher, she had no kind of tenure protection).
Geneva is not always an easy place for expats. I was living there for 3 years before moving to the US. If you need anything to make your stay more enjoyable (tips, etc), let me know. My email is my HN user name at gmail. Good luck!
Sampling bias. The more people who visit a high-crime area, the more crime is likely to occur.

That and the gentrification resulting from UCSF's push into the area...
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It doesn't work for everybody, though. For me, a job tends to completely numb my mind and kill off any creativity I have. YMMV.
This is one of those things that surprises me about technology people that push openness. I won't buy a Kindle until it supports ePub as a default format. Amazon went out of their way to create a proprietary format for a reason: lock-in. There are plenty of official ways to convert to AZW, but the format is owned by Amazon and can change breaking any of the unofficial ways to convert back.
This is brilliant advice. Remember all that shit about pain points and building a product that has value? That's what living and breathing a 9-5 in a specialty domain will teach you. Think you might want to build an online property management system? Go get a job managing properties. Etc.
They shouldn't be.

Working in the job shop business I've seen that 20% of clients are responsible for 80% of unprofitable projects.

They should be your competitor's clients -- your competitors will lose so much money servicing them that your competitors won't be able to compete for and service profitable clients.
When I read on tech blogs that Kindle is a goner, I think these people must not read very much.

Yeah, pretty much. It is snobby and rude to say it that way, but being snobby and rude myself I'm fine with that.

In fairness, while e-ink devices offer what I believe is the best reading experience in the present for texts read linearly, they're less pleasant when used to read texts where you're likely to bounce around: technical texts, books with lots of footnotes, and even omnibus editions of linearly read texts. Then again, this looks to be true of the iPad as well. The faster and more colorful screen was used to make a chintzier experience, classy the way casinos are classy, which they aren't, not a better reader.
When I moved into another country (Germany) (from home France). Outcome: I now speak another language (german) (still not fluent but evbdy understands me at least that's what they tell me).
Start with the small web applications. They might turn out bigger than you expected. There are lots of stupid web sites raking in money. And if they don't turn out big, they still provide you with a lot of learning opportunities. Also, you have something to demonstrate should you ever decide to apply for a job.
When I did the same thing, I just moved my filesystem into it, set everything to download into it, and away I went. It also helped me actually do something with info, rather than leave it there and not touch it.

However, I bet on a mac you could rsync or cron it to keep local and DB together.
keep an eye on the RSS feed on this page if you like http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/
What, to capitalise on the eight days per year of British sunshine?
beautiful ! here is one by samuel-ullman which a lot of folks here might already have known:

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter
of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will,
a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the
freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of
the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists
in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely
by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the
soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit
back to dust.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the
lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and
the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my
heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of
beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite,
so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of
cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at
twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of
optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
Can I have a MMO version of the game DefCon please?

Seriously - I would happily pay for that so I've solved the problem of you finding your first customer as well. :-)
Exactly. People are beginning to carry their wi-fi around with them, and those who don't can easily find a nearby open hotspot. At $150, my miserly instincts start breaking down in favor of the convenience of 'a book of books' (what Mom calls Dad's Nook).
It is Second World, pretty much by definition:

* First world: countries aligned with the USA during the cold war;

* Second world: countries aligned with former Soviet Union;

* Third world: nonaligned nations.
The first one in the "Computer" category - "copy and paste between computers." can be done with Synergy.
thanks for the response. Yeah I was thinking of using the mix of spider web and available api's on different video platforms. I have also emailed lot of people about having their content on this service, just to gauge the interest. I hadn't thought about allowing people to upload their own but it would be definitely nice to have screencast makers submit it to the site making life of web spider a bit easy.

The speech-to-text is another great feature. I think there are api's available that I could potentially use for this. I will look into what Synergy uses to do this. It would definitely enhance user's experience a lot.

Thanks again for your feedback!
4 months ago I began dancing classes(merengue,salsa,bolero,cumbia), never ever before in my life did any dance, before that I always kept enough physical distance to people, kind of shy with women, etc...and I am having the time of my life! I am enjoying it sooo much that sometimes I doubt it is me :)
The biggest problem with unions is the last-in, first-out rule. Most union contracts are structured so that when the municipality has shortfalls and has to let teachers go (i.e. most municipalities in America over the last few years), the most recently hired teachers are the first ones to be let go, regardless of competence. This is doubly damaging to the municipality in question, because those are the cheapest teachers, so more need to be let go in order to balance the budget.

But, as I said in the other thread, as long as the teachers' unions are the only ones sticking up for teachers while the taxpayers want to drop their kids off at school, drive to work on clean, safe streets, and then bitch and moan about the nerve of municipal workers actually expecting a paycheck, well.. I'm sympathetic to the workers, and if the union's the only one standing up for them, then they're doing more good than harm.
''Since the beginning, we've focused on providing the best user experience possible. Whether we're designing a new Internet browser or a new tweak to the look of the homepage, we take great care to ensure that they will ultimately serve you, rather than our own internal goal or bottom line.''

this may be true for search but not true for instance in the case of google news http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1528216 - google news was changed to serve not the user but internal google goals - it was a change to display new technology - because they can they changed it
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Filtered internet connections.

Buy DSL from us, get a connection with only productive, work related content, or no porn, or defeat the tvtropes addiction...
Well... If we forget the Ubuntu genes, Nexenta could be described as Debian GNU/OpenSolaris ;-)
Go to the park or beach. You won't see too many people using tablets or phones with backlit screens because they don't work in sunlight.
The idea of an action always "resulting in a positive outcome" depends entirely upon the perspective of the person experiencing the outcome. When you step outside of your comfort zone, something will happen. You may find you love your new experience; you may find you hate it. Either way, you are likely to learn from it, and depending on your time horizon, the newly acquired knowledge may result in "positive" outcomes for years to come.

Consider the situation described by @vyrotek: quitting your job and devoting yourself fully to a startup. There's no guarantee that the startup will grow into a $100 million company or even a $1 million company. You may go into debt, you may lose friends, your girlfriend may leave you because you can no longer offer the stability of a "normal" job. Would that be a negative outcome? Again, it depends. Maybe your business ownership experience makes you a prime candidate for chief executive at a scrappy new startup. Maybe your friends were more concerned with partying than with personal growth, and maybe your girlfriend was in love with your car instead of you.

Obviously, this example isn't all-encompassing and nobody can predict the future. Sometimes, you just need to act without knowing for sure if you're making the "right" choice, and then continually evaluate that choice as you accumulate new experiences. Nothing is permanent; if you take the leap of faith into the startup world you can always return to the job market later. Of course, in this economy it may take you 8-12 months to find a new job so it's wise to have some savings to fall back on.

I stepped out of my comfort zone by moving to a completely new city and then deciding to purchase a franchise business with a friend. I was extremely unsure about both decisions, but I'm glad I moved forward with both. The franchise has been a trying experience, straining my friendship as well as my wallet. However, we're starting to make money and get into a rhythm - an opportunity I wouldn't have had if I hadn't decided to jump in headfirst. There are days I hate where I am, but the experience I gain every day is invaluable, and I'll cherish it for the rest of my life.
Thanks, I've been trying to decide between Kindle and Nook on the assumption that I'll mostly read Project Gutenberg books anyway. So you're saying that Nook would be better for me?
Great question, I spent a lot of time thinking about that. Eventually, I realized that it wasn't convoluted to work from my Dropbox folder. At least the problem wasn't keeping project files there. After all, most projects are just lots of source code, and it doesn't matter where it sits.

The big problem with keeping projects in there is that each project might have computer-specific configurations. I try to keep those to a minimum, by e.g. using relative directories whenever possible. For the few things that I can't keep completely relative, I rely on environment variables that I set on each computer I work on.

Other than that, I haven't run into any problems working right out of my Dropbox directory. At one point I considered running all my software from Dropbox (using portable versions), but that really did cause a lot of headache (most programs have session-specific configuration which would cause problems on different computers).

Have you run into any other problems with keeping projects inside Dropbox?
"The prisoner falls in love with his chains." — Edsger Dijkstra
Regarding chess bots, there are a lot of places that already do this...ICC And playchess to name two, plus there are lots of rating lists such as http://ssdf.bosjo.net/list.htm
Back in shop class, I build a cabinet with an electronic lock. I had the presence of mind to include a hidden bypass wire and link for an external power source, but years later when I needed to open the cabinet, the electronics didn't work.

That's really the only thing I've learned about electronics. Avoid reliance.