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There's this fetish for formica tables, broken chairs and rotting pizza boxes among startups that's frankly a little hard to understand (or at least to justify). Art, office space, furniture and infrastructure are often really not all that expensive. They can be worth of a heck of a lot more than they cost.

Your environment can affect how you work. It can affect who decides to work for you. It can improve the lives of your coworkers or employees. It can help sales. It can help investment.

We don't denigrate art or design when it comes in the form of an apple product -- why denigrate a mural?
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It ignores it only as much as the average person does.
This update deserves as much attention as the initial report:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1482497 (114 points)
What a trip! Good luck to the Wakemate guys. People who wrangle hardware are like the badasses of the startup scene. I have much respect.
Who is advocating forcing people to do things?

I felt like that there is an assumption of male sexist bias against women or something. So I feel something like "assumption of female ability in all area, regardless of reality".

I also feel the ideas of "males are sexists and evil and the like".

Then they forget that males are disproportional one of the most violent offenders, but also overachievers.

So I spoke the truth as I see it.

Don't be so offended, I would like a hacker woman to marry and love. I wish there were more of them around and I wish I have the skills to date them. However, I also recognized, that women are women, and there will never be a 50% split gender tech population.
Calculus on Manifolds by Spivak is a good book to read before (the first few chapters anyways).
I'm gonna give you props for "Ever wish you could create a world more alive than a farm where nothing happens?" jumping out in bold.

Nice touch, perfectly targeted at your best audience.
There already some companies working on medical simulators. and some medical schools use them. but some simulators need special manipulators to be effective , so it's hard to deliver them over the internet.

And obviously , using simulators can offer great results:
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The residents had displayed similar psychomotor skills, but the two groups performed very differently in the O.R. Those who had trained on the simulator completed the operation, on average, twenty-nine per cent faster than those who had not. Moreover, the residents who had received standard surgical training were nine times more likely to hesitate during the operation, five times more likely to injure the gallbladder or burn surrounding tissues, and six times more likely to make other errors. Additional research has shown that simulator training significantly enhances performance of hernia repairs, nasal sinus procedures, and bronchoscopic examinations of the lungs.
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http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/05/02/050502fa_fact?cu...
My suggestion, move image to left or right, and put some of the text at the top next to it. I don't want to scroll down to sign up.

Complete Suggestion:
Huge Text next to image: The Best Restaurant iPhone Game
Underneath: Coming soon... We'll tell you when it's ready
Underneath: Email: [________] [Submit]

You can also keep that other information underneath where it is now, but I think you need to get to the point for casual visitors so they know if they should sign up or not.
if I remember correctly, Apple did a massive human factors study along with several studies on product placement on the web. they then came up with the following:

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/19980509035420/http://www.a...

You will quickly notice a resemblance. It was proven unequivocally that the right hand large photo product placement with a bar of sub items below draws the most conversions. It has been replicated since then to where it has almost become an unspoken standard.

If I recall correctly, Apple spent a massive amount on researching this and pretty much eliminated any other conceivable layout as drawing a higher conversion rate for product sales + recollection branding; that was the big key, not only did it drive higher sales, but it also served as identity branding as well.

So you will see a lot of companies, that do their research, implementing this style page, if they are a product company. You will also see a lot of off the shelf templates that emulate it. There are countless Wordpress and Drupal themes that offer this layout.

A lot of this info is from memory from the 90's, so take it with a grain of salt. The high level info is sound, but I may have got some of the details backwards.
Yanowitz defines X as the sum of the value of both envelopes. That amount is not undefined and not indeterminate. The amount inside an individual envelope isn't undefined either: it has a probability distribution.
Pocket Cafe is the best casual restaurant iPhone game. Created by an award-winning iPhone development team, the game is already more than one year in the making.

This is you, you, you. Talk about me, me, me. In particular, "my" love of time management games.

Casual games is largely sold on the basis of art style (more photos!) and appeal to the customer's desire to live through the main character. You might want to consider naming that mascot of yours. I'd be thinking female names that wouldn't sound out of place at a PTA meeting in Kansas. (Look at your competitors: they all do this, for a reason.)

There is no reason to not have the call to action be instantly visible, above the fold.
I just noticed the other day that Google Maps on the web recently added flicking and deceleration. It's a nice, new touch.
Is success also not be an option if you haven't visualized it?

If you don't have a plan for revenue much less profitability or acquisition, I'd say that you haven't 'visualized success' the way you would do so for failure in this parable — on the basis of not dying, not traction.

Given the (IMO, correct) disdain for business plans and worship of 'making something people want', there seems to be a big inconsistency here.
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I just meant that the argument Smullyan presents does not
involve probabilities, random variables, distributions,
expected values, etc. (This can be verified by reading it
again and checking those concepts do not appear. ;)).

The fact that he doesn't uses those words does not mean he doesn't use those concepts. The Smullyan version is simply less precisely stated and anyone solving it would first have to go through the trouble to convert the phrasing to incorporate the usual, well defined mathematical words. Solving it any other way is just handwaving.
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That's fucking ridiculous and the stupidest thing I've ever heard of in my life.
> "Good content will be banned to keep the environment at a teen level. This is disgusting, and make no mistake it is censorship."

Actually, it's irrelevant anyways. Note that games have explicit disclaimers that online play is unrated by the ESRB and may be effectively higher than the game's box rating.

The ESRB acknowledges and accepts this - games are rated based on predictable content (e.g., dialogue in singleplayer) and do not include unpredictable player-generated content within reason (e.g., people swearing in multiplayer).

So, the whole ratings argument is bogus - SC2 will not suffer a ratings change even if its users distribute obscene user content.
But everyone is judging it by what SC1 did. SC2 won't, in my opinion, have the half life (pun intended) of the original because of this. E-Sport companies are restricted by the new EULA. Modders can't do what they use too. In the end, Blizzard isn't protecting anyone, they are trying to gain control on the whole user experience and they will want to monetize it. Map Packs, paid tournaments, ....

I bought the game and like someone else said, if this wasn't blizzard I wouldn't have bought it. Same with the iPhone, how many would have bought it knowing the restriction if it wasn't made by apple. Same hardware, same software, same management.
I use http://themeforest.net/ when I need a template for a throw together site. Most of the ones I have purchased have been well organized and their prices are better than some of the other sites. The down side is that they do not seem to have as extensive of a collection as some of the other sites. That being said, I have never seen a template on their site that looks like it was meant for geo-cities or myspace either, so that could account for the fewer templates.
"And: Portland has Powell's Books."

Good point, that's all I would need to tell my wife to move (she's studying to be a librarian ;p)

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I'm pretty sure your post was downvoted because of your immature tone and your downright ridiculous arguments - Starcraft II "innovative"? Ha! You're right though, that it is sometimes like high school, with the unsubstantiated arguments that are mostly just appeals or assertions, and the general lack of professionalism.

Gillian Anderson couldn't do anything about Adobe Photoshop, and if the anti-videogame crusaders couldn't manage to do anything significant with Manhunt and Hot Coffee, custom content for SCII isn't going to be any worse. (For that matter, "GTA Raoul Moat" fetched Rockstar an apology from the Daily Mail. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=256635)
I'm not sure the normal group discussions are better than the threaded discussions like we have in here.

And creating small group face to face dynamics could be achievable using group video chat/telepresence.

and :
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A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”
""" http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/study-finds-that-on...
True. But with public transport and an umbrella 0 I can use a normal laptop bag.
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I don't ever want to take funding from something like XX Combinator, its just insulting to think I'd be getting money because of something I have no control over like my gender.

I want to earn my success because of the things I can control and what I create with my own mind and hands and hard work.

Btw ladies, there are men out there who admire a woman who is strong and successful - and they're worth searching for. Some of them even work for startups, too
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They are, but it takes years to get from "tested on mice" to "safe for humans".

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0403/03.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25949447/#slice-2

When it does happen though, I think it'll be a massive breakthrough for public health. There are tons of diseases whose prevalence would be slashed just by raising the fitness level of the general population.
You are correct in your points. Blizzard is great at polishing as well as adding features to existing products. This is proven practically (see WoW).

However, their communication channels with their communities are broken beyond belief. I remember when WoW and WC3 were first launched, tech support was stellar, forum support was awesome. WC3 came to an equilibrium eventually (as did SC) but WoW, since it's ever-growing like any self respecting MMORPG, was made to look like a broken piece of software:

- nothing is for granted; "balance" and perceived character-item-zone values may change from one patch to another. Blizzard clearly has a train of thought behind those changes, but it is never revealed to the community from fear of exploitation (not from a security PoV).

- their community managers grew into a bunch of condescending robots.

- A lot of over-hyped features were totally abandoned. A lot of problematic features were adopted/implemented that made the game even more difficult to manage, content and player-wise (see Titan Grip - it was a good April Fools joke at first, a bad feature later).

I don't like pointing fingers without proof, but ever since Activision bought Blizzard, things are getting weirder. Could it be that they are indeed revolutionizing gaming? I can't see it myself, but I sincerely hope I'm that short-sighted.
>>>I wonder what an HN clone would be like if membership were applied for and kept only as long as you maintained a certain comment point average.

The group-think would become worse than Reddit.
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e.g. Google, any startup working with Big Data (TM)
actual announcement:

http://www.quakelive.com/#news/site_news/22
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The article was written in 2008.

It was the top Google result for a question my wife asked me as she was learning html. I learned something from it, so I posted it here.
Maybe http://www.rescuetime.com/ could help with blocking distracting sites and more. If it doesn't have what you're looking for, shoot them an email, who knows they might listen to ya (besides, they're a YC company - show them your HN love and that might get even more attention :)
It wasn't genetic change that prompted the development of civilization from our ancestors. It was memetic change. Culture and the spread of ideas is what makes us human.

The drive to have and raising children is a powerful force in the human psyche. Yet surely the desire to shape and guide those children, or to spread out thoughts and feelings and philosophies among family, friends and foes alike, must be at least as strong -- and sometimes more so.

How else might one explain the all too common act of disowning, shaming, beating, or even killing one's children for disobeying religious precepts, cultural taboos against who to love or marry, for failing to fit cultural or gender norms. Or the vast religious wars that have waged across our continents. Or this very debate?

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For what it is worth, from my vantage point the number of women founding venture backed clean/green tech companies is rapidly growing.
I don't believe this theory of 'build what had previously not been possible' because it is not true and does not match evidence.

An example is the readiness of markets. Many successful web 2.0 companies were re-implementations of old dot-com ideas, with the technology being the same (bar frameworks that minimized development time) but with a more ready user market and refined implementations.

For example: XDrive - Dropbox, Friendster, theGlobe.com etc. - Facebook, Yahoo bookmarks - delicious, boo.com - etsy, etc., webvan - amazon delivery, etc. etc.

Further, many of the technologies cited are old (GPS is almost 40 years old). It is economies of scale that resulting from market acceptance that make these technologies more viable. Most software products do not require bleeding edge technology, which is often a curse (ie. using HTML5 today when 80% of browsers do not support it).

If you think about what made YouTube, Facebook et al successful, it wasn't some magic new technology, it was the right implementation and market acceptance.

This bit has been done to death, but what is different today is:

* It is faster to develop apps because developer time is more efficient and scalable because of tools, but there is nothing in RoR, Django etc. that couldn't have been done 5 years ago with PHP (and I mean that in the end result, not how it is done).

* Broadband penetration (especially globally)

* Browser penetration (IE5 introduced xmlhttprequest in 98, but it took 7 years to reach a decent use base for Ajax apps to be viable)

If you went by the advice here and intoduced a bleeding-edge Ajax app that was bandwidth heave would have failed in 2000 (and they did, we would use xmlhttprequest for intranets only).

The risk with this advice is entrepreneurs betting on new over better and becoming complacent in believing that what they have as better and 'previously not possible' should win.

(edit: so I guess you could say 'build what had previously not gained market but would today because of tech penetration')
Not sure how you extrapolated that! But it is true that if the average person does not create more wealth than they consume, your society is eating its seed corn. Why shouldn't there be a requirement that everyone pulls their weight?

The modern-day leftie has forgotten that Marx also said from each according to his ability.
With respect to this this article, what would be helpful would be some links to actual convertible notes with caps and other provisions mentioned in his piece. Anybody have anything to share with the community?
FWIW, where it says "Already featuring _several hundred_ items, new content will be added regularly.", the underlining gave me an instinctive urge to click on it, expecting some sort of impressive showcase of the items.

Also, the graphic at the top seems a tad blurry, especially the words. It would be a lot more powerful if the edges and lines were crisper.
Much of the best education already does come from the web, Bill. It's just that most of society doesn't recognize it.
Bill Gates is not exactly known for his prophetic powers :-)
The key is starting where people are interested. If they are interested in web, start with HTML/JS.

If they want to make blinky lights, start with low level hardware. Once they know how to do something and are still interested they will move on to other areas. Thats the crux of why the web will deliver better education because they will follow their own path.

Education is only meaningful and relevant if it enables a person to do what they want to do and could not before. Arguably, the issue is that the educational system is trending towards becoming more standardized where as society is trending towards becoming more individual and specialized.
Our people are not discussing about it..
Didn't GS have a losing second quarter? Perhaps this spin-off has more to do with how they perceive the next quarter is going too, and worries about business beyond that.
Look Microsoft, you can create useful dynamic web services without requiring Flash, I mean Silverlight

Microsoft "invented" XMLHttpRequest for their Outlook Web client.

Bing Maps doesn't require Silverlight. Some people even prefer it over Google Maps.

Given that Microsoft has been creating useful dynamic web services without Flash or Silverlight for some time, I don't they were particularly shocked by their ability to create this one.
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Except Mr Gates said "the best education", and what you describe is far from the best. I don't doubt that the web can give an experience better than many bad to mediocre university eduction experiences. However I'm very skeptical that the Web can compete with the best. The interaction between teacher and students necessary for that would be hard to simulate (or stimulate) without placing everybody in the same room.
Slate is partisan ideology packaged as Kinsley-ism: "the common wisdom is right, but not for the reason everyone thinks!" He brought that shtick over from The New Republic and it seems to have taken root, even Jack Shafer can't fix it.

If there's any doubt about Slate's partisan leanings, here's how Slate's editors voted in 2008:
Barack Obama: 55
John McCain: 1
Bob Barr: 1
Not McCain: 1
Noncitizen, can't vote: 4

http://www.slate.com/id/2203151/pagenum/4
Sorry, but no.

No probability distribution has been defined for the amount inside an individual envelope, and you can't just pull one out of thin air. That's not how mathematics works. If you had a probability distribution for that, you could make all sorts of arguments from it. But we're not given one, and we're given no information from which we can imply the existence of one. Therefore there is no such distribution. Period. (Interestingly, assuming such a distribution gives useful information even when it is the wrong distribution, but that is a complicated variant on the problem.)

Now you can argue until the cows come home about what probability "really" means, or what is "really" true in a made up problem. Plenty of philosophers are willing to argue that with you. But the way that mathematicians look at this is quite simple. You can only work with the information you are given, and you can't make up information that you weren't given. Arguing about the fine points of reality within a piece of fiction is, not to put too fine a point on it, just plain silly. After all it is a made up example. So don't do that.

We are given certain information. We look in the one envelope if we wish, and we get a dollar value. Based on that we can draw inferences about what might be in the other envelope. We can create an expected value for said envelope. All that is fine.

But our intuition about what the expected value has to say about what we should do is wrong. Nothing is wrong in the math - it is our intuition that is wrong here. Our intuition is based on what happens if you encounter large numbers of similar, but independent, events. However in this case we have a singular, and extremely unlikely to be repeated, event. Therefore the basis for our intuition is lacking here. And we are mislead.
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None of these problems are specific to computer science. Education in general is trapped in 19th century models. It's just that this is more of a problem in a discipline like IT where the state of the art changes so fast.

I'd add Edu 2.o (www.edu20.com) and School of Everything (schoolofeverything.com) to the list of web based alternatives.
Don't worry about the specific degree so much - you will realize someday that there are more important things like how talking to people and actually share their viewpoint can help you figure out what people want. Translation: get a feel for the school by visiting the campus. It's great you are a good student, but there's much more to entrepreneurship than sheer smarts - it helps if you go to a school where you can meet a lot of non-engineer/management type folks. In the real world, these are the people who will most likely be using the product and it helps to hear what they have to say.

That said, just pick a degree you like and take loads of math classes (if you don't, at least take stats), some C.S classes (take ones with C, scheme). Actually, read Cal Newport's blog - http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/11/20/a-study-hacks-primer/
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reCAPTCHA is bar none the way to go. Not only is is robust, but it also serves a useful purpose---it uses user answers to the reCAPTCHA to digitize books by having users recognize text from scanned books where OCR would perform poorly.

http://www.google.com/recaptcha

If your captcha doesn't serve a useful purpose besides being a captcha, it's going to be hard to beat reCAPTCHA.
I was about to say the same thing. The step from usenet and mailing lists to facebook and twitter has been a huge step backwards in terms of quality discussion and meaningful communication.
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You can't ask questions and start discussions during pre-recorded lectures. The important part of a lecture isn't just the words being spoken by the lecturer, but also the impromptu discussions they lead to.