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The same can be said for many professions, certainly my own (programming) you should learn the basics and best practices before you can know when it is okay to break them. And like singing or painting it can come down to personal preference whether the rule breaking works or not.

Did I just equate my work to Picasso? . . . I think I did!
It will also stay very similar. The outline of life in the 1970s vs 2010 is still fairly similar. Drive around in cars, live in a house, take the subway, read the newspaper, watch tv, go to the movie theatre, buy food at a grocery store, call people on a landline, plug stuff into the wall, use your fridge and hair drier, drive around in your RV, fly an airplane at supersonic speeds, rent an apartment, have a family reunion, go to the doctor, get surgery, take drugs, read a book, go to the public library, go to school, flush a toliet, use an AC, open the windows. The dragon ball Z live action movie, although pretty horrible has a pretty accurate deception how high school will look like in 20 to 40 years. Pretty much the same with more flat screens and computers.
Thanks. But this being NIH funded research, the publication will be made available in its entirety, eventually, either via PubMed Central or by the authors themselves. However, the journal's version of the article (custom designed format and layout) is indeed copyrighted by the journal's publisher. The version that eventually becomes freely available will be a more or less standard format (double spaced, Microsoft Word formatted), albeit, with all the information present.
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I voted on Saturday (Australian election). No id required, 100% paper votes, all counted by hand (as far as I'm aware) and we normally have a result within a few hours of polls in the West closing.

Seems to work very well, but I guess one advantage we have is that none of the parties here are worth cheating for.
"That's exactly why I think trying to predict what the world is going to be like in 40 years is just about impossible."

Douglas Englebart had a pretty good approximation of what much of our information technology would be like today over 40 years ago.

http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html

Of course, this was because he put together all of the necessary underlying technology. I remember reading an interview with him in the 90s, asking him if he was surprised how fast technology was moving. He replied, no, he was shocked how long it took for the things he had working in the lab decades ago to reach the main stream.
Ask HN: How much time do you spend in HN daily and how to manage it?
Some users at HN raise the quality of discussions. Some of the more frequent contributers give their insights into many of the daily posts. I love their comments and learned a lot .. However, i often i feel guilty , if i spend time on hn (that i should be working ..). And then feel guilty if i don't spend time to contribute to community, from which i gained so much. How much time do you spend in HN daily and how do you manage it ?
I'm a pretty big noob in the scaling world, but as I read the article I kept thinking, "With services out there like Heroku, isn't scaling something of a solved problem (at least with a Rails app)?" Do web startups still manually handle the scaling process?
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Why is any of that relevant? If we're discussing poverty rates, then we need to come up with a reasonably objective metric for poverty, not just throw together some cherry-picked indicators. Economists have put a lot of thought into a few metrics, like inflation-adjusted median wage, which you simply ignore in favor of your own 'tv-size index'.

For example, those larger houses may be on cheaper land (further from cities), or people may be spending more of their income on housing (at the cost of, say, food quality, or education). There are a million ways for an individual statistic to be misleading. This is the whole reason that we use aggregated statistics like real median wage.
My approach is to live in Michigan and have half my family work as engineers for car companies.

This approach may not scale, and may carry certain other disadvantages. (I like the Michigan part, honestly, but your mileage most assuredly may vary.)
I've been following a very similar approach, writing a web app for an upcoming launch. The hardest part is keeping everything in your head. When you have a cache on the client, a cache on the backend, several databases, throw in some ajax requests and command line scripts, it becomes very difficult to sanely architect a web app in one page.

That said, it is very possible, but it requires that you bend your design to fit the model.
Does anyone remember the nasty spyware war on Windows 10 years back? There were a number of spyware companies back then whose browser plug-in (IE BHO) would replace the ads on the pages showing on IE with their own. They often stepped on each other and tried to uninstall each other. They escalated the war by hooking into the kernel to make themselves very difficult to be removed. It declined when the anti-spyware and anti-virus software started removing the spywares.
""Middle class health care 1970" would be pretty cheap today - any medicine available back then is out of patent, and dying of untreatable cancer is pretty cheap."

I question whether availability of drugs is the best indicator of overall health.

We are also a lot more sedentary, the quality of our food is probably not as a good, and we are a lot heavier. Given that, how many drugs do we need to just break even, health wise, with where we were in 1970?

"as opposed to a plasma screen with playstation today"

It would be an interesting psychology study to figure out if a kid with an Atari in the 1970s was objectively less happy and fulfilled than a kid with a plasma screen and playstation today. I suspect it is the relative excitement of being one of the first to get a game before your friends is a bigger factor. I guess it's a little late to start that study at this point, however.

My overall point is that I think comparing quality of life across eras is more complex than just comparing square footage, drug prices, and pixel counts. Unless I misunderstand your point.
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i just love it when competitors hide their web sites behind 'romulan cloaking devices' that make their content invisible to search engines!

more traffic for me!

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Hi guys - I run the site, and indeed HN caused a temporary meltdown (thanks for the link!) As of 9pm EST Aug. 23, it's back up, so feel free to visit, comment, etc. Again, thanks for the flattering mention!
I don't think you need to master the rules before you can break them, you certainly need to be aware of the rules though! How else would you even know you are breaking them?
Live close to work, and cycle. You also get free exercise, feel better in the mornings, and now can travel lots of other places cheaply.
SLAs seem to have the effect of dramatically changing the culture of the team that is now measured by the SLA.

I remember two times when my managers announced an SLA.
First time was "Every priority 1 ticket has to be answered within 24 hours".
Before the SLA we were a cheerful and overworked IT team, doing our best to handle all tickets within reasonable times and with our best quality responses.
Afterwards - We started negotiating priorities, replying "investigating" within 24 hours to make sure management doesn't get on our case, and we had lots of not-so-funny jokes about announcing "love every 38 hours" SLAs to our spouses.

The second time they actually went as far as saying "This SLA is between marketing, sales and the customer. You don't need to worry about it. Just keep on doing what you always did."

They had to say that, because with our current equipment and processes, offering 99.9% availability to our customers was impossible. Our real availability was an average of 99.5% with some services as low as 97%. Not because we were horrible IT - but because of trade-off decisions we reached in the past together with our management.

It didn't help much. Because we didn't trust management not to start holding us to those SLAs at a random moment. Which they did.

Again, from a team that did their best to keep servers up, we became expert negotiators of which downtimes "count" and which don't. Also, we because very defensive: "We can't risk upgrading this month, we were already down 13 minutes."

I understand the need to sell to corporates, but I would be very very careful communicating SLAs to my team.
From all I know, your rosy picture for statistics, etc. on Wall Street is not realistic.

The Black-Scholes option pricing formula is simple to program and has been programmed many times by people with essentially no knowledge of statistics -- or stochastic differential equations or the connections between probability theory and potential theory.

I could go down a long list of evidence, but I will mention just two points:

I still have a letter back to me from Fisher Black saying that he saw no such opportunities.

Jim Simons has stated that he doesn't use math in his work.
Thailand is pretty relaxed. You can start a company with a thai friend who "hires" you and work there indefinitely. There are probably a few smart thais that already have that as a business. Property and companies must be majority thai owned, which may seem like it really sucks, but is actually pretty smart since keeps everything there significantly cheaper and more affordable for everybody.
> but at the end of the day they've got into YC, they've raised a ton of money

I really don't see how that would make something 'right' if it wasn't right otherwise though.
Ask HN: Is ARM the next x86?
Is ARM the next x86?
* Pop culture, you foil me again...*

Because Dio and Iron Maiden were top of the pop charts?
Apple exec stashed $150,000 in shoe boxes
Unfortunately, early design phases made the assumption that geekiness would max at 100. Erlang violated that assumption, being 117% geeky, causing the score calculation to dump core.

It was deemed safest simply to drop Erlang from the corpus.
Actually, one of my (many) issues with political discourse today is that thanks to inflations, "the rich" has been defined down brutally over the past 30 to 40 years. Anyone currently making $250/year, yeah, if they're hurting it's their own damn fault for overreaching, but that is very rapidly becoming merely upper middle class. Meanwhile, neither our legal/tax nor our social definitions of "rich" are being updated at anywhere near the proper speed.

I recall somewhere seeing that if you take the term "millionaire" at the time that it was coined, it would today take 130 million to have that same level of wealth. I can't seem to scare up a reference, but it's at least broadly correct even if I'm off by 10 or 20%. If you don't retire a millionaire in 2030/2040 money, you're going to be in real trouble. You're probably in trouble if you retire merely as a millionaire.
There has only been one airport blockage in history and three "coups" this decade, which is just political factions of elites fighting with each other in the background. Life goes on as normal for most of thailand, no matter if there is coup going on or not. The king thing is really nothing to worry about, you'd have to be really stupid to get in trouble for that.
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Honestly - if a particular technical topic is mentioned less that arguably makes it more geeky.
Where are you? You can get a nice 2 bedroom in phuket for $200.
That's an excellent visualization. Thanks for the link.
Room & Board makes some nice mattresses, at lower prices than mattress stores, but still somewhat above your price range: http://www.roomandboard.com/rnb/subcategory/list.do?catalog=...
And as for the "non-technical" words, was anyone else momentarily confused about the "less technical word like 'war'"? Or maybe I've been in java land for too long...
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Not unless and until a 64 bit version is developed and all the tool chains are updated.
The things I write are always more interesting when I follow a simple structure (sometimes one I've used for a long time, sometimes one made for the occasion). The "creative" brain dump stuff is always wandering, unclear, and a couple thousand words longer.

Creativity always happens when I'm editing what filled the structure. The basic rules I lay down in advance make sure I get to that point.

And to bring this back to visual arts, it's rare to find a good artist who doesn't study references and do thumbnails.
I know China's been trying to bring Tibet into the fold over the years, but calling just outside of Beijing "Tibet" is a bit of a stretch ;-)
100K+ is not exactly rich. I'd be interested in comparing with $1M+.
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>Would have thought the wealthier wouldn't work during college.

Why? How do you think the wealthy got wealthy? The vast majority, at least in the US, got there through hard work, and if they're smart enough to accumulate wealth then they're probably smart enough to instill those same values in their children.

I'll add a data point: I come from an upper-middle class background - no butlers, but my parents' house is pretty nice, and we've had some very nice vacations. My parents started with nothing, but my dad worked ridiculous hours for 20+ years in the finance industry and it paid off. As for college, my parents paid for 3 years of undergrad and I paid for the fourth (housing, food, tuition, expenses, everything), out of a combination of my own earnings and well-invested savings. I worked as a TA for four semesters (one of which I TAed two classes), a research assistant for one, and I ran the CS dept. TA lab for one. I also had paid internships every summer, starting the summer between high school and college.

For grad school, my parents paid my tuition (but nothing else) my first quarter, and after that I paid my own way between TAships every quarter, an additional internship during one quarter, and another summer internship. Oh...and I also started a company halfway through grad school.

The only times since in the last 6+ years (I'm 24) that I haven't had a job were my freshman year and the summer between undergrad and grad school. So...you might want to rethink your assumptions about the work ethic of people from wealthier backgrounds. I'm actually kind of offended at the suggestion that having relatively affluent parents would compromise my values or their parenting.
(a) People with "manager" in their title, where "manager" isn't immediately preceded with "general", aren't normally considered "execs".

(b) This story ran on HN 2-3 weeks ago.

(c) Note submission history for this particular HN "user".
You have a few years of programming experience, and you are aware that that's not a lot. It sounds to me like you are useful now.

On a team with more experienced developers, I'd probably have you working with parts of our test suite and the build system. Of course, you'd have to understand object orientation, which I can't assume from your description.
The second major programming assignment I was given during my freshman year of college was a retirement calculator. Although the main goal of the assignment was to implement a interest compounding program, I believe my professor used this assignment to get us out of the get rich retire early mentality.

If I recall correctly, an average single person would need to save well over $1 million USD by retirement if they wanted to live comfortably for the next 10 years.
. . . and still look horrible.

You can't say that here! But the screenshot makes it pretty clear.

Edit: that's the default engine, as it says in the blog post. I still think GTK looks awful, but this is not really good evidence.
"But yes, reason has little purchase in this place. The community has very strong biases and refuses to give time to opposition."

What exactly do you mean?
And be prepared to knock on doors and introduce yourselves to them. I found that daunting as a freshman because I was used to the off-limit sacrosanct staff room at my high school, but college lecturers and tutors and especially advisors expect it, you won't be interrupting them (if they don't want to be interrupted they either won't be there or, worst case, will ask you to come back later) so there's nothing to be worried about.
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I didn't even realize YC funds game companies. I'm in debt developing my first game right now, but I'd love YC just for the name recognition, screw money!

I'm developing a game for Xbox, and the hardest hurdle is getting it onto the Arcade marketplace. The difference in revenue between Arcade and the open market is usually a factor of 10-100 (subjectively controlling for quality). The clout of having YC funding would be a huge boon for getting Microsoft to green light a game for Arcade.
What you needed, not the students.
There are a lot of ways Google can play ball: change the TOS of GMail to exclude certain plug-ins, change the ad div's signature, randomly generate different ad's display logic, digitally sign the GMail's content/code to prevent alternation, have their own plug-in to verify the content, bring out the big gun lawyers.
Probably mostly that motors which are

- small,
- accurate,
- fast, and
- cheap

do not exist.
Very nice. Thank you for the link. For those who do not know, the IBM 704 was the first hardware target for Lisp. It motivated the quirky `car` and `cdr` names.
Expect Intel 'Empire strikes back' in 2011 - they have the talent, fabs, money, patents.
You say this as if there is a law requiring you to provide all of these services for your daughter, or Children and Youth Services will come and take her from you.
What it means to create content.
See the long URL behind the short URL
Did you read the article? The single-page web app degrades to linked pages when JavaScript is disabled, and it's fully indexable by search engines.
NASA to announce 'intriguing planetary system' discovery on Thursday
Apple Patent Application on Detecting 'Unauthorized' iOS Device Usage
The trend has rather been the reverse, with specialized platforms being overtaken by commodity platforms which are better positioned to take advantage of economies of scale. Mostly that's been x86, but for low power applications it's largely been ARM. As power becomes a more important element, and with ARM relatively more performant, I think we'll see an increasing share of it in what would otherwise be x86 territory, but I don't think we'll see real heterogeneity, unless it's a better competitor to either of these.

I see an analogy between x86 and ARM and Porter's generic strategies. ARM is like the cost leadership, with x86 being the differentiation strategy - where the cost is the cost of energy. x86 is able to do a lot more things than ARM, but with higher energy costs. And then there is perhaps CUDA etc. for the segmentation strategy.
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The point is that there are a range of microscope prices. The one they used falls somewhere in the spectrum of prices of lab microscopes I'd expect scientists to be using routinely. Mentioning it in the lead sentence of the article makes it seem notable for some reason. Maybe it is, but it's impossible to know without any context.

Aside from its price, does it have some unusual capability that enabled them to make this discovery? That is the kind of fact which would make the article more informative. When it's possible to image molecules with a device you can build for under $100, knowing the cost of the equipment someone used isn't very useful. It's analogous to an argument from authority.
Ask HN: Good alternatives to ZenDesk? Something free for bootstrapped startups?
I'm wondering if there is any good alternative to zendesk? And if there is also a free one or one with a free plan for bootstrapped startups?

Would be nice if assistly had a free plan w/ 1 agent...
Actually the article describes specifically how to do this while avoiding SEO (and no-JS) problems.

As with AJAX, the typical philosophy is to design for elegant degradation -- plan the site, then build it to work without JS, then add in the "fancy" stuff.
The traffic jam occurs near the Beijing end on the Beijing-Tibet highway. I'm sure the Tibet end is fairly clear since they are couple thousands of miles apart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_109). It's like the traffic jam near NYC on the SF-NYC highway (if there's one) having no impact on SF.
Tiny apartment shows the value of a good fit
Great stuff. I can't get over her reaction to Black Sabbath's 1970 song "War Pigs"...

Initial reaction: “Fourth guy is just bad throaty singing… Made my throat tight to listen to him. How long did his career last?”
They really are on different levels. You can push an affiliate offer through a review site, through an email list, through ppc ads, ppv traffic. Adsense is pretty ordinary, and works in situations when users want more than a site or page can deliver for the most part.
GTK+ doesn't "look" like anything. Themes and engines do though. Is that your complaint?
I definitely think you should consider re-opensourcing the site. I'd learn ruby just so I could help improve it and I'm sure there are many others who use the site that would also like to help. You or someone you found would still need to run the admin side and deploy updates, but I think it would help lighten the load.
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"I also had paid internships every summer"

From your family's standpoint, the pay you received was probably immaterial compared to value of the experience. What if you had received two internship offers one summer: (1) A boring but well-paid position, and (2) a really exciting/enriching opportunity that didn't even pay enough to cover your living expenses? Would your family have forced you into #1, or would you have been subsidized for #2? Given the time and money your parents had already invested in you during the first 20 years of your life in hopes of helping you be a happy and prosperous adult, it wouldn't be rational for them not to hand over, say, $10K to help you out given these circumstances (presuming that your family has accumulated sufficient wealth that the $10K really wouldn't make much difference in their lives).

I'm not making some sort of, "Oh...your rich, so blah..." sort of comment. My family would have supported me while I pursued #2 I ended up with well-paid internships each summer, so it didn't matter anyway. And, I didn't work during the academic calender (sans a few consulting gigs here and there).

Kids from poorer families often end-up taking jobs while in school which have a negative NPV for their lives. Why pay $10's of K per year to go to college and then spend 20 hours/week waiting tables instead of studying? Is it rational to graduate debt free with a 2.5 GPA? I was about to claim that these kids take such jobs because there's no way for them to borrow money for living expenses while in school, but this may not be true -- I'm not at all familiar with student loan programs. Perhaps these kids have an irrational fear of debt?

Or, could their fear of debt be rational? To allow "middle class" folks to attend Harvard Business School, the school partnered with Citi to extends well over $40K/year in living expenses debt at a low interest rate. As an MBA from HBS is quite a ticket to a good income, students have little fear of going into hock. However, the poorer kids are probably more likely to be working while attending mediocre schools close to their families' homes. Will their post-college earnings be high enough to make taking on debt rational? One would hope, but I'm a believer in the "education bubble."
No. If it did, we would not have vague polls that are so devoid of context.