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I'm not sure how [1. how to learn 2. organized methods of thinking about problems 3. how to separate truth from crap 4. how to break down large problems into solvable small ones] can be learned effectively through self study.

Perhaps you should break down that problem into solvable small ones? Then you could determine how I was able to teach myself each of those with only a high school education.
The initial point of the article is faulty. The federal government was running a deficit before the bailout and stimulus bill. These bills were deficit spending, something you can't do to pay down the debt.
It seems like there is an entire industry that's been built up in this country selling rich oil barons things they don't need, paid for with money that doesn't really belong to them.
The point of the article is that Silicon Valley used to be focused on hardcore infrastructure like semiconductors, networking, operational systems. Note that almost all companies you mentioned are related to either marketing, media or entertainment. Even Factual, their main customers are media-related.
I can't give you advice on the legal aspect of it. But, it pains me that you haven't registered the domain name.

I can't speak to your financial situation, but it's $9/year to register a domain. There's a chance your name will get registered while you wait. If your name got registered by someone else, would you just shrug it off, or would it really bother you? If the latter, just get it now.
So essentially his argument is that he prefers industry work to flashy consumer plays. I can't say I disagree. The only thing is that there's no indication that the "serious" stuff is any less significant than it was 50 years ago. Yeah, you have Madison Ave layered on top now thanks to the mainstream adoption of the internet, but should everyone just leave that money on the table in the name of "science"?
Rate my startup: nspires, tiny gems of inspiration
nspires is a site where people can write about those who inspire them, limiting each entry to 650 characters for the readers benefit.

While it is possible to write about global figures, the intent is to highlight inspiring individuals in the local communities. This then creates a communication channel for like-minded people to become aware and get involved.

I'm looking for ideas and suggestions on how to get traction, comments on the app itself, and possible business opportunities.

Thanks!

http://nspires.me
1.) They are not different at all. We have to 'do something' to fix our civilization's problems or 'heal our planet'. That doing part is where startups come into the picture.

2.) You ever read Steve Wozniack's autobiography? If you haven't, you don't know the full story. They believed a PC could do a lot more than just crunch numbers, it could realize creative and scientific potential. Steve J. believed computers were 'bicycles for the mind'. To this day, Apple is still focused on creating hardware and software that make life simpler and allows people to create easier. Whether they do or not, is all up to them...

3.) Bill G is not the only one, he is just the most famous one. This generation will yield many more scientists inspired to create technology that serves Earth.
like apparently 90% of folk, I liked the first one. Which speaks well as a VC pitch. I would be curious to see if you limited the audience to writers... how they would perform. Is the first one just more approachable to the HN/tech crowd?
"Survivorman" is much more tame than "Man vs Wild", but I doubt "Survivorman" would actually get more rating.

Who would want to watch a guy starve half of the time and subsists himself on the small flora and fauna he can catch? Nobody. But it's much more realistic and I think much more informative.
@vwadhwa "Does anyone think that Mike would have been able to build TechCrunch if he was a college dropout?"

- I do. So would @petecashmore.

http://twitter.com/garrettgillas/status/25568001071
what, too hard to write a server in Swahili?
Thanks, it's mainly cause it crashes a lot. The update I just submitted should fix a lot of it.
I think it would be hard to be a competent lawyer without going to law school. Good law schools change the way you think, and that's not something that you can get self studying.

It is true that you can pass the bar without going to school. In fact law school does not prepare you for the bar exam. Most people take a supplemental course after law school just to prep for the exam. I am pretty sure that a reasonably bright person could just do the prep and pass the exam. But the exam itself is sort of a joke in that the material you are tested on is pretty orthogonal to what you'd need to know to be a good lawyer.
Most of the funding todays goes to:

1)"OSI Level 7" (Social Networking, Web 2.0, Mobile Apps and Widgets companies).

2)"OSI Level 6" (Cloud, Big Data and BI/Analytics).

"OSI Layers 1-5" are more capital intensive and they are heavily underfunded.

My startup somewhere between the "OSI layers 5 and 6" and I fully agree with the people quoted in the article.

While using non-mainstream and exotic programming languages is fun, it has nothing to do with the actual problem domain.
One can build "Facebook for cats" using Erlang/OTP and "Twitter for dogs" using Clojure, but they still not solving hard problems, mere a pet entertainment problem.

I have nothing against these languages. I myself using Erlang/OTP for solving problems in Semiconductors industry.
More importantly, why ain't there an OS/2 version? This is Google's chance to pressure IBM into resurrecting Web Exploder.
It sort of bothers me too that I don't own the name, but I've started so many projects that were never completed, and money is so tight right now that I just can't justify it to myself.

That said, I've been seriously considering buying it just as a motivator - i.e. well, I own the name, I guess I'd better not let it go to waste. Now, even that doesn't seem like a good idea, since I'm worried I can't use the name anyway due to the issues I'm asking about in this post.

If your name got registered by someone else, would you just shrug it off, or would it really bother you?

I would shrug it off, mostly. I mean, I've been living with this name for three months (the carpal tunnel started not long after coming up with the idea, hence its incomplete status), so it would be an adjustment, but I'm not married to the name by any means. I just happen to think it's clever.

I don't think I'll lose it though. The name wasn't registered three months ago, it's not registered now, and I can't find any record of it ever having been registered in the past. It seems incredibly unlikely that it would disappear now.

If I get the "all clear" from other responders to this post, I'll buy it. Point taken.
I think it's still under the radar for the most part. I suppose as long as the big sports leagues aren't pushing the issue justin.tv has no reason to aggressively go after people streaming copyrighted material. There are services like Sopcast and TVU that specialize in live sports piracy who don't seem to be getting any attention from the big sports leagues either.
Me, which is why I read about it. Text is a better format for that kind of material.
Image is always manipulated one way or another, willingly or inadvertently, for the form or to change its meaning. Nothing really that new there. Like the sound of the bear paw ion the water example: did anyone really think they had a mike pole right above the beast? Did I miss something?
I always like to imagine "Planet Earth" is free of most of this stuff, and I hope I won't be proven otherwise.
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Just mentioning some options. My big thrust is that code secrecy and success needn't be mutually exclusive. Consulting is one obvious piece. Hosted version control is the obvious validation of your hope that it's easier to pay a guy $5 to host a web app instead of hosting yourself.
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If this surprises you, I've got a fantastic investment opportunity I'd love to discuss...
Yes, my comment was just that the quality of his ideas don't seem to match the size of his platform, if I can put it that way :)
Er.. what? We can't reproduce this, and there are sites in the network I don't visit very often, too.

Please note we did force logout globally, network-wide in April 2010 (to mandate emails for Google GMail OpenIDs) and September 10th 2010 (to enable global auth for all users).

Also, we delete any sessions older than 4 months as a matter of course.

So if you visit VERY infrequently, you might run into one of those.

Details:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/openid-one-year-later/
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/global-network-auto-lo...
I'm aware, thanks. A little competition is a good thing I reckon.
What was annoying was that the last two paragraphs were on

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the second page.

Don't get me wrong, I know about spreading pages over multiple pages is supposed to help increase page views. But this was just so ridiculously short and unevenly distributed that it was extremely annoying.
Ask HN: Is this UX?
I'm taking a class in user experience at my nearby junior college. And some of it seems really practical; but other parts of it don't.

For instance, a few weeks ago we spend a good amount of time creating personas for our target users. And then we created storyboards and scenarios. And so on.

In a few weeks, according to the syllabus, we're going to do user research methods I've never heard of: card sort, unfocus group, collage groups, and such.

My question is: is my class representative of what the average startup goes through when designing a user experience? It seems to me that most startups don't do most this process.
"Though I do not have any statistics and I am not familiar with American high school culture, I believe that not many homosexuals are romantically/sexually active in high school. People in this age are still discovering these things, and I don't think that most of the homosexuals fully realize what their orientation is like."

Two things:

1. Yes they are sexually active. They just have to be more discrete.

2. You don't "discover" that you're gay any more than you "discover" that you're straight, and if it does happen it happens before high school. I can think of things going back to third grade that pointed towards me being gay. Now, whether people choose to accept their sexual orientation is a different matter.
They believed a PC could do a lot more than just crunch numbers, it could realize creative and scientific potential. Steve J. believed computers were 'bicycles for the mind'.

You seen the slide decks or talked to the founders in the Valley? If you are going on vision, trust me, today's founders are not short on it.

Now, how good of a job the founders are doing in bringing their vision to life? We don't know and won't know for a while. At best, we should hold judgement IMO.

This generation will yield many more scientists inspired to create technology that serves Earth.

May be. But that could also mean that you no longer need to be a scientist to build something that serves earth. You could just be some econ grad who gets an idea for a micro-lending site and launches Kiva.

Also, it's unfair that you see Facebook's mission of connecting people or Twitter's role during emergencies in a different realm to Apple making computing simpler.
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Needs a better color scheme and possible a picture of some beer.

What is a drink when it comes to beer? I am not american, so that might be a language issue.
You have to get crazy traffic and plays to make anything off of ads. In-app purchases are really the only way to make money from a game and, as you mentioned, that requires compelling content that one would want to pay for.

The article below is for flash games but it shows the difference between popular ad supported games and popular 'premium' (in-app purchases) games.

http://blog.gambrinous.com/2009/10/07/you-should-be-making-a...
Well Copper designed the first prototype of Visual Basic. I think that explains lots. When you combine Zed's argument that "Nope, because the tools they've given you are again controlled by some corporation with a certain design ideal. If it's Microsoft then the things you have to work with are Microsoft looking and feeling. "

How many unusable software products came about because of Visual Basic? I can rant and rant about Copper.
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Microsoft isn't even porting IE9 to XP, so I doubt Chrome for Win2k would cause them panic.
I haven't heard of these either, so I went looking for links:

card sort
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sorting

unfocus group
http://michael-roberto.blogspot.com/2010/01/unfocus-group.ht...

I couldn't find anything for "collage groups", but I can definitely see where the first two activities could be useful.

Keep in mind that while "the average startup" (whatever that is) doesn't necessarily perform all of these, or any of these, that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be using them. It could just be a matter of finances, or something as simple as not realizing these sorts of research exist.

I think if you were to work for a larger company, like Microsoft or Apple, that you would definitely find groups that not only use these techniques, but are actually dedicated to them.
Yeah, this is one of those debates that's going to generate a lot of heat, but not much light. Because, frankly, for every guy who thinks that it's a crime that the valley isn't 95% about battery technology and semiconductor startups, there's a guy who wants to breathlessly pronounce Twitter a "new communications protocol" (Twitter is a web service -- it uses the same protocols as everyone else on the web -- and it's only "profitable" because it made a few sweetheart, short-term deals with unclear renewal prospects).

There are certainly a few companies in the valley that are doing interesting R&D, but I tend to agree with the article that the vast majority of the crap we hear about on a day-to-day basis is fluff. It may be "Big Data" fluff, but it's still fluff, and popularity doesn't make it less fluffy.

From a technology perspective, cranking out database-backed web pages is a completely uninteresting problem. For that matter, so are most of the common "big data" applications (grinding through log files), or revolutionary companies (where the "revolution" usually boils down to killing a more traditional market...with a database-backed web app). Meanwhile, industrialists in other countries are developing more efficient wind turbines, new electronics manufacturing techniques, battery chemistry with greater capacity, and they're also investing hundreds of billions of dollars into pharmaceutical research. From a technological perspective, it's not even in the same universe.
ISO defines usability as "the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.

So your right with the number of clicks, but you also have to make sure that the user can complete the task (effectiveness), and that they are happy (satisfaction). From our own research the three; effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction are very highly correlated together.
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5% of 21,163 is still over 1000 modules. That is nothing to sneeze at. For a module that is only four and a half years old, that is an average of about 4 new modules a week published to CPAN that depend on Moose.

If you look at the time and effort that goes into releasing a package, figure at least 8 hours (one day of work) that is conservatively $200 of effort minimum? So would you be interested in a company that averaged four "sales" a week worth a couple hundred dollars each, sustained over four and a half years?

And that is just the code that escaped to CPAN.
This is sad. What made environmental programs worse for me is the human interaction (and human interest) stories that they try to create. Usually it is a person catching or wrestling with a wild animal (they usually try to justify this for some obscure reason instead of admitting it is for television).

Probably the best example of this is Steve Irwin's shows.

But this probably just mirrors what people want. Everything should be instant gratification - like getting drive through hamburgers.

I personally think that if they set up nice highres cameras at a watering hole (with nice internet connection) it would be better. You would then be able to watch the water hole all day and it would be cheap.

Imagine laying on a couch on a Saturday, reading a book while eying the watering hole in HD on your television/PC...
Maybe It's because English is not my native language... But I fail to see how Krugman in this article said that policy-makers should go out and create a 2007 recession or put mildly - that he advocated the policy that happened round that time and resulted in following years. To me it seems more like he is describing the mechanics of situation, eg: If you want the car to go faster - step on the right pedal. This sentence doesn't imply that going faster is actually good or desired.

Also as little as I have read Krugman - he (to me at least) came across as very on-point about the issues. I nowhere see the "Hawk" that everyone tries to paint.

This is why I'm going on a "read all Krugman's columns since 2000" one of these days - since I really want to understand flaw not in his but in my logic - since I fail to see Krugman as someone who cheered the disaster we are in.
My philosophy at work toward my leadership has always been "You're paying me to be right, not to agree with you."

It's just an application of the golden rule, in my case. I want to work with smart people who are confident enough to disagree with me.

Still, it's a much easier to position to take when your job isn't the release of nuclear weapons. Bravo to Mr. Petrov and his substantial cohones.
late reply I know, something along the lines of what 37signals offer for their pages api (backpack) would be great!
Generally just the ability to post a page - ability to hack up an offline system/ personal backups would be nice!
This is different than PerfumeBay vs eBay. PerfumeBay contains the entire eBay mark. However, your domain may not contain the complete word 'eBay'.

If your domain is like SomethingBay.com and your website do not mimic eBay in any way, you should be safe. But, if your domain sounds likeBay.com, than it could be a problem.

Do not give up your domain this bot named 'Edith'. eBay will have to go through Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy.

http://www.icann.org/en/udrp/udrp.htm
http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/

Wait until you hear from WIPO or your domain registrar about it. Respond them that your website does not mimic eBay and is not related to them in any way.

Most likely, WIPO will favor the decision on your side. It won't cost you anything to go through WIPO's resolution process.
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You're putting words in my mouth. You should work for Rolling Stone or TechCrunch.

They solve problems or they wouldn't be relevant. Don't over analyze words and miss the essence of what's being said.

All I am saying is...

There are great entrepreneurs...the few who look beyond the existing paradigm and beyond personal gain to advance humanity as a whole with their discoveries, models, and products. Edison, Ford, Jobs, Knight etc...

And there are good entrepreneurs...the rest who make widgets inside what the great entrepreneurs made, they usually think too much to create anything revolutionary. You run into a few of these every day in every city.

and...

I don't know the author that well or care to either, this particular article was just well written and made a valid point. Some priorities need to shifted around...
XML is extensible, and this is why. There isn't any good reason to encode markup as text content, only for the recipient to unencode it and then run its markup parser a second time. If you want to use elements from the XHTML vocabulary inside an RSS document, the right thing is to just do it, like so:

<rss:title>An <html:em>Emphasized</html:em> Title &amp; Stuff</rss:title>

and when you need to cater to some widely-used aggregator that's too broken to handle this, the right thing is not to start breaking what you give everyone else, but to transcode this on the fly to whatever brain-damaged markup that particular aggregator version happened to be able to cope with (probably drop the namespace prefix and use CDATA, or failing that just strip all open/close tags and re-encode each &).
If you have a hundred would-be Warren Buffetts who each make one investment per year, and a hundred would-be George Soroses who each make dozens of investments per year, the variance on the Buffetts' investments will be a lot bigger than the variance on the Soroses'. Consequently the richest investors out of the whole group will almost certainly be Buffetts, even if the two groups do equally well on average. In fact, the average of the Buffetts has to be quite a bit worse than that of the Soroses in order for a Soros to come out on top.

That's the argument Taleb is making: that Buffett's success is weaker evidence for the expected return of his investment strategy than Soros's success is for his.

Taleb is correct. If you think he's wrong, you don't understand his argument.

Now, you (and Buffett and Munger) argue that there's an additional reason to believe that Buffett's strategy is a good one: because fewer decisions means that each decision will be smarter. Well, you could be right. Historically, though, human beings are pretty bad at distinguishing good investment strategies from bad ones by logically analyzing their premises. So the statistical evidence Taleb is discussing counts for more, in my book.
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