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The diversification of the game in terms of different formats have offered different sections of demographics (most on the basis of age) a nice way to admire and enjoy the game.

It has also adopted from corporates and other sports the ways to popularize and distribute the game. Indian Premier League is a fantastic example of how the authorities adopted the proven model of English Premier League football (soccer) and took the game of cricket to the new level of entertainment.

There have been concerns raised by people about dilution of glory of good and old cricket by the introduction of new formats. I disagree with that. Here measure-the-response is at play. Most of the Test matches (5 day format) is witnessed by crowds as low as 10% of total seating capacity of stadia. And as the younger generations are coming into mainstream of consumers, it was highly pertinent to introduce something that they can identify with.
The author overlooks the same factors that cause non-millionaire Chinese to have such a high savings rate: uncertainty about health, retirement, and social stability.

There's none of the social insurance that exists in North America or Europe; less than 50 years ago there were serious famines; the regime itself is only about 60 years old and the current era of economic liberalization only about 30 years old.

In such a environment, people will be a bit more clingy "just in case" they're going to need every last cent in an upheaval.
Windows Live Photo Gallery is way more of an improvement than I was expecting. I'm pleasantly surprised.

I really wish Windows Live Mesh did incremental syncing but now that I'm syncing my OneNote notebooks to Office Live I'm less concerned.
It's simple really. If there are only 10 users on HN, then it is much harder to earn 10 karma on a post or comment than when there are 1000 users. Just like with any real world currency, the more there is the less valuable it becomes. Certainly you raise a great point about how limited in value karma is for assessing the worth of an individual's ability to contribute to any particular discussion. Still just as an inflation calculator is neat to play with every now and then, this was an interesting thought exercise - or so it seemed to me.
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
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I see... I didn't interpret "could our culture infect theirs" as converting people over. I don't see it as something infective. There will naturally be a good deal of attrition. Makes sense, thanks.
No, she doesn't have the patience to teach them personally! :)

It was financial.

Its basically the kids of people who work at their house (the government provides them to my dad), of very low income employees in my dad's office and such. She has also funded the education of a few distant relatives who couldn't afford college education. In these cases, the kids had aspirations, some of them were real good hard workers, but the parents were in a really bad position financially. They could not afford to fund good tutoring (which is required for entrance into decent technical colleges here) or fund the college education itself.

She funded their kids' annual tutoring or college fees for the duration of that tutoring or college degrees.
While true, the problem is that our constitution also defines our civil rights and liberties. If you open the door to reexamining the Constitution, you open the door to butchering the Bill of Rights.

Given how dysfunctional our political system is, I'll take an outdated and flawed constitution before letting the clowns in power now try and write a better one. Sure, maybe it's not vitally important that the Constitution outlaw the government quartering troops in our houses, but I would not like to see the people behind the Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, "extraordinary rendition", and internet wiretapping get a shot at "revising" the fourth and fifth amendments.
Why I think the Khan Academy works so well:

1/. Videos are short, 10-15min digestible bits. Long enough to teach a concept, short enough not to lose my attention.

2/. He's a huge advocate of teaching intuition behind concepts instead of memorization. This makes learning less stuffy and more informal.

3/. Everyone has "holes" in their knowledge, but they are in different areas. Schools have a hard time to individually address weak points in each student's knowledge (particularly if you should have learned them in a prerequisite course). Videos organized by concepts allow you to address these weaknesses systematically.

4/. He makes mistakes! Those mistakes are quite insightful and give a glimpse into an art of solving problems that usually isn't presented in most lectures. You usually see a problem, and a solution thats a finished product.

5/. He doesn't have an ego. He's not breathing down your neck or thinking you're an idiot if you don't understand anything the first time. You can pause, google something, repeat, watch it anytime, etc.
This. Children used to be indentured labor and a retirement plan for farmers, so having them was an economically rational investment. Now they're a luxury.
Neither? Judging from the downvotes my comment has been misunderstood. My job is marketing, so I know better than to say it's bunk. For those who still don't understand, here's what Eugene Schwartz, one of the greatest marketers of all time says:
"What are you doing when you market something? You are not creating demand for a product. If you think that you are creating demand for your product, you’ve doomed yourself to a lifetime of hard work and failure. You can’t create
demand for anything because demand is too large for you to create. The demand has to be out there. The demand has to exist before you even walk into the picture...You cannot create demand. You can only channel demand. Demand is
there. Demand is enormous. The bigger the demand, the better your ad is. You are getting in a boat and letting the stream carry you. Just don’t think that you can paddle up against the stream."
I wonder how this works out for students.

I'm in my third year of college. I love to mess around with whatever piece of tech I can get my hands on. For example, this year I've tried out Scala, MongoDB, Pylons, ArchLinux, x86_64 assembly, Tcl, and writing Python extensions in C. I've also done a fair bit of reading on compilers and virtual machines, but not enough to write one myself. Besides, of course, the usual reading I do. What do I have to show for all this? A slightly larger ~/src/. What did I learn from all this? More than I can describe in words.

I know loads of people who have a laser-beam focus. Unlike me, these people get more done. They actually finish projects. On the one hand, I would love to have made sizeable contributions to projects I'm passionate about but on the other hand, I don't think I can or even want to have that laser-beam focus. At the end of the day, I'd rather be a happy Jack-of-all-trades than an unhappy master-of-one.

Of course, I get flak for this all the time, which makes me wonder if everyone is right and I'm just too stupid to see the error of my ways.
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Feynman was a fascinating and brilliant man. I've been reading a lot about him online, watching some videos on youtube, and reading through his quotes. I definitely need to pick up some of his books. I'll check out From Heaven Lake too. Thanks!
I don't really make any effort to not disappear from meatspace. It takes some effort to not run into my housemates and whoever else stops by to visit (though avoiding them is still well within reach).

As far as housework goes, I don't normally have difficulty getting my job done or doing some cleanup after housemates who don't get theirs done. Mostly, it helps to not let things build up too much. If there's a week's worth of dishes sitting by the sink, there's not much chance I'll get through them all at once (I'll usually stop once the drainer is full), but if I take an extra couple of minutes after each meal I won't produce such a buildup.

With regard to keeping up with professional development, I put too much time into school to feel guilty about not putting enough time into it. There is a lot of stuff out there that I think would be interesting to learn, but I am under some time pressure to get my thesis done, so most of it's going to have to wait. On the other hand, I (theoretically) have many years left to spend on learning it.

Maybe it helps that I don't typically feel like I'm doing these things purely because of obligations to others (except perhaps some components of my housework, but they're typically not much of a time sink).
Well I was merely alluding to the ICC trying to expand the sport beyond the 10 test playing nations. I think the BCCI (arguably the richest sporting organisation in the world) and India with its billion + population and 400 million + viewers have been driving the sport forward in a large way. I doubt if cricket would ever become more popular than rugby in NZ or football in England.
In other words, you do (it turns out) like being micromanaged. :-)
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Here is a list of books that I made a while ago by looking at the top recommended books from various places.

http://niyazpk.tadalist.com/lists/1629487/public

The list contains fiction as well as non-fiction. My pick: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts - One of the best books I read last year (fiction).
Right, there are many online sites where one can sign up. They keep sending e-mails to inform you of opportunities to sign up for volunteering activities.

When I was in FL I had signed up here http://www.metromin.org/

I still keep getting emails about these activities.
Hm. I tried that -- but I guess I must have screwed it up somehow when I tried it, because it didn't work. Thanks for confirming I had the right idea the first time. I'll try it again.

I frankly don't much care whether I can get the number of upvotes for display at my site, just to be clear. It'd be nice to get the number of comments (or the fact there aren't any, or that there's no submission at all), though. Maybe I should request a feature for that purpose.
As a response to the movie, they know it would be a good time to put a human face in front of the press. Hence, they're pushing her forward rather than Zuckerberg. And the NYT slurped it up.

I wonder how long the back-and-forth over how the story was to be structured took.

[edit: I'm not saying Zuckerberg is not human, just that he's overexposed in the media at the moment, and they need to connect Facebook to something else.]
What are you doing online?

If you're neglecting real life because you're consumed by creating something, then I say embrace it! It's called the zone, where all of your focus is purely focused on a task. It's a great thing.
How did Mark retain control of the board specifically?
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Please go on.
You don't have to choose between high and low tech. Simply fully embrace both. Your problem of having a lot to do offline and feeling guilty about your progress in tech sounds more like you feel like you are "wasting time" or procrastinating on both fronts. Try this to start out small. Pick one task around your house that needs doing that is small and can be done in short order and go take care of it. Then pick one "real" high tech task such as looking into some new platform or language that can be done relatively easily and do it. From there, keep picking tasks or parts of tasks with the goal in mind to accomplish one thing each day. The Internet is only a problem when we use it to avoid doing other work we know we should be doing. However, it is just as easy to find offline distractions to substitute for the online ones. The most important thing is to take a long term perspective on what you are doing even as you work diligently on each sub-goal or minor task.

You might find that the book Getting Things Done has some helpful advice on effectively managing your time/efforts. Good luck!

tl;dr Embrace both high and low tech at the same time. Set yourself the goal of accomplishing at least one task of either type every day.
Interesting, you're defining "worth" as "the difficulty with which something is obtained." I agree, it is a neat thought exercise.

I was defining worth as "the value that something confers" which may (or may not) be tied to the difficulty with which it was obtained, but requires you to define value, which I have a hard time doing for Karma.
It's a Britishism.
I don't know anything about Thompson as a person, so I'll refrain from judging. I'm only glad that I'm finally able to put a term to what I despise most about journalism in our country (U.S.), evidently the term is "Gonzo journalism."

"Gonzo journalism tends to favor style over accuracy and often uses personal experiences and emotions to provide context for the topic or event being covered." --Wikipedia

I don't care about what the journalist thinks or feels. I'm an adult and I can form my own opinion, based on my values. Give me the facts! Just please give me the damn facts, I beg you! I don't need the anchor to "show attitude" and give me "what if" scenarios to wiggle my imagination while bending the facts in the process.

Currently, this technique is king among the major news networks in the U.S. It makes them completely incapable of reporting the news in its natural form: facts. It is unethical and amoral for journalists to swing public opinion with eloquent narrative that favors "style over accuracy."
I guess my earlier attempt at humor wasn't received too well.

On a serious note, I think there are too many ifs and buts for all this to happen. Google for some "is" the internet. Facebook is a social network and for it break out and become this behemoth which helps you do anything and everything online sounds a little far fetched at this point.

But then again, Facebook users are addicts. In the absence of any real competing service, they will stick on in spite of all the extra fluff. Their problem will always be, if not Facebook, then what?
This video on Khan Academy's "Vision and Social Return" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRf6XiEZ_Y8) seems to be putting some of this into practice (requirement of 10 in a row with visual feedback). Also the feedback for the teacher (in terms of attention span and student proficiency) is amazing--it has to spread.
San Francisco: Twitter is hiring like crazy.

We're working on about a million interesting problems at scale, with resources and the ability to open source almost everything. We also have a good deal of fun. twitter.com/jobs or ryan@twitter.com
Secular, yes. Western and liberal? No.

But you can't just look at population, you have to take the derivative, maybe even the second derivative. What's the population growth rate, and how is that rate changing? That describes future demography. Whether you're currently overpopulated or not is just the status quo. It's the past.
It's an enviable state. My goals usually change too often to get very far with any particular one.
That averages on the order of 1000$ each. This is entirely reasonable. I think I can live with that.
Winning the DEMO contest put Mint on the radar for me.
First time I heard of such a business. Knew of Quicken but the idea of taking it to web was 'a ha!'. Never heard of wesabe - and I consider myself web savy - flickr, delicious etc.

I loved the idea but did not trust putting such info online.
Then I saw yodlee relationship. I knew banks trusted Yodlee so I gave them (mint) extra trust because of that.
I read through their TOC and it gave me more confidence.

On a related thread...I wanted to do online bill pay some time earlier and knew that there was some independent company-yodlee (not wanting to tie myself to my bank) that did it but darned if I could remember the name). So yodlee lost business because of that odd name (in my - survey of 1- case). Love the post and cmts. Good luck with your next venture. Bring same passion - and invest in good URL<g>
IIRC, they still dynamically link against system libraries. It's just that OSX isn't a moving target with respect to what is expected to be in the system in it's 'base' state of a specific version. So you dynamically link against everything that should be in the system in the 'base' state, and then all other libraries need to be self-contained in the .app directory. The problem with this on Linux is that: 1) the 'base' configuration is a moving target that varies across vendors and 2) most of the libraries/etc that would make up that 'base state' are things that people would want to upgrade/modify/whatever (thereby messing up your 'base state' that you were supposed to be able to rely on) (You don't have this on OSX because Apple is the one that controls most of the things in the 'base state').
Yup, Ubuntu is awesome. After installing it for the first time, I never went back to other distros for my GNU/Linux desktops.

Too bad that Canonical is unsustainable, and we'll soon lose it if FOSS enthusiasts don't shift their mindset a little bit.
I think I might be that bg guy. :) Will be delighted to catch up; email me if interested (I'm around).
That's one of the aspects of the HN community that I most dislike. It's like Puritan divine providence, but applied non-religiously to business. X succeeded so he/she must be great. HN sees these people as masters of business: smart, ambitious, persistent, etc. What if they were lucky? Unscrupulous? Manipulating? I'm not saying it has to be all one way or all the other, but I often think only one point of view gets seen here.
..as I would always feel guilty about one or the other..

From personal experience, I would say, get rid of that guilt. That was a consistent and big mental block earlier in my life and still is occasionally till I get rid of it. The moment I get rid of it, I feel free to move forward.

It could be hindering you also.
I have always hated writing bullshit cover letters. Now I just write short, honest introductions. As an aside, should I make a plain text version of my resume and put it in the body of the email itself? Or is a pdf attachment enough? I figure the overhead of having to download and open the pdf could be overcome by putting the resume in the body itself. Thoughts?
Stop feeling guilty and utility maximize.
I can't help you clean up the calculations because the entire premise that the probability of "your vote mattering" times your potential financial gain from one candidate over another gives any reasonable estimate of utility of a vote is absurd.
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A pretty nice list... wish I'd seen it before, and it may be well known to others here, but 'tis news to me.

Kinda sad how few support OSX, Linux, and Windows (the other OSes listed have even less support).
You're misunderstanding what gonzo journalism is. I encourage you to read some of Thompson's work.
http://www.quora.com/How-did-Mark-Zuckerberg-retain-control-...
I share your absolute hatred of the Ubuntu user community — from inane theming to blogspam with <pre> elements that contain huge blocks of sudo apt-get install…
> Of course that would 'give away' . . .

Meh, I have trouble believing that spammers cannot experiment to find this number out themselves. The binary search on rate would require only a handful of IPs before you acquire it to a sufficient resolution for working purposes.
regarding all rants in here, I simply cannot understand how could people complain so much about such a good product given to them for free.
Instead of trying to fight it, just embrace it.

Why? Facebook provides no value to me; if Facebook disappeared from the face of the earth tomorrow, my life would change in absolutely no way.

No need to embrace it.
Yes, it would be immensely useful. The reason being our proxy/firewall in the university doesn't allow to stream or download videos.

On the other hand, generalizing this, making text copies on videos would enable search not only on the metadata of the video, but its content as well. Imagine trying to search for a movie by a particular dialogue you remembered. Other trivial case would to be to generate subtitles for the video, or feeding the output to a language translator enabling me to watch, say an academic video spoken in chinese without available subtitles.
Said employee also kept her mouth shut? I don't know, conspiracy theories are not my forte.
Here's a cached version of the article for those of us without a nytimes account. http://www10.nytimes.com.nyud.net/2010/10/03/business/03face...
I've always been a big admirer of Hunter S. Thompson's style. His point was that there is no way you can separate the author from the story so you might as well go in whole-hog.

No author can give all the facts and "just the facts". They can't help but shape and spin a story by selecting what they deem important, leaving out the rest. Their choice of words determines how the reader views the subject.

I'd rather know what the person that wrote an article thought and felt - it's another important fact.
Yeah, I've noticed exactly this. I've been raised to think my sober, analytic take on life is the "mature" point of view and the one that produces value in the world. All the "nonsense" people are the value consumers.

However, when I get off my high horse I realize we've all got our idiosyncracies and the real value detractors are those who can't see their own nonsense for what it is. In a sense, the "nonsense" people have the most sensible view of life.
Like insider tips, seems the real lesson here is to not let your girlfriend read your Maxim.
If you're going to blame something for lots of problems, kindly learn what it is first.

You are king among the problems in the United States today. You hold opinions on things where you are grossly ignorant.
Sarcasm can be hard to interpret on the interwebs from strangers with no context. Clever response though!
Oh you can rest assured that corruption/lobbying is everywhere.
> Bots can probably perfectly duplicate the behavior of a toolbar. Only the rate and volume of requests would be different.

If they do, isn't that precisely what Google would want? Isn't it only the rate and volume of requests that are a problem?
"The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values" by Sam Harris is a new release which falls into the category of philosophy, remarks on human behavior, and is bound to reference Bertrand Russell.

Harris, who has trained both as a philosopher and a neuroscientist, argues against the popular notion that science can have little or nothing to say about morality. Necessarily, he confronts related ideas like moral questions having no objectively right answer and science and religion being "nonoverlapping magisteria". Basically, he says that all moral questions must relate to maximizing the wellbeing of conscious creatures, and that what increases or decreases a creature's wellbeing can be studied scientifically at the level of the brain.

I just started reading it. Even if I'm not yet sure that I'm going to be completely convinced of the claim that "science can determine human values," I'm finding Harris to be a very clear thinker, as well as an amusing writer.

If you want a taste of his ideas and style, you can watch his TED talk, "Science can answer moral questions."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj9oB4zpHww

http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Landscape-Science-Determine-Valu...
(It isn't available from Amazon until October 5; I bought my copy in a bookstore.)
You're oversimplifying a real problem. Would you "authenticate" your own toolbar somehow? That's probably excess effort for a temporary 15 minute ban. Would you rate limit it? Well that's a lost cause if I ever saw one; bots can rate limit themselves too.

It's not an easy problem to solve.
On the contrary, I love a good joke! I think the problem is sometimes its difficult to differentiate sarcasm, trolling, and idiocy without knowing the person or vocal cues.

The OP wrote the comment on a new account with absolutely no history to guide me. What should be my default take?
> When the world economy depends on a website the way it does on PC's

What do you call the internet?