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No, I'm just being realistic. Not everyone has what it takes to do just whatever they want.

For me, dealing with people who think they can do anything (vs people who really do) is like dealing with religious people: it's a process of non-thought and faith almost.

Your father-in-law is one of those rare people who can make it happen. If it was as simple as working hard at it or being determined then everyone would be doing it. This is why it's so hard to find good programmers.

It's also a good way to lead people on to guaranteed failure, deluding them into thinking if they work hard enough or try hard enough they can accomplish something.

Most of us are not physically capable of understanding certain things that others do understand, are able to work at, etc. I happen to be one of those people who can't understand.
The weirdest thing I had happen so far was checking in (on Gowalla) at a restaurant while on vacation and seeing a checkin from the same guy that had also recently checked into our hotel. For a minute I thought it was a weird coincidence, but then I looked at all his recent checkins and he'd been checking into every single spot up and down the beach, about 30 in the past hour. The weird part is that he was actually in the restaurant. I almost said something to him about being an item-hunting scammer, but I let it go.

It's weird how accustomed we've become to anonymity in modern times. Less than a hundred years ago, most people rarely went anywhere without being surrounded by people that knew them. There are still plenty of places where you could go walk into a bar on a Saturday night and 90% of the people know each other.
Someone should make a mini site for "Entrepreneurs/Roomate dating"!

Like: Name, age, nationality, startup name, coding language, smoke? pets? girl/boyfriend?.

Same for people looking to share their officespace
I couldn't disagree more. I used to work in the game industry and one of the biggest things we would look for was a passion for gaming and the ability/history of shipping a game.

If an entry level candidate developed a game we could download and play, it was almost guaranteed we would bring them in for an interview. It didn't matter if it was text based in C, a simple card game in Python, or a Galaga clone. Sure a background in C/C++ is good, but it was pretty low on the list of things we looked for in entry level applicants.

So if you want my advice, complete game of your own as soon as you can, in whatever language works best for you. Pick up the skills and tool knowledge you need as you go along.
I'd try and avoid San Francisco. Yes,it's beautiful, and if you know the muni public transportation system you can get around easily without a car, but rents can be high (like $1300 for a studio apartment that isn't scummy). I'd look in Mountain View or Sunnyvale. If keeping costs low is very important, the northern part of San Jose probably has the lowest rents ($800-900 for a large studio / one bedroom appt) for an area near Silicon Valley. Palo Alto and areas north can be quite pricey.
so John Allsopp wrote this article as response John Gruber's article on how much better native apps are to web apps. Allsopp understands Gruber's argument to be as such: Native apps are better because they are written in native languages that use native APIs.

I read Gruber's article and Allsopp is so far off the mark it's not even funny.

As someone who write web apps for mobile devices and desktop applications, I know that every time we are prototyping a web app and we need more X, then more X is available by going native. want some examples?

speed (are you doing graphics? is there a network peak?)
integration (can you tie other services to your devices?)
computation load (video editing? on the web? for 5 simultaneous users? BANANAS!)
accessibility (does your web app work offline? wah wah.)
hardware (can you extend the usability physically?)

it's like people forget what "closer to the metal" means and have problems admitting to them selves that the web will never be cutting edge.

sure it's harder, and takes more time, but that's the price you have to weigh your decisions against. Is more X worth it?
(just a stupid question: 1950$ per month or per year?)
http://cache.historious.net/cached/662705/

Your site just revealed a bug in historious, thank you!
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> -Set up a local configuration file (not managed by version control) and a base configuration file with all the settings that are immutable. Import the local config file within settings.py so as to avoid local setting conflicts.

Have you tried keeping your settings in a package rather than in a module? Most introductions to django use settings.py to keep things simple (works out of the box using manage.py), however there is another (better) way!

You can store your settings in a package instead, so you have a settings directory, and inside this you have modules which represent a configuration. So you could have settings/development.py rather than settings.py, this just means you just change your django settings environmental variable to point to the correct configuration for each machine.

There are a few perks to managing settings this way, first you can extend existing settings (for example if you wanted to have some default settings that all configurations use, you could have a settings/shared.py and then do a `import * from .shared` in each of your configurations). Which means you have access to all the existing settings so you don't have to repeat yourself if you say want to add some middleware, or an application (think debug toolbar.)

And another benefit is that you are able to manage your settings through your version control system. Which I understand is not always ideal, however my guess is for most private projects this will be the best way of doing things! It also just seems to me like a much more pythonic way of organising your settings. (You can also do this for urls, however there's not as much benefit there, given that urls probably won't change from machine to machine that often.)
$300/month at palo alto hacker house if you don't mind roommates (who happen to be interested in startups too). i think i was paying ~$700/month at the mountain view hacker house.
You wouldn't have to use a spaceship. "meteorite" means it's already hit the ground. You could just walk over to it, assuming it didn't wipe out all life.
What about the screen size? Is a 13 inch screen suitable for development?
per month, for sure
If you have the space for it, grow an herb garden. Seriously. :) I never thought I would enjoy taking care of plants, but it's actually quite interesting. My latest addition is arugula, which so far seems super easy to grow and can provide an infinite amount of salads with little upkeep.
Where have you seen an $800 1 bdrm in North San Jose? You must have a different craigslist than I do.
Exactly! I'm one such customer, and I buy apps for my iPad and my iPhone on a fairly regular basis. And I'm better off for it, too. It's much easier to get the weather through an app than it is to visit any of the weather websites. One of the reasons for this is that apps are faster and more responsive than waiting for the browser to load and render the page. Those extra ten seconds really matter when I pick my iPad off the bed and decide what kind of pants I need to put on for the day. (Not to mention all of the ads and extra clicks I need to perform just to get a detailed forecast from a browser!)
It is, definitely. Getting your own apartment in MV is $1200 minimum if you want something you can actually call an apartment.

Roommates can make it cheaper, ya, but it's not that cheap.
Work at writing something worthwile a minimum of four hours evey day
I rarely notice copyright lines. The fact that you did makes me suspect that they succeeded.
$300 for your own room?
"many orders of magnitude faster than the speed of light." would be nice, but not a necessity. If many is only 2, we could reach thousands of stars in a year.

I think we need not even have faster than light travel. I guess we would see plenty of volunteers, even for a one way trip, if we had a safe and luxurious enough ship that could reach another star in say a year of on board wall clock time. For some, the time dilatation effect alone could be sufficient reward to sign up for such a trip, as it would mean that one could see a much longer segment of human history.
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actually, they don't use weight, the sensors they use are inductive coils - so if you take a strong neodymium magnet and wave it above the coil it should hopefully trip it

http://www.wikihow.com/Trigger-Green-Traffic-Lights
> - We keep a local settings file for each environment, and those /are/ versioned. We have a /settings_local directory which contains each of the variants (localdev/dev/staging/df/live). The appropriate one is sym linked to /settings_local.py, which in turn is imported into settings.py.

I didn't read your comment (thoroughly) before posting my comment above, so I was parroting your point about organising project settings, however there are a few differences between our approaches. And I'd be interested to hear what you think about them. I don't work that actively with django at the moment, and never really had the opportunity to use my above system in a commercial project so maybe (probably) there are some gotchas I haven't thought about!
Sorry I was unclear. Multiplayer on iOS is a huge market. But with Apple providing peer-to-peer built-in a hosted solution such as PlayRelay might not find many fans. Game Center might be "good enough". That is why I am trying to add things like accountability (opponent is losing and quits the game with no punishment) and tournaments.
Nice! This is exactly what I've been looking for to keep track of my goals. Feedback page?
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You only play $1200 for a 2bdrm? I swear you must live in a different MV than I looked at. I'm paying more for a 1bdrm in Sunnyvale, and I moved there to save money.
I used to live in Solano County, which is the cheap seats of the SF Bay Area. It is still the most expensive place I have ever lived but was a good bit cheaper than most of the rest of the Bay Area. There are more than 100 cities in the SFBA, so there is some flexibility on how expensive it is. You might try checking out bestplaces.net and city-data.com to get a better idea.
Gets cheaper if you go further south, though. In Santa Clara / San Jose you can rent an entire (small) house for $1500.
I was mistaken for being American a lot. I'm pretty sure it was the default nationality to guess when they couldn't place an accent. Good to hear it wasn't just happening to me though ;)
$1950 per month for sure. For comparison, a similar Manhattan (NYC) one-bedroom (no yard, though) would be around $3000 (rents have fallen some since the peak). Decent source : StreetEasy.com
Hah, that reminds me of when I applied for my first job. I told them my salary expectations, and they asked if that was per month, or per year!
Patrick Lo remembers Netgear funding
Meh:

2. Mathematics and Science as Art in Contemporary Theatre: "Playwrights such as Tom Stoppard, Rinne Groff, Michael Frayn, and others have effectively explored mathematical and scientific themes for artistic purposes. Through readings and exercises, and by conducting labs and staging scenes, this class will gain some first-hand insight into the complementary ways in which science and art aim to seek out their respective truths." [Middlebury]

4. Mathematics and Narrative: "Many literary works (Arcadia, Proof, and Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture) use mathematics as an integral part of their narrative. Movie and television narratives such as Good Will Hunting and Numb3rs are also mathematically based. Nonfiction works about mathematics and mathematical biographies like Chaos, Fermat's Enigma, and A Beautiful Mind provide further examples of the connection between mathematics and narrative. " [Vassar]
So you think we should lower the barrier for all discomforting and potentially infringing activities? Your movements today might be fairly routine and predictable, but would you be comfortable in a database flagging every single day where you broke that routine for whatever reason? What if your reasons for doing that were very personal--say you needed to see a therapist, or a doctor, or a lawyer, or a friend in a crisis, etc.

Keeping barriers up for potential mass infringements of privacy may be a good thing. In a digital age, isn't the anonymity of a crowd the only privacy we have left?

That something is possible at great effort is no argument to lower the amount of effort to do it. Do you have locks on your front door?
This title is wildly editorialized; someone just make it the real title of the article.
It all depends where you live. If you would like to live in the city (San Francisco), one bedroom or studio can go up as much as $2000 per month. If you are considering to move around Palo Alto/Mountain View, the rent becomes around 12-1500s. If you are considering Sunnyvale/San Jose, the rent becomes 1000ish.

If you are going to work at Mountain View/Palo Alto area, I highly recommend to live in Sunnyvale, because the rent isn't as expensive and it's not too far (5-15min drive on 101).
Hi, just recently applied for the next winter round and thought I would get involved and get a few words in! ;-) So the chances of getting accepted as a single founder (which I am) is harder, but surely having a flexible single founder willing to adapt, either by changing his idea or even to team up with other applicants to form a better foundation to move forward, is equally as good (or as risky) as Friends being co-founders. My point is, founders (friends, coders, family etc) could prove to consume more valuable time managing their personalities rather than getting the job done in the first 3 months to get VC's interested or even be accepted by Y-C as pointed out by "pg" in a previous post. There is clearly huge talent being pitched here and I was just keen to hear if Y-C ever formed new partnerships by connecting people?
None of the courses are anti-math nor are the course descriptions too absurd once you remember that, like patents, they are written in their own subset of English. The only one that rankled me was the Pomona College class where historic Islam (a monotheistic religion) was turned into a place.

IMHO, the article reflects more on the headline writer's knowledge of mathematics and its influence than on the schools for offering courses which attempt to bridge the gap between cultures. Maybe, if the author had taken a course like the ones described, the headline would have read differently.

The culture of mathematics is important to understanding the field and how to appreciate its beauty and apply it to practical problems. My love and appreciation for mathematics came, in part, from reading every word of James R. Newman's four volume World of Mathematics (Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/World-Mathematics-Four--Set/dp/0486432...) published originally in 1956. It is now published by Dover in paperback and available at O($46). It's not a book to read to learn math, but it is a book to learn mathematical thinking. And while you are in the mood, you might also look at Polya's How To Solve It (Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dst... ), another classic.
I know there's a perception that nutrition science is churning, and I'm sure that behind the scenes it really is, but at the macro- scale that laypeople care about, aren't the trends straightforward and aren't they unfolding pretty slowly?

* Fat is bad

* Saturated fat is bad, olive oil is good

* Transfats are particularly bad

* Carbs are bad

* Fat's not so bad after all

* Fructose is particularly bad

* Refined carbs are bad, normal carbs maybe not so bad after all, and complex carbs are good

For 50+ years, this doesn't seem that hard to keep up with.

It's also one thing to say that we're "made of carbohydrates" and another thing altogether to suggest that our metabolisms are equipped to process large quantities of purified, metabolically dense nutrients that our ancestors never had access to.
"Founded in Australia in 2004, by long time web indus­try fig­ures Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp, Web Directions con­fer­ences bring together the web industry’s lead­ing experts from around the world to edu­cate and inspire our attendees."

The article reminds me to "CDs and DVDs have a bright future" from the CDs and DVDs association or "the physical book is never going to die" from the print industry associations.
I dunno. I'm kind of having a flashback to the 2003 Longhorn video. Wasn't that kind of the same message, promising all the risky and exciting things that were in a release mere months away?
I was wondering the same :D
You copied out two of the course descriptions and gave us the meaningless syllable "meh" as the sum total of your analysis. That's not insightful. It's not clever. It's not funny. My guess is that you think these are actually arts courses with the word "Mathematics" in the title. If you can't be bothered to actually write out your conclusion, please don't bother at all. Expecting us to guess what you mean is rude and unhelpful.
I live in the Mission and have a ~400 sq foot studio in a not-vintage building (~1970s) for $1600/month (includes $250/month parking spot). I'm 4 blocks from Safeway, Muni rail, Bart, my gym, 2 blocks from other Muni buses.
The problem with switching to Dvorak is the same problem I see with too much customization on an IDE or a word processor. Few people I know use one computer only. So no matter how adamantly I insist a Dvorak configuration, there will always be situations in which I am obligated to go QWERTY.

It's not worth it to me to become proficient with Dvorak, even if I can see wins in typing speed and accuracy, because I'll incur ten times the frustration when forced to perform routine operations on a friend or coworker's computer.
Try sticking to whole unprocessed foods. Lots of fresh fruit and veggies and lean meats.

Eg...

Breakfast - yogurt, muesli, fresh fruit

Lunch - chicken or salmon salad OR sandwich on grain bread

Dinner - Mixed vegetables /w steak/lamb/fish

Try avoiding stuff that isn't real food or spent along time in a factory.
Feel free to integrate Notifo for push notifications. Dirt cheap. :)

https://api.notifo.com/
I'm not quite sure what makes the difference. I'm sure there are laws for large corporations vs. a small business. All I know is when our corporation isn't charged sales tax on a non-exempt item, it's our responsibility to pay the sales tax, even though we were the customer.
I know nothing about you, but if I did I'm sure I could find some way you contribute to something I'm morally opposed to.

Do you pay taxes to a country involved in warfare? Do you eat meat? Do you drive a gasoline powered vehicle? Etc etc etc.

Note the above are just examples of things some people are opposed to, not necessarily me personally (in fact I do all of those things)
Twenty Dying Technologies
I don't really see any problem with those as electives, rather than core math classes. An upperclassman in a humanities major might take one of those, and get some value out of it.
You know what's silly about this story? You can A) Not include your phone number or B) Only friend people that you consider your friend and know personally. Seems like a non-issue to me.
You'd no longer have the opportunity to place your bet by that time.
Android streamlines this, and provides it out of the box, backed by the full-confidence of the OS :-)

For data, you can use ContentProvider:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-...

You can also use capabilities of other applications, including UI and logic by reusing their Intents :-)

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/intents/intents-fi...

Smalltalk and Lisp gray-beards must wet their pants every time they read up on Android. It's pretty much the epitome of a clean, extensible, user-oriented system. Fast, open, garbage collected, gorgeous and just clean. How on earth did they get some many things right, out of the box?
Airport chairs are designed so that you don't fall asleep, reclining chairs would defeat the purpose.
I disagree. I'd put that probability at 0 after n=7.

In fact, according to the recent reddit thread, some test designers are encouraged to enforce equal proportions of each option. While stupid, it lowers the threshold to n=3 or so.
Engineers, Dreamers and Startups
Loved the article. You have to be passionate about what you are doing otherwise what is the sense in doing it at all. My passion however has always been motivational speaking and I hope to be doing that in the next 3-5 years. Right now the focus is on Addoway and has been for several years, but I still spend time writing my book.
Topology is a rather widely studied (and important) field of mathematics. Not too sure why it's on the list..

(edit) #5 seems to be a straightforward topology class as well. Something gives me the feeling the author doesn't actually know much about mathematics.
One of these is not like the others...

I imagine a liberal arts major just trying to fulfill their math requirement who ends up in Topology is in for a rude surprise.
Xymon (formerly known as Big Brother). Yeah it's old, but it's simple, reliable and what I know. I've tried to switch to Nagios and OpManager, but ended up back to Xymon.

I use Cacti for graphing. I have some big gripes with it, but I've invested a lot of brain matter in it and it works.

http://xymon.com

http://cacti.net

http://www.opmanager.com (slow, unreliable j2ee app with a lot of features and great tech support.)
Don't forget to look in East Palo Alto, which isn't nearly as scary as people make it out to be.
That's a false dichotomy. Why didn't they spend more time analyzing options and consequences like they did for IPv6?
If I move there. Let's say, Palo Alto/ Mo. View I would be probably working on my startup all day long. Maybe for a walk/gym for an hour or so.

The only time I would need to move from there would be, maybe to attend to a meetup, meeting, etc.

The question would be.

How do I move from side to side. Public transportation? Is it safe to walk at night (Past 10/11/12pm).

THanks
Nice, I'll definitely try this out soon. Thanks.
Ask HN: stupid startup idea, but it works?
if a startup idea is stupid, but it works, is that a good thing?
WTF? I'm as game as the next privileged anti-establishment dilettante to point fingers and laugh at University establishment, but did these guys even do a Wikipedia search of the "ridiculous" courses they dug up? Statistics? Organic population growth? Topology?? Yeah, complete fluff topics. Morons.

And the other "fluff" courses they cite are largely liberal arts courses that focus on the role of mathematics in their discipline - one on mathematics in theatre, one on getting a grasp on the math referenced by a particular author, etc. It's entirely healthy and reasonable for liberal arts disciplines to examine the role of science and math in art, history and culture.
Nice project! It'd be nice to have a link to who you are (an about page) on the site. Makes things a bit more friendly :-) You also might want to put a dedicated page for your privacy policy up (even if it's just a very simple one) since you ask for contact info.
You guessed correctly. That is what I believe.

Would 6 grafs of exposition about that really improve Hacker News, or is it better to just get to the point?

By "Meh:", I meant, "there might be something to your point, but here is evidence that may contradict it".

I used "meh", as opposed to "you are a complete lunatic", because I do not in fact believe he is a complete lunatic.

You, on the other hand...

;)