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I shipped things and worked on something every day from age 22 to 35 and was not successful. Silicon Valley is filled with people and the ghosts of people just like me.
tl;dr Upvotes don't necessarily reward quality, and if your post doesn't get upvoted, tough luck.
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Asian American women tend to commit suicide at a rate twice as high as the national female average:

http://cdc.gov/women/lcod/archive

Another link suggesting Asian Americans tend to have worse mental disorders than other ethnicities:
http://www.healthyminds.org/More-Info-For/Asian-AmericanPaci...

Causation is not correlation, of course, and you are right that standards for socialization may differ across cultures, but these statistic and my experience with other Asians do lead me to believe that Asian upbringings are unnecessarily cruel and stunt children's ability to deal with other people and their own feelings to a degree that causes them to take their own lives. Raising children to be happy enough to _not_ take their own lives or getting an eating disorder after being called fat one time too many is a bare minimum.
Ask HN: Change my consumer's buying mindset.
Not sure if any of you guys have this problem too. Everytime I see a new gadget/toy/app, I would want to buy it and try. Most of the time, I dun need it, some times I know I can make a better one. But never I can get around it and actually go do it and deliver the better product to the market.

Not sure if you guys get what I mean. If you do, I appreciate some advice to get around this buying/consumer mindset, it is costing to waste my time and money on stuffs I dun really need.
I read it as the inevitable superiority of customized components over off-the-shelf components.
I did a rough translation of the templating part to slice (http://github.com/scottjad/slice)

http://pastie.org/1444730

Normally of course I'd split it out in to many smaller functions/slices.
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> For instance, the ability of the older wealth to influence politics.

I know this is a popular one, especially on Reddit etc to moan about - old people vote the most, but they don't like our drugs, gay marriage etc

But the fact is old people have more experience, more knowledge, and are just far more sensible. We'll all be there at some point.
It means the money the publisher gets after the retailer takes their cut (which is usually 50%).

Generally speaking, tech publishers have a sausage factory-like production line books get pushed through. There's editors, designers, marketing, and acquisitions people involved in taking the author's manuscript through to a finished product, so that's where the money goes.

It also gets spent on all the dreck tech publishers (again, in general) pump out -- they work on a hits model, so they publish 20 books and hope one of them takes off. Their main function is to nag authors to get their work done.

I've heard "[book] publishing is broken" over and again, and it's true. Tech publishers only pay peanuts, so authors get pushed to finish the book quickly (if they start at all), so the quality isn't very good, so people don't buy many books, so tech publishers can only afford to pay peanuts...

Sadly, not much has changed for the major tech publishers since the late 90s at least, when Philip Greenspun wrote about his experience in 1997: http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/dead-trees/story

That said, there are publishers which give their authors a better deal -- Pragmatic Programmers for one (which Peter Cooper discusses -- see link in his comment), who pay 50% as discussed here: http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2009/10/pragmati... . They may not do the same volume as the majors, but I doubt it's 5x less.
Anyway, I agree it would be more healthy if those buying books bought from publishers who gave their authors a fairer deal; however I'd really like to see authors support businesses that support them -- they're the ones with the product after all. The more we can support highly efficient indie publishers, the more the book reading community will grow around them, the healthier the ecosystem on the whole will be, imo.

Failing that, I'd like to see tech giants like Google just give employees who write a book a $5k raise, cover editing/production costs for $5k, and then use the self-publishing infrastructure (with the same $1/book for the author) & free electronic distribution to get the books out there as far and wide as possible - $9 print, $0.99/free PDF/app, free web version, say.
Pick the shortest path to revenue.
Depending upon your target user segment, figure out what are their hangouts both online and offline, approach them personally and if thats not possible via email. talk to them about your product, understand their perspective and try to convince them to use your product.

For example say you are targeting college students, you can check out schools near your place, send out emails to college email group and get some feedback. f you are building something for developers, you can post it on HN and am sure you will get some useful feedbacks. All the best
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Forget about the Google element. Forget about the technology element. It's an example of someone who was relentlessly resourceful.

If he wasn't in the Bay Area he would have found an incredible opportunity somewhere else, always throwing himself into the path of oncoming opportunities.
What's your point? Because '50% of measured intelligence (whatever that is) can be attributed to genetics' nothing/little/less can/should be done about it? Or because only 50% is determined by genetics, we should do more about inequality in educational systems?
I don't get it.
There is also GBATEK, from the no$gba emulator. It provides a full description of the memory map, interrupts, IO ports and rom layout for GB, GBA and now even the DS.

http://nocash.emubase.de/gbatek.htm

The CPU instruction sets can be obtained from the original manufacturers (ARM9/ARM7 for DS, ARM7 for GBA and Z80 for the original Gameboy - and the Color version).
Ask HN: Please rate my startup, managewith.us
My aim was to create a collaborative task manager, that's professional and usable enough to be used by SMBs to share the management of projects/agendas with their partners/clients.

The use case that I initially thought of was conference calls, wherby a manager (in one location) is checking up on her team, each viewing and updating the same page of goals in real-time. I'm not primarily targetting the individual with a list of tasks to complete, this is very much aimed at groups of people working in SMBs.

I noticed that a lot of successful task managers out there are very informal-looking (different target market), most require sign-up, and very few (if any) are collaborative in real-time (like Etherpad, Google Docs, etc).

I wanted to brand this product very neutral so it can be almost white-labelled on the Enterprise edition, and feel like an extension of a company's tools.

I should also point out that I've had very good feedback from a company I used to work for for a similar product I developed which was part of a larger CRM, apart from it was not collaborative, free, and functionality was quite different as well. Anyway, what I'm trying to argue is that it solved the same business problem to a degree, they just didn't have the resources to improve the product.

Right now my app is very much the MVP, I have further improvements planned for the free version, and you can see some of the features in the pipeline for the paid versions. From talking to managers in a few different businesses, I'm also very aware that the functionality could be extended and columns in the list could be customized to meet a specific business requirement, although I'm keeping my feet on the ground at the moment.

All feedback is welcome, this is the first app I've actually completed and I'm still working a full-time job at the moment, with the intention of big changes as soon as I find a project that is financially viable. I'm about 4 weeks into this, and I haven't really started any marketing yet.

I have not yet completed the Pro and Enterprise functionality, and I'm unsure whether to complete these before I start posting links and asking a few contacts for some coverage. I know there are some very well positioned people here that could answer that question for me!

So, early stages, what do you think?

http://managewith.us

Thanks
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Have you asked yourself why you have this mindset? Is it for technical curiosity, social status, boredom or something else? Whatever reason you honsetly find for that, ask yourself how much of it is externally induced through advertising, colleagues, friends etc. Once you find this out, you will have made a first step towards knowing what you really need and spending your money on just that.
Absolutely not for me. Arguably, if all citizens had basic needs met (including "luxury" items that enable participating in society as equals – cell phones and internet connections, for example) and had equal opportunity to advance, that would be acceptable. Not what I consider to be a fair society, but acceptable.
These are number for 2009. For 2010 ARM P/E should be "only" around 50, for 2011 it might fall below 30. Still expensive but not as extreme.
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I think the OP was refering to neural network as used with their analogy to their biological counterpart, which has indeed fallen out of fashion several decades ago. I rarely see "neural network" used in recent machine learning/AI literature - most usages are historical, and as you mention, you could fit pretty much anything into neural network if you really want to, so the word is basically meaningless.
I am probably biased but I think he makes the same mistake he is arguing against. Base rate neglect is due to an inability to calculate a conditional probability properly - assuming P(A given B) = P(B given A). In a similar type of fallacy, looking at the joint probability of 95% or whatever of businesses failing and saying you only have 5% chance to succeed is nonsense.

First this frequentist approach is inapplicable to the real world (Taleb's thesis actually) and secondly you have to look at it as your degree of belief of success given: team, communication ability, industry, environment, economic state, competition, potential usefulness, market saturation, skill, climate, education, timing, confidence, willingness and dozens of other variables. This will , can only be a rough estimate. So don't just look at arbitrary success stories but don't just look at arbitrary failures either. Pick a set of criteria and look at all those most similar to you, whether they be analogues or dopplegangers. Find the success rate in this smaller space.

Your chance of failure might be much lower but it could also be much higher than the base rate. Basically, do your homework. Consider your situation, risk tolerance, odds, utility and act accordingly.
>On the other hand, they do seem to be loading up the top ranks of violinists and pianists.

Yes, but being able to flawlessly play back music that other people composed is mostly useless. (Only half trolling.)

The people who create the most wealth in today's society don't do it through rote labor.
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The title of the submission "Why Reddit will be the next Digg" sounds like Reddit is going to go down like Digg. But the article's title is "Why Reddit will be the new Digg", and it's about how Reddit will take the top place that Digg once had.
Flatland is a great little book, highly recommended. It's from a time when writers would stop when they had no more to say instead of being paid by the word or to fit a particular format so don't be surprised by how much stuff is crammed in to it's 100 pages, if it were released in 2011 it would surely be 300 pages at a minimum, and it would lose a lot of its power because of that.
I've liked almost everything I've seen about webOS except the actual phones, which is a shame. webOS has always felt much more polished to me than Android.

On the flipside, the new Nokia phones look awesome, but I don't think I could drop my iPhone for Symbian.

In any case, if Android turns out to be a bit more like webOS, I could see myself switching for an Android phone.
It takes 100 lines of bloated Common Lisp to do the same thing as 100 pages of tiny, elegant Scheme.

The standardized parts of Scheme are 45 pages. The parts of Scheme necessary to get work-done is the size of Common Lisp; without that pesky document from ANSI and ISO, and the support of 5+ vendors, or the large body of existent code that only comes with 30 years of cooperative work by a community with industry, government and academia.

I happily code in Scheme as well as Common Lisp; both languages have their places, and both need to be learned for the unique pleasure each has. Btw, Scheme SRFIs are some of the most enjoyable pieces of literature one has the fortune to read on Software Engineering.
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What? What kind of cognitive dissonance allowed you to equate

Agree with the article. Here I now await my downvotes from the groupthinkers.

with an actual argument.

Here, let me translate your comment for you:

Me too! Also, if you don't like my worthless comment, fuck you!
>It’s why we take lucky rabbits’ feet into casinos instead of putting our money in a CD, why we quit steady jobs to start risky small businesses.

Again, I am probably biased but I think this indirect comparison is nonsense. While one action is unequivocally irrational the other could be rational if you take into account situation, tolerance to risk and expected value - expected utility of the action.
If I were running Facebook, I don't think I'd want to be considered as competing with Mixi, Gree, and Mobage. A lot of people use Mixi almost as a blind dating service, and that's not really what Facebook does.

I'm not much a fan of Facebook, but I could see them picking up there if they really push the photo sharing and contact list aspects of the service, though. For a lot of my Japanese friends on Facebook, I could probably tell you every meal they've eaten outside their house since they've joined. Partnerships with Purikura wouldn't be an altogether bad idea, either.

The first thing anyone does when they meet in Japan is transfer contact info over infra-red. It'd make a lot of sense to integrate it with "friending" on Facebook, since as it is, changing your address means e-mailing your entire contact list, and losing your phone means losing contact with anyone who doesn't e-mail you regularly. There's definitely room for them there - they'll find it if they're actually committed to learning how things work there.
Added a branch[1] with a Python script that will serve the files and handle proxy requests. It should be just download and run[2] if you've got Python installed.

[1] https://github.com/jeremybanks/gameboy-online/tree/with-python-server
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDYxB4LZgng
The one thing you'll find they typically didn't do is spend 2 or 3 years reading about what made other people successful. They went and did things.
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He isn't nearly that brilliant or handsome and he hasn't gone on strike.
From your recollection of that UK documentary series ... you haven't told what percent of the population has bad genetics.

My wife works in a kindergarten: lots of kids have problems assimilating concepts / participating in games. But for most of those kids, their ability to follow the rules and learn can be attributed to a problem at home: i.e. parents that lost control over them (think Dennis the Menace) or parents that don't provide harmony in their family (fighting a lot, getting separated, etc...).

And really, the difference between kids with parents that work/play with them and that provide a balanced home environment versus those with problems at home is striking.

Even if %50 of intelligence can be attributed to genetics, that doesn't say a lot.
It's easy to be wrong when it's so hard to make out what's right. Algorithmic traders are unusually secretive about their modes of operation. The primary knowledge dissemination mechanism is via employees moving.
> In a few years I would not doubt Intel to hit 5ghz+.

What do you base your lack of doubt on? Any hard info you can point to?
It took him 20 years to realise that? Even as a guy who wrote parsers for a living?

I call shenanigans.
Yes and I wouldn't recommend it if you have visitors with old computers and your HTML isn't rather simple (depth and multiple class names for an element). It will make older computers (+5 years... or even less, depends on the hardware) simply block for almost a minute (or more) when trying to run that JS.
Deduplication matters most for people who edit big files. In my case, I have some virtual machines with hard drive images stored on my main filesystem. If I didn't exclude them from Time Machine, they would completely fill my backup drive in a matter of days, but with block-level deduplication, there would only be slight overhead compared with storing the same data directly on the HFS+ file system instead of in the images.
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> I happily code in Scheme as well as Common Lisp; both languages have their places

What places? Common Lisp for production and Scheme for learning? Thanks.
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Yes, but how many people know that?
I was wondering if anyone else had that reaction. I'm looking at a story about how Bradley was using elaborate GAs to choose the weightings on a small handful of variables that, from the description, sounds like they should've yielded to a regularized linear regression producing a fast cheap optimal answer; and I'm thinking to myself, "Either the journalist completely failed to understand and/or convey the problem that was being solved, or nobody designing this system understood anything about statistical learning and were just throwing cool-sounding tools at the problem, or they were just having fun at the reporter's expense."

For those unlearned in AI, an analogy: the original article reads like someone talking about how they used Haskell monads to add 2 + 2.
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My guess is that they didn't think of it and no one has requested this feature. Here's a link to a list of feature suggestions submitted by active Quora users:

http://www.quora.com/Quora-User-Feedback/What-features-would...

Of all the suggestions, Khalid's suggestion seems most relevant to yours:

"I just signed up, and was a bit horrified to see 40 odd possible e-mail notifications I could receive. But I was disappointed not to see a link to an RSS feed of those notifications." (http://www.quora.com/Quora-User-Feedback/What-features-would...)

Note that his main suggestion is to have Quora provide RSS feeds in place of email notification as opposed to adding a button that lets users disable all email notifications.

Like I said earlier, their sensible default settings make this feature somewhat unnecessary.
I got that : http://www.perplexus.net/
You mean Product Advertising API. I have already checked it. They provide very little data. No tech specs at all.
> Comments are for explaining why.

Awesome. I'd add "why not" as well, that is: why you discarded some alternative solution? That's very important especially when refactoring is involved. Some programmer could come by and think: "Why she didn't just do like this? It would have been much easier."

I find that explanations about discarded solutions is (almost) always missing from both comments and higher-level documents.
No. I would use Scheme where I need to have absolute control over the application along with the implementation. That includes any type of hardware hacking, full-stack networked distributed apps, mobile apps, gaming platforms, experimenting on new OSes, etc.

Common Lisp is better on maturer platforms, while Scheme is like a little wedge that you can slip into cracks to open it wider, before you sneak in more and more Lisp. See how Kawa does Java applets while Common Lisp does the web server, etc.

Common Lisp is the 1-wood/driver, Scheme is the putter. To use a golf analogy. (and sadly, many of the people that advocate scheme-everything don't have messy problems; their ball is already on the green, so to speak.)
Sorry, your “cool” webapp is probably not going to make money
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The design looks sharp enough. Unfortunately, this space is pretty crowded with great free apps.
> That has a technical reason: "Don't touch a running system." You know, you can never be sure what you change there, if the code is really that bad.

My experience has been that "Don't touch a running system." takes you to "How the heck does this thing work?". And every time even little fixes get hairy and time-consuming. It's kind of when you listen to people justifying their untidiness: they say they do know where to look for things. Yes, they do know, I'm sure, but can they find those things quickly, especially when "the shit hits the fan"? Does their approach work when their lives get more complex? How would they score against people who keeps things sorted and plan ahead? I have been a pretty untidy teenager, using these very same lame excuses, but nowadays I can't afford it.
It actually makes sense. To predict the economy without government you need to predict trends and the behavior of many people. To predict the government moves you need to predict the whims and arbitrary actions of individuals, and do that according to their perceived political gains.
Very nice app. What language(s) did you use (back-end and front-end)?