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You should definitely visit Hackerdojo.com. YC offices are also a couple of blocks from there.
She wants to do Aerospace, and Purdue is pretty good there (4th in the US) and we are Indiana residents - and it would still cost $40,000 plus room and board. Tuition at TU München is 500 Euros a semester and you finish a degree in three years instead of four (because they don't have to spend a year at the outset on remedial courses). Student residences are subsidized, student meals are subsidized instead of being private buffets - I mean, financially it's a no-brainer. She'll get a comparable education and we can take the same money and buy her a house when she's done.

Plus my wife is Hungarian and has been wanting to go back to Budapest for a while now. So ... it's time.
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Hey HackerNews -- about four months ago I launched jMockups, a new HTML5-based high fidelity website mockup tool [1].

This new Website to Mockup Converter is the second largest milestone next to the initial launch. With it, you can instantly import any existing website into jMockups, redesign it, and share it all within a matter of minutes. I hope you enjoy it and please let me know if you run into any issues.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829657
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My attempt at the same idea using jquery: https://github.com/jlsync/jlt/blob/master/jlt.js

Anyone have any pointers to other/better similar solutions?
I think this hits it dead on. In many ways, HTML is the people's LaTeX.

Here's mine: http://sidneysm.com/resume/

The content of the résumé is JSON data (http://sidneysm.com/resume/resume.json) with some embedded Markdown, and it's transformed into an HTML document by a JavaScript tempting library I hacked up on top of jquery-haml.
>"I'm basically interested in statistical computing and visualization of large data sets."

IMO, there are two paths by which you can pursue that: experience and academia. The best experience route is to continue to grow and expand your business. The best academic route is a Phd, not another bachelor's. In an important sense, they're similar because either will probably take at least 5 years. And of course there is nothing to keep you from doing both.

Good luck.
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Has anyone actually run the numbers? Does GPA predict founder success? Do SAT scores? Does IQ? How much does each matter? Is there a negative correlation?
Where do you get this figure?
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Yeah, I get that you're not actually a moron who thinks writing in that style will make Twitter more likely to listen to, and perhaps my original complaint was worded slightly too harsh.

What I meant by "dumbed down" wasn't that you were trying to make it easier for people to understand, just that you were dumbing it down for that comic effect.

More and more people are writing blog posts in that style, and I just happen to find it annoying.

edit: Thanks for linking to the Quora version of your thoughts, now those I 100% agree with (as a UberTwitter user).
Any flying car system I can conceive of would be vastly safer than the bloodbath caused by non-flying cars.

And yes, we want them. Many times faster than ground transport, safely usable by any person young or old, no congestion, frees up the ground for other uses. Feasibiliy aside, it would be undeniably utopian.
You should use rubber. It will do all the nasty stuff for you, and make the errors slightly less dumb. Admittedly somewhat poorly named for searching for help on it, but it works.

https://launchpad.net/rubber
Unfortunately the assertion that "liquid never touches B" is false (see a surge in the flow at 1:06 that does reach it). Therefore I don't reckon the break can be where they assume it to be.
On top of this, I'm amazed at the differences in cost between state and out of state tuition. Is this because of state funding, or is it because it's another income stream for colleges and universities?
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Ask HN: Obtaining initial users for a startup
This may seem like a very basic question, but basic is where I need the most assistance. For tech start ups and social applications, or anything for that matter. How do most companies usually get their initial set of users?

An example to clarify my question: say you start a dating site for a specific niche. How do you get a good amount of users registered on your site, so that when you launch, you don't have people that register, see no activity, and then leave immediately?

I apologize if this is common knowledge ahead of time.
Where I went to school, there was an "international programs in engineering office," a "minorities in engineering program office," a "engineering student entrepreneurship office", and many more that I can't remember, presumably duplicated on the liberal arts side, all populated by people earning salaries from the University.

It seems like there are a lot of people earning livings off of the University system who aren't educators or researchers. Maybe there's been a lot of growth in this sort of thing since the cheap-college days of yore?
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The kind of computers Popular Science was thinking of in 1949 are what we call supercomputers today. They didn't have anything to distinguish it from, so "computer" was the only term to use.

IBM's Watson is powered by 90 of these (according to the wiki): http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/750/index.html

The datasheet says they weigh 120 pounds. 90 of those would be 10,800 pounds, or 5.4 tons. We're still a bit above the prediction, but I think Watson could be done in 1.5 tons of gear with some more development work focused on that.

I'd need to see the Popular Science article, but I doubt they were envisioning a personal computer. They might have been envisioning a community computer though. 1.5 tons would probably be enough for that in terms of a shared file/message board/connectivity supercomputer for a city block's worth of people.
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Professor Frink's (from The Simpsons) prediction on where computers would be in one hundred years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE7mi-gdIYw
Can you link to the flying car prototypes that you're referring to?
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That is seriously impressive!

The first site I did didn't import perfectly, but it only took a second to fix a the major differences.

Orginial: https://img.skitch.com/20110219-8rej2qyyg9pd6swxnxqagk8brq.j...

Imported: http://www.jmockups.com/designs/1428/d3e541a65c

Good work.
Ruboto still seems to have a few problems. According to the current faq on github[1], a "hello world" app currently takes over 3 mb compressed, and takes 10 seconds or so to start. (They're working on it.) So it works, but not really well yet.

[1] https://github.com/ruboto/ruboto-core/wiki/FAQ
I think this is the reason we don't have flying cars. We could build them.

So if the biggest problem here is safety (introduced to some extent by irresponsible drivers), maybe flying cars will be possible once we can create automated car control?

Once these robot cars are reliable enough, they will look like a much better alternative to human drivers to me: quicker reaction, possibility to have 360 degrees field of view at all times, impossible to DUI etc.

Let's keep an eye on DARPA's Grand Challenge and Google robot car attempts.
MSN article: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/Advice/YourRealTa...

Paper: http://www.kotlikoff.net/sites/default/files/Does%20It%20Pay...

HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1656323
Ask HN: Ways To Get Feedback For Your Site
How does everyone get people/users to test their site and provide feedback.

What ways do you generate traffic to test conversions (visitor to user) on your startup before you really start your marketing campaign.
Well, to clarify, I'm a huge geography, history, and literature geek. I believe that, for the sake of reforming our educational system, less focus needs to be placed on classic literature and maybe have a better redefined and effective geography and history curriculum which covers more in less time. Less repetition throughout the years on those subjects and more focus on more practical subjects such as finance, business, career analysis, and IT. If you feel the need to progress your education in those other subjects beyond the amount that will give you general knowledge, then you can always self study as I have. I'm not downplaying the importance, just saying that the education system puts too much focus on it.
Is it possible that German businesses do the smart thing and don't require a bachelor's degree for basic data entry and other similar tasks?

I have a hard time believing 55% of the jobs in the US require a college education to perform.
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As an Icelander I must say this article is terribly poorly written. I don't really understand what this silent revolution is about. Generally speaking, if a "revolution" isn't discussed by any media outlet and cannot be found on Google (in a country where government censorship essentially does not exist) I'd say that it isn't just silent, it simply doesn't exist.

There was never a referendum on whether banks should be recapitalized or not, they simply were recapitalized. However there was a referendum on the Icesave deal (about terms of repayments of deposits of UK/Dutch depositors into an Icelandic bank) after the president was petitioned not to agree with the parliament decision to do so. The president formally has power to do this but no president acted on it until the incumbent one in 2004 (50 years after Iceland became a sovereign state) and again in 2010 regarding the Icesave deal. This deal is actually quite different from what the Irish government is currently doing by saving its bank system, the old Icelandic banks did go into bankruptcy in 2008 have since been restarted as new institutions partly owned by the government and partly by the old bankrupt estates. The deal is about sovereign political responsibility and having a national referendum about it is quite paradoxical in my view since the end result is basically asking: Do you want to pay a great deal of money or not?

Of course the matter is more complicated than that. And is subject to lengthy spin-filled bullshit ridden politics.

About the constituent assembly: It was supposed to have already started but due to legal issues in the elections it hasn't started yet and is in a bit of a limbo. The matter of this assembly is, of course, quite political as well.

Finally, the exaggerated comments on "capitalism" and "communism" in the article are very exaggerated. Iceland has conventionally been a nordic welfare state with a strong healthcare system, public school system, etc. The atmosphere before 2008 was leaning towards the right but shifted a bit to the left after the big bank collapse. It feels to me it's shifting back to the right now as people realize that huge tax hikes aren't that great either.

Bottom line: this article is terrible, poorly written and not very informative. I don't really understand how it got any attention on HN.
In the US it is easy for people to return to university after dropping out. Even doing so multiple times is not a consideration for admission, e.g. I had five different majors over 12 years at three different universities (plus a stint in vocational school) before earning a bachelor's degree.

It is also common people to pursue a bachelor's degree in their 30's or 40's or later. Culturally, in large part this is a result of the changes to US higher education created by the GI bill following WWII - one of my grandfathers earned his bachelor's degree at the age of 40 following the war and my father in law his bachelor's at 43 after retiring from the navy in the 1970's.

But pursuing a degree in later life is not just tied to the GI Bill. One of my brothers-in law earned his bachelor's online at 51, another has earned two Master's degrees after age 40 (bachelor's at 36) and a third earned his bachelor's at 46.

None of my relatives would have been considered for the Gymnasium under the German system and my switching majors four times would have been frowned upon within German higher education(from Electrical Engineering to Chemistry to Geology to Chemistry Education to Philosophy)
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A not too smart "go getter" will always be able to do well at something. There's always a place for such people, and it's easy for management to understand how someone like that can bring value.

OTOH, a personal story:

In school, I got excellent grades up until lots of effort was required. At that point my grades went down drastically. This is what comes from being praised as smart, separate from results.

It took me a good while after I was out of school to really come to grips with things, and it's still a bit of a struggle. However, I have managed to make a career of programming. I try to play to my strengths, solving tricky problems that don't yield easily to hard work alone. This makes me fairly valuable, though I have to work hard to find employment where management realizes that there are roles for people like me. Currently I develop software in support of the science team on an active NASA space mission. If I can pat myself on the back a bit, that's not bad for someone who took an extra semester to graduate high school and never went to college.

So someone smart can learn to work harder and be results oriented, but without help from parents and school I think it's a lot harder and brings delays. What could I have done if I'd been praised for results rather than "being smart?" I don't obsess about that, but it comes to mind these days as I raise my child.
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Clarke's first law:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong.
Here are a few discussions/links to get you started:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512144

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1345095

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1478219 <- Significant discussion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539359

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1702915

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2062285

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2193539 <- Significant discussion
having a secret alter ego that lasts only happens in the movies.

Really? How did you get your estimate for the number of people with long lasting alter egos that nobody knows about, for comparison?
a friend who is MD/owner of a cloud storage service for corporate told me that his career teacher at school told him not to do computers as a subject as they would never take over.. this was in the early 90s
You don't have your email in your profile, but I would be interested. admin at 7courses dot com
You can try to. But realistically, you're up against Big Media, and while it is theoretically possible to compete against them, good luck trying. It's one thing to be able to freely express a point of view, but quite another to be in a position where anyone will actually see/her it.
We entrepreneurs can actually analyze his mistake and profit from it!

In this case, it was just mental laziness. Yes, even John von Neumann can be guilty of this. E=mc^2 implies a freaking huge ratio in your favor. That makes nuclear energy seem of "virtually limitless" abundance for the same reason that nuclear bombs seem like "virtually unstoppable" weapons. Yet, simple ball bearings or a complex mechanism like an Orion rocket pusher plate can survive close proximity to a nuclear explosion with some judicious engineering. If John von Neumann started looking closely at nuclear energy in the broader context of our industrial and political infrastructure, he might have come to a different conclusion.

My conclusion is this: One of the best places for opportunities to hide is in the mistaken popular applications of basic principles and physical laws. This isn't to say that those principles and laws are incorrect, just that the way most people apply them either doesn't go far enough, or fails to also include an economic analysis.

This tells us how to look for opportunities hiding behind other common misapplications of principles. (Not necessarily ones involved in nuclear energy.)
You're welcome - mostly found by this and similar searches:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/initial+users

(removed comment about upvoted - I made it in a moment of weakness and shouldn't've)
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Way to Presenting a great Masters Thesis 
A master’s thesis is a requirement for students doing a Master’s degree. This type of thesis is often very difficult to write. However, students who wish to confer the degree will have to be able to present an outstanding masters thesis.
Quite on the contrary: I am actually talking about Beamer. Maybe I was just extremely unlucky to only see really bad presentations, but I have not seen any beautiful presentation in Latex beamer and many great ones using Powerpoint or Keynote or some other tool.
What about: It's impossible to go faster than the speed of light?
No, they said "we will get in touch with you soon", which they tried to (as I found out later) via the recruiters, but I just assumed it was the usual (sadly) method of ignoring candidates they didn't choose. Since I had other applications going on, I just moved on. It was after 1-2 months that I contacted them.
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That's why I'm doing a Master's degree. You get no grades, just the degree.

[Edit] A friend tells me it's pass or distinction. Oh well.
Markdown is a good start, the minimal syntax is nice to look at, and it could be poweful with an inline scripting language to define macros (Ruby, Python, Lua).
Animals, which move, have limbs and muscles. The earth does not have limbs and muscles; therefore it does not move.

I wonder if this sounded as dumb back then as it does now? What about things that do not move under their own power, yet move nonetheless, such as waves and wind? What about flowers that close every night and open in every morning? What about the fact that they knew almost nothing about the earth deeper than the tiniest scratch on its surface -- perhaps there are muscles of a sort under there?

What about the "fact," as they would have seen it, that God can make anything move however he wants, and that he might have a special mechanism that makes planets and stars move but does not apply the same way to things on Earth? And did he really believe that the moon and stars have limbs and muscles?

I think this illustrates how people can get away with any possible idiocy as long as they are on the right side of an issue. This is why scientists care about the timing of publication: they look a lot more competent if they publish their results at a time when everyone will tend to believe they are correct, instead of at a time when everyone will pick their paper apart looking for flaws (or simply assume the flaws are there.)
Not sure I get the joke, do you know someone famous with the same name or does it just sound weird to you? :)
The fact that it's all std-based, and back/front-end rendered is beautiful, but what seriously bothers me is how much weld.js is tied to jQuery.

The README states "Use with whatever library you want, jQuery for example". Let's analyze that for a second.

Weld.js uses the following jQuery methods:
- Sizzle selector ($)
- first()
- is()
- val()
- attr()
- text()
- map()
- extend()
- clone()
- data()
- remove()

These methods are used throughout the 249 lines of code.

This makes weld.js completely dependent on jQuery. Thus, you can't just use whatever library you want. And that would be allright, if the README would say that; but it didn't, and so it isn't.
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I've always found it very strange that the average Joe can mortgage his home, sell all his family's belongings, and go to Vegas and lose every penny. People will talk about what a bad person he is.

But that same average Joe, if one of us were to ask him to participate in our startup? Suddenly everybody and their brother is all concerned about Joe being taken to the cleaners.

I'm not saying we need the Wild West out there, simply that, as the author says, the way things are right now are seriously out of whack. This is not especially good or bad for Joe: people with poor spending habits have a nasty tendency to lose all of their money. But it's really bad for startups who need a little cash, some of which could succeed and do all sorts of cool things.
Fundamentally, the businesses (outside of technology focused firms) are nothing more than middlemen that add little value.

I'm waiting for Foxconn or similar to start making their own commodity items and selling them directly - you can, for example, already buy SFF computers with the Foxconn label on them.

It's just a matter of time for the profit engines that US corporations have created to be cloned and have the entire profit center go overseas.
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But it is possible to go faster than the speed of light. As space expands, it pushes the rest of space (and therefore its contents) apart, potentially faster than the speed of light.
She exposed her disdain. Imagine Monday morning in her classroom - students all knowing what she thinks.
I'm sure people will say it in various ways, but one's path in life is (far) smoother if they have a track record - something people can see and relate to. It might be serial startups, it might be open-source success, it might be commercial success. Starting out, it's a transcript.

There's gobs of people out there. Differentiate yourself, so that people actually care when you talk to them.
One of the smartest people I know -- he now works on the CMS at CERN, and can explain everyone else's work as well as his own -- got kind of crappy grades when we were in college. He was simply interested in other things.

He had a cartoon on his door, at one point. A figure walking down the street in the city. All the signage around him displaying "Lies". I thought it was excessively cynical, at the time. Over the intervening some decades, I've come to understand his point of view.

It's better to understand the system. Then make your own, informed choices. If you like doing something, do it. If you're doing it because someone told you there's an eventual payoff, beware.
Important to note that venture beat also made a great post exposing PG's point of view:

http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/17/graham-y-combinator-no-tec...
Hence the "probably"'s.
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13.6% = Degrees of applied Sciences + University Degrees + Doctoral Degrees

22% = 100% - [No Vocational Qualification Obtained + Apprenticeship Qualification]

12% of the German population is between 15 and 25 which as you point out would raise the rate of German degrees - but not significantly close the gap.
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Space-filling curves can also be used for spatial indexing. Nick Johnson wrote a nice introduction to the technique on his blog: http://blog.notdot.net/2009/11/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Spatial-...
To be fair, it's the FBI's job to advocate for more power that can be used in investigation. It's someone else's job to decide whether or not they should have that power. Also, their job frequently involves speaking to members of Congress.

Not saying they're right in this instance, but they are doing their job.
Mention it on twitter, your blog, and Facebook. If you don't already have a following at all, you need to get one. Write things that people find interesting and want to read, and then invite them to come and comment.

And actually mention it here.
Some people believe education has intrinsic value.