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Travel!

I recommend reading Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel.

Traveling can be extremely enlightening. If for no other reason than it will give you plenty of time to think. If you find yourself thinking about different startup ideas (like I do when I travel) then you know you are probably in the right line of work.

You will also open your mind up to a million other things that you probably weren't aware of before.
That's not Google's doing, that's just representative of the adwords inventory. Obviously, there is no advertiser anywhere who's going to pay for the keyword "ghc syntax".
I wonder if anyone is going to send a DMCA takedown to github.....
> I know you say your advice has worked for other people, but it is odd to tell people how to do something when you haven't done it yourself.

If I'm ever salaried, I'll try it out and report back :)

> What you're missing from all of this is the uncertainty of fair market rate, which also discourages folks from asking for more.

I don't think there is or can be a "fair market rate" in an unestablished, fast-changing field. By changing your responsibilities and deliverables a tiny bit, you might triple the value you're producing and be compensated much more for it.
volunteer either at the level of technical contribution or just helping man an event

non-profits are always grateful for someone who wants to help, beyond the token one day of service
As an autodidact interested in exploring more mathematics, of course I learned about Khan Academy. One look and I was impressed, but that didn't last long. Though the videos are well done all around, there's no clear curriculum to follow. Or if there is a curriculum, it's not obvious. Instead, I have a bazillion videos to choose from. Which videos depend on knowledge in other videos, and which ones can be done in parallel? No idea.

Education's past is a series of textbooks (plus supplemental info and exercises), providing a clear path to learning. Khan Academy, such as it now stands, is a video analog of textbook chapters as discrete units all in an unorganized pile. Until more is done in the neglected areas, Khan Academy will remain an extremely valuable resource, but not a curriculum. Even if/when these missing bits are done this will only be the future of delivery of fairly traditional materials.

The real future of education is a computerized personal tutor that provides individual assessment, guidance, alternate explanations where comprehension lacks, encouragement to pursue natural ability and enthusiasm, etc. That's pretty ambitious, but not at all inconceivable. We're close enough to being able to achieve it that we should hold up this ideal goal so we know the right direction as we build the pieces.
It sounds like your self-esteem could do with a boost. Other things may work better, but I'd suggest getting involved in some sort of craft group (make pottery or whatever).
1. It's hands-on and you'll be making and creating, so you'll get a real sense of accomplishment when, after a little while, you can look at something you made
2. Chose a group you feel welcomed in, and you'll get encouragement as you learn the ropes
3. It'll take time and some focus, but (depending on the craft you pick) it is entirely achievable.

Otherwise, the suggestions to exercise are great. Travel is also a great idea, but I'd say go somewhere and stay there for a week or month, get a sense of natural rhythm and pace. Also, try and just hang out and talk with some people, without any goals.

Good luck.
this is just in time for the RSA show that is starting on Monday.
;) Is there a light bulb emoticon?
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Ask HN: How do you guarantee that your startup can survive to large customer
A large company wants to use my start-up's SaaS service for a mission-critical function.

Suffice to say, they seem a bit nervous about betting the house on a young company and are asking for guarantees that the service will still be around in future.

Possible suggestions from them include
1. financial disclosures, and
2. access to the code

Has anyone been in a situation like this? If so, how did you handle it?
Wow, that's an interesting link. I can't figure out how to make this slow stuff work yet, but it definitely looks appealing.
I saw the exact same thing. I had something like 1.25%-1.5% CTR from the mobile network, with no conversions. It was pretty terrible, and I disabled advertising on mobile networks (on by default) to save the wasted funds.

I've also now seen hundreds of networks where I get 100% CTR (2-3 impressions, all leading to clicks) on what are obviously junk/spam sites. Each of these only cost me a couple quarters, but it quickly adds up.
It may be more black-hat than some attempts, but the most frustrating thing about this article is that it implies that paid links are a rare thing for e-commerce sites. Pick any shopping-related term, and the odds are overwhelming that the top-ranking site has a large SEO budget.
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It's entirely possible for both the author and haecib to be lazy. (I personally don't think the author came off as particularly lazy, though.)
And so I stop. These aren't real goals; I recognize them as daydreaming. I'm already defeated before I've even begun.

And thats where you're going wrong. There's nothing stopping you from doing a single thing on your list besides you. Sometimes being naive about what it will take to accomplish something is actually whats needed to do it.

Not to mention most of the things on your list, while amazing experiences, take little more than minimal finances to do so. Pack a backpack, fly to vancouver and buy a bike and just start riding. Plan as you go. You could be biking across Canada by Tuesday and $1500 later if you wanted to.

Just because you don't donate money or pick up litter doesn't mean you can't go volunteer. There's plenty of organizations online you can look up, most of them will plan your trip from start to finish, you just put up the cash. Go teach english somewhere, provide medical assistance, build a school.

Stop focusing on what you are(n't) doing now, and have(n't) in the past. It takes little more than an idea or goal and the drive/desire to do it to make it come true. Clearly you feel that who you _think_ you are right now limits you to who you can be. That's not true at all. Do what you have to do to be the person you want to be. You only live once, don't let anything hold you back from being the person you want to be, and experiencing the things you've always wanted to. Live your life with no regrets. Every day you spend thinking "if only..." is another day wasted.

The good thing about this is you realize where you're at now and you're actively taking steps to improve your situation. Be strong, follow your dreams and dont get intimidated. Try and take a small step forward every day and in a few months you'll feel like a totally different person and in a way better place.
that's a great talk. I like how most of the bugs within the OS logic as opposed to overflow bugs. It does lend itself to the stability of the exploits
With sleeping nine hours a day and wondering if you are just "lazy", let me suggest that you look at your health as a possible root cause. I was diagnosed late in life with a relatively mild form of a serious, life-threatening medical condition. I was called "lazy" my whole life because I lacked the energy of people around me. Dietary changes, lifestyle changes and such have done a lot for my health and I am getting my life back.

Also, I was a homemaker for a long time. I didn't join the "9 to 5" club until relatively recently. Go do something with a different relationship to time. It can be very mentally and emotionally freeing. I think that is part of the theme of your "escapist fantasies": A completely different kind of schedule/lifestyle/relationship to time and the world. Those can very much be good things.

Good luck with this.
I hope that's not the jist of it because that is pretty terrible for an explanation.
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I suppose but I mean... I feel like Canada is a near perfect location for the start up.... furthermore, it's not as if Anchor companies are far away (like the US for example).

As a Canadian now in the US... I really wish that Canada would step its game up and get a group of angels together or a proper incubator program. My family friends have started a pseudo incubator at http://www.thenext36.ca/
YMMV, but I have found advertising with banner ads on targeted user forums gets good return for a small dollar. I always email the admin and have not used any ad placement services. It does not scale well, so eventually a transition is required.
Once a computer is capable of some calculation, students will never need to have to do it by themselves again

However it is important that they know enough to check if the answer they get is at least reasonable and probably correct. So even if they can't solve the problem exactly they really should know how to show that the answer must be between 1/sqrt(2) and 1, for example, so that they know they made a mistake when the computer tells them the answer is 0.3475.
>Nationalism always has been a violent ideology so its fairly understandable to translate physical violence into ideological to become "civil."

Violent ideology that promotes physical violence is turned into an ideology to become a civil ideology? That argument doesn't really follow. I ask you the same question I ask your sibling commenter: Can you show anything more for this standpoint other than "that's how it is?" I'm holding these "facts" up to the same standards as I would a Wikipedia article. Citation needed. (Preferably a citation that doesn't also originate from a group with obvious stake in their claims.)
Not for a startup of course, but Microsoft sees this as an investment in business development. MS wants Windows to be a solid mobile platform, and they're pouring a bunch of money into the Nokia deal to increase the availability of Windows Phone 7 handsets. It's the chicken-and-egg problem that effects so many things; a platform can't be successful without software to run on top of it, but no one will develop software for a platform that isn't successful. This problem is much less hard when you have a ton of money and can just pay people to use your platform, which is what MS is doing here.

It's not much different than pouring a bunch of money into advertising; if you have a big partner like Nokia, it not only generates a lot of PR buzz, but it also means that since Nokia makes a lot of phones, there will be a lot of WP7 phones out soon, which is what Microsoft wants.
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Slightly easier to read version over here but put the source for this post:

http://www.neowin.net/news/internet-explorer-9-doesnt-please...
Read 'what color is your parachute' to figure out your direction and drive then read 'how to live on 24 hours a day' to figure out how you are going to fit it in.
"(For public purposes, the CEO wants everyone to know, they know nothing about it, but Aaron Barr was talking about it with various people anyway.)"
Which is of course not a good idea in the PR 2.0 age. Anyone found emails explaining why they did this?
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Instead of engaging in drive-by ad-hominem, it would be more useful if you did the analysis yourself and told us the results.
I don't know that flying under the radar is a sound legal or business strategy (at least not forever).
Maybe failure at something really hard wouldn't be so bad. I saw a movie once about a bike race north-south along the continental divide. Most who started quit at some point, but they didn't seem like failures to me.

Anyway, good luck. I bet you won't know what you want to do with your time until you've had some time to decompress first, so maybe just start with no plan.
the video linked above does show the view from the web app part of Khan academy which has a map showing the progression from one topic to the next.

As far as I could see each set of questions allows you to watch associated videos and also links to the prerequisites.

I'll go and investigate :) brb
I've noticed myself upvoting comments based on other upvotes, then finishing reading the comment only to realize that I wouldn't have upvoted it if I'd read the whole thing...
After my burnout, I quit my job at Microsoft. Rented my house. Paid $2000 for a bright orange vw bus, and drove south.

I ended up at Esalen for almost 6 months in their work/study program

http://www.esalen.org/workshops/workstudy.html

I worked in an organic garden overlooking the pacific picking/planting food that we ate the same day for 32 hours a week.

And had cheap access to incredible massage/yoga/healing programs, and the support of intelligent and conscious people who were also trying to find their center again.

Best thing I ever did, and I highly recommend it.

My advice: Give yourself time. I believe we are all fundamentally good and have the will and energy to work and express ourselves in the world. Sometimes, it's ok to rest and step back, and find our grounding again. Give yourself that permission.
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"You will have stability. If you are hired by Oracle or Google [...] chances are you'll be able to work on this specific problem for long enough to accomplish something."

Large companies change all the time. Departments are merged, strategies are changed and projects are stopped constantly. I think this point isn't valid.
For bike trip advice check out all the blogs on www.crazyguyonabike.com there are inspirational trips there, and amazong how cheaply it can be done. 7k dollar to cycle japan to britain in two years... Not bad hey! Just do it.
You have a nice landing page. Congrats...

Some ideas would be to get small bands/musicians signed up and spread the word to their fans or listeners. If your app is any good, the word will spread on it's own. You are better off not getting a lot of publicity before your app is real slick
I don't think an incubator program would be enough. There's something to be said to living in close proximity to hundreds of different angel groups and investors, which is why most of the successful start ups come out of Silicon Valley and why SV is the best place to be. There are start ups that can become successful despite the distance from SV, but it's just going to be another hurtle to overcome in a fragile start up's early life.

There are notable exceptions though, GroupOn from Chicago, and for a Canadian example - Shopify from Ottawa, Ontario.
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> The real future of education is a computerized personal tutor

In Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age", a plot device (not central), is The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. It is an adaptive AI tutor. To realize TYLIP, hard AI problems will need to be solved. Yet, it is possible the iPad is a big step towards a simpler Primer.

"TYLIP is...a book that is powered by a computer so advanced it’s almost magical, and it teaches children everything. It does this through a fully interactive story. It teaches you how to read, how to do maths, it teaches you morals, ethics, even self-defence. ‘Diamond Age’ is a very entertaining read, mainly because of the TYLIP."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age

http://mssv.net/2006/05/01/the-young-ladys-illustrated-prime...
The sad thing is, most engineers are constantly in information-gathering mode, putting them in the front of the hype.

Any logical being would play with the idea of financial freedom. And it is unlikely in a "regular job."
The key to happiness is variety. Ignoring health, emotion, free time or work completely in favor of another will always end disastrously. Our brain naturally tends towards equilibrium and keeping it tipped for too long is not worth it. It's better to take a day or a couple days off here and there when sprinting then to let it crash and have to result in a year sabbatical. Find something else enjoyable and focus on that until things return to normal. Once you get grounded again make sure and pepper your life with other things that keep you happy (for me, for instance, music, gym and grilling are the things that keep me sane). I've been there before and realized I had been doing myself a disservice by ignoring aspects of my life under the assumption "it would all pay off". It might... but if it doesn't you're screwed.
The UI looks cool, although it appears to not be getting any response from the server.
If you want this ability for one-off searches, you can use the OR operator.

site:http://news.ycombinator.com OR site:stackoverflow.com <query>

I don't know if there's a max # of sites you can add. I tried it with three and it seemed to work great.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:searchengineland.com+OR+...

(Yes, I did an ego search. Isn't that the best way to know if the results are likely accurate? :)

If there's a set of sites you want to search through often, you can set up a custom search engine for what you describe. For instance, see this page:

http://www.toddnemet.com/
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One of my goals with this curriculum is to make teaching mathematic more efficient. This does not necessarily mean teaching a bare minimum. Rather, students should be taught a great amount more at a younger age. In fact, I think mathematics is probably one of the most essential subjects out there. Unfortunately, the way it is taught now is inefficient and gives it a bad name.

The rudimentary basics are important for everyone, and mostly those who will not pursue math-related careers. However, it is the content that is taught after the basics (middle school and high school curriculum) that could be spent on more advanced areas with less calculation work.

I feel embarrassed expressing all of these ideas with little background to support them. I'm sure you are a lot more knowledgeable on this subject than I am, so thanks for taking the time to acknowledge to my arguments and discuss them with me. ;)
I recommend that you see a therapist. My therapist's practice is mindfullness-based, which I highly recommend. One of the things I've learned is how to look at all my own italicized parenthetical statements as the bullshit excuses they are. The monkey-mind is what's making up all those stories that you tell yourself about why X is impossible -- it's telling you that you can't possibly found a startup because you've had difficulties refactoring some Java? Come on now. Just pick one of those goals and go for it. Don't pay attention to any of your excuses.

A wise friend once told me "If someone else can do it, you can totally do it."
Engineers aren't fired just because a project is cancelled. Generally speaking jobs are safer than startups.

I agree the point isn't valid, though, but I think yours isn't, either.
I think a big factor that's hurting the process is the emails that bounce or must wait to be received by the server on the receiving end. The server keeps retrying sending emails to those addresses, and eventually it just accumulates.
woa, friggin fast. nice.

small bug: there are no .id tlds available (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.id)

for a moment there i thought andro.id was free ;-)
Scroll to the bottom of an expertsexchange.com page and you can see the answers
Travel.

1) Your problem will be there for a few days but will most likely be forgotten in weeks.

2) Bring a notebook, write your journeys in detail. The food you eat, the tea you drink.

3) Observe local culture.

4) Take a lot of pictures.

Basically, try to forget your day job.

If you travel, I'd suggest you to go to Asia (Japan, Korea, China, India, and SE. Asia countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia). Go to a place with rich culture. Spend a few weeks or even months there.

Those pictures and stories would hopefully make you feel better on your gloomy days.

I've been living in North America for almost 10 years (in particular Vancouver) and the cities get boring quickly. Lack of personality and culture. Asia is completely different; more vibrant.

More importantly: change your perspective on how to live life.
I agree that the job is as consuming as a startup, but to call someone lazy for not wanting to sacrifice their person life, for their whole career is incredibly judgemental.

The big difference in a startup is that if you ideas really do work, after some number of years you will presumably be both quite wealthy and also have the time for a more reasonable work life balance.

Further, you seem to imply that it is all about science. It is not. There have been more than one scientist whose said that the amount of time they get to dedicate to actual research is the time they get when they get home at night.

The rest of the time is spent teaching, writing grants, and politicking. These are not things that all scientists want to do, and it's easy to understand why some become unmotivated.

Finally, in my opinion, one of the biggest negatives about being a scientist today is public opinion. The public feels you deserve to work on a minimum wage salary and that it's appropriate and correct for you to devote all your spare time to your job. Further, you best work on something the public deems useful to them, otherwise you are wasting time in your ivory tower.

It's hypocritical, because this level of judgement is not put on other jobs of similar skill level. I didn't even touch on the problems with the "publish X number of paper or perish" attitude that is all to common today.
There's no example the author gives that contradicts it, but it's not quite RPN. In Lisp, the + operator is variadic -- it can take any number of arguments. So in reverse-Lisp, this would be legal code:

(3 4 2 +)
But beyond that we need to teach mathematics for the same reason we teach art, music and literature.

Perhaps like art and music, we should only be teaching beyond the very basics to those who actively seek it out. We don't require all highshool students to learn how to play the piano, read music, or draw nudes, so why should they all learn how to invert a matrix or find its determinant by hand?
I wish nokia would have just continued with their meego platform as their flagship. M$ is always posion.
Does any one here in hn use this?
All that tumblr garbage at the bottom of the page could also use some selective disappearing...
Yes, that goes along with understanding the basic relationships and estimation techniques. The exact calculations can be left to the computer, and the humans can check the solutions and determine what went wrong if the answers don't seem to be what they had expected.
A couple of years ago I failed every objective set by my manager in my annual appraisal. Why? Because all the projects I was on at the time didn't exist a year later...
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I agree, people need to lighten up.