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Addressing your last question:

So how do one find time to read and how do you manage to read a great deal? Always carry a book with you and never leave the house without one. Read outside, read in the bathroom, read at lunch. Read on transit, airplanes, wherever. I've always behaved like this.

If you're interested in developing your own regime, I recommend you practice reading after disengaging from the day and before sleeping. For the past twenty years I've averaged 60 pages a night by getting into bed and reading until sleep arrives. When a section of a book is more compelling than sleep, I'll get out of bed (in a wonderfully quiet house), make a cup of tea and read for another hour.

Reading is completely my time, regardless of what city I am in, hotel or home and it is a habit I have preserved on 100 hour work weeks and vacation alike.

I also avoid ordering books on Amazon, since I know my local booksellers and want to continue seeing them in operation. :)
So....we're blind musicians sometimes playing a piano and sometimes typing on a keyboard.

Wait, how can you see into my house? I'm doing that right now!
"I was born to a single drug addict and into a family in which no one had finished high school. I understand empathy and that I lucked out in some ways, but I had anything but disproportionate good luck. I enlisted in the army at 17 and spent a year deployed. That's how I paid for college."

Fair enough. I'm not trying to take away from your accomplishments. But remember that there are kids born to single, drug-addicted parents all over the world. Most won't be able to overcome their situation, and it's hardly their fault.

"A lot of people that could be doing the same thing are playing WoW or watching Big Brother. I have a 1 year old and a 3 year old, and I still make time to study on top of my job as an engineer, which pretty much means that I don't watch t.v., play video games, etc. Most people don't make that sacrifice."

I don't think it's fair to make that kind of generalization. There are always people who squander their opportunity, but that's not a reason to slight the rest. Whatever you're doing tonight, there are hundreds of thousands of other people doing the same thing. Not all of them will be as successful as you will be, and some others will be more successful than you. How will you feel when you meet the more successful person, and she tells you that you didn't work hard enough?
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Do you think the price of energy now is appropriate? There are clearly negative externalities associated with CO2 emissions that aren't taken into account in the price today.

Wouldn't an artificially high price of carbon emissions be quite a bit better than an artificially low one?
Ask HN: Share your early customer acquisition strategies.
I think a lot of people on HN would have bookmarked great content on how to get customers when you've just started out. If you could share them, that would be great.
I'm planning to take the plunge next month and would appreciate any information on customer acquisition strategies.
Thanks.

To start us off, I have the following:
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/04/in-the-pursuit-of-traction-have-you-considered-all-verticals.html

http://tractionbook.com/

http://cdixon.org/2009/08/25/six-strategies-for-overcoming-chicken-and-egg-problems/

http://viniciusvacanti.com/2011/02/08/how-to-get-your-first-1000-users/

http://www.quora.com/In-the-shortest-amount-of-time-whats-the-best-way-to-get-100-beta-testers-for-my-new-mobile-startup?__snids__=14203509#ans334713

http://betali.st/submit
I met these guys in Zurich and my impression was that they genuinely know what they are doing. If I remember correctly I remember their background is IT infrastructure for the financial world.
Has anyone tried this?

I could set up a proxy that provided a delay and fiddle with my host file, but I wonder if there is a better way to experiment.
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> The emploees just got a job.

Which is generally funded by VC money. In the formula of money -> jobs -> more money, the founder doesn't necessarily play such a meaningful role. If he hadn't taken VC money to create the company that contains the jobs, someone else would have.
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"On a side note, the whole iOS explosion is going to tail off, there are only so many people that buy apps, and it is not a majority that push that market."

Last admob stats survey says 50% of iOS users bought at least 1 paid app a month.

"No, they are regular people that would have got a feature phone but jumped into the Android platform."

And, those people won't buy a 99 cent game or utility app? Somehow I doubt that. I think if anything, it's a psychological barrier that prevents them.

Back in 1996, we didn't trust the web. We heard these crazy stories about hackers being able to blow up your monitor by just sending you a file, and some having their whole identity completely wiped out like in "The Net" with Sandra Bullock. As such, ecommerce wasn't really that big in those days. Fast forward to today, where Amazon is galactically large and people only go to the store to physically touch a product before buying it on Amazon or Zappos or Newegg.

The same is going to happen to smartphones and app stores. Once google checkout is seamless enough to purchase as easily as the App store, you can possibly see 50% of Android users purchasing an app a month. And, no matter how you slice it, 50% in this space is a BIG number.
Heavy in some code right now. This brightened my day, thanks.
The 18.8 number is kilojoules / gram (food energy).

The real limit is our ability to burn huge amounts of it. Even a small plane burns over 1 lb / minute, which would be a shocking metabolism for an animal.
If you're into the BPM-heavy electronic stuff, I can recommend Kniteforce Revolution with DJ Luna-C. Mostly Hardcore, Breakbeat, DnB, Jungle. For me, some tracks really have shivers/goose bumps potential.

http://www.kniteforcerevolution.com/music/mixes
But HN is so VC-obsessed, it seems like independent, $0-income startups are the edge cases here.
I'm a Python developer

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Almost nothing is straightforward in LaTex, and images aren't either.

Almost nothing is straightforward in Word, and images aren't either.

Word works very intuitively until you try to achieve fine control of layout. Then if you haven't done things the correct way, where Word's document model is not more intuitive than Latex's, getting the results you want will be painful.

It is true that the distance between Word and Latex in terms of suitability for producing high-quality output has narrowed drastically in the time from, say Word 6.0 to Word 2010. But the Tex family is not software that was great in its time. I use both Word and Tex-based technologies most working days, and I massively prefer to the Tex-based technologies in terms of quality output. It is still the case that for obtaining quality proofs from a .doc/.docx file, professionals use external software such as Adobe Indesign. Indeed, there are workflows that take Word documents and convert them to Tex-based representations for typesetting.
So you want me (or others) to hand walk you through the field of medical research, instead of doing 10 minutes of Google research?

Did you go to the FDA or NIH home pages to research your questions? FDA lists a number of other non-drug remedies on their home page including medical devices, radiation devices, xenotransplantation, and blood substitutes.

"Cures developed in the last 30 years" is highly judgmental. Does LASIK surgery to correct nearsightedness count as a cure? Is being overweight a disease? And gastric bypass one possible cure? What about hepatitis C treatment which has a 90% likelihood of clearing the body of the disease, vs. 40% without the treatment? Do you count melanoma cures, by detecting the disease early and removing affected tissue? Diabetes used to be deadly. Now is isn't cured but it is easily treatable. Does that count? Cochlear implants so that once deaf people can now hear? Artificial corneas so the blind can see again? HIV treatments so that what was once a guaranteed death sentence within 5 years is now a manageable disease?

Did you at all try searching for the answers to your question? Just about everything I listed here should be common knowledge.

Yet when I look for pages that talk about useful treatments and remedies, they are overwhelmed by people like you who disbelieve all the successes, and are SURE that the pharmaceutical industry is hiding the real cures. Since you know, employees at pharmaceutical companies and their friends and family never get those major disease.

The reason there is little "official" information about alternative treatments is that they've been tested over and over again, and not proven effective, and in cases harmful.

Bear in mind that there's a big and mostly unregulated industry behind alternative medicines, so there's also strong political pressure to keep those so-called treatments available. The homeopathic industry in the US has revenues of around US$1 billion. The chiropractic industry makes about $18 billion in revenue, with $430 million by sales of "supplements." Traditional Chinese Medicine is about $5 billion and acupuncture about the same. This is at least $10 billion of industry - surely they can provide rigorous tests. Just how much of the alternative market is spent on research? Not much that I can tell.

That gives a strong incentive to either castigate "mainstream" medicine or to promote itself as "complementary", and little incentive to verify claims. Since you overstate your case, I'll overstate mine - you are being brainwashed by snakeoil charlatans.

There is no evidence other than anecdotal stories that alternative medicines cure any sort of cancer.
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You might try classical - Mozart and Vivaldi concertos have worked well for me. Also some techno has no words, try the TranceGlobalNation cds, the first one was the best. I like these in particular because the music is upbeat, which seems to help me keep going. Note that when you really concentrate, even without words music can be distracting; sometimes a fan, or fan-forced heater in winter, is just the thing for white noise to help close out the world.
I just re-did my resume using indeed.com's resume uploader. It gives you a nice clean formatted resume that you can share publicly, export to .pdf, or email. I don't really see a point in using latex, with these new tools available.

I think linkedin has a resume upload and maybe branchout does as well if you are more of the social networking type.
unless we just open the immigration floodgates
(even then, that adds 100 million TOTAL
Mexicans, which is a drop in the bucket in
comparison).

Why do you assume immigration would be restricted to Mexicans?
I've been using Scriblink for a couple of years. Essentially a white board. Hosted many small design and much larger coordination events online.

Link to: http://www.scriblink.com/index.jsp?act=about
Guys, I helped blow up a startup in '01 that I started in early '99. At our peak we had over 50 people. I'm also a father of two, and I absolutely assure you that startup detonation is going to be nothing whatsoever like "burying a child". The notion that company failures are "mourned" by founders is what prompts head-explodey threads about what "fair" is for founder equity comp.

The reality is a lot simpler. The market simply values a lot of stuff that geeks don't pay attention to, including:

* The initiative to start a company and deal with all the personal, financial, and (importantly) logistical drama that comes with doing that.

* The various forms of capital (financial, relationship, intellectual) founders bring to the critical first 12 months of the company.

* The ability to recruit people into an unproven company.

* The risk --- particularly, the opportunity cost --- of burning 2-4 years of career path on a startup (being the CEO of a failed startup is not a resume bonus for a subsequent engineering role).

* The increased degree of difficulty of --- and, thus, to the market, the smaller pool of people available to perform --- operating a company in its unproven riskiest first 12+N months.

Geeks also apparently don't see the value the market places on the flexibility required to find the best equity comp package. Being "worth 5%" (kind of a nonsense concept, but roll with it) doesn't mean you can get it at any particular company; it just means there's a class of company wherein you might find that role.
Too much fear of failure is also unhealthy. See this TC piece (http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/17/japan-to-fix-your-economy-h...) about Japan:

> But most Japanese don’t want to take the risk of starting a business. Indeed, the social stigma and financial repercussion of failure are so great that the founders of failed businesses become social outcasts; no one will work with them again or fund them; and all too often they end up committing suicide.

While I wouldn't make the case that a serial failed entrepreneur is a good thing, I would make the case that practice makes perfect. A person who fails at startup #1 would ideally learn from their mistakes for startup #2.
You might just use Pandoc. It happens to use LaTeX behind the scenes to create pdf's, but there's nothing that says it must do so in the future.
You're overgeneralizing a bit. What it actually reduces to is "if a distinguished but elderly scientist expresses an opinion about something, it's probably possible". The reason this is meaningful is that distinguished scientists tend not to express opinions on ridiculous crackpot ideas.
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Daydreaming and distractibility can be a net positive
The most interesting predictions at least got right what would be the hard parts of the problem. Simon Newcombe's full article points to landing as the most difficult part of flying, which turned out to be the case. Landing technique depends on ground effect and stall, which wasn't well understood.

I'm still amazed that people spend so much time staring at plywood boxes.
The underlying fallacy is in imagining that there is some strict segregation between "toys" and tools. When a tool is too expensive and only moderately practical it is deemed a toy. But toys of such sort can become cheaper and evolve in function and scale, becoming imminently practical in the process. Many of the most practical tools began as toys of such sort: the steam engine, the automobile, the airplane, the laser, the rocket, personal computer, etc.

Today the premier example would be mobile devices and mobile OS tablets. They have enormous potential, even the potential to replace traditional PCs, but today they are often regarded as toys.
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Most of the argument should be native apps versus browser based apps and history really has answered this for us even though we are talking about a different client in the form of a smartphone.
Pandoc lets you write in a slightly (and tastefully) enhanced Markdown, but also lets you drop down to write LaTeX macros if you like.
I have tried earplugs, but they cut out too much sound, I am always uncomfortable when trying to concentrate when wearing them (I had three younger brothers who liked playing nasty tricks).
Crowd sourcing operates by certain rules, many of which aren't well understood.

With some luck, I'll have a working version of W3 version of crowd sourcing up and running within a year, which will hopefully solve some of the problems mentioned here.
"When an experienced scientist says something is impossible, they are almost always wrong. When an experienced scientist says something is possible, they are almost always right" - my memory, but almost certainly somebody else first
I know I am being too literal, and I am sure you did not mean it, but... it is nothing like burying a child. I started a company 2.5 years ago and had twin girls a year ago. The thought of losing one of my kids makes me well up while the thought of losing my company just makes me sad. I have heard lots of people in the world of start-ups say that starting a company is like having a baby. It's nothing of the sort. (I know you did not say that, and again, I know I am being too literal, but I just read your first line and the thought of burying a child filled me dread.)
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Why would I care, I'm happy with my life. Anyone that learns to program a computer and is decent at it can get a good job if they live in america barring a few extreme examples.
Thanks for your comment! My response below:

1. The ILL does not often have the latest popular books.

2. Besides not everybody in the community has access to the university library system.

3. Also this would be a way to create a community around sharing books.

I had this idea because in the developing world (where I grew up) people often visit each other's homes and people borrow books because they see what you have in your shelves etc and you talk about the book you borrowed with the person who had it. It creates a community around books something that would be a nice to have?
Does it bother anyone else that people circumvent the dupe-prevention code on HN by adding a CGI question mark to the end of the URL?

This link was submitted quite a while ago[0] without the question mark, and it clearly didn't gain a lot of traction, so in this case it was a good idea to resubmit it. However, it seems wrong that the dupe-prevention code isn't more sophisticated.

0: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000239
Exactly right. Saying it another way: the market doesn't demand what ocaml offers.

The market demands different qualities at different times (and in any market, there will often be niches that need different qualities from the rest of the market). The "market" is probably best represented by paying customers, but other parties (managers, developers and users in general) also have an effect. What does the market demand at the moment?

It seems that at the moment, time-to-market (i.e. fast development) is most in demand. This includes being "agile": able to add features quickly, improve them or change them, and to debug them. This is driven by development speed, which can decrease both time-to-market and development costs (and therefore customer price). Other qualities, like performance (runtime speed) and memory usage seem less important. Reliability seems less important.

However, there are different parts of the market that value these differently. For example, the financial market value correctness, so it's not surprising that ocaml has found a home in janestreet. Space shuttle software also does. I would say that in desktops, quadcore, 4GB RAM performance now outstrips what many people need, resulting in the hiccup of "netbooks", and finally the smartphones - much less powerful, but customers are willing to buy them because they offer convenience.
Within smartphones, performance of software became important again, because within the category (given convenience) the hardware hasn't yet outstripped demand for it.

Another example is in MS Windows, when it first got an adequate GUI interface in windows 95, people bought it in droves even though it was buggy and unreliable. Then, combining it with NT in Windows XP, it became reliable, and people bought that. Then, security was the issue, and that got fixed. It may seem a little surprising that Windows 7 is popular, but one thing is that all those books and sites about "windows annoyances" mean that there's room for windows to improve... which means they can sell another version. If it no one complained because it was perfect, that would be bad news for microsoft. (of course, their run may be over now, if smartphones replace the desktop, and they can't win that market away from apple).

Now, just because development speed has been important for a while doesn't mean it always will be. Reliability and performance may become more important again, especially in niche markets. And it is there that ocaml may have an opportunity.

But meanwhile, although ocaml is amazing in that it has the expressiveness of functional programming, the correctness of strong typing, and the performance of C, it is a double straightjacket language: first it has to be functional (though you can mutate, it's not as nice); then it has to be strongly typed. You can't just code it they way you think about it. You have to adapt yourself to the machine. (note: this is based on my personal experience with ocaml).

tl;dr
OCaml has many benefits, which I don't question. What I am saying is that the mainstream market doesn't currently value those particular benefits of ocaml over other attributes.
Seems like the premise of this argument is busted. How much stock you own is not the measure of how valuable you are to the company. That's ridiculous. Is Micky Arison, owner of the Heat, more valuable to the team than Lebron James or Dwayne Wade or Chris Bosh? How does this kind of garbage logic make it to the front page of Hacker News?
I think it depends on how you fail. I'm not talking about a 25 year old's Y-Combinator idea not working out. I'm also not talking about a hyper-technical, experimental startup. Those have high expectations and tolerance for failure. I'm talking about something more entrenched in our mainstream culture, years in, people employed and health insured, etc.

Most people who "succeed" have likely "failed" before (that's where they got the experience), but there are definitely levels at which failure hurts you, in many different ways. To say it is "factually incorrect" is over-simplifying the reality.

We don't have a culture that embraces failure nearly as much as we should, though the tech world certainly embraces what it would call the "right kind of failure."
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It is pretty much chaos within Nokia at the moment. Nobody knows exactly what the Microsoft deal is bringing in. The cities of Oulu and Tampere in Finland are standing still, waiting (probably for months, still) who is going to get fired and who will be retrained from Symbian/QT into Windows devs.

I would guess middle management has to continue implementing old plans until they get some more instructions on Elop's new stretegy.
I will add a tip, use Twitter to befriend journalists