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Sorry; I can't tell if you're just back down to earth and you're in a steady relationship now or if it's over. In case it's the former, here's my two cents. This comes from a place a little further down the road, and therefore it is a little OT, but I'll mention it because I wish I would have heard the same.

You might find that your professional success--perhaps your emotional investment in your business--gives rise to turmoil in your relationship. Many of us strive to get big, go public, get acquired, acquire others, merge, etc. These events are typically wins, but the downsides are loss of control, loss of interest, and perhaps even a bit of depression as a result.

I hope you're successful. If you feel a little off in the course of things, don't let it poison your relationship. Recognize it, act on it, but don't react.
I accidentally upvoted you. Sorry, but I absolutely disagree. Talent "density" outside of a few media friendly schools is actually very good. Better still, that talent is cheaper.

You can get excellent developers for $50K/year coming out of a "second tier" school which certainly beats having to hire a $200K/year princess out of stanford.

Fact mit, harvard and stanford aren't holy ground for the only places to find smart people. In fact I think the brand name works against them a little. My experience (MIT only) has been that the stars tend to be better but the average tends to be about the same as anywhere else. You get students forgetting data structures, using the wrong algorithms and other such tragedies. I'd bet money that Harvard and Stanford have the same issues.
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I built a small personal tool to do the same thing when I was asked for my resume recently and realized just how out of date my resume was. It was a much simpler, much less polished one, but I think there's a definite need for the service and that there are a good number of monetization opportunities around it (recruiters and companies are more than willing to part with money to hire folks).

That said, there are some issues I ran into. If you delete all the text in the objective, I could no longer save the resume and adding text back into the objective and then selecting "done editing" didn't actually retain the text, so I lost any potential changes I had. Requiring at least one education entry seems a bit limiting, especially considering the market for job seekers includes much more than just those with a college degree. Also, the length/format of the customizable URL meant that I could barely fit my name with no spaces. What I would have liked to see was hirednext.com/<name_I_chose>/<company name the resume is for>.

I think that being able to reorder the entries would be a good next feature to add. Where I went to school is a minor footnote compared to a large number of the achievements from my professional experience and having it first is frequently distracting from the rest of the resume. Along those same lines, being able to rename the "Portfolio" section would be nice...there's several open source projects worth listing, but doesn't constitute an actual portfolio.

All that said, this is a good start and I think if you can keep it free to job seekers, you've got a good start on your hands.
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Falling in love is not one of life's distractions, its one of life's points. Time well spent.
> As for me, I've been with my wife for over 10 years (most of it dating), and... honestly? I think this relationship has had an adverse effect on my goals. I, kind of, think I'd be much more rich and successful had I never met my wife.

Define successful?
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> MIT, San Francisco, Harvard ... places that many minorities are not.

Have you been to San Francisco? It's one of the most diverse places on the planet. And it's not only in terms of race but also language, culture, religion and sexual practices.
My experience is a real relationship seems to constrict me. A girl I love and think about all the time, but never know her name... that will make me a deity in production and development.
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The problem is that unit tests aren't for today. Unit tests are for 3 years from now when you've forgotten how a system behaves and you need to make a major change to it (nb: I'm not talking TDD here). When you get done with that change (and every company I've worked at with no unit tests has), you'll look back and realize you had three choices:

1. Write the unit tests while the code was fresh. Ideally, you wrote well designed unit tests so you didn't have to constantly deal with maintaining crappy test code. Unfortunately, most test code doesn't seem to be well-written, DRY code, so you spend a lot of time in the interum maintaining it.

2. Figure the code out again when you need to change it (likely somebody else is doing the figuring out by then) and write unit tests that show current behavior. The "figuring out" step is always nastier than you expect.

3. Start digging and hope you come out the other side with something reasonably similar to what you started with.

The trick is figuring out which one optimizes best for your business. Pinboard might be able to get away with #3. Air traffic control may have no choice but to be #2 (did people write unit tests way back then? I know I didn't write any unit tests on my Atari 600 in '83 :).
Well the major danger from what I understand is tumors metastasizing all over your body. On the other hand, certain special kind of gland cancers start over or under producing vital hormones (for instance tumors of the adrenal glands can induce massive doses of cortisol and/or adrenaline). That ain't so good for you.
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Out of curiosity, are massage therapists & hair stylists the ONLY market you have for this? What about say a therapist or a business coach or any other similar proprietor?

Just wondering why you limited yourself to those two professions...

Site looks great though, good job
How do you use WPF from java or cpython? How do you use the webOS ui from haskell? How do you use the Android UI from ocaml?

Open source core libraries are written against the C ABI (even when employing object models like GObject) so that everyone can bind to them easily. For example:

http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.html

http://cairographics.org/bindings/

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusBindings
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My guess is (and I haven't read the emails, or any non-public information), Barr was hoping for a massive amount of (positive) publicity, followed by the inevitable rich rewards of a much higher buying price. What better way to get this publicity than to take on the current Public CyberEnemy #1, aka Anonymous?
> Instead of writng tests I try to be extremely careful in coding, and keep the code size small so I continue to understand it.

Amen, brother. I feel exactly the same way. I find this approach works perfectly 99%+ of the time, and regardless, I end up spending way way less time writing and maintaining code because of it. Understand what you're doing, and why, and you reap benefits not just at the tactical momentary level, but long term and architecturally as well. Understand the codebase really well, and it's much easier to diagnose issues that happen in production or at a larger scale.
Why is function level import considered bad practice?
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The initial phase would probably be that you only need a license if you are on the pills most likely.
I would say "Brain-inspired". As I see it, Numenta's model (as of about a year ago) is based on (1) the hierarchal organization of neurons, (2) the presence of feedback loops in neural architectures and (3) the importance of temporal processing even for static scenes. This doesn't include any intracellular details nor any of the larger and/or specialized brain structures.
DNA sequencing, and everything we do with it, would be pretty painful without the computing power we have.

We've also gotten the ability to do much better fluid dynamics modeling, astrophysics simulations (whether you believe them or not), climate models (likewise). I've made use of the processing power we have now to do a bunch of "experimentation" in representation theory, though that's not obvious from the resulting writeup, which is more or less algebraic proof.

In general, for a lot of research areas where we think we have a decent model of some of the things that are going on more computing power means more ability to use a computer to look for things to actually try in the lab (and thus refine the model) as well as more ability to collect and handle data.

And then there's the mundane bits, like being able to find existing work more easily, being able to typeset and disseminate your papers more easily and so forth.
> You are probably such a transitory leader on /b/ or reedit.

Writing a long post is easier than getting people to do work for you.

Anyway, I don't see anything suspicious about those post times, not for 2008.
He posts answers to the exercises on his website as the course progresses each year. This year there are no answers because he's not teaching the course; he's on sabbatical.
99.9% of the time you aren't worried about someone getting your wallet and taking your password - You are worried about people phishing you, snooping, or otherwise cracking your password.

You'll get a lot more bang for your buck defending against the high-probability attacks then being concerned about the theoretical, but highly unlikely vectors.
good question. notwithstanding a few small features that we haven't built, the app is generally applicable to anybody who sells their time (and a service) for money.

we felt massage therapists and hair stylists would be the easiest to sell to for a variety of reasons, so we're focusing on those niches now.
50% of my Google use, as a non native English speaker, is for spell checking, even for tricky native German stuff, USD to EUR conversion etc and I've also never been using a calculator beside Google for some years now. Google just does that fine.
Using a common design for architecture is kinda like using a well known design pattern or framework. It allows a new developer to easily understand your project.
When talking about mob justice, don't just select for the mobs you like. Consider the brown shirts, the KKK, and other mobs, who also carried out there own versions of justice.
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Interestingly, one of the cofounders is Dileep George, previously the CTO and cofounder of Numenta.
There is just the problem that you spend a lot of time educating the people who are then kicked off the platform. It's not as if they disappear, they go to your competitors and improve their ecosystems, plus you are going to inspire some serious hate which will limit those who sign up to over confident assholes (who can't imagine that they would ever be kicked out) and people who need all the help they can get.

So you aren't really going to have a great ecosystem.
That's not the case (though admittedly most of them were also gamers ;-)). Most Unix beards I know live in, well, not exactly filth but "jumble."
> this kind of sensationalism is somewhere between a minor irritation and a serious threat

A serious threat to what?
I am fairly young - 27, been married about 5 years, have two kids (both under 3) and am madly in love with my wife.

She doesn't work, and building my startup full-time is VERY stressful - especially since I am bootstrapping, more or less.

As al3x pointed out though, a good mate can really make it MUCH better. I am blessed to have a wife that is understanding and doesn't NEED to go shopping and is high maintenance. Of course, every girl likes to be pampered - but she is very laid back and supportive of what I am doing.

That makes the tough days when everybody else is suggesting that maybe I should 'get a real job' much easier to handle and brush off.

I actually think it is easier to do a startup with an understanding wife, because it adds balance and sanity to your life.

But if you get a bad match...yikes...run!
You can go down the "nothing in code" route with GTK+ as well, using Glade to generate UI description files. :-)
One of the things that cancer is good at is switching "on" telomerase (enabling the cancer to spread), so naturally working out how to switch "off" telomerase in cancer tumors has actually been one of the key vectors in cancer research.
Absolutely. Lifestyle, not family.
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Specifically, it was Phoenix (aka Firebird, aka Firefox) that made that happen: a version of Mozilla that threw out everything but the browser, including the mail client that jwz considered essential. It made it smaller to download and faster to run, but most importantly it made it faster to write: they could ship improvements to Firefox way faster than they could to Mozilla, simply because there was so much less of it.
I got to listen to Tom, one of the cofounders of GitHub, do a presentation tonight in Boulder for the local Linux users group. He did a great job. One of the nice things about it is that it wasn't a high level pitch about the business model or about what GitHub was. Instead, it was basically an introduction to the core architecture of git. How it works. How it's different than say CVS, or just keeping manual backup copies of files around. He actually went into Terminal, wrote code, and essentially hand-crafted git storage files in a Ruby interpreter, in order to illustrate how git works internally, and how simple it is. It was great on two levels. One one level, it was very substantive for a crowd of Linux geeks, we eat that stuff up. And on another level the fact that he clearly understood this stuff and enjoyed it and gets his fingers dirty actually building things. If I wasn't already firmly in the no-Ruby-for-me camp (prefer Python, and don't want to waste time switching time investments over to an approximately similar language), I'd probably love to work with them. Small companies rock. People that know their shit, and are passionate about it, rock.
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You're absolutely kidding yourself if you think that Apple is failing as a company. We haven't even heard sales numbers about Verizon iPhone yet! And the GSM iPhone 4 has (and continues) to sell pretty damn well, even after antennagate. I think its absurd to say that the iPhone 4 is a bad product for Apple to have made.

Likewise, the Mac App Store is just getting started. Wait until after 10.7 has shipped by default and everyone has it to call it a failure.

Whats the difference between 30 billion cash on hand and 60 billion? I don't feel like there is very much; and it doesn't seem to be have been a terribly big deal in the past year or so.
The thing with nature is that it's "design process" if one can call it that is really dumb. It tries random stuff and then basically hill-climbs. Significant redesigns are very improbable as a result. There's no direction to the optimization search.

I would certainly hope that we can do better than nature in this regard.

Oh, and while we can't synthesize ribosomes yet, we can in fact custom-design DNA and inject it into an existing cell: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium
That startup looks real lean. </sarcasm>
Continued funding, I'd guess. It's the same sort of talk that triggered the AI Winter.
Must have been wrong shade of blue.
Very interesting that the first response most HN commenters have when confronted with data that Bing provides better search results than Google is to doubt the data.

This despite that fact that (I'm guessing) most commenters have not actually extensively used Bing day in and day out. Shows the huge barrier to entry that any new search engine has: even if they provide measurably better search results even tech savvy users have an almost unshakeable belief that Google results will always or somehow must be better.

There seems to be some infallible belief that Google provides better search results, always will and that there is some 'magic' Google has for search that no other company could possibly reproduce or exceed.

There is no logical reason that this should be the case and in many ways its more logical to suggest that Google is so wed to its current techniques and revenue models that it has no incentive to disrupt itself. The recent furore over spam (and Adsense which funds its existence) perhaps is the first evidence that this is actually the case. Google made some noise about rectifying the spam issue but really they didn't make any hard decisions in this space.

A personal anecdote - I switched all my browsers and iPhone to default to Bing about a month ago - the experience has been pleasant, the results excellent and haven't found the need or desire to use Google search since.
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Nokia and Microsoft Announce Plans for Mobile Partnership
What about 'being a mob'?
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Are you saying you are most people in tech? He did not say everybody.
btw, hn-ers, do you know any bloggers that could be interested in this?
[23:56:51] <n0pants> Moral of the Story: Don't drum up business by banging on a hornet's nest.

..especially if you're not above them in the food chain.
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Part of the hires they did was for some new projects (I think iphone related). I'm very happy for the new hires, it must be great to work there.
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There's a significant risk of burnout/major depression for those who stay single to work like hell through their 20s/30s. Significant others are risk reduction: they may impede a major positive outcome, but they can also prevent a very negative outcome.
Numenta's most recent algorithms are actually very strongly neurobiological. If you have looked at earlier work, you should check out the most recent white paper from a couple of months ago, which detail more than year of recent efforts in that direction.

http://www.numenta.com/htm-overview/education/HTM_CorticalLe...

There is also a recent talk by Jeff Hawkins from a few months ago on the same subject.

http://www.archive.org/details/Redwood_Center_2010_12_02_vs2...

You are correct that neural networks had almost nothing to do with brains. Numenta's new cortical learning algorithms, on the other hand, are very closely modeled on the structure and function of the neocortex.
>> Go get em people will like it because both parties are jumping with both feet and instead of trading countless emails only to discover the other party is just not that interested.

How on earth does this system help you determine whether the pair is interested in each other? It is only having one party bid on the other's proposed activity, which may or may not have anything to do with their actual personality.

There's also something a little slimy about having people 'bid' to win my attention. Income (and willingness to spend it impressing strangers) is not my primary criterion. It's not even in the top ten.
On my 5:4 aspect monitor, 80 characters is just wide enough so that I can fit two editor columns side by side at a comfortable font size without having to scroll horizontally. I suspect that if I had a widescreen monitor, I could shrink the font size slightly and see three columns of 80 characters each. But that would just be extravagant.

(Of course I have a second monitor, but that usually has documentation and a terminal and IRC on it.)
Well... you could see that coming, I suppose.

If Nokia doesn't get a chapter in future updates to "X years of high tech marketing disasters", I'll be disappointed. Jumping onto a sinking platform from a burning one isn't a big improvement.

With Android, they would have had a lot more freedom and, most likely, some more leverage in terms of innovating and differentiating themselves.
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Hmmm... Strange, it's broken for me.
I tend to agree that mobile devices are a pain (and that's what the article is about, not "news being the next social revolution). I don't like the darned things but the masses disagree with me and if you want to write code that matters you have to understand what the masses want.

Right now the overall strategy is to incorporate mobile devices as fast and easy I/O devices for our apps. I don't think Facebook is going to be able to get away with that but I hope it will work for us.
which I believe they, on average, are

Self-selection bias?

Here's what I observe among my non-tech friends: they have Google as their homepage. If they want Facebook, they type "Facebook" into the search box - even tho' typing it into the address bar would do the same thing. If they come across a PC that's not on Google, then they go to Google using the address bar and proceed as before.
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Does this mean that the Microsoft is the new leader in the smartphone OS market after it takes on Nokia's 31% market share? It's a 3-horse race now
When Firefox 1.0 came out, it was one of the lightest browsers available on the market. What happened until version 4.0? Even the latest Firefox beta is one of the slowest browser available. I’m not talking about the JavaScript engine, I’m talking about the user experience of your product.
The problem with this is that Nokia has invested a significant amount of resources into its own systems already. If it partners with Microsoft for WP7, Nokia will just be another player in the market with not a whole lot to distinguish itself from other manufacturers, such as Samsung.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft can use Nokia's international presence to tap into the developing European smart phone market.