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Thank you kerben. I already knew Ben The Bodyguard and it is fantastic, I love it.

Well, let's say that Dayri will let you write about your day in less than 2 minutes. And it won't be a private blog, it's a completely different concept. :)
Okay, but at least is something different. It's not just for getting to the form, we thought it would have been nicer than the other landing pages because you don't need a lot of time to get to the last "slide".

What do you think?
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I'll increase the speed for sure. Thank you guys. :)
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I have considered just going and seeing how it turns out (some people have given me the advice to go .... no better way to find out if I'll like it than to try).

I think you're right about the stuff coming up on the horizon. From what I know, some of the HCI stuff is problematic (I just talked to an EEG guy that was lamenting how problematic his machine learning/EEG research has been, given the noisiness of the data), but people are really starting to think about this stuff. There are also individuals using fMRI as a neurofeedback device (Chris DeCharms of Omneuron has started down that path: http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_decharms_scans_the_brai...). Relatedly, some researchers have started to throw in classifiers such that one can focus on distributed brain states, as opposed to specific regions (which is what DeCharms does).

I read about this stuff and I'm fairly convinced that eventually the HCI, neurotraining, neurotech industries will take off, but for me it's a question of when. Will the growth of those industries happen in 5 years or 25 years? If it happens in 5 or 6 years, I'd be golden. If 25, then I'd be looking for a job when I come out.

As for the startup idea, I really have thought about that. The issue would be age again .... I'd be 37 with limited funds trying to crawl through the startup "Valley of Death." It wouldn't totally be off the table, but a lot would depend on the state of the industry.

So, all in all, I look at this PhD opportunity and think that there's definitely exciting work to be done, and the potential for really interesting jobs in the future. But it seems very high risk considering that I'd need to get the timing just right.
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> It's that Apple is going to milk those $5
> with every update.

How so?
I second all these points.
At our company we have a "Play" session every day for 20 minutes. There's only 3 of us in this start-up (well, to be fair we're not really a startup, but thats a long story).

We all work in different locations, and up to now, we've been playing either hangman, or countdown, or 'Bananas' (anyone remember that game) online. Well we've been co-ordinating over skype and video.

Im thinking we could jazz things up a little and have a little jam session in our play time. Though, i wouldnt know how to best co-ordinate it. I cant play music to save my life.

Im thinking maybe get some notes for a song, and then get the guys together and try to create the score?

Suggestions welcome
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Why does this have two points? I mean, Californication's an ok show but it's not exactly hacker news material.
According to the way IQ is measured, 50% of all people will always have a 2-digit IQ. It moves with population and age. And once people get to a comfortable level of subsistence they do become more creative. The guys that build swamp buggies and monster trucks probably don't have IQs greater than anyone else, but there they are, hacking Ford F150s to drive through 6 feet of water.
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I was using yahoo and a friend told me to try google it was not really good looking but the result ranking was better. It was in ~1998 as well. (And I was using AOL !)
A moving commentary narrating noble efforts.

I'm positive the community brainstorming subsequent to this could be of great use whenever such unfortunate (and unavoidable) events take place in times to come.
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The good news for me is that cognitive neuroscience doesn't face those pressures (yet). Most of the students doing cogNeuro and even computational neuroscience are from the US and Canada. In general, I got the impression that competition between students in these programs is much less important than collaboration.

That said, your point is very well taken: cutting edge research will still be very competitive. And, since the stuff I want to do comes very close to bio-medical engineering, I might face more of these sorts of competitive pressures than most people in my field.
I can only speak for myself.

In the general case, I am a bit scared of being burned out again. So I make a point of relaxing, eating dinners with people and taking care of myself. This is fading.

In the particular case, I just moved to work in a cool new place (Cluj, Transylvania). I do work hard, but there is just too much fascinating stuff!
Cool, but Google wont like it. If it's important text you'd want to make sure you had the text somewhere else.

Maybe the html/css generator should include a hidden span with the text?
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Doesn't mean I have to reward Microsoft's failures to keep up with standards with praise, or by abstaining from criticism. My life would be better if they just gave up at this point.
I saw your thread on microcosm of internet/humanity, but won't let me reply. Good concept. My answer about what's next is: division and then war. Power struggles (ISPs, Google, Facebook, Government) will create a divide and people will be forced to choose sides. Then no matter what, they will feel they have to defend their side even if they don't fully agree. You can already see signs of this happening.
You are confusing learning math with the field of math.

Again I am a big proponent of Seymores work but that is not the point here.

The point is that Kahn Academy allows you to learn math in your own tempo and that is the future of education. That doesn't mean that other things wont be important too but to say that it's not the future of education is simply missing the greater point IMHO.

People who have never been able to understand it before now suddenly do. We don't all need to be math wizards.
I don't think we're disagreeing :)
> Wow you guys are seriously just haters who obviously have little (if any) real experience building commercial-grade rich internet applications.

You just called a group of people haters because they didn't support your ideals. I think this speaks for itself.

What does commercial-grade mean to you? How many users does that mean? How many tested platforms?

Microsoft and Google uses jQuery and not ExtJS, is that commercial-gradish enough for you? or they probably have "little (if any) real experience" according to you.

> If you go beyond a simple page you need a decent "heavyweight" framework, otherwise you just end up with a big ball of mud or writing your own.

This is a dubious claim, because:

- other people may actually be good at writing their own stuff

- ExtJS may not save you from writing custom stuff, because you may need stuff that aren't included

> Extjs happens to work extremely well for experienced JS devs.

> Illuminations is an outstanding plugin of serious pragmatic use.

Can you support these claims or you just wrote them down to justify your ideals?

> Oh and btw my forms work great - your obviously just a fool who blames the framework instead of your lack of ability which is the real cause.

You are obviously someone engaged in a trollish behavior for some reason.
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Answers:

Married: No

Cash: Not a ton (maybe a years worth)

Smarts: Maybe (on my best days)

Motivation: Yes (over the last 2 years at least....though over the last two years I had a clear goal: academia. Without that, I'm not certain that my doubts won't get in the way).

And agreed. If I were 21, this would probably be an easy decision. I'd just go, push through and see where it took me. At 31 though, I have other goals that I'm not sure if I'll be able to meet if I do the PhD. I'd probably have to put off getting married, having kids, etc. Not to mention, putting away cash will be almost impossible.

So, this seems risky. I could end up in my late 30s with some really interesting publications, but limited funds and no idea where I'd be finding a job.
PhD isn't worth it if you've already decided not to follow the academia path

I know a least a dozen people with PhD's in science, medicine or engineering and only one of them is following the academic path, and he gets regular offers of big bags of money to work for various commercial companies. The only PhD's I know who are 'stuck' in academia are people with PhD's in 'softer' subjects like architecture or social anthropology.

the facts are that they expect you to follow the academia path

Again this varies a lot from advisor to advisor. I know at least one guy (and know of several more) working at a company started by him, a classmate and their advisor during his PhD program. I also know other people who's advisor happily used their contacts in industry to place their students in great jobs.
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I know you can slap a double bass, but this is not what people are talking about when calling the instrument "slap bass" usually. It's more Marcus Miller than Charlie Mingus, though both make music called "jazz".
Funny. I used to do this all the time in Fasttracker2. Most of the time you can use noise like this as high-hat. But sometimes you discover 'gem' that just sound great without tweaking.
The long standing ovation at the end was so well deserved. I had a smile on my face as I watched it.
This is wonderful. Education is, IMHO, the most important thing in the world, full stop, since it forms the basis for what we are able to do and more importantly how we think.

Personally, I found school boring and tedious (and got pretty average grades) until going to 6th form college where I discovered something amazing - learning isn't defined by a failed teaching system - learning done right is a joyful and wonderful thing (unsurprisingly my grades significantly improved at this point).

The fact that learning is a joy is one of the most important discoveries you make in life (or don't, unfortunately I think most people don't) and anything that allows people to discover this is a vastly important thing.

(It's important to note that learning, as with everything else, isn't 100% joyful all the time, but that the joy of it infinitely outweighs any difficulty and pain encountered along the way).

I've noticed a pernicious worship of ignorance that pervades, at least, my country (the UK) - the idea that learning is boring and there's something wrong with you if you seem to enjoy it - that alone is to my mind incredibly dangerous. Nothing could be further from the truth, literally. This is nothing, though, compared to countries where ordinary people are simply unable to access quality education or even any education at all where the Khan academy is an example of the internet at its democratising best.

Go Sal!
It seems you suggest that Node is Lisp and Erlang is C.

Would you mind elaborate why?
This is the third similar spam post I have seen from this account and site - I think the account should be moderated.
That is cruel and incorrect. People pirate software everywhere.

Many successful hackers were brought up in places where $5 is nothing to be sneezed at, and the dance of getting-that-$5-into-Apple's-pocket can cost you more than that in time and effort alone.
Okay, so my argument is that the minimum wage shouldn't increase unemployment at all, because it is so low that any reasonable task is worth more than the low rate the wage is set at. What you say makes sense - if a minimum wage is so high that employers can't afford employees anymore then the poor areas will be hit worst, because the poor areas are the most unskilled.
I cash several tens of thousands Euro every year in Paypal, since 2003 I guess.
I have legitimate business in Germany and the money is deposits for apartments reservations.
I have never done anything illegal, never had a dispute with a customer, never, ever created a problem for them.
Nevertheless they freeze my account once every 2 months.
They ask me a few papers, I send thema and if I'm lucky in a few days it's restored.
If I am not lucky it goes one one month.
I would have many nice stories to say, this is the last one:
since I log in often from many different countries (since 2003), they block my account.
So I asked them to write down somewhere that I travel a lot and give me a break.
They told me this is not possible and I should use only my iPad to login, not a computer.
Useful to know, but the simple thing I've been working on - a product browser akin to coverflow, with bookmarkable items - needs a 'skew' effect, which is considered a 3D transform.
Oh, no, what will be next? pure-CSS WordArt?
These are the opportunities that I'm still trying to explore.

Even though my PhD would be in basic science, there are lots of potential applications. In fact, the program I'd be at has very, very strong links with the medical school. I'd probably be able to use some of these techniques on clinical populations and doing some translational research (i.e., stuff that has direct applications). For example, using machine learning with fMRI has some potential in mental health diagnostics.

The big question for me is if these things will take off in the next few years. Currently, I haven't seen any companies really growing in these sorts of areas (though I look at it and think the potential is immense).

the facts are that they expect you to follow the academia path

The bad news here is that while my potential advisor is really great (and probably okay with people not becoming professors) the people that haven't jumped into the post-doc route haven't had any of these sorts of outcomes. The few that haven't gone the academic route have become staff scientists or gone into government (though, those individuals graduated 5+ years ago, and my work would possibly be more technical since the lab has gone down the machine learning path).
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Some of these aren't bad. I'd check out Zero to Superhero http://www.zerotosuperhero.com for some pretty cool bodyhacks (yes, it's $10 but for 247 pages I found some value there).
A better question would have been "what are the big failures of YC" - smaller list to iterate through.
Very erratic for me. Lovely idea though, very much looking forward to using!
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If the work would have mattered to you, you would have found a solution.

This is an easy thing to say, and perhaps for many people in many circumstances, it's true enough.

But I have no doubts about my work ethic—I've spent 50+ hours per week in the zone at a startup, until I hit my physical limits—and I can estimate project scope reliably enough to offer my consulting clients fixed bids.

But even so, I do occasionally have to e-mail a client and tell them that something will be delayed by a few days, or even a week. It's not that the work isn't important, but rather that when I push hard enough, there's no padding left, and a few days of illness (or caring for a sick kid) come directly out of work time. Similarly, sometimes there's a hard technical issue that nobody expected, and it takes some time to engineer around.

So for people already working near the top of their game, this manager's notebook and attitude comes over as so much motivational B.S. Professionals work hard. But if 90% of challenging projects come in on time, and the other 10% slip by a few days or a week, that's not necessarily evidence of moral failure.
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I'm confused by the statement that "only one company came out of rails rumble". I freelance for a startup that has a profitable SaaS app that was born at rails rumble 2007.
Thanks to Mongrel2 you can do real time in Ruby too or with the language you happen to like the most or for which you have the right "business logic" libraries.

Having code in production running both NodeJS and Mongrel2, I am happy to see both of them growing.
I'm guessing it'll be Lion doing that, as with Facetime. And depending on the release time of Xcode 5 (and its synchronicity with OSX 10.8 or 10.9) and whatnot, Xcode 5 may very well be as "free" as 2.0 and 3.0 were.
I experienced something similar developing http://FightTheFloods.com - the site was conceived and launched in a 24 hr period. I didn't have collaboration concerns though, it was me coding and my girlfriend doing design so we didn't have to worry about merging etc too much.

I think that perhaps the best thing to do is to have frameworks in place ready to manage these types of events. They'd follow a similar formula (after FightTheFloods was launched 3 or more similar websites started up, so there's a clear design pattern here) and could be customized to suit each event rather quickly. That way the interaction design can be thought out prior to the quick rush of getting the site up and in use.
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Ow. My squint muscles are just now recovering from having that thing up for a minute.

I think this has conclusively proven that light grey on light grey is not a good color scheme for "readability".
I can't say I really blame them, you're in a high-risk business which tends to have lots of credit card chargebacks and you can't guarantee delivery of service. If you went the merchant bank/credit card processor route you'd probably have to put down a substantial deposit.

If you're operating a high-risk business you can't really expect PayPal or a merchant bank to absorb that risk on your behalf unless you're willing to pay for it.

PayPal's policies do forbid the kind of marketplace aggregation you're doing (Unless you're using their Adaptive Payment split payment mechanism which is designed for this sort of situation; but from your description I assume you're not)
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A friend of mine said yesterday "There can't be a Woz without Jobs, but not the otherway around".

Thoughts?
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Actually, I meant it the other way around; what's popular isn't necessarily what's better.

I personally like coding in Erlang more than JS. I also personally feel the smart technology choice is Erlang -- it scales better. For me, Erlang is an easy choice, but I know that other people have different priorities that make Node the right choice.

I believe that the biggest thing holding Erlang back in this role is the fact that it's functional rather than imperative & that the syntax isn't C like. It's a complexity that many don't find worth the trouble.

[edit] for clarity & less flame
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The small book of excuses is laughable. I'd rather not work for a guy like him.
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Sadly, these multiple identities are not angry enough to qualify him as a "Mad people of comp.lang.lisp"

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Not sure it's fair to say Rails is stagnating. Rails 3 (particularly with the improvements in ActiveRecord) is significantly leaner and nicer to use than Rails 2.
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More like noob to slightly less noob. The book has been stuck at only 25% finished for around five years now. In fact it's basically completely out of date by this point anyway.
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Last week (when I posted mine for sale) Gazelle.com was offering $280 for a 32GB Wifi model with moderate wear and tear.

Would be interesting to know where it will end up and how much it will then be sold for in turn.
> The Internet really is going to revolutionize every business.

No it's not. How is the internet going to revolutionize construction work or trucking? The internet may improve aspects of the business, but it won't bring out any revolution.

Do you really think how your houses foundation is laid will be changed by the internet? Do you think how it's framed will be changed by the internet? Sided, shingled, insulated, drywalled, carpeted, tiled, plumbed, wired? If you genuinely think the internet will revolutionize these industries you're wholly detached from reality and then we might as well be in a bubble.
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I believe it's here: http://blekko.com/ws/+/topspam

Although that includes some "normal" sites too that simply prevent crawling.
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The generated HTML looks like this:

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<span class='w1'>n</span>
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I don't see why that would be a problem.
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How about dropping the `naive' part?
I don't think there is anything wrong with crunch for a month or three, on the promise that the team can wind down, relax and be acknowledged for their crunch period after.

I find I can work intensively for three months, but then need a few weeks of working 9-5 to recover. I think that is pretty normal, and I assume this is what the SocialCam team did.

(swombat: got a source for the quote?)