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Excellent read! Here's the author's own summary:

> To sum up, my point in this post was to posit an "internal" explanation, rooted in styles of pedagogy, for why the best and the brightest high school students in the US do not opt for technical majors/careers in college, while those in India do so overwhelmingly. My explanation for this was that, in the US, it is the authoritarian nature of science education, especially when compared with the "creative" way other disciplines (like history or literature) are taught, that is responsible for the math-phobia. On the other hand, in India, the cultural logic of the same authoritarian style of science education works out differently because students can discern a "method" in it, and they can discern no such method in the other disciplines, just a series of facts. Consequently, the best and the brightest high school students in India are less likely to suffer from math-phobia.
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What effect do you predict?
Oh, I lied -- I'm on Chrome 10.
For a tech demo that's #1 on HN I don't think it's too much to ask to have a valid HTML form.
My reply Eoghan :)
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As much as he's reviled on this site, Tim Ferris's suggestion (likely borrowed from someone else) has been a great tip. Each day, lay out 3 concrete items to get done. Then do them without interruption. You'll most likely be done with them by lunch. Then you can do pterosaur things the rest of the day. Surf if you're stuck in an office, go to the park if you work from home. By setting put concrete things and going about getting them done, you do them much faster than if you leave them nebulous with an indefinite time frame.
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why did the guy include a link to his new app (postpost) in the first lines of the post?
I can't tell if you're trying to convince us, or convince yourself.
If this is true, then why would you presume that it was accidental? It seems like a very major conflict-of-interest that should definitely have been mentioned.
There are people with strong scientific, mathematical, and technological backgrounds working in the FIRE space. This is directly the result of a lack of funding for traditional science. FIRE didn't take people from traditional science. FIRE absorbed scientifically-inclined people who otherwise wouldn't have a place to put their background to use.

Fund traditional science more, and the prestige will come back. Traditional scientific research is expensive.

EDIT: Here's a recent link (a few months ago) that illustrates my point:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-tevatron-is-shutting-down...
>Apple got into the mass market this time and its
>users are showing money. If Apple can keep at least
>10% of the market then it might as well have more than
>50% of the people-that-actually-buy-apps market like you show.

At the risk of aging myself, I had an IBM PC in 1981 and watched friends get Macs. The quote above sounds as if it were lifted directly from that time period. The main difference between then and now is that the mobile market is already very large and relatively well explored. Apple's strategy seems nearly identical. Any of this sound familiar?: lots of overpriced peripherals; proprietary networking (see FaceTime); all new technology!... that then basically didn't change for 15 years (co-operative multitasking up until about '00); created the perfect interface and wrote a book about it!... then would only change about the interface in response to competitive pressure.

I don't think Apple is going to have anything like 50% market share of phones or app purchasers. As the article pointed out, the mobile market is going to be won in developing countries and that's precisely where Apple can't play.
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I honestly doubt there is an 'author' to this regardless of what it says. This is little more than a collection of rubbish platitudes that accomplish nothing more than to make a subset of its readers feel better about themselves (it certainly won't improve anyone's outlook on life with the tone it takes). I'm really embarrassed for HN that this made the top 5.
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On what grounds would I choose to reject it? I'm paying him to give me advice because he's the one who knows how these things work, if I knew what to do I wouldn't need him.

By that logic, in the end it all comes down on the GP's "never accept the word of a lawyer on anything".
Why, exactly, should it demonstrate proper HTML?

The POINT is the glow. That the glow works on a form is by happenstance, I'd suppose, as that was the original inspiration. Regardless, it could be a glow behind a blank div and I'd be equally impressed.

The nit that you're picking is akin to tasting someone's new gumbo recipe, and complaining that they didn't use the good china.
If you really want to be pedantic, it was one of the first such mashup apps with the Google Maps "API" that hadn't even launched yet. That's what was so cool about it, and why Google was so interested in bringing him on, he reverse-engineered their API that they were still building.
A must have:

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Sure, I don't think we disagree that smart people [deservedly] earn more or that the unemployed section of society isn't offering them very much in return for their welfare checks.

But to put it bluntly, that top quartile (or decile, or however you prefer to slice it) would be a lot less rich (and the poorer Americans would be better of at least in relative terms; those not unemployable would have more job opportunities) if they were stuck hiring people on American level wages. Smart business owners outsourcing to those willing to work for a pittance achieve outsized returns far in excess of their ability to improve labour productivity[1]. Being unable to find work commensurate with their abilities as an averagely productive semi-skilled labourer reduces others' productivity below their natural capabilities. Irrespective of whether you think that's insufficient justification for wealth redistribution, it certainly means that the rich are benefiting disproportionately from chance, connections and "power" in addition to their innate abilities.

[1]Obviously this works better in manufacturing consumer goods than programming...
That's because you're not a loser adult, so you don't have to look back on your childhood - when 'loser' wasn't really defined - with some sort of contrived fondness. Like the author.
I think it came with the economic boom, but I'm at a loss at explaining how or why. Also, part of my perception can be because I moved from a less to a more "civilized" place in Brazil (from Salvador to São Paulo).

I have anecdotal reports, from members of my family who used to work in law, that a couple of decades ago buying and selling real estate, for example, required a lot of palm-greasing. Maybe due to pressures from the industry this is not true right now in the big cities (I rarely go to the countryside, so I don't know how things are over there, although in brazil the coutnryside tends to move more slowly).

It seems, however, that even at its peak Brazil never had as bad a bribing culture as India seems to have, from the news.

All of the bribing I hear about these days are teenagers and young adults bribing cops to overlook possession of small amounts of drugs (and also some very high profile cases in the government), but bribing to get things you should have by right is something I or anyone I know in my generation has never had to do.
> Nobody is doing serious photography with an iPhone.

Bullshit. A quick Googling reveals plenty of professional photographers using iPhones in their work.

For example: http://www.chasejarvis.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10...
Why should it demonstrate proper HTML? Because you're showing everyone how to do something.

Sites like http://css-tricks.com/ and http://nicolasgallagher.com/ don't show you how to make things with incorrect code, they show you how to make things with beautiful, semantic code.
Stop fucking around.
i have tried that, but most days, HN or the very few sources just expand to occupy all my time. I agree with you about it being a very serious problem. In terms of health, two things already very evident are weight gain and eye lubricating drops.
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I thought that was the point of WebGL?

Honestly, this is the first I've heard of CSS3 animations as intending to be ultra-fast, but I admittedly haven't kept up on the HTML5/CSS3 discussions.

Can you cite a reference for me please?
The South Bay is certainly cheaper but has no where the amount of culture and fun that living in Mountain View and Palo Alto has. If you're only in the Bay Area for 3 months, I'd shell out some more dough to live in SF or PA rather than be bored in San Jose.
Awesome list, shift+tab is going to save me so much time in Mail.app its not even funny.
My biggest weakness is too many tabs. I tend to have 200+ tabs open in Chrome stuffed with my primary procrastination implement: must-read technology news. If I start picking through them to close/mark for later reading, I inevitably start reading and simply reboot the procrastination cycle.

My best antidote: have your IDE ready to work and close all your browser tabs at once.

P.S. You know you read too much Hacker News when you wake up from a dream in which PG rejected both your startup ideas for funding.
> I think it's easy: jobs as scientists in the U.S. suck relative to other jobs. Consider that firefighters or cops get paid reasonably well; effectively can't be fired after a short probationary period unless they do something incredibly egregious because they're protected by unions; have jobs that demand physical activity, so they aren't just sitting in front of a screen all day; and, in the case of firefighters, have a level of social prestige that means (male) firefighters are almost universally admired by women.

But do you think the "vast majority of kids" take that as their main reason? Do you think they know the labor market dynamics? That the job is incredibly secure? Not so mentally demanding? Requires only a two-year degree?

I think that kids in majority think mostly about the act of being a police officer, rather than the auxiliary benefits of being one (financial security being one). Perhaps they are drawn by the power, the apparent admiration, or some desire to "serve his/her country."
That may be the one goal, but I think probably a bigger goal is to have animations that are handled by the browser itself (and not Flash), and can be written in lightweight code.
It's a proof of concept, not a tutorial.

I think our interpretation of this is different. Your assertion is that she's trying to show people how to do something. My take is that she's showing people what she did.
I'm not quite sure how the numbers Fred shows prove his point. Android has a larger market share, but it's only been one month since the Verizon iPhone launched. It's entirely probable that had it not launched, Android would have a significantly larger market share. Likewise, it's possible that given another three months, Android's share will reduce even farther. The only thing the numbers prove is that the Verizon iPhone was not a magic bullet that killed Android immediately on launch, but nobody expected that. (I don't actually expect Android's market share to decrease in the coming months either, but my point is that the numbers aren't very useful right now.)
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If you are on a laptop, or a keyboard with global application shortcuts on the f buttons, you might need to hold down the 'fn' key at the same time.
True. I'm simply using elite college enrollment as a proxy for "smart".
Holy crap how did I live without that binding. Updating the post asap!
Professional != Serious, necessarily.

If my wedding photographer showed up with an iPhone, I'd demand my money back.
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He strangely skipped this embarrassing speckle on everyone's guilt : internet porn. Maybe he's not ready, yet, but the numbers are here : everyone consumes tons of internet porn. Oh, not me of course, Good Gracious :)
You need to define "serious", then. I'd consider photos taken with the intent of exhibiting them in a gallery pretty "serious" photography.

I wouldn't hire an artist to do a building-sized mural in pencil, but that hardly means no one's doing serious art with pencils.
The reason it looks like trash is not because it's a higher frame rate, it looks like trash because it's removing natural motion blur from the image.

This actually makes it more like a video game in which discreet images are generated from the world, instead of natural film/digital sensor in which millions of photons are captured for a short duration.
Tip: Don't be afraid to use awesome public transportation if you can't afford a larger apt. right in the center of things.
Ok, but what's your point? On $19 Billion in profit, they paid no federal income tax. I made substantially less than $19B last year, and I paid both state and federal income tax.

Also, if you read the article I posted on G.E., it talks about how you can write off up to $10,000 in start-up costs on your taxes. I think this may be for the company, not the individual, so maybe that doesn't help in a dissolution. However, my overall point was simply that professionals know about all these loopholes, regular Joe start-up guy does not. So go see someone who knows what they're talking about.
You could always download earlier topcoder-contests (http://www.topcoder.com), specifically single round matches for algorithms. They have a time limit on 75 minutes for 3 exercises, and should keep you busy for roughly that amount of time.
Deeply rooted does not imply deeply rooted in the constitution of the United States.

I believe the US mindset is supposed to be that the constitution does not give you rights - rights are inherent. the constitution sets limits on what rights the government can take away.

Doesn't it also have a clause that says anything not declared in here are relegated to the states, or to the people?

PEOPLE have an expectation of privacy. PEOPLE make laws.
Block the sites that you waste too much time on.

I have a habit of loading news/discussion sites anytime I'm waiting for something to complete. Blocking the sites I use too much such as HN, Reddit, Craigslist etc. breaks my streaks of going to them, disrupting the habit. The 'site not available' message helps me refocus.
It won't. When you start getting bigger sensors, you start needing a longer focal plane or crazy optics with aspherical elements. This most definitely means a thicker phone.
Insightful piece. Thanks for the link.
Android or iPhone? Wrong Question
> Good mobile design will become ubiquitous, but search is a different story.

That's one hell of an assertion. As most of the "iPod killers" showed, design isn't something you can just suddenly decide as a company to start doing right.

Good design hasn't become ubiquitous on the desktop. I find it hard to believe mobile is going to magically do the opposite.
Grade Inflation? What Grade Inflation?
It may depend on the area, but becoming a firefighter is unbelievably difficult these days. The competition is very intense.

My brother spent close to ten years applying to every firefighting job he could find. He has a four-year degree, a diploma from fire-fighting school, years of experience as a private firefighter on a military base and as an EMT, and he's a competitive bodybuilder. He finally gave up this year and went back to school to get his teaching certificate.
Love the various easter eggs that have been uncovered so far - curious how many they have in the end.
Not exactly. The Bill of Rights was added later to explicitly identify a number of the most important rights of the people. These were originally implied; everything not mentioned in the Constitution is a right of the people.
Not trying to convince anyone. I was just stating that as a developer, I could be interested in more than 50% of the iOS market, and I could be interested in having my application being able to run on as many devices as possible of such market.

That doesn't mean that I wouldn't love to tackle the Android market as well, and we'll definitely do that. But we have limited resources so we chose the one that at the moment generates the most revenues.
Exactly. I described this exact process on Quora a few days ago [1]. Note, that doesn't mean that I believe that the current distribution of wealth is good, but that simply taxing the super-rich a lot is not going to work (as a mechanism) [2]. Small tax increases on the rich may be tolerated in the US (since rates are lower than, say, in France or Britain), but there is a threshold, after which there needs to be other sources of tax revenue.

But it's very strange because many Americans (not just the super rich) seem to care about the tax rates of the rich [3], I explain because of their own branch of economics or cultural reasons.

[1] http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-reasonable-justifications-...
[2] http://www.quora.com/Should-wealth-be-more-evenly-distribute...
[3] http://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-Americans-care-whether-the-...
Remember, about 25% of men are partially red-green color blind. So, a 'fire engine red' such as in the usual banner at HN such men can see, but lots of 'red' in mixtures of colors register as black. An emerald green can be seen, but in lots of mixtures the greens don't register. So, some light greens register as gray.

I'm such a man and mostly can't read that page.
We're a Mac shop with intensive requirements to run Windows software (both because the industry standard reversing tools are all primarily WinAPI-based, and because a lot of our targets are Windows). VMWare Fusion works fine, with (for business-class apps) virtually no perceptible slowness --- if you max out the memory on your system, and run one VM at a time. Virtually everyone on our team does this.

Running two systems on your laptop is a perfectly viable strategy for dev machines, and if you're most at home in Windows, I recommend it. If you're Linux or OS X, though, I think it's probably worth the effort to keep your dev environment cross-platform instead of working on it in a VM.
Maybe, or maybe not, but this is nowhere near as offensive as blink. This is fairly subtle, and if put to a greyscale series, it would be barely even noticeable except as some neat lighting effects.
Since you brought up suggestions on how to improve, using the front facing camera to reflect the surrounding area on the blades, would add a touch of realism that would be ire.
Try the Google Chrome extension StayFocusd. Its essentially a website timer that blocks time-wasting websites after a predetermined amount of time has expired. Good luck..
I think people are over sensitive and act with a sense of entitlement. It showed me trending topics, I love data and patterns, it was a useful tool - and I'd love to see Twitter figure out its business model.
It just worked on my imac, 10.6.7, using a dell keyboard
Setting the stage seems like an important step, I'd like a way to load up a web development environment with all the trimmings on my win7 machine.

A browser profile with it's own bookmarks/extensions, a separate virtual desktop workspace, and perhaps launch a set of other apps with windows arranged to suit my multi-screen setup.

I'm sure it can be done, but it's not simple or intuitive.
My solution has been this: don't take crappy breaks, take real ones. Your brain can only focus for so long, it's normal that it needs a break, so naturally you drift over to the web. However this is not a great break and doesn't really refresh you. When I'm working on a project and find myself browsing HN for to long, I just get up and go outside, go for a walk, take a shower (I work from home), take a quick nap, even read a book or something similar. In all of these cases I a.) actually feel refreshed when I'm done, b.) usually spend over all less time distracted, and most importantly c.) gain insight into the problem I'm trying to solve by ignoring it.

Many offices cultures require that you 'look busy' and web browsing is a crappy form of relaxation that unfortunately fits in with this well. If you give your brain moments to actually relax you'll get more done with in far less time. Web browsing when you really need a break is roughly the same thing is snacking on junk food when you really need a wholesome meal.

edit: One key thing I only implied is: leave the space your in. So for example playing a round of video games on the same machine your working on won't work, but (if you can avoid playing all afternoon) going another room to play xbox for 30mins probably will work.
I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave.
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I know, it's very tricky thing. As I said, it took me years to put some discipline into it and still I feel I use computer too much. My goal is to build business to that level that I work only 30-60 min on computer every day.
Asking this on HN is not unlike asking in a drugs den how to quit crack-cocaine
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Very nice. I recently tested out a few designs using large CSS3 shadows and it indeed slowed the browser way down when applied to a "FB Wall" number of page elements. Hopefully we don't have to wait for hardware to pick up the slack in implementation here.
Actually, I think that's just an excuse to waste more time. It only takes a few clicks and a few keystrokes to get all your tools up and running, and I think the process of setting the stage is important, as you're telling your brain "I am getting ready to get shit done".
School a youngster. Exactly what would have been so difficult about building a spreadsheet interface for IE2?

Assuming a crap UI is tolerable for business purposes and assuming that you wouldn't have to market it.
Designing UI & UX? Be a Triangle
When trying to come up with original creative for your UI, UX look & feel you- a better perspective might be doing something different from competition rather than comparing features to the competition.

Standing out is vital if you want to make the leap.
some more relevant posts:

http://thejunction.co.il/2011/03/28/be-different/

http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/internet-marketing-strategy/banner-ads-obstacles.html
Ask HN: does anyone here get into 'the zone' with tv shows / movies?
For years now I find that the best way to focus is putting on (a bunch of) tv shows or some movie in the background while i'm programming. I tried a lot and this does make me more productive. They need to be not very entertaining, but not real bad either. Like cheesy horror or thriller movies seem to work very well. Does anyone have this as well and why do you think this makes 'us' more focused than the typical music and no background noises you so often hear?

Note: I actually only remember of the series or movie that I either liked or not liked it, I cannot even tell you what it was about. If I liked it, I'll watch it a second time (either while programming or 'for real') and I notice usually that after 30 minutes I DO remember everything even though I didn't watch it consciously.