skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah absolutely, but the irony is if you spend all your time perfecting your scientific approach to decision-making about parenting, you are not necessarily more likely to make better decisions than if you paying very close attention to them and using your intuition.

It goes without saying I don't have a citation for that, but based on my personal experience as a child and a parent I strongly believe it be true.
I agree that it's unsurprising, but for different reasons. According to the Montessori website, there are over 4,000 Montessori schools in the US. It's expected statistically there will be some exceptional standouts coming out of these schools.

There may be problems with public schools in the US, but using a few successful individuals who went to an alternative school as evidence of problems seems disingenuous. I'm certain there are a lot of examples of wildly successful people who went through traditional public schooling.
what type of people would be developed by combined approach of Montessori and Tiger Mom? :)
For 37 Signals it doesn't have to scale any time soon, but the grandfather was (tacitly) in reference to how many look to 37 Signals as exemplars of how to run small to medium tech businesses (why else write about it in Inc?)

I think if I already had a business of 10-15 people this would be a good model to attempt to follow. If I had a business of 40+, I would be far more wary; the question of scale is for those who may try to fit the model to their existing business.
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I agree. I'm planning to send my daughter to a Montessori school but only when she reaches school age (4/5). She can get most of the same benefits before then at home and even at "normal" nurseries (because the latter has no curriculum but encourages the self discovery and play). Age 5 through 11 seems more important for the Montessori concepts to sink in.
Make API to cover web and mobile app market.
Google to Revamp YouTube With 'Channels'
Surprised nobody has yet to mention US Submarines[1] their Phoenix 1000 design [2] would be (if anyone ever bought one) the largest personally owned undersea craft, and a helluva an RV. There was a BBC documentary on a guy who built a nominal atmosphere submarine that could go down 1000' (300 meters).

[1] http://www.ussubmarines.com/submarines/luxury.php3
[2] http://www.ussubmarines.com/submarines/phoenix_1000.php3
You're putting words into my mouth -- I didn't say anything about what regulation I favor. First and foremost, I was just pointing out that whether there was price fixing is independent of how widespread the price fixing was, or whether there were alternatives, or to what extent it affected prices in the rest of the market.

But the now great great grandparent's point about collusion interfering with fair market value was valid and becomes more true the smaller the number of major players there are in a market. The collusion doesn't even have to be explicit. Cutting prices hurts everyone in the market if everyone does it. My reference to Jabba the Hut fiction was hyperbolic, but I do think the smaller players (and thus typically the ones with lower quality) tend to be the ones that don't join in on the collusion.

I certainly don't believe in the infallibility of markets. I don't spend too much thinking about economics, but one thought I've had is that we should tax collusion -- make companies pay a tax proportional to, say, the logarithm of their number of employees / worth, and otherwise keep things pretty laissez-faire (with regulation where needed).
I thought this talk was a good refresher, especially on reflows. The DocumentFragment is also particularly useful when it comes to performance tweaks.
As cool as the venture was, have they been making any progress at all recently?
I think the GP's isn't to discredit the Montessori method via counter-example, but rather to show that people have been successful long before the Montessori method came about (as you mentioned) and will continue to be successful and productive long after the craze has died down.

At the same time, just because someone went to a Montessori school doesn't automatically mean they will be a successful person. My wife worked in a Montessori school a while ago and I can't say that I agree with their method of teaching - and this is coming from a guy who went to LAUSD from grade 6 and up.
Don't take "Doesn't Matter" out of context. This is using this in the context of someone else say "But someone is already doing this" and your reply being "Doesn't matter."

Of course any competition will effect your business, but this can actually be something great. Having competition is like hiring a team of people (for free) to do the same thing you are doing but in a different way and then having them present the results to you.

Competition is not your enemy. It's an important part of a system.
A big part of advertising is convincing thought-leaders (marketing speak for 'the cool kids' in a given social sphere) to use your product.

If spending $60,000 on a series of events gets two or three 'cool' people to promote the product, who in turn influence even just 1000 followers to become regular drinkers, then it's paid for itself.

I think in the US a (single) can of red bull at a gas station is around three bucks, so at a 30% cut a roughly can-a-day habit earns them at least $1000 a year. (Making some big simplifications about transport/retailers cuts).

Combine that with big mass of people who might buy a can or two a week (and thus might be easier to influence) and you can see why sponsoring cheap, high-influencer events like extreme sports and niche music/hobbies that trickle down is a pretty clever marketing strategy.

Pabst Blue Ribbon is a great example of this same strategy, they were a cheap redneck beer until they started sponsoring a string of low volume indie rock/fashion events in the big cities, and made sure that drinking it would be 'ironic', and now they're hugely popular with young people.
"There's a reason the really big hitters are often first-time entrepreneurs - they are naive enough to try."

I think it's often because they don't understand the difference between a good product and a good business, so their expected outcomes tend to be at the extremes. Some of them end up doing ridiculously well, but overall I wouldn't consider not understanding lead gen, sales cycles, margins, cashflow, lifetime customer value, etc. to be a virtue.
Rate my startup: FirstRoundX.com - Fantasy football meets stock exchange
Maybe you should check out http://reia-lang.org/ which is rubyish/pythonic syntax on the erlang vm
I am working on my first RoR's page. We have 2 admins that post weather related questions, and users vote on which will option will be correct. monthly totals and question voter break downs, etc. I work for a weather company so this is a small, very niche website. But a fun way to get my hands dirty in Rails.
Harvard Business Review Explains How Big Content Is Strangling Innovation
How many are there, anyways? It's always been Gates and Allen, the two Steves, Sergei and Larry, Yang and Filo, even Zuckerberg and Saverin(?) Are there any renown tech startups that had a single founder?
Twitters New App Store
Add Dreamhost to this list.
Report: Apple orders 12 petabytes of storage
This probably needs explanation
The press release is at http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2011-04-gnome-3.0-releas...
I think you can be pretty sure all such titles are bait-and-switch. As soon as one isn't, I'm sure we will have noticed the Singularity in some other way before seeing articles describing it.
I second this.

Great idea, btw.
Sweet pivot.

This could have also turned into an awesome location based hook up service. Localized hotornot etc :-).
I think there should be special schools for people who just want a job. Most of what you learn at a university isn't particularly important for anything you do in the industry anyway. At least in CS it's like that, I can't speak for other fields.
I was born and raised until age 12 in an eastern European country, and I will tell you that I was shocked when I first set foot in an American classroom in 6th grade - they were learning "longhand" division, something I did in grade 2.

What I take away from your anecdote combined with my personal experience isn't that the Montessori system is really awesome or that European schools rock, but that the public education system in America is really terrible.
I got a degree in biochemistry and I am now doing web development!

Critical thinking, self-managing a senior research project, miscellaneous business classes, and diving into unknown knowledge areas help me today.
There's a difference between sub/super critical (producing energy via fission) and "hot" (producing energy _at all_). Chernobyl became more reactive (= more fission) as the water boiled away, leading to a runaway criticality, and explosive disassembly of the core.

Fukushima, however, has a negative void coefficient. Moreover, the fission reaction was stopped immediately after the earthquake successfully by the automatic insertion of control rods. The heat that is being generated is from short-lived fission products (ie, nuclear waste) undergoing spontaneous decay events, thus producing heat (but only a small fraction of the heat of an active reactor).

It is physically impossible to design a reactor in which such spontaneous decay can be stopped. You can only remove the energy actively until these short-lived products decay to the point where air cooling is sufficient to keep them at a safe temperature. You can, however, design a reactor in which the passive containment structures can withstand the temperatures of fresh waste material with no active cooling; however such technology was not available at the time the Fukushima plants were built.
Getting robots in wouldn't help with the Fukushima incident much; the real problem there is getting energy out, not getting robots in.
This article turned out better than I thought it would.

Here's why:
"In this article we present a mathematical data model for the most common noSQL databases—namely, key/value relationships—and demonstrate that this data model is the mathematical dual of SQL's relational data model of foreign-/primary-key relationships."
Sounds like you are following Ricardo Semler philosophy(author of The Maverick). Are you?
[http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/308]
Yup, just another reason I ask. Actually, I know a few Harvard Dropouts who've gone a similar path, while not Billionaires, they've done more than OK. Anyone know where the Future Harvard Dropout Cafe is, that might be the place to be? :-P
We may actually be in agreement. I don't want such a requirement, it came from here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2414550 and the link I first replied to, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2414859

Your reply, coming where it did in the thread, gave the impression you thought digest auth somehow avoided ever sending a plaintext password to the server.
That sounds like a bit of a stretch. American public education focuses on learning the basics so you can be then trained by either your occupation (ala factory worker, etc.) or by your next institution (university). On top of that depending on where you grow up, the school focuses more on one or the other. Grow up in the bay area, there is a higher chance your school will focus on getting kids into a university. Grow up in an agricultural community, you learn more skills associated with living on a farm (more focus on basic economics, biology). But then again, this is just what I observed. It's possible that if you grew up in the midwest, they taught you to read the bible. I know that's what they taught my mom in Missouri in the 1950s. No idea if it's still the case.
Dakota Skies Time-Lapse [video]
for one, its not free.
Really nice. I think it will be very practical with touch screen devices.

I'm not sure "visual search" is an appropriate term though, I was expecting "image search" or something. This seems more like "tag-label-in-search-box search". (perhaps just me)

(btw, make the http://labels.io/mediademo clickable?)
I always wonder how binding that promise is.
Awesome experiment. I found it interesting that the post doesn't mention the author is also the Founder and Chief Scientist of Cloundant, according to the NYT article linked in the post.

Pretty crazy that the guy manages to juggle being a founder and a physics professor at the same time.
Tell PG: I think NYC can now be a place to do a startup.
Just a quick note to ask to change the location part of http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
I believe you have just reinvented OTP, one time passwords.
Control rod insertion is designed to be an entirely passive operation, effectively making the default state one where the fission reaction is not active. Your proposals are all different ways to stop the fission reaction but do not address residual heat.

What you're really asking for is a system wherein the cooling of the fuel after fission has stopped (this is where the problems occurred at the Fukushima plants) is entirely passive.

I'm sure somebody could get clever with siphons to make this happen but you'll need an absolutely massive amount of water to do so and/or a way to do the cooling such that the water itself is not exposed to radiation. This would allow you to, for example, safely take it from one side of the dam to the other.

An active solution instead allows recirculation of the same water (often borated) and can generally be a closed-loop (and radiation apathetic) system.
Someone should ask if he went to a Montessori school.
Why Warner Bros. Has Pulled First Trailer for ‘Hangover Part II’
Warner Bros. has pulled the first trailer for The Hangover Part II from theaters after failing to vet the spot properly with the Motion Picture Assn.
There's a difference between unhelpful attacks on a slightly flawed but well-meaning project versus criticism of a corporate funded pile of vacuous bullshit that piles negativity on the word "startup."
You can watch a 20 minute mini-documentary about Notch and the Mojang company here: http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/minecraft/101/

(Part of a kickstart project to do a much more involved documentary http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2pp/minecraft-the-story-... )
The article mentions a study that shows the direct influence of a Montessori school. The study was published in Science. You can read it here:

http://www.montessori-science.org/montessori_science_journal... (click "see article full text")

An excerpt:

On several dimensions, children at a public inner city Montessori school
had superior outcomes relative to a sample of Montessori applicants who,
because of a random lottery, attended other schools. By the end of
kindergarten, the Montessori children performed better on standardized
tests of reading and math, engaged in more positive interaction on
the playground, and showed more advanced social cognition and
executive control.

TL;DR: Montessori kids turn out better on many measures when controlling for "bright parents".
"The Virgin Oceanic sub has the ability to 'fly' underwater for 10 km at depth on each of the five dives and to fully explore this unknown environment."

Sounds like something out of Seaquest (anyone remember that show, lol)

http://google.com/images?q=seaquest+stinger
Personal Interview with PHP Fog’s Founder
It's new. People are tired of Ruby, Python, and Perl, which have all had async IO forever, but are old. A lot of people have spent a lot of time writing shitty software in those languages, because they were new to programming when they started. The mental image of the failures stick around for a while. Switching to a new language means you have never written any bad software in that language, and that's exciting.

Javascript has the additional allure of running the same code on the client as on the server, which can be nice. And, node is pretty fast.
Java 7 + JRuby stock versus Ruby 1.9 on fib(35)
All ships rise with the Java 7 tide.
Maybe for a designer. What about the accounting clerks, administrative assistants, CSRs, etc. that any company of size needs?

It's "unrealistic" because there are social realities that exist outside of the valley and tech blogs. It's true that it's a good company, and it's true that it's a darling company here, but there will be sectors that haven't heard of these kinds of places.

And, again, once you hit something of size, some delineation
is a necessity. You don't have to model the Marine Corps, but when you have 30 people arguing over something, the buck has to stop somewhere.
> A possibly more precise way of expressing this thought is: "Competition from big players doesn't necessarily equate to a death sentence to small players".

Absolutely. The key point here is that you avoid being squashed by the competition by being better than the competition. Just because the competition is a big company doesn't mean that you can't be better than them.
Maybe we just need pics of Blankfein Shooting an Elephant
I think you bring up an excellent point, and I really like the cheese analogy. The only problem with this analogy is that it presumes that managers can effectively see exactly where the cheese is.

In your real world example, I would bet those engineers had some management team that decided localization into 100 languages was more important than interfacing with payment systems. That seems like a real world example of a management team that couldn't see the cheese.

Speaking from an engineer and team lead point of view, yes management is important, but not all management is created equally. For many large companies, the Dilbert principle is in full effect - non-technical people are promoted to management where they can supposedly do less damage. What does more damage to a company in the long term? One bad engineer checking in code that creates rework, or a manager that forces an entire team of engineers to head down the wrong path in the maze towards cheese that doesn't exist?

Also, I just wanted to mention that rowing doesn't mean you can't navigate as well. Bright engineers have a good picture of the industry they are in, and market direction. Some are far better at it than their managers. Just because you write code all day doesn't mean you don't know how to make a business decision, which is what I read when you say we can't row and navigate at the same time.
Perhaps a better way of articulating this is: "Focus on your own game." Be Tiger Woods (before the hookers, etc). Focus on being the best at what you do. Let the competition follow you.

The reason I rephrased is that the competition always matters. You may be able to make a better product, but if the competition is so strong and differentiation so lacking in the market that you will never be able to make any money, then you are in trouble regardless.
A new force of nature may have been found
Nick Stamoulis to Speak at the Boston and Cambridge SEO Meetup Event
But if their job requires them to develop for WP7 then it's easy to procure a second Win 7 PC.

Back in 2002 I had two PCs on my desk. One I had Administrator access and where I could run Visual C++ and the Windows CE toolchain hooked up to a prototype voting ballot and the other that was connected to the corporate network where I could read e-mail.

At the time, of course, both ran the same OS, but I gather it's more or less the same idea.

If WP7 is his hobby, I assume using Windows 7 is not a big deal.
Don't under-credit marketing. It could be argued that things such as Gmail and Android are "just marketing".
I'm rather disappointed it doesn't take accelerometer input...
Exactly.

Economic activity centered on agriculture where efficiency increases were minuscule. Because of this economic activity did not grow much.

See this diagram for an idea of just how little growth there was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_GDP_Capita_1-2003_A....
> the parents of people who have the means to send them to a montessori school probably would have the means to give them other advantages in life as well, so their kids are probably going to do pretty well regardless.

I disagree with the emphasis on the "means" of the family. Contrast the success of immigrant families who struggle to get an education for a child with the wastrel habits of many "rich kids".

Care is critical. Wealth may be helpful.
Yes, huge fan of Semler. Big inspiration.
>If the child is a dullard, don't waste too much money on them as you'll need it for later on for when they really fuck up.

In my experience, barring truly mentally challenged children, most children classified as 'dullards' by the education system just don't understand how to cope with the traditional model of teaching. Once someone takes the time to understand them and teaches them how to 'work the system' while still learning, or once they themselves realize that they can take things in their own hands, they shine. I have seen this time and again with cousins, friends and a bunch of kids my mom taught when I was growing up (She is a teacher).

So, if the public school teacher thinks your child is a dullard, it may be a much wiser investment in my opinion to consider educational institutes that will pay a bit more attention to the child's needs. In fact, it may not even take that, it may just take one good, concerned teacher to understand why the kid can't cope, gain their trust, and then teach them how to get the most out of the existing system.

All of this is IMHO, and I am not a teacher, just someone who has seen a lot of kids suffering because of how they were labelled as dullards and subsequently ignored for years by teachers AND given up on by parents. I have also seen 'dullards' change course and shine, once they had the right help.
Any person with a marketing degree will tell you this is false. Try to bill for a circular billboard (say a circular podium at a conference booth) where ~4.7% of the surface lacks proper advertisements or necessary background color.
> Rubout is just backspace. IMO having it next to the 'a' is a really good position; I rebind my Caps Lock key to Backspace on my machines. It's more convenient than the Sun-style "Control as Caps Lock" layout.

One of my favorite keyboards of all time had the spacebar split in two. Because I learned typing such that I always use the right thumb to press the spacebar, the left half of the spacebar made a very good backspace. I've often wished I could find more good keyboards like that.
The described approach just feels wrong to me. I understand that the problems Netflix faces are challenging, but usually when I run into messy systems like that, where you do one thing to address one problem, and then have to do four or five other things to fix the problems that one workaround caused, there's a fundamental misengineering in the mix somewhere. Systems should be simple and consistent as much as possible -- doing something like this across the entire service is crazy.

I understand if they do it a little bit to test things, or whatever, but I think if they sat back and were willing to carefully consider this problem, they could come up with a much simpler workflow. The ability to do that is a key part of quality engineering. A big cascading infrastructure of workarounds that eventually only kind of gets things in a correct state is usually a sign of a problem.
.NET is platform agnostic, MS makes one implementation. This is actually rather like the JVM. While most people are familiar with the implementation that does run on multiple desktop platforms, there are other implementations out there (android being an obvious one, blackberry's another, IBM has several).

Anyone wishing to run .NET code can write a VM for it (like mono). As hard as this sounds, it's still easier than reverse engineering all of MFC (like wine).
I'll tell you when we get there, if ever. Although, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there are some good examples of enormous companies running counter-intuative-for-thier-size organizational models and doing great.