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We work differently then. Personally, I think things are a lot better now.

I've shot a fair number of pictures (about 17,000 is the current Lightroom count) and I've just gone through and scanned all my film shots from pre-digital days. My strategy then was to shoot a bunch of exposures, painstakingly writing down the shoot setup (aperture, exposure times, etc.) After developing, I'd have to go back over my notes, compare the results against my notes and try to learn from it. It was an extremely offline way of learning.

Compare that to how easy it is now: I get immediate feedback and can change the shot until I'm happy with the result. I may take more pictures now, but overall they are a lot better than my old film ones.

With current technology you can get a lot more experience shooting. When the opportunity comes, when you happen to be in the right place at the right time, you have a much better change of not botching the shot.
Others are saying that you should go to MIT, and I really don't know enough to argue one way or another on that. However, you asked how do you come up with $40K a year with no education and no credit history?

First, if you think the debt is worth it (and I'm not saying it is or it isn't) talk to the councilors at MIT. they have people who specialize in charging kids as much as they can pay but not more. But generally speaking, if you are willing to mortgage everything you can, those people can help you.

Next, there is the question of a job. Do you have experience? if not, you are going to have a damn difficult time getting $40K on just a part-time job, and right now is an especially difficult time for people without experience. In the bay area, positions for people of your experience are around $30-$50k/year for full-time, at the high end.

I can tell you from experience that trying to go to school while working a full time job is extremely difficult. I'm not saying you shouldn't try; you got in to MIT; you are almost certainly a better worker than I am. But if you do try to work full time as you go to school; make sure you have a reasonable plan B.
Interesting - I'll definitely have to check these out

And...upon evaluating, they found that Starbucks has chairs ergonomically adjusted to discourage long use
Obviously, the best source of cash is your customers. If the business doesn't need cash, then family can serve as a line of credit in a cash flow crisis.

When all an investor brings to the table is cash, then a loan may be more appropriate than equity. And that sort of rules out entrepreneurs and angels.

Before taking any money, there should be a need, e.g. cash is needed to hire employees due to growth.

Good luck.
I hate the term "first-world problems". It seems like every time it's used, it's in the manner of "I don't think this is an issue so I'll dismiss it by comparing it to starving children in Ethiopia".

Corporations snooping on all your internet traffic? Talk about a first world problem. Internet passwords being stolen? That's a first-world problem if I every heard of one. Health insurance backrupting you if you actually need to use it? Puh-lease, just having health insurance means you've got it better than most other people in the world!

Dismissing something as a "first-world problem" to imply that it shouldn't be worried about is intellectually dishonest.
Healthcare IT is screwed up only because our healthcare SYSTEM is.

I recently left my job at UC Irvine, where I worked in telemedicine research and IT. I can only repeat what ahi and veb have already said, bureaucracy, specifically bureaucracy on all levels, departments, organizations, insurance companies, state and federal bodied, regulations, and fear, are the cause for stagnation. I've seen too many innovative solutions squashed because someone in management was convinced it wasn't "HIPAA-compliant".

If I had to choose one reason, however, it would be insurance companies. Why? Insurance companies choose what to reimburse, and they're not reimbursing for technology-based preventative and/or virtual care. My first response on HN was on this exact subject: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2256119
My camera is "prosumer"; I have more control than a point&click, though it's not "expert" class. What gets cut off isn't important to me. There is no unbiased data source, it is literally mathematically impossible, so that's not the standard I use. Going back to audio, just because I like digital fidelity does not mean I'm obligated to be snooty about getting the full 24-bit/192KHz digital masters or it's just not worth it; 16-bit is good enough for most use cases I have, few of which involve listening to music in utterly silent acoustic environments with my yearly salary's worth of reproduction hardware.
All my company does is optimize for conversions and that is what my last company that had 100 people did... I know exactly what works for conversions and split test tons of options. 99designs is fine and people who refuse to acknowledge that fact are doing themselves a disservice.
I own the HP 48G. This was the calculator of engineer's when I was in high school and university.
I like the inductive argument.

How much do you hope to die in this coming year?
(Definitely / A bit / Not at all?)

Living this past year, did it make you less fond of life? Do you really expect people slightly older than you will not reply 'not at all'?

The same people who don't want to live forever, I bet we'll find they are perpetually in favor of living 'a bit longer.'
Agreed. I've usually heard it used by someone to deprecate their own problems, when they know they're whining about something that isn't really a big deal. https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23firstworldproblem
I would have considered this a bargain when I was doing a lot of Clojure programming. (I recently switched to Common Lisp for my first full-time Lisp job at MCNA.)

I'm very curious to see how/whether you include outside libraries later.
Are you suggesting they get paid?
Thanks for the article.

Have you considered writing a 'control' program that you can provide a list of mongo servers, and allow the control program to configure the replica sets etc?

May help a little, it's something I would consider myself if I ever need it.

Even naming replica sets etc is a bit cumbersome.
Could you point us to resources on setting up IntelliJ for Android development?
Yes, there are benefits to aging. One of those benefits is that old ideas will go away faster. Another benefit is that it will slightly reduce population growth. People who want indefinite lifespan do not disagree with these points. We simply think that these benefits are not worth the destruction of 150,000 human beings per day.

Replace "aging" with anything else that kills people (malaria, AIDS, cancer, etc) and people want to fix it. The only difference between those diseases and aging is that aging kills many more, since we all get it.
The points you make are economic in nature.

Indeed. And so is bandwidth to the home.
I would recommend not trying to be "aw shucks" and just laying out the info. There's an element in the video of the blog posts that always crop up after a popular AskHN. You know, like "how do I find people to network with?" followed by 3-10 days of "23 ways to make new business contacts" HN submissions (if you peruse /new, that is). The thing that unites most of the blog posts I'm casting aspersions upon is that they purport to be about something, or a list of things, but they wind up weaving those things throughout an ersatz narrative ("Once upon a time in the dark days of CompuServe...") that obscures the clarity you'd think they'd be trying to give to a list of 23 closely related things. I dunno, maybe that's just me.

In short, stop telling me why I'm going to use it, your recommendation engine isn't that good yet. Also, your FAQ doesn't contain any FAQs, so you should rename it "About" or something like that.
Did the local electric utility decide it wasn't worth running 120V power to your home either? I don't know of any reason that running fiber is any more expensive than running power lines (if anything, being able to piggyback the fiber on existing poles should make it cheaper).
This is spot on. I'm a contributor noob and when I search bug trackers for an issue I'm experiencing I run across a lot of reports like, "the user profile page is broken". That's not helpful to anyone. I'll then submit a detailed bug with detailed steps to reproduce, php errors generated, etc.
I just shot you out an email
I don't believe that there is actually a shortage of TransPac bandwidth, and the prices aren't crazy. The high prices for hosting in Australia is because of the cost of domestic bandwidth, not TransPac. (As a random example - many people host using Amazon EC2 on the US West Coast instead of in Singapore because some ISPs route to Singapore via the US for cost reasons(!!)).

I do agree more international bandwidth would be great though, but I'd prefer to see additional entrants rather than money to the existing ones.

It would be interesting to see if TransPac bandwidth usage follows a powerlaw, eg: most usage to a few sites (YouTube?)

If this was the case then it would make a lot of sense to encourage those companies to setup a local CDN endpoint, which would also reduce the usage of the TransPac links.
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Solve a real problem and the world is yours.

- Aaron Patzer (@apatzer)

http://startupquote.com/post/5178521655
IIRC, a post to NANOG a while ago claimed that the cost to run fiber to the home is well over $1k/household. I think the math works out to the conclusion that neither Netflix nor Google has enough money in the bank to run fiber to a large fraction of America.

So the question becomes: if you get fiber to 1% of America, is that going to be enough of a demo project to convince someone to come up with the money for the rest of America?
Putting "From the Apple Sales and Refund Policy… Purchases from the Apple Store for Education Individuals are not for institutional purchase or resale" in a refund policy or anywhere does not mean Apple has the right to restrict resales.
I think that you will be surprised with respect to the fiber to the home projects in the near future.
The science of science
6 premature predictions of tech failure
"Entrepreneurship is like science in that experiment is the sole judge of truth." - well said!
Robert Mugabe, forever.
" Most people create this coping mechanism to enable them to deal with the prospect of their own demise, and end up unconsciously hostile to the idea of immortality."

bingo.
I suggest taking a few days off, then keep working until your bonus contract doesn't leave you with obligations. Save everything you can, you're going to need it.
Ugh. Developing around git is a nightmare. libgit.a is not reentrant. It just calls die() whenever it's done or something goes wrong.
I agree that what is often thought of as "gamification" is actually the simple adding of false incentives to create specified outcomes. However, in many ways we already have many systems in place that have much the same methods attached to them.

For example, education system uses the concept of "grades" and "points" that have no more actual value than a high score in Pac-Man to motivate students to work harder and learn more. Yet, grades are often just as synthetic of a benchmark as most computer benchmarks in terms of actual capability or performance. ACT or SAT scores are a great example of this.

Does this mean that "gamification" is bad?

No, it just means that right now the idea of integrating game elements into other things is hot and new because it for the short term can lead to the easy 80% of engagement of games with 20% of the game dev effort. Eventually, on projects where game elements make sense, you'll likely see deeper iterations of those ideas.

Best example - look at Zynga. Early games were incredibly simplistic exploitationware for sure. Now they are making them more game-like. Eventually, you'll see them move to something deeper like a "real" mmorpg a la WoW or something with deep competitive engagement like a Halo or Madden.

Give it time. No sense killing the "gamification" baby before it learns how to walk.
I discovered Khan Academy about 1 year ago and since then the website has not changed that much, except for some polishing on the site.
Here is a snapshot of the site in June 2010 http://replay.web.archive.org/20100601053141/http://www.khan...

The site is currently quite hard to navigate around or search. Now that even talents like John have started to join the academy, I'm pretty sure, the site will definitely provide a better experience. Good for Khan, the academy and the education system
Given an infinite lifespan, you'll probably figure out how to change your mind better.
Actually, looking at their website, looks like they're basically planning on duplicating that pipe and running it to SYD as well http://pacificfibre.net/ Guess that could be good for you guys too.
nice downvote... how about an explanation?? this quote is fodder.
Calculator of choice on the trading desk today. Everyone has one, even the young guys!
I'm not sure this is that big an issue, I think being a month or two behind FF releases won't be the end of the world.
degreys "longevity escape velocity"
Intel to make iPad chips (and make itself a commodity?)
How many servers will it take to push everyone data to a billion people all trying to pull data at a gigabit per second?
I think the reason why people consider ideas cheap is if it's just an idea. If the idea is the solution to the problem then that's what makes it a good one. Then again that's just my interpretation of the large amount of seemingly-good startup advice on the internet. It also just makes sense.
Ask HN: Best resources for learning javascript?
I should preface this by saying I have no programming knowledge, but am a designer looking to learn some new things, and mainly, to help my prototyping move along a bit quicker.

I tried reading and doing the exercises in Eloquent Javascript, but, it was a bit confusing for me even in Chapter 2.

I tried jQuery Fundamentals, even without js knowledge, as there was a "Javascript Basics" chapter -- I was lost right around "syntax basics".

I've read that the Lynda tutorials were bad. I can't find a review for the Think Vitamin js videos, and the Peep Code videos are strictly jQuery.

Anyone know of a video series?

Or, maybe since I get lost so early on in the process (ahem, chapter 2), I should start with another language?
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And I assume you would then also understand if people had better things to do than be shat on by that community (in the case of #2). #1 is simply false; when there is little context for how to contribute it is completely understandable that someone may be paralyzed by indecision. It has nothing to do with laziness.

Contributing to open-source projects is, in my experience, often more trouble than it's worth--precisely because all too often the people already involved have forgotten (or never had the social capability to know and understand) that #1 is a falsehood and #2 is an eminently reasonable reaction for any remotely normal human being. I still contribute to some projects, but only projects that I or close personal friends maintain. It allows me to tell them to unscrew their heads when they act like the grandparent poster.
What happens if somebody puts you in a barrel full of concrete and dumps the barrel in the bottom of the ocean? Or worse, blasts you off into space? Given an immortal lifespan, it seems inevitable that someone would at some point do this to you. For this reason I wouldn't take perfect immortality. Immortality plus teleportation would work, though.
The Chicago Spire debacle
AWS Management Console support for AWS IAM: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/05/identity-and-access-manag...
First off, it's not going to "peg your CPU to 100%" for 45 seconds. I just tried a 600 meg file on my dumpy Macbook Pro. 15 seconds tops, and it was never noticeable or prohibitive. Besides, committing is not the bottle neck, it's add, when the hash and gzip are done.

And then, besides all that, the major problem with committing blobs to git is that git will store the blob once for each (potentially small) revision that you make. That's not space efficient, but the git community knows about it, and is actively trying to fix it.
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You're missing what I'm saying. I wasn't speaking about fidelity at all, I was trying to explain that conversion from sensor data to JPG is a matter of stylistic interpretation, even if it is done automatically.

For example, if you have a Canon, you likely have picture modes like Neutral, Landscape, Portrait, and Faithful. Or, if you have a Panasonic, you'll have modes like Standard, Dynamic, Nature, Vibrant. While you may consider one of these modes to be more realistic or take Canon's word at their concept of 'neutral' you'll find that, for some cases vibrant or nature is actually more accurate.

Even a monochrome color mode is likely to be more complicated than just equally averaging the red green and blue values. It will probably have stronger response in the reds, and the least response from blues because of the pleasant effect that has on skin.

There's nothing wrong with letting the camera make those choices for you, but the jpgs your camera spits out are tweaked in ways that are intended to be pleasing, not necessarily the most accurate.

To me, this is quite similar to choosing a particular film or a post-process filter that you like.
It's a short letter. Here it is, in its entirety:

The 3 April issue contained two Reports about automated science (“Distilling free-form natural laws from experimental data,” M. Schmidt and H. Lipson, p. 81, and “The automation of science,” R. D. King et al., p. 85). These Reports are seriously mistaken about the nature of the scientific enterprise, particularly regarding what theorists do and the meaning of physical law. As Thomas Kuhn famously argued, what most scientists do most of the time—which he called “normal science” and Rutherford called “stamp collecting”—does not contribute very much to the advancement of knowledge; rather, this normal science simply fleshes out the consequences of the paradigms that have been established by truly revolutionary advances. Even if machines did contribute to normal science, we see no mechanism by which they could create a Kuhnian revolution and thereby establish new physical law.

In the Report by Schmidt and Lipson, a machine deduces the equation behind a sample of chaotic motion. The discovery of deterministic chaos is an example of true Kuhnian revolution; others were its application to unexpected fields like meteorology and population biology. In the constrained problem in the Report, the relevant physical law and variables are known in advance; it is hardly a template for the creative, exploratory nature of true science.
So quickly people forget Adobe's free Kuler:

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This compares all the profits generated by all Apple hardware running either iOS or OS X to that generated by Windows for Microsoft through licenses sold.

A proper comparison would be to compare the profits of all PC manufacturers, XBox, Windows Mobile, etc... to those that the iPod/iPad/iPhone and Mac bring to Apple.
Not only will iWipe clear the location data from your backups, but it will add triggers to the database that delete any future tracking. Restoring a backup to your device will ensure that your future movements aren't tracked!

iWipe is based on the techniques described here: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Apr/408
and here:
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What is the right iPhone emulator? There are so many choices, from $3 to $15.
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From the music industry point of view, it's not about serving the customer, it's about extracting as much revenue as possible before the recorded music market collapses.

See this 2009 article for their thinking: http://techcrunch.com/2009/03/08/big-music-will-surrender-bu...
I had been under the impression that kuler was a knockoff of colourlovers, but I'm on my mobile and am having a hard time finding evidence.
For someone with your background, I would suggest O'Reilly's "Head First JavaScript". It really assumes nothing.

As a counterpoint, most people on this site tend to recommend Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts". However, that book might be better coming from a stronger programming background.
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Seems like it'd get pretty boring after the heat death of the universe.
i like my months of music. i never know when ill come across some new song ive never heard, but have, and now love. and just because i havent listented to a song in years, doesnt mean i never want to hear it again. maybe i forgot about it. maybe once in a blue moon that old Blind Melon song comes on, and it just takes you BACK! Know what I mean?
Kuler has been around since November of 2006 if I remember correctly....
Isn't the attempt to reflect reality in a photograph photojournalism, though? I always thought "photography" was a form of fine art, to be judged on its aesthetics, while in photojournalism the information communicated by the photo was paramount.
Also, "H-P"
Invite-only systems are generally really great at keeping people out. Systems like Wave implement invitation systems generally because they aren't ready to scale.

If you're ready to scale, and there's no compelling reason not to open registration, then I'd say do it.
And COLOURlovers has been around since Dec 04.
If you can't get a warm introduction to someone like Ryan Spoon, Dave McClure, Fred Wilson, Brad Feld, et. al., you need to work a little harder. If you have #4 (which you should by the time you seek semi-professional money), they will be thrilled to either talk to you or refer you to someone.
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Why when I was a kid, rich kids got Apple IIc's and us poor kids got a Commodore 64 and 1540 drive for around $300.

Anyway, $499, which isn't that much, is today's price. iPads will drop in price and you'll get them used. At some point along will come great Android tablets for $299 (and probably iPads). Gotta start somewhere. Tablets are the next big thing. Soon they'll be a billion of them.
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Do people even having 1.6 million Facebook "followers"? That's a lot more friends than I'd have time to confirm. I can't seem to find a Facebook page for him with nearly that many likes on it. However, he happens to have right around 1.6 million followers on Twitter.
If it is to the benefit of the community to have it be exclusive, it should stay invite only. Scale the invites given out as your business is able to scale, hopefully tied to activity that encourages benefits to the community, not spam.
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