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This guy is really ignorant. It's the same mentality that thinks the valley is impervious to bubbles and inflation.

Yup - More than that - he thinks his limited value system applies to everyone.

Maybe he's never considered people do those jobs because they like them, because they are good at it, because it's dynamic, because it's lucrative, because they think it's an essential part of our society?

You know, similar reasons that people do startups.
You can't count technological advance by Nobel prizes: they only started being relevant a century ago, and even then they're a poor proxy, and often decided by politics.

With regards to religion and science, I don't think you can consider the major religions or cultures by themselves as having much of an effect. It's all over the map... It varies with time, adminstration, fashion, the existence of certain schools. In the fifteenth century Catholics were far ahead in science, in the 11th, Muslims, during the 8th and 9th, the Chinese, at the beginning of the century, especially during the 1920's, Germany, then it was completely squashed by the Nazi's, then Hungarian Jews had a great run, spurring an American scientific dynasty of many ethnicities, and now it's fairly diffuse.

There is one major character to Jewish populations that seems to help them in science. Wherever they go, they seem to keep their culture intact. Since they're quite reverent towards education, it's traditionally meant that when the going got tough, the Jews were still studying.
hah I must have missed that. Thanks for pointing it out!
This wikipedia page seems like a good link rich start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
And I imagine that if they could find a decent way to tie her to the project, they would.

Hawking was an easy choice, writing an iconic book with "Time" in the title. A tie to Paris Hilton would take a bit more creativity.
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From the page: "They (Herb Brody) say that telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror. But I still think it is good to look back on how things got started and where they ended up since then. The first website was put online in August 1991. Just think about how much has happened since then and try to imagine how much we can expect from the next 17 years…"

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Well then there's the strange thing.

As you say, almost no company is issuing dividends that in themselves justify share prices so it's all just betting on growth. Does that mean that rational people are betting on the growth of virtually all (existing) companies?
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There is one major character to Jewish populations that seems to help them in science. ... they're quite reverent towards education

What about Ashkenazi-Jewish IQ?

http://www.vdare.com/rushton/080616_lynn.htm

seven studies of Jews in Britain yield a median IQ of 110. ... In Canada too, there is an IQ hierarchy: Jews (109), ... These results are remarkably consistent over time, place, and situation ...

in How to explain high Jewish achievement: The role of intelligence and values, an article published in Personality and Individual Differences, by Lynn and Satoshi Kanazawa (PDF), we showed that only IQ had predictive value when pitted against values theories.
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Hunched shoulders means worried, or otherwise in a down mood. (The hunch is a defensive position - minimize body area available for attack.)

Crossed legs means relaxed and thus not worried. (Relaxed because crossed legs means not ready for immediate action.)

Take a class in this, or ask a friend. Movies are great for this - have someone identify each body language as you come to it. Just learn it the same as you learn math - memorize each pose until you find the underlying pattern common to all.
I had a quick play with the design using Greasemonkey, and I think it's much more readable by increasing the page-width and standardising the font-sizes. The script is a little slow but shows that with only a bit of work the site's design could be improved dramatically. I'd have liked to expand the banner at the top, but sadly it's a table so a pain to work with.

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hardly, just that when new editions of the text we use in our classes get churned out so quickly, not that many places will have a recent enough version for us to use.

unless there's some sort of online version available..
As I understand it, photons can meander in any direction at any time but due to the way probabilities cancel each other out, they tend to move in a straight line when not in the vicinity of other particles.

However, because EM diffraction is observable at macroscopic scales, the "straight line" thing really is confusing. Growing up, I always wondered how radio waves transmitted through walls and assumed they just went through them when in fact they go around.
The only question remaining then is how difficult is it to make a new mapping from CButton -> new Cocoa button. I know that Carbon was more suited to Windows-style GUIs, but Cocoa seems to be slightly more difficult to use in that way...

Did anyone of you try to port a Win32/MFC/WTL app to Cocoa by adding preprocessor directives? (I didn't, it's a genuine question :-)
"p.s. does it annoy you that i don't capitalize any of my letters on here?"

Yes, yes it does. Unless you're a cockroach who can't work the shift key:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_and_Mehitabel
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This is a 'dangerous' idea because education is a big equalizer and a huge boon to the meritocracy we all want. I've downloaded a lot of texts just for my own interests.

One other aspect is that I think we'll be seeing a change in education, where some people will be using the net to take classes their whole lives. There's so much I want to learn, but I'm not interested in another degree. I just want to know more.
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does this guy really that the economy tanking is somehow any better for startups than it is for bankers?
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Consider me less than confident in that release schedule, considering the supposed epic scope of Windows 7's re-write. I guess only time will tell... not that it matters to me. Thanks, OSX, Linux and BSD!
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Please don't lump muslims into one huge group that have "inherited" something from Arabs. It's very inaccurate.
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She's the "woman of the time"?
I had the great luck to be given Infinite Jest by a friend who had read it, and I cannot praise it enough. It is by far the most amazing book I have ever read, achieving a clear and full vision into the world of its characters' internal thought processes to a degree I had not known was possible.

After reading Infinite Jest, I have struggled to find any author to equal its vitality, and have been frequently disappointed by the flat hollow fakeness of most works I have read since it, by authors both new to me (Paul Auster) and old (William Gibson).

His use of language has a kind of magical... it is hard to get exactly how he does it but his writing brings his characters alive.

I am crushed and saddened by his death and the tragedy of its cause. Depression haunts the people in many of our lives. It is a terrible disease made worse by the mistaken notion that melancholy is somehow noble or simply a fact of creativity, an illness to be proud of. It is certainly not.
Working in investment-banking is only about the money, in much the same way that IT is only about typing.
Because to become a nobel laureate, you have to go through a very special selection process that is strongly biased towards western cultures. Imagine some kid right now in the middle of chad is born who is as clever as Einstein. What do you think the odds are of that guy making it all the way to a nobel prize?

Compare that to a person born into a culture where intellectual ability is encouraged and paid for by the community and network, and where he is going to be actively sought out to go into research laboratories and so on.

Things have not changed. What has changed is that the balance of the world has moved over to one group of people, and those that are within the group wonder why nobody else seems to be showing up for the party.

I've travelled the world, from China through Africa, over Europe and the U.S, and the difference and the opportunities available are not just large, they are almost insurmountable.

The ability is there in all of us, but the opportunity is often not.
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You're putting words in my mouth (or at least attributing meaning to my words that I never intended) and trying to frame the debate. I am not Christian, nor do I count myself as a member of any organised religion. Such concepts as original sin and all that come with them hold no power for me and I certainly don't agree with them.

My concept of humans being inherently imperfect comes directly from and is directly in reference to the dictionary definition. I think I have already made my point about the attainment of perfection implicitly meaning that further improvement is impossible and how this can only be a bad thing for humanity. Who wants to live in a world where the best has already been?

If however, proponents of Objectivism wish to redefine and narrow the meaning of the words "perfect" and "imperfect" in order to make some point against certain misguided religious concepts, then that is their business. I could only suggest that perhaps they try using different words to avoid future confusion.

Someone got a 10 at the Olympics? Well done them. You may be interested in this story:

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/06/1214234

But in any case, now it seems that you're switching back and arguing that the dictionary definition of "perfect" is attainable by a human. And it was a good argument too, untill it occurred to me that scores are assigned by imperfect human judges.

I don't see the human inability to attain perfection as a negative, quite the opposite actually. It keeps us growing.
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As a sideproject a year ago to learn Python and learn more about solar-energy I created a webapp that compares prices of solar-energy equipment/parts.

I did the basic work and presentation but never made it into a "professional" one, meaning optimized, good-looking etc.

I now have some time over and I wonder if I should finish it.

There (obviously) already are services like this though, the best ones covering all kinds of green services.

None of them are that easy to find and to the point.
There isn't a killer green energy price comparisment service nor a solar only one.

But is this monetizeable? Clearly someone going to such a site is probably looking to buy eventually but are they just comparing and then buying in the "real world" instead?

Can it generate enough traffic? It's not like solar energy is that big (yet) but since I'm not selling, just showing(or will show) ads from the whole world there might be a market?

On the other hand for most people ordering stuff from other countries isn't an alternative so I might have to do by country. Just that there perhaps isn't that many options for smaller countries...

Is this idea worth finishing? Do you believe it has any potential?
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Oh, that's really interesting... I didn't know that (I know very little about physics, I'm more of the mathematician kind).
"You could say that he was like me" would be narcissistic.

Membership of a category does not imply the greatness of other members of that category.

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Yes, "...aren't internally consistent within OCaml's type system.".

What does your Lisp implementation (SBCL?) do with (+ x y) when x is a float and y is a bignum? Is there an implicit conversion at run-time or compile-time? (I don't have SBCL at the moment, it's not available for either of the platforms I develop on. Sigh.) If so, that's a fundamentally different result than OCaml, which is deliberately avoiding implicit conversions under all circumstances. I'm not saying that's an inherently better choice than Lisp's (it can be annoying), but this thread was initially about making Lisp faster, and that's part of how you do it.

Adding optional type inference, whether by H-M or something more flexible when mixed with non-statically-typed code (which seems like the real trick, but I'm still learning how type systems are implemented) to e.g. Scheme would be a great compromise. I believe MzScheme has had some research along these lines (MrSpidey: http://download.plt-scheme.org/doc/103p1/html/mrspidey/node2...), but it's not available for R5RS yet.

I like OCaml's strict type system more for how it helps with testing/debugging than the major optimizations it brings, really, but the speed is nice.

Also, OCaml is not an acronym (but I'm guessing that was from autocomplete in Emacs).
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This... isn't a coherent question. The disadvantage of programming for the past 10 years is you haven't been programming for the past 20? I have no idea what you're asking.
I don't think the wave is related to 3d movement in the case of light... it's not that the photon is going up and down all the time.

I think this explaination is right:

"In electromagnetic wave, it is the electric and magnetic field vector (or amplitude) that is oscillating." (not the position)

from here: http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-186751.html
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Perfect timing given the current financial crisis which was triggered in part by an over reliance on (inaccurate) statistical models.
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I didn't sit back, and chuckle when I saw 20,000 people potentially lose their jobs. Even if you don't like Wall Street, you don't want to see that many people looking for work all of a sudden.
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Often it seems that people don't have a problem with the "arrogant" people themselves, but those who choose to surround them.
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This guy sounds like a tool bag.
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The essay makes this assertion a couple of times: "The banking system .. just lost > 1 Trillion dollars (so far) on a single error, more than was ever earned in the history of banking."

Really, more than was ever earned in the history of banking? To me that would seem to imply that at this point every banking institution would be bankrupt.

Shouldn't a guy who chides people for sloppy thinking be rather more careful, or am I just missing something and being stoopid?
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Of all the career paths that I know of, finance and technology are the two that probably hold the greatest appeal to me. I might have gone into finance when I was younger but it just wasn't on my radar.

As others have commented, there are far more similarities (between finance careers and the startup world) than there are differences. Some of my closest friends are investment bankers and portfolio managers. They have a deep interest in the world around them, are wicked smart and do what they do because it gets them juiced like nothing else.

I'm definitely not wicked smart but the other two characteristics apply to me so I can relate to their chosen path and don't revel in the sh*t that's hitting the fan right now.
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Ask HN: Interested in news?  Network bureau chief just described a service he wants...
I recently had lunch with a bureau chief at a major network who wanted to pick my brain about "what's new in online news." We had a great conversation and at one point he described a specific problem he's dealing with and the sort of solution he'd be interested in.

I made a fairly crude but functional demo using open source stuff (took about a day) to show the guy and he liked what he saw. I showed it to some independent publishers and prominent bloggers here in Chicago and they caught me off guard by immediately asking what it would cost to subscribe.

I'd like to move forward with this, but not by myself. Though I meet PG's "animal" criteria, I'm a designer/frontend guy whose background is in journalism (hence my connections).

I think the way forward would be to get 1-2 more cofounders with technical backgrounds and to dedicate a few months to seeing what we can put together, perhaps apply for funding, figure out a pricing model and start selling subscriptions. If it's got legs, great! If not, OK, we gave it a try.

Anyone interested in talking about this? Anyone know any devs who might be interested? I've read all the previous posts where people ask for co-founders and get ridiculed for "doing it wrong." I'm looking for honest to goodness co-founders who'd get an appropriate share of the credit and equity. I've found a bit of an opportunity but am unable to exploit it by myself.
> Your conclusion assumes that startups are an intrinsic aspect

This place used to be called Startup News...
There isn't a killer green energy price comparisment service nor a solar only one.

What about Solarbuzz?

http://www.solarbuzz.com
I wonder if people are voting up because they've watched it or if they like the title?
It's not like solar energy is that big (yet)

Why would solar energy get much bigger?
I'm not a wall street hater, but it's not hard to understand why people feel a little tinge of poetic justice about LEH el. al. -

http://www.google.com/search?q=announces+layoffs+stock+price...

I know that this is bogus on so many levels but I'm just saying that the perception is that foreign competition puts pressure on companies to layoff and offshore and then wall street is in the bleachers going wild when layoffs are announced.
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