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Their is plenty of research that shows your genes have as much, or more to do with your success later in life then your parents. This is especially true as long as your parents meet the minimum standard of raising you.

Edit was the post I was replying to:

"Considering he gave him up for adoption not sure why he would want to meet with him once he grew up. He is no more relevant than a stranger wanting to meet Jobs. And calling him his child is an insult to the parents that raised Steve Jobs."
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There is plenty of research that shows that your environment has as much, or more to do with your success than your genes. Just look at kids in bad environments.

Steve's environment in this case was provided by his adoptive parents. The fact that they were willing to spend all their savings for Steve to go to a very expensive college tell us a lot about the type of environment that they wanted for their kid.

We will never know but I wonder if we would be talking about Jobs today had he not been raised by his adoptive parents.
A big struggle for our startup was learning how to design a good looking site.

For our first site, we used a template we got off of a template site, then modified it out of all recognition.

To be honest it's not great and we'll probably redo it before too long. But it was something we could hang a couple apps off of.

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For our second site, we went with a different approach and designed it from scratch as a learning exercise. One of the experimental techniques we sweated over for hours and hours was using textures.

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We think it made a huge impact in the look of the site, but also drove us in new directions with the design we weren't planning on.

This site looks fantastic and something we'll definitely be looking at (maybe for an eventual redesign of our current site!)
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I like this article, but I don't get why families/babies on the brain always comes up in conversations and articles about why there aren't very many women in this industry ("the tricky years of balancing being a mommy with running a company"). It's kind of insulting. Many of us choose to wait until later in life and some of us are not interested in starting a family.
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Master degrees on CS with emphasis on entrepreneurship. Are they worth it? 
I want to eventually start a software company and thus I'm interested on programs such as these:

http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/csg/entrepreneurship_emphasis/
http://www.brandeis.edu/gsas/programs/cosci_entrepreneurship.html
http://pgstudy.nottingham.ac.uk/postgraduate-courses/computer-science-and-entrepreneurship-masters-msc_680.aspx

Has anybody heard about these type of programs or these specific programs? As to CS, I'm mostly into compilers, operating systems and general systems programming.
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he started out doing hardware and software stuff for atari, but it became obvious that he was more of a firebrand and woz was better at the hardware side, so thats how things went.
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Great post. Should be combined with healthy eating too!

I can't exercise as much now because of health reasons, so I find that doing little things also helps like parking further away which forces me to walk more or taking low intensity exercises or group exercises which are more social as well.
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Hey there everybody,
Just found out about this site (and Y Combinator) earlier today while looking at some startup stuff online. Looking forward to spending some more time here and talking to all of you!
Much love,
James
I agree that the smaller proportion of women in science means that there are naturally fewer women hacker founders, but 4% is lower than the percentages of women in science commonly quoted (anywhere from 10 to 38%). My feeling is that this is the subset of women hackers who also have some entrepreneurial drive -- not all male CS students become entrepreneurs -- but it's pretty low, and some of the other barriers mentioned in the article may be keeping it down.
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It's odd though since the article seems to read as if Steve's mother was pressured to abandon him by her father but Steve's biological father didn't have a say in it.

Only later after the divorce they described Mr. Jandali as distant but that's no surprise after a divorce.
Hey James. There's much to learn here. Enjoy.
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This strikes me as very true, but irrelevant. As an American I say something positive to every startup founder I encounter, but secretly think they are nuts. Had I met the founders of these companies, below is what I would have thought:

Heroku: Sounds nice but impossible to deliver. Even if you do, no one is going to trust their business to your startup's platform.

Dropbox: Yet another backup solution that is going nowhere.

AirBnb: Have fun building a marketplace. Chicken and egg problems are impossible to solve.

I have learned to not trust my instincts. Now I tell startups, "Sounds cool, but why are you at a tech event? You should be at an event for fashion/teachers/bar owners/tour guides/whoever your customer is. Why are you clowning around seeking reassurance from from other programmers?"
Those eyes,lips and nose are very similar..;)
The annoying tabloid-style one-sentence-per-paragraph formatting detracted from the formatting.

Let me explain...

is not a paragraph.

Which brings me to an interesting point.

is not only not a paragraph but not even a sentence.
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I never said it did, but why would they "realise it isn't going to work"... when it has up until now?
The tea party has much in common with that protest. I think both sides need to focus less on the groups of people involved and just accept that big government and big corporations are not a healthy mix. Big corporations actually don't mind a big government because regulation can work in their favor to make it harder on their smaller competitors, not to mention lobbying for special favors and direct assistance (e.g. guaranteed loans). Tea partiers should be more positive towards the political realities of a powerful government and their opponents should recognize the need for reforming entitlements and ineffective/wasteful departments, such as the Department of Education and Defense.

I wouldn't describe our situation as a potential "Arab Spring/French Revolution". We have civil rights. The poor are generally well taken care of in this country, and there's plenty of opportunity for those willing to work hard -- that is those willing to change careers and work multiple jobs in hard economic times. "Do whatever it takes" is what started this country, not let's figure out a way to extract wealth from another group of people, except for the shame of slavery, of course. "Do whatever it takes" (morally - fighting an oppressive imperialist monarchy, letting all groups become citizens, etc.) can work again.
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I became interested in Sudoku solving recently, and although I was aware of this essay, I wanted to study the problem first without knowing anything about constraint propagation:

http://cjauvin.blogspot.com/2011/10/journey-into-sudoku-spac...

Next I read the article, and then tried to adapt my previous, naive method with the CP ideas:

http://cjauvin.blogspot.com/2011/10/wormhole-through-sudoku-...
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Not to nitpic, but it was BusinessWeek, not Newsweek.
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From the article: "Don't: give frequent feedback."

Really?

Perhaps they mean, give frequent feedback on what but not on how? I'm not sure where they were going with this.
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You forgot fur, whaling, and the Judean People's Front.
Google isn't the only culprit. When Gawker introduced their much-maligned redesign, their sites also rebinded arrow keys to customized interactions like Advance to Next Story. A few months on, and luckily most of these "features" have been removed.

When UX interactions behave consistently at the OS and browser level across 99% of the web, why would I want to see an unpredictable custom behavior on a certain site? I hold Google to an even higher level of responsibility because their actions set precedents that other sites may emulate.
I didn't say that they don't write it, I said that they don't actually run it. :)
No. I was just making the point that your biological parents are relevant to who you become.
I'm not saying they don't have debt, but they have consistently posted positive growth throughout the financial crisis, whilst maintaining a GDP debt percentage of < 20%. U.S has been in recession, and it's debt percentage is > 60%...

Sensationalist news articles that quote unknown economic groups are hardly a 'source of truth'. I'll stick with the officially reported numbers (from the IMF[1]) until someone successfully proves they are false.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_pub...
Yeah there's definitely more to the story, and many sides of it... but I guess all that is ancient history and Jobs took it to its grave. No use in them arguing about it after he's gone. Real life doesn't wrap up like in the movies :-/
I'm a female founder and I applied to YC, not technical though. I did find a tech cofounder, and if need be, I can add another third tech cofounder as well. One of my strengths is keeping the programmers motivated and focused. Wish me luck. :-)
I concur. If I don't get at least seven, eight hours of sleep the day before, I find myself staring at the screen blearily the next day (at work) or succumbing to a mid-day nap (if the next day isn't work day).
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Agreed. A few years ago, when I first asked around regarding my plans for branching out on my own.. the first line I got was " you must be a sucker for pain ".

As it turns out , the line has been proven on the dot.

So a better refinement of the question would be , why aren't there more female founders ?

I look at all the blockbuster companies, can't think of one woman who's gone for the scale of a Gates , Jobs etc. The few female execs that have come to the arena at that scale were non-founders.

Furthermore, the women in my life are having far more empathy, compassion and care. If there is some way to have more of that without losing track of overall merit, get it done is all I can say.

Here's a really interesting project with a female founder from my line of work :

http://qubes-os.org
Sounds like this is a good opportunity for a Chrome Extension :)

(BTW, backspace does nothing for me on Chromium 14 and Linux)
Windows 7 also has a screen calibration assistant, somewhere in control panel. IIRC it's not nearly as helpful, but if your screen's that bad you could probably improve it.
Hi James, welcome to HN. Your first stop should probably be http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and then perhaps http://ycombinator.com/lib.html

Have fun, this is a fantastic community.
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> There is plenty of research that shows that your environment has as much, or more to do with your success than your genes. Just look at kids in bad environments.

That shows the effects that really poor environments have on children. I believe I have read the after a certain minimum level of care is reached the effects of childhood upbringing greatly diminish (ie. piling on those childhood activities is unlikely to result in long term gains vs. children who don't have them).
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That so needs to be one of the 'rules of the internet' (if it isn't already)

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Norvig has some great solutions. However I have still yet to see something that can beat a well coded dancing (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jchu/publicportal/sudoku/sudoku... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Links) links solution to Sudoku, for speed.

For my money, giving humanistic solutions for sudoku is the more interesting problem. The size of the search space is so constrained that a correctly coded solution will finish so quickly that it's no longer an interesting race. Rating puzzles for how much trouble a real person will have solving is also very interesting.
All the best :-)

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My drive was intrinsic, not extrensic. I could have cared less about my parents' and teachers' approval. I did it because of interest in the subject.

Full disclosure: At age 40, I was officially diagnosed with Asperger's. So my case may not be normal.

And by mentioning those "accomplishments", I am not intending to brag. To those like us, the predictability and order of math/CS way more than offsets any difficulty in learning it. And I had problems in English too. History too. Political science was easier, since it was framed in discrete terms (left/right), although personally I am an independent small-l libertarian.

It depends on a large degree of luck, to land where you do. Not everyone in my position will land the jobs I did, due to chance luck. But it is not totally due to luck -- developing connections and establishing a reputation is important.

I wish you the best.
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I'd just like to pop back in to say that the low quality of discussion here is exactly why politics stories should be squashed as soon as they appear.

Please, this shit has already taken over reddit, let's not have it here.
My jaw just dropped upon seeing what can be achieved considering the amount of resource that was used.

If you're used to program only with modern hardware (PC/Mac/iPhone/Android/whatever) you'll never understand how insanely fast 2.5k RAM can be consumed. For example, declaring a fixed char[] of 255 chars would consume 10% of the entire amount of physical memory you have (you can, however, have "swap" on the Microsd card but that's another problem.)

Previous projects of him include Zork for his same hardware platform ( http://rossum.posterous.com/zork-for-the-microtouch ) , the Atari Microsd drive ( http://rossum.posterous.com/a-little-atari-810-disk-drive ). Other parts that come with the microtouch kit (microtouch simulator on Windows, the shell, pacmac, 3d maze, paint) are mind blowing too.

Microtouch is an amazing kit. I had a chance to work on the Microtouch for a while and it was incredibly fun. I currently have my microtouch kit hanging outside of my office as an interactive picture frame ( http://tnhh.net/pancake/2011/09/lolz-pic-frame.html ), but because of this I might want to take it back some time :-)
If this is brand new to you, don't miss the TDD vs BPNDD ("Being Peter Norvig Driven Development"), recently discussed here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033446

edit btw I certainly don't mean to fan any flames of pro or anti TDD, I just think there's some interesting stuff to discuss.
IMO backspace as a shortcut key deserves to be overridden. I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally left a page while typing backspace after losing focus in a form I thought I was editing.

If I were Google, I'd rather reduce the potential for negative experiences from shortcuts for my customers, most of whom I'm guessing rarely use them.

Also, how are the cursor keys being overridden in a non-standard way? Every input box on Google Search feels intuitive to me.
Can you look into internships? I think if you are interested in working for a startup, you are going to be bored working for a large corporation and just studying on the side.
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Well, Jobs' children are still alive. I can't believe they too would be so mad at their grandfather that they wouldn't want to meet him. He should wait till things calm down and then knock on a door in Cupertino.
I'm guilty of overusing 'great', especially as the first word (actually full sentence) of an email response.

In that colloquial context, it means, "total assent/acknowledgement with what you've proposed or reported", rather than a quality evaluation.

If aimed at a more concrete bit of work output, 'great' is more likely to be a superlative quality evaluation.

For example:

Q: "What about this general logo theme for exploration?" [a proposed abstract direction/plan]

A: "Great!" [means, I agree that's worth pursuing, let's see where it goes]

Q: "I've made this logo treatment."

A: "Great!" [Somewhat vague; definitely means I'm glad we've reached this point (regardless of the treatment quality), but might (if directly gesturing at the object) also imply some evaluative approval]

Q: "How would you rate logo treatment #2?"

A: "Great!" [this finally really means it's evaluated as great on the relevant scale]

Even 'excellent', 'fantastic', and other adjectives are often used this same way: casually used to signal sufficient approval, when describing something prospectively/abstractly/directionally, but only being strong signals of judgement when applied to specific, concrete, completed instances.
I didn't say they hadn't prepared. Every major news publication has had an obit prepared. But Businessweek had to tear out their current cover article and others, and do layout and pagination among other traditional publishing tasks unrelated to content gathering. The fact that my former colleague was out gathering reaction also shows that some work has to be done to make the content up to date
Who said something along the lines of "you never leave with an empty inbox"?
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This article came at an excellent time: I've recently been setting up test deployments of both Puppet and Chef for potential HPC use, and this article confirms a lot of my impressions. In particular, that Puppet has much better documentation (especially for doing the initial setup) and a more sysadmin-friendly language, but that Chef makes it easier to carry out complex tasks.

Despite some cool things I've been able to do in Chef, Puppet is probably going to end up the winner, if for no other reason than it having much much better support for RHEL and clones (ie Scientific Linux). Chef was extremely unimpressive there in many ways, and anything related to deployment where the wiki includes the line "RPM installation via ELFF has been deprecated" is going to be a non-starter in the HPC world. (Or doesn't, anymore... any mention of RPM seems to have been scrubbed now.)

We're probably only going to use it on infrastructure/head nodes though: our compute nodes are provisioned on ramdisk statelessly using Warewulf, and are easier to reconfigure with a reboot/redeploy than via CM.

(edit to clarify)
No way it'll take 5 years to move to ARM. I bet we'll see ARM Macbook Airs by the end of next year.

Here's what I think will happen - the Macbook Pro line will be slimmed down to Air specs, the Air that exists today gets discontinued to make way for an all-ARM version.

The Air brand will be the ARM laptop line, the Macbook Pro's will be x86 for a few years before they too switch.
A Chrome extension to make yourself accidentally back out of webpages from time to time? Funny.
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Given that the original product that Apple bought worked that way, I'd find it hard to believe that the newly integrated one changes things that significantly. If they did get it working locally it would be very interesting.
As an Australian I can relate to this. Often American's think I'm putting our startup down, just because I'm not overly excited saying everything is awesome and fantastic. I'm extremely positive and have absolute confidence that we will succeed. But I prefer to look at things objectively and to tackle the problems. However American's translate my language into "my startup sucks".

So recently I've been training myself to talk roses when dealing with American's. :)
Heh. Thanks.

I'll try it, but I don't think the screen is physically capable of generating enough luminosity to provide any fine-tuned amount of contrast... :)
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Completely agreed on backspace; Alt/Cmd+Left already covers it well enough. (I've been having a similar problem with two-finger swipe pageback in Chrome anytime I need to scroll horizontally.)
If Google wants to take a stand and change the behavior of backspace, they should do it in their browser. What they should not do is implement a standard keyboard navigation at the browser level, and then override it with nonstandard actions occasionally.
Logical fallacy. The fact that some payment processors still exist does not overcome the prima facie fact that at least one startup (and probably more than one) was put out of business by this law.

Thus, if you agree that startups are engines of innovation, innovation was prevented.

If you support a regulation you must be intellectually honest enough to acknowledge its empirical costs in addition to claiming its theoretical benefits.