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Have you done market testing to see how many people out there actually need to start from 2+2? One of my peeves about many programming books is their half-assed attempts at assuming you know nothing and wasting the first 100 or so pages covering introductory material. I appreciate hierarchal approaches, but even in math they don't work so well. Math knowledge is organized in a graph, not a tree.

Do you think a student could pass the AP Calculus BC exam, using only your 60 pages of Calculus as a reference? Would a student be able to go through 1st grade to 12th grade using nothing but your book? If not, why would I buy your book?

I still want to see "The Simple Math of Everything" http://lesswrong.com/lw/l7/the_simple_math_of_everything/
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This conversation is great - and great fodder for my gripe that resume advice on the internet is useless unless it comes from the exact person or /maybe/ organization you want to be hired by. Everyone has their own idea of what the ideal application is, and they all think it's the most reasonable one.
Why is there Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7? Or for that matter OS X and IOS.
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companies will use your salary history against you

Then get a new job and don't tell the prospective employer your old salary.
Tor anonymizing network Compromised by French researchers
there's something called 401k which is a type of retirement account. You can contribute to it through pre-tax contribution directly from your paycheck

That sounds very similar to a lot of private sector pension schemes that operate in EU member states, e.g. Ireland.
I know that for a lot of people in the US, their experience with bike commuting involves being stuck behind a bicycle on a road that doesn't have bike lanes, causing a certain amount of free-floating antipathy towards bikers.
I am 16% into my Kindle copy of the biography and so far the only thing that has bugged me is how cold Steve was with Daniel Kottke. He just flat out refused giving him any stock and seemed to discourage others too when they tried giving part of their own stock.

I could understand why he might not have given Wozniak the bonus - at least he gave half of the rest and may be he needed money badly. But the Kottke thing is just unexplainable. Wozniak finally ended up giving some of his options to many other neglected ones including Kottke.

The book is definitely worth a read just in case anyone was still on the fence.
Sad to see my comment being downvoted because people disagree with it. The point that I was making was that he's shameless about his needs. Most people who have needs like his can't create this type of platform and exposure to be heard.

And it is shameless. Why do I care about amit gupta, and why are all his promotional materials centered around HIM, and not acute leukemia? People suffer every day who can't be heard like this, is it so wrong to bring up that uncomfortable fact?

To the people saying, "well what he's doing is good for others, too!" Yes, I agree. But face it, he never would've done this had he never got acute leukemia. So my original hope remains: "if this works out for him, it would be cool to see him champion other peoples' life-threatening needs." With him seeing the direct benefit of these efforts on his life, it would be cool if he maybe took it a step further and continued it for others.
Indeed. The following video provides a nice overview of the history and the current state of biking infrastructure in The Netherlands:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn2s6ax_7TM

Also, besides infrastructure, making a city of country bike-friendly also requires changes in legislation. E.g. in The Netherlands a lot legislation has been introduced in the past to protect cyclists, making drivers of motorized vehicles more cautious.

The effect on society is profound. Most of my colleagues go to work by bike, public transit, or both. A bike is often many times more economic than a car, reduces oil-dependence, and wide use results in cleaner air.
Parenthood also makes founding a company 100 times harder, because you don't have the luxury of throwing yourself into the company 100% and never looking back. You have other responsibilities, and just letting them go to concentrate on your business comes at the cost of not being there for these wonderful little beings that you brought into the world.

And quitting your job to try a startup is fraught with a whole new peril -- you've got a family to feed!

I can imagine starting a part-time lifestyle business and taking it full-time if it ever became successful enough, but never a full-on work-til-you-can't-work-anymore startup. People who can do this after they have kids have my utmost respect, but I genuinely don't know how they can do it.
Middle-men are often seen as ethically compromised in any supply-and-demand scenario. this is not new.

The whole GS franchise is built on their role as a go-between. Need hyphens? You might not understand the hyphen farmer's strange accent, but the merchant has been dealing with him for a long time.
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Before you start bashing, consider that Microsoft might actually hold at least 1 legitimate patent that is being clearly infringed on.

The "cocky", "full of vim and vinegar", "victory-lap", "bellicose", "braggado and preening", "celebrating" legal team blog post that this author is refering to:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...

...seems to be everything but that, and very professional.
Thanks for the feedback and interest! The YouTube player is pretty finicky with z-indexing, so I'll need to play around with what your wanting and see how I could pull it off. As far as setting an option for auto play, that should be fairly easy to throw in. If you'd like to talk more about some features your interested in seeing feel free to contact me via cjstewart AT gmail DOT com
And repeating it doesn't make it any more true. In what sense his is plea for help shameless? Should he simply sit back, do nothing, and hope something works out? It's not like he is taking from others for his own benefit. Indeed as others have pointed out, it's likely that his campaign has benefited others, not only himself.
Poll: Do you use Windows Media Center?
I realized over the weekend that one of my favorite software applications is Microsoft Windows Media Center. Surprising because my primary computer is a Macbook Pro.
In my living room I have a PC w/ two HD tuners connected to my cable and to a flat screen tv. I use it to DVR, to watch videos, listen to music, view photos and more. All through WMC.

So I'm wondering how popular it is for HNews readers.

Do you use WMC?
Ideally, yes, you shouldn't need the specter of something like lack of insurance to motivate you to pursue a healthy lifestyle. That said, nobody's perfect. It's still a valid reason, even if it shouldn't be a primary reason.
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Thanks man. I'm definitely wanting to add some type of suggestions as you type or auto-completing.
IOS is an operating system for Cisco Routers.

iOS was actually branched off of OS X. OS X was around before Apple was making small devices.
Little tip for any budding writers: Whenever you feel the urge to use the word "enormity", use enormousness or magnitude instead. Especially if you're talking about your children.
Google Maps was also significantly better looking and easier to use than its competitors at the time (MapQuest with its clumsy non-moveable image tiles and interface).
Cool, thanks. I really couldn't believe that it was 32minutes of ad breaks!
"also the removal of the optical drive"
That will make me very, very,...very happy! I hate the idea that I have a thing in my Mac that I don't use and adds extra weight and complexity to the design :|.
That will be my main reason to upgrade my 2010 15" hi-res anti-glare Macbook Pro.

(I'm sticking with the Pro line because it has a 15" screen, bellow that I don't like).
Wow, that's the clearest explanation I've heard of how we got into this cycle. Good for Dalio being honest and clear!
Agriculture and trading are inextricably linked. How f-ed up is that?

Care you tell us your opinion of foraging? Also know as ...trespassing... now that almost every acre of land on earth is owned by someone.
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Considering how little vetting happens at the Patent Office, I wouldn't be surprised. But the real problem, in my opinion, is that Google is not doing anything about Microsoft's efforts.
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Wow... unlike most things on the web, thanks for providing a way for non-USA people to get involved! http://amitguptaneedsyou.tumblr.com/help-around-the-world
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Where do you go for parenting?
Thanks, I'll look into this.
Even better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Nrm-M-m14
This would not scale at all.

The work is done on an individual basis by an artist who not only takes great pains to interpret what the child has drawn, but also above and beyond to transform it into a personalized, and near perfect, piece of art.

Just ask any offshore worker to reinterpret a set of well-documented requirements and you'll see what I mean.
Gmail had the Web2.0 style interface, everyone else had clunky, slow interfaces at the time; Yahoo Mail, for example, only moved to a similar responsive feeling interface much later. The design of the UI was also cleaner; it felt like the others had "junk" all over the page. The storage capacity was a huge plus as well.
There is a huge difference between having an assignment you don't feel for and having to do something boring that has immediate purpose. I totally get that running your own company involves a lot of things that you probably never were interested in but, I imagine, that running an own company it's very easy (comparatively) to see the purpose of everything you do (and the consequences of not) and that can make the exact same task so much easier.

For some people that alone is the difference between a depression and a happy fulfilling life.

The same could be applied to school of course, you do this assignment so that you can pass the class and eventually earn a paper that says that you did something. But that is too abstract for many and the motivation required for that is completely different. The subject itself might be really interesting and you really would love to play around with it on your spare time but you don't feel you have time because you have a pointless assignment in your way. It's not that that situation is unique to studying but the motivation required can be completely different (why are you studying, to learn or to get a grade?). Saying that the best dropouts are those who would do well in school anyway really didn't sound right in my ears.

Other than that I agree with you and the article but I think you both fail to recognize that dropping out says something as well. If you drop out out of free will that says something about you and your values and that is not without value (depending on why you did it).
There are people who want to have startups, deal with technology, AND be parents, too. There's no reason that they must be mutually exclusive. Besides, the number of articles regarding parenting on this site is a metaphorical drop in the ocean of tech articles.
Yes. I agree with the classes. But this works only for programmers, for people working in, say, finance, monster seems unavoidable...

What sucks the most about the whole process job board/application is that if you don't fit the boxes (I would like to program AND work in corporate/finance), you are screwed.

Only way to go seem startups that value people with skills at 360 degrees.
Two different approaches to operating systems. ChromeOS is about storing everything in the cloud, where as Android is localised.
> assuming that you will still have a balanced social life, i have not found any conclusive research that proves it is harmful to sleep at an irregular hour.

Well, depending on what you mean by that. For example, go to sleep with the sun shining on you, and I guarantee you you will have worse sleep from lack of melatonin secretion!

In a related point, while researching links between melatonin & depression for http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin#fn5 I noticed that Lewy et al 2006's SAD sufferers had normal total amounts of sleep, but they all seem to suffer delays or advances in their sleep schedule compared to normal people, which is suggestive...
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> Would love to hear from people with hands on experience with it.

I suppose I could promote myself since you asked for it: http://www.gwern.net/Zeo
Thanks man, I find that to be one of the most difficult things when playing with a new idea, actually sticking with it until its "finished".
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Just remember: you don't get to pick what fascinates your children. He may love sitting by your side learning all about coding -- and he may get bored and restless and want you to go outside and throw a ball around with him.
Looks very nice and clean, good job! One minor item: http://thewp.co/get-started/ I would rename the "Place order now" button. "Place order now" sounds very final and commital. Even though it says "Submit your request" under it. I would maybe even take it out altogether and leave only "Submit your request"
Not just in sales and recruiting: "Rock Star Ninja Engineer"
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Very nice, I love the design and the fact you simplify the order process for something like this with the tick boxes. Just makes me more likely to use you.
Just curious, what do you do with 16GB that you couldn't do with 8?
It's obvious that we're both pretty successful at finding people I think, through wildly different processes. I think it's fair to say I prefer to weed out front side via resumes, and you prefer to weed out backside in the technical interview process. And I think that's fair.

I do find it interesting on this site in general how I almost disagree with every single thing you post, yet you still seem to make it work, so that's always fascinating to me and helps remind me that there's often more than one way to do it.
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Hi, im working on a bone marrow drive for Amit in Chicago. If you want to help drop me an email (edit: I put my email in the profile).
I am not so sure the notion is as dumbass as you believe. There are certainly those who act stupidly but, in general, people tend to act somewhat reasonable (if not they wouldn't be able to e.g drive since way to many people would be killed).

So you don't have to entirely rational for economics to apply to you.

But in any event studying economics has enabled me to understand and (correctly) estimate the likely course of future government laws. In some cases it enables me to be even more rational (fx currently the local government is going to make it much cheaper to buy fuel efficient cars. Since I was going to buy one anyway I won't buy one now since that will cost me more money. On the other hand I could have brought a non fuel efficient car and then sold it when prices went up).
You keep saying "shameless" as if it's exceptional in some way. Why should he feel shame about trying to not die?
Free cars and free movies are not access to information though.
Agreed, I'll change that now. It's more an enquiry / request anyway.
Expanded: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AptUDTRqdfaBdGR...
Anyone know of something similar but with a pull string capability?
I became a father 2 weeks ago and that's the thing that's struck me most. We're only 2 weeks into it and we are giving everything we have night and day to look after our daughter.

I don't recall ever hearing my parents using it against me or even mentioning it. You suddenly realize that ever parent has just taken it on the chin and selflessly put themselves second to their children.

As a father I completely understand why, as a child I just had no idea (until now).
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This was a great post. My wife and I have 4 kids and even though we are technically "outnumbered" we try our best to get everyone in on the idea that we are a team in this adventure of life. It's hard but it's wonderful too!

This was my favorite line:
"Children give the first four years of your life back to you."

It's true! They teach you in those 4 years so much about life and I think the true loving nature of humans before we all get shaped through our environments.
Thanks for writing that first paragraph. It was not an instant thing with me either... the first 2-3 months (maybe more) were spent helping taking care of and playing with my daughter and wondering now what... And then she started cracking open a smile every time I came back from work/groceries/etc. Every time. It was a simple acknowledgement, and I fell for it...
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shameless:
2. done without shame; without decency or modesty

modesty:
1. having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.;
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I wasn't offended, and I'm not a hiring manager. But I've definitely done most of my hiring in large boring mega corps. For the small startups I've worked for, willingness to work at a small startup often has major weight in the decision process and can overcome other problems that might exclude them from big corp's process.
[IANPG] Just out of curiosity, what would be the benefit of the proposed changes?
I did not say it does not benefit anyone else. I just said it was shameless.

shameless:
2. done without shame; without decency or modesty

modesty:
1. having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.;
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Make money, create jobs, make more kids happy. She obviously doesn't have to, though.
Chrome OS is currently based on Gentoo. Ubuntu was used originally, but as I remember the switch happened early on due to Gentoo's better support for cross-compilation.
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"Annila shows that, when gravitational lensing is analyzed with this concept, it does not require dark matter to explain the results."

Both dark energy and dark matter seem contrived and virtually anything would be less hand-wavy. Just for aesthetic reasons I hope these are found to be the modern equivalents of "ether" as a medium for EM waves.
Hi: HN doesn't support private messages, and it doesn't show your email address by default. If you want to let people message you, you have to explicitly put your email address in the about field in your profile (here: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=inuhj )
actually, plenty of economics textbooks present alternative schools of thought and relative merits of those ideas. i think that's pretty standard for textbooks
Open source mathematically less evil than proprietary software? 
Funny mathematical equation, check it out!
Well, there's the big company with lots of warring fiefdoms theory.

On the other hand, if you assume that Google has a single cohorent strategy then you could imagine that they consider the future to be web apps but felt that the low-power phones weren't quite ready to compete against native iOS apps with only the HTML4 web. So as things on the hardware side progress, Android will become more like Chrome and via HTML5,6,7 the web will become more like native development and the two will meet in the middle.
There is a kit so you can pull out my optical drive, put it in an external usb enclosure and put in another HD in your macbook pro.
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He can code a physics engine and throw a ball in that. </sarcasm>
Taxing the wealthy: Differences at the margins
Extending the MBA line was the first move. It will take at least 2 more overhauls (not CPU upgrades) for the product lines to merge completely.
Your comment seems a bit trite and overly dismissive, which is why it has been downvoted into oblivion, but there is a possible grain of truth there to watch out for.

It has been rumored for a while that Scott Forstall, head of iOS, is extremely difficult to work with, and has been the reason for a number of people leaving Apple. I can't even begin to guess whether this is true or not -- I don't have any way of knowing. But this may actually be something to watch for over the next couple of years.
The most interesting aspect of this from my perspective was the importance of structs in C#. Java doesn't have this construct, making it harder to solve these problems in-memory.
Congrats to Jeff! My firstborn is also Henry, and I have two year old twin girls (Ada and Alice). The most interesting things about twins is how incredibly different they are from each other. They were nurtured in the same way, they share the same sets of genes, but they are wholly and fully their own people from day 1. It is completely fascinating stuff.
Unfortunately I have encountered those "sales" people quite a few time during my long career (in financial industry.) They sell themselves very well, they're very good at with people, they make a lot of jokes, laugh a lot, they use their own families (dinner parties etc.) for getting closer to people and, dresses very very well for all occasions. They play politics in the office very well as well. When it comes to deliver something, you always see delays, they quickly offload responsibility to those who can actually do it (and they are very good with them as well). They suck up, but when it comes down to it, they kick down hard especially those who helped them in the past. They all disliked me, since I was very blunt to them. It is easy to detect them, since if he is really someone to deliver he will do it very soon, otherwise they play endless delay tactics.
Interesting to see that HN is higher than TechCrunch for the Samurai launch.
> I don't find having a baby quite as horrible as most other parents seem to find it

It depends on your partner a lot. If your partner stays home, doesn't mind if you travel 50% of the time, or allows you to arrive home late from work (after 6) every night, it's just a completely different ball game.

Having NOT lived in that situation and splitting child care responsibility 50-50, I've found the adage "you can't serve two masters," is true for me. Either my business or my kids will suffer, even with 50-50.

So I've decided to allow the business to suffer, which means I don't create situations where I'll let down 3rd parties (investors, customers) due to my limited, erratic schedule (9a-5p and 8p-11p M-F, with random days off when day care shuts down or early departures from the office for 3:30p day care pickup).

But I only have the luxury of doing this because I sold my last company before we had kids. My advice to entrepreneurs who plan to have kids: find a partner who wants to take primary responsibility for child care (or hire an awesome full-time nanny) so you can put as much as you need to into your business. OR save enough money to be able to bootstrap and be available to your kids as much as they need you.
I think you mean microeconomics