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I have been looking for a good science show, but Nova scienceNOW wasn't it. Not so much the content as the absolutely juvenline format.

Can someone explain how I have misunderstood and the show really is meant for kids? Because it's designed like a kid's show, complete with silly music, wacky editing, colourful demonstrations/analogies to illustrate scientific principles, and narration that sounds as if written for a toddler. In this respect it's almost as unwatchable as Michio Kaku's (who's ordinarily a bright guy) weirdly infantile Science of the Impossible series. (It's also an incredibly American show, formatwise, extremely brash and loud and fluffy.) I started watching the show as I'm a fan of Tyson, but I ended up disappointed.

For now, the only regular series (as opposed to one-offs like Jim Al-Khalili's excellent shows on atoms and chemistry, or Sagan's Cosmos) I consider worth watching is BBC's Bang Goes the Theory (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lwxj1), which is fairly obviously targeted at teens, but has some good content. Two of the hosts are fairly annoying generic twentysomethings who do the show as though it's some kind of music video programme, but the third guy is an adorable geek with an obvious passion for science and engineering, and they have some assisting hosts who are quite quirky.
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They do tend to cluster, and more so when they're in the public eye.
iMessage is iOS only, SMS costs (unless its included in your plan) and requires phone reception (as opposed to just wifi), I find facebook messenger ends up with too many people on the web interface just saying hello to me as if I'm at my PC wanting to smalltalk.

The draw is its free per message, cross platform, internet based and is a direct replacement for sms/mms as opposed to being an existing chat program pushed onto mobile.
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I'm guessing there aren't any brakes. That's the trendy way of doing fixed gear bikes.
Yes, the mental health of founders is something that should be discussed more. I do see a fair amount of articles that approach the subject but maybe not intensely enough.

Burnout is one thing but serious depression is another altogether. The pressure of starting a small local business is enough to drive a person mad. Just think about the guys being covered in TC, the widely known ones, the "stars" of the tech startup world. We all like to think they're superhuman and can conquer anything. We all like to think they're living large and wish we had what they have but really it's all relative.

This lime of work (starting a business, startup, whatever you want to call it) is the furthest thing from easy and glamorous as you can get. It's important to have a support network and to take care of yourself especially well when venturing on an endeavor like that. I am insignificant but I can relate. And you know, I bet a many others would echo that sentiment.

It's so damn terrible to see someone so young go like that. To imagine what he could've accomplished in the future and how his family, friends, and coworkers are now robbed of a terrific person is so sad it's beyond words. And make no mistake, we don't have to know someone to know they're great people. We're all great people. If you have just one relationship with a single person in your life then you're special and wonderful in someone else's eyes and you qualify as being great. I didn't know the guy, barely knew of him, but it sucks to see such a great person go.
It's almost exactly like the tires are always flat.
If you're looking for a more game like version of this, Health Month has managed to keep my interest for a little bit now.
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Source code is not only about the implementation, but also about the approach of the developers to express a solution to a problem. If swearing is part of that expression, it's OK to me, but I agree that unneccesary swearing, and being offensive to a certain group or demographic should be avoided at all.
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Hi William, I'm Co-Founder of Barkles (http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/11/13/barkles-is-twitter-for...) based in Australia.Would love to answer a few questions for a different angle of what we do.

I would recommend getting in touch with these places (all on Twitter) @inspire9, @yorkbutter, @angelcubemelb and @startupaus. There are so many amazing Australian Startups coming out of the woodwork through these hubs and teams and they will surely give you enough companies to profile.

A great time to feature Aussie startups - The melb scene especially is on the rise.

You can reach me @diesellaws on Twitter if needed.
as his roommate i can confirm that he has indeed passed away. i thank you for your hope and optimism, but sadly these things can only go so far sometimes. life and death are very real and very sudden things, and i hope that his memory spurs you to fight for what you believe in while you can. goodness knows he did.
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Yep - there is still code in the kernel and in AppVerifier to simulate the rollover to test against these kinds of bugs.
What does that have to do with the physics prize?
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I wonder who gets the ability to point fingers.

The article didn't really say, all it said was "The copyright industry gains the right to “notify” payment processors such as Visa that a company looks bad"
I hope he had a cryonics contract.

....

In reading the above, some people might think it insensitive to 'peddle' this here, and I almost censored myself because of that.

But that's not helpful at all.

People are dying unnecessarily because they don't understand physics, cognitive neuroscience, and the possibilities the future allows.

May he live again conditional on him being cryo-preserved. Otherwise, it is sad news that yet another human has been annihilated.
I would also let them set the time of day for the notification.
Does that one instance preclude all of the other people that contributed to science, who also had faith?
Me too, bought a SAD light or a happy light as I like to call it. Seems to help in the British winters.
I just bought the book "reWork" by the guys at 37signals and so now my opinion on every business bei doomed to fail is different. But I think we're missing the point. What if this isn't about failure at all? What if Diaspora was widely thought to be a big success?

What I'm getting at is maybe it wasn't "failure" that disturbed this man but simply the pressure to succeed. I'm someone who is succeeding in business so far but I still get bad bouts of depression and feel like a failure anyway. It's not just me either, it can be anyone.

I don't know enough about this man and Diaspora to have insight into his thoughts or to know about the success or failure of the company but I haven't seen any indications from anyone here that he was distressed over failure. It could've just been the pressure of it all. Whether you've made it big or you're still the little guy in a garage that pressure is the same. It's all relative. The little guy worried about payng rent and the big guy sweats over the down payment on the mansion. Same pressure, different context.
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TV commercials also used the auction model. Just look at how much it costs to run adds during the supper bowl.
He did, new blog post with results:
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I'm sorry man, but that sounds awful. I'm a depression alumni with you. I did it all for a good 7 years - hopelessness, suicidal thoughts, then medication, then "fuck medication, I'm fine!" and "fuck medication! It doesn't work!", then heavy drug use and addiction, and counseling throughout.

The feeling can be beyond words and the energy needed to talk about it seems beyond us but I've gone the pretend route where you put on a brave face and act like a different person and it's just not healthy. It leads to you being even more depressed and no one having a clue which is so dangerous. I don't have the answers to getting over it (which I have done, personally) but I do know that acting like a different person isn't a good way to go. I hope you're better these days, feel free to get in touch if not. I'd be happy to talk about whatever.
Excellent pun there, sir.
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Speaking of unsung geniuses there is someone who I am always surprised people don't mention more. Everyone knows of Turing - no doubt related to the tragic nature of his death due to disgusting treatment and the ubiquity of his eponymous machine - but not as many know of or laud this person whose influence is at least as great. I guess that is partially of his own fashioning.

He laid the practical foundation of digital circuits by noting the applicability of boolean algebra to circuit design. Electronic devices and computers are descendants of his work. After a brief hiatus to work on mathematical biology and cryptography he laid the foundation to the internet with his work on Communications/Information theory and contributions to sampling. His work on information theory is also vital in machine learning, Natural language parsing, compression and more; it finds utility in quantum physics and controversy in gravitational physics. He also had some of the earliest working examples of wearable computing, algorithmic trading, and artificial intelligence.

Arguably, mores so than any scientist of recent times, there is not a person whose work more thoroughly infuses and touches our lives than Claude Shannon.
My microeconomics professor calls it the "good deal feel". That is, the difference between what customers expected to pay and what they ended up paying (savings).
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It used to be a site for posting pics from your mobile phone of stuff you see while you're out shopping. No 'checkins' or anything like that back then. Now it is an app that lets you discover the best deals picked by people who share your tastes. We will be sharing affiliate revenue with people whenever someone clicks and buys a deal.
Is this a business or an art project?
This goes a very long way to helping, yes, but by itself does not guarantee anything.
And not everything can be cfengined or puppeted.
You are correct. He had a chart with the days of the week (columns) and virtues (rows). He would then note how many faults he had committed each day. He tried to perfect each virtue for some time before adding another, and would perform cycles of this system that lasted several weeks each.

He later stopped doing it, claiming lack of time but he still saw much value in performing this task. You may find this in more detail in his book, which is reproduced here (I have pointed for the specific chapter): http://www.benjaminfranklinbiography.net/#IX
Or you could just publish an email address.

This is what I've done where it matters. I just have this one site where it doesn't really matter, so I'm trying to do this more as an exercise than anything. It's humbling to see how ineffective I have been at stopping it.
During my sophomore year of high school, there was a string (about once every other week) of suicides. They were all linked in some way, a nasty chain of relationships. I think some of the early talk might have kept the chain going. The high school finally sent for proper grief counselors from the local university. It had been 3 or 4 months of gloom. I am not sure if they helped or it was just an ending, but they did stop (could have been the ending of winter thinking about it).

The truly sad part (beyond the ending of so many young lives) was the utter cynicism the rest of us got to. The grief counselor who was dealing with our class was utterly horrified by us wondering how anyone commits suicide by using a door knob and how we concluded that someone was using the suicides to hide a murder. Looking back, I suppose it was a coping mechanism.

Take care of your fellows and don't fool around non-professionals.
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You should've censored yourself anyway. That is insensitive. What if it was your mother and some stranger said that? Come on, that's something you talk about when a person is alive, not when people are grieving. No one wants to learn about the science or pseudoscience of cronies when in mourning. Just, come on.... Really?!

I shouldn't have responded to this. Should've let it die and get buried but that kind of upset me.
Hi,

We launched http://www.cheapstart.com.au last month to help small business select cloud software. We're Melbourne based. Being the dreaded 'business-guys' (70%) from a tech background, we crowdsourced everything very successfully, which is busy spawning the next startup! Happy to chat about how to tackle the technical side.
>Alot of these people will return home (all over Europe plus Turkey) once in the future, and they will bring home with them - piles of saved Euros, German working ethics and loads of knowledge.

That's what the Germans thought, originally. Turns out to be wrong. If you move to a new place and live there for a few decades, raising your family there, you don't leave unless you don't have any choice. That place is home, especially for your children.

>Europe is trying hard to integrate and mix all the countries and cultures in Europe to the level that would make warfare between their citizens too costly to anyone.

Yes, and it's not working. Even the leaders acknowledge that now. And before they get too comfortable they should remember Yugoslavia tried to do the same thing.
It would help if their faith is what drove them to pursue scientific endeavors. And that is sometimes the case, in fact. But for every "understand the mind of god" faith-driven scientist there are at least one thousand screaming, irrational, dangerously unbalanced regressives who are one papal bull or fatwa or Dianetics away from ushering us into a brutal and stupid dark age. Like many human inventions religion can be a great thing, but it often isn't.
The gun thing / statement thing is also an indicator that someone is being threatened. Bad either way.
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Hi William,

I'm the founder of TestPilot CI — Heroku for Testing.

We're based in Melbourne and gearing up for a launch in a couple of weeks. I'd be more than willing to take part in your blog and answer any questions about what we do, problems we've solved and the hard life of being a startup. Feel free to contact me (ivan at testpilot dot me) or @IvanVanderbyl
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I work for Pollenizer (@pollenizer on twitter) - I'm engineering lead on Pygg. I do a lot of stuff out of work hours too, would be more than happy to chat.

I'm @arcwhite on Twitter
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Adwords works great, except when it doesn't. For a $5 app, it's almost certain to fail.

Local events are good, if that's an option. present it at a users group, entrepreneurship event, and the like.

But, really, the truth is there is no quick marketing. It's just hard work.
Make a special and small website showing what you are making and who u need with your budget honestly but in a creative way. (like the frontpage of tumblr). Post this site on popular forums. Some really creative dev will surely knock your door!
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> What is "consumer surplus"?

This reminds me of an old article written by Joel Spolsky which explains it quite well.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...

It also goes into detail about different pricing models too which I found a good starting off point for a programmer to learn about pricing.
You're probably right about that. Still, I prefer not to do business with people lacking integrity. There are a lot of different ways to get swindled.
Hi,

I'm the Founder of Lexim (http://www.lexim.com.au), eLearning software designed for teachers not CIOs. We're based in Melbourne, and would love to help.

Feel free to reach out to me at michael.shimmins@lexim.com.au or @michaelshimmins on twitter.

Cheers,

Michael
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I've become something of a political cynic at this point in my life. Stories like this usually leave me unmoved.

But this particular story has left almost shaking in anger -- this is more than graft. Our government will persecute all sorts of people for inane things. Hell, Pete Rose was investigated and prosecuted because he bet against his team. And yet we have a system where the Congressman responsible for oversight of a hydra like the financial services industry can get rich betting against America? This is disgusting.
Considering loneliness is often associated with depression and suicide, it's interesting that his project was pure social networking.
Really? They get the awesome health care, they can't be charged with insider trading... since when did our elected officials rise above the law? These people are supposed to represent me yet they're far removed from mine, yours, and most everyone else's reality.

My mother works as a sales assistant to a well known broker at Morgan Stanley and she isn't allowed to trade for her own account or even have an account there yet these public officials who are known to hob-knob with people who are in the know get to trade as they please using any information they stumble across?

Come on now. There should be one set of rules here but I see two: one set for me and another set for those who are supposed to represent me. Disgusting.
I'm working on an app to help people track their progress towards better eating habits (http://everyday.io), and yeah, being able to use it from wherever you are is an important feature for me. So besides the web interface, I also have an "email interface" (daily reminders, email-ins) and I'm working on the mobile interface (Android app, iOS app pending damn Apple approval). It's already hard enough to change daily habits, so it's important to make it as easy as possible to track.
It's also illegal to lie to the government, but not illegal for the government to lie to us:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/09/we-ban-lies-to-officia...
Hi great idea.

I've currently moved to Perth and I'm looking for any regular meetups / shared office space. I'm bootstrapping 2 products right now.

I think I'd benefit massively from some type of shared work space. Anyone know of anything?
It would seem then the indoctrination of individuals is the issue here, not religion in itself. The current process of propagating religion through the oral teachings of priests and the dead letter of holy texts has given rise to fanaticism, pitting groups against one another.
I will refrain from commenting on your specific situation, but if you do the math, it seems highly unlikely that YC has not accepted competitors of many, many rejects.

Execution matters. The idea matters. The people matter. The timing matters. Luck matters. It all matters. Don't take it personally.
Just send out letters to hiring startups. A solid math background and programming experience means you are really really in a good position.

If you have code you can share from your current job that would help; but the reality is that there are WAY more positions for people with your skills than there are people to fill them.

My best advice would be to simply know that you are in a good position and not to forget it.
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Also love that Chrome dev tools now pretty prints JSON returned from XHRs in the network response tab.
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Peter Schweizer's (http://www.hoover.org/fellows/9706) research at the Stanford Hoover Institution was the catalyst for this report.
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Of course, if you watch their trades, the information becomes public, and you can get in too.
So people spending $100 bidding higher. Let's say $50/click will increase your bid pressure? They will get 2 clicks and done. While regular bidders will stay in for long.

I highly doubt google has more freeloaders than paying customers.

I am not sure how it works now but last time I got a voucher (last year) they charged you for actual click and those $100 are just to get you started.
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It's wrong and the laws should be changed, but you cannot expect people to avoid legally pursuing their own self-interest out of their own high morals. They are politicians after all.

It's disgusting that anyone should be treated differently by the law because of their status.
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Slightly off-topic, but an important correction: Pete Rose actually bet on his team to win, not against his team. It makes your point even stronger - he didn't have a conflict of interest.
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Not to mention what would happen if you were hit a pothole and catch an edge.
I'm not sure anyone that depressed is entirely capable of "choice".

And this is probably not the best moment for ethical theory.
Thanks for pointing this out. The part describing starting a business as "selling out" was infuriating.
And I should probably link to the project ahem: http://pygg.co
I have mixed feelings about some aspects of FIRST Robotics, mostly about how much kids really learn when they're so focused on winning. (That's actually a core value of FIRST - "What we learn is more important than what we win", but a lot of teams don't really follow that.) FRC (the biggest class of robots) gets all the press, but FIRST LEGO League is a tremendous challenge for elementary and middle school kids. No remote control, completely autonomous operation of the robot. (Well, the students can pick up the robot and run different programs, but there's no joystick drive.)

The real physical robots vs. all software / simulation is a classic debate. I heard MIT's Rodney Brooks (of the "build real robots" camp) used to tell prospective grad students something like "it may take you a year longer to graduate with me but you'll have one hell of a demo tape."

This year's FRC teams will be getting Microsoft Kinect sensor bars to use. Should be some interesting stuff.
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At a higher level, the same advice can be applied to any chicken and end problem. Job seekers and employers, renters and landlords, buyers and sellers etc.

Same problems offer same solutions.
One of the best ever. There's a part of me that is afraid to re-read it.
Where does it say that Ilya committed suicide?