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Re: open source notebook see: http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

I'll make the relation very clear. There is a segment of the Lisp community, which most certainly includes Paul Graham, that maintains that projects with large team sizes are bad. There is a certain logic here, as it is hard to maintain a high average intelligence distributed across a large number of people. Most true geniuses were loners. Regardless, projects of a certain scope (i.e. building a space shuttle) require large teams. You simply can't do it with two guys in a basement.

In a certain sense the computer language employed is irrelevant, except that the lisp community has never, largely because of the facts that should be obvious but are apparently not to the introverted "genius" types they pray on, produced good and extensive enough libraries to be viable for most real world tasks. In case you didn't notice, for example, it took what, 4 years for Hacker News to get HTTPS support.

I don't want to rib anyone too badly, because I am a strong supporter of what YCombinator is doing in general and in the incorporation of lambdas and closures in newer languages, but I think generally speaking it is clear that the Lisp culture is not to cooperate but to position one's self as some sort of genius and thus to create one's own dialect, etc.

I'll give you an example that will probably irritate some people, but is relevant here. Microsoft Word is, in my opinion, one of the greatest architectural marvels of modern civilization. The feature set of that single app is truly extraordinary, and there are all sorts of wonky ways that you can do lots of tasks that makes millions (and potentially even billions) of people's lives better every day. I understand that there is a point to OpenOffice and "fighting the man" and whatever since Microsoft certainly crushed some competitors in mean ways, but realistically there is nothing in the world that competes.

Now you might say, oh sure but I can just use vim and use latex for formatting (or even google docs). And in a certain sense you might be right too, but sooner or later you will find a feature that is not accessible to you (I recently noticed that change tracking still absolutely blows in Google Docs compared to Word).

Why do I bring this up? Well, even if you are right that "the hardest part of going to the Moon is achieving Earth orbit," you still have to have all of those other things. You need life support or you dead; this is non-negotiable, just in the way that mail merge is not negotiable for millions of people at millions of office worldwide. And if you want life support (or mail merge), you need to work with the people who design these other systems.

By the way, I'm not saying you need to like any of this. I'm simply saying that if you want to build something great, you have to at times slog through the mud. My experience with Lispers is they are frequently afraid to get their hands dirty. And that doesn't cut it except in a pretty-ditty fantasy castle.
They seem to have used something called Flexbook from the ck-12 foundation [1] mentioned in the article; here's some tutorial videos [2]. Here's a link to their text [3].

I'm actually not a big fan of the text. I skimmed it a bit and I don't think it's as well written as one might hope for. In particular, I hate when formulas just appear with no explanation of how they where derived, and in sections 1.2 to 1.3, the use of big names such as "Fundamental Counting Principle" makes stuff sound more intimidating than it is. I think the discussion about the cardinality of the sample space when you have events that are order sensitive vs order insensitive (ie just counting permutations) could be clearer. Nonetheless, it's an awesome start and the teachers involved should be congratulated.

[1] http://ck-12.org

[2] http://www.ck12.org/about/tutorials

[3] http://print.ck12.org/www/2630552d0bf13d39a2850c0e9f0a523f.p...
Then I think it is way easier to write a post "Do not use technology, go back to the cave". Any technology has chances to fail, can be SQL, Cloud, yadda yadda. And if you want to work on the 'edge' (innovating to disrupt your competitors), that's a risk you should accept. Blaming the tools you use to achieve that point is childish.
Great article.

The first thing I do when mentoring noob entrepreneurs/founders is ask them about their networks.

"How are you growing it?"

"Who are your mentors?"

"Who are your mentees?"

"Who are the big-wigs in your network?"

I have found, much to my surprise, given that I'm a "black belt ninja networker type" (apparently;per the article) that people haven't really given much thought to these questions.

They know (or get the sense) that having a strong network is important but they've never really worked on building it.

This article provides some good insight on how to build your network. Specifically it makes it clear that in order to build your network you MUST NOT BE SHY.

It also makes it clear that it's work.

As I like to say: "Building your network requires, well, that you build your network."
if you send me the javascript I'd be happy to take a look. Thanks for trying it out.
Seems the next step would be to make a similarly slim, fits-inside-the-cover bluetooth keyboard. Same feel, same carrying load, no cost in lost screen-real-estate.
I'm from Belgium, and I've never heard people talk about their salary after tax.

edit: to answer your question, the 250k is before tax.
Why is our consumption falling?
How long before textbook publishers start threatening to sue districts that use these sorts of texts? Or start playing with prices, such that districts are 100% "publisher X" get discount pricing, while other districts get "a la carte" pricing at 3-5x other districts?

Yes, I'm a bit far out about this stuff, but education is big business and the more this sort of idea spreads, the more it erodes publishers' profits - they'll fight back sooner or later (maybe it's already happening?)
"Collectively, the RTGs supply the spacecraft with 470 watts at launch and will allow operations to continue until at least 2020."
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Actually, the DS has sold nearly 150 million, not 50.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS#System_sales_and_ma...
That's interesting. I always thought it was a small nuclear reactor onboard.

I don't see why the press/public would freak out to know that nuclear power is being used on a space probe 9 billion miles away.
Who's disagreeing with this? Nobody. Everybody is going to agree that the prospective employer handled the situation badly.
This is awesome. You guys seem to have nailed the product development.

It is when I see things like this, that makes me question the mantra 'Release quickly, release often'. I know that is usually applied to software...but the lesson can be seen here.

These guys took the time to think through the product and really refined the solution, before releasing.

Even did User Testing and a solid promo video before releasing.

This is awesome. Congrats!
I think you can run into problems in OLTP, as well. To stick with the example, you have three systems: sales from the website, price-setting tool, and inventory system.

Should the sale happen at all? Not if the inventory is depleted. Sure, you can put it on back-order, but then you have an unhappy customer.

At what price should the sale happen? It would be nice if you could automatically raise prices when the inventory drops below 10 units (which may indicate a demand spike or a supply interruption), for example. If you don't raise prices soon enough, you're more likely to run into a depleted inventory, again making the customer unhappy.

And what if you encounter an error moving data between systems? The customer thinks the sale happened, but it wasn't (or couldn't be) loaded into the inventory system for some reason. The customer will call a week later asking why it still isn't shipped, the service rep will be clueless trying to trace between the systems, and ultimately the customer will be unhappy.

(Just to be clear: properly integrated data management may still be done with multiple systems. But it's harder.)
I think the article you're referring to is called "Is There Anything Good About Men", and has been submitted to Hacker News multiple times. Even though it doesn't have anything to do with technology it's one of the most insightful articles I've found here.

Here's a link to the article: http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm

(Note, I think this location copied the article from http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm, but I find the formatting on the first link is a bit nicer and easier to read)

If you want to browse the comments on previous submissions to HN, you can just follow the links on HNSearch: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=anything+go...
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You can do that with Growl right now. Also, users that don't like it don't even have to consider it if it's 3rd party. I see no problem with the current system. Apple has had a million chances to buy Growl and never has, it's not going to happen.
The Voyagers are 3-axis stabilized (vs spin stabilized) and they use the thrusters for attitude control. Without the thrusters the antenna would drift away from being pointed at Earth and we'd lose contact.

More modern spacecraft use non-propulsive systems such as momentum wheels and gyrodines to maintain 3-axis attitude control and use thrusters to reset only when those systems become saturated.
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If it weren't, then it wouldn't be an issue. Right?

And what makes me think that is that I suspect 99.999% of email is in plaintext. I have no foundation for this. Just a gut feeling.
Tax the rich?

Why not? While tax cuts don't have any discernible impact on economic growth, they do seem to exacerbate income inequality. Reinstate a more progressive tax structure. History tells us there will be no impact on overall growth, but it could certainly help bring income disparity back into line.
Suster is playing catch with a bottle of nitroglycerin and doesn't see the danger.

It's DANGEROUS. I know: She DIED.

Warm advice to all concerned, girls, women, fathers, husbands, etc.:

Take it easy. Don't push it. At the first sign of problems, BACK UP.

Yes, there is an E. Fromm statement:

"Men and women deserve equal respect as persons but are not the same."

He continues with an explanation: During the French Revolution, Western Civilization got the idea that any difference was a threat of injustice and, thus, worked to eliminate as many differences as possible.

But, I warn you and urge you to assume:

Mother Nature was there long, long before Mark Suster, feminism, etc. and has deep defenses we do not want to encounter.

Or in simple terms, women who were really good at what men were good at are mostly not our ancestors.

What was good for Mark Suster's mother and Fred Wilson's wife and some other women I can list need NOT hold for your sister, wife, or daughter.

If your wife wants to spend time with your daughter talking and reading about people, being sensitive, sympathetic, and empathetic, trying hard to fit in and get praise, acceptance, and approval, building emotional intelligence, etc. and your daughter wants to play with dolls, help her mother with 'women's work', have vicarious emotional experiences reading stories about people, be pretty, meek, and sweet and avoid technical and mechanical topics, football, baseball, and basketball, then LET IT BE.

If she wants to major in art history, performing arts, theater, literature, the psychology and sociology of child development, etc. instead of mathematics, physical science, engineering, or business, then encourage her in her wishes and let it be.

Sure, she is likely on a path to a career with low pay and will need a good husband to take care of her. Right. Sorry 'bout that.

But, trust me, that's better than having her pursue some direction in 'men's work' where she keeps failing and finally dies trying.

It's not nice to try to fool Mother Nature. Warning: Don't try.

The goals of feminism and 'equality' go way back. There has long been 'tension' there. Don't expect the tension to go away. But, still, don't assume that the goals of feminism and 'equality' are available for your sister, wife, or daughter.

The assumption that women are just like men and can do just what men do except for the most obvious physiological differences just represents a potentially fatal lack of understanding about women. Sorry 'bout that.

In particular, in much of K-12, the girls, especially when the teachers are women, in academic performance commonly knock the socks off the boys. And in some fields in college, the young women retain some strong advantages over young men. But do not assume that even the very best performances in K-12 and college, e.g., Valedictorian, 'summa cum laude', PBK, mean that she can, of course, be 'equal' doing 'men's work' in the world of work. The real situation is MUCH more complicated than that.

If she wants to try, okay. But if there are problems, fairly quickly just assume that Mother Nature is getting her way and BACK UP.
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Completely agree that a commandline tool is optimal — the site is actually built off of the clean-css commandline minifier.

The real world use case is currently one of my developer friends is using the Foundation framework by Zurb (which comes with a bunch of separate CSS files, so you can pick and choose), and instead of having 5-6 <link> elements (extraneous HTTP requests are bad), those can all be packaged up in one minifed CSS file.

Using that as a vanilla reset, he can link to another CSS file with his modifications and changes — and never has to interact with the commandline clean-css or YUI Compressor utility. It's just drag and drop with the same results.
Decent Maple syrup is pretty easy to come by in the UK from decent supermarkets and health food shops. It's recently gotten super expensive though - about USD $2 for 100ml. All the syrup here is graded by colour and is almost always Canadian, I didn't even think it was produced in the US.

Fascinating article.
Some light at the end of the tunnel: Russia decided to scrap the whole system this year! I hope they will stick with that absolutely brilliant decision.
It's troubling that a comment like this has to be buried deep in a thread about religion, Platonic ideals, might-makes-right, higher-order thought, and the nature of morality --- most of it stipulating Goldman is evil.
That's true, but note that China and India, together with 2.6 billion / 7 billion people don't have daylight saving. The former for political, the latter for latitude reasons. Another big country to abolish it recently is Russia.
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The press has long known about this. There were and are a number of protests each time an RTG-based probe is launched.
I do not mean to be flippant, but why the sense of entitlement here? I can understand the need for common decency, but the hiring market will sort that out in due time.

What happened to the OP sucks, but this truthfully sounds like a dating story. She's just not that into you.
Actually, they stuck with Daylight Saving Time and scrapped regular clock time...
I definitely agree that commandline is the right way to go (the site is actually built using the Node.js clean-css script). I built the site with a friend in mind (and those who never really interact with their terminal).
My initial intuition is that such an egregious oversight can't possibly be real for a YC11 company, can anyone validate this? Does Parse really provide no way to set document fields writable, readable and so on?
There was a huge outcry for Cassini's launch.

Of course, I doubt very many of those folks would own up to having been against Cassini now with all of the fantastic results we've received.
This is great but the reality is also, "Professors write their own textbook, cost students $175,000 and an arm"
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Ah, I did, and he slightly more than tripled my RSUs (from 150 to 500), but left my base the same. Which is also weird since that base is lower than my current one.
It is a bit sad that things like:

> The problem with mass-produced textbooks, Engelhaupt explained, was that they can cost $65 each and aren't aligned with Minnesota's math tests so the district would be paying for whole chapters that are never used.

and

> She said most high school textbooks are written to the requirements of Texas and California, the two biggest markets for the book publishers. It means often a third of the books go unused in Minnesota, she said.

appear to be the current state of things. Instead of targeting a good education in the subject, the norm today seems to be to teach k-12 students to pass the aptitude tests, not necessarily to learn the material itself.
Do the thrusters use the same power source as the instruments?
I remember meeting Mike Arrington at TechCrunch Disrupt, and he said that he "hates being pitched to [unsolicited], I'll probably think its a bad idea. I thought twitter was a bad idea.." Not sure how that changes with CrunchFund.

My guess is that some Angels/VCs are way more approachable than others.
As much as I agree with the article, you're right that there is a scarcity of facts here. I suspect that this was posted in response to David Brooks' similarly fact-free article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180684). Nonetheless, the articles have spurred interesting and worthwhile discussion.
What about other languages? ie. spanish, it has a different layout. And as far as I know, the layout has changed slightly (enough to annoy your users) since I got my iPad (the old one).
Because it's launched from the earth, and rockets have an unfortunate tendency to blow up at times. That's why the RTG's are designed to re-enter safely even if there's an explosion.

Even after it leaves orbit, the probes loop back to use the Earth for gravitational assist and there's a minuscule chance that it will crash; with odds something like 1:1000000. In the absolute let's-imagine-the-impossible worst case scenario, an additional few thousand people are expected to get cancer.

Summarize that as "but if it crashes into the Earth, thousands of people will die!"
I don't think anyone cares about nuclear power being used on a space probe 9 billion miles away. People do care about said space probe flying up and out of our atmosphere, just like they did with the Cassini probe[1].

[1] http://motherjones.com/politics/1997/09/cassini-controversy
Does anyone know any details on what kind of software runs on Voyager 2 and how they program it from Earth?

Is there just a list of predefined commands (activate this, deactivate that, send images) or do they overwrite the 'firmware' with each upload or ...
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I'm completely aware of the extent of both the US and UK housing bubbles.

It seems you're very unaware of the extent of the Australian housing bubble, and yet at the same time illustrate in your comment just how expensive Australian real estate is (compared even to Manhattan).

The Economist stated earlier this year that Australian property is now the most overvalued in the world, at 56% : http://www.smh.com.au/business/aussie-home-prices-worlds-mos...

The internet is awash with plenty of detailed analysis of the impact of the FHOG on the Australian market. For instance one article talks about one of the two main drivers of the Australian bubble: "a government sector that has (to some extent unwittingly) used asset price manipulation as a cheap means to stimulate the economy". It provides a chart illustrating the impact of FHOG: http://is.gd/CckGAV

You can read that particular article here: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/property-.... As to the FHOG being only $7000 ( and at its peak was actually $21 000, not $14 000), the article points out that $7 000 becomes $50 000 thanks to loan-to-value ratios.

Even people with a vested interest in pushing Australian property are starting to give up their usually preposterous arguments (that we have a housing shortage, that we don't offer non-recourse loans like in the US etc) and admit that Australian property is destined to fall for the next few years.
As someone with a failed education startup in my past, this makes me deliriously happy. It means that there are still teachers out there who haven't had all the initiative beaten out of them yet.

That said, yes, education publishing is a huge business. It's really only a matter of time until the publishers take over the digital publishing space, too.
it's a tough thing to accept, but you outlined it pretty well. most things don't just happen. nobody believes it's the time, place, moment and right person to "risk" being declined, ignored or laughed at. and that's so wrong. people who succeed, typically, tend to be a bit more open than others. everything else is an excuse to hope for pure chance or being discovered. and in all reality, try it with beers, go to a bar, hit on a random girl, just to get started again. it will be really, really tough at first.
I think it really depends. In most use cases, taking a seperate keyboard with you is not that annoying, and given the big constraints that this add-on imposes, it might be worth the costs? dont you think it would be nice if you could use the screen session with the whole screen estate?
In my eyes, configuring growl and tweaking notification settings are part of the "impossibly distracting productivity suck". I feel that configuring notifications is a total waste of time, when I can just turn them off.
Take the list of new YC companies and extrapolate what PG thinks is important. Might not have any bearing on reality, these startups are designed to get flipped so the goals of YC are different the larger body.
No. The thrusters are chemically powered. The instruments are powered by radio-thermal generators.
getting good at "game" has led to improvements in almost every other aspect of my life, including pitching.
>>So my total annual compensation this year will be $217k. If I were bragging to an ex-employer, I'd probably round up to "a quarter million" too. :)

That last part about "a quarter million" made me crack up. Awesome stuff!

Now, down votes, come to me.
Most of the best practices/gotchas can be found by reading the online documentation. Of all the replies Eliot gives they were either plainly obvious (oh, you have a system under heavy load and you're surprised that it gets worse when you give it another task to do?) or mentioned in the documentation. If you're planning on using something - especially for a production system - I sure hope you at least read all the available documentation.

I don't think a short doc is of any help for evaluators. You shouldn't be basing your decision on 400 words and some bullet points. If you're serious about your datastore then you should treat it seriously.
Consider that there are almost certainly several undiscovered worlds as large as or larger than Pluto closer to us than Voyager 2 is now.
13.4 hours http://www.google.com/search?q=9+billion+miles+/+speed+of+li...
i was working for MSFT a while ago, and at every conference i showed up, people totally started pitching me all the time (i wasn't in M&A, so why even?). i loved being approached and hear new ideas, but fact was, 9 out 10 things were incredibly sad and boring, produced by crazy folks. i mean, i feel bad for their passion and me not getting it, but a lot of things just were far from any success. and that made me lose interest in seconds, which brings me to the point that it was less about being approached (what's a minute or two), but more about hearing a lot of bad ideas. for a good idea? i'd listen an hour if I have the time.
Yes, that is a good point, and something I see too --- I was just trying to take a shortcut, and say it from the poster's p.o.v., and like usual, my shortcuts backfire.
Because they pay me. Why not work for someone else?