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I've wanted more than anything to get a business going, live the startup life, and be my own boss. But I try to put it all in to perspective: I work to live, not live to work. For me, success is being able to provide for my family and enjoy the work that I do. YMMV.
Find something you enjoy doing (love), and do it. Take a step back and asses - Do you really really love working 12 hours a day? If not, then stop doing it.

If you're working 12 hours a day in the hope that some day it'll all pay off and you'll then be able to do things you love, then that's utter bullshit and you're probably deluding yourself.

Find things you love doing, and do them. Now.
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At the moment, the core of the gains are in the conceptually clean framework at the cost of speed. Kind of like going from C to Python. It will help your linear algebra by strengthening your geometric intuitions, stuff like how to figure out if a plane intersects a sphere or if a line intersects a plane or SLERP are much are easier for the novice. You solve it algebraically but the objects you are reasoning with are geometric entities so you can't help but build your intuition on both.

Computationally though, they take more operations and elements (2^dim). And there is an order of magnitude difference in speed - 100x if implemented naively. But there are optimizations that can get it to 2x - 7x [1]. But apparently for full generality, 3D geometry is best done in a 5D conformal geometry which requires 32 element representations but I haven't gotten that far yet. You can make it more efficient by taking advantage of the sparseness of most structures and being able to scale up to more information as required by filling more indices. Something that cannot be handled as cleanly in standard vector based methods. Strangely this method of conformal geometry is covered by a Patent so commercial usage in the US requires licensing arrangements [2].

[1] http://staff.science.uva.nl/~fontijne/phd/fontijne_phd_compr...

[2]http://www.google.co.uk/patents?id=0CkWAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA7&#...
Ask HN: Why my posts are removed?
A few of my last posts that got many votes up is removed from main page after a few minutes... Looks that someone does not like me... Is HN working that way that sympathy decides about posts and no community?

For example my today post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3285674

It got +7 votes in about 3 minutes... Showed on main page... and dropped 2 minutes later.
Israel.

No, really. Especially iff

- you are leaving the country (...)

- you are a foreigner (that is: Everything but a citizen)

Everybody around me (including the airport) tells me to arrive ~2.5 (some say 2. Some 3) hours early. The procedure consists of

1. waiting in line forever, waiting for the luggage to be scanned

2. a passport check in that line, asking you questions about where you're from, where you stayed, what you did in Israel and if you happen to carry weapons or presents that might be bombs. If they are inclined to waste some time they are going to ask you for more: Do you know people in Israel? What are their names? Where do _those_ live? What's your connection ... it's something between a 3-4 questions interview and a nice interrogation

3. Your luggage was scanned. Someone is going to tell you to go to that place over there and unpack it. If it's your birthday or Fortuna is with you: Go to step 5.

4. Some guy/girl is ripping apart your luggage. Some are gentler, some really completely mess everything up.

5. The ticket counter! Get your ticket..

6. Wait in line before the security check of you and your carry-on stuff, metal detector, shoe removal station. If you don't have a laptop with you, go to 8

7. Your laptop is suspicious. You have to wake it up from suspend. Close it again. They x-ray it three times. They need to take it to another room, for a special treatment. After 30min they return, the laptop is not suspended anymore. It's off. You are supposed to prove (again) that it's a laptop and not a weapon of mass destruction. Powering it on, booting, logging in is not enough. 'Open a file!'. If you open a picture or a random text file in Notepad, you're good to go.

8. Proceed to the gate, please. You are late for your flight. Remember that for next time and get to the airport earlier, stupid.

Yes, it's that bad. Nothing is invented here, all experienced by yours truely. Not all steps are that bad all the time, but .. I wouldn't bet my ticket on having a lucky day..
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From the outside the answer is really obvious: if you're working for 12 hours a day and it isn't working then you're clearly working on the wrong things. Business is 90% about knowing what is important and what is a waste of your time. When you're working 12 hour days and your business isn't becoming insanely successful it's pretty obvious that most of the hours you work are wasted. Hours burned and sacrificed with nothing to show for it.

If you've been working on unsuccessful startups it's easy to get into a sort of rhythm where you keep doing the same things that didn't work in the past, but only with more vigor. It's complete and utter madness to try to brute-force your way to success. It can work, of course, but the odds are stacked against you, and as a business person you should only play when the odds are highly in your favor.

My guess is that you've probably lost a bit of perspective if you've been punishing yourself like this for the past 4 years. Stop punishing yourself. You don't get rewarded for punishing yourself, and you shouldn't feel good (reward yourself) for working harder than is sustainable or harm your (mental) health. Reward yourself when you make good decisions, and punish yourself (if you have to) if you waste time on shit that doesn't matter. Because working on the wrong things will kill your startup, working 8 hour days does not.
Tell HN: I open-sourced my album release notification service
I created it 3 years ago to scratch a personal itch -- I was having trouble keeping up with all the bands I'm into. The website didn't become popular but it's still useful to me and a few thousands of other people so I decided to just make it free software.

I would appreciate feedback on the website itself or on the code (I'm more of a backend guy).

Links:

Website: http://muspy.com/

Code: https://github.com/alexkay/muspy

3 years old HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=334387
You just nailed the issue with this single phrase...
It is not all sunshine and roses for the vast majority of businesses. Everything will eventually suck. I am not sure the world would be a better place if most engineers shifted to becoming business owners. People like Dave Cutler, Linus Torvalds, Dennis Ritchie, etc. may be more accomplished as engineers than they ever would as business owners. Yes, they are outliers, but so are most successful businesses.
Clickable links:

http://muspy.com/

https://github.com/alexkay/muspy

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=334387
stress can do a lot of things you would never expect. And no matter how invincible you feel now, stress builds up in the background, drip-drip kind of build up over years. Then one day, you find you have an ulcer or a panic attack or some other physical manifestation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(physiology)
Firebug isn't 'owned' by Mozilla, and hasn't ever been, however Mozilla has contributed financially to it's development for some years, and still is.

In addition to supporting Firebug, we're also experimenting with alternative developer tools.

It's my belief that most developer tools just present the user with the information that was given to the browser in the first place, and that we can do a lot to explain how the browser actually understands all that stuff. The native developer tools are a step in that direction.

I work on Mozilla developer tools.
It's not particularly easy but it's not particularly hard, either. When I started doing 24 hour fasts, I would get shaky, tired, and as you mention, suffer headaches. For the first few times, you will likely not feel great. In my case, I adapted pretty quickly, and I don't feel "off" at all while fasting any more.

I'd also recommend the schedule that I use, which is to eat a normal dinner, and then skip the following breakfast and lunch, and then eat dinner at your usual time. You get 24 hours of no food, but it doesn't feel like a whole day. You also get a beneficial side effect: if you have no food intake in the morning, you don't get nearly as hungry later in the day. It's much harder to eat breakfast and then skip lunch and dinner than to eat dinner and skip the next two meals. Drinking a lot of water throughout the day will also help alleviate the "empty" feeling.

I'm not a doctor, this is not medical advice, consult your healthcare provider before undertaking any diet or exercise routine, blah blah.
Try to imagine what you're going to be thinking on your deathbed some day. If it's "I wish I had put in more 12 hour days", then keep it up. Otherwise, figure out what actually makes you happy - and do it.
So you're off running your own business. What if you get a crappy client? How about a demanding one or one who doesn't pay. Or, worst of all, no clients at all?

There are risks in everything. Running your own business is inherently more risky than working a salary position but the rewards can be higher. And really, either will suck at some point. There is a reason it's called work.
It's not censorship. The covers are different. A different market being interested in different things does not equal censorship.

What is not shown is the times when the European covers are different to the other editions.

What is not shown is if there are only two editions of Time - one for US, one for elsewhere.

We need to see all covers to make a judgement about what is happening.
Did you read the comment I replied to, or did you just decide that the guy not disparaging Android must be an idiot?
Tons of "exceptionally talented" programmers got their respective startups nowhere.

And the "exceptionally good company" -> success, borders on tautology, because how else do you measure an exceptionally good company besides success?

"""It's only gambling in the way a professional poker player gambles"""

Yeah, you influence your fate and all. But poker is even less random than startup success --at least randomness there is constrained, will on a startup you have tons of sources of randomness:

The startup founders, the employees, the economy in general, the society in general (fads, etc), investors, the client pool, you name it...
Exactly. Barry Schwartz has taught us that the secret to happiness is low expectations :)
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I'm reminded of the old Calvin and Hobbes cartoon in which Calvin asks his dad how they decide what number to put on those "Weight Limit" signs on bridges.

His dad tells him that they drive heavier and heavier trucks across each bridge until it falls down. Then they weigh the last truck and rebuild the bridge.

Perhaps you, unlike these imaginary bridge engineers, should settle for a well-informed estimate of the limits of your potential, with a generous margin of safety. It sounds like your health is giving you a lot of hints about where the margin of safety might lie.
Same information in German at http://dingfabrik.de/2011/11/24/3d-drucker-an-einem-wochenen...
A quick google shows that there's still no way to disable browser cache in Chrome. How do you work around that problem? Or is it already fixed?
Right. My comment was driven by the fact that Geni had their legal guys figure out what the consequences of paying for a minor to travel alone and attend an event would be. Apparently, there are many.
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Everyone who spends their day on a computer would get a productivity boost if they learned to code.
"Very few bits of software ever written were not funded by someone."

I found this comment to be quite insightful. An interesting way to look at it.
Maybe they do, or maybe they don't. In many cases, I'd argue that it's more about teaching how to think and learn, rather than "an understanding calculus will be required for everything you do in the rest of school / career / life"
If people are desperate to hold onto their laptop in an emergency, it's not going to matter if it's on their lap or in the bins above their head: they're going to try to get it.

There are a reasonable set of restrictions for safety (i.e. headphones). There are others that are not. For a point of reference, JetBlue provides satellite radio and TV both in-flight and during landing (as well as sometimes during take-off). They've clearly chosen to prioritize passenger comfort in lieu of relaxed FAA regulations, and aren't concerned about the impact of distractions.
Thanks for this information, I had assumed the low-carb diets I'd heard a lot of US people were eating were some form of Atkins diet aimed at just losing weight. Clearly I stand corrected.
I see -I missed that part.

I think even os.Error is not idiomatic anymore, they move Error outside the os package to a type of it's own in a later version.
Same story here. I was always the "bright kid" in school (and I got beat up quite often because of this : ) My environment (aunts, grand mothers, parents, teachers, friends, other pupils), always made sure that I knew this in some form or another. I was "smart" and excelled in all school classes, without effort.

One teacher once found personal gratification by grilling me for 1 hour in front of the class room: He set up an advanced math problem 4 years my senior and ridiculed me until I started to cry. "See, even you don't know everything". This happened when I was 11 years old. Yay for education professionals!

Now, as you said, there is always going to be a wall ahead. My parents have no college background so I was pretty much left alone after I finished high school. I enrolled with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Computer Science and bombed HARD. I was shy, I didn't know how to make friends, I failed at simnple administrative tasks required when growing up, couldn't support myself financially and on top of that the course material obviously wasn't going to be a walk in the park.

To this day I struggle with "boring" work and procrastination.
Good stuff to read. I got chance to learn things which I usually ignore while developing sites.

People who are recommending to hire a designer, I would add that its quite a cultural thing. Not every designer is good at UX. Most of the designers in my country are more into graphics rather than thinking of how to use good color combination and typography.
I've been using LiveReload+Guard for this on Rails projects. It'll reload CSS as soon as the file changes on disk without any keypress required. If necessary it'll reload the whole page. It's very handy.

There's a 2.x version that's a standalone OS X app and handles compiling a bunch of things like LESS, Sass, etc. but I haven't used it.

1.x https://github.com/mockko/livereload
2.x http://livereload.com
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>You are a liar. Here is his account. It is at Karma -10 and it wasn't used after that troll session.

Oh my, it seems I've hit a nerve for some reason. In the post where pg called you specially out to stop, other people responded to the "troll". I wonder why it was only you who got singled out.

Further, you're assuming the guy was just a troll. Maybe he came on here, saw that even though this was supposed to be a more sophisticated crowd, there was a lot of perl support here, had one big fight and then decided it wasn't worth his time to bother.

>He was posting slams of about your level.

More misrepresentation from you. Most of his "slams" were a bit over the top, where as I'm just stating facts with less hyperbole than he had.

>You don't like Perl (not "perl") and write 10-20% of comments in discussions about it.

I used perl professional for a torturous 5 years. The internet made the correct decision to move away and I'm not going to stand by and let people use propaganda to bring it back. If you people want to keep on using it, go ahead, but stop dragging new programmers down your career dead-end.

>So you're just bullshitting here, as trolls do. And you got another comment out of me... :-(

The lady doth protest too much, methinks (I really love that one!). I'm having a conversation here. You're constantly screaming "troll! troll!" because you have no useful counter-arguments.
I'm not sure that anyone has a definative answer to that question right now. The new tools are interesting because they do things in a different way, but there is a lot they don't do, so we're supporting both.

It's possible that one day Firebug will be totally superceeded. It's possible that both tools will have separate audiences for some time. It's possible that the new native tools will be a total flop (although I have a vested interest in making sure that doesn't happen!)
However, it seems to show its results only in inches and feet though.
Can't miss this. Price is right. Knowledge is priceless.
> Look how Apple copied from Xerox -- the underlying idea for the GUI was the same but the whole "look" was completely redone and customized, to the extent that lead even many smart people to believe that it was actually Apple who invented that interface.

I think it's not unfair to say that while Xerox invented WIMP as a concept, it was Apple who invented it as a consumer product. (After all, Apple didn't only customize it but considerably extended and brought their own ideas.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i...

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
Okay, so I have to put it away - your argument is logical and compelling. But why do I have to turn it off?

(And tangentially can anyone tell me what the safety grounds are for opening the window blinds? (Or is it just to make the turnaround quicker by not requiring cabin staff / cleaning crews to do it before the next flight boards?))
success is doing what you love, unless its partying in ibiza with the most expensive sluts, you can be succesful right now.
Great, can't wait so visit the workshop!
Maybe someone should follow up and do a similar study for multiple fields and see whether the difference in error rate between fields is statistically significant.
This statistical point is true. However, there is a practical problem with experimental neuroscience - data is painful to get and the means are often comparable to the variances.

So, with the data you have, it is often much harder to show A > B than to show A > C and B !> C.
He should really include a link to a "demo", so we can see what exactly he is doing there.
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During emergency evacuations of aircraft, the number one problem is people attempting to bring their carry-on luggage with them. True story.
I find that keeping a clear agenda or format to your meetings helps to keep things on track. You might not have an agenda planned out in the beginning and that's fine, too. It will gradually flesh itself out as meetings progress. And when everyone knows what is going on, there'll be fewer disruptions and diversions.

In the rare scenarios when someone is just trolling, as the event organizer, you have to politely take them aside and explain the purpose of the meeting and theme of discussion. Making sure they're aware might be the only miscommunication. At worst, explain how the diversions take away from the meetup. Hopefully, you won't need to go further than this.

Note: I started running a meetup and supporting my local tech community over the past year. This is one person's observations.
And you believe that the "limits of your potential" are in some bs business and getting a lot of money?
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It's reasonable to assume he reasoned out the existence of God as taught to him by his Catholic parents because he realized some of the typical actions taken by this God don't jive with his understanding of Physics.
Open the preferences, lower right hand corner icon that looks like a gear, and select the "Disable cache" option under Network.
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WTF? This is medicine 101.
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I had to finish up high school, and simply get out in the real world. I worked odd jobs, shitty manual labor and such for a bit. When that got old (or I got tired of being outside) I found a job doing tech support. After a couple years of that I came away with two things

a) I had trouble doing tech support initially because communicating effectively with people is hard. I learned more skills related to handling people during that job than I have anywhere else, and it's the most valuable skill I've ever learned.

b) I absolutely hated doing tech support. I applied for some other, better jobs, and couldn't get them. Doing support couldn't pay my bills, and I finally found myself in a situation where I knew that the best way forward for me was to just go to school and get it over with. I took a couple remedial classes at the local community college to get over my fears from K-12, simple things like Algebra. But I took those classes also to learn how to study. If learned to grind. And I also learned that even when I thought I knew something, I learned I hadn't mastered it. If a teacher assigned 20 problems, I'd do 40, and invariably I'd find one or two I couldn't solve, or had trouble with.

I had to teach myself work ethic. Tell myself I was working hard, not that I was smart. After all, if I was so smart I wouldn't be 4 years out of High School taking Algebra classes at a Community College would I?

I generally avoided distractions, I had friends I studied with, but I didn't put a whole lot into the relationships. I eventually found people who were also interested in studying and working hard and we became a regular study group throughout most of my undergrad. That helped satiate my desire for human interaction, without becoming a drag on my time or a distraction away from school. I met my wife through that group. But we got together knowing we'd support each other through our schooling and study. So it wasn't like the relationship was a huge distraction like it can often become. (We studied extra together instead of going on dates, cheaper and more useful in the long run).

It wasn't easy. I still have work ethic issues that crop up. But I know how to spot them and work on working them out. Turns out these days, working in a more managerial position, most of the work is mindless grindwork, filling out paperwork, attending meetings, that sort of thing. But if I hand't taught myself to do it, I never would have made it.

The thing is, I knew I was smart, so I considered everything I couldn't do, even grindwork, as something I knew I could figure out. I took everything as a challenge to my intellect, and that's seen me through pretty well.
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Not to nitpick, but the headline "50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistical error." is false. Out of a sample of 513 papers 78 contained this specific mistake.
Why does this get upvoted ?

If anything, all the author expresses is the disappointment of his own expectations while not adding anything constructive.

Looking at the screenshots what he wants to achieve is perfectly doable cross browser but as per the author admission he's not much of a front-end guy.

Shots point to here > http://bigmath.herokuapp.com/ which is offline.
Well, if judging from that perspective, I don't think how anyone can argue against teaching programming in high-school.