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I suspect that the main reason for attitudes towards non-technical people is due to a wide distrust of "business type" guys. I think coders often have a great amount of respect for product designers, UI/UX folks making wireframes, .. or anyone who shows some capacity to actually make something, for deep thought & creativity, or to articulate a convincing & unique vision.

The greater myth is that "technical" people must lack "soft" skills. If you go beyond anecdotes, software engineers on the whole are more likely to be married & enjoy happy marriages, less likely to get divorced, have long lasting friendships, communicate honestly & care about others, are more likely to be engaged in politics and charities, etc. etc.

Likewise, engineering & building large software systems together (or any machine of complexity...), requires a great degree of communication & cooperation, thus it is no surprise that software engineers on the whole are actually pretty engaging people & have good communication skills.
It's a secondary internet connection. I just don't watch that many youtube videos during my morning coffeeshop rounds; I've yet to go past 4gb, and I stream an hour or two of video off the cbc website during the election.
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Remember that neutrinos have mass, while photons don't. The speed of light, while not a misnomer, is often confusing. To be more accurate, c can be considered the fastest a massless particle/wave can travel through space-time in a vacuum without the influence of mass or gravity.

So to answer your question, the thing without mass will always move as close to c as possible in a given environment. In the instance of photons vs neutrinos in the OPERA experiment, they both operate under the same environment.

#Edit (thanks @cperciva below)
The thing without mass doesn't always move faster than particles with mass. See Cherenkov radiation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation.
I realize that, but it doesn't matter to the mistaken point the parent was making. If anything, considering the diminishing returns on IQ points or percentiles strengthens the point: by the usual argument that each percentile measures less real difference in intelligence (which I agree with), that means that the change in output is even more astounding! Going up 0.8% of the population yields you 3-500% increase in output, and this is in the part of the population where that IQ change ought to be least important. We ought to see much larger gains going from, say, 91th to 92nd percentiles, with less gains for each step upwards - but we don't.

No matter how you cut it, shifting less than a percentile and getting the measured increase is dramatic. (So dramatic that I can't help but wonder if there are non-intelligence explanations - could it all be due to Matthew or network effects?)
Good point. I have started to really prune down my .emacs simply because I had problems moving from one machine to another.
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I wonder if any developers are thinking the same thing - wouldn't it be nice to have access common pattern recognition / machine learning functionality as a service.. ?
> Zweig now works for Renaissance Technologies on Long Island, NY. [Wikipedia]

That's depressing.
> Renaissance Technologies is a hedge fund management company

Even more depressing.
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The title should be this -

"Scientists over the age of 40 take credit for most of the major breakthroughs"
Sounds awesome, count me in (email in profile).
To cover a possible reason, you need to show a phenomenon which varies over the same time-period as the observed aging.

Is stealing-credit a social practice which varied over the same period as the aging? That is, were scientists completely honest or something in the late 1880s/1890s such that the first Nobel year in the study (1901) was awarded honestly? And did academic dishonesty steadily increase until it's so rampant that apparently a ton of young academics in the 1990s and 2000s have been screwed out of the Nobels by their seniors?

(Only some Nobels were stolen, you say? But then, are these few thefts enough to shift the average age all the way up to 48? Do these few thefts change matters even a little? If not, then why are you quibbling and generalizing from a single anecdote?)
I signed up for the course. I have a good general background in AI but my knowledge of probabilistic graph models is thin - hoping to quickly fill in the gaps.

I thought about buying the book but thought that listening to the lectures and doing the assignments would be more fun.
Sounds like a good idea. If you execute it, I hope you'll give some careful thought to hierarchy/organization/browsability. It'd be nice to have a community knowledge base that could be an alternative to the declarative/referential tone of a wiki. Well organized blogging could probably be a valuable artifact.
The low-hanging fruit are being picked.
Yes, non technical people can lead technical people successful - but I think they are the exceptions on the rule.

As the leader you are responsible for the results of the project - and if you don't understand the technology, you don't understand the risks of the technology. If you don't have an A+ team, they might be doing the wrong things and you wouldn't know. I'm talking about bad architecture, bad technology choices, full dependence on one developer,..
It's a port of Vaadin, which was built on top of GWT; so yes it should be a lot like GWT, though it doesn't seem to mention any use of Pyjamas unfortunately...
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Hey, this is my new new project/startup. Think dribbble but for a private team; and not just for design. Basically, it allows a team to share where they're at with their colleagues and get feedback. Or to show where they're at with that feature; or discuss a new market strategy.

So, it's not a yammer; it's a service on the side. So, for instance, you get an e-mail saying "Bob wants your feedback on X"; you click the link and get on a page where you can talk about the idea, give feedback or upvote some other comments. You can also follow update.

What do you think?
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I like the pink, in principle; it really draws your eye. The problem is that it draws your eye to disjointed phrases that don't make sense unless you read some of the surrounding non-pink context, creating a confusing effect to readers who are skimming the page.
Do you have a demo, or some sort of video of the product?
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Completely agree with the sentiment that food often becomes a burden rather than a joy.

Love the idea and congrats on knocking it out in a weekend.
the thing without mass will always move as close to c as possible in a given environment

Not true. In water, photons travel at ~0.75c, but other particles can travel faster (and emit Cherenkov radiation in the process).
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Cool! A LaunchRock site!
That would certainly be an interesting outcome that does not break the existing understanding we have of c.

It absolutely does. A massless particle moving slower than a particle with mass is just as much a break in relativity as neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light. In fact, they're equivalent. The speed of light isn't just "the speed at which photons move," it's the speed at which photons move (minus restrictions) because they're photons.

Edit: I should say that this is all only true in the case of a vacuum.
Tangent: I don't see the value of LaunchRock landing pages. There's a tiny blurb about what the product is supposed to do, but no screenshots, no details, no pricing, etc. Do startups really get good signup rates from such minimal information?

[Elswr sounds like an good idea, but the details and implementation are what I'd want to know about before giving up my email address.]
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I would put some effort and change the default bootstrap css theme because it looks like many other websites.
Yes, I think this is what happens when you take the mean of a one tailed distribution.
Yuck!

The browser and server should work together elegantly in a modern asynchronous application, not force a paradigm that doesn't fit.
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> Content is not there to just "fill space".

Not what I said. Filler text is there to fill space when you don't have the proper text - it's useless, it doesn't have meaning, it's likely to change in the next 5 minutes. Real content is there to be on the final version.
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If you are interested in learning this topic, do not go directly to Koller/Friedman book - it sure contains a lot of material but its presentation is not well integrated (just look at the topic dependency graph at the beginning).

A much more cohesive introduction would be Michael Jordan's book draft that has been floating around for nearly a decade now. You can find some of the older versions online, e.g. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lebanon/pub/book

Go directly to chapter 5 to see how the language of PGMs can help to clarify a lot of standard material in stats and ML.
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The 30 second video of this quote is here http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1277081754001_...
Er, the name could be a problem. Swap the first and last letters.
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The site design is retro on purpose.
I agree about the preview though. An article list and a couple of free things could get me to buy.
Fair comment. More will follow, but for now we're simply testing whether or not the basic concept is appealing to consumers first before we sink more time and energy into the idea.

Keeping it lean ;-)
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Best language for real-time messaging? 
what is the best backend language for a web app that does real-time message/instant messaging? In terms of scaling and performance?
Don't know what the idea is and it's asking for access to information I have on facebook. Sorry, but no.
I think the PhD/post-doc system may have something to do with this as well. Have you ever looked up the biographies of the big names in science? PhD in 3 years and no post-doc (usually independent research at some famous institute).

So back in the early 1900s, you could get a PhD and be an independent scientist at 24-25. By the time you hit your 30s, you have had several years to pursue your own research.

Flash forward to the present and you've got PhDs that are 5-6 years in length followed by numerous post-doc positions before you can ever be considered for a faculty position where you can pursue your own research. Most PhD level scientists are close to 35 by the time the process finishes.
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Thanks for sharing. And ya, it's freaking slow right now.
Useful, especially if someone needed to do a quick and dirty 'webifying' of an older desktop based python app.

Keep up the good work!
Not yet sorry. We're gauging interest right now and still working to refine the idea.
c is not affected by relativity. It is a constant.

The speed that a specific photon travels at is affected by many things - the medium it's travelling through, for one - but that has no effect on c.
One of those can keep a starving man alive.
At least we don't have death sentences where I live.
I'm totally behind you on this idea. Absolutely no idea if it's going to work but I hope it does and I wish you luck. I think it's up to consumers to discipline these bloated companies.
i use the ratpoison window manager (it works a lot like tmux/screen, but for x11) and have control+a set as its prefix key. i use tmux for some long-lasting remote sessions, so to send a control+a to the shell running under tmux, under ratpoison, i type control+a, a, control+a, a. yes, i do it a lot. no, i'm not going to change it.
I'm interested as well. Lifehacker for programmers and startups!
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Although I wish I could find the link, there was a recent study that almost proved that drugs in the Prozac family didn't work (not the same study mentioned in the article).

Sometimes I wonder if depression isn't caused by chemical imbalances that drugs like Prozac target, but instead is related to blood flow issues (which would be fixed by drugs like Vinpocetine, although that drug depletes norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine), or lack of communication between the hemispheres of the brain via corpus callosum (which would lead to the use of various racetams).
Sounds like a cool idea: lead-gen irate consumers to other brands. How do you plan on getting in touch with the early consumers? Are they going to post their dislikes on your site? A weekly newsletter? And, what kind of information are you going to give to the retailers? An e-mail address? Love to hear more about the implementation.
Odd that Japan got no mention in this article.

Japan is ranked 5th worldwide for most suicides per 100,000 people according to Wikipedia.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra... )
A nice MVC for apps is Stripes. It has a few quirks, but it is extendable and plays relatively well with Spring.
When I took contracts law, they taught me via the case system. It wasn't until I was actually practicing law that I learned what a good contract actually looks like.

I'm going 180 on you: law school is a barrier to entry, and a screening process, but it is not an education in "lawyering" (whatever that might mean). The core curriculum (which all law schools seem to stick to like it's gospel) was interesting from an intellectual perspective, but really a waste of my time and money. Likewise, I had to learn various intricacies of divorce laws to pass the NY bar – something I hope never to care about again.

Since getting my J.D., I've practiced law in some global law firms, and I've even taught practical contract negotiations at a law school here in NYC. Every time I teach that class, a few students tell me it's the most useful thing they've learned in law school.

(Keep in mind that I basically negotiate contracts for a living. If you're in antitrust, bankruptcy, etc., your law school usefulness mileage may vary. I think that's basically the problem: there's no such thing as "lawyering"; it's too broad a category to be useful.)
Awesome idea. Hook up a repo and post back! I'm up for helping out, and collabing on the actual site too.
This might be good advice in some sectors I'm unfamiliar with, but I can categorically say that for 90% of startups, your advice to procure professionally-designed business cards as an early priority is simply bollocks.
Ask HN: More opportunities to meet new startups in Palo Alto or SOMA?
We are team of two and don't know anybody in the Bay area. We like Palo Alto more than SOMA as Palo Alto is lot cleaner, quieter and has better weather. But not sure if there more opportunities to meet people in SOMA. We'd like to get to know other startups and network and build a community.

I know these threads come up a lot but haven't seen any recently that had any responses. So thought I'd try again.

Rent and cost of living isn't much different between both of them at the places we are considering.
I understand your rationale, and it's a great tool you've built. But I don't see how you can say that your text 'objectifies content'. You seem to be confusing readability and legibility. Lorem Ipsum is unreadable in so much as it has no meaning. However it's perfectly good at communicating legibility. Adding abstract and unrelated meaning to dummy text does not objectify the content or add any value. IMO it does the opposite as it adds an unnecessary distraction and creates an association with what is probably an unrelated subject.
This helps explain why I started looking forward to Anakin killing off the Jedi. Well that or the atrocious acting and characterizations. "I sense much fear in him." Really? A 9 year old boy taken from his home to a strange place to meet a bunch of old losers to have judgement passed on him and he is scared. What an insight there Yoda. Ass.
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I came to say exactly this. If you're passionate about what your startup is doing, it seems to me it should be pretty easy to put a few days effort into building out a better "coming soon" website.

With frameworks like Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/) this has become extremely easy to do.

For actual email capturing, you can use something like the Campaign Monitor widget, or skin a Google Form to look a bit nicer and you're good to go.
So you're spamming HN with your ideas and gathering our emails to gauge whether or not a product will work? That's not how you use HN.
This study doesn't seem to compare it to anti-depressant use. I wonder what the average percentage of people in Utah and Hawaii that use anti-depressants vs New York is.
sounds like advogato - http://advogato.org/recentlog.html?thresh=3
In bash: cp /dir/dir/dir/dir/filename !#:^:h/newfilename (Applies to more than cp) Strips cp & repeats previous dir tree minus /filename, plus /newfilename.

This can be mimicked by brace expansion:
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> They argue, on the basis of recently published studies by two top U.S. physicists, that the neutrinos pumped down from CERN, near Geneva, should have lost most of their energy if they had travelled [sic] at even a tiny fraction faster than light.

So let me get it straight: it's clear that the observation is incorrect because it can't be correct based on existing theories?
Lots of recent graduates who have "hello world" programming experience know Java. If you want to hire those.

It's sort of portable and it's sort of good at a wide range of stuff.

In general, I would worry about what you're doing long before what language you're doing it in. Language is rarely a critical detail, despite the frequency at which people like to have holy wars over it.
Things we use at work that I wished this plugged into:
Jira,
Github,
Basecamp,
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It does make sense that KHTML was a compromise for Apple as you say. It's interesting that that was the motivation there, thanks for sharing that!

About Opera, a comment: Opera definitely has real commercial viability. Unlike the other three you mention, Opera has had to be profitable all its life, and from the Opera browser itself (not subsidized by other products). Today Opera makes a lot of money from its mobile browser (but it is in danger from WebKit now).
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I think if you're going to use this "test the waters" method, you owe it to those consumers to let them know that what you're promoting is not an actual service but an idea for a service. And that's not how the landing page comes off.

Oh, sure, the response rate is probably going to be lower if you're truthful and say, "Hey, I'm doing some market research here. What do you think of this idea?" than if you say, "Hey, I've got this great service that you should sign up for ... which I will actually get around to building if there's enough interest."

But at least it's a fair trade. Potential consumers give you feedback about the viability of your idea, and you give them full disclosure about what stage of implementation the idea is really in. Whereas currently, you're getting the feedback you want, but if there's not enough interest expressed for you to invest more time in the idea, then you're leaving high and dry the people who have signed up for the invite, expecting the service to actually exist.
I know they were using Viglink for a while to monetize their affiliate links. Not sure if it's still in place though since there was some backlash regarding it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1309849

I believe that's how Cloudflare also monetizes their traffic, with a Viglink-type service.
He said it was a hype bubble. Were computers a hype bubble when they were the size of entire buildings? Or later when you had to assemble them yourself and program them with toggle switches? Fortunately, a few people had the vision and patience to keep pushing the technology forward.
The only issue is: I need a much larger rez image to put up on the big projector.

There doesn't appear to be any size checking at all. I got a doozy:

http://senator.jpg.to/
I guess that's because Japan is a counter-example for that "more happiness == more suicides" hypothesis.
I am totally confused by your misunderstanding. It is possible there are intrinsic differences, and anyone insisting that this has been shown through appeals to science is being insufficiently rigorous, and scientifically irresponsible.

Where did you get the idea that I was saying it was impossible?

"What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth. - Richard Feynman."

Appeals to a supposed scientific justification of the inferiority of women in mathematics are extremely weak, and certainly damaging if untrue. The supposed scientific proof is thus pseudo-science - thinly veiled politics. I'm not going to spell it out again.
That's the photo. I couldn't find it! Thanks.
Is it perhaps because you aren't allowed to read eBooks to your children ?

http://www.lessig.org/content/standard/0,1902,22914,00.html
I think you make some fair points. 100% agree we desperately need a better demo on the front page.

I think the landing page needs help, too, but we've gotten mostly positive responses to it. I personally didn't expect this, because I wanted a nice demo and we just flat haven't had time to put one together.

We launched it on the same day as our realtime web app conference (krtconf) and I wrote the bulk of the copy at about 2 a.m. the night before. Not my best work, but no excuses--sometimes you just have to ship! :D
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Is the guy skeptical about the software delivery Rubenstein (who later went to Palm)?

Looks a bit like him.
Lol, this screencast is horrible. It's just one guy talking, but they edited the cuts so close to each other that he's overlapping himself talking. I guess it's "saving time" or "is stylish and cool". Obviously it was a conscious decision on their point, but it's a horrible idea. I don't think I'd trust a company that would put out something this bad as an official video.
We have lots of plans for integration... :)
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You should fire your web developer... How can your homepage not work with IE9? Seriously - WTF do you need websockets for on your homepage? I can maybe (notreally) see it for your application but product sites should be available for all browsers and not discrimiinate.
My daughter is 2 and every book I've purchased for her is a paper book. I also choose paper books when I'm getting a book for myself, but think it's a book my child should read in the future. I do this because I'm not sure if the ebook will be there in the future. Also, there's a higher probability of discover of the book on a bookshelf in my house instead of it being one of a thousand files on a computer somewhere.
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