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I knew a VC who you could describe as Barney Fife, and be 100% accurate. I always talked to him on a level he could understand, because I too thought he was a little slow. I was polite and explained things so that he understood how we where doing.

Fortunate for me though, I never was on the opposite ends of his ambitions, because he fooled everyone who crossed his path.

One day, we where in the process of negotiating an exit with a huge player in our market and I enter the room with him and our CEO (a brilliant guy), conversations start and this guy turns into Mr. Negotiator. I mean here is a guy that I have known for 2 years and all the sudden he is the smartest, shrewdest guy in the room. He is tearing apart arguments, quoting technical information that I explained to him (winking at me, saying that he was listening). Explaining financial models to them and why they wont work for us. etc. etc.

I walked away from that table with a totally different perspective than I walked in with. The moral of the story was sometimes the bullshitter gets bullshited. They thought they had this guy, and when the time was right he, let go, blind sided them, took them off of their game, and walked out of the room holding the aces.

I learned that day, that the dumbest guy in the room, may very well be the smartest guy in the room. Never underestimate people and their capabilities it may come back to haunt you.

After that meeting I said to him, man I feel like I don't know you at all, in which he said something pretty profound, he said: I am the same friend you have had for two years, and that is a humble good listener. Those last 3 words have been what I have aspired to be since that day.
Yeah, a lot of people aren't aware of the history.
Stop words have a function though in some situations. They tend to stop people interrupting you. The better alternative if you dont want to be interrupted is to pause in the middle of sentences as people then tend to wait.

Of course letting people interrupt is goid a lot of the time but sometimes you want to dominate a discussion.
But time is money.

And I am not trying to be cute here. It is properly the single most common tradeoff here - you sell your hours for pay at a company, then buy a frozen pizza because you don't want to make it at home, then clean your own house because a maid is too expensive but outsource your taxes because they are so complex and would take you ten times longer to do, you drive a car because commuting by bike is too slow and the buses don't come by that often.

Time can be brought (heck that is kinda what you are doing with your start-up because a successful start-up can mean you don't have to work at a job again, ever).
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First, follow the link to the source. The Red Cross is currently debating this issue. They don't have any position yet.

That said, the phenomenon is not limited to video games. Almost all forms of violent media (action movies, video games, etc) trivialize "collateral damage". If the main character survives and the bad guy dies, it's supposed to be interpreted as a happy ending, even if dozens, hundreds, or thousands of civilians are killed.

But really this is still a subset of a larger phenomenon. Media in general depict main characters as real and non-characters or secondary characters as less-than-real, subhuman props.

Maybe this isn't a problem, but I think the Red Cross is right to at least bring it up.
Because Scott "men are genetically programmed to rape so we shouldn't really blame them" Adams wouldn't possibly infuse his strip with sexist, martyr-complex, responsibility-avoiding, self-serving cultural portrayals. Nope, definitely not.

Not saying the tech industry is a bed of roses. But "this sucks for everyone" doesn't mean "so she shouldn't complain". It means "we should fix this for everyone."

Women have all the problems men have there, plus they are isolated, subject to sexist behavior and criticized heavily if they ever speak about their experiences. This is a case of "yes, and..." not "yes, but..."

If men don't like the way other men are treating them it is not women's responsibility or even possibly under their control. It definitely shouldn't be proposed as an excuse to dismiss or ignore women's feedback on how men treat them (which is both women's and men's problems, and is under men's control).
guard-of-terra said You either know what you're proving is already proved, then what's the point? Or you know it probably is false, then there's even less reason to. Well I guess that's true of every kind of math a 12-year-old does. Why bother doing any of it? Well, mainly because it's a useful skill to have when you want to do something interesting.
> ...I realized that I could usually repeat whatever I wanted and the person would agree with me.

This is actually a successful conversational terrorism [1] strategy, which I have used (when pressed) both in written and spoken contexts.

[1] http://www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html ("Distorted Active Listening")
Why the hell is this being downvoted? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Ressam#Plot_to_bomb_LAX
The fewer customers one has the less money it costs to pivot. A lot of tiny companies pivot like crazy with very low cash flow.
Human gestation is estimated as 40 weeks counting from the last menstruation. Conception is 2 weeks after that on average, so the actual time is about 38 * 7 = 266 days.

Dividing by 30, you get 266 / 30 = 8,866666666667 months (almost nine).
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Awesome idea -- I can think of three or four people who would really benefit from this kind of book. One thing: you recommend SciTE for a Windows editor, but the real preference these days is for Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus-plus.org/). I've used both, and while they're largely similar, Notepad++ simply works better on Windows.

On a similar note, it would be great to be able to leave comments like this close to the source. Maybe you could include a system for on-line comments on the site, kind of like what Real World Haskell did (http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/getting-started.html).

Great work. I especially like how well you made the case for non-programmers to pick up programming. The introduction is pure gold.
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And how far their genital nerve-cluster protrudes! ;-) (Though that's still overlapping bell curves, of course, and totally irrelevant to any work conversation that does not involve participating in pornography...)
@teyc, I publish / edit CloudAve, and as such, let me clarify a few points.

- We're definitely not racist, don't have an anti-Indian angle . In fact my fellow Editor, @Krishnan is Indian. And for all I care he could be an Indian-African-Martian mix, he is there for what he knows, not where he comes from.

- Ben is a syndicated contributor, and as such he expresses his opinion, which we may or may not agree with. As Editor, I select which of his - and other authors' - posts we publish, and I try to filter out bias - probably not 100% successfully.

- CloudAve can't control what guest authors say on Twitter. All we can do, and again, try really hard is make sure what gets published on our site is unbiased, and hopefully valuable information.

- Personally I find his attack Tweet and the lack of disclosure of his past involvement with ZenDesk unfortunate. I even tried to make light fun of it, saying Freshdesk is actually a rip-off of FreshBooks, which in turn is a rip-off of Fresh Choice. Apparently some did not get the irony, taking my tweet literally, even though Fresh Choice is a restaurant chain. Go figure ...

- In the grand scheme of things this tweet was a mistake, yet Ben continues to write (mostly) insightful posts, of which we get to cherry-pick and so far our readers seem to like it.

- Kudos to FreshDesk for turning this into a PR coup - I suppose this incident brought them more visibility than they would have gained in months without it. Furthermore, now Ben will feel compelled to actually review their product:-)
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Mike Pall is awesome but Mozilla has a hord of very talented compiler guys. They have to fight against legacy code and a badly designed language.

I have learned alot about LuaJit already and I will digg into it more in the future.
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"Quick, file a patent. :)"

Please file a patent and refuse to license the technology to anybody. :P
I highly recommend reading the wikipedia article (which, of course, has already been partly updated from this press release).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(spacecraft)

you will find out that:

- it has 42 sensors with 95 MPixel resolution total

- they only cover 10 square degrees of sky

- only 150k stars were selected for monitoring the rest of the pixels is thrown out

- they are read out every six seconds and every 30mins the pictures are combined and stored

- it sits on an orbit similar to Earth's, trailing it somewhat

- it can communicate with the mission center in Boulder at 4.3Mb/s in bursts of ~100Gbits

- it has a 16GB SSD

- from the frequency of finding planets somebody estimated that there are 2 billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy and 6 sextillions in total :)
Punching me in the face makes you happy as well, sadly it hasn't happened that very often! Keep trying;-) K
This is a perfect example of why lobbying should be made illegal as it is bribery pure and simple, just under a different name. With "donations" like these why even act surprised that Washington does whatever corporations tell them to do.
"If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joker"

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3246259)
For XLS, be sure to check out Roo http://roo.rubyforge.org/ or use Java libraries and JRuby.
I like the idea of websites using public key encryption. Would the browsers have to implement it on the client side? Could a plugin handle that?
1. Cryonics doesn't have to violate the laws of physics

2. You can set the terms and conditions under which you want to be woken up

3. Setting aside the lack of evidence for this claim, I want live for selfish reasons

4. This is part of the risk. But there are numerous incentives for cryonic service providers to keep their contracts
Sometimes it is more risky to be less aggressive.

This is a lesson I learned from Vinod Khosla - who by most metrics knows what he is doing. In nascent markets user acquisition costs rise quickly. In network effect businesses, switching costs are high.

So should you lower your burn? Not necessarily. Ask yourself just as often "should I increase my burn."
Implying I defined gifted, or even believe that people CAN be gifted.
"In the modern world, if you want to check out from the turbulence of day-to-day life to focus deeply on something, but not in a religious way, and do so surrounded by a few kindred souls, the place to do that is a university."

Is it, though? I agree 100% that it should be, but modern academia is so mired in political drama that it's hard to make that argument without doing something about the systemic "publish or perish" mindset and the fear of administrative retribution for publishing overly-controversial research.
I'd say your description is very accurate. I come from a business background with no technical skills. But recently I've become very intrigued and fascinated by this new world of programming that I have been introduced to. The culture, the efficiency, necessity, etc. are all very alluring. So this book is right up my alley. Look forward to reading more.
Because they are hellaciously expensive, in terms of:

* cost to retrofit the backend of these systems onto the bank's retail software

* cost to roll out tokens to customers

* ongoing support costs for e.g. lost or broken tokens

To all that, you have to layer on the fact that tokens are priced for a different market (enterprise security), so the existing products aren't packaged in a way that makes them palatable to (say) Bank of America's many tens of millions of customers. You can't wave a magic wand on that problem either; tokens are packaged the way they are now because that's how you can keep a token company in the black.
Proof that moderation is still key. Sitting all day is horrible for your health. Standing all day is horrible for your health. Laying down all day is horrible for your health.

The human body was made to move.
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Correction, there is a live help that sporadically appears in the lower right, with its own bug, and the person on that seems to not speak fluent english.
Reviews are for the still-employed :)
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In fact, the discussion that followed my question demonstrated that everyone had different ideas of what the acronym meant, and that those differences underlay some of the conflict over what to do about issues related to it. It wasn't just a placeholder for a shared concept; it was an active barrier to cooperation.
IMHO the explanation on the Lisp implementation page is much clearer then the article.
It's a blog post. She's not "presenting evidence" or even making an accusation; she's telling a story.

Who "adequately supports" an anecdote in a blog post? You just tell your story as you saw it, and if the topic is interesting, it can be a base for good conversation.

Here's another viewpoint no one seems to be discussing: the fact that she was seeing a pattern of sexism that was serious enough for her to leave the company is not disputed. WTF happened there, eh? I venture to suggest that it wasn't all in her head, and that it's a problem worth a better discussion than "is her evidence adequate".

I suppose because of the "sensitive" topic, she should be proving that this particular story is 100% factually true, and pack those few paragraphs with footnotes to the dozens of other events that would show that her interpretation is sufficiently supported?

This is all so silly. The stilted legal-defense language exploding everywhere isn't helping anyone.

(Side note: no intention to rail on your comment in particular; this started as a one-liner).
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As Figs [1], jgeralnik, and CWuestefeld [2] have pointed out there might also be a huge problem in their methodology.

Let's say that we have created an immersive environment for a mouse, so that we can replay what the mouse would see if it saw a piece of cheese similar to the way they've played back that sonar ping. If the mouse starts running towards it/"identifies" it, would that mean the mouse has developed a complex visual language? No, it would just mean that the mouse has seen the cheese!

Unless they have conclusive proof that a dolphin directly sends a pre-modulated imprint of the object it just revealed, then their experiment is probably making a similar mistake somewhere or the other.

I think that there is a better way to design this experiment. One of the better ways to conclusively test this hypothesis would be to teach a dolphin tool use to get food and see if it can teach others to do the same. To ensure that simple imitation isn't going on, we could keep a hydrophone immersed for the entire duration and continually record what's happening.

If other dolphins learn how to use the tool, then I would move on to the next step and see if they can work together in teams. If they display co-ordination then we would have conclusive proof of language use.

Has anyone ever done rigorous research like this?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3315023
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3314522
That could allow them to swipe the business model out from under StackExchange.
Gifted kids need to see gifted adults using "story problems" in real life.

If kids see how math is needed to trade in Chicago, to gamble in Vegas, to optimize at Google or to solve the German tank problem kids will want to know more.

I remember every guest speaker in K-12 math classes -- only about one per year. And I'm probably exposed to more math from HN links than I was as a non-technical undergrad.
Are you afraid of flying? Those are some of the most terrifying three minutes of many people's lives. It seems like an hour when you're terrified.

9-11% percent of people have a fear of flying (http://www.icao.int/icao/en/atb/meetings/2007/ff07/Presentat...)

I know not having distractions or calming music on during that time period is a big issue (and due to the way plane power works, you often lose in flight audio during that time).
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For write-only logging from stateless, single machine bound processes - yes. For analytics, automated tracking stateful sessions across many nodes, preserving context, dumping binary fragments... no, at least for me it did not always work.
That is a valid point.

One of things I noticed when I was in HS (~10 years ago) was that since it was such a new phenomenon to teach stats in public HS, the teacher was essentially learning alongside us. This was no fault of his own, but simply that when he was training to teach, the value of teaching everyone basic stats was not appreciated.

I can only hope that trend will change.
It's not nearly as much money in other countries. 5 figures on bad odds vs 6 or 7 figures on bad odds. If it's cheap maybe it's worth a shot?
I'm fine with a weight limit/type limit. An iPodTouch is going to hurt a lot fewer people than a hardback book.
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Since it takes a while to raise money, and since running low on cash can lead to a crisis, much fundraising is in anticipation of 1 or 2. But you're right, a lot of status do seem to raise money simply because it's what everyone else is doing.
Learning "useful skills" preemptively while doing no actual work is counterproductive. It would probably work if you could motivate yourself all along, but in the current world with all the distractions, you probably would not.
It's like learning to swim in an empty pool while being reassured that it would be filled once you're able to swim.

Programming is instantly addictive because you create from the day two. Math isn't.
I feel I just read a bunch of words that stand in stark contrast to reality, with me finding the new design confusing, badly laid out, hiding important parts of the UI without any scrollbar indication and even more damningly I find it looks amateurish in 'compact' mode, the only practical configuration for seriously using it as a mail client.

I also can't understand how it can feel so awful when using it, they claim to have tweaked timings but this is exactly one of the parts of it that drives me crazy prompting me to keep switching back, UI elements suddenly spring to life unexpectedly. They seem to have got them all totally wrong.

I've been trying my best to like it but I've had enough now. The massive gulf between this botched redesign and something like the iPhone where every action 'feels' natural just shows how hard good design is. There are even UI inconsistencies like the reply/reply all/forward mock 'text' box keeps the mouse as an arrow instead of a pointer or text cursor, I still hesitate for a few seconds over it as my brain hasn't learnt to just go ahead and click it.

It just doesn't feel finished. The whole thing just feels half baked.

On the other hand I have been impressed with the new GMail client in a mobile browser. Apart from a minor quibble that you have to scroll to the bottom to reply, it's really good.

Edit: It's also called GMail, not GChat, why keep pushing the chat functionality, grr.
If I was in an accident or an illness today -- I'd want them to crack my ribs and so on. In 50 years or so, when I'm 80 and in poor health I'm not sure I'd want the same thing.
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can someone please post this entire article or a cached version?? been trying to read what the commotion/drama is all about for the past 6 hours and I'm dying here...
Replacing all forms of "woman" with the appropriate form of "employee" and neutering pronouns doesn't seem to change the story at all.
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Corresponds with my opinion: The curricula are crap and many educators at best mediocre in the topic. No wonder the "smart kids" are frustrated.

P.S. I remember hitting calculus in college and drawing the "hard" professor. ("Oooh", people exclaimed sympathetically.) I pulled an A+ and enjoyed the course, because the professor knew and cared about what he was teaching. He just insisted that you did, too.
I'm not sure what we know about this particular planet so far, but I think the part that's missing is volume. Currently, nobody knows what the composition of the planet is. We don't know if it's liquid or solid, for example. I think.
Maybe think of this as one of the burdens that civilization handles for you : One never has to mix the emotional trauma of losing a loved one with the cold facts of how much money they'd save you by dying before tea-time.
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> Women are more sensitive to this because they get attacked/raped by strangers a lot more often than men.

Men are much more likely to be the victim of violence from strangers than women.

The vast majority of violence (including sexual violence and rape) against women is from people they know; "friends", husbands, colleagues.

This is a minor point though; I do agree that employers need to provide a safe environment for employees, and that women feel more at risk in dark car parks.
No, tokenadult believes the factor lives within the school system, and I'm arguing it does not (by pointing out that different school systems get the same result).

I made no argument as to whether that factor is genetics, tiger mothers, Kumon, etc.
I suspect he meant it, too.
On the plus side for Canadian startups: It looks like there will be a glut of highly-competent engineers on the market in the next year or two as RIM sheds staff. Waterloo is looking like a lucrative place to launch a startup.
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> They are mostly emotional attacks presented without any evidence.

Oh, but they use such extremely formal and legal-sounding language. Doesn't that mean they're being purely logical?

Sarcasm aside, some years back I noticed that I started using language like that when I was feeling angry & defensive. "How could they say that!? I'll take 'em apart with my razor-sharp rhetoric..." I figured out after a while that whatever I was writing was probably best thrown out, and the conversation saved for when I had a cooler head (and a bit of perspective).
Really? That's your argument? These things can't get "don't tell me the weather"?

Can you state your objection to 'potatolicious in terms of things that someone would actually want their voice-activated personal assistant to do? Preferably things my professional musician brother would want to do, not just things a nerd like me would try to get Siri to do for sport.