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For the people who haven't figured out how this works: you can move a little stick-figure around and type; the text will appear above the little figure's head.

The other figures are moved by other people visiting the site, who can also type stuff. So you have a chat system.

(Is it just me, or does everybody seeing node.js for the first time want to make a chat system of some sort? It's the first thing I did, although mine wasn't nearly as cool as this one. :p)
The linkbait title does not correctly convey the contents. The actual conclusion is: brainstorming works, but only if you critically evaluate the products of the brainstorm session.

This matches both my experience and what my girlfriend was taught concerning how to conduct brainstorm sessions, which includes the variation of first having everyone brainstorm alone, then combining and grouping the outcomes and then evaluating the outcome.
What do you see as the problem with IRV?
Me too but I'm not in the US. If you are from the US then its probably natural to assume Football is the 10% one.
Why do you attribute success specifically to "brainstorming" and not to some other element of the process? e.g. sharing ideas and having a conversation with your friends in a fun and low-risk atmosphere?
It's not a zero sum game: money is invested. Money goes from A to B. Media coverage helps convince investors, and customers, or users.
One of the most efficient media is advertising disguised as journalism. Hence the legislation on "infomercials" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomercial#Criticism_and_legal...).
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Why did it stop at a planck length? I thought space was continuous.
Judging by the current state of the site you can enter text as well. 'Penis' seems to be the most popular for now.

Seriously. The idea is nice (albeit pointless?), but I just cannot understand this kind of 'humor' or abuse. Drawing app? Penises. Chat system? Penis!

Can we grow up?
No, the world isn't seriously this disgusting. What you are looking at isn't even Silicon Valley. It's a bunch of fucking bloggers jerking around. Yeah, there are a lot of people who (for some reason) give a fuck. Some of these bloggers even have significant influence as a result. But please remember all the people with their nose on the grindstone doing real work in the Valley and elsewhere. They are the majority, and they are the tech scene. Lyon's Silicon Cesspool isn't the tech scene, it's the blogosphere, which has always been a piece of shit. Disregard it, and remember, "Friends don't let friends read TechCrunch."
I would go so far as to say it is pornographic. I don't have a personal problem with the style, but degradation as humor has never been a good enough excuse, in my household, anyway. I just sort of pity the kind of thinking that begets such accoutrements.
It's not just the United States that has this problem:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/only-scientist...
What's with the China bashing? We all believe in what we are used to. That simple.

The author, as many commenters stated, does not define his article correctly? To say America does not elect scientists assumes that the US has many scientists who are rejected at the polls. A better question...Why don't more scientists run for office.

First, an engineer or scientist in Germany is not the same as an engineer/scientist in the US. The Bachelors degree (4 years of college), from what I hear, is almost non-existent in Germany where a Diploma is standard.

Science is not Enough to Affect Change

The author does not state what problems scientists could solve. And science is not everything. No policy can be implemented without the people's support. Example, South African scientist Ivor van Heerden being told "Americans don't live in tents" by US Army Corps of Engineers when discussing ways to house citizens after a Hurricane, pre-Hurricane Katrina.

transcript
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9178501/ns/nightly_news-nbc_news...

Many engineers and scientists in the US are immigrants. Herbert Hoover's, the only engineer/scientist president, parents or grandparents came from Germany. Their original name was Huber. Hoover's technocrats were discredited after the 1929 stock market crash.

From my knowledge and little experience in advocacy, politics is ahem ...politics. Your successes are more about knowing and coercing the right people, not really if the numbers add up. For instance, defunding a program to balance the budget, might cost you and your party their hold on power.

Look how many scientists and doctors were researching HIV/AIDS. Their effect was miniscule. The major investments did not come from scientist advocates. The investments into HIV/AIDS came largely because Gay and Lesbian activists (e.g. ACT-UP) pressured and coerced the pharmaceutical industry. The most infamous act being the real 1987 occupation and shutdown of Wall-Street which resulted in real concessions.

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

This is how politics changes, by dedicated action.

As for Singapore, Singapore was ruled by Lee Kuan Yew (sp?) for about 36 years (1970-1990s) so it should not be compared to democratically elected governments,

Science has to be Accepted by the Population

As for climate change due to pollution. Politicians can't single handedly change the climate, only a curtailing of the excessive consumption patterns of the public can do that. I think it's silly to point at "anti-intellectuals" as the source of climate change when 50% of the nation turns the air condition to 20C/68F when it is 30C/88F in the summer time. The air-condition being the most energy expensive item in the household.

http://205.254.135.7/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=electric...

Electricity use and hence pollution is more affected by climate and price in the US as opposed to politics.

US Electricity Use vs. price and climate (grouped by color)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60012884@N00/4921667405/in/phot...
Oops - sorry, this is where I found it. I can't change the url after the story's been submitted - sorry.
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I think the constant brainstorming over the years has had some kind of training effect on our brains, so that we are much better at coming up with ideas than before.
Come on, you think Google doesn't do this? If anything anywhere on the net is critical of something Google does there will an army of fanboys there within seconds in Google's defense.
Now hang on, pretty much a lot of people have sex just like being depicted here. Pretty much, a lot. Sexism < Sex.
If 90k of your 100k codebase is generated code - and there's a good chance that it is - then the size of the codebase is no reason to switch to an interpreted language.
I don't think it's too unreasonable to expect the minister for health, say, to have had a successful career working as a doctor in a hospital before entering politics, for the chancellor to have succeeded in business, for the defence minister to be a decorated soldier, etc etc.
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clearly their is a fine line, but I think the best link baiters lead with a premise that is outrageous, and content that is pretty agreeable.
Then the problem is that your connections are more important in American politics than elsewhere?
Startups Suck
We are in a post startup era. SAS is over. The cloud is here, almost fog. I see accelerators everywhere. Social businesses. Bing bing. Bling.

Where is the money? The customers? Seems to me that there are too many startups making products for no one and solving problems that don’t exist. It would inspire me if all this human capital was doing something. Curing disease. Getting off this rock. Expanding emotional or intellectual space. But most of these startups are just creating web forms. Information ^curriers. Scuttlebutts.

We don’t spend time on high technology, pushing limits.

Another startup, another photo wall of founders and unqualified C-level execs. Wow.

Maybe this internet thing made us too introverted. Too focused on our own awesomeness.

Humility is rare.

Well, it may be time to regroup.
Among the 435 members of the House, for example, there are one physicist, one chemist, one microbiologist, six engineers and nearly two dozen representatives with medical training....This showing is sparse even with the inclusion of the doctors, but it shouldn’t be too surprising.

The article clearly considers engineers and doctors to be scientists. As it should - they are all well-versed in the scientific method by education and should know how to apply it.
Thank you, this is excellent stuff!

It feels much more compelling to pay for a book that the writer is having enough confidence to give away for free.
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Except Marxism was extremely anti-intellectual. You didn't have scientists in positions of power, instead peasants became majors. Children of intellectuals were forbidden to attend universities and forced instead to work in the industry.
Totally agree with you. I don't see why people are kicking up such a fuss. In fact, grab the IP addresses of everyone in those subreddits, hunt them down and throw them in jail. Give them a good beating on route too.

What if someone started a terrorism subreddit promoting hateful and inciteful behaviour. Defend that freedom America. We already know how that is working out. I doubt anyone would even bat an eyelid and this would be a non-story.

Seriously do not believe people are defending this "freedom" of speech. Total BS and people obviously have too much time on their hands doing nothing.
'most creative' is not necessarily 'most effective' or 'most appropriate'. Look at Rube Goldberg machines.
I have never experienced voting on the outcomes of a brainstorm session and that makes no sense at all to me. It's about generating ideas and it will, hopefully, include ideas that sound nice initially, but are bad when given some more thought. There should be a round to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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This is a "whistleblower" article. I think it is very important. And I hope there are or will be laws to prevent what the article describes.
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That is not what dochtman is saying.
Probably about half of them would be illegal under current rules I think. Horse-collars, leading with your head and helmet to helmet contact have been outlawed, but generally all you'll get during the game is a 15 yard penalty, and maybe a $x thousand dollar fine a few days after the game.
Asking people for money scares me. A lot. We could certainly use some though. This post was just a quick tongue-in-cheek piece, mostly to calm my own nerves. We didn't post it to HN and weren't looking to get a lot of attention.
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But the same is also true of lawyers.
Joost tried this with their P2P desktop client. I was really impressed with the performance and latency.

Technology was one side of the story but in reality Joost failed to get traction, I hope BitTorrent Live is able to make use of the technology may be integrate with existing bit torrent clients.
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Our goal isn't actually to make a hard game. Our goal is to make a game that suits your skill level, whatever it is.

As for whether we've succeeded, we've tested the game on a few hundred people, both hardcore and casual, and have only had one dissatisfied tester (it was a 5 year old who was playing an early build that was way too hard. Honestly I'm impressed he played it for as long as he did). In particular the good folks at Microsoft and Valve seemed to have a great time playing today. (Hooray!)
Allright, seems like I picked up the wrong examples :) I agree on your last sentence as least, that the educational background of politicians is irrelevant to the success of a nation.

Then again, there are many different ways to define what "success" truly means. It really depends what you consider: wages / welfare / freedom of expression / perceived happiness, etc... It's hard to compare two different countries unless you take a look at a bunch of criteria.

One thing I would add, though: you cannot judge a country's current success by the politicians currently in charge. For all you know, they may not be the ones responsible for the current situation and may just benefit from what was done years ago. Economics trends are very much happening on the long term, you would not see a net difference in a few years of policy (unless something very drastic is done). Europe is, for the most, now suffering from poor decisions made during the 80s and 90s regarding sovereign debt, and only recently the massive problems seem to surface while the policies have been going on for about 30years+.
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It has always been this way. For every Google, there's 10,000 GTD/TODO applications ;)
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It's unusual for a 'scientist' to be working alone now days. In academia it's fairly common for a single 'scientist' to manage 2-12 graduate and post doc students. And groups of 10's or even 100's of people working together on the same project is increasingly common.

PS: By 'scientist' I mean someone with a PHD doing research. Plenty of people do research that don't fall under that umbrella, but that's a side issue.
A great way to run Linux on Apple hardware: boot native.

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And I always find it funny when people don't actually read the article, because it doesn't denounce brainstorming at all, just traditional 'group brainstorming and immediately taking the results for granted'.
Therein lies the pendulum swinging the other way. When dying doesn't really disadvantage you, it takes a lot of enjoyment out of the game. Particularly in Bioshock where it can be an advantage to die (free health!)
As Isaac Asimov complained years ago, “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” There was a brief period, roughly coincident with the Apollo space program, when rockets were cool and so were rocket scientists. Since then, the public image of science and scientists in America has been in decline.

I believe that religion plays a strong role here. Religious dogma is threatened by scientific knowledge, and nowhere in the developed Western world has the backlash been as strong as in the US, which also happens to be the most religious of Western prosperous democracies. What's worse, the anti-science campaign of the religious is smashingly successful: only 40% of Americans give credence to biology's strongest and most useful theory, that of Evolution. Among the countries sampled in this study: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060810-evolu... that's almost at rock bottom, undercut only by Turkey.
Does not match my experience: to have a good idea, I have to communicate with others and have them give me a dozen other takes on the problem, from which an optimal amalgamous solution will come up.
Agree to disagree. :)
What a fantastic idea and so well made!
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Looks like the Sloan Great Wall is the biggest:

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

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I don't agree that this debate necessarily will stay. Legislation can change that. Infomercials on tv have been reigned in because consumers associations came to defend consumers. Ads desguised as journalism (which is what this is all about here, I believe) are very efficient ways to sell. Check out Dan Kennedy's work, or any direct marketer's tricks.
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There's nothing marxist in what you describe. Maoist or Leninist, maybe. Then again that's the case for the description you responded to as well.
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If you multiply two five digit numbers you can get the answer 123456789. Can you guess the two five digit numbers?

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While I believe that humans are having a significant, negative effect on the climate, I can see how there might be some doubt and skepticism as to the magnitude of the damage and how much of that is caused by humans. I'm not saying I agree with full-on denial, but there is probably some room for discussion. The problem is that we aren't really having that discussion.

Our more fundamental science problem is that a significant portion of Americans and several of the Republican presidential candidates don't believe in evolution, despite the fact that civilization has benefited from the application of it for centuries.
Because they wouldn't pander to the dumbed-down majority.
This goes to show that it's practically impossible to do it right. At one point there are the purists who complain about bloat. At the other point, there are the purists complaining about NIH when you try to remove the bloat.

You can't have it both in this case it seems.

As a user I know one thing: X11 is huge and while it has all the nice features, it's also still a slow and laggy beast. This might be caused by bad drivers, or it might be caused by a bad architecture (or bad drivers caused by bad architecture making it impossibly hard to write good drivers).

As such, I'm curious to see whether a restart based on technology newer than the 80ies might solve the two big issues I'm having with Unix GUI at this point.

If it does, I'm happy.

If it doesn't, I'll be on the lookout for a better solution.

But I know one thing: If a long-year X11 developer (Kristian Høgsberg is working on the xorg x server) tells us that our issues are practically impossible to fix without a rewrite using a different architecture, then I believe them. Why?

Because for them it would likely be much less work to fix the existing thing (especially if it is nearly 30 years old and as such should be very mature and bug-free), so if they prefer a rewrite, there must be some truth to that.

Personally, I don't care about either bloat (unless said bloat leads to other issues than me having to buy a bit more RAM and diskspace) or NIH, but I still to this day haven't found a Linux distribution that has a GUI which works as-well as OSX or Windows (window drawing issues, multi monitor support - heck - just changing resolutions at times), so I'm certainly open to see other paths explored.
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Can this post be kept in a special place at the top of Hacker News forever. Just so that people understand that the world isn't fair and to concentrate on their cool hacking.
Beyond the silly graph, it's interesting to note that with each passing year, YC's value proposition shifts more from "We'll give you a bit of money and a lot of good advice and top investor introductions" towards "We'll plug you into the most powerful startup founders network in the world"...
I'm pretty sure the people on HN know how to reset a password, or at least google how to do so without this blogspam. Keep this stuff somewhere else.
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I think the core of the problem is not TechCrunch or person X or Y. The core problem is advertising disguised as journalism. The solution is legislation against this. Famous direct marketer Dan Kennedy said that the most efficient marketing is always illegal, and for example infomercials on TV are now legally restricted because they were too "dangerous" for consumers.
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The thing that American football provides that is absent in most other sports is the strategic match up on every down between offense and defense. That strategic part adds a whole other level to the game which adds huge depth to the analysis that fans can dig into. The game that the coaches are playing by selecting plays against each other is more involved than in any other sport. Any replacement sport that I know of would be missing this important element.
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If you say “slippery slope hurr durr” it is a fucking fallacy. You have to do work to make it one.

No slippery slope has materialized anywhere. That’s bullshit.
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Will investors automatically shy away from products built on this specific license?

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I am really beginning to deeply loathe link-bait titles as they are guaranteed to introduce straw men and unnecessary arguments into the comments.
Isn't a contradiction to say that uncritically listening to a groups ideas doesn't stimulate creativity and then to follow that up by saying that listening to other people's ideas, even very wrong ones, increases creativity?
It seems that in New York it was easier to hire people who had worked at scale with the JVM, since that is what the nearby banking institutions might standardise on.
Well, you just invented slashdot. It's fallen by the wayside now, because places like this, with (largely) unmoderated user generated content, can distribute news faster.