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It's not possible to "cheat" at natural selection, because it's not a thing and doesn't have rules; it's just a mathematical fact that's true.

And, like the other reply pointed out, human societies have systems of rules because the results are worse when they don't (to stretch your example, a species which consumes or destroys too much of a limited resource dooms all its members, whether they "cheated" or not).
You have a chicken and egg problem.

You don't seem to be a part of an artistic community.

The minimal design of your site is not appealing to artists and the lack of stuff to look at / download is not appealing for potential subscribers.

What is the value proposition?

You are asking a group of hackers on how to encourage artists to sign up to your site. This seems wrong.

Get out of the office with print-outs of various designs for your home page and get talking to the people who will make your site work, and gain some more perspective. Or, in short, learn about your customers.
For those interested, here is the specific quote on video from Techcrunch's live : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBp_xCGIATk
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Um, what? Here we have a product serving the needs of teachers, built for "webmasters". How many course-builders out there want to familiarize themselves with 3 coding languages (HTML, Python, and JavaScript), when a easily conceivable web UI could accomplish the same goals?

Google is either throwing AppEngine fluff or a pump fake.
To 500hats:

1. Please take a note from pg. He writes clearly, edits his essays and it is almost always clear what he means. I am afraid I read your note twice and still missed some of it's core message(s) (I mean this kindly and politely)

2. If you are serious about external to USA investments and families, please please stop using US only sporting analogies that need Wikipedia articles to unpick. I am glad you love your sports. Now stop it. Say what you mean. Analogies are for lazy HNers like me, otherwise you are bowling googlies on a sticky wicket.

To pg and 500hats

This may or may not be a spat, but it looks suspiciously like when two tribes who were happily expanding across virgin tundra suddenly find they are jostling each other for space.

As you guys are at the leading edge of us it start ups, is this a warning sign of an imminent contraction ahead - have you guys run out of room?
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I do think it is great you take the time to help them like that; I also think this isn't something you should be doing, basically taking them through a "mini therapy".

Now, granted, the line between "I just wanted to cheer them up" and "I showed them CBT" can be blurry but as soon as you take it onto yourself to actively make them better, I'd say you are strolling down a path you shouldn't. The main reason being I doubt you are an expert. The other reason being that it can affect you because you are close to them. And lastly I do not think just one such hint in the right direction is going to help the person suffering. Practically all therapists and people who have ever taken therapy will tell you just how much it feels like 1 small step forward 2 steps back, how much of a constant struggle it is. Changing a behavior is never easy, much less so if it is something that was "programmed" into you since you were a child, something that is your very view of the world. Understanding the mechanisms and a few techniques of CBT can be empowering, absolutely, but it takes so much more to actually make them work and work in the long run, to actually make you feel better and get out of that hole or to change... and not all people have that much energy or ability to introspect and watch themselves what they are doing AND then come up with ways of making it stop. Maybe in the long run it would be more helpful for them to just seek therapy?
Thank you for the reminder of the gift. Sometimes I also consider working to delay the extinction of humanity to be a good reason. Joy would be, and is for some.

I just requested the Myth of Sisyphus from the library. If you haven't read it, you might try Ernest Becker's "Denial of Death". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death

--Cronopio cronopio cronopio.

May your solitude be less embittered.
Yet that video was released in July: http://www.newsy.com/videos/american-killed-in-libya-amid-pr...
Attributing anything to god or the devil is a rediculous concept...
It's FREE until you get traction, and then you just need to know how to use it efficiently. It's a tradeoff, like many things - put in more effort to understand the animal, never have to fiddle with the server, never have to hire ops people.

Most of the complaints about pricing were fixed when users looked more carefully at their code. For some it's not worth it to do so, but that's not Google's fault. And before that, their inefficient code was costing Google money. You'd have done the same thing.
Are there any studies or opinion polls about how consumers are seeing the iPhone? The fact that experts and early adopters are bored with the iPhone doesn't mean that the normal customer isn't still excited about the product. The customers didn't read or hear iPhone stories on an almost daily basis. For them all the Apple products might still be those exciting, desirable gadgets that they must have. Not to mention the Apple fanboys and girls who buy every new product that Apple offers and wouldn't touch any other.
I hope you would like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X...

It's a manifestation of El Lissitzky's idea - digital/electronic library.
Do that, and also get some drugs.
see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4497461
Do you have any html5 videos on your Wordpress blogs? Do you get any problems and fixes with it?
>This is something that frightens me. What is a "diagnosable mental disorder"? I'm willing to bet this statement was far from true 50 or a 100 years ago. Not because I think people got more depressed or anxious, but rather because we're looking harder to "diagnose" things.

Eh, 50-100 years ago, we couldn't do anything about it, so why bother? now we can do something about it, and I think that's a good thing.

> I also never considered that I may have/have had ADD now/as a kid but now people tell me I should "get that checked out" all the time.

Really? in America? Generally speaking, telling someone else they should see a mental health professional is considered extremely rude, especially for something that is obviously not life-threatening (for instance, ADD. Irritating, but unlikely to kill you.) I mean, that's considered rude in the same way telling someone that they need to lose weight is rude; yeah, it might be true, and eh, the person might even need to hear it, but unless you are the person's doctor or you are /very/ close, it's a very rude thing to say.

(note, though, if you do suffer from ADD... I can plot income when I am treated and when I am not treated? the objective difference is... dramatic. Of course, side effects are unpleasant, but the difference is so dramatic I can usually get away with 6 months on, get a lot done, then coast for the next 6-12 months.)
You are quite correct
>What can we do to stop things like this from happening again?

The best way? Kill this stupid mentality of "what can we do to make sure this never happens again". It is exactly this mentality that lead to his death: 911 happened so we started a war against a concept and started invading people's countries, killing good people from both sides.

Norway is the example we should all follow: when something terrible happens, morn and punish those directly responsible but don't change anything about yourself and don't go off with lunacy like fighting ideals.
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Who is the target market, though? I'd say the vast majority of new users of OS X are people coming from Windows, not people who have never used a computer their whole life. Does the leather texture really help those people?
It's still going strong IMO. Quite useful. And not at all distracting ;)
Well that felt kinda weird... Upgraded to Mountain Lion from Leopard
You do not need to be depressed to be suicidal. Seriously consider taking therapy, better today than tomorrow. There has got to be something going on, subconsciously, that causes these thoughts. Therapy will certainly slowly help you discover it, understand it better and maybe even find ways of getting rid of those thoughts.
Is this part of a buildup for a huge surprise? Make people expect something boring, then come up with something entirely new?

If the rumors are true, though, the iP5 will definitely be too tiny.
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Tell me, how more exciting will the new version of Ubuntu be compared to the next version of OS X?

Mature products are just that—mature products.
It loads for me here, in the UK.
That's not true.

Android gives Google a large number of devices where Google is the default search engine and (assuming we're talking about the "official version") always will be.

That's a big win - default search in the browser is something they and others pay a lot for and for (official) Android devices Google aren't paying that. The reason that they pay that money to others (including Apple) is that that's a way of serving and selling ads to the mobile platform.
If anyone has any doubts about doping in cycling I recommend reading about Christoper Bassons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassons
a professional cyclists who was bullied out of cycling for speaking against doping (also by Armstrong).
First up, I have to say I LOVE this idea, however I think you may struggle to get people using it, but that's not to say it wont work.

My first thought is temporarily remove the subscriber and artist count from the homepage. While you're still starting out the low numbers may be a turn off.

Get media coverage! When I first launched BugMuncher, all was quiet for a few days, then The Next Web published an article about it and the users started coming in. Admittedly that was dumb luck, but since then I've been actively getting more blog coverage, and it really works.

As others have said, at this stage you need to get artists on board, maybe you could try some kind of sign up incentive, and then have further incentives for artists encouraging their fans to sign up.

The design, while clean and very good, reminds me too much of a news paper, I'm not sure that will resonate so well with your target audience.

Best of luck with it
I had and have only mild depression and anxiety from time to time and I may sound ignorant/stupid now but for me starting to read and practice stoic philosophy really helped to keep a calmer and more rational outlook for my life. It does a good job for me to not feel worthless and to keep a good spirit in spite of everything falling apart.

The words of epictetus and marcus aurelius made a difference for me.

I've also saw a therapist for cognitive therapy at that time and I've found that reading the stoics helped me with the therapy.

But: It is not an alternative for seeking profession help and I'm just a single biased data-point.
This is probably why Cook said that they will "double down on secrecy".
The event is really boring if you have seen all of the parts on the internet prior to the event (might be different for people not following the rumor mills).
Not sure if you are asking about how non-users view iPhone.
As for users: http://www.jdpower.com/content/press-release/upO8vjP/2012-u-...
My only hesitation about sharing is that I don't want people to extrapolate from what worked for me to expect it to work on themselves. So don't.

With that disclaimer, I'll say that I went on several regimens of drugs for a few years. They had serious side effects, didn't work or worked only for a few months. They did keep me afloat long enough to get the rest of my life together.

Stephen Ilardi's "The Depression Cure" is 80% insipid self-help; I'm surprised I didn't throw it away in disgust. The remaining 20% (which is mostly the table of contents) had a profoundly positive effect. It did more good than all the drugs I'd taken combined; but I had to take it seriously and have the willpower to make changes.

In the end, CBT techniques got me to the point where I instinctively revise my thought patterns. Combined with a lifestyle that includes a lot more exercise, time outside, and physical contact with people I care about, I have been un-medicated for almost three years and haven't had a single major depressive episode.
1) Your home will look consistent across screens but agree with others that its very minimal.

2) You may want to move the headline "A Welcome Note to all Independent Artists...Read on!" lower on that page and use that space for your pitch/USP. Ditto for the Musician & Subscribers section.

3) Displaying your artist/subscriber numbers is a good idea when you have a decent user base. Not sure if 34 & 54 is helping your cause.

4) The signup form for artists is insisting on a website. So if I don't have one, I can't signup? Just a simple textbox asking where can we see your work should be more than enough unless all the social data you are gathering is part of a larger strategy.

5) http://www.moshbag.in/artists.html _ I actually felt offended by the language on this page - it came across as a marketing lie. Could be because after reading your post here, the content didn't come across right.

Also, felt the page is focussed to much on money part and not so much around the experience its supposed to provide the users - but thats just my thought.

The good thing you are in the market and a good idea would be reach out the various bands in colleges, pubs, and Hard Rock cafes in Blore, Chennai, & Mumbai. All the best!
Do you happen to live in Saigon? If so I'd love to meet up.
I cannot really speak for OSX because I do not use it, but Ubuntu just keeps getting better and better on the SAME hardware. On every update it seems to be getting more optimized, less buggy, and introduces new features (sometimes interesting) that make you want to give it a go. The only time when I felt that Ubuntu was going backward is when they introduced Unity for the first time (it was slow as hell) but after that step they just kept getting better in every iteration. That's exciting.
Notably he did the same in years past to Iraq. As the author says: "FUCK MORTARS" is a tongue in cheek way of remembering VR.
I'm skeptical, the way you phrase it.

Rather, I've always heard that it's best to think in terms of circumstances and not blame, for both yourself and others. There's a subtle difference between them. You've phrased it as "blame others, not yourself", but both of those alternatives are equally unhealthy.

Rather, you should figure out a variety of possible explanations for your low performance, and then ascribe meaning to the ones you can change and forget about the ones you can't. "I failed the test because I'm stupid" is a completely useless conclusion. So is "the teacher was in a bad mood". "I didn't study", however, is a very useful conclusion, because it suggests what you should do next time: study harder. So is "I don't actually like physics", because it also suggests a course of action: switch your major.

The overall point is to get out of the habit of learned helplessness and take responsibility for your own life. Blaming others doesn't accomplish that, because you've still attributed outcomes to things you can't control.
I dont know about studies, but I have observed - if tech goes gaga (original iPhone) it does not sell very well, if tech calls it absolute failure (iPhone 4S) it will sell like crazy.
Mature products are just that—mature products.

This is a problem for a company that, like Apple, has used its own marketing to predicate its worth on being hip, new, exciting, and "innovative."
Can I ask what your reasons are for considering suicide that you consider so unassailable?
Java <= 1.4 had nothing like Go's maps, slices, channels (quite useful to build queues and FIFOs), or interfaces.

So no, its not like Java <= 1.4 at all, and that is without going into all the other fundamental language, library and philosophy differences.
I think the people who believe these stories as an example of Apple's evil aren't going to give a hoot what Tim Cook may or may not say on a blog.
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Depends on the model, but yes, the battery life will suffer. Also, you may encounter problems with minor features (color profile, brightness&sound keys, remote, etc.), however you can research all that info beforehand.
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 on a 5 yrs. old Macbook Pro and after some tweaking it runs just fine (I use it primarily as a desktop replacement, so battery life is not all that important to me)
I had posted it earlier in the growth of the thread in the hope that it would prevent a flame war.

Both the answers are simplistic responses to a complex problem which covers geo politics/religion/culture and all sorts of real world barriers.

As distasteful as analogies are - if an engineer said the internet was 0s and 1s he would be correct.

But it wouldn't be usable for long run discussions, and vague enough to generate tonnes of noise over signal.
Blaming it on the others again (copy cats, spies, and so on...)? I think Apple benefited a lot from all the rumor buildup before their presentations. What if there were no rumors at all - would people even still notice that there is a new Apple launch event?

If the rumors were exciting, people wouldn't be able to contain themselves with excitement for the actual launch.

I wonder if Apple should introduce an abo model, that automatically sends their new products to their fans (charging their credit cards).
Thinking more about apt-get,

With more care, Apple could make OS X great not just for users but also for developers. Xcode must be installed by default, along with command line tools. A package manager as good as apt-get is something Apple should take as seriously as it does iTunes and the AppStore.
No, the sparse matrix code in SciPy is plain C (not even multi-core, let alone distributed).

EDIT: or did you mean Disco offers distributed sparse CSC operations?
>>>What is a more appropriate term?

According to Wikipedia, just 'deaf'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf-mute

I'll resist the urge to rant about political correctness.
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It really depends on the hardware, I guess. For me, Ubuntu peaked around 8.10 or 9.04. It ran great on my tablet (yeah, those existed before the iPad, though it was a lot heaver, and that was perfectly fine), sound worked, etc. Every version since then has broken something, and according to benchmarks, Unity is the slowest desktop environment available for Linux.

But, if Ubuntu works for you, don't let the opinion of one random guy on HN change your mind. Just consider yourself fortunate to find something you like and can use.
> I get the following:

Damn. I get "world" (OSX, zsh, BSD env)

So I supposed you can't pass options to `env` either (e.g. `-i`, or ENVVAR overrides?)
Nice work! I love this kinds of projects. It shows what is possible when making feedback on code faster and more interactive. It also looks great.

LLVM/clang is really taking the world forward by opening C(++) parser and code generation internals, from what used to be a black art, to everyone.
Thanks for the kind words Matt! We're looking at getting some press, but we thought it'd yield us better results once we have a good number of artists on board & have something to show for. We are also reconsidering the UI & will revamp it to have more call to action right away.

And I agree, we have to work on simplifying our on-boarding process for artists.
You do like shell script, don't you? ;)
I only recently finished having suicidal thoughts. In fact, I had them 4 days ago. It's frightening, and disturbing. I have two small children and my wife loves me. Still the thoughts come. Awful.
This is absolute nonsense.

Here's an example of what a small team + HTML5 is capable of: http://ro.me
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There's no way to downvote an article, and as the community grows larger, simply not upvoting is not enough to stop bad articles making the frontpage.
Andrew, thanks for the feedback. The biggest take away from all corners for us has been the UI & I assure you we WILL fix.
Thanks, great to have it back again.
Didn't realise that. Looking for ways to ensure that doesn't happen. Do you have any ideas?
I have some experience with cognitive-behavioral therapy. I can tell you anecdotally that it really does work, and it is among the most scientifically verified treatments out there.

I'm not sure if I understand your objections to CBT -- there's a lot of them -- so let me restate them. If I've misunderstood please correct me. You seem to be saying:

1) One can control one's highest-level, "executive" thoughts, but not feelings. CBT is assuming far too much control over emotions, and it's like blaming a depressed person for not "snapping out of it".

2) It is also bad to throw off blame onto other people when you should be learning lessons about your own failures.

Okay, first of all, I think you are quite mistaken about how much your emotions are related to the content of your thoughts. There are indeed people who have chemical imbalances in their mind, but for most people, their thoughts are the primary trigger of their emotions.

The basic assumption of CBT is not that you should blame others more, or yourself more. The assumption is that your thinking is clouded somehow and needs to be set straight. This is usually done by rigorously stepping through every part of the thought process to reveal the errors. One should accept the blame that is due oneself, but not go any further.

I never followed a program of cognitive-behavioral therapy all the way, but I have done it sometimes. I do remember a moment of revelation that occurred when I was out for a walk. CBT encourages you to slow down and listen to yourself very carefully. I noticed, for the first time, a voice in my head that was constantly leaping to very bad conclusions based on poor evidence (e.g. very minor setbacks, like an untied shoe, are connected into a pattern of lifelong failure). The thoughts were so automatic I had stopped realizing that they were thoughts at all; I only felt the wave of bad feelings that resulted from them.

My personal feeling is that a lot of people have this sort of problem, rather than any chemical imbalance. Antidepressants may be primarily useful in lifting the fog enough for one to have the mental energy to start CBT. Some studies show that using both is better than either alone.
Peroni, Great inputs! Will keep them in mind. Thanks!
Btw, Unlimited Patience is all we startup guys have anyway. I'm totally passionate about this & not letting it down anytime soon! :)