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College is proven way to improve productivity and lifetime earnings. And it's scaled fairly well. And unlike poker, it's not zero-sum.

"In fact, apart from very specific cases, I think that school is a bad thing, not worth doing even if it was free."

Very wrong. You're not going to become a doctor, lawyer, nurse, accountant, etc. by playing poker and traveling. You're not going to get recruited by an employer because you claim to have read a lot of books.

What the author is actually saying, but incorrectly applies to everyone (startup bubble thinking, maybe?), is that for would-be startup founders, college may be obsolete. This is in no way, shape, or form, indicative of the value college provides to the rest of the population.

People have lots of motivations and reasons for attending college and many of them are completely valid, logically and economically.
Because the phones are going to be launching in about a month. There is no point airing commercials now.
noted! Toronto is definitely on our radar. thanks
I like it! :-)
i call this basic psychology
okay thanks for the suggestion. It looks like they have the data we need to make an App there. We'll look in to it.
Seattle! Metro, Light Rail, and SLUT lines would be amazing!
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The first thing you ask for from a user is their email address and/or Facebook account? Do that last. Get the user to create a wish list first.

Registration is a barrier to getting users. Save it for the end or as late as possible. Look to TripIt for inspiration on the registration process. You can create a travel plan without registering. Once it's created, then you have a reason to register, so you do.
Cool idea. Seems a bit buggy at the moment - I tried dragging a bunch of stuff in quickly and it failed. Keep up the good work though!
There are social pressures around the term "work". Many simply get out of bed for work because it's expected of them. Mastery and purpose seem more fitting during the age of samurais. A materialistic society is almost incapable of distinguishing the difference between money and other types of motivation.
Depends on how and in what context you define "right". There are numerious job boards out there including aggregators like indeed (who just won big btw ). In terms of being able to quickly find/post jobs of any kind, craigslist does come to mind. The question is: what can you do that craigslist is not doing well in terms of job board ? Or elance, odesk etc. for that matter ?
Maybe it's a bad translation, but banning laptop with noisy fans and clicky keyboards seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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Does anyone know of a coding competition exclusive for working employees in India? that promotes hacking in indian culture.
Writer's block?
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I agree. There are at least two ways to look at this. Either you figure out a way to let people know what you want OR you provide a service that lets people exchange gifts after receiving them. I tend to favor the latter as it doesn't require signing grandma up on a website she'll never use. You also won't come off as an ungrateful brat that doesn't understand the point behind gifts.
Could you at least put a disclaimer in your spam that says you're a cofounder of Couchbase?
Everyone keeps saying Education system is broken, and to some extent it is. Here's some reasons why...

1. with advancements in technology, education too needs to evolve, but we are still stuck in the era of printed books and expensive text books. I remember seeing a computer for the 1st time in grade 7. It took me few years to understand the complete potential and how I can use it. Now, kids in pre-school are hooked to iPad games and have figured out ways to watch cartoon on demand. Thus going to school to learn about animals from textbook pics is not very inspiring and interesting.

2. For higher education, the school text books are still stuck in the 90's technology. School needs to engage students with more hands-on work, rather than lectures. Hands-on project building and training is a very useful tool for learning and has proven to be more engaging among students of all ages. [Shameless advertisement : checkout my workshops on robotics at workshop.iroboticist.com]
Sad prediction: the future of 3D printing will be cheap printers [that require/are subsidized by] proprietary resins.
It's not so much that it's a good UI, as that it's better for some users than one with:

1) A set of rotating toolbars full of icons that are just as confusing, though they are arranged better by default

2) No discoverable keyboard interface (Alt-menu access doesn't work without menus)

It's a preference thing. I don't think either one is strictly better UI; it just depends on the user's preferred interaction modes.
You're right that people now use their vehicles for a variety of tasks, but I think that's actually part of the problem.

My dad has a pontoon boat that he has to twice yearly haul around. It might make more sense to get something specialized for those two days than drive something sufficiently powerful and fuel inefficient year round.
It would be fairly easy to build on iOS. I had a similar idea a couple months ago, and started to build it last night.
I'm working on something like this. :)
I know this is going to be controversial.. but they actually made the right move. MS is supporting them and without that help, Samsung and HTC wouldn't give them a chance. Also, in my particular point of view, WP is way more aligned to Nokia's style than Android.

Honestly, as an user of the four OS (iOS, Android, WP and BB) my favourite is by far windows phone. Not only it feels different but also I found it way more stable. Everything is subjective anyway
Embark is pretty good but it doesn't solve the "what's the fastest way from this random location in SoHo to Port Authority" problem. I can tap on two stations and find the fastest way between them, but Google would tell me which option to take, of which there are a lot:

* Walk to W4th, A train (or C/E train) directly to Port Authority

* BDFM from Bway/Lafayette to W4th, A train

* BDFM from Bway/Lafayette to NQR at 34th, walk from 42nd.

* NR from Prince to 42nd

* 6 from Bleecker/Spring to Union Square, NQR to 42nd. This is a long and annoying transfer, which Google probably picked up on.

* 6/NR -> L -> ACE (probably not)

Since Embark's map is the stylized subway map, it doesn't really help with geographic locations.

There are other situations like this: should I take the J train at Bowery directly over the bridge and walk for a while on the other side, or should I walk to the 6 and take the L train under the river, getting off much closer to my destination? The estimated walking time factors into this - if there's a J train about to arrive and I'll narrowly miss the 6, the answer is obvious. If I'm going to have to wait for both, my time is better spent walking to a train that will get me closer to my destination.
https://nobadgift.com <- pretty much the exact thing. There are many, many players in this space.

How are you different?
$1.99 game purchases are impulse driven. I'd think less so for $59.99 game purchases.
I hear this often, but usually from people who have given up trying to find those things in their work. They believe it is simply safer not to wish for things to be better because they may be disappointed.

You can't rely on them being there (as a professional, your job is to be there whether you like it or not), but I've experienced them, and I know others have as well.
Yes, once the gift is bought, you get a message and that item is taken off your list.
The most interesting bit is in my opinion, that the debt of the region is already really high.

But as laptops are now banned from parliament, every member of said parliament shall receive a tablet, because he/she has to be able to keep working with digital files in parliament.

Being a citizen, things like this make me sad.
I can remember some CEOs who works for a symbolic $1/year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary). They certainly do it because they like what they do, not because they have unpaid bills.

I still posit that most people who "go to work" consider monetary or other material reward their work provides very important. Many of them would trade their current place of employment to another comparable place that would pay, say, 30% more. This probably does not matter when you earn $100k+, but most people don't.

What is true from my experience is that paying more does not increase motivation when autonomy, mastery, and purpose are addressed poorly. It just feels like a more fair compensation for the pain of working in such an environment.
Why would one express sorrow for a huge innovation in technology?
But that developer community is a given if you are making a competitive or alternative service to something like Twitter. It's a prerequisite, not a bonus. I would argue you're still not giving the users enough of a bone.
Google may have an iOS mapping app in the works after all
I would say similar to previous comment that indeed.com is best at aggregating job listings. You want something better than that?
I don't understand why the author seemingly understands and uses opportunity costs in his argument against college, but ignores them when advocating that people learn poker.

Poker is a means to earn some money. Along the way, you pick up some analytical skills. If you're really good, you reach a point where you can inductively and deductively make decisions. Poker is also risky. It's also an emotional roller coaster. It's certainly not for everyone. The inductive skills you learn in poker will not necessarily translate to other walks of life and there are certainly better ways to beef up your reasoning skills than sitting at a poker table.
Are you claiming that over saturation is worse than zero saturation?

To be honest, I can't remember the last "missing child" face I saw. If I visited Reddit today and saw a face of a kid in my state that was missing, I'd be more likely to pick them out. This program isn't getting forced by anyone but claiming it would do worse than "no good" is ignorant.
> I shudder whenever I see someone upgrading the development machine their professional life depends upon to the new version of OS X on release day.

The Arch Linux demographic.
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I am trying really hard to ignore the Futurama picture. Really hard!
> only mobile computers that run silently without a fan or no mechanical keyboard and hinged screen (from google translate)

While `run silently and no mechanical keyboard' has at least some merit, what's the point of mentioning hinged screen?

There are some dual-(hinged-)screen tablets http://blog.laptopmag.com/msis-dual-screen-tablet-video-hand...
Yes. It even includes a screenshot from the video.
Thanks, that's actually a very good point, one we've debated for a while. Will keep it in mind going forward.
I believe he notes that if you are going to school to become a professional (i.e. doctor) then it doesn't necessarily apply.

To your point, you also aren't going to become a zookeeper or programmer by playing poker or travelling, but you also won't necessarily become one by going to college. You WILL become one if you make the effort to do so, it doesn't matter whether it's in college or elsewhere.
Create an OStatus plugin for WordPress first and go from there.
Not quite relevant to the article, but the Android version of the app (NYC one, at least) crashes on opening around 50% of the time for me. Although the resulting error message is laugh-worthy[1], it's still kind of annoying.

[1] http://instagr.am/p/P5m0mQNWSq/
> OS X is still allowing regular people to install apps from whatever source they want, by default.

This is not true anymore. I just tried to install TRIM enabler last night, and Mountain Lion wouldn't let me do it as it was from an "unknown developer". Had to Google to figure out how to disable this new feature.
Although watching it at NAB in 4k was quite impressive, I'll say. It gives me hope for future tech in the film-making realm.
How exactly is this fixing recruiting?

* Sign up & enter your preferences

This is the same as sending a resume to a recruiter?

* Receive opportunities via email

Nothing new here.

* You control what happens next

Just like I do now.
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At least didn't just resort to buying offshore offset credits right?
To label your guy, type "I am Joe", and it will have Joe underneath instead of a number.
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Maybe they should come with their portable enigma machines
> OS X is still allowing regular people to install apps from whatever source they want, by default.

You must not have used Mountain Lion. By default it won't let you run unsigned apps. You can turn that off in System Preferences under Security & Privacy, but would casual users know how to do that?
You're dead-on in terms of the value of recurring monthly income, hopefully -passive- monthly income!

In today's zero-interest-rate environment it is very difficult to generate risk-free income from capital alone.

Instinctively it would seem that "a million dollars" is cooler than "$10K/mo with little or no effort/time commitment" but if it lasts, long-term the latter is actually more valuable.
He "left with zero additional skills after three semesters" in college, and is now advising people to make money playing poker? I'm having a hard time taking this seriously.
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Based on your question, I would say odesk is the place to go to post/find someone for simple programming tasks. I've heard of people using fiverr.com for this but I've never tried.

On a purely selfish note: I just launched betacave.com which has a unique spin on the recruiting process, but its more geared towards long term hiring. Discussion here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4576038
Unless you're comparing it directly with another phone, it's hard to imagine any phone image stabilization looking good in a commercial.
While this is an interesting way of disobeying and a nice idea in general, I have to admit that it also feels a bit overreacted. The reason why laptops are banned (as outlined in this document: http://fraktion.piratenpartei-sh.de/2012-09-19-bericht-aus-d...) are that people used them during the parliament hours for social networking or games and that the clicking of the keyboard and the fans and harddrives of the laptops created a distracting noise.
Tablets are specifically allowed.

I can understand that the noise that a set of laptops generates can be distracting. On the other hand does a tablet not really help if you want to type down thoughts or parts of what's currently being said. So the smart thing to do would be to only allow very silent fanless laptops (my MacBookAir, for example, seems to make no noise at all, except when watching YouTube videos).

I sincerely doubt that it makes sense to try to ban the clicking of keyboards. That's like trying to ban the shuffling of paper. Bringing a typewriter which makes really loud typing noises doesn't sound like such a good idea in that context. A foldable bluetooth keyboard + would have been the better idea; that way they wouldn't show disobedience, but instead they'd display that there're other ways in which one can be silent and still use a keyboard in there.
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If the customers use 'Accept: application/vnd.example.v1+json' and 'Accept: application/vnd.example.v2+json' they can also transition over in the same manner.
Whenever you see "X presents" or "X's", it means "not created by X".
You need the huge Java ecosystem and benefit from it only if you wish to be and use the Java ecosystem, which is basically a million different ways to use XMLs, abuse design patterns, needlessly make solutions verbose and complicated to make your work complex and very important.

Other technologies will have their own ecosystem. Which will grow at their own pace as demand for that grows.
Was just about to put that link.
On a personal note, I find it very true. However, I find that while not influencing happiness on the long run, salary does determine the acceptability of a position (good people tend not to gravitate to lower-than-average paying jobs). Once you're "hooked", it becomes more about A-M-P then salary and bonuses (not that those hurt :) ).
More demos here:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlT8qk2ZoGM&feature=playe...

http://wmpoweruser.com/see-nokia-lumia-920s-video-stabilizat...
Seems like a waste of tax payer money to me. Just put up with the fan/keyboard noise. Done. Maybe crank up the speaker volume for whoever has the mic.. There are people out there who struggle every day with shitty cars that break down all the time because they can't afford anything better. I just loaned my jump start battery to one. Wasting people's money on preventing fan and keyboard noise seems like a real let them eat cake moment. If they think that's a real problem, they are too well equipped to actually feel real problems.
I hate to make this discussion religious but NLU is widely used in industry to refer to systems such as ours. Daniel Jurafasky a professor at Stanford well known in industry uses NLU on page 822 chapter 24 of the book "Speech and Language Processing" to refer to a hypothetical frame and slot system very similar to what we have built. A quick search for Natural Language Understanding on google scholar will yield numerous articles which use NLU as a blanket term to refer to concepts in information extraction and NLP. Finally, SRI itself uses the term NLU to refer to these tasks (see: http://www.ai.sri.com/natural-language/projects/arpa-sls/ ). Hence I believe the terminology we used is in fact completely appropriate.
hey natesm,

Thanks for your feedback. We always appreciate advice on how to improve Embark. I'm not 100% sure this is what you're referring to, but Embark does allow you to plan a trip between arbitrary locations and compare the times. You can type in a start and end address if you like.

As you pointed out, this cannot be done from the map directly because it is a "schematic map" of the subway system. This is one of the tradeoffs of having a recognizable map where stations are easy to identify. Trip planning is certainly not a problem we address visually, but we will give you results that we think will get you there the fastest.
If you leave the version out of the URL, the same URL can represent multiple versions/renderings of the same resource.

This makes sense conceptually, as /users/22 is the same user, whether you are getting the data in version 1 of the XML rendering, or version 6 of the JSON rendering, or even an HTML page or snippet representing the user. The Accept header can handle all of this.

There is also the advantage that when returning links to other resources -- e.g. GET /users returning an array of users, each specified by a URI like /users/22 -- the server does not need to prescribe a version for the client. The server just returns the link to the resource, and the client Accepts whichever format/version it wants.
come on... how can you miss the point
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If they aren't using those laptops (or tablets if they have any) to read the legislation that's being discussed or anything like that, but for any other stuff, then there's really no reason why they should have those laptops there. They need to focus on the new laws being passed, not checking Facebook and Twitter.
The economics of job boards are essentially ad arbitrage, they buy traffic (job seekers) and resell it (job ads), sites which don't have significant revenue from ads can't afford to buy quality traffic.
Way back in the day I used to be a Microsoft developer. I got tired of them changing the database API every other year. All the open sources platforms are much more stable. Knowledge in these other platforms doesn't decay as quickly or is at least somewhat useful even after 10 years.

In contrast, Microsoft will just go and kill whole platforms from time to time (e.g Visual Basic) rendering useless years of experience building deep understanding of a platform.
Totally cool way to understand the technology!
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hey untog, sorry to hear about that. We'll look in to it. What kind of device do you have? That's certainly not the norm.
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This is dangerous advice. Brilliant people work for your startup for less than they could make at bigcorp because they believe in the vision. If you show them the door as soon as you get what you want out of them, you're in for a world of hurt.

This seems to be exactly what happened to the OP. The superstar spent years after poaching employees and starting trouble.
Let's break it down:

1. The author proposes to replace college by "a modern curriculum that, on average, will produce people better prepared for real life than college".

2. This curriculum "can be funded initially with $5000 for poker".

3. This is because after the first dedicated year of learning poker, "you'll be able to make between $45-60 per hour for the rest of your life".

4. If you follow this plan, your "chance of being self-sufficient and prepared for 'real life' is about 90%".

Let's boil this down even further: the author posits approximately 90% success rate -- for everyone -- for a scheme funded by generating an income of $45-60 per hour from a zero-sum game.

"Completely f'ing delusional" seems accurate to me.
try doing it in a mobile device with 30 full hd frames per second... Still, it's pretty amazing, pity it isn't actually in CS7
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I have found out that very, very few non-technical users (and even many technical users) ever use Word the way it is meant to be used; i.e., using styles. Most Word users are pretty much still manually manipulating Word documents like the very first WYSIWIG word processors, as glorified typewriters that happen to have some character- and line-oriented formatting features.

So I export my LibreOffice Text documents to PDF, then use Acrobat Pro to export the PDF to Word format. What Acrobat Pro does is render a pretty literal representation of the PDF into Word. For someone used to using styles in Word, it is a generally horrid conversion. But I'm in the minority, and everyone I've sent Word documents rendered in this way is satisfied, which completely mystifies me.

For documents that I'm frequently asked to share, like contracts, I deliberately keep them dead plain text simple as much as possible. I have a contract generation program that pulls customer and project data, and populates a LibreOffice template so I can focus on just the specifics of the proposal. The contract parts that a customer's legal team might want to mark up with track changes enabled is kept simple enough that LibreOffice can still faithfully export it to Word.

I generate simple spreadsheets for myself, but keeping formatting consistent from spreadsheets I get from others has held me back from ditching Excel entirely.

I still haven't been able to work out a way to switch away from PowerPoint slide decks that I have to share with others (which is pretty much every presentation deck I produce). I'm a pretty heavy user of animations in PowerPoint, and the faithful conversion of that is non-existent.

If Microsoft was better with keeping parity between OS X and Windows Office, then I would have never explored adopting LibreOffice, but since there are enough differences to matter, I figured it couldn't hurt to wean myself from Office where feasible.