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I actually would have read it exactly like you did, if he hadn't included the examples. I was shaken by the girlfriend example. It is certainly possible it was all Derek's fault, but few relationships ever end solely because of one person alone and I think you limit what you can learn if you don't recognize that. How do you learn what we're negative reactions to your negative actions things you really did wrong) versus negative reactions to your positive actions (the things that, if you change, will turn you into a co-dependent person)?

However, the "rude to me" example put it over the edge. At that point, it really doesn't read as "really introspect and figure out what I did wrong". Instead, it reads as "literally everything is my fault". And nothing in the article softened that view.

Derek commented elsewhere he agrees with you, so I'm not here second-guessing how he feels. I do think, however, that somebody coming in and taking this as advice for how to live could wind up in a world of hurt.

I buy "A whole lot of the crap that happens to me is my fault (much more than I give credit to)", but "It's all my fault" is wrong and dangerous.
Your dad's message was so touching </3
A great article, with an unfortunate title. It isn't so much about negative thinking, as it is about being pragmatic instead of falsely optimistic. I loved the survey of 45 successful entrepreneurs:

"Rather than choosing a goal and then making a plan to achieve it, they took stock of the means and materials at their disposal, then imagined the possible ends"

Really interesting.
Was driving from SF to Big Sur some time back. Google totally tried to take me off road from HW 1 [turn right. turn right now], and then calmly stated "There is no route to your destination".
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This is key!
The bottom line is if you're driving into a wilderness area like a national park, you should not be depending on your cell phone for your own safety

Mildura isn't a wilderness area, it's just a town in regional Victoria.

The point is that this thing is taking people saying they want to go to Mildura (which is a town, not a wilderness area or a national park) and sending them into a national park with no infrastructure.

These aren't people who have decided to "go hiking", they are just visiting a regional town centre.
You offered two possible attitudes: "nothing is my fault" and "everything is my fault", then stated that the second was a "generally more productive mindset". It doesn't matter, because the most productive mindset is this:

step 1 - Here is a problem. [goto 2]

step 2 - Do we need to assign blame at this moment? If yes [goto 3]. If no [goto 4]

step 3 - Assign blame [goto 4]

step 4 - Is this a problem I should be involved in solving? If yes [goto 5]. If no [goto 6]

step 5 - Help solve problem [goto 6]

step 6 - Problem does not exist. Do we need to assign blame at this moment? Go right ahead.

All of this should go without saying, since this is the essence of the engineering and hacker ethos, and we can therefore make the assumption that at a website called "Hacker News", everyone understands this intuitively. But if you look downthread, you will see that some people legitimately don't think like problem solvers yet.
That's an interesting issue I've never considered, living in an area where most roads are maintained, and if they are not they can still be driven on. Are there any digital map services that do take that into account when providing possible routes?
How would you suggest codifying that? Education level, as a variable, has predictive power, as shown in a couple of studies that I've come across, one of which is cited there.

That's beside the point though. The visualization is descriptive; we're not making any conclusions here ;)
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If a paper map has that feature Google maps should have it as well. It of course can have more features and _can_ be integrated with some kind of a weather + traffic warning system. But it doesn't have to. The way I interpreted the original comment was that the road had snow on it and user was baffled how come Google Maps didn't know about it.
Here is a horror story about a couple from my province that "became stuck in a remote area when their GPS system led them on to a back road" [1].

[1] http://www.usaprepares.com/survival/husband-died-just-six-mi...
I too would be interested, I was at NetApp when they acquired Spinnaker which was using Linux and that product was ported over to FreeBSD. That said NetApp has been a huge supporter of getting solid NFS support in Linux both through the pNFS effort and the work that was done at Citi/UMich.
Maybe it wasn't obvious to you from the article, but the issue here is that the maps direct you into a national park instead of Mildura, a nice little Victorian town.

These people getting lost are not intending to drive "into a wilderness area like a national park", but were led into one by mistaken data.

Yes, you could presume that the signs you were going the wrong way might be self evident after a little while, but if someone had literally no idea where Mildura was then they could easily end up in the middle of this national park assuming their iPhone was simply taking them the long way 'round. As they have no other choice they keep following the maps until they get to where they have been directed, only to find themselves in the middle of nowhere with no help and no reception.

This is a serious problem, and the map data needs to be fixed.
It already exists. See http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=...
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> Throw in a new graphics card here and there, and you've suddenly splintered your user base...

Given how aggressively they've pushed to make their games work on Mac and Linux (going against the grain of the industry), and given the years of massive user configuration surveys, and the fact that they've essentially run a fractured ecosystem for years, I'd bet they have something up their sleeve here... or they have a reason why this isn't as big a problem as it's been in the past.
Clearly, at some point it becomes cost-effective for the state to step in and just buy back the bonds at close to par under the implied threat of bankruptcy as an alternative. Almost free money!
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Thanks John. To elaborate (as far as we know at this point):

> Think a travel article that discusses how to spend a weekend visiting the Christmas Markets in Vienna

> We would have that as the sole newsletter content - ie, not one of a dozen stories in the newsletter

> It would also fit within a larger narrative - the previous day would end with a flight from Rome to Vienna; the next day starts with a flight from Vienna to Oman

> Where possible, we would tell the story of a local giving us the experience

> Links from the newsletter would come back to our website, but also onwards to more information about the destination or itinerary specifics (some affiliate links).

> Definitely not a daily deals type newsletter - there's a market for that, but we are content people

So user acquisition and monetization are the keys, as you point out. We have some early thoughts (social media, especially building reputations in travel forums, and SEO for the former; advertising, affiliate or most likely direct, for the latter). But launch early and learn has taken the place of "first research for months".
$80k is still a lot more than the (iirc) initial $5k + $5k/founder.
I know all that you say. I come from a country(India) where scams like you mention are as common as a sneeze. I know more about them from practical encounters that happen around than you can know about by reading.

But as I said for a guy suffering from chronic illness, who is told Hey nothing is wrong with you, and its all in your head, who would probably die otherwise- will rather take his chances with homeopathy or Ayurveda than sit at home and think about hundred reasons why science says otherwise. And wait for the disease to slowly kill him, while allopathy offers him no cure and only costly tests and hospital stay in return.

Heck, these system of medicines are one thing. I've even met exorcists around here. I know people who go to these people and come out sane. You can sit down and write a hundred reasons why that shouldn't work. But a person from village side in India or any other poor guy, with hardly enough money to feed his family is not likely to visit a hospital like NIMHANS in Bangalore and spend months with tests and hospital with no cure in sight. He will go to what gives him the quickest and cheapest cure.

Its difficult to explain to you because you have never been in a situation where anything and everything you will or can do can't get you out of it. Watching yourself in such misery and realizing the helplessness of your actions. That is when you start looking for miracles. Until you actually face that, anything that I say will attract a justification from you.

I sincerely hope you never get caught in such a situation, because let me tell you its a humbling experience when you learn such things the hard way.
There's no other way to put this, so I'm just going to come out and say it: you're not only flat out wrong, you've got the truth backwards.

Forgiving people implies that said person has done something to wrong you. Thus, you're still placing the blame on other people. Research has shown that blaming others is ineffective at best, and harmful at worst.

The best approach: forgive yourself. Accept that you've done something wrong (even if you didn't realize it at the time), figure out what you could have done to prevent it, and then get over it. Life's too short to play the blame game, even with yourself.
The only thing I like better about Linux than I do about FreeBSD is that usually there is a package available for many things, no compiling, just apt-get install and you're done.
I agree with you, and I want to call out a particular phrase you wrote as profoundly good advice:

"If you want to start a [$ALMOST_ANYTHING] company, talk to the people that'd profit off of it"

There's certainly more you need to know about starting and running any type of business, but finding the people who would potentially profit from a successful company is going on my shortlist of "Let's evaluate this idea" questions
I disagree about the operator overloading. It's kind of like a hidden function that could have ambiguous connotations. It could confuse people because of the association with the traditional operations.

For simple things like list addition it might be intuitive what the result will be, but if I had a a Vector class and then you were reading some code and saw two vectors being multiplied like this

a * b

well is that a dot product or a cross product? Or maybe a is a scalar and it's scalar multiplication? If it's one of those what do the other operations get for symbols? isn't it easier to do a.cross(b)?

If you keep it simple a little syntactic sugar is probably find. Nobody wants to be writing a.add(b.subtract(c.mult(d))) for a + b - c *d .

Anyone have other thoughts on this?
I am in New Zealand, and ingress is not available in store. Had to Google for the apk, and allow unknown sources. I had an invite from entering my email to ingress.com.

Runs fine (battery hog) but unfortunately there are hardly any portals in Christchurch, and the ones in the centre of the city are inside the red zone cordon and can't be got to o_O
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I updated my post to note that it was a no winter maintenance road. I originally took some liberties assuming that most people would recognize it as such, but I guess those who don't live in extreme climates may not be familiar with them.
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It's hard to read your post - the colors are all dark with very little contrast.
This is really interesting-
A friend of mine and I have just submitted an app to Apple last friday which allows you to view your twitter streams / twitter searches / etc but only shows tweets with photos. It's looking at the links in the tweets for media, and not the media entities themselves, so it looks like our app will still function correctly (just now tested)! We started making this app before the api 1.1 debacle so I'm interested to see how it'll play out.
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Something similar happens with Santa Barbara, but the results differ if you ask for driving directions or a normal search. A search for "Santa Barbara" returns the city, but if you ask for directions to "Santa Barbara" you are instead directed to a mountain range, probably because "Santa Barbara" is also the name of the county, which is fairly large and includes a lot of empty regions. (If you use "Santa Barbara, CA" instead, you deterministically get directed to the city.)
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The New Yorker had a piece about it all in very great detail -- turns out there's an official archivist of these Dead recordings and much, much more, if you're interested in this sort of thing:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_...
IRCTC is still the biggest ecom site despite their UX and UI and all that; it simply solves a problem people want solved more than all the other stuff. India's ecom isn't about the fluff and the sub-millisecond response time; it's just about doing something right, and the success stories like Naukri or IRCTC or whatever have gone that route.

RBI isn't limiting stuff for no reason - multi factor makes Indian CC sites a much better alternative than abroad, honestly, where you can get overbilled and then have to go to court/claim etc.

Merchant account and TDRs are negotiable, anything above Rs. 100,000 a month ($2,000) can get you below 3%.

Logistics aren't such a bad deal - have worked with vendors who now have great options and assurances for ecommerce players.

Indians feel guilty for exuberance? I disagree. Having lived in Delhi and Mumbai and Bangalore, I see no end of ostentatiousness (if there is such a word).

The arrest on posting online is being addressed, and the law is ill-thought-out and if we put heads together, we can change things.

People pay in cash: so what. They will buy online if you give them stuff cheaper. If ECom sites stupidly decide to charge near-market rates, and they will die. It's cheap (in price) that works, and if you are that, they will pay you in whatever way you want -- cheque, cash, card etc. (See IRCTC: they don't take cash online, they don't do CoD, yet...)

Vijay's article has the correct tone that we should focus more on customers than investors. However, you need money to make money, sometimes the customer who wants you is a customer you just can't reach, because you don't have the money to show him your wares. And thinking "big" is now possible because there is money available for the investment, instead of waiting for organic growth.
Nice sleuthing, but if that were the case wouldn't the same problem be seen more broadly?
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From what I remember of the comic, the point was not the length of the password. The entropy was calculated based on 4 possible words.

Assuming ~2000 common English words, the number of possible passwords in that format is 2000^4 ~= 2^44. If the calculation is based on a completely random string of letters it is far stronger at 26^30 ~= 2^141 but it's safe to assume people aren't going to memorize a 30 character random password.

It's worth noting that the fairly common 8 character upper/lower case, numbers, and symbols they cracked in 6 hours is more secure than "correcthorsebatterystaple" at 72^8 ~= 2^49.
Google Maps is frequently broken around the thinly-populated Seattle metro area. I've filed bug after bug, to no avail; in the end, I stopped using it altogether. It cannot handle the I90 express lanes in either direction; getting directions to somewhere on Mercer Island from Seattle when you're on the express lanes eastbound gets a route to Bellevue, turn around, and come back. No, that's OK, I'll take one of the Mercer Island exits, thank you.

Furthermore, the transit integration is so broken as to be useless. Asking for a route from Kirkland to the Seattle federal building gives you a bus route to downtown Kirkland (the post office, actually). The POIs in that area are AFU.
Related: There's apparently a similar thing happening with the triceratops/toroceratops. It's likely that the former is just an young version of the latter, not a different species.

http://www.newser.com/story/97112/triceratops-never-existed....
I never rely on a phone whilst traveling (driving, cycling, hiking). When driving I mostly use built in car GPS or take a secondary dash mount GPS for longer journeys.

When on feet I use one primary eTrex with maps, and always have a cheap secondary hand held GPS without the maps. Plus a paper map. And a set of extra AA batteries.

Google search, maps and other good things you have on a smartphone are nice, but it's way too unreliable to my taste. Battery life is crap, and without a connection the phone is pretty useless, unless you use a mapping app that can download map data. In which case I'd rather use a dedicated mapping device.

EDIT: Obviously all the equipment can't replace common sense. If you see you can't go any further - don't. Even if all your electronic devices tell you otherwise.
I am a former mitary wife with an immigrant mother. Both those populations seem to travel a fair amount, but often very budget-minded. "Travel" of the vacation type tends to be a luxury item. Luxury items often fare poorly during recessions. Let me suggest you think on positioning this to be resilient in the face of that. One thing which does well during recessions is cheap, escapist entertainment. So perhaps try to appeal to not only actual tourist types but also people who want to imagine getting away. Pictures are likely your friend in that regard.
If you are a contrarian and enjoy layman's philosophy, I can recommend this gem:

http://www.amazon.com/Pessimism-Philosophy-Joshua-Foa-Dienst...
>The Supreme Court has clearly said that software patents don't fall under the exclusion for abstract ideas

I think this statement is too broad. They've clearly said that some software patents don't fall under the exclusion for abstract ideas (as you say, no categorical exclusion). There remains an open question as to how to determine whether a given software patent covers an abstract idea, which is ostensibly what this case is about.
> Education level, as a variable, has predictive power ...

Yes, it certainly does. For example, here's a list of billionaire college dropouts:

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

> ... as shown in a couple of studies that I've come across, one of which is cited there.

It has precisely no predictive power in the cause-effect sense one expects to see in a scientific study. Studies that indicate otherwise are simply wrong -- are drawing conclusions not based on evidence.

There are any number of "studies" that describe without trying to explain (very common in the "social sciences"). Those that try to explain often do so by ignoring cause-effect possibilities other than the preferred one. Most such studies are funded by institutions of higher learning, institutions with a vested interest in a particular outcome.

> That's beside the point though.

No, it is the point. You're trying to show a correlation between political achievement and education, but you're using schooling as a convenient but very misleading indicator of education.

Today's important lesson: correlation is not causation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...
I didn't read it as "..won't _ever_ win.." At worst it means, "..are not ready yet."
Is it me or is publishing a list like this a bad idea? I'm thinking these 50+ (or maybe the first few, since people generally stop reading or get lazy) will be flooded with requests, thereby decreasing the odds that they'll actually pay attention to yours.

Basically I read it as "quick fix! get publicity here!" which is probably not a great attitude to encourage.
I was delighted to learn that Byron was her father! What an interesting family.

I was also surprised by the framing of this. Of course history is not studied by many people now, but how many who would know of Babbage would not know of Lovelace? She is very famous.
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Indeed.

Here's the road you should be taking: http://goo.gl/maps/QbZ88

And this is the kind of road that Apple's maps send you down: http://goo.gl/maps/CdCjh
What happened to "Shoot 5 Ducks", "You are the Millionth visitor" kinda ads?
I don't see them at all these days. Thankfully.
> Thinking of ways to get a perfect language according to
> this metric: the way to get there is to introduce lots of
> redundancies in the grammar. For example, if one requires
> two exact copies of the same source before code compiles

C Header-files T__T
The other thing to remember is that YC is growing. Even if YC isn't getting any better at this despite lots of experience, bigger team, etc., they're investing in larger batches (even the most recent decline to <50 is still bigger than until W11). So, assuming a constant distribution of AirBnBs and Dropboxes and Herokus and Cloudkicks and Wufoos, there should be a lot of great companies still in play. (I think Stripe is clearly one of those; Parse and Meteor may be others).
Wonderfully well articulated Mz, thanks. We had the realisation that most people only read travel newsletters when they're thinking of travelling - a problem for engagement rates.

Your description about "escapist entertainment" (rather than a pure travel guide) focuses the solution. Picture importance is also a good tip - not my forte, so kerno has been slowly explaining it to me!
I'm a college professor and a research scientist: I'd better know the answer! But I've never heard that plagiarism is a legal issue. Are there actual laws on the books that criminalize plagiarism of public domain material? (I live in the US; is that answer different here than elsewhere?)

But honestly, your objection here is very much a side issue. As I already said, the point of my example earlier was to wonder whether someone could hypothetically transcribe the Foundation stories from the audio recording and sell the resulting novels, complete with a cover reading "Isaac Asimov's /Foundation/" (and perhaps with "Edited by J. Smith" in small text somewhere).
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