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You missed the symmetry of the equality. If you have "better culling algorithms", each branch gets culled away faster, so, on an EEG or a similar device, you appear to be thinking faster.

The reason I didn't mention the possible variation in working memory capacity was a single word that I left out, leaving it, like I said, to the Computer Scientist: "exponential." Every time your have an additional binary choice to make, your possible solution-space doubles. It doesn't matter how large your working memory is; as long as it's a fixed, finite size, an exponential growth in memory consumption will consume it with relative ease. The culling algorithm needs to be of a certain minimum efficiency to keep you from "blowing your stack" and losing your place repeatedly, and this is what is perceived as "speed."

I think you misinterpreted, though, that I meant that intelligence is the speed at which you solve macro-level problems. It certainly isn't. Intelligence is the speed at which you prune decisions; external to the mind, this affects the confidence you can take in your assertions, not the speed at which you reach them.

The more confident you are in lemma 1, the more quickly you can consciously decide to move onto lemma 2, and so on, but this requires some internal message passing that's much slower than the complete decision-branch path-finding "system call" in your mind. Your macro "problem-solving speed" is much more affected by the speed of the IRQ handler (the neocortex, I think), but if the system calls keep returning a low confidence interval, you have to keep consciously pulling apart intuitions into graphs of semantic knowledge, and passing each node to the path-finder in turn, until you feel sure enough of your decision to become aware of it. If your culling algorithm is more efficient (as directly measured by your score, not your time, on an IQ test) then you will become aware of things that others never will, because their minds are caught in loops that return false-negative confidences.

Sleep, then, gives your culling algorithm a larger fixed-bound on its runtime before it must return a confidence; this is why sleeping on something will let you make decisions that you felt involved too much complexity the day before. (Of course, sleeping does other things as well, like transferring things between short- and long- term memory (where they're stored--if they are stored--with a much lower path cost), and shutting off the neocortex so the mind doesn't constantly have to context-switch to ring 3 while it's trying to process things.)
Heh... :-) any thoughts on whether this would be appropriate?
Aaron describes the problem of governments being controlled by special interests (in this case, a group of local businessmen). That is indeed a serious problem - a problem with how politics works at the moment. I'd like to see some proposed solutions. Libertarians would suggest that reducing the scope and power of the government would help, because a shadowy cabal won't be interested in capturing government power if there's little power to capture. But that seems to be a uniquely libertarian point of view. Recently, Aaron proposed that activists become politicians and attempt to win elections. Is that a practical, sustainable, and/or complete solution?
Not simply to recognize the brand and keep in mind, but to be the first brand or the first product that comes to mind.
That's a great idea. I've put mine in.
Looks like they're working hard to bring it back.

http://status.cloudfiles.mosso.com/
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"... made a product I wanted" = red ocean
"...make me want something I don't." = blue ocean (some what)
I believe that most minds are easier to nudge than we (non-marketers) classically believe.
Pune,India
I think this is a bad design, I don't like it. But then I never liked their products either!

Different people like different things, this is why I guess we have different firms offering variations of the same products.

They say they have 3,000,000 customers so I guess at least the 3% (random percentage of decision makers) who forced the other 97% (the team) likes it!
Chicago, as well.
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In my personal experience, internet advertising gets more annoying as technology and bandwidth improves. As for TV, it's consistently as annoying as it has always been. (except for the in-show layering on the bottom of the screen) There was a Family Guy episode that made fun of that. Pure gold!
Ask HN: How should I approach publishing a book?
You know, it's funny. Just as I'm working writing a book, I've started to see a number of opinions related to the issue: Newspapers are dead! E-books are great! But people will still want a paperback for that long flight! Media cartels are evil! Except the ones that protect authors who barely make enough to get by! Until they prevent Amazon from having a computer read your books to you! AArrrggghhhh!

Ok, so here's the question: How should I go about approaching the publishing question? It's still early to be asking this question (manuscript is still easily a month away from the editor, let alone the publisher), but I need a distraction from writing...

Anyway, here's how I see my choices:

- I could go the traditional route of editor, agent, publisher... profit! The problem is, I went down that road once. A year later, the agent never got me anywhere, and I stopped caring (the book honestly wasn't that great, so that might have something to do with it).

- I'm still finishing graduate school, and I could approach my university's press about publishing. The book is rather technical in nature. My biggest concern here is that I highly doubt they would care as much as a larger publishing house about things like advertising or promotion. I'm also worried they might attempt to retain copyright.

- I might try this new-fangled inter-whatsit distribution scheme. I've seen a few sites I actually rather like (Lulu looks rather nice). My concern here is that I really don't know that I would have the time to handle self-promotion. I'm not looking to become rich from my writing, but I would like to make something. That said, I do have another job.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!
That's pretty cool.
Any chance of making it a GreaseMonkey script so it will be done automatically on HN?
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The wikip page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_or_nothing_transform and the outgoing links are also pretty interesting.
Delhi!!
I get the suspicion the causal progression here is deeper than just f(intelligence) - g(wages) = 0.

As an alternate hypothesis, the reason why students who study what they love earn less than students who study something practical is because of the intrinsic value the student finds being employed to do what they love. As a result of this, they don't need or demand to be paid as much to perform the same work, and so salaries tend to be depressed.

But maybe it doesn't bother them; maybe there is something to the advice more intelligent people are given. Perhaps the needs most people fulfill by earning and spending money have already been fulfilled by these people through other means. If you do what you love by trade, perhaps there is less need to spend money in exchange for spare time to work on it.
I'd love to see a poll of Bay Area versus non Bay Area, although I bet it would be unsurprising.
Copenhagen, Denmark
That's... quite tasteless, really.

I believe JWZ was the first to link to the Free Software Song with the text [why cooperation with RMS is impossible](http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html), expressing a similar sentiment with more erudite snark.

Although I agree he can be difficult to get along with, I appreciate the movement he began and benefit from it daily in the form of Ubuntu and Fedora, so no complaints from me.
Please don't spread that idea and take all the fun out of advertising. One of most rewarding aspect of being in advertising business is the creativity of coming up with clever ways to shove boring products down the consumers' throats. Broccoli and spinach are sure good for the body,but somehow, Mommy's airplane trick is still around.
Crawling should respect the excluded pages in robots.txt and rel="nofollow" directives.
I use google apps for my email, so I own my email address.

Stop doubting :)
The positive value that prostitutes deliver to the world is very fleeting. An orgasm lasts at most several seconds. After a few days, the average male will be jonesing again.

The long term value production of the average prostitute strikes me as damn near zero, unless the outlet prevents the john from sexually assaulting someone else. I agree, though, that the short term value can be quite high, and I think that is what people pay for.

It seems to me that value delivered to a sufficiently large audience would have to be of the long-term variety, because otherwise it wouldn't last long enough to get sufficiently dispersed. It's possible something might contradict that assertion, but I can't think of any examples right now.
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Hey buddy! Nice to see another banglorean!
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> Since it doesn't have to be free as in beer

Neither does FOSS software, you realize. Let's say Google charged money for Google Earth. Now, if they open-sourced the client, they would still make money from it, because they'd still be the only one with the license to the map tiles themselves. There are many situations like this, where the software is actually worthless without some resource (perhaps just your brand) that you provide alongside it. You can make plenty of money selling water (a FOSS product)--but remember, it's the bottles that people are buying; the water is obviously worthless when you just pour all over them (or release the source to them.)

> The GPL is actually less "free" than a BSD style license because of his campaign to promote free software.

Here's a thought-experiment that I think shows you RMS's world-view. Pretend, for a second, that AI existed. The GPL would give it rights (it would be "free"), while the BSD license would allow it to be sold into slavery ("non-free.")
Unleashing it on YouTube now, I have no high hopes.
Here it is:

http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/hnpollchart.user.j...

And here some are some polls:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:ycombinator.co...
Europe, Sweden
Count me in as well. Good to see some people here I know on Twitter, but wasn't aware of on HN.
Thanks for clearing that up. That statement makes a lot more sense.

There are a lot of free javascript libraries out there, and quite a few which doesn't directly involve server-callbacks, and leaves you with the power to hook things together as you please. In that case, free javascript libraries still makes a lot of sense.

For situations where the bulk of the solution is actually server-side code, I wouldn't really call that a "javascript library", but some regular server-side solution with added javascript/AJAX functionality. And in those cases I can be willing to agree with your statement.
You're in SF and you want to move to Melbourne for a startup? That's the inverse of what I always hear about... ;)
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Putting a time limit on offers is not a big deal. I mean who wouldn't say to a good startup, that multiple parties see potential in, saying.. you're past the time limit we'll pass. Financially thats not a good idea. But in the end decisions need to be made and overall its good for all parties for yc to work with the startups that are put in this position.
If you have "thoughts" about RMS, kindly post them in a relevant thread instead of abusing the submission system.

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I agree with you. RMS has been telling from long time, its is not about convenience, it about freedom.
Ok well after letting it go on several websites known for butchering the English language, it seems that the results have been capped at 5 for the free version.

This is either a bug, or an undocumented feature.
Or, given the context, should that be Free-DOM?
now, /that/ is useful information for "hackers"
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Wouldn't it be better to just use WikiBooks?
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Ron Paul as a case study in how tribal marketing works on the Internet: perfectly appropriate for this site.

Ron Paul as anything else: take it to another social news site. Please.
What is considered to be the worst video game ever? This one is.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Belgium, where are you?
The title reads "digg for indie music" so yes, I did assume that it was for indie music.
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"One such instance that led me to using Python over Ruby was my need of a DBF reader. You can't find this anywhere for Ruby, but I found a very solid implementation in Python that I was able to plug right in."

Oh really ? http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+dbf

This sort of compromises the credibility of the whole article in my opinion.
Antwerp, Belgium
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Beautiful Bridge Photos.

This guys writing is really good, check out his other articles eg. "Most Startups Fail" about getting to v1.0

Thanks for the post.
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I am surprised to see such a strong Melbournian contingent. Maybe the rain keeps you indoors, nothing to do but program? ;)

Sydney here, although going back to Tokyo for summer. (Reference for Melbourne residents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer)
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That makes his point stronger, not weaker. It means that the GWT Java source code is when needs to be released, and the javascript is not enough.
Immensely useful. Well done.
Very cool! Thanks!

I did notice a little bug, though. If you've started a poll, it thinks the * marker of your own vote is a poll option. I didn't happen to me on other polls, just on the one I started.
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One more from bangalore. Go Bangalore. :-)
Another for Perth
Who's Your Arch-Enemy?
Well, that's a decent number of samples - as of right now, 323 yanks, 324 non-yanks. Even taking into account timezone and foreigners-eager-to-represent-their-country selection bias, that's pretty surprising.

So according to this profoundly unscientific and unrepresentative poll, about half the world's (english speaking, community-seeking) startup talent is concentrated in the USA, and about half everywhere else. Interesting.
Anyone from Israel?
Not a good howto; the first step it asks to do is disable SELinux! How's that good in any way?
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Portugal as well, Porto
Just wait a while, you might be able to buy your, uh, "herb" right over the counter in California soon enough.
Just like having one backup anywhere, it's not a reliable setup. Using multiple backups is always better, and frankly, easy. Just backup to JD and a few other services or even locally and you're good to go.

Personally, I'm working on setting up a local backup and backing that up to the cloud.
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Pune :), India
That's a tough one. This has been much debated, but at the end of the day we decided to go with our own filtering system since robots.txt and rel="nofollow" are created with search engines in mind, not spell checking. In general you want search engines to cover a subset of what you want spell checked.

You can filter on any CSS3 selector & a[rel="nofollow"] would block no-follow links if you don't want them included. By default we filter out any block with a class or an id that contains "comment" which does a pretty good job of filtering a lot of user comments.
I think it's a valid question because this is what we wants to accomplish, as he has stated many times. He openly states proprietary software is evil, and by association the vendors.

Chaunx said he isn't threatening. I disagree, and feel he is quite threatening to those who don't share his world view.
I initially put a caveat on my comment and then removed it -- and it admitted that I haven't been very public about the work. The attention and support would definitely be better if I published on Lambda, for example.

I didn't mean to moan about my project; I wanted to moan about lack of interest in the problem. For example, where my work has been publicized, the problem itself hasn't received much in the way of interest. Even the Ph.D. students who have worked on it have said, "But [Lisp/Smalltalk/Java(I'm sadly not joking here)/etc.] does everything you need to do." I shouldn't be surprised; there's no one to blame here but human nature. But I'm still occasionally frustrated. Of course, if you're interested in my project, my email is in my profile.
+1 for Aussie living in Hong Kong
I have gone down two of those routes:

1. I self-published my book for really advanced GNU Make users via Lulu. The market for such a book is way too small for a traditional editor to get involved.

2. When I had the idea for The Geek Atlas I approached O'Reilly directly without an agent via an acquaintance.

If the market is really small I'd do #1 since that way you'll actually keep a good % on a per copy basis. If the market is large go #2 because of the marketing reach.
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Prices were bid up to artificially high levels by the pretend money that banks were lending. (Pretend because there was no reasonable way it could be paid back and nearly anyone could get it).

Prices probably won't "go back up" the way anyone hopes. The prices were fake. The crisis will end when the prices either 1) Fall to their "real" market value, or 2) The government pulls a fast one and inflates the currency until the shrinking value of the dollar meets the prices people have come to expect at that real value. (And everything on the dollar menu at McD's costs $2.50)

I think its fairly obvious which choice has been made by the suit-monkeys.
You might as well claim that the value delivered by restaurants is fleeting.
None of the products you mention took over the market, they just addressed a different market. Only google took over the market, but they did that by differentiation of the core product, not by stripping down anything out of search.
Christchurch, NZ. How does "Oceania" differ from "Australasia", by the way?
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Here some useful link:6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book http://mashable.com/2009/03/01/publish-book/
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You're right, that totally wasn't clear from the text we had on there. Thanks for pointing that out. I've updated the copy so it makes more sense now. The quick scan on the homepage only lists the first 5 errors. You need to create an account to see the full list of errors.
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[Calmer now] Open source is fantastic. It is a stunningly efficient and elegant way to create software. I love open source.

What I don't love is the notion that either all software should be free (gratis) à la Stallman, or the less extreme view that you can make money from it as long as you do so in a very inefficient and non-scalable manner (basically charging for support).

Also, I find it quite ironic that some people describe (with a straight face) the supply of proprietary extensions to open source code as an 'open source business model'. That's akin to funding a peace march with the proceeds from arms sales.

And whilst I have lots of respect for what the community has achieved, and the people who helped make it happen (including Stallman and Raymond) I would argue that there is no inherent conflict between open source ideals and the notion that some users should pay for the code. If a developer wants to give his code away for free, then that's his or her choice and I respect that. But if another developer decided that his code is not free for commercial use, then I respect that position as well.

I hold the view that a low-friction and equitable licensing system for open source software would have a further galvanizing effect on this already vibrant sector.

DS
I voted this up, mainly because of the clever picture at the top. The text says "Listen to your nose".
It's probably too late for this comment to get noticed
by anyone, but can I suggest people register with
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Aren't "activists" also a case of special interests trying to control government? Your comment uses unwritten assumptions that I'd like to be made explicit. :-)
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There's a suggestion (marked 'funny') of a MacPro. I confess that last week I window-shopped, at the Apple store, an 8-core Xeon with 16GB RAM for about 3500 euros (single HD).

However, a whitebox PhenomII 940 quadcore with 8GB ECC RAM will run under 600 euros. That's probably about half the muscle, good enough to start (and cover a lot of road ...). Toss in a 600 euro MacMini if/when MacOS is wanted.
This is not a correct observation!
Memcachedb is nothing but Memcached with BerkeleyDB underneath. Distribution of data in Memcached(also MemcachedDB) is achieved by client side hashing of keys.
If your argument were true then, Facebook would not scale vertically - they are the biggest users of memcached.
MemcacheDB can be used in exactly the same - and we have in production BTW.
Is the e-voting honeymoon over?
At least RMS probably knows that the command is "gunzip", not "ungzip".
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