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That's what I'm seeing too. I support Thiel's ideas in general (and have worked with and can vouch for at least one Thiel Fellow), but this case appears to be a guy dropping out of college... to promote dropping out of college. I am not saying this is actually the case, but it seems looks like this -- I don't see as much substance in what's posted on the guy's site(s).

It might make sense for Thiel to limit the number of fellows who pursue the "write a self-help book" strategy (limit, however, rather than exclude) -- otherwise this becomes quite similar to MLMs, where more money is made from selling "business education tools" (books, lecture CDs) to MLM participants rather than by actually selling the product. If the said fellow is reading this: please don't view this post as an attack, merely as a suggestion on how to better tailor your message.
HN change the text color but not the link color. So, I can easily click the link but can't read the NSFW warning. :/
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I don't understand why such sophomoric drivel gets posted so often to hacker news.
So glad you posted this, I bookmarked that post exactly 106 weeks ago, and remember it well. especially this part

> So we stopped and thought about it for a bit. Do we want to have to hire an iOS developer and an Android developer? That’s a lot of specialization, and we’re usually anti-specialization when it comes to development.

I don't mind it when people change their minds about something, its a sign of intelligence, but if you're going to do it after having taken such a hard stance against the position you are now in favor of, at least do the intellectually honest thing and at least say "Yeah, we weren't in favor of this before, but we changed our minds. here's why" instead of acting like it never happened.
This is neat!

Unfortunately, the editor does not work for me. It makes Chrome crash the page :(

I'm running Chrome 24.0.1312.69 on one of those new Dell XPS 13 Ubuntu machines running 12.04.2 LTS. Is there any other information you'd want for debugging, or pages to try?
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I actually like the concept of alternative currencies. But bitcoin really does suck. It's not just an alternative currency. It's an alternative currency with a built-in retarded fiscal policy.
> That sounds like the scientific process to me.

> Then you control for everything else and do an experiment.

What grellas was doing was coming up with alternate explanations based on intuition and rejecting the conclusions of those that did do an experiment. And he was doing so retroactively. That makes it not science, but what is often called a "just so story" and is technically called the ad hoc fallacy.

Speculation about how to do a better experiment is a great discussion to have, but both yourself and grellas are moving towards a perfect solution fallacy, where you are ignoring the data you have now, that tells you something interesting in favour of waiting for some ideal study in the future (that can somehow test underlying causes in a sociological problem, which is, as you say, extraordinarily difficult).

This is a normal reaction to cognitive dissonance, find a flaw in the source that contradicts what you believe (it's correlational) and then you don't have to change your mind while you wait for a perfect solution. Seems to make sense but what you are actually doing is believing the narrative that has less evidence and then rationalizing that belief.

The idea of an accelerator actually running a controlled study is an interesting one, but the structure of such a study would mean that you would be very confident in getting lower returns than normal for that cohort. Maybe you would discover something that made it worthwhile from the data, but likely you would not. It would be great for everyone if someone did it, but no one wants to literally sabotage young entrepreneurs in order to maintain valid controls. Maybe you could use the same ethical arguments that medicine uses ... but it would be a hard sell.
Yes, and if a Chevy Malibu could be sold for what BMW 5 series sells for then GM wouldn't have gone bankrupt. Also like the 'street value' of drugs quoted by cops, no one ever pays retail for MS Office so the number is even more meaningless.

I'm really not sure what this savings number means because for anyone who uses office to make money open office is most certainly not equivalent to MS Office. You only save money with open office is your needs are very limited, your time is worth nothing, and everyone you might ever send a document to is also using OpenOffice.

I'd gladly pay $150 for MS Office just so my documents are readable. Yes, I know that if only everyone switched to OpenOffice etc than all would be well, but the problem is people who write big cheques use MS Office, therefore if your document looks like shit and a competitors looks good you don't get cut a big cheque.
> I can't shake the feeling that one cannot take anything uttered from Elon Musk's mouth at face value when it concerns his baby ...

There's no need for that -- Musk has the car's logs, which describe the miles driven, the speeds, and the battery's state of charge. Under the circumstances, this is not a case of "he said, she said" -- i's a matter of unambiguous computer records.

If the computer records contradict what Musk said, he's in big trouble, but I doubt it will come out that way. And consider the consequences if Musk reported something different than the records show -- and Musk knows this. Why would he knowingly sabotage his own company?
+1

For those too lazy to click, an excerpt

Having had the "honor" of attending class with Mr. Stephens, I would not say that this rebuff is uncalled for. It is one thing to hold a contrary opinion, it is another to act on the matter that Mr. Stephens consistently did: snobbery. [...] It is not as if Hendrix's opinion is not well known to Mr. Stephens, due to the dramatic and attention crazed way he departed the campus.

It sounds like he has quite a reputation there.
Well if anyone wants an emacs mode for this:
(require 'generic-x) ;; we need this

(define-generic-mode
'critic-mode
nil
nil
'(("{--.--}" . 'font-lock-warning-face)
("{~~.~~}" . 'font-lock-constant-face)
("{{.}}" . 'font-lock-keyword-face)
("{>>.<<}" . 'font-lock-function-name-face)
("{\+\+.*\+\+}" . 'font-lock-type-face)
)
nil
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"A mode for foo files"
)
I think it's fair that they are interpreting his visit as promotion of a personal project. If he had asked them to simply engage in discourse on the future of higher education, but with his book release and his for-profit, Uncollege, I can totally see why this looks like self-promotion...because IT IS!
The battery in the Tesla is not an easily removable battery like a car battery. The entire bottom slab of the car is filled with batteries.

http://designapplause.com/wp-content/xG58hlz9/2012/06/teslas...
This has to be the shallowest possible analysis you could have given this issue

Not disagreeing here. Moreover I'm not really sure comparing these two on syntax makes a lot of sense: comparing an homoiconic language with a non-homoiconic one from the syntax point of view is weird. Then the main difference between these two languages is related to typing IMHO.

If you want the benefits of homoiconicity in Haskell, there's a Liskell project (not sure how good it is yet but it certainly is interesting).
I've never seen the software on the other side of a tech support email, but I have trouble imagining that in practice. When I am trying to interact with a customer service rep that only communicates through canned responses, it will inevitably take me three times as long, with maybe five times more writing (both from me and from them) than was necessary. I can't be the only one who has this experience.
Without even reading it (and avoiding looking at the comments here), I predict that he'll advocate 'Wolfram'.

Edit: Yep... http://imgur.com/KRyN97S.png

I love the ramp up, first it's just mentioning that the name of the company is Wolfram... then going underground before coming out, in bold, with Wolfram Language, then four paragraphs before concluding that "At this point, we pretty much have to have 'wolfram'—or at least some hint of it—in the name." and there goes the rest of the article.

Why not just call it Wolfram and be done with it. We know there's a big ego involved and we can't possibly bear Stephen Wolfram strain himself so much as to not name the language after himself. Anything else would be inhumane :)

And considering the good he's done with both the quality product Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, it's only justified.
Maybe this is the reason, (from DigitalOcean):
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Well, uh, you can view that alleged 99% with a disassembler ;) (missing labels, comments, etc. though.)
I wouldn't have been surprised to learn it were already named Lingua Mathematica, and I submit that as the best reason to give it that name (and not some other).
Not sure why you're getting downvoted so much, that's hilarious!
It is no less ad hoc, but it is clearer. Instead of making assumptions about the right p-values, you make assumptions about real world quantities.

And if you have actual data/projections about future visitors, it is less ad hoc.
This headline is altogether too clever for its own good.
He also advanced several other permutations of it.
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Thanks so much for the detailed response, and good luck in your hunt for better vendors. It seems that it's going to fall to you to test and correct the EEPROM settings. You might want to keep your results to yourself in future; you could probably get some big-money consulting work with other companies forced to use these products. It's so shitty that neither party bothered to respond until you went public with this.
I feel really bad for kids these days. It's hard to know what to do to help. If there are any bright, motivated, self-taught young people in your life, please take the time to tutor them, to correct their amateur mistakes before they become deadly habits, and to generally be a resource that is there for them.

There are only so many natural born hackers in this world, and it's up to us to be there for the next generation of kids who are trying like hell to succeed in spite of the current state of public education.

Another thing we can do to help is to contribute to projects like the khan academy and other free online learning tools. There are tons of really smart kids out there who want to learn, but who just can't afford to go to private schools because their parents are not rich enough.

It's up to those of us with the knowledge and the passion to make sure these types of resources are available. In today's economy this is becoming more and more important.

Public education in this country is literally under assault, and no child left behind is a big part of that.

The public sector is being chipped away at by wall street, and no child left behind is part of a strategy to destroy the public education system.

Wall street hates public education for the same reason they hate social security, because they can't profit from it, and they are so rich that they don't need it themselves. Here are some links to back up this point.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/albany-charter...

http://www.democracynow.org/topics/charter_schools

http://www.democracynow.org/topics/education/11
No, the computer metaphor breaks down; programs are not a dialog between a teacher and a class, nor is there any reasonable way to translate that.

Honestly, think about what you're arguing there; 12 years or more in an environment, one ostensibly teaching critical thinking, but you still don't have enough experience to apply critical thinking to that process itself? If that's the case, why did we bother with the schooling process in the first place if it's so incapable of being applied to the thing you've spent the largest part of your life doing up to that point? That's ridiculous.
It's interesting how LTE doesn't always mean fast. Here in New Zealand carriers have only been testing LTE while upgrading their networks to 42mbps DC-HSPA. At home I can average about 30mbps on my iPad and iPhone over 3G. For me, I'd rather have constantly fast 3G rather than spotty LTE, especially with the battery situation. http://i.imgur.com/7k8LXe1.png
"Range Anxiety" is a very real (irrational) concern of a large slice of Americans. Regardless of how many trips they make within an electric vehicle's range, they will place outsize importance on edge cases.

And between range and recharge times, I really can't see all-electric cars taking off among that group. Something like the Chevy Volt's "range extender" ICE seems the only way to reach anyone who's worried about road-trip-style range.

Even if the supercharger network was 100% in-place, those people are going to turn up their nose at a 30-60 minute recharge stop.
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'Inflation' hasn't changed, one particular measure of it, the CPI has changed. There are other measures, though, that are calculated differently. And the PPI, the GDP deflator, what wage indices I can find, and the Billion Prices Project all say that the current rate of inflation is between 1 and 3%. Which is basically as low as US inflation has gotten in post WWII-history, baring the bout of deflation we had at the start of the financial crisis.

Yes, by selectively looking at one category of good while ignoring other you can create your own special index such that inflation looks like it's high, but that's always true except in a static economy.

As to people worrying too much about inflation, well, I agree in general. But please read the Wikipedia page on inflation to see the reason why politicians might want to care about inflation even if the voters don't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation
Because a library written in Go will only be useful in Go (a major shortcoming of Go) and Go can use C libraries, I suspect Go will not be used for library creation for the foreseeable future.
> just replace the battery once you stop at the charging station with a fully charged one.

The Tesla battery weighs 990 pounds and is built into the car. There are proposals like yours for other electric cars, cars that may be designed to simplify battery removal, but in the long term, I think improvements in battery technology will eventually make them more reliable and longer-lasting.
Seconded! This is the first I've heard of problems with Gmail's filtering/forwarding.
> ( * ) <$> Just 2 < * > Just 8

I would have written "Just 16."

> Nothing >>= \x -> return (x * 10)

I would have written "Nothing." Actually, that about sums it up.

Edit: just to expand on the above with some commentary, his examples are all basically as if he saw a salad in a bag, decided he wanted a salad, and proceeded to buy all the ingredients from separate bags, stick them in one big bag, open them all from inside the other bag and mix them together. In practice, you just don't need to do things this way.

The first example is treating Maybe as an applicative functor. In practice, when someone does this, they don't use a bare operator like ( * ). Suppose I want to read in an integer from the user. Which is easier to understand?

x <- getLine >>= return . read

or

x <- read <$> getLine

This is the usual way <$> is used, not his way. You could even get some mileage out of using monads with the do notation, by doing something more like:

x <- getLine
return $ read x

Same with the next example:

x <- Just 2
y <- Just 8
return $ x * y

but there's no intrinsic reason to instead write that as he did.

Similarly, his second example reads much better when you consider the do notation:

x <- Nothing
return $ x * 10

In fact, even using the syntax he proposes on the other line produces a more readable example:

Nothing >>= return . (*10)

If you don't understand what's going on with his second example, you should brush up on monads. You don't need to understand applicative functors to get things done, but they do make life better when used in moderation.
I don't think that is logical.

I can pick fights on the internet about evolution, but that does not have any bearing on the reality of the situation. If these cars got 5k miles to the charge I could still start "discussion" about the range, but that wouldn't show that range is still an issue.

The fact that anything is "being discussed" means nothing at all. You have to analyze the validity of the points being raised in that discussion.
> 10 weeks of waiting

Absolutely unacceptable. I would have issued a chargeback immediately after three weeks of tardiness. At that point what Google has done is fraud, especially if you couldn't reach an actual person on the phone.
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The record contradicts what you are saying here; what you've written is almost a perfect inversion of historical fact. All the commercial networks being developed or deployed when the Internet was being invented were circuit switched, centralized networks. They really didn't have anything to do with the Internet at all. The design philosophy behind the Internet [1, Section 3] was drastically different than all commercial efforts at the time. The design was so different and so unique compared to existing work that the inventors won a Turing Award for it.

As an aside, all of the above is typically covered in the first week or two of a networking course (I like Brighten Godfrey's [2]).

[1] http://ccr.sigcomm.org/archive/1995/jan95/ccr-9501-clark.pdf

[2] http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs538/
'you have a 25% chance that you are relying on some clown who was in the bottom 25% of his class'

Please tell me this is a joke.
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The Japan average is also bought down a lot by one network (NTT DOCOMO). As well as the usual factors age of the network could also be an issue here. Both SoftBank (16.2 Mb/s), KDDI (14.8 Mb/s) are under 1 year old, presumably under capacity waiting for people to upgrade handsets and contracts. DOCOMO (5.5 Mb/s) on the other hand launched in 2010. You see a similar effect in the US, where AT&T's network is regularly beating the older, more congested Verizon. We expect this to even out over time.
Having gone both to schools that don't measure their results using standardized measures, and those that do, with almost identical quality of teachers, the schools beholden to teach to tests end up being able to cover a lot less of substance. This is particularly the case when a school has been teaching to a test previously, and now averages about 95% per student on the tests; since their funding relies on improvements of scores, they've got to spend even more time preparing students in order to do better every year.
This is awesome! Okay,I agree with others that say that photoshop is easier, and that most people (ahem, like yours truly) would make crappy comics. But...c'mon...an xkcd editor?!?!?1!! hecka cool
We're still struggling with this at Fogbeam Labs, so I don't have anything definitive to tell you. But I can share some thoughts, observations, etc.

One: The idea of "positioning" (as written about by Jack Trout, Al Ries, et al.) strikes me as corresponding roughly to what Seth Godin calls a "lie" in All Marketers Are Liars. So "what's your position" is, IMO, roughly equivalent to Godin asking "What's the lie you need your customers to believe?" And one of the points that Godin makes is (paraphrased) "You can't beat your competitor by shouting their lie louder than them".

The idea is, if there's a competitor in space X, who "owns" the (position|lie) "we are the cheapest source of X" then you can't really just start screaming "No, we're cheaper than $COMPETITOR". Now you need to pick a different lie. It might be completely different "We have the most advanced and functional X" or it might be related to, but a spinoff from another lie, eg "We're just as cheap as $COMPETITOR, but our X lasts OVER FOUR TIMES AS LONG" or whatever.

This all seems to also tie into the stuff Steve Blank talks about when he discusses market segmentation. Are you going for the "low cost" segment, or the "best product" segment, or the "best overall value" segment, etc.

Of course, if you don't have competitors, your positioning is more about competing with the status quo. Now you need your customer to believe the "lie" of "I really need X because my kids will do much better in school if I buy it" or "This website will help me meet attractive members of the opposite sex" or whatever. In any case, there has to be something the customer believes about the world, that makes them (want|need) your product or service.

Again, I'm far from an expert on all this, but I recommend reading Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Al Ries, Jack Trout and Philip Kotler, Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition by Jack Trout and Steve Rivkin, All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin and The Four Steps To The Epiphany by Steve Blank, if you haven't already. It's a lot to digest, and it'll probably take some trial and error and iterating, but it's not hard to get the basic principles down.

FWIW, since our products are all Open Source, I'm leaning towards starting out with more of a "lowest price" messsage, since my perception is that people expect Open Source products to be less expensive. But I think if we succeed, we can raise prices once we have more credibility in the market. For example, IIRC, Red Hat Linux was originally much cheaper than the alternatives, but - as I understand it - modern day RHEL actually isn't particularly cheap.

We'll see though. Part of it depends on if we can actually define a sufficiently unique market niche to be in a "resegmented" market. Our products touch on a lot of different areas, so we either have a zillion competitors, or none, depending on how you define things. This is why we're still struggling with this.
Second example: The Golden State Warriors. Go Dubs!
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You really think that's a fair response? There was a parenthetical mention that "this will be the last release of the 3.0.x series" in the middle of a blog post about a critical security fix on the 28th of January. I don't recall any notice before that.

Even if the announcement weren't buried, most of us have development schedules that don't incude the spare time to completely upgrade our infrastructure with two weeks of lead time.

There's no real reason that this couldn't have been announced a few months in advance. I know that this is an open-source project, but one of the costs of having the immense privilege of users who depend on your project is that you make real efforts to give them a little notice before you deprecate their world.
Why can't the reverse be true also? Maybe you clicked around and wanted to see which girls had interest in you. Maybe you both clicked around, and both of you think you each have interest in each other.
"If the reporter had explained that he was intentionally trying to simulate "normal use" by not plugging in the car at night."

That runs at odds with a claim made on Tesla's site: "The Model S battery will not lose a significant amount of charge when parked for long periods of time. For example, Model S owners can park at the airport without plugging in."
(http://www.teslamotors.com/models/facts)

Either Tesla is lying when it claims that it won't lose a significant amount of charge, or Tesla is not lying (which would imply that not charging overnight doesn't really matter)
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