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I have quite the opposite problem, too many problems to solve, and not enough time/resources to build everything. I figured I could describe my thought process, and maybe it will help you come up with ideas too. It's a pretty basic three step process; 1. choose a topic (or industry, or domain, or space, or whatever you want to call it) that you personally enjoy, or have deep knowledge/experience. 2. on a white board, write down all the different aspects or components that comprise whatever topic you choose, and next to each component, write down a person or role that's associated with each component. 3. take each association you've built and look for two things from the person's and/or role's perspective; within the context of the topic, look for a pain point and/or a new capability. In my opinion, the key is being able to rationalize things from other people's perspectives. Building the associations is a good exercise that will get the brainstorming going. Choosing a topic you personally enjoy or have deep knowledge/experience will provide you with insights and unique perspectives that you can leverage to build something of value. Some of my best ideas were the result of correlating these insights and perspectives with the pain points and/or capabilities identified above. Hopefully this thought process will help you come up with some killer ideas!

Regarding the problem I'm experiencing, I've been experimenting with a new approach that is similar to the Idealab approach used by Bill Gross. Understanding the effectiveness of focusing on one project at a time, this experimental approach is to validate ideas, protect their IP, and then build teams to execute independently. So while I work on one Project at a time, the team(s) I've built can execute other Projects (and resulting Products/Businesses). The value that I'm providing is the validation of each idea with potential customers, as well as the protection of any associated IP (via patents). The team would, of course, own the majority of each Business and I would take a small percentage. The way I see it, an approach like this is great because of two reasons; one, it's great practice for me in terms of team-building and customer validation. two, I get to watch these crazy ideas be executed, resulting in new Products that would make life better for everyone (me included!). It will be interesting to see how this works out! If you would be interested in checking out some of these Projects, let me know!
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Euphoric!
as a person who's been telling SF and NYC to FU, you should really go try other parts of the country and see what you like. Then come back to FLA if you like it.
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It's quite an old story, and it's not that interesting I believe. All the components have been available for a while (external stimulation of the nervous system, recognizing EEG patterns, etc.). This experiment is mostly designed to make these things interesting to the general public, not because it's scientifically important or because it represents a big step forward towards controlling or understanding the nervous system/the brain.
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can i haz one n prple?
by snow I mean snow in the mountains, the type that is fun, not snow in town, the type that causes other fun but not as useful
Honolulu's cost of living is comparable. Housing costs are slightly lower but food is much more expensive. I make just a little over 90k as a senior engineer and still living pay check to pay check. I probably can make almost double in SF from talking with other engineers I know there so it may be better for me to move.
It seems that they will release their software as open source. I couldn't find what license famo.us will use.
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PUsH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubSubHubbub

Google is the only crawler I see using the protocol on my site. It does make Google updates occur within minutes, so that alone is reason to implement push.
Also, Apple and AMD have facilities in Orlando.
Plus, now that Dexter is gone...
I don't understand this remark. I think they describe the 'why' and the 'what' parts fine for what I think is their target audience. They even mention the 'how' part:

"IBM is looking for a fluid that can multitask.

Vanadium is the best performer in their current laboratory test system - a type of redox flow unit - similar to a simple battery.

First a liquid - the electrolyte - is charged via electrodes, then pumped into the computer, where it discharges energy to the chip.

Redox flow is far from a new technology, and neither is it especially complex."
currently their local listings are pretty shit. Theyre worse than what I can find in the yellow pages actually. Search for honda motorcyle repair in bellevue, wa for example. none of the top results are for that. but car dealers eat right into the results.
Those sound like great hobbies to base your idea on. Out of the two, I think Tennis would have more of a market (aka make more money). Just throwing out some random aspects/components of Tennis that you could bounce around; the game itself, the equipment/clothing, the training/education, the facilities where people play, the professional sports aspect, sponsors and marketing. Some of the people involved; the players themselves, the people that run the facilities, the people that hire tennis tutors/teachers (and the students), the people that watch the sport professionally, the people that sponsor the sport, the people that provide equipment/clothing. I do not have much experience/knowledge with Tennis, however my Cousin's Husband is a Tennis Instructor, so I'll go with that. One of the problems that he has is finding more students to teach and fill up all his potential slots. One of the problems that Tennis Students have is finding a good teacher with a reasonable price. Going off this, maybe one potential idea is to build a "Marketplace" for Tennis Instructors. Call it Yelp for Tennis Tutors. So instructors could post up their Business with their contact information, Students could review them, and you facilitate the connection of Teachers and Students. You're solving multiple problems. The Teachers find more Students, the Students find good teachers, and the best price. Your Business Model could be a re-occurring monthly revenue model that Teachers pay to add their Business to the Marketplace. A secondary Business Model (or replacement) could be a one time fee per transaction every time you facilitate a connection between a Teacher and Student (as in, the Student "Signs Up" for their Services). Anyway, just throwing out some ideas! Hope I've helped with some brainstorming!
I don't block completely, but have for a long time configured servers to react like this:

- If it's cached content, there's no limit

- If it's non cached content and it is a bot, direct to the pool of servers assigned to uninteresting bots

- If it is an interesting bot (Google, bing, a couple others), use instead a pool of servers for interesting bots

Some bots are not only non-traffic generating, they are absurdly aggressive, consuming 99% of server resources for the hour or so needed to pull the content, regular site users be damned. A configuration like this is reasonably low maintenance while limiting the damage by bots.
> I thought 4k was just for large tvs

4k is nothing more than the double resolution from 1080p

> can you tell a difference over a retina display?

A 21" Retina Display iMac would be 4k (the current 21" iMac is 1920x1080). A 27" Retina Display iMac would be way beyond 4k (it would have a 5120x2880 display)

> Aren't they called retina because that's the most your eye can see?

That's more of a marketing moniker and incomplete. The original point/qualifier is that they fall beyond the eye's angular resolution so you can't "see" individual pixels anymore. That's not "the most your eyes can see" though, many arthropods create details & colors through nanometric structures.
the point is google should be showing me good results, not just what I can find in the yellow pages.
That's for state tax only - federal would be another good chunk on top of that - but yeah, assuming that's all straight-up income (not investments or anything), just the state-level taxes should be about 100k at California's current rates.
Join a mastermind group with few people that strive for the same thing you want to achieve. The single best decision I've done in terms of pushing my project forward. Every 2 weeks the three of us meet and share progress. It's a great form of both accountability and motivation. I feel super eager to work on my project for days after the hangout.
Sure, but obviously curing cancer is a waste of research effort... what they should be trying to cure is disease.
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I'll try that!
If you are keeping a blog anyway (like the author did), then the marginal effort to edit/repackage your best work into a book is not that great.

(Another data point: I have a math blog, and did the same ebook repackaging for 12 of my favorite topics; it's an Amazon as a Kindle ebook/paperback & PDF on my site, makes low 4-figures monthly).

If you write on an evergreen topic (management philosophy, math, etc.), the effort can definitely be worth it. Of course, having an established audience helps (So start the blog today! In 12-18 months of not-too-much writing effort, the book may emerge.)
Nice, thanks! I didn't find one on your page, so I made a quick bookmarklet to open the chart:

javascript:id=document.location.href.match(/id=(\d+)/)[1];document.location='http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id='+id

Edit: rewritten to open it in a new tab:

javascript:(function(){var id=document.location.href.match(/id=(\d+)/)[1];url='http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id='+id;var w=window.open(url, '_blank'); w.focus();})()
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Curious as to why the quantumness matters.
choosing instead to keep that additional value for themselves.

Google's claim to fame was that they were unbiased, unlike other search engines. Almost all users want to see unbiased results, not ads and roughly half can't tell the difference between ads and non-paid results. What does that do to Google brand once words spreads and reaches most users? Very short sighted strategy, very negligent.
I believe that's called a butterfly. I don't know how common they are but I've certainly heard of people doing this on stocks they believe will be volatile.
Because of overhead. It's much slower to communicate "turn pixel at X,Y on" to the display for millions of individual pixels than it is to communicate "here's all the millions of pixels you need to display in sequence" in one message.
Do you have any evidence for those assertions?
Wow. A draconian policy of deliberate misinformation justified by a lack of resources and disinterest in consideration. That just tanked all the respect I had for you, pg.
Well, the point is that it's EASIER to make hard to detect errors in code comments than it is to break tests.
I wish Apple would release a full-size wireless keyboard. I can't stand the smaller one with that annoying fn key and tiny cursor keys. Also, I wonder if Apple will ever cotton on to the fact that quite a lot of us use the '#' symbol from time to time.

Other than that, I love their keyboards.
Sure: over 70% of Macs sold are notebooks. The only Macs that come with Apple branded mice are the iMac and Mac Pro.

http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/26/notebooks-now-make-up-over...
Or PHP.

Ruby's interestingness to performance ratio is not high.
Definitely not unexplored territory, analog computation came first. Notably, the way you program an (electronic) analog computer is by adjusting it's circuitry.. not exactly the friendliest programming model.

The problem with noise seems to be repeatability. Enough noise, and reliability becomes a huge problem. With same inputs and analog circuit, you want the same answer every time, don't you?

You cannot "overcome this noise" by removing it. The perfection of materials, process and environment required for that would be on the order of an experiment like this: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131010-neutrino-ex...

We overcame the noise via digitization. In fact, there is obviously still noise in our current digital computers, since the components within them are fundamentally analog, but digital circuits quantize the analog signals, interpreting the 1's and 0's, despite their analog nature. (this is simplified and I know next to nothing about digital circuit design)
"Pizza comes in one form"

That is not a critique, that is a statement. Pizza comes in one form, and that form is NY/Neapolitan style. The rest is some kind of bizarre cheese/tomato pie bread thing.
Can someone make Paul Graham's essays into an audio book?
Walking around campus takes about 15 minutes. Would be perfect to listen to a Paul Graham essay each day. Please don't complain that I am lazy - I tend to remember certain things much better through hearing.
I think Sun workstations did that in the 80s or 90s.
But isn't it? Which of the last wars was opposed by the majority of Americans?
Thanks for this - for anyone else wondering, http://growlab.ca/, not the portable greenhouse!
Why is it a waste of research effort? We've made dramatic non-palliative strides in the area of cancer treatment, and most importantly have been able to induce complete remission in a significant number of cases.
I can't be the only one who thought of Ghost in The Shell while reading this. If anything, this is a way to explain away the presence of white 'blood' in the cyborgs of the series.

I can understand the power issue, but I wonder why 3D chips aren't pursued more. It can't be just the cooling since liquid cooling (as mentioned) is in use. Maybe inefficiencies in power distribution and distance to adjacent junctions? If so, parallel execution should help with some of the delays.
> OO with class hierarchies is a broken model.

If this is true, there is nothing that forces you to write classes in C++. You have all the freedom to write only in functions and structs.

I think C++ is not going "to go" anywhere and is here to stay for a long, long time, and have it's place in programming language "pantheon" similar to C. C++ gives programmer freedom, which is too much to handle for many. Restrictive language is a good way of preventing bugs, but in C++ you can just select what language features you are gonna use and have similar result.
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I also think North Carolina is beautiful. A drive through the countryside on a two-lane road is amazing. The epitome of evil here is to not mow your lawn or keep up your landscaping or to not apply that coat of paint, so everyone's place looks great. And the city of Winston Salem itself has improved in the last fifteen years tremendously from what I've heard. Many old-timers shun downtown for what it used to be, but 4th Street is busy every single night of the week. And for good work/hangout places, Camino Bakery is awesome, and Krankies Coffee beats any coffee shop in SF Bay Area hands down for atmosphere -- and coffee. SF would go nuts if the place were transplanted into The Mission.

But on my first visit to the San Jose area in six months I was struck by how beautiful the place I left really is, too. In NC the trees are a bit suffocating. I like seeing the hills around the bay. And the NC trees are all the exact same shade of green during the summer. The hike I took at Purissima along Skyline Blvd was beautiful. And even the crowded housing everywhere has its charm.

We made our choice and moved on to NC, but I'm real glad to be working for a bay area company again.
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can you please name the other engines you know? we're currently seeking for a good system, but only found libs like mahout yet. thanks.
This article was not written for any one who has even an average understanding of the subject. It is there to give the most simple, general over view of an interesting development. It is not supposed to be anything more than that. It is there for shelf stackers, van drivers, policemen, accountants, solicitors, carpenters, mechanics, in fact, any one but people with any clue to start with. People with a clue are doing themselves down by reading it in the first place. They should already know all about it, and not be blind sided by a BBC piece.

No, the person who wrote it is not clueless, they have written it for the clueless.

And that, is absolutely NOT a value judgement on the "clueless".

The vast majority of people very understandably do not have any clue about this niche science. Why on earth should they? After all, does being a whiz with Java or something suddenly mean this should even begin to have any understanding of this? Why should it? So why should a brick layer have any idea at all? All the average "clueless" want is a very, very basic over view, such that they can essentially say, "oh wow, that's cool. Oi Dave, look at this". And if they are even slightly inspired, they would go off and drill down to the proper scientific detail else where, using something revolutionary like Google.

If you want any more than that, then I'm sorry, its not the remit of the BBC. And no body even close to knowing the basics of this sort stuff would be getting their information from the BBC. Like I have said, they will already be very clued up, right? And one in the middle will not even read the article fully. They will get enough information to go to a more thorough source.

I get really frustrated with people who seem clueless themselves about what the BBC is there for, and who articles like this are aimed at. It is always easy for some expert to slag off BBC articles, in the way you have, when they were never ever written to stand up to peer review or some such high standard. I imagine an "expert" could easily pick holes in literally every single article the BBC has ever published.

What is really depressing is that you have obviously read enough to be interested. But instead of being interested enough to search for more information, you come here to lay in to the author. Is it really that much easier to complain than research? Does the BBC have to spoon feed every one, on every subject, at every level? No. Its a broadcaster, not a collection of all the worlds best universities. The let you peek in, the rest is up to you.
thus the effing quoties. I live here I know theyre both in king county. But thanks for being both pedantic and stupid. it keeps smart people in SV and away from trying to get my job.
Colour me surprised.

Of course, some of those notebook owners will also use a mouse. And I'm speaking as a Mac Mini user with an Apple branded mouse, but I guess your original point probably stands.

I wish I didn't have such a reliance on the mouse, but since transitioning from PC to Mac, one of the few persistent problems has been keyboard shortcut support. I can't tell if I've failed to learn sufficiently, or if it's just lacking, but certain applications - e.g. Finder - just seem to be impossible to navigate without a pointing device.
Except it's even worse than that -- everyone except T-Mobile charges the same service fee to customers who buy outright and customers who purchase through the carrier. The subsidy is indeed a subsidy, the costs of which are spread amongst all subscribers.
Or they could be British. We apologise for everything.
It's a non-apology - -
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology
NO! Solving the cube is boring, discovering how to solve it is not. The journey is the reward. What you should do is learn a tiny bit of algebra. In particular, learn about commutators (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutator)

Then, experiment with commutators on the cube to look for ones that have very localized effects. Those are those 'algos' others want you to learn from a book. For example, check the simplest commutator LTL'T' and figure out how to use that as part of a larger commutator that permutes the three corners of a cube.

Yes, it will probably take more than those 20 hours (that can be done faster, I think. You need at most 4 tricks (permute three corners, permute three edges, flip two corners, flip two edges should do), each maybe ten turns to solve any cube), but it will be more fun.

It took me way more than 20 hours to solve my first cube, but the first two times I did it, I didn't even know how to solve it yet.
If this is true, there is nothing that forces you to write classes in C++. You have all the freedom to write only in functions and structs.

Except that abstract classes are pretty much the only way to implement type-checked interfaces and they are, well, classes.
But... but... speed
How many do you think he needs? :)
http://graphlab.org/ is also a good choice
This is so adorably naive.
I've lived both in SF and NY, and NY significantly has more. Not saying SF has bad food, it does, but it pales in comparison to NY. Of course--that is--excluding Burritos. There's nothing smug about saying the truth.
Another vote for AngularJS. It is simply awesome.

You'll have a couple of hurdles when working with Django because they both use {{ }}. Using the Django {% verbating %} to enclose your Angular worked well for me. Also if you rely on $resource in Angular, it removes slashes from urls so sometimes it's easier to resort to $http or escape your slashes.

Couple of references:

http://pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/some-lesson...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14533117/angular-trailing...

enjoy.
I posted this mainly to draw attention to http://www.charitynavigator.org, which makes it easy to vet the charities that you may be interested in contributing to... Some of the most high-profile movements to raise awareness about causes like breast cancer are linked to programs that don't pass much of the money raised to the cause itself.

Organizations like Susan G. Komen for the Cure have been in the news lately for an "overly well-paid" CEO, but that organization still manages to pass through 82.1% of its contributions to the programs it supports (rather than paying for overhead like CEO salaries). It is still one of the best organizations you can contribute money to in terms of financial contribution and transparency/accountability.

So, this all goes to say (Tl;dr) - take advantage of resources like Charity Navigator when making your charitable donations. Also, when buying high-profile pink things, consider donating to the source instead of paying outside partners - more of your money will get where you want it to go...
Difficult to say, as I work from home in Devon (South West England, out in the sticks), and charge by a hybrid value/daily/hourly rate depending on the client and the job, but the last job I did for a London company worked out at about £100 / hour.

My standard hourly is actually a fair bit lower than that, but then that's on-going projects and/or not for clients in London (so I voted £100+)

Edit: And of course to UK companies that's excluding VAT - If you're a UK freelancer and you're not VAT registered, do it now.

A lot of people think you have to turn over £79k / year before you can be VAT registered, but that's not true, £79k / year is when you have to become VAT registered. My first ever business had a turnover of exactly £0.00 when I VAT registered it.

If you're selling to other businesses (and not the general public) it's always better to be VAT registered :)
Sadly, same on the north shore, rents are ridiculously high, particularly during the winter when the waves are pumping.

I paid $1,600/month a few winters ago for basically a wooden shack with tin roof and high speed internet (across the street from V-land).

Nice work/life balance, code, surf, code, surf, woohooo ;-)