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Let me amplify your point with a specific, personal example. I write Irish traditional-style dance tunes, reels & jigs, mostly. I think I do a pretty decent job of it. (Of course, I might be wrong about this -- certainly there are loads of bad, creative ideas! Assume for the moment, though, that I actually am okay at it.)

As far as I know, the number of people who can play even one of the tunes I've written can be counted on your fingers. It might take only one hand. Like so many things, there are strong network effects in Irish tunes. Most of the musicians want to play with other people; so there is limited incentive to learn a tune that almost no-one else knows. When you do want to learn something novel, there are literally thousands of obscure tunes to choose from, with more being written every day. And of course, since my tunes have not been professionally recorded, only a very limited number of people have ever been exposed to them; mostly close friends and a few people who heard me get up the nerve to play them in a bar somewhere.

What I'm trying to get at here is this is all perfectly reasonable. If you looked at it from a narrow focus on me, then you could certainly say that creative ideas are being ignored. But if you look at it from a broader perspective, you'd be wrong to conclude that all those musicians don't like creativity. Most of them are looking for something new to play. There's just no compelling reason it should be my tune.
That's awesome! One thing I've started to do with my older son, who'll be 4 in a month, is helping him journal about his day. About half an hour before he goes up to bed, we sit down at the table and he dictates a journal entry about his day. If he says something ungrammatical, like "I go'ed to the library," I'll say aloud, "I went to the library" as I write it down, so he picks up on it. I've noticed, over the past six months or so that we've been doing it, that he's gotten better at putting events in a sequence, and I think it's helping to spark his imagination, too, because sometimes he'll tell me fanciful things about his day that I know he didn't actually do.
I've visited HN every day for years. How the hell is this the 1st time I've ever heard of this?
Another simple reason I think lots of people don't like creativity: It is an affront to tradition. Lots of people subconsciously (or otherwise) think you are arrogant for thinking you can improve on the status quo.
I also think I read that more than 50% of the nuclear plants currently being built are in China. That is a big way that they will eventually combat this problem.
There's always Beijing: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--W3r4NvkHFg/UPpFQzRcNWI/AAAAAAAACB...
Absolutely amazing talk!
Complicated puzzles full of red herrings, medieval European literature references, music... this sounds like the work of 1057.
> There is at least some chance that a big awful corporation is more trustworthy than a plurality of miners.

Definitely. But it's about central points of failure, not trustworthiness. The trustworthiness of a company is irrelevant if the government decides to confiscate all its assets.
"If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard Aiken

I suspect many here can relate.
You're missing the point. EC2 specifically didn't work for them because they were constantly spinning up new instances and killing old ones, so they were repeatedly incurring the minimum one hour cost. If your business model doesn't call for that sort of a workflow, the article is irrelevant to you.
in my regular places (home, work, fun) in denver the coverage has been pretty poor for a while. hopefully we're part of the capacity addition.
Yes, but it's #3A4145 on white.

/pedantry
I like Wunderlist.
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It's better than reading about why some crap start-up founder telling us why they're using Meteor and why you should too.
I am fascinated by this thread. Can we also get a "What do you think of white developers?", "What do you think of women developers?". /s

tl;dr: It is just a population of homo sapiens. You will have good and bad people.
All governments are a persistent threat. For whatever good they do, they have raised the largest armies, killed the most peoples, and have implemented the most coercive/forceful terms when dealing with other parties (taxes, prison, subsidies, bailouts, etc)

People need to start understanding that where I'm from, Income Tax was only started as a wartime measure. Now it will never disappear, even though we have less need for it now than before that wartime measure was implemented. http://www.duhaime.org/LawMuseum/CanadianLegalHistory/LawArt...

My question for advocates of government is: Explain how are current modern issues (Economic Crises, State Spying, Bank Bailouts, Private Prisons, Oil Subsidies, etc) are the product of anything else? Also, if our problems are cause non government entities, then why create institutions that can concentrate even more? Surely society isn't so naive to know that these same institutions wouldn't be compromised by these agents (regulators, lawmakers, judges, officers)?
I couldn't hope to determine if the early training had anything to do with it or just the overall attention to early education, but I will say that she developed an affinity for math at a young age and even in preschool tended to be interested in the more advanced concepts of abstract math rather than simple counting of objects.

I did teach both my children to count on their fingers using the pattern taught by ASL. I've noticed that sometimes her friends look at her oddly when she holds up her index, middle, and thumb for the number three, and obviously, they have no clue that holding up the index, middle, and ring fingers might mean either six or three to her depending on to whom she is talking.

I introduced both my children to an awesome game when they were just in kindergarten: http://www.dragonboxapp.com/ it teaches basic algebraic concepts cloaked in the guise of a fun puzzle game.
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>> You're presenting a complete straw man argument

??
I'm responding to this -

>> the suppression of creativity and individualism is one of the key goals of the compulsory schooling system

Which AFAICT is unsupportable and certainly not the stated intention of any of the people I know in education, nor does it seem to be the intention of the politicians who continue to keep the system funded. How is that a straw man? I'm arguing against what you actually said!

>> It doesn't seem to me like you're well versed into the actual arguments presented by authors and thinkers who write on the inherent flaws of compulsory schooling.

There are all sorts of flaws in schooling, compulsory or otherwise. We could probably take the whole weekend just writing out a list of the ones that spring to mind without serious study.

That doesn't mean that suppression of creativity is the goal of the system.
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There is nothing modern about the way the US treated race politics in the 1960s. It was appalling and a lot worse than many other countries - South Africa being a notable exception. It still puzzles me the amount race comes up in American TV shows. They are loaded with lame race based jokes which indicates to me that all still isn't right, and how could it be when my parents' generation can remember events of the 1960s.
I live in New Zealand, and it would be untrue to claim race and racism aren't a problem here, but I think that the situation is slightly better although we have appalling stats for Maori and Pacific Islanders where health, life expectancy, poverty and education are concerned. I could be wrong but it recall reading that the Maori are the worlds most imprisoned race.
There were some interesting discussions about the abolition of patents in Europe in the 19th century, that speak to what you're saying:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130503/17414322946/discus...
People like results. If you demonstrated good results in a creative fashion? Then they like creativity. If you did it conventionally? They like that too.

The problem with the "creative" way is you have to go through the process of eliminating all the bad ideas again, which the conventional approach has already done. But the ideas are the fun part.

Being creative means producing lots of bad ideas that nobody wants to deal with. Dragging unwilling participants through your creative process of throwing out all the bad ideas? That's your dirty work. That's housekeeping and laundry. The few good new ideas? Prove them, then bring in others. Unless somebody is paid to put up with your crap.

They laughed at Einstein, but the also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
I really like the research and takeaway sections in the examples on your website, with practical guidance based on scientific research.
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I think you owe her a big set of flowers and chocolates on Mothers Day!
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You are not missing something the author has obviously mixed up the "dark web" and tor.
Deflation doesn't eliminate the demand curve, it just shifts it a bit to the left. It reduces consumption. It reduces investment. It increases savings. It does not cause a 100% reallocation from consumption and investment to savings.
Ask HN: What does the job market look like for a new comer as a ASP.NET dev?
I am learning ASP.NET and will be attending the codercamps bootcamp down in Houston in March. I have screwed around with programming for awhile, but never did anything with it until now. What is the job market look like for someone who will have a few hundred hours of dev experience?
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Aside from the widely fluctuating prices, it could easily reach that point. Looks like it's on its way down now. http://live.bitcoinindex.es/
Google has a lot more top-down technical mandates than some companies (programming languages for instance), and I'm not surprised they're more GPL-friendly either.

I'm willing to concede that GPL is not a disadvantage to adoption by Google or any of the hundreds of startups Google might aquihire in a given quarter :)
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I was actually just pointing out the irony that 30 years of processor innovation have lead to making the task of booting even more complicated than it used to be ;)

(Note: I understand why, that doesn't make it less ironic.)
Interesting perspective, I hadn't thought about it that way, but I like your logic.
I used to harbor similar fantasies (witness my username and the television series 'Pretender'). But you can't just put some supergenius 8-year-old in a special school and have 'em pop out with the diligence required to achieve great things early in adolescence.
You can probably determinate the number of supernovas/hypernova/etc that happened before the sun by analyzing the proportions of different elements in the solar system and then use the various equations to compute how many explosions you would need to create the heavy elements (heavier than iron) that are observable since they are mostly created in these situations.

You probably can get these equations by analyzing nebula composition and the type of star which was there.

Also, the type of star gives an indication of it's history.
>>All this power is packed into our compact smartwatch without sacrificing power consumption. It’s a beautiful balance between the power processing and the power management of our dual processor architectural design.<<

That is pretty misleading. I will set this to remind me in march or so and we will see the resolution( in case it's backed
).
What you say might be true for CPU usage, maybe even for network usage, but definitely not for I/O. In that case it's definitely noisy neighbors causing problems for others, but in a way it doesn't matter. Whether it's noisy neighbors or hard resource limits, the variability is still there. For single-machine stuff you just have to assume the worst case. For things that are distributed among large enough numbers of nodes you can do a certain amount of averaging, but high variability still forces you close to the worst-case assumption.

I've run a lot of tests in this area, and even presented some of the results at LISA last month. When it comes to I/O, EC2 is considerably less consistent than many others[1] and that's what really hurts their users. Their prices might be only 2x someone else's if you're only looking at the average case, but it's more like 10x if you consider their extreme variability as well.

[1] Side note: this is a hint that Amazon has an unusually high oversubscription ratio. The same practice has been evident in shared web hosting, with the same effect, since that industry was created.
For those confused, he means 1o57 - he created the DEFCON mystery challenge and usually is involved in the badge contest.
> Being counter culture doesn't make you creative.

So much this. Think of someone you see at the coffee shop with a sketch pad - tattooed, big ear plugs, tight jeans and a weird hat. Is this person creative? Without seeing some work output there's no way to know. Lots of people mistake appearance for an indicator for creativity.
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Science tells us that it's not either/or, it's the interaction between our genes and the environment.

My intuition (based on anecdotes and observations, not hard data) is that nature provides a starting point, and perhaps an ultimate cap or speed limit to growth, but nurture provides the year over year progress. The most successful people I know nailed the nurture (or hard work) part of the equation. They were all at least smart, but very few were the smartest in the room at a young age. Over time they've appeared smarter and smarter to their surrounding audience.
Here's an account of the trial which I thought was pretty detailed: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mandela/mandel...

I thought it was pretty telling he was offered his freedom if he denounced the violence the ANC was taking part in and he refused.
With this mindset, is it ever possible to judge anything?

"At the time, it made sense to help racists (who happened to be our allies) imprison and possibly hang a black agitator. We now know it was wrong, but back then who knew?" Um, ok. So when is it right to denounce those who helped racist regimes?
If anyone needs more color, Travis, the CEO of continuum and the author of NumPy just wrote a great post explaining why conda exists, and why virtualenv and pip aren't sufficient for the scientific python community.

http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com/2013/12/why-i-promote...
They never taught me in school the FBI and the NSA wiretapped and had excessive surveillance on Martin Luther King Jr. to 'neutralize' him as an effective civil rights leader.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#FBI_sur...
They also share NSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Security_Services (originally created by Netscape/Mozilla) and, I think, a few other things.
There one a Amazon Fresh Truck in my street (Russian Hill) last night. They're coming.
Or http://www.drawnames.com/ from the same company if you want it in English
We're not talking about all commodities: we're talking about money.

There's no point in comparing pork bellies to gold: removing an entire year's supply of pork bellies from the market would send the price sky rocketing (in fact, it's probably not even possible since an entire year's supply of pork bellies isn't in stock), while the price of gold would hardly be affected.

The stock-to-flow ratio of gold is several orders of magnitude higher than that of non-monetary commodities (indeed that's one of the defining characteristics of money), so changes in supply don't affect them as much. This will also be the case of Bitcoin, in a couple of decades.
For people doing transactions, I'm pretty sure trustworthiness is what it is about. Very few people in the US or EU have concerns about the government seizing assets held on their behalf (you can reply that they should have such concerns, but as a practical matter they do not).
The key part is "they suspect". You don't have to tell them anything about their life. You don't even have to KNOW about their life. But they will still take your alternate lifestyle as a personal offense.

(as an aside, since when has "saving money for the future" been the habit in America?)
I strongly recommend watching Pursuit of Happyness - specially since it's based on a true story.
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Yeah, I don't know.

Look, You're close. I think the process of trying out ideas is poorly understood by most people, and based on the way you wrote this, even yourself. You touched on it a bit - "distilling ideas into something that can be tried without much investment". That's the gem.

This is what you're supposed to do with an idea:

* Identify the hypotheses that make it work.

* Identify which hypothesis is the most critical one - if that one fails, then you know the idea isn't going to work. It's fair to say that an idea depends on 2 or more hypotheses - the key here is to identify the critical ones.

* Finally, figure out how to fail each critical hypothesis as fast (and as cheap) as you can. There is always a way. If you can't fail it, then you got something good. You don't need market research. You don't need the assurance the idea will work. Just test the hypothesis.

What about testing the non-critical hypotheses? You'll get to them. Failing those doesn't mean the idea should be thrown out, only that you need to adjust the idea to take your new knowledge into account.

That's it, really†. I'm using this process to build my own business, and it's working out extremely well. I've thrown out tons of bad ideas and got some great traction on the good ones. The scientific discipline to testing the ideas is the key.

†I lied. There's one more step: keep track of your critical hypotheses - that's your business intelligence. You can use them to validate future ideas.

(edit: formatting)
For the darker side of that fantasy, see: Firefly
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Alright. Game on.
You may also find this helpful: http://lesswrong.com/lw/28r/ (The first paragraph is all I'm citing here.)

Even if we do innately "recognize" spiders, it is still not going to come with all the semantic content that an adult has when they look at a spider. It's something simpler. (But still amazing in its own way.)
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> Know which analysts are giving you bad advice

Check if their lips are moving. :)
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I don't think most Americans understand the second amendment, even if they are in support of it.
I posted a launch post for http://wecombinate.com and also linked http://paymentsplugin.com on HN as well as other places.

For WeCombinate, I received 84 visits from HN or HN related (showhn.com etc) but for Payments Plugin I saw a spike up to 386 for one day straight from HN.

The WeCombinate post fell away very quickly with zero comments but the post with the Payments Plugin link stayed around on the bottom on the home page for about 6-8 hours.

Overall, I didn't see any conversions as a result of the HN traffic although I don't think HN is my target audience really.

Just thought I'd add some more data points into the conversation.
It's pretty amazing that we've got all these brand new accounts showing up, all to make sure that we're aware of what a terrible person Nelson Mandela was.

I had no idea this movement existed, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Nothing to do with race, I'm sure, they're just pacifists who oppose violence in all forms. If they were being oppressed by black people, they'd never have resorted to violence.
I only just stumbled upon a different article [1] recently, but I'm not surprised why it's not a well-known phenomenon. This puzzle seems to be deliberately exclusive, and most people don't have the time to 'play' whatever game is going on. There hasn't been any kind of fulfilling conclusion that would make for a compelling story.

1: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/10468112/The-...
He's probably comparing it to central bank currencies that can be pegged to a stable interest rate. I don't think market depth alone will ever get BTC close to that, though imho it won't matter. People will just live with the instability, keeping some of their money in rate-backed currencies and some in cryptocurrencies.
An alternative to virtualenv and pip
Finally something sane
If you are US based I would recommending signing up at http://coinbase.com/ - buying a few bitcions by adding your bank account thru their system (takes a few days).

You could use a paper wallet like https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/ or http://piperwallet.com/ and store the keys in a safe (bank or multiple safes, incase one is loss due to fire/storm/etc.).

Instead of paper, you could also store the data on a USB key.
There needs to be more money spent on staff at the US Patent Office so they don't just rubber stamp patents and let the courts decide.

1) Something needs to be a true innovation to be a patent 2) The process should take a lot of man hours.

I don't feel either of those things happen due to shortage of staffing and a wild everything is possibly patentable.
That's not correct. Unmanaged code, by it's definition, is not run on the CLR. It's run natively by the OS, and is compiled to machine code, not IL.

Managed code, on the other hand, by MS' own definition: "All of these languages share a unified set of class libraries and can be encoded into an Intermediate Language (IL). A runtime-aware compiler compiles the IL into native executable code within a managed execution environment that ensures type safety, array bound and index checking, exception handling, and garbage collection." [0]

[0] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb31...

EDIT: I should add, that while unmanaged code does not run on the CLR, the CLR does act as a bridge between managed and unmanaged code.
That's one aspect, but probably not the most important, given that Lua already has GC without the CLR.
Automatic downvotes for green accounts?! If that was a good idea, it would be built into the software.

Read, comprehend, and then interact based on the content. Meta posts like this are a waste of everyone's time.
Never mind that, the article is simply written horribly.
Your suggestion will work for a few years perhaps, and then it'll deteriorate to the current state over time.
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Yeah, I'm not sure I understand what he's trying to say.

EDIT: Oh, I just read the url.
This is an example of one of the key things that sets YC apart from every other early stage investor. Like the startups they fund, they constantly improve their "product" to make something entrepreneurs want.
Sounds more to me like the "creative idea" was "convince someone to pay me to take 6 months off to go read books in Thailand."

Seriously. Why should creativity go unquestioned?
Note; you should fix your SPF records, all mails end up in spam.
Haven't found your calling? Stop looking.
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Perhaps you should exercise self-control and refrain from passing ANY judgement then, if your reasons for doing so are unrelated to the content of the posts in question.