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Ask HN:How do you come up with interesting ideas and ask unusual questions?
Hi everybody! I want to ask you a question. How do you generate ideas, and what are the best resources on creativity that you know? Also - how to ask questions that lead to unusual thoughts and ideas?

I'm trying to learn to challenge the default assumptions and come up with new valuable thoughts, and more importantly - understand and control this process. I suspect there's a lot of clever/creative people in this community, so I want to ask you to describe the process of coming up with new ideas.﻿
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18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently
This is one of the best products I've seen in a while. Mad props.
Nope, I'm a normal person who gets upset occasionally, and most of the time doesn't bother. I've seen a lot of this for many, many years, and sometimes, I just feel the need to get involved. Then I get back to work. I wish I was a vigilante, then I could be like Chuck Norris. Who is awesome.
You try the fabric on at the same time you get the laser measurements done. Stores aren't going away, just the way they will work.
Two entire states have legalised cannabis? Cool. Australia doesn't have stop-and-frisk anywhere, and certainly doesn't have politicians proudly calling for support of the practise. That's a pretty fundamental abuse of freedom right there, that for no reason, an authority can just stop you and search your person. Yes, there is police harassment like anywhere, but it's not codified into law and openly defended by politicians. As for 'unusual' punishments, excessive sentencing is a 'cruel or unusual' punishment.

My point was that the US is not the bastion of freedom that it's PR suggests. I was pointing out the US Bill of Rights still doesn't prevent these abuses from happening, as people seem to mythologise that document. I've mentioned in other threads that the level of freedom between the two countries really isn't that dissimilar - it's just that the idea that the US is the paragon of freedom above and beyond its contemporaries just simply is not true.

Anyway, I mentioned two things about Australia that you are apparently debunking: that we don't edit the constitution in the normal process of politics, because it requires a referendum to do so; and that we don't fear our neighbours like people in East Germany did. I said "Australia is not a bleak wasteland" and you say I'm glossing over reality? I wonder if you've ever been here, or if you merely think The Road Warrior is a documentary? If you happen to be Australian, then you've got a massive dollop of cultural cringe going on.

It's certainly not a police state as the OP put forward, and neither is the US or the UK.
I'm sympathetic to the problems women face in this industry, but the fact that HN did not leap to unwarranted conclusions in this case is something that should be encouraged, not shamed. Maybe people were able to show restraint in this case because they felt less close to the issue due to sexist tendencies, but the modicum of restraint shown is not itself sexism — it's what should be the ideal across the board.

Also, neither of those articles are by Horvath and they barely even go into her accusation of sexism, so I'm not sure how they're supposed to illustrate that she did elaborate on her accusation. Are you sure you linked the right ones?
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Not to be that guy but regardless is the correct form. Irregardless is considered as non-standard or incorrect. But if you do know this, please don't mind this nitpick.
How about, "I'm just tired of hearing about it and if I wanted more information on the subject I would subscribe to a website specific to that."?
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Supposedly reCAPTCHA is easier if google thinks you're human.

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/recaptcha-j...

I guess google thinks you are a robot.

I dunno, in my experience I usually don't second-guess google. Sorry to break it to you.
> The only real time component of the software stack is
> the kernel. If you want another real time module your
> screwed because you need to run it in kernel space, but
> if you have a kernel you can't.

I think you're confused about what RyanZAG is saying. If I'm reading correctly, he's saying "don't run the real-time stuff on the CPU." Have that stuff run on a much simpler piece of hardware that is real-time, and runs the real-time code, then have the non-real-time userland on the CPU talk to it in not-real-time.

To take your example:

> When you access hardware on say a PCI bus (which you would in
> this scenario). Your call to the PCI bus does not take place
> WHEN you call for it to take place. You call the Kernel, which
> calls the scheduler, which calls the hardware manager, which
> calls the driver, which finally processes your request.

Design the PCI card to have it's own, smaller CPU (or FPGA, or whatever), that does the real-time interaction with the "32,600,000 pulses per second." Don't have the real-time bits depend in any way with the code running on the CPU. Have it buffer the data. The, when the PCI card is accessed by the userland program on the CPU, it dumps the buffer onto the PCI bus. The userland would obviously have be fast enough that the buffer doesn't fill up, but that speed is much less than "real time". You can then work with the data in the userland, running in non-real time.
Thanks for the interest! For MySQL I wanted an easy ORM layer for team, conference and player data. Essentially those 3 objects are stored in MySQL. For redis, I use ordered lists for sorting and easily discerning indexes of team and player data, eg: how I come up with "n overall" and "n in conference" http://madness.io/teams/fak

For Couchbase, all game data is stored in a document, including player stats. I actually use Couchbase as a cache layer as well instead of Redis. Voting and some cache keys are documents and I write couchbase views or use traditional get's to grab that data. Couchbase does the map reduce to give me the numbers I need to come up with all the stats you see on the site. It also comes in handy for things like standard deviation and the tempo-free stats on the matchup pages

Hopefully that helps!
Did you know only one of the two pieces of text is really there to determine if you're a human?

The other is so you translate for them digital photography into text.
Those assholes make us waste time so they make money.
You don't know how to read music? You're the best guitar player I know, playing one of the most difficult styles of guitar I know (Gypsy Jazz). And to top it all of you wrote a sheet music rendering engine! This is very funny :) Way to go!
Sounds like this is not an authentication but an identification protocol applied for a very limited API calls rate-limiting use case. While there are some question about this use case as well (e.g. it there is a DOS attack possible against legitimate clients if the secured_api_key is leaked), it might be practical and acceptable in some limited set of cases.

The danger here is that the same protocol will be used for access control use cases for which it is not suitable (for a variety of reasons). A very good documentation (including thread modeling with attack vectors analysis) should be added to make sure this kind of mis-use does not occur. I would also change the title since it is too ambitious and misleading.
I felt like I was alone with this problem. I have been unable to solve some reCAPTCHA generated puzzles for about 6 months now. There was one particular site, I badly wanted to complete the registration form, but after about the 7th or 8th attempt at solving the captcha, I just decided it wasn't worth it. Now I don't even bother? reCAPTCHA? Bye.
I agree with the OP that "ghost plane" is an option here but I doubt it, here's why.

All the "evidence" of the planes route after transponder failure is speculative and inconsistent with regard to other facts presented by the same people.

So while we are ignoring the obvious, what happened to the report that the engine data transmitted said the plane dropped 40,000 feet in less than a minute?

That evidence was dismissed by the experts as not possible. Its quite possible actually if it was steered straight into the ocean at well below the max speed of the aircraft.

So we have all these ridiculous IMO flight path rumours, and the statement that ACARS was turned off and yet also transmitted pings for 7.5 hours. (Note that first it was 20 minutes, then 4 hours, then 6 hours, then 7.5 hours).

I believe the turn itself may have happened but it may not have since we have no hard data to support it.

Whats much more likely than this plane being in the Indian ocean is that those looking for it in the south china sea simply missed it.

An as an excuse for missing it, they are now patching together wild fantasies based on speculative data piled on top of speculative data that frankly from a technical standpoint makes zero sense.

Im not buying any of this. But Ghost plane is a possibility due to a fire, perhaps an electrical one or a bomb going off that disabled the plane and killed the passengers.

Let's not get carried away anymore on this. We dont know but this speculation is 100% bullshit.
That's not particularly unusual; it's easier to break the ice when there's no question of ulterior motive or interest.

I feel off-kilter speaking with strangers that I find attractive in a professional setting; I have to keep telling my brain to ignore itself and act normally. This isn't unique to any gender -- the other day I was ordering lunch in the neighborhood, and the person behind the counter was mooning at me to a degree that actually made the interaction uncomfortable.

I don't take it personally; that's how people are, myself included. I know it can be slightly uncomfortable, but as long as we're trying to be professional with and understanding of each other, things generally work out.
That's a good book alright, I did not know aout that site tho, thanks !
this book is also worth a read for anyone interested in the subject:

http://www.thamesandhudson.com/Internet_Art/9780500203767
I used to wonder how can some people read 1000+WPM... now I know.
> If a woman quit does that mean it was a sexist workplace?

No. But if she quits because she felt the environment was sexist, then yes.

> If a guy quit after being berated is that different? I don't think so.

Well, male-on-male bullying is also an interesting topic and subject to research, but the topic du jour is sexism, so let's stick to that.

> Also, you linked to a feminist site to provide the definition of a word. Is that normally how people cite the standard/objective meaning of a word...?

Well, I don't know if "sexism" has an "objective" definition, but yes, words are usually best defined by experts on the subjects. Just as gravity is best defined by physicists, sexism is best defined by feminists, who have studied sexism for the past few decades. I'm a newbie to feminism, so I defer to the experts.

> or is this story a chance to talk about something you feel very strongly about whether it fits or not?

It is something I feel strongly about because of this story and others like it. Because so far all evidence suggests that "it fits", I think those trying to make it look irrelevant are suspect.
Yes we should protect those who can't make those choices for themselves, but that's already the norm, there'd be a legal age no matter what we come up with. The interesting debate is what we allow adults to do, I consider the children a red herring.

Ok, I reread it, and I'd say providing for national defense was always a core job of government, it's in our constitution. The same is not true of these other things, we've not agreed by an amendment level of agreement that victimless crimes deserve jail. It's just wrong, there's no justification for jailing someone for anything related to what they ingest, who they marry and in what numbers, or anything else where the only direct victim is themselves. I own my body and no one has a right to claim otherwise.
It's not about 'can they'. It's about 'should they'.

Can I build a flappy bird clone? Sure. Should I? Hell no. I have more profitable projects to work on given a fixed amount of time and resources.

If you think this is money left on the table, then build the 'small utility' to convert the format yourself. If you make money, huzzah, you were right. If you don't, then you were wrong, and this is a niche use case that isn't worth the investment.
Working backwards: Throwing around the word rational on hacker news is a bit misleading, don't you think? The original comments reek of irrationality and bias. Also, "irrational" is a word men love to throw at women when they disagree with what they say. That's typically called "tone policing" but I'm not going to assign you that label at the moment.

Regarding the two men, as I've said repeatedly on this thread, it's not the assumptions I'm making, it's the actions I take as a result. What I might do is look at both of them, for example, and say, "Who's the right person to talk to me about your APIs?"

Now regarding your question vis a vis the booth babe: booth babes are a terrible invention. they are a huge part of the problem. But I'll ask it this way: wouldn't you rather be known as a man who treats a booth babe like an engineer, than the douchebag who treats an engineer like a booth babe?

In general, when it comes to women (ahem and all other humans too) you're much more likely to get along with them if you treat them as if they have brains first.
If you need an engineer to describe your product it is too complicated.
> Racism (sexism/classism/etc) is not about race (sex/class/etc). It's about power.

That's, frankly, bullshit. It about allocating power by race, etc., and is, therefore, necessarily about race (or whatever else defines the -ism in question) and power.

> there is no symmetry in these biases

There is a difference in effect (in a short time window, but see below) between whether the group favored is the currently in-power group or whether its an out-of-power group.

But there is a symmetry in essence. And, furthermore, the long-time-window effect of accepting racism (etc.) from below (or redefining the terms to exclude it) is a reversal in power structure in which the group whose bias has been licensed becomes the power group -- and is unlikely to suddenly renounce the bias that established that position in favor of the formerly-dominant and now subjected group.
Even if it is a fake quote, the point it makes is true.
You have a point. Innovation ends when one company achieves success.

Ok, let's assume SoundSlice never adds any feature that Guitar Pro doesn't have already, never goes after a different market, never interacts with customers differently, etc. etc. Just doing it in a browser is a very interesting thing. With just a little more love it looks like it will be fully mobile ready. And you can embed SoundSlice in any page on the web. They seem to be more interested in making the raw technology and partnering with others - who knows, maybe there will be music players for musicians with a "learn this" button. And Soundslice is two-person company, with one codebase, versus Arobas' 20 people and different apps for every platform. Totally different cost structure.
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While you are here, I wonder why there was no version of Entourage/Outlook with both EWS and WebDAV support.
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Who said anyone attempted to land? If the plane was ditched straight down at full speed, it would in shallow water crater and be underground.
That's racist nonsense. Racism is extrapolating a set of unfounded biases across an entire race, which is exactly what you're doing.
And you forgot Poland.
What if it was a heist? With a price tag of ~300 Million dollars it is a tempting target for some sophisticated thieves.
I think you misunderstand - making C# a first class programming language for ALL platforms helps Windows Phone way more than making it some half-ass solution.
My reply was to the parent and a general comment, not specifically referring to the article.
The pattern matching IS SEXIST! That's the whole issue. Your using gender as a "pattern" to match against.

The point is to try to overcome making that match.
Yea, I don't really like the Outlook name as the internals are completely different from Outlook for Windows unlike Outlook 2001 for Classic Mac OS.
"The inability for cryptocurrencies to do a transaction without an internet connection is a bug not a feature."

I agree, and never claimed otherwise. But the ability to complete any transfer electronically (even if you were given something physical) is a feature. I've never claimed that cryptocurrencies have no disadvantages - nor would I, that's crazy.
Any discrete set of points can be losslessly represented in any positive number of dimensions. The 4d version has 16 spaces, so you could just have them all in a line for a 1d representation of the same game. There are lots of ways to lay them out in 2d, or 3d, or 4d as well. So I would say that you certainly have developed an intuition for four dimensions! You're not cheating or anything just by rearranging the points into 2d.

(Continuous shapes, like solid hypercubes, are tricker ;)
On some sites I see numeric ReCAPTCHAS, which are easy to solve. Others, though, have the sometimes-impossible alphabetical ones. Does the site developer have any control over which type shows up?
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Winning Tic Tac Toe is my favourite:

http://www.getelastic.com/6-captcha-alternatives-to-improve-...
Are you a US voter?
We've indirectly measured gravitational waves before. Folks won the 1993 Nobel prize in physics for the observations. The "Hulse-Taylor" binary star system is a pair of neutron stars orbiting very close to each other (the pair of neutron stars orbiting each other would fit inside of our own Sun). Because the stars are pulsars it's possible to measure the orbit with extremely high precision over time. One prediction of the theory of gravitational waves is that the emission of gravitational waves actually removes small amounts of energy from an orbital system over time (like a drag force). But normally these amounts are so small as to be inconsequential even over extremely long periods, but with very dense, very massive, very closely orbiting objects the amount is much higher. And the result is that it causes the orbits to degrade over time, as the stars slowly spiral toward each other. This is a very consistent effect.

Here's a graph showing the prediction of the existence of gravitational waves relative to the observations of the change of period of the Hulse-Taylor binary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PSR_B1913%2B16_period_shif... The tiny horizontal lines on the red dots are the error bars of the observations. You can see how perfectly the observations line up with theory.

Also, it's likely that gravitational waves will be observed directly within the next several years. There have been experiments attempting to do so but none of them have been sensitive enough to detect the most likely of the strongest signals of gravitational radiation. The improvements to those experiments that will come online within the next decade or so should be able to do so however.
Julie Ann Horvath uses this (2013)
Especially if you are willing to sacrifice speed.
Now everyone can know the joys and horrors of Bundler! ;) I kid. This announcement is very exciting for people tinkering with Rust like myself.

I really like Go, but the lack of a solid package management solution that I like using is a downer. Before you rage-comment: I know how Go packages work. I know you think they're better than anything that's ever been invented. I know there are solutions out there for some portions of what I want. But nothing has been created that really works for me (yet). So, to see this development in another one of my "tinker with it but not build a ton of production quality code just yet" languages is exciting!
Meet The Married Duo Behind Tech's Biggest New Harassment Scandal
What about bringing them here and not taking equity? This could allow for less conflict of interest for your beta test.
This could be a pretty damn good captcha replacement:

http://areyouahuman.com/demo-playthru/

EDIT: I found their demo page.
I have experienced similar sorts of crap behavior in the past (racial, violent, etc.) - my only recourse in some cases were to respond to violence with violence unfortunately, although it did have a net positive effect that I somehow gained respect & the reputation that I would fight back, so that no one would mess with me. The downside is that sometimes you end up having to continually prove yourself at various points in your life.

Violence is not my preferred method of retaliation though - violence in itself does not prove a point, except that I am not willing to be trampled on. It has also backfired on me in the past at times (ex. fracturing my hand while in boot camp from retaliating over getting punched in a stressful moment - the initial punch I took was due to some mythical blame that I was at fault for the platoon getting jacked up). Sometimes you cannot do anything else when a bully attacks you directly - the only thing such people understand is meeting power with power, that is the state of their brutish mind. They don't ascribe to the fundamental premise of mutual respect, even when you have not done anything that should have provoked it. You're just used as an excuse to vent out frustrations over self-deficiencies or failures.

This is why we, the new privileged class of tech, should be doing everything to abet this behavior, and show that we should be welcoming - we should be showing that there is a better way than repeating the same old animalistic behavior in a new form. Behavior like this or what Julie experienced is abhorrent, and commentary should take into account that we are talking about people who have experienced what no one should experience ever.
> the fact that HN did not leap to unwarranted conclusions in this case is something that should be encouraged, not shamed

Well, that it did so using the most banal chauvinistic terms makes it kind of shameful.

> but the modicum of restraint shown is not itself sexism — it's what should be the ideal across the board.

Yes, but the fact that restraint is shown only when women and sexism are involved is in itself sexist (actually, this is not quite true; I seem to recall similar calls to restraint of judgement back when Uber's employees picketed the company).

> I'm not sure how they're supposed to illustrate that she did elaborate on her accusation

They're not. Her accusations of systemic sexism are clearly laid out at the top of the original TechCrunch story, but have been largely ignored in the discussion. The flagging of those two stories is just another example of the commendable (yet strangely exceptional) restraint HN is showing today :)

... aaaand this very article just mysteriously dropped off the front page. Another fine example of admirable (albeit selective) restraint.
Also check out Yehuda's reply, which goes into much more detail: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-March/00909...
It seems like the same situation when Porsche kept buying Volkswagen shares till 2009 and in the end losses.
I am pretty sure even after you graduate and get an OPT, you are still on F1 visa. But the point is 29 months (if you are a STEM major) is enough for your startup to generate some revenue, and then you can apply for H1b (as long as you prove your startup has sufficient fund, your wage from your startup is prevailing wage, and you can be fired from your startup).

If a startup fails, it usually fails quickly. Yes, sometimes a company, like airbnb, went quiet for a very long time before it hit it off, but 29 months are likely enough.