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10,000 hour rule is a rule of thumb, a saying, and a wonderfully fantastic one at that. It's stunningly simple, I think that's what makes it so compelling. It's basically the phrase "practice makes perfect" modernized. Of course it's not 100% true, but for most people it's excellent advice. The advice is basically "keep practicing, keep pushing yourself, seek good instruction, try to get feedback from people who know what they're doing".

My argument is that 10,000 hour rule has become the "practice makes perfect" of today. Just like a lot of sayings passed down from generation to generation it's not 100% true, but to nitpick it is beyond useless, it's harmful. Why not tell people to try really hard at whatever they'd like to be good at? What's the alternative... don't try hard, because there's a small chance you won't get good at it despite your best efforts? That's senseless. I'm sorry, I think your criticism is harmful. 10,000 hour rule as it is exchanged today between people, in the kind of Gladwell narrative (which may not be scientifically valid 100%), is advice that's easy to internalize, and motivates people to try hard really well. I hate to see it being shot down by this kind of bikeshedding. Because apparently, at least to me, the only other alternative is gutless, feckless defeatist, overly-cautious "be warned that even if you try, you're not going to succeed". Screw that, I'd rather fail after trying really hard than to not having tried at all.
> At the moment netflix is 50% of internet bandwidth.

> If that could be delivered from a CDN within the ISP, that takes a majority of traffic off the congested pipes and leaves enough room for all the current demand with quite a bit of overhead.

For how long?

Every year the hardware vendors come out with faster equipment which makes bandwidth cheaper which causes people to use more. If they won't upgrade the interconnects then all removing Netflix does is buy a little time until the interconnect gets saturated again. When that happens you can't remove the Netflix traffic again, so someone else will be forced to pay, who will be smaller than Netflix and therefore their paying the danegeld will buy even less time for everyone else.
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Notice the "startsWith" function. It has nothing to do with "Windows 9" and everything to do with Windows 95 and 98
>And the "10,000 hour rule" is worse than just a trivial factoid. It is a recipe for disappointment. If you tell someone that, despite their initial lack of talent, they can be "superb" at anything they want, and 10,000 hours later they are still mediocre at best, don't you think it would be frustrating to have wasted that much time?

Are there any real-world examples that we can point at of people who actually did spend 10,000 hours at something and did not become superb at it?

In Malcolm Gladwell's book, he tried to find piano players who had spent 10,000 hours practicing and then given up (having never made it to the professional scene) but he couldn't find any.
Huh, every story I had heard so far involved the account getting reported by another user.
> I expect Eve will have an open architecture? So that those of us that like to plumb the depths can play too.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8397747 :)
probably not. doesn't windows 7 identify itself as windows 6.1? they can report whatever string they want to this api call, it doesn't have to exactly correspond to the marketing name.

call it "windows9" with no space and it doesn't collide with any startsWith("Windows 9") calls.
The test is whether you use that pseudonym in real life, where "real life" generally means "not the Internet". Note that there's an implicit judgement here that online interactions are fundamentally different from offline ones, which might not necessarily be accurate, but that's been part of Facebook's approach to social networking from day one.

I have no idea how'd you actually enforce this though. I can't think of a robust way to tell whether "Star-Lord" is how you introduce yourself on a first date or just your preferred pseudonym while playing video games.
Working on getting these onto the website, but wanted to drop a few for the HN community here:

http://cl.ly/XpGt/Screen%20Shot%202014-10-01%20at%203.41.09%...

http://cl.ly/XozQ/Screen%20Shot%202014-10-01%20at%203.41.30%...

http://cl.ly/Xpl2/Screen%20Shot%202014-10-01%20at%203.42.00%...
same thing happened with Opera 10. you were notified that your browser is 'too old'
The point is that checking of the OS name starts with "Windows 9" is a common thing that apps did.

Its not about Microsoft logic, its about breaking existing apps.

They are badly written, but the only person who will pay is the user, not the dev.
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There are many ways that could have dealt with this problem that wouldn't have involved changing the name of the product as it appears in on the box. It's silly to think that this is the reason for skipping version 9. They did that for marketing reasons.
Broader search:

https://searchcode.com/?q=startsWith%28%22windows+9%22%29
No, I was completely sober for a few years after kicking all the hard stuff. I acquired a taste for marijuana relatively recently, and while I do smoke quite a bit nowadays, I don't think of it as a coping tool, just something I do for fun when I have time to kill.
Ask HN: Error when adding contacts: Sync.ContactTrigger
Does anyone know how to fix this issue when adding a contact?

See below for error message:
sync.contactTrigger: execution of AfterInsert caused by: line 8, column 9: trigger body is invalid and failed recompilation: Dependent class is invalid and needs recompilation
Nicely noticed :)
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The cover price of the nytimes print is $2.50 and $6 on Sunday.

It's gone up a lot in the past decade, I remember when it was $1, I think. Although I am having surprising trouble finding historical single-issue or subscription print prices on the web.

But I think people used to pay hundreds of dollars a year for print subscriptions, even back when the weekday cover price was only $1. Of course, there was less competition for world news pre-internet, but, as much as I'm unwilling to pay those prices either, I also understand that there's no way they can keep producing the same coverage on orders of magnitude less income.
Some people have more than one real name. Heck, I know people with three or four plausible "real names."
The US and Russia cooperated on a program to do this in space in order to stop a asteroid from destroying the planet. Bruce Willis led the mission.
It may not be clear from the above summary that the "How to critique" link discusses this blood test and why it's probably wrong. I really recommend reading it - it's pretty convincing.

One other thing, looking at the original paper, the affected RNAs look pretty random. I'd find it more convincing if these RNAs suggested some possible connection to depression, e.g. if they were for brain receptors rather than spleen genes or generic metabolism genes. Of course the body is complicated and anything could possibly affect depression...
A possible answer to Fermi that I don't hear often: that there's plenty of life in the universe, but it's long-lived, and very, very slow.

If you assume that intelligence inevitably separates from its physical substrate into some form of persistent data, this is the logical way to get around the light-speed limit: you go dormant and simply wait the thousand years it takes to get a reply, or the hundred-thousand years it takes to arrive at a new solar system.

Such intelligences would only interested in speaking to other "Space Ents" (anything else must seem like a fruit fly in comparison), and it's prohibitively expensive to saturate the galaxy with signal, so maybe you send targeted pings at promising worlds every few thousand years. Maybe that's the Wow! signal [1]. Or maybe we just haven't been around long enough to get our first hello.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
We took it out because it's obviously baity. "Kill you" is enough bait for one title.

Edit: My mistake; we'll put it back.

Edit 2: Now that this thread has subsided, there was another reason why I edited the title that way.

Ever since I read Cialdini's "Influence" I've been sensitive to the dismaying evidence that publishing suicides encourages some people to kill themselves. I felt uneasy having a title blaring the word "Suicides" about a tragic story—in the startup world, especially—on HN's front page. No doubt the Werther Effect is small, but this is a law-of-large-numbers situation, so I'd rather over-react than under-react.

If anyone happens to be having suicidal thoughts around here: please tell someone. If you don't have anyone to tell, tell me. My email is in my profile.
Windows 7 identifies itself as "Windows 7" when you ask for its name. It reports 6.1 as its kernel number, yes. But its name is still the string "Windows 7".

If someone looks up the OS name instead of the kernel number, the app will behave badly.
> Mostly people who know of the 10,000 hours rule don't embody it as being the cold, hard, dry truth,

Eh, the granularity of the measurement tends to indicate the confidence of the possible deviation from the given measurement. Giving a so-called rule in hours sounds much more hard and fast than simply giving it in the form of something like years.
Epidemiologcially, similar symptoms that progress to different outcomes is one of the key tools in understanding the underlying mechanisms of a disease, so to say "you can't reliably classify based on outcomes" is incorrect. Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't, and it is always worth asking the question "how come?" when you get very different outcomes from the same disease-causing agent.

In the general case there are four possibilities:

1) the different outcomes arise because of a difference in the individuals involved (this is useful for exploring treatment options: is there any way to make people with bad outcomes more closely resemble people with good outcomes?)

2) the different outcomes arise because of a difference in the disease-causing agent (this is useful when allocating treatment resources and preparing patients if the outcome is likely to be bad.)

3) some interaction between the first two factors

4) some other external factor is at play (you're a smoker, another patient is not.)

As I mentioned in another comment, I've done work on cancer genetics where the goal was to find out why some patients with what appeared to be the same disease "simply fell apart" (in the words of one of the physicians) while others lived relatively long and healthy lives). There certainly was a belief that we could classify the disease based on the outcome, and that belief motivated some fairly difficult research, but no one called it unreasonable because we had similar examples in the literature (Kahn's work on small round blue cell carcinoma being a famous case in point: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1867426/)

So: when you have populations with different outcomes, it is both reasonable and routine to ask if you have different conditions, despite superficial similarities in clinical presentation.
Just FYI it's made by a 7th grader.
And that's just the open source stuff...
Haha! Your Alibaba subsidiary made me laugh! Well, Amazon is giving them a good completion. But the power of PP really has Ebay off the charts for now
As someone with a history of chronic sinus problems (which were really just the tip of the iceberg -- an indicator of much more serious problems, actually), I can well imagine ...a connection here between deteriorating sense of smell and underlying serious health problems. As my health improves, so does my sense of smell.

I don't feel like I am saying this very well. Let's try this: If someone goes blind or has other significant visual impairments, we typically take that seriously as a big deal and then may look for underlying causes, but the loss of sense of smell tends to not be treated quite the same way.
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I wish they linked to the chart or study that provided that info, instead of just saying "a study". I had to go digging to find this https://www.sandvine.com/downloads/general/global-internet-p...
Here is one addiction I wish I could grow out of: benzos and other benzo like drugs such as Ambien (zolpidem). I've been on them for almost 9 years, and they are unbelievably hard to quit. I take them for my insomnia. I don't have to take much (10mg of Ambien for example), but without them I'll lay awake in bed for 8 hours not getting any sleep. I've done all the sleep hygiene stuff such as CBT or forced sleep deprivation, but it doesn't seem to work.

I've been through various doctors, and I'm seeing a psychiatrist right now to deal exclusively with the sleep issue. Apparently my GABA receptors are shot from taking these drugs for so long. Unfortunately I have but two real choices: taper quickly from the Ambien and deal with 3-6 weeks of little or no sleep, or do a slow taper with Valium which only has a 20% success rate.

Not sleeping for days really, really sucks.
Amazon tried and failed once before.
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I think you're misusing the term "addiction". Addiction is destructive compulsive behavior.

I don't think it's very helpful in this conversation to talk about addictions as being Buddhist-like "attachments"--that is a completely separate topic. Addiction treatment isn't necessarily about controlling compulsion, it's about controlling destructive compulsion.
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> readership is easily measured

This is probably a big part of the problem. Online ad revenues aren't going to equal those for print, simply because there is so much more visibility into targeting, reach and conversions. Thus, advertisers have a much better idea of the value of an impression/click, and can price accordingly, rather than indiscriminately shot-gunning eyeballs as in print.

Entrenched cost structures contribute to the problem, but the fact is that paying a professional staff to produce quality content every day costs a lot of money, and online there are fewer dollars coming in per reader, even if the total audience is much larger. The exception to this downward trend is if you have content catering to highly lucrative niches such as insurance or banking (although I don't know how these compare to similarly placed print ads).

Premium video has a similar problem; advertising revenue is unsustainable for anything other than indie YouTube shows. The broadcast TV model could never work on the Internet.

At least, that's my theory.
We quickly realized that bacteria have evolved to eat oil, so it wasn't quite as big of an environmental disaster as first expected. I would not expect radiation to improve the situation at all.
Now imagine a troll reporting every furry or LGBTQ user he can find.
Most of the choices you make aren't conscious. They come from you but in the sense that you're an amalgam.

Many of your behaviors are effectively semi-autonomous reactions perched inside you.
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Rules may be simple, but adherence to them is not. For some, it may be impossible. Consider the first 2 rules of dating:

1. Be attractive
2. Don't be unattractive

The rule for winning is simply to score more points than the other team. Immortality is governed by the simple rule: Stay alive

None of these are simple processes, and it diminishes the discourse to treat them as such. I am thankful for your counterexample to my challenge, but I'm not convinced that, if asked sincerely about how you have managed your recovery from addiction, you could possibly sincerely respond: I simply grew out of it.
right, well-written apps should ask for version number, which would be 6.x. The question is how to handle the wealth of poorly written apps out there?

Especially keeping in mind that poorly written != useless/bad, at least not always.
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It sounds like your version of AI has a way of getting power to run itself for nothing. I disagree with that premise. Marketing is raising interest through some means. Shipping costs are how much energy it takes to get to another point in space.

> My problem with your answer is that it lifts market economy from something completely irrelevant to the level of physical laws.

I don't actually think you have a problem with what I'm saying, but I definitely do think you have a problem with the topic. It is upsetting to think about AI 'taking over' and my points only served to discuss the path by which it might or might not be able to do that. At the end of the day it will it competing for resources with us. It doesn't get to do that for free anymore than we do.
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i suggest you investigate the side effects of corexit that have emerged since the incident
Does your home screen look different?

http://i.imgur.com/FBBIYLR.png
Or maybe all signals are encrypted and compressed, and look like noise. Like most of our signals currently do.
It is. Allowing international students to study "for free", is generally seen as an investment into getting more highly qualified immigrants as these students may stay in Germany or even if they leave after studying, they will probably retain some contact helping improve international relations.

Considering how Germany is developing demographically this is definitely necessary.

Also you have to keep in mind that we are talking primarily about fixed costs here. Having a few additional students, won't really change the costs. Apart from that living in Germany they will inevitably pay taxes, they will have to pay for health insurance etc. so at least in part they do indirectly pay for their tuition.
>Pretending we have the same abilities perpetuates the myth that people can help themselves if they just try hard enough.

This seems like an absurd conclusion. It is so generic. This issue with abilities only really makes sense when you have a specific goal that requires a specific ability or set of abilities to achieve. Generically concluding that people cannot help themselves by trying harder is crazy. Sure, there are specific cases but this conclusion is generic and therefore incorrect.

It seems that either I or the author really misunderstand this 10,000 rule. My understanding was always that I cannot truly master something without 10,000 hours of practice. This is very, VERY different than saying I can master anything with 10,000 hours. I believe my understanding is the popular take?

I always think of Harrison Bergeron when I read things like this.
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My observation as a musician is that most musicians plateau at a certain point, based on their inherent talents, and their gains after that point are much more marginal.

Many people do continue to study in earnest (and invest a lot of time into "deliberate practice") after hitting this plateau, in an effort to make bigger gains. Though many will instead choose to make music a more recreational part of their life, and move onto other things as their life's primary focus.

But I think it's severe confirmation bias to say "everyone who is good put in 10k hours, and few people make it to 10k hours without being really good." Because the only counterexample to that is someone who continues practicing intensely for 10k hours without seeing noticeable gains. And why would someone do that (unless they are chasing the siren of the 10k hour rule)?
So MS fixed Windows 9x (remember y2k? :-) ) problem by renaming its new OS as Windows 10? Jokes apart, Imagine if they had to release a patch for that or for god sake, a new OS :-)
I already made that point in my first comment. Sorry if it wasn't clear.
>Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't, and it is always worth asking the question "how come?"

That's why I said 'reliably'. It's a great tool but it's not an oracle, and wuliwong was very heavily implying it's enough.
Yes, that was more or less my point. I'm wary of analyses of addiction that try to conflate every survivor's experience into a single, monolithic thing. There are similarities, to be sure, but it's more complex than most people realize.
Along somewhat similar lines, my own date/time-parsing library for golang:
https://github.com/bcampbell/fuzzytime

I wrote it to parse dates and times in news articles and blog posts. Still a work-in-progress, but someone might find it useful!
I'm embarrassed on Microsoft's behalf for that video.
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