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I have one rule that has served me well.

"When in doubt, go out."

If I ever find myself asking whether I should go to an event/party/meeting and the alternative involves staying home, I go out. It's always the right choice.
Just a crazy idea, but did they try to find out if sudden change of perspective in those who experience the paranormal (like near death experience) CAUSES the digit ratio to change?
"Pipe level neutrality is surely only one layer of a stack."

Is it? Am I missing something? Doesn't net neutrality just guarantee all TRAFFIC equal access at the network level? It doesn't guarantee all APPS equal access to the AppStore, any more than "highway neutrality" (equal access to the highway system) would allow Hyundai to sell its models at a Mercedes dealership...
To go the longest without breathing, I'd be most interested in the nanotech robotic blood 'vasculoid':

http://jetpress.org/volume11/vasculoid.html

Will it be available anytime soon? I'm not holding my breath.
I think the premise is flawed, intuitive analytic is not a contradiction in terms.

I'd be more prone to ascribe said beliefs to dominance of emotion over thought. The way they use the language seems to imply they're trying to scale for the Intuitive vs Sensate side of the personality scale rather than the Thinking vs Feeling side.

I'd find it a lot harder to believe intuition vs sensory information gathering led to higher superstitious belief, and a lot easier to believe that emotional rather than logical evaluation methods are focused in this direction.

Interesting point nonetheless.
Diversity, variations, mutations -- whatever drives "evolutionary systems" (such as markets) has such side-effects -- with many overwhelmingly "positive" consequences too, though.

"why do we need" -- nobody said we do. What you don't need, you don't use. Easy.
You remember those half-angle formulae

sin 2A = 2 sin A cos A

cos 2A = (cos A)^2 - (sin A)^2

If you are happy using sine of small x is x and cosine of small x is 1 as your base cases, you can write sine and cosine as mutually recursive functions:

(defun sin (z)
(if (small z)
z
(* 2
(sin (half z))
(cos (half z)))))

(defun cos (z)
(if (small z)
1
(- (square (cos (half z)))
(square (sin (half z))))))

(sin pi) => 6.167817939221069d-7 quite close to zero
(cos pi) => -1.0012055113842453d0 you can get this
much closer to -1 by using 1-x^2/2 as your base case.

It had never occurred to me to do exponential the same way, as

(defun exp (z)
(if (small z)
(+ 1 z)
(square (exp (half z)))))

So it is a bit of a shock to try it and see it work just fine for complex numbers

(exp (complex 0 pi)) => #C(-1.0012055113842453d0 6.167817939221069d-7)
Been using EngineYard for quite a while now and I'm extremely happy with them. In fact, I had a problem with our production slice last night after a deploy–I hopped into IRC and they fixed it right away.

I have only used Heroku's free plan. I have run into a few small snags that made it unusable for some specific apps (example: couldn't upload high-res images reliably). I really like their management app and technology. I plan to use them for a smaller project soon.

Regarding this quote in the original post:
"but to be honest he’s scared me off with those hundreds of dollars quotes like that’s nothing for a small guy startup like me to pay for hosting."

If you're a small, low-budget, bootstrapping startup then maybe you're comparing the wrong services. I think with Heroku and EnginYard both, you're going to pay a premium over simply getting a nice slicehost slice or SoftLayer server and setting it up yourself.
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Thinking about it again, that last statement seems inaccurate: since the world's population is constantly growing (exponentially, I presume), differences in later generations would have a much higher effect than ones in early generations.

If I am not mistaken, that would also refute the argument that the differences would mostly be due to different circumstances in ancient times.
Keeping money. I actually find it easier to make money than keep it in the long run.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortons_toe
That is a strong statement, and not true for everyone, so I would vote for it not being necessary to know Java.

Until about 3 years ago, I used Common Lisp and Java each roughly 40% in my work (I still think that if you search for "Java consultant" I am the number 1 Google hit :-)

However, after I started using Ruby, I have transitioned to using Ruby for most of my work.

Ruby is great because it provides most of the advantages of Lisp except for the fantastic run time performance (natively compiled Common Lisp is fast!). However, for many (at least web) applications, bottlenecks tend to be stuff like session handling across multiple servers, database access, dealing with network partitioning and server failure, etc.

One problem with Lisp is the lack of a super rich ecology of libraries. Lots of great stuff is available for Lisp, but still weak compared to Ruby, Java, Python, etc. I'm rewriting a customers app right now because we learned what we needed to learn with a small Common Lisp prototype, and are now doing a hopefully final Ruby + Rails rich UI web portal (it is so much easier to write a rich web UI in Rails that in Lisp-based alternatives).

I would advise concentrating on one language and platform, and only spend perhaps 5 to 10 hours a week (an evening and some weekend time) learning new languages and frameworks.

BTW, feel free to substitute Python for Ruby, in my advice to your students - pick a primary language based on which you enjoy using the most. Also, Java as your primary language is fine also, if that suits you.
Wikipedia agrees with you. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apnea: "Blood leaving the lungs is normally fully saturated with oxygen, so hyperventilation of normal air cannot increase the amount of oxygen available."
Nice! I hadn't seen these before. I was actually surprised not to find more similar work when I searched for it, so it's nice to know other people are dealing with the same problems.
> finding creative ways to game the system is how it's done.

And a good way to end a up crook or in jail. Business should be about creating value for both parties involved.
That's correct, but you're putting yourself in a place with other like-minded people and by meeting them in person in that context it gives you an opportunity to get an initial feel for someone to see if you want to continue the relationship further - maybe lunch to share ideas or working on a small project together - pretty soon you're building a real relationship. These meetings would be a starting point not an end point.
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Google hints that it may introduce the format for some other categories, saying it will “increase ... the number of advertisers able to participate.”

http://news.ebrandz.com/google/2009/2939-google-debuts-compa...
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Even if it's a tiny one-week project. It would be helpful to know everything about how they work before you gave them equity.
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your registration process sucks. i've seen so many complaints about it, including ones from me. i don't even know if my university email is still active. adding complexity doesn't add legitimacy.
- you're competing with student loans as a choice of funding; for a student to pick your investment over a student loan it has to be a better offer. For any student that anticipates serious success you'll have a hard time being a better offer in terms of net payout; student loans are painful b/c their payback is frontloaded into the postgraduation years, which are at the point of the lowest lifetime earnings potential...but in net amount 3% of lifetime earnings will be much greater than the total amount of student loan payments.

- most of the really talented individuals won't even need your money, as there's an unbelievable wealth of grants and scholarships and fellowships for the truly exceptional in all walks of life (science, music, athletics, etc.) that they pretty much don't need funding until after they graduate. After graduation they might take you up on the offer but as time passes they become ever-more-likely to be able to raise cheaper funding for whatever they desire

You're making the assumption that the person would choose to use the money on schooling. Student loans come with that terrible string attached. This investment would not.
NS has a really dedicated fan community - it's not surprising that most would preorder the special edition. I did this myself and even if the game never makes it out, I consider it money well spent for the value NS1 gave me, and to give Charlie and co. the opportunity to build NS2.
There's a more interesting correlation in the graph: five of the six most obese countries have an English-speaking majority. Zero of the others do.
I've used TextExpander and Typinator. I'm currently using Typinator because it seems to perform better. I remember I was getting some freeze ups with TE a couple years back (don't know if that's still the case).
Well then let's do a universal vaccine campaign.

Education is a first step towards that. Given the state of things right now, people would avoid their shots and weaken the approach. First we have to get people comfortable with vaccines and get people to stop fighting them because of imagined health issues.
It's so nice to see someone with actual numbers. Keep it up!
With a 0.28% coverage rate, you're not going to do much to stop the spread of the virus; but you can still do a lot to reduce the impact of the virus. Members of high risk groups (mainly pregnant women, people with weakened immune systems, and people with existing respiratory conditions) can be hundreds of times more likely to be hospitalized due to H1N1 -- so vaccinating those specific groups can significantly reduce the impact of H1N1, even if it doesn't reduce the total number of cases significantly.
I got rickrolled :(
There's no genius in this, it's just plain dishonest, and if any restaurant knew you were making fake reservations and then selling them they'd put a stop to it. That you don't think this is obvious blows my mind, and forces me to think you're a dishonest person in general. I can't fathom an honest person not immediately seeing this as wrong.
Thanks for the post. I don't have a job so this is how I find out what people in the industry use, and what's tried and true.

Also pickledonion's articles was how I moved from hosting on an xp home box to Linux.
Never underestimate the power of inertia.
David Blaine and Tim Ferriss, united. The BS in that room must have been so thick you could cut it with a knife.
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Maybe, if I stop learning and creating new things. And I wear jeans and flip flops.
This might be related to FOMO (fear of missing out).
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Great idea. Pictures are worth...

Btw, not a very descriptive title.. perhaps an "infographic" would have helped :)
Well I think the idea is that a mailing list, and by extension, the whole open source project, isn't a one way street. Most people who use open source software contribute in one way or another, whether it's through supporting new users, hacking on the source code, or offering helpful, informed suggestions about the project.

Not to be a Negative Nancy® here, but the problem is that "You're Doing It Wrong." If you're just wanting to get your questions answered without any sort of input to the project, I think perhaps you're missing the spirit.

That's all to say, it's fine for you to do that, but don't expect for it to be a frictionless process. The idea is that you don't do things that way. And most people who aren't (like me) really like the mailing list concept; it's easy, it integrates with something I already use all the time, and it exposes me to things and conversations that are going on really easily.
That's why you have vesting.
In many cases you can send a message to the list without subscribing, but this isn't well documented.

In general I think the problem is just laziness; the people running the project optimize it for themselves (active participants) rather than their users. It doesn't help that the most popular software (Mailman/Pipermail) is mediocre.
> Why are other companies more willing to give you a raise?

Because they don't know what you're currently earning, if you don't tell them.
Somebody else is allergic to Maven! It's not just me!
A handshake and a medal to anybody who can define "devastatingly good."
Not to be a Negative Nancy® here, but the problem is that "You're Doing It Wrong." If you're just wanting to get your questions answered without any sort of input to the project, I think perhaps you're missing the spirit.

Theres more reasons to want to get support for something then your own selfish needs. Maybe you want to start hacking on the project but don't want to step on someone else's toes? Or how about if you're interested in learning about the project to see if it fits your needs (to avoid wasting your and other peoples time later on forcing a square peg into a round hole)?

And asking questions is giving input to the project. If a question keeps coming up, it should be sending you a signal that goes "Hey, this needs some work so that people don't have to spend so much time asking us how it works". I would argue that you're "missing the spirit" if you're arguing that its wrong to only want to ask questions.

but don't expect for it to be a frictionless process. The idea is that you don't do things that way.

Why shouldn't the process be frictionless? Why do you want to make it difficult for people to start using or get help using your software?
You didn't mention micro-usb. I have within one meter of me, devices that require USB type A ("regular"), USB type B ("square"), mini USB, micro USB and an iPhone.
Pareidolia.
Are there 2-23 interesting entrepenurial people who want to grab a beer @ my modest office in SF financial district/northbeach to shoot the shit and talk ideas next Thursday or Friday afternoon, 4-6 PM? I have a couple cold cases that need drinking.

Drop me a line w/your preferred date and a bit about you and I'll get it together if there is interest - BeerInRandomOffice@gmail.com
Taking math classes in school, even at the graduate level, feels like pattern matching to me. On all tests and most homeworks you're expected to stare at a problem long enough until its structure becomes isomorphic to something about which you memorized a theorem. Whether you understand what makes the theorem tick or not is a separate question, but I found a workable test taking strategy in my classes consists of memorizing the theorems that the prof made a big deal about in class, and then just running down the list for each problem.

Research math is more open-ended but the idea is the same. The quantity of genius mathematicians who sit down, a la Newton or Gauss, and invent their own mathematics out of thin air is exceedingly small. Most research in math today, even among the "big" papers, is pretty incremental.
But one nice thing about 30 years is you have the opportunity to get really good at the job.

Or more likely, you get really comfortable and stagnate. Innovation requires a steady flow of ideas from outside the company, and often hiring outsiders is a good way to accomplish that.
For me it's the opposite, a way to overcome my fear of being bored/uncomfortable/annoyed in an environment that I don't control.
Agreed. On Leopard QSB was much faster than spotlight. However, when I upgraded to Snow Leopard, it got 10x slower. Funny thing though... Spotlight got significantly faster. So I'm not using just Spotlight.
Agh, this is such a shortsighted opinion. Guess what: it's not done yet. That's what beta means. When it's done, you can have it for free. Until then, the system supports < demand, so you're gonna have to beg or know someone who knows someone.

It's interesting to me that other company seems to have this problem: when a new startup has a closed beta, people tend to be excited that the company is innovating and testing a new system. When Google rolls out a beta, people get angry because they don't get to play with it yet.

What's annoying to me is that some of the same people panning Wave for being useless are also criticizing the slow invite process: You can't say cake sucks, AND be pissed you can't have any yet! (note: this is not directed specifically at your comment, it's just something I've noticed in general.)
And here I thought the title of this submission was the opener to a geek-oriented comedy routine.
"It is highly unlikely that whatever Jennings is suffering from now had anything to do with the flu vaccine she received in August. Unfortunately, this is not stopping irresponsible news coverage or exploitation by anti-vaccinationists... Jennings has now inserted herself in to the anti-vaccine movement, and is using her own case to 'warn about the dangers of vaccines.'"

We need a vaccine to cure ignorance...
Yeah, what ever happened to railsapphosting.com?
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This is a valid point, and a helpful one also.

Keep in mind that I'm already ruling out people with substantial established track records of prior accomplishment, leaving you with:

- people mid 30s or older without any kind of track record to speak of (UNLIKELY TO BE A GOOD INVESTMENT!)

- kids in the 18-25 y/o bracket, eg old enough to sign a contract but not-yet with a track record

So if we have someone 18-25 with a tangible track record (eg: successful software / website / invention / artistic performance record / etc.) they're out of the picture; we're left with 18-25 y/o's with promise but nothing else.

In most fields it's not impossible to pull off a huge success without the training acquired in at least an undergraduate program but it's very unlikely in most scientific fields (and if you were the type who could do it you'd probably also already have enough of a tangible track record that you'd not really be part of the group we're considering atm anyways).

EG: you're almost certainly not going to do anything significant in biology or medicine or chemistry or engineering or materials science or semiconductors or optoelectronics (and even football and basketball) without the training usually acquired as an undergrad (let alone in grad school).

So yeah: the money not being tied to college would have its appeal but putting on the investor's hat for a second someone without a plan for acquiring that level of training looks like a bad bet unless there are further mitigating factors.

Which is why I think the assumption is still mostly warranted, even if it shouldn't be taken for granted (as it was in my previous response).

But, what is helpful is this points in the direction of selecting candidates who would benefit from this program: musicians and other artists.

In many musical + artistic genres a couple hundred upfront in exchange for a cut of lifetime earnings is much better than the deal they typically get now. There's not necessarily a ton of fledgling artists out there who'd actually be good investments but it's a niche where the offer may make a fair amount of sense from both sides.

Essentially you should be asking: what potentially-highly-remunerative "career paths" are (a) open to people in their early-mid 20s and (b) such that star talents exist and (c) such that star talents would find this type of investing a better option than their existing funding options.
now you've got six problems :) (http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)
That's odd. It runs just fine for me on Snow Leopard. I still miss Gnome Do + Docky on Linux, though. It's the one instance where an open source Linux app outdoes anything UX- and design-wise on OS X.
Email has been around for a while. People really like it. Older hackers (Torvalds) seem to in particular. I ignored it too. But I'm realizing the best conversations happen over it.

A lot of older internet users generally use lists (or private mail) for discussion. They also tend smarter. Like most scientist email and only a fraction blog. I don't think that's a bug. Probably better to extend email than force another medium.

Last time someone on HN asked about favorite lists it got nil response. Hope that was a fluke. But a good one is the Linux Kernel list. Intense. I don't code. But I'm learning a lot about how big projects get done.
Actually I meant micro when I said mini. I'm not even sure what miniusb is.
"you yourself are being sexist for assuming that a man would be so irrational and illogical for the sake of gender discrimination." Pretty much.

Meh. You're being dramatic.

>man up
Reason #562 newspapers are doomed: One of them bought this...
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"When in doubt, go out."

Words to live by!
> But anyway, as long as it's not illegal, I don't see what the problem is.

It's thinking like that that makes most people not like Wall Street and businessmen in general. Legal and illegal and right and wrong and not the same thing. Being ethical doesn't just mean following the law, it means following the spirit of the law and not doing things other would perceive as wrong, regardless of the law. It's wrong to cut in line, but it's not illegal, that doesn't mean you should do it. It's wrong to be rude and insulting for no reason to a stranger, but it's not illegal, that doesn't mean you should do it or that it's OK to do it.
Here's a better venue: http://superhappydevhouse.org/SuperHappyDevHouse35

I've met my current and previous startup founders at these series of events. However, I've never gone there with the intention of finding a co-founder.
Interestingly, some of you find this disturbing. Out of curiosity, if we work backwards from the percentage of annual income taken, what percentage of you does the government own?
"Reduces the value of." That would be a value judgement (not to mention a glittering generality if applied to all geriatrics).

Well let's say "usefulness". What is the value of 60 years of experience? Depends on the experiences, and the context. A woodworker's skills don't age, so long as they're maintained by practice. Programming language (non-algorithmic) skills age exponentially faster. For really complex problems, like human ones, an understanding of the dimensions of life and its complexities is never big enough; thus long experience lends greater perspective.

I've found that whenever I think I know something about someone I don't know, that illusion goes away once I get to know them ... unless their 'life' has consisted of nothing but being 'useful'.
Contact me offline and I can help you with this. email is in my profile.
I strongly believe in vaccines. I get a seasonal flu vaccine almost every year, just to spare the risk of a few days' misery/seclusion.

But, I wouldn't be first in line for any new vaccine. Anything that's rushed, and anything that's new, has added risks.
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Zarathu, the point is that it IS irrational and illogical--that's why it's a problem. It comes from the subconscious. Which is why so many people took offense when I brought it up... in their conscious mind they're not gender biased, but when they think about it, perhaps my more "feminine" accomplishments wouldn't be as interesting to these male evaluators as more "masculine" accomplishments. It makes perfect logical sense, so I don't understand why I'm being attacked for bringing up the possibility of subconscious gender preferences.

In fact, your comment merely reinforces your gender bias, which I'm guessing many of your peers also hold.

"man up" ? Are you saying a man wouldn't get upset about gender discrimination? A bunch of men got VERY upset from the mere mention of gender discrimination--tried to put me down for suggesting it and told me to quiet down about it. Imagine if you were ACTUALLY discriminated against! What would you do?