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Thanks for the awesome reply. I'll go through one by one.

* Listing the schools is a great idea. I'll do this immediately.

* Yes, the site's value does depend on the number of active users. We launched at Yale and right now half of the student body is actively using it to choose courses...but other schools haven't seen the same success. I'm a horrible designer (and I'm kicking myself constantly because of it) and I'm aware of the unattractive landing. I'll try to make it less of a walled garden, because no one likes walled gardens.

* Something novel is definitely needed. Whether or not Gradifi succeeds, that remains to be seen.

BTW, could I shoot you an email?
maybe he just likes being in control?
Not just possible, probable. There's a reason why most of them are called starving artists.
Or, to reframe the question for the startup crowd, what is the average wage that a typical high-tech entrepreneur makes, considering hours invested/sale price of the business?
Perhaps. But it might not be pleasant to the eye.
V Australia (a new Australia-USA airline) planes have this feature. The lighting inside the plane varies depending on the time of 'day' they want you to think it is. They often ask to have the window shades closed to enhance the effect. The colours aren't completely natural - they range from a deep blue (daylight) to an orange (sunset/sunrise) to a purple-blue (nightime). It's all done gradually and very subtle.

Subjectively it helped me to adjust to the different timezone during the flight, but it might have just been the 'hey, neato' factor as well.
Can you elaborate? I have no idea why IT rank-and-file, specifically, would be scared of SarbOx.
Thanks for catching this, Cory. I've updated the Freebase DB, it'll take a bit to freshen the caches. I probably ought to convert back the $FFFF codes from FB, although it seems to work fine...
http://www.codinghorror.com/craigslist/
If you think that was the idea of the New Deal you don't really understand the economics behind it. The idea is infrastructure improvement such that money is put back into circulation but improvement of concrete (and greater) value is actually produced.
Funny, I am a co-founder of a HW startup working in the LED space. One of our core patents is based on the concept of 'Polychromatic LED Light.' Our low-cost high-efficiency intelligent LED controls are designed to reproduce the full natural spectrum of lighting - more like natural sunlight than ever before possible.

Incandescents do generate high quality light but they too fall short at reproducing natural sunlight. Unfortunately because Incandescents were dominant for so long the industry has established a color rendering index (CRI) based on a black-body radiator which considers incandescent to be perfect even though it actually falls far short.

Fluorescents and Compact fluorescents produce horrible light as a result of the phosphor coating used to create white light. LEDs can be much better, though admittedly not all are.

All in all LED lighting is the future for a whole host of reasons. I can't wait to replace fluorescents and CFL which, as a result of their mercury content, are one of the most environmentally toxic 'green technologies' ever developed.

Just my, clearly biased, $0.02 :)
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My reaction seems to be less enthusiastic than most people's. I think that if you can graduate in two years, you should have gone to a school that was more challenging to you.

This is probably a result of my own college experiences. I coasted through high school pretty easily (eg, doing tomorrow's calculus homework in class while it was still being explained). Then I went to a pretty good college, with a bunch of other people who were skilled enough to coast through college.

I got my ass handed to me. We all got our collective ass handed to us. It was humbling. It was also glorious. A year-long back-of-the-room calculus class was turned into a very engaging first 2/3 of a half-semester calculus class. Then, a year's worth of math at that pace was compressed again into six weeks of summer school thick enough to kill a man. I didn't put in extra effort learning beyond my classes, because the classes themselves kept me up til four in the morning.[1]

So, in short, I agree with the title of the post, you should be learning/acting at your level, not below it. However, I disagree with the main corollary of the post, which is that school is insufficient to reach that level, and you should buck the system because it's not good enough. There are schools good enough. I think it's better to find the appropriate system than to buck a normal one, because you have a much more support.[2] Slamming through four math courses in a month is a lot easier when you have four professors and a dozen peers who are all on the same page as you. You also happen to learn a lot about teamwork and collaboration that you might not by going solo.

[1] Which is not to say that every waking second was spent working; I covered 6 seasons of Deep Space Nine and 4 seasons of Babylon 5 in a year. Rest is more important than sleep.

[2] The better support is also self-reinforcing of the quality of the peers. If there are students performing below the bar, a school that can raise those students up doesn't have as great a need to lower the bar for them.
Depends on where on the timeline, what exactly you mean by high-tech entrepreneur, and the experience of said entrepreneur.

$1.50 per hour isn't uncommon.
I recently fitted all new lighting in my home. I looked at LED lighting, but the salesman was quite honest with me and said that at this point, unless you double the amount of fittings, you're going to be dissapointed. It's not so much the light output but rather the angle of the light - you end up with little star trek beams all over the place.

I bought some CFL spotlights and fitted them into the bathrooms, but I don't like the light quality - it reminds me of an airline toilet. I fitted plain 'ol inefficient halogens to the kitchen, and it's by far the most pleasant lighting in the house. CFL replacements went into all the other fittings.

I haven't noticed any difference in my power bills at all. I suspect that might be to do with the 13 kw air conditioner, pool pump, at least 6 computers running, plasma tv, tivo, exhaust and ventilation fans and exterior lighting. Interior lighting is such a small part of the total energy use in a lot of modern houses.
I agree that the Apple tablet thing is funny.

But.. The Kindle prediction is I think more about convergence then any specific Kindle killer. Will the average train passenger in 2015 own a Dell, a Chromebook, an ?? tablet, an iphone and a Kindle?

All of those four seem like they would be higher on an average person's shopping list. All four can be used to to Kindle like things. All four are getting better at doing Kindle like things. All four have the potential to introduce killer features that Kindle probably can't match. If someone already has 3 of the above, will they still get a Kindle?

What I think this type of thinking fails to consider is price. Kindle's might reach a point of 'perfection' pretty soon. IE, new models don't make old models obsolete, maybe. Kindle doesn't need more hard disk, memory, processing power. It's job stay the same. This means that Moore's Law and it's cousins can work on bringing down the price rather then improving the product. If the Kindle was $69, and marginally nicer to read some things on, regular people might still get one.
Heh. This reminds me of my real analysis course.

The first day of class he handed out our coursework for the semester. I asked if it was OK to hand in homework early. He said it was. The next class I handed in the first 3 days of homework. The following I handed in 3 more. The third class I said there didn't seem to be much point in my being there, did he mind if I just handed in the homework?

A few weeks later when I walked into another course I was taking with a lot of the same people a lot of them started congratulating me. I was puzzled. They explained that one had asked whether I was dropping the class since I hadn't been going and so they heard that I was actually taking the final exam that day.

I did the follow-up course the following month. :-)

Another time I taught my brother the basics of differential calculus in about half an hour or so. Well enough that he was able to go into a course that had that as a prerequisite and he managed to ace that course.

So yes, the difference between what we are asked to do and what we can do is pretty large.
Ez7z. Costs $3.
So....now they're on par with GamerSafe, except they don't have the placement advantage of being operated by the FGL people.
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What about what I said do you disagree with?
Palm ruled while the market was a marginal market with huge future potential. Now that handhelds are an everybody product & a huge market, palm is marginal.
The moment Apple makes an API method public, they make a commitment that the API will be supported, unchanged, and maintained in the future. Any API creator must make careful decisions in that regard. You don't want to support something that you might want to change.

Other factors that might affect such a decision:

- Is the API method potentially volatile, from a hardware usage standpoint? Will it appropriately use the system's resources? (Or the cell network's?)

- Is this method hackish? Is "this" the way we want to expose such an interface to developers for years to come?

And, of course, Apple probably wants to keep the magic to themselves for some tasks. They want the upper hand, and generally speaking, there's nothing legally wrong with that.

Someone once wondered, "Why doesn't Apple just let us use private APIs with the understanding that they might change?" For one, apps might break. And then Apple would have to decide whether they want to continue selling a broken app in the store, or instead keep the API and the potential burdens/other issues associated with it.
It's a shame the general public doesn't care about privacy. Even techies use AT&T despite their involvement with the NSA's secret spy program.

[ source: http://news.cnet.com/AT38T-sued-over-NSA-spy-program/2100-10... ]
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Weird, I had assumed he'd be almost impossible to reach unless you're Somebody(tm).
They'll probably get there eventually, but considering that CFLs are only just now starting to become legit replacements for some incandescent bulbs---the light quality in a house that went all-CFL during the first big pushes a few years back is appalling---I wouldn't hold my breath.
I was watching that show when that question aired. At the time I thought it was a joke, because the flute sample didn't sound like that much like the original kookaburra song. But if the information came from the songwriters themselves, well...

Personally I hope this fails. And I regret now having that song stuck in my head.
troff did not produce beautiful typeset mathematics, nor did it even pretend to deal with fonts.
This gives me some great ideas on a first project, thanks!
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And even when it makes sense it can be pretty damned tedious. (Of course, for the "joke" to be anything other than self-indulgent the reference can't be all that obscure, so what's the point?)

The convergence of "geek culture" and "internet culture" is one of my big complaints. lolcats were funny for about 5 minutes.
Not really. Twitter is microblogging. TeX greatly expanded the quality and re-usability of very difficult typeset documents.
Very big congratulations to HeyZap - I had a chance to meet the team a bit ago, and they're all very sharp. Seems like they're exploiting a space that's wide open and waiting for innovation. I'm pretty excited to see where they go in the near future.
Server-side Javascript frameworks seem to be in the midst of a Cambrian explosion right now.

I just pushed my own today:

http://github.com/jed/fab/
FYI he went to the Berklee school of music. There isn't a better music school in the country. (Other subjects it is mediocre to non-existent in. Musically it is top notch.)
Are real numbers uncountable?
Ask HN: How do you start a blog?
A blog is similar to many other undertakings, such as start-ups or coding projects. Is there some common process for taking a newly-created blog to a good one? A list of common blogging conventions? Ways to ensure that a blog will not be forgotten and molder in the dust for months?

(Suggestions for why I shouldn't start a blog are good too)
Their CFL lifetime numbers don't match my experience. (I typically get longer life from incandescents than CFLs.)

Also, they assume that energy converted to heat is wasted. If you're heating a lit room, that's obviously not true. Yes, many forms of heat are cheaper than resistive, but if you're going to claim to be the last word, you have to account for things like that.
Twitter has very little to do with science. Donald Knuth produces science.
Wow, neck-breaking pace there. Alas reading about it doesn't help become like this. Ideas?
Rule number 1 is to write, write, and keep writing.

You'll figure out your style and your stride with a ton of practice. The biggest thing that people do wrong is that they don't write enough.
Wireless terminals have been available for a long time. Verifone has sold thousands of wireless terminals with a built-in GPRS and ethernet. You can easily find them for less then $200 and are purpose built for retail.

http://www.verifone.com/countertop/vx510.aspx

The last thing I want to do is to hand my $699 iPhone over to a customer, especially with a usb attachment or delicate accessory in it's headphone jack....
I'm not a BSD user, but /bin/ping is SUID on linux. Is it also SUID on BSD?
There's a good exploration of how SMB World 1-1 teaches you how to play the game, here:

http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=465
"Stop building lame business applications"
It's not the only group of people interested in the subject of getting more women involved in the traditionally-male building trades occupations. If you want to find more on the subject, you can Google for it yourself.
I don't care about privacy in general. I do care about asymmetry of privacy. Although it would be a radically different world to the one we currently live in, I think I would actually be quite ok with the idea of everyone having access to the GPS data, all the time.
I'd love to see some numbers for nginx + passenger.
I'm pretty sure a lot of the money goes to: http://craigslistfoundation.org/

I'm also pretty sure they only charge when the community begs for it (apartment listings in major cities, as a barrier to keep out spam) and are legally obligated (escort services, http://www.seattlepi.com/business/386655_craigslist07.html)
Make sure you have something to say/have some expertise on a subject.
Ask HN: Make sense for me to upload data for companies or should company?
I'm providing a service for companies to access my website and upload their website data. Its not a lot of info, and the data doesn't change once its been finalized.

I asked a friend what he thinks about me offering the companies 'parent-child access' so they can distribute the 'permissions' among themselves in the same company. For example, with 'parent-child access', then the graphics guy can upload the images, the secretary can upload the data and the boss can be in control of ALL the data. He said I should do all the work!

Does it make sense for them to upload the data? Is it putting me in a bad position?

If I need them to join my website (maybe or maybe not more than they need me) should I be offering to upload this data for them? There will be some data that I will not have access to until some uploads it.

How do you look at a company that asks you to do all the work? Is it wrong? How far do companies have to go for their clients even if they both need each other?
That's why there has to be warrantless wiretaps.
Can you imagine the paperwork of having to fill out a warrant for these 8million pre-criminals, it would cause terrible writers cramp.
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I agree with this.

And don't worry if you suck at first, because nobody is going to read it! [at first]
>in reply to a deleted post about legality tested in court

No because it never gets to court, it's just 'background' -

Do you take short-cut through a bad neighbourhood regularly to avoid congestion - then it's worth keeping an eye on you as a possible drug dealer. they don't need to use the GPS evidence, but you might be pulled over for a 'broken stoplight' and a quick search occasionally.
I think you need to pick some kind of theme. It doesn't need to be overly narrow or specific but I think to be successful you can't just willy-nilly talk about everything under the sun that strikes your fancy.

A reason to not start a blog: If you don't have clear boundaries and/or you are not very Net-savvy, the risk of getting fired from your job/losing your love interest/getting arrested/etc for something you stupidly posted for the entire world to see may be inordinately high.
Deleting the browser is better than ie6...
I bet on your #2. There is a lot of money being pocketed in the media market in form of incentives. It's only natural they want to hold on to their jobs.
Heat generated by a lightbulb is near the ceiling where air is probably not being well circulated. So unless you are installing fans around the base of your bulbs to move the warm air around the room where it would be useful to the inhabitants, it is mostly wasted. This is assuming that the heat is even desirable.
This is a problem I've personally never understood well. Of all fields, the CS (I mean "software") field seems particularly eager to have female representation. Women generally score well in math and logic tests, perform well in school, etc. Anecdotally some of the better students in my CS undergrad coursework were female. In some industries (e.g. gaming), getting women into the development side of things would revolutionize the industries by opening the market to 50% of the population by producing products that cater to that demographic.

It just seems that fewer women enjoy doing the kinds of things you have to do to be successful in this particular field than in some other.

That's not to say there aren't women who participate in the field, but I've found, anecdotally, that they tend to view it as paycheck instead of passion (and maybe not insignificantly, the lions share appear to come from Asian countries with those country's concepts of work ethics and good jobs fueling most of those women). I think there are far more males who, for whatever reason, feel passionate about learning to build software.

Related, I've found anecdotally that most "geek girls" I've met are not as much into the substance of geekdom as they are into the image of geekdom. I've met lots of women with Pac Man t-shirts and binary watches at Anime festivals who couldn't give a rats ass about clock cycle counts for MOV operations on different revisions of the 80486 chips, but I've met lots of guys in the same clothing who owned aged dog-eared copies of Intel's multi-thousand page CPU Guidebooks (and read them for escapism).

For guys, seeing another guy dressed out of the ThinkGeek catalogue is a powerful signal of relevant knowledge, an ice-breaker of sorts as to how to relate. While there certainly are real geek women, their cultural appearance doesn't necessarily provide the same signaling. So when a geek chick shows up, the conversation switches basically to something less geeked out (at least in my experience) out of politeness.

I suppose this has two sides to it, the geek chick isn't then immersed into the kinds of topical discussions about xyz algorithm so she doesn't learn about it which cascades into never really getting as good as the boys, but to the boys, they learned about this on their own, in isolation, because they enjoyed it, and can't understand why anybody has to really be "coached" into becoming a geek.

full disclosure, I met my wife in a programming course, and she most definitely looks at it as paycheck
Yup, it's the Montgomery Blair High School Magnet Program - it's in Silver Spring, Maryland. The funding cuts are kind of hurting it, but it's a very good education, especially if you put your own effort into it too.

(Are you, perhaps, somehow associated with this or another magnet program in the MD area?)
Strictly speaking it is possible to use fonts other than R, B, I, BI using ".fn" but because the set of fonts is determined by the output device it's very limited.

Much to my surprise GNU groff's font format does actually contain kerning information and ligatures although it's quite primitive and none of the included fonts have characters much outside of Latin-1 (to the point that there's a specialized "EURO" font you have to use if you want a Euro symbol). I would have to go over the older documents I have to be sure but I don't think this was a feature of the original troff.
It's very clear that their primary motivation is not money. It would be trivial for them to squeeze much more money from their service. Craig could also sell his company for more money than he could ever spend.
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I don't think this was addressed, but if so please correct me: what was the relative change per visitor?

In other words, adjusting for the increased traffic that you would expect over 5 years, do we see additional revenue growth? Or have they simply gotten more traffic?
It is my dearest hope that he lives long enough to finish AoCP, but I fear the odds are against it.
>but are women missing out on CS?

This, I think is the central problem. It seems that most of the really really intelligent women I know have gone into other fields than CS because that's where their interests lie. CS simply wasn't a fulfillment of their interests not some more nefarious discrimination problem.
Google to limit free access to news sites
Their data? The data should belong to the people that produce the content Not the people that host it.

Craigslist gains value from it's users not they other way around.
Finnish college students get 400 euros per month, and many are able to complete their education with no other income or parents' savings (college education is free once you're accepted). Besides students, the most basic level of welfare for those who get no unemployment benefits is also about 400 euros.

So it's not impossible to live with that kind of money in Finland, even though it's not enough to rent an apartment in the center of Helsinki. You're probably going to be eating a lot of potatoes or pasta...

The political reasoning is not really that "citizen wage" should be good enough for most people, but rather that it would be unaffected by any additional income. Currently there's really no incentive to get a job that only pays 1000 eur/month: you can get that much by pretending that you're looking for work, and those benefits would be lost if you started working. With citizen wage, you could reach that 1000 eur/month income by getting a 600 eur/month job.

Finland has a major problem with persistent unemployment. It's hoped that these low-skilled workers would become more employable under the citizen wage scheme as they would have the financial motivation to seek low-wage and part-time jobs.
How does it work? He is still part of Twitter. Can you be part of multiple startups of commercial interests?
Every iPhone developer has to deal with emails and reviews of this exact nature.

The Apple apps/background processes eat tons of memory up over time and the phone can get in a state where it has an absurdly small amount left to run apps. Restarting fixes this.

Try restarting your phone, and if that doesn't fix it, then yeah, the app sucks.