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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
There are some solutions to on-line shopping: (1) Pictures. Now digital cameras are terrific, and so is the Internet for showing high resolution pictures. So, high resolution pictures. Lots of them. (2) Measurements. When I shopped for
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Men, that is, all 'real men' :-)!!, don't mind shopping and certainly don't "hate to shop" and, instead, 'hate' the attitude toward shopping pushed on young women by the fashion industry. So, long the idea has been to play on the propensity
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Well, I use Windows and am writing Visual Basic .NET with some ADO.NET, ASP.NET, more usage of .NET, and a little usage of C. I write command line scripts in ObjectRexx. For how I'm typing in the code, I'm a happy camper. I have various cop
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Yes, Groupon, along with some other startups, has a problem because the business they are in is a geographically local natural monopoly: In one city everyone uses the coupon service that is most popular in that city because that service ha
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
I looked through Downey's book. (A) Definition of Probability. As far as I could tell, the book defined probability in only one of two ways: (1) Relative frequency assuming finitely many trials (page 13) and (2) Bayesian prior intuitive bel
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
I've suspected that Tim Berners-Lee knew TeX before he did HTML. That he was a physicist in computing at CERN means that he had to have seen TeX. I'd say that the main difference is that TeX was looking backwards and HTML, forwards. Again
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Part Two III. What TeX is Good for. No single piece of software is everything, and neither is TeX. It is possible to look at TeX and wish for more. So, just what is TeX and what is it good for? The history is clear: For Knuth's series of
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Part One I can respond here in sections: I. My Background. II. How to Use TeX. III. What TeX is Good for. IV. Warnings. below: I. My Background. I was an early member of the TeX user's group (TUG) and have been a serious and happy TeX us
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
For "interest", venture capital wants to see, first, just the UI/UX and then, second, ComScore numbers. For the UI/UX, that's the last software I'm writing, not the first. Nothing else I said here interests venture capital at all. Nothin
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
"To me, the 'idea' is how you would describe the product to a customer in one sentence." Yes, that seems to be a better definition of the 'new', Web 2.0 definition of an 'idea' than I was able to formulate. I just don't think it is a very
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
"Research is a different beast than creating a marketable product." Well there are people in research looking for fundamental knowledge, e.g., string theory in physics or the finest details of biochemistry and genetic material in biology.
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Here's the solution: Borrow from Edison and the electric light. Look at lighting before the good electric lights -- it sucked. There were open flames that were dangerous. The light quality was awful. Etc. Yes, it was expensive and dan
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
You are making a common but fundamental and potentially very costly mistake: You are looking for a needle in a haystack. Then you are drawing conclusions about the needle from the hay you do see and not the needle you don't. It may be tha
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
"Is there really any debate whether you have to execute an idea to make it successful?" Mostly no. There are some cases where next to no 'execution' is needed for the big bucks. One example was the Sears employee who proposed a button on
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
You have a serious emotional block here. I addressed exactly this pair of sentences. Read what I actually wrote. Or yet again, push down your emotional whatever and just pay a little attention: The second sentence, given how the English l
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
"If you truly have a good idea, somebody else is working on it too." Standard HN cliche number 298,498,229 and nonsense. I've had several ideas that I can essentially 100% guarantee that no one else was working on. My Ph.D. dissertation wa
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
So, let's see: I have a 'great idea'. One pill taken once that will cure any cancer. World shaking idea! This example clarifies this whole thread: The need to cure cancer is obvious. So is the desirability of such a one pill. Now let'
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
No: Your evidence does not lead to your conclusion. You are working with your "a lot of people" and drawing a conclusion about business success in, since this is HN, information technology entrepreneurship. Here's where you get off track:
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
A "discovery" is not a special case of an "idea"? That is, you are claiming that ideas necessarily don't build on each other, that is, are not 'cumulative'? Here is the hidden point in this discussion: The article and much of information
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
"I don't think he said they don't count" Yes he did. He said that execution is what "counts". The way he wrote this it is fair to conclude that he meant that execution is ALL that counts so that nothing else counts and in particular ideas
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
You are being fooled: The article was deliberately ambiguous. What I said is fully appropriate: "plentiful, easy, worthless, and don't 'count'" as a statement of one of the claims of the article. That is, the article flatly stated that:
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
So, yet again we have someone saying that ideas are plentiful, easy, worthless, and don't "count": Or, "It is the manner in which ideas are executed that counts." "Ideas don’t make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does." Somehow I
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Where does the tritium come from? As I recall tritium is one proton and two neutrons. So, you are saying that one hydrogen, that is, one proton, from the water captures a neutron and becomes deuturium and then later the deuturium captures
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
You asked: If the tests are asking little enough, then why are the teachers complaining they have no time to do anything but "teach to the tests"? I can only guess. It may be that the issue is some politically correct goal of some 'social
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Generally the Asians nearly totally fail to 'get it'. There is no chance that US (or Canadian) K-12 will go very far making the mistakes the Asians make. That tests are fine does not mean that the Asian approach to rote learning is fine. T
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
No, quite literally and exactly, the exchange does not buy or sell and only connects buyers to sellers. If you buy a wheat contract, then that means that someone sold one. Maybe the Goldman Sachs fund is long only, but the exchange is not
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
The article is meaningless because skips over two big points: First, for all those long only positions, for each of them, there needs to be a corresponding short position. The article never explained where all those short positions will co
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Sample from a univariate distribution by taking the inverse function of the cumulative distribution and plugging in a [0,1] uniform random number. So, if X is a real valued random variable, then its 'cumulative distribution' F_X(x) = P(X &
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Ask HN: Serious Disk Backup, How to?
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by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
You mean for a bootable partition? If so, then how to restore it? Can the partition be backed up while the OS on it is booted? Backup to where? To a file on another disk in the same computer, on another computer, to removable media? I'm

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