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I've recently been trying to improve my negotiating skills by reading two books: You Can Negotiate Anything by Herb Cohen and Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini.

You Can Negotiate anything is a short book that gives tips and pointers and gives examples of negotiating tactics.

Influence is a fascinating book by a psychologist that supports every major point by describing various psychological findings and major events that exemplify that point.

The first book is more of a how-to book and the second is more of a why-it's-the-case book. I found both to be valuable in helping me recognize negotiating tactics, which hopefully makes me less vulnerable to being unconsciously influenced.
+1 for Dune (my favorite in the series is the 5th book - Heretics).

By the way, don't expect the prequels and sequels have even half the quality of original Herbert works.
"The implicit assumption of conventional economics is that the only relevant metric is the magnitude of the absolute change in expenditure." I'm not the first person to say this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion#Can_loss_aversion...
Have fun, learn, and make money! If you are doing that with your company, why sell it ? Live long and prosper.
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Find a place to work under "masters" who know their stuff. Surroundings/teams help you grow and develop your abilities. It's not a talent. It's a learned talent! Code on.
Keep in mind that MIT doesn't have a CS department. Course 6 is EECS.
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Chopping does work similarly. I always had a no chopping policy though, because pretty much any tournament with a life-changing prize is televised, and therefore chopping is banned.

In fact, poker tournaments in general have the concept of chip devaluation, which is fairly similar to how money works in real life.
I'm no economist, I just took a few units a while ago, but I'm pretty sure that's not an implicit assumption, because marginal utility is an important part of economics.

In fact the article you linked to says exactly that:

"All of the above effects can be expressed in terms of the utility function of money, and, in particular, not regarding money as a linear measure of utility. In other words, if money has diminishing marginal utility, then each dollar is worth less than the one before it. To use the example before, the first $1000 might be worth $1000 to a person, and the second $1000 worth only $950 (in terms of utility). This would not be "loss aversion" but just a phenomenon adequately explained by economic theory."
$19 billion raised for wireless spectrum auction?
Hmm.. I do. Lemme look through some of the articles again and think about my questions more. They talk a lot about loans backed by securities and bonds and whatnot. I'm reading Greenspan's new book and I'm a little confused about what securities and bonds. I think a bond is something I can buy (from the fed) that says, "If you buy this now, I will pay you it back with 5% interest in x years" - But are there more examples of bonds? Can I buy them from companies? (I can be me, or a company)

I'm also confused as to why exactly bear-sterns tanked. If I'm reading correctly they basically had a lot of loans that people called in that they couldn't pay. But why did all these loans all get called in at once?
What's with all these speed limits?
People still get murdered.
There are two lessons in this. We don't need speed limits, and they don't do any good
Anyone interested in applying to YC to build iPhone apps?
I was wondering if anybody else wanted to apply to YCombinator with me, focusing solely on building iPhone applications? We can figure out the right application when we are accepted.
Obviously FriendFeed is for people who want lots of information from their friends. If all you wanted was a digest every few months of your friends' doings, you'd be using ourdoings.com.
My favorites:

Childhood's End by Clarke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End

Foundation series by Asimov: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Series

City by Simak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_(Clifford_D._Simak_novel)
I think you're right about the cost & time increases for building hardware, but I'm not sure many fundamental changes would be required for hardware startups.

If the hardware mod. can be approximated fairly well by computer simulations then the same model should work fairly well, IMHO. The goal would still be 'build what people want' and 'excite the Angels' right?

For any machine that is currently being built, someone, somewhere is an expert in whatever part the startup is seeking to improve. If the machine is being sold, buyers know what they are looking for and can give meaningful feedback. So the startup simply needs to convince the experts / investors of the value of their new technology, market size & demand, their ability to execute, etc.

For Tony Wright's “car that runs on lemonade” example, the startup would have 3 months at YC HQ to convince enough experts in the field of internal combustion engines that lemonade is a sufficiently better fuel than gasoline to justify further R&D work. Then, Angel investors can make a relatively informed decision about project risk vs potential rewards.

Increased risk would need to be balanced by increased upside, but I'm thinking that with computer-based tools, hardware hacking is not that different than software hacking.

What do you think?
Back in 1972, @ Univeristy of Toronto, Engineering Science we took PL/C. Most of us used APL (A Programming Language) to write quick and fast code on the fly. Where did that language go ? Remember I.P.Sharpe Associates? Time-sharing? Ouch, this dates me. I'm running an ISP in Toronto now and hiring graduates, but find many think they can programme, but they cannot "problem-solve"! Too bad most of the Universities are giving us programmers but no network ip people. (They seem to be self-taught, like the best ones...!) My son currently in second year Chemical Engineering is just using some C++ and MathLAB. My younger son will be entering UofT for Engineering Science in FALL 2008, and they are asking all students to enroll in a summer class for programming if they wish to be accepted into EngSci. I'm hoping that the Universities keep up the push to stay-up-to-date with the current programming languages. Good luck to all you new noobs.
"True Names and Other Dangers". Reading a remark by Vernor Vinge on his concept of the "Singularity" led to my current career as a Research Fellow of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
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to try and weed out the "it depends on XYZ" type of answer, i'll go this route:

if you're app has a lot of pageviews associated with it, go with CPM. if not, CPC. figure out your average CPM or CPC rate for your adsense blocks, and double it. start from there -- if you fill up your space easily, increase prices a little each payment cycle until you're comfortable with the income. don't get greedy and make sure the customers are happy.
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Technically, it's sci-fi. Neuromancer a close second.
"Diversity of ideas is important, ..."

Wouldn't that be, diversity of informed ideas is important?

Why might it be that people with the background to have an informed opinion on something do not show greater diversity in those opinions? (Or maybe they are there, and politics keeps them out of the inner circle?)
Arthur C Clarke was one of my heroes. I started reading ACC when I was still at school, the impression he left on me has not only helped me cultivate a scientific temperament but also helped me see humanity as one people. The sheer excitement of reading a ACC story playing out on a global or bigger stage was more than enough to lift you up from whatever your current set of mundane problems are and make you feel part of something bigger. Thanks ACC for all the times you made me feel special.
"The simple truth is that great scientist are simply a a rare event. How many scientists with the capacity of Einstein have there been? "

FFTW

(Feynman for the win)
Xkcd: Tap That Ass
"... they always emphasized the data structures and OO components and downplayed anything language specific."

How can you use Java for OO and not have it skewed by language specifics?
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
Links to resources from PyCon talks
Ask YC: Demo Day, the results?
ask YC: Demo Day, the results?
Collaborative decision making and the impact of Scrum
It depends on what you're using it for. When I cash out, I'm considering putting much of my earnings into fusion research.
Read the question, people, it's a trick one. The inspiring sci-fi book, not just a favorite one.

While I have a long list of favorites, I can't readily think of one that would stand out as inspiring. Virtually any good sci-fi book is impressive as it's a result of imagination at work, but this does not equate to be motivating.

So in this light the question is not that simple at all. I'm very curious to see if there's an answer to it :)

(edit)

Got it ! Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island. I read when I was 14-15 years old and the amount, details and clarity of science exposure in the book was really astounding. In a very positive, inspiring way.
At that point in the link they're going over counter-arguments to the standard line.

Anyhow, I agree marginal utility is well understood by economists, just disagree that that is the standard way dollars themselves are viewed in classic economic theory. And perhaps I over-reached when I built my straw economist.
I find Stephenson to be somewhat hard to read due to his peculiar use of present tense. His Snow Crash novel is an absolute must read in a cyberpunk genre. It is really vivid, bizarre and quite believable version of a near future. Only if he'd opted for using past tense .. :)
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Same problems, though, if I need to distribute a dozen or so packages.

True. This is something which deserves more thought than it has been given by FreeBSD developers.

The squeaky wheel does indeed get the grease.

No, the squeaky wheel gets told where the grease has been sitting for several years. :-)

More seriously, BATCH=YES and DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=YES (which is needed to install ports with known security vulnerabilities if you have portaudit installed) are two options which lots of people trip over -- they should probably be better documented.
I thought Pattern Recognition (same author) was quite inspiring, though I don't know if it counts as most people's definition of science fiction.
I didn't really find any value in this article. I want my minute back.
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Inherit the Stars by James Hogan

Like a lot of people, by the time I got to the end of the book, I just wanted to fling it across the room.

-----Here be spoilers--------

The entire premise of the book is that humans evolved on a planet called Minerva, which was in an orbit somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. The humans were descended from hominids brought over by space aliens millions of years ago. Some 50,000 years ago, these people had a war and blew it all up, leaving Minerva completely destroyed. The remains of Minerva become what is now the Asteroid Belt.

When Minerva was destroyed, its moon, having a colony of humans, somehow made its way to Earth and settled into an orbit around it. This moon is the Moon we see in the sky at night.

Never mind that millions of years of evolution has made life on Earth adapted to a moon that causes tides and shines brightly at night. Hogan's plot needs for us to have a moon that has only been around for 50,000 years!

-----------End spoilers------
Facebook has failed us
Come stay at the hacker house in San Jose, Free
My partner and I will be launching our startup in a week or two. We will subsequently be moving to San Jose, CA on June 8th to pursue our venture full time. We will be staying at a great 4 bedroom single home in a fantastic area.

Our startup is small, just the two of us. So that means we will have two rooms to spare, rather than renting the rooms to some total (useless) strangers i would rather have two (useful) hackers stay.

I came up with an interesting solution. Why not let hackers stay for free as long as they provided some contribution to the house and our project. It would make for great environment, an environment of education,networking and most of all, fun. So if you think you would be interested in staying in the "hacker house" submit a short application to us via our e-mail. Include your Name,background,projects/demos,and what you would add to the house.

We would like for the interested YCers to be from the east coast or Midwest, people that normally wouldn't have the opportunity to move to bay area. A younger crown is preferred, i'm 22 and my partner is 23. For many reason, men only. You don't have to be a hacker, but it's strong recommended.

Please understand that there will no compensation besides room and board and possibly a community car(i'm not sure yet, i have to check with insurance company).food?ramen?. You will be responsible for all travel expenses. We will also have a crash couch for any hackers that are passing through. We simply ask that the guest write a blog post on our blog about themselves/company. I'm sure i'm forgetting a lot of info, but i'll be setting up a simple dedicated site just for the house soon.

Feel free to subscribe to my twitter feed for more info.http://twitter.com/cbomb
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Wow, i wonder how long after 2009 will we see the real effects
Aussies are leading Firefox users
Ask YC: isn't N.YC more accurate?
I know Paul Graham, very reasonably, likes to keep the community and the brand separate. Perhaps "Ask N.YC" is a better way to pose questions to the community and "N.YC" is a better way to refer to the community in general.

Also, I think N.YC looks cooler.

What do you think?
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Asimovs' "Foundation Trilogy" was among my most inspiring reads, however I loved his short stories even more.
Oh man, yes. best ever.
Yes! :-)
I was reading this article and was thinking about how parents are trying to protect their children from parts of the web, and the concept of allowing only a handful of approved websites seemed like overkill.

I am interested to hear the opinions of the YC community.
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Cool idea. I'm still in school, but I love the sense of trust in the community. Best of luck.
FFTW FTW. Fastest fourier transform in the west FTW! oh.
Ender's Game, because of the age at which I read it. I was 12 or 13 at the time, and it definitely affected how I viewed my peers in school.
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Fun idea and an interesting way to get some smart people on your radar!
the US economy.

When nobody wants to pay $1200 for a laptop.

(And I don't mean hackers, designers & film editors)
I would argue that Facebook has not failed us in the way this article asserts: namely with the poor quality of it's peripheral tools, but instead the failure is simply one of feature bloat. Really, I use Facebook to keep up with what my friends are doing in the REAL world. Facebook is making the mistake of adding features that don't help make that easier, and in fact in a lot of cases make it harder and downright annoying.
Really cool post, thanks.
this is a good example of trying to do too many things at once. You continue improving your core while SLOWLY branching out and adding more features. Facebook has rushed and wound up with a bunch of half-assed implementation.
Trying to be everything to everyone won't work.
I've read a good deal of crap in sci-fi magazines, and now steer clear of them in favor of re-reading classics
Ask YC: Favorite fantasy novel(s)?
What is your favorite fantasy novel(s)?

Mine: Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (RIP)
To be released in the April edition of the journal? Hmm...I wonder...naaaw.
Interesting idea.

Just make sure you're clean in terms of intellectual property contributed by people outside your startup...
This is an excellent idea - and I don't think you'll have trouble finding the kinda housemates you need. Personally, I'd be all over this if I didn't have a job over here, so good luck.
hopefully we'll see more of this type of thing. wouldn't it be great if hacker news wound up getting some co-founders together that went on to be successful? PG mentions in several essays that college is the best place to find co-founders. Why not a social network that is exclusively for startup minded people?
His Baroque Trilogy I found to be the most inspiring read in the last few years - while it's easy to argue that it isn't strictly science fiction. Since it sets up characters who appear in Cryptonomicon, I feel I can get away with it.

What the trilogy has in common with inspiring sci-fi is that it changes the way I look at the present - drastically. His characters are present for the beginnings of what we call science, the current economy and also on slave and pirate ships. He has brilliant physicists who are also alchemists and at war with themselves over not being able to resolve their own contradictions. (Newton) It's fiction about the history of science - and it's weirder and whackier and grander than anything else I've ever read. (Take THAT Tolstoy!( (you hack!)

Of course, I'll also second Snowcrash as a must-read. Same with Cryptonomicon.
I agree with 1 most; there are a number of possibilities and fantasies suitable for proposal writing, but if I attempted this it would be aimed for acquisition and nothing but, and would only do it with external funding.

Intensedebate started out pretty well, but they never seemed to iterate. No rapid expansion = die, so, poor ID.
I can't imagine why nobody even mentioned Greg Egan so far.

Reading Permutation City left me in a dazzled state for days because of the sheer number of reality-altering concepts it throws at you in such a short span.

If by inspiring, you mean something that will give even the most ardent SF addict future shock, then his books are absolutely what you're looking for. His BS in Math and background in programming give him a great perspective on some of the most challenging mysteries of the universe -- and his work still manages to be the hardest SF I've read.

Check out Diaspora if you like what you see in Permutation City.
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But does it Rickroll?
Too bad you won't have it in time for SuS, I'd definitely crash.
Asimov's First Foundation book. There's something beautiful about the notion that human behavior can become predictable when you take people in a group - Seldon's "psychohistory".
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Sounds like fun. Best of luck to you guys.
If it weren't for my lack of confidence in being able to contribute in the hacker-sense (I've never been part of a huge project), I would say that I'd be glad to help. There's not much start-up wise going on in Sandusky, OH. I would be all over this idea if the post had stated: Looking for someone with some knowledge of programming and a strong background in finance.
What are you going to get a degree in? I might suggest just jumping into a master's program to skip a lot of the cruft that comes with undergraduate programs. They might make you take some undergraduate courses, but only the really important ones - And the graduate courses you take will be hard, but you'll learn a lot from them. I'm doing something similar but in applied math. (i have a degree in engineering). I have a friend who studied physics as an undergrad and is now getting a masters in CS. They made him take a few undergraduate courses, putting him back a semester, but he doesn't have to wade through the full undergraduate curriculum.

Oh. And only take 3 courses/semester as a grad. student. You actually have a chance to learn it all thoroughly.
f) approaching singularity
Ask YC: What websites or products have the best User Interfaces?
I'm looking for some inspiration.

http://vimeo.com

http://viddler.com

http://facebook.com

iphones, and ipods all come to mind.

but what else?
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I love this story simply because if you read the entire story and not the last line, it is worthless.
hey i stay in San Jose downtown, right next to San Jose State University, I dont plan to stay with you guys, but i dont mind helping out with stuff, code and so on, get in touch when you move here!
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http://superhappydevhouse.org (not the same thing of course, but still useful for anyone that's interested)
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My apologies to JRM's karma. I'd give you some points if I could.
Currently re-reading the Riftwar trilogy by Raymond Feist and enjoying it quite a bit.
I'm a big fan of 37signals software (37signals.com)
Why guys only? I've had roommate situations with both genders and mixing has never hurt.
bahaha. If I could somehow give you +10 for that comment I would.
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That is a very cool idea. Unfortunately I can't apply.

I thought about another idea that would work for me though and might be fun and helpful for you.

I think you guys should also have a virtual guest hacker stay at the house. Setup some sort of video chat and the virtual guest hacker would hang out virtually and you could trade ideas and do the same type of hanging out except the shared pizza/ramen. I'd do the same type of selection process and maybe limit it to a day or a week. You might even get some famous hackers to hang out. You might consider targeting the profile of the guest hacker too. There are specific steps that need to be done along the path to success. Why not try to get the hacker of the week that has experience doing what your working on. It could also generate some buzz if you do it right.
Props for opening your home like that. Great way to network and help out other folks.
sorry double post.