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We're in the UK, so I don't know how applicable this is to Jamaica, but for http://kutoken.com/ we use HSBC Merchant processing to accept transactions in GBP, USD and Euro.

HSBC give us the option of having the funds deposited into HSBC accounts in those currencies, or converting to GBP (at our expense, not the customer's).

I'm very happy with this arrangement - it stops many customers from being put off by not knowing how much the service is going to cost them month to month, with the minimum of hassle for us.
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Local investors and successful entrepreneurs: the early-stage entrepreneurs in your cities need you now more than ever. We need you to take your vision, put it on the ground, and carry your city and your followers up with you.

We need you to be our heroes.

Go with your associates and assistants to local events. Their eyes and ears aren’t trained like yours to find insane talent and bigtime ideas. They can’t inspire us with their experience and insight like you can.

We need your perspective and physical presence to find the best your city has to offer and to help us bust through the brick walls that are stacked in front of us.

Give us your presence at one event each week at a bar down your street. We need your instant and honest feedback. When you’re there to give it, you will make our ideas, our companies, and your city better, faster.

To be clear, this isn’t charity work. Being on the ground floor again will remind you why you got into this business in the first place (or, maybe, why you should get out). If all you think about is dollars, I bet you’ll find companies to advise and invest in that no one else has heard about yet.

But all money aside, do you believe your city can be home to the next company to shake up the world?

If you want to make your city into a true startup hub, you need to show us your face.

You may never write a check to a local startup, but we will never forget those who shook our hand and told us what we needed to hear first, even if you reject our ideas because our market, the team, or the traction isn’t right.

This is, as David Lee said last week, “a pay-it-forward business.” If you pay one night forward to your followers, your company, and your city, each one will give more to you than you can possibly imagine.

Ron Conway is a hero to Silicon Valley. Fred Wilson is a hero to New York.

Who are the heroes of your startup community?
Uh, so don't do that. On my macbook, I stuck homebrew in ~/homebrew and everything is great.
I think I noticed my downvote button showed up around 200 karma?
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ya my co-founder is the same way too, he love coffee for coffee's sake. The smell, relaxation, break, etc.

Me on the other hand for whatever reason don't feel like that when I drink coffee. I'm almost doing it purely for the caffeine dose. Energy drinks, 5 hour energy shots, pills, whatever just to get some more caffeine.

I should probably lower my caffeine intake though.. I like the 1/2 coffee 1/2 decaf suggestion above. I'll try that tomorrow!
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> ... an embarrassing blunder for Tel Aviv.

Tel Aviv is not the capital of Israel.
Would be nice to have a button to run the articles through readability.
Your site tells me to upgrade to IE8. I'm using Firefox 3.6.
Hi there. This happened last night after I was tweaking the number of FastCGI processes. I changed it from four backends to one. Then Lighttpd believed the backend was overloaded:

2010-03-01 07:16:21: (mod_fastcgi.c.2926) backend is overloaded; we'll disable it for 2 seconds and send the request to another backend instead: reconnects: 0 load: 131
2010-03-01 07:16:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.3569) all handlers for /haskell-json.fcgi on haskell-json.fcgi are down.

I doubt there were 131 requests to the FastCGI process at the same time but I'll have to seek more information about it. http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/1825

For now I've set it back to four backends as that never had this problem.
For the record, I have no kids.
I think by the time this photo was taken, he had already re-architected the second and most popular version of lex.
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Hey guys - I've read a few posts on this but would like to ask the community. What is the best day to launch a start up? Is there any? Reasons?

Thanks!
Slightly different and finder only:
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Building a successful startup hub in most cities is extremely difficult. That certifiable, go-to “hero” as mentioned in the article just doesn’t exist in most places. In fact, if our standard of hero is Ron Conway or Fred Wilson, the rest of the country is screwed.

Being based in Cleveland right now, I have met scores of people who are very enthusiastic about building a startup community. However, everyone I’ve met in Cleveland is new to the game with only one or two startups under their belt. The vast majority of startups are extremely early stage, and I could list the number of strong, successful technology startups on one hand. There is nobody who could step up to become a hero, as that level of experience just simply isn’t here.

I believe that there is strength in numbers, however. A real sense of ownership in the direction of the city is starting to take place with the entrepreneurs in Northeast Ohio, mostly centered around the programming meetup groups. This grassroots-style startup culture takes time and is not as flashy as a big name hero, but it’s a start.
Same here, and IE8 won't even run on this computer.
a second auth step through email would just be added into the trojan to capture. they'd go ahead and run the first token for you and display a fake message that it was successful on your machine. then when you get the e-mail in 2nd stage it'd just mitm that too and finish the auth on its side. text would be more difficult to attack with a trojan, and banks use it; i don't see why WoW couldn't.

you get trojans via botnets. very effective covert 0-day kits hidden in vulnerable sites, and not everyone keeps up with all security updates all the time - and all it takes is once.
The first one's always free?
Why isn't there a binary package system, like apt, for OSX?
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LESS is a wonderful alternative to SASS. http://lesscss.org/

nanoc is a very nice Ruby static site generator with a good community and a very active project maintainer: http://nanoc.stoneship.org/
Memorizing facts isn't innately valuable -- it's valuable because it makes critical thinking and problem solving easier. If you have a larger working memory (because you've memorized lots of things before), you'll be able to hold a larger system in your head to analyze.

Unfortunately, the educational system usually separates the memorization phase from the problem-solving phase far too much to establish the causal link. Using chemistry as an example, I think the (incorrect) reasoning runs something like this:

- Most good chemists know the periodic table by heart.

- Therefore, step 1 to being a good chemist is to memorize the entire periodic table.

They have the best of intentions -- every field requires you to know some basic concepts before you can start manipulating them. But when I took a math class in college, we didn't start off by memorizing the definitions of groups, rings, and fields. We just started doing proofs. Everyone learned the definitions fairly quickly just as a side effect of looking them up often enough to solve the problems. So the far better approach is just to memorize "as needed," which also makes the memories more likely to stick around in the brain.

A final example, using history: Originally, I detested it as a subject solidly in the "memorization" category. But I finally got a teacher who forced it into the problem-solving category. Her exams were essays, where we had to write a position paper arguing for a specific side of a political debate. This immediately made those random memorized facts useful, because they could be brought in to support a larger conceptual argument. This teacher was somewhat of a local hero for her incredibly high passing rates -- her students actually learned history, while others merely memorized assorted facts.
The pace is a bit too fast but the talk is interesting. Makes me want to read his (upcoming) book.
ugh....the large number of reps at low weight meme has spread because people want to believe that they can do an easy workout. if you can do more than 5 reps your weight is too light. there's no such thing as "toned instead of bulk". lifting casually a few times a week is not going to turn you into a hulkish freak. and if you want toned you do CARDIO. treating weightlifting as cardio is stupid.

for the average person doing weighted dips and pullups is more than enough. do those combined with jogging up hills a few times a week and you'll be in great shape. if you want to take it further you should be doing olympic lifts. anything else is really for professionals with specific needs or people with medical problems.
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Fresh content (user generated or not), low friction, and growing stakes as the user becomes more engaged.
Actually it is profound , the "profoundness" lies in the simplicity of the advice, why designers/software engineers require tonnes of apps "to get focussed" is beyond me.

Scientists,Mathematicians and artists don't use strategies to get focussed , they just get on with it.
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I don't see the "for Hackers" angle in this article.

Yes, you can think through problems while lifting but that's hardly unique to weight lifting. Ditto for books on tape.

I'm not hating on weight lifting here (I've been lifting consistently for 9+ years) but I just don't see this as being Hacker News.

PS - I think you meant to write "read" instead of "ready" here:
"In particular, the Freakonomics audio books are quite good as they are ready by the author, as is Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell."
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Great to hear about the culture in Northeast Ohio, Jim. It definitely is a start. I think that "hero" should be taken as a wide-reaching term. Ron Conway and Fred Wilson are rockstar examples, but the main point is that early stage entrepreneurs need to put faces to success stories for a startup hub to be healthy. Those success stories can be as simple as getting one startup off the ground and operating it as a break-even business.
I find HN addictive. It's earned a button smack in the center of my bookmark toolbar.

If I had to quantify why it's because of quality content.
Especially with regard to comments.
The headlines change relatively quick.

And come to think of it, +1 for cloudwalking's comment.
There's reduced friction here. eg. minimal visual noise.
Good stuff although the rep scheme isn't optimal. I'd stick to sets of fives.

A few additional points:

a) Form, particularly on Squats & Deadlifts, is key. If you do them wrong you'll fuck yourself up. The stuff by Mark Rippetoe, particularly Starting Strength, is awesome for this.

b) If you want to make progress you'll need to consume a surplus of calories. A good way to do this is to add full fat milk to your diet (a liter of full fat milk is approximately ~700 kCal). If you aren't gaining, eat more. If you're a young, skinny guy just starting out it's very easy to put on 15 lbs in a month[1] from squatting three times each week and drinking a fuckload of milk.

c) The advice on lowering the bar slowly then exploding upwards is mostly crap. Just move the weight under control.

[1] Some of this will be fat but most will be muscle.
what's been bugging me about the whole bloom box thing is how heavy on the "we're visionaries!" stuff and light on the technical details they've been. shut up and execute. if your product really does have a great ROI you don't need the reams of marketing. energy isn't like consumer electronics.
Definitely Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ). It's a very effective martial art, and its technical nature makes it a very good fit for an analytical mind. I've only been at it for a few months but so far I love it.

I haven't tried Judo, but I expect that'd be similarly interesting.
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If you're lifting for hypertrophy, more reps is better than more weight, e.g. 15 reps of 100 lbs instead of 6 of 150 lbs or whatever your maximums may be.
Not sure if it fits the bill, but check out http://www.xoom.com
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In my experience cardiovascular exercise is way better for almost everything he mentions and for strength training one doesn't really need weights, various push-up routines are more than enough.
If you're just starting out lifting for hypertrophy is irrelevant. You need to focus on lifting heavy and eating to match.
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Tell people exactly how to proceed to a next step.
At that next step, reward them beyond what they could have expected.
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- Set the difficulty level correctly. In an app, it should be ridiculously easy to do stuff. In a game, the challenge should be scaled appropriately so the game is neither boring nor frustrating, and so that players continue to develop and use new skills as the game goes on.

- data, stats, and awards. People like to see how many posts they've made, how much karma they've accumulated, how many songs they've listened to, or how many zombies they've killed. They like to be given titles or trophies for passing milestones.

- feedback from friends. Even better than getting that 10,000 zombie trophy or that new forum rank is getting congratulations from your friends on your accomplishment.

- tickle the senses. Pretty graphics or sounds make for a neat experience in games or certain social apps. (The game "Auditorium", at playauditorium.com, is fantastic for this!)

- replayability. The experience should remain fun time after time. In a game, the challenge should have some variability. In any app, the "rewards" -- karma, titles, pretty graphics, or what have you -- should update often enough that users are consistently reminded of them. For socially-focused sites, it should be easy for users to generate good content for each other so that each visit seems rewarding. (Example: Grandma finds it rewarding to see new pictures of my baby. Facebook makes it easy for me to upload new pictures, and easy for her to view them, so she gets new pictures fairly often. Therefore, Grandma is addicted.)
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I'm having a hard time imagining how push-up routines can match the muscle building power of heavy squats and deadlifts.
Just flag it.
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I can see where you buy Linden Dollars on the Second Life site, but how did you manage the buying of services? Did you do that in game?
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This is as opposed to the lifetime+ of our current set of laws? I'm not saying a year is a good number, just that it's a better goal to shoot for than we currently have (more laws apparently == better).
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are you a professional bodybuilder? no? then you're talking about minimal differences. you get plenty of hypertrophy from low reps high weight. you're talking about specialized training for the specific circumstances.
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dips are more effective than pushups. weighted dips and weighted pullups are highly effective.
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I use Google Calendar instead of iCal because it's integrated with my browser through Google Toolbar. I can add add an event by highlighting some text and clicking in the toolbar twice. Bringing up my calendar takes one click.
Three letters - LQA. You find another translator to a given language and let him/her proofread the translation.

You do QA in another fields, why the translation should be different?
command + (left|right) arrow would do the same on a mac.
Does your mapping work well across most/all applications? I've tried mapping via keybindings file and messed up my account (this is snowlepord)
Yes, exactly. If I'm okay with the privacy that that gives (e.g. I don't give anyone the URL) I don't even need an account, until I get serious about it. That'be awesome :-)
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Is there a transcript somewhere? A quick search doesn't yield anything.

EDIT: I did watch the video. It defines programming as "patterns of energy that affect the world", "The next step in evolution" and stuff from the "mind of the universe" with very little content beyond that. Absolutely zero relation to the title. No connection to Dijkstra.
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I have no idea what you're trying to ask.
Er, are you looking for people who break into systems?
Neat book, but I'm still not seeing it. And even including the huge variety of weird gymnastics holds [1] out there I'm not sure how you can compare with a squat or deadlift with 300+lbs of weight.

For example, a full squat works the thighs, calves (somewhat), and core very hard. A deadlift works the hamstrings, core, lats and forearms very hard.

At the very least the panopoly of push-ups out there will have real trouble working most of your lower body, and heavy compound exercises tend to help development of your upper body too.

[1] There's a book called "Building the Olympic Body" by Coach Sommer that has a whole lot of nifty gymnastics stuff in it, but it requires rings and other equipment.
On top of that:

If you don't build muscle very easily, then you need to be careful with extraneous physical activity. As an ectomorph, I find that I need ALL of my 4500 daily calories to build muscle. I generally lift 3 times a week with a 4th day of dedicated to cardio at the end of the week. I rotate between 4 week sets of cardio/muscle-building as well.

That works well for me. The authors suggestion of doing daily cardio might very well be sabotaging your results.
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Exactly. As someone who has done the occasional professional translation from Italian to English, here's what you have to go through:

* You have to understand the original text. Not just 'get it', but completely understand it. That includes understanding just what sort of bucket excavator a 'benne' is, or that an 'area golenale' is the area between a waterway and the levee, often where there is a curve in the river. And you often have to be precise about these things; my Sicilian friend knew that 'golenale' was something to do with a river, but since they don't have a lot of waterways like the ones in northern Italy, wasn't able to really describe what it was in detail.

* Once you have completely understood and digested the article, you have to rewrite it in your language. You can't just copy the structure of the original, because the tone and timing may well be off compared to what would be natural in your language. Sometimes, you just plain have to be creative with what you're writing, because it's more important to convey a sense of something than an exact translation. I once did a translation for a goldsmith in Vicenza whose original Italian text went off on how some piece was a "festival for all five senses" or some such nonsense (you're supposed to chew it?!), and had a whole article like that, which I had to basically write in a similar style, but adding 'flowery crap' that worked in English.
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I've never found that it matters. Its not like you'll be hit with a rush of traffic (unless you have carefully orchestrated PR and marketing campaigns ahead of time).

Most sites will go live, then just build, promote, and repeat.
There is no point of doing "various push-up routines" if you want to build strength. If your goal is "strength training" lifting weights is the most effective way of doing it.
I have users that spend nearly all of their free time on my site. One recently asked me to ban them so they could kick the habit. I asked him what part of the site was addictive and he said, "Basically everything."

One of the key things, I think, is having lots of little things to do that you can get immediate feedback from. e.g. Check the forum for new replies, rate new content, see what kind of response their content is getting, etc.

Kathy Sierra has a great article on this kind of thing:
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/0...

Having strict moderation keeps the general quality high, which means it's usually worth checking back to see what's new. There are also multiple tracks of achievement, like hitting 500 comments, etc. so there is always a new badge within striking distance.

You don't even need to have permanent badges. I have a list on the front page of the people who have submitted the most ratings that day. You don't get anything from being on the list, but people try to get to the top anyway. People like seeing their own names.

Having a friendly community is also a big help, since it means that other users are a direct source of positive feedback. That's a bit harder to develop, though.
For most folks it can't.

I believe most people spend far to much time on Cardio, and not nearly enough time developing their muscles. You get so much benefit in terms of metabolic changes from muscle building that it should be a part of any work-out. Cardio is important, no question. If your goal, however, is to change your physique you will get much more mileage from weight-lifting. This includes just a general weight-loss goal.

Really, I try to shoot for the fitness tri-fecta:
* Eat right (in my case a high calorie diet with lots of vegetables protein, and dietary fat)
* Build muscle (by lifting heavy objects multiple times, primarily through big compound exercises like squats and dead-lifts)
* Build endurance with a cardio program (I alternate with my muscle building program)