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* "The truth is, everything that has happened in my life...that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better," Mr. Buffett says *

I hear such things a lot ('whatever happens is for better', etc.), and in fact - agree. but it's really hard to accept a failure/rejection as a lesson or a bad-tasting-medicine at the time it happens to you...

but I guess knowing this at the very least gives motivation and helps one to remain more 'determined' http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html
(especially in the long run where your chances of giving up are pretty high)
Actually they could do better. They are selecting students depending on SAT results and I really doubt they are reviewing in depth the achievements, situation of the student.
Do they use any DRM? It seems like data would be hard to sell because it's easy to copy. On the other hand, if you're selling to enterprisey people then they usually try to follow the letter of the law for fear of getting caught.
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Why do these people blog?
Bang on.

It's about having access to the things with which you'll be able control your destiny. As a hacker, I at least need access to these things: a good laptop, a high-speed internet connection, access to books, a little bit of extra money to attend local conferences/meetups, etc. Btw bootstrapping yourself is actually easiest if you're a computer hacker - imagine how hard it'll be if your passion is something else (maybe your dream is to build a kick-ass electric car).

In developed countries, you can get access to this bare minimum stuff even if you didn't go to college and you're doing some part-time work while pursuing your dream on the side. In USA, you can move to a cheap, small town and save significantly on rent while not compromising that much on quality of life (if you ignore things like access to awesome restaurants, great night-life, etc). In India, if you move to a rural area, first of all you've to face 5+ hours of power cuts, no (high-speed) internet, expect to walk around with buffaloes, goats on the street - you'll be completely cut off from the mainstream). So it's very important you go to the best colleges in the country and get hired by the best companies, so you don't have to worry about these basic necessities. Things are of course continuously changing - another 20 years and maybe the standards of living will catch up with the West.

Also if you don't go to college, then you can forget about visiting USA or anything other country ever. None of these countries will ever offer visas to people who haven't gone to college. This is not a problem if you were born American - the land of all great opportunities :-)
Maybe not a popular tech company, but a fun etymology: IBM (International Business Machines) was so named just so Thomas Watson, a former employee of NCR (National Cash Register) could one-up his old employer.

Also, I've read that the reason Intel wasn't named "Moore-Noyce" is because "more noise" is a bad thing in electronics. Which reminds me of a flashback scene from The Simpsons where Homer keeps rejecting baby names because he can think of all the insulting nicknames other kids on the playground will think of for them.
Multiple identical PUT requests with Transfer-Encoding:diff+If-Match will result in the same thing as a "normal" PUT with an If-Match header - if the resource is in the matched state it will be transformed, and if it isn't it will be unchanged.

The Transfer-Encoding:diff+If-Match combo is in effect the same thing as sending the whole data blob, it's just an efficient transfer compression. No different than Transfer-Encoding:gzip; the data sent isn't the data to be stored until its Transfer-Encoding has been reversed.
Don't worry, man. University is mostly for credentializing 9-5 schmucks. Wherever you end up, use it as cover to do something awesome.
I have never used FIND_IN_SET.

But I use FIELD()
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html...

SELECT FROM x WHERE id IN(9,4,22,38,4,..)
ORDER BY FIELD(`id`, 9,4,22,38,4,..)

That said, I dont know if sql or php is quicker.
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Google were quite slow to open source protocol buffers - ex-Google engineers re-invented them at Facebook as Thrift and open sourced that first, which lessened their impact when they came out.

The real competition to protocol buffers though is JSON over HTTP, and that's easily fast enough for most purposes (most of Yahoo!'s internal web services use that combination, to my knowledge).
Scrivener is terrific: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html. I've written book-length stuff in Emacs/LaTeX before, and I might go back to that for typesetting, but I'd write in Scrivener.
The article is about a small group of elite long distance runners. I don't think you can draw any meaningful conclusions about your short morning runs here.

And it is worth noting that this is a blog post about an article about a study. The author of the blog post has not even read the abstract of the study, let alone the study itself. The article on which the blog post is based says Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Though it's likely impossible, I can't help but imagine a Neptune where the core is quite simply this theoretical planet it swallowed- i.e., since it is a gas giant, the super-earth just passed into it's center. Now super-earth has a really thick atmosphere, and we call the result Neptune.

This is part wishful thinking, part imagination, and part me having a really hard time wrapping my mind around the idea of a ball of gas with no solid core.

A few other notes; what happens to solid matter introduced to a gas giant? Does it just go to the core after all? And, how the heck does gas colliding with a planet create excess heat? This makes sense if the planet is thermally active like the earth, and adds to the total heat, but while gas exhibits friction they'd have to collide pretty fast to generate much heat, right?
Do you want a real answer? Because blogging has become technically so easy that they can do it without great effort or expense.
This reminds of the Evan Williams quote from "Founders at Work" pg 124:

"luck comes in many forms -- and often looks bad at first. I always look back on the deals that we didn't do and the things that didn't work out, and realize what seemed like a bummer at the time was really lucky [...] if you have some plan and it doesn't go that way, roll with it. There's no way to know if it's good or bad until later, if ever."
of course, that's why you'd hire the guy; for it to be worth my time, I'd need to get back what I paid him plus the value of my time spent teaching that could have been spent on other things.

I'm just saying that compared to the value of my time, adding in a minimal paycheque doesn't make the intern significantly more expensive, and it makes me feel a lot better about asking him or her to do stuff.

If an employer isn't willing to pay a token wage, I question how much (expensive) time they will give to that intern in training and mentoring. I mean, just having real problems can be valuable, but you can get that for yourself. Buy a $8/month VPS from me and write something. The advantage you (the intern) are getting out of an internship is the mentoring; working with people who are better and more experienced than you are.
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I agree - except the last line rubs me the wrong way somehow.
I think that it implies that there is a political separation between a founder and the company. Blogging has helped remove this separation and shown us that all companies really consist of humans.
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College admission is very much up to chance. My graduate school applications went to 10 very mediocre schools with money for teaching fellowships, all located in nice relaxing places. I figured they'd leave me alone and I could concentrate stress-free. My parents gave me $75 to apply to Yale since I otherwise refused. Got into Yale, but got rejected by 8 out the 10 other schools.
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How do you know it was written by "people"? :)
Art (founder of embedly) , yea embeddability is the goal ..... We wil be much more than a "video widget", some examples where this is powerful already ..... Posterous ( a blog site based on embeddable content) , Facebook ( embeds hulu and youtube videos) - http://www.facebook.com/hulu , Reddit.com has decided to expand their links and add content to their links
I thought a lot of them went to work on Drizzle (now part of Rackspace)
I think that undergraduate admission is more chance than graduate. By the time you enter graduate studies, you have a lot more time to distinguish yourself from other applicants.
Yes, but the company is saying that GMail replaced Outlook. Clearly it has not - I'm sure most new GMail users are not ex-Outlook PIM users. This is because GMail is in a different product category

- what percentage of GMail users regularly schedule more than one event a week?

- what percentage of Gmail users use reminders?

- How much of their day is spent with GMail open?

- How often do they search Google contacts for phone numbers and other data?
Next post: "why do these people use twitter ?"
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Ask HN: Tags vs Keywords vs Categories vs Wordtag
We are building our visual blogging app and have two functionalities that have the same name - TAGS. I feel that tagging (highlighting areas) a photo should prevail instead of the more common, "relevant words" tag.

Is replacing the (wordtags) with the term "keywords" recommended? how about naming 'wordtags'? or should i rename the highlighting tool?

Thanks in advance!
don't give up.
In my experience, a good sleep mask makes napping during the day much easier. It'll also help with falling asleep at night in rooms that aren't as dark as they could be. And if earplugs don't bother you, combine them with a sleep mask, and you'll be able to nap anywhere.

There's a world of difference between $3 drugstore sleep masks and more expensive ones, in terms of comfort as well as light-blocking ability. I've been quite happy with Bucky brand sleep masks. They're available on Amazon along with a number of other masks in the $10-$15 range (including the Mindfold).
That is interesting - particularly the comment that you can express lambda calculus in pi-calculus but not (as I read it) the other way round.

Is anyone trying to build a "real world" programming language that is strictly defined in terms of pi-calculus? Given the emphasis in pi-calculus on communication and transportability of channels themselves that might work out a better basis for a real programming language than lambda calculus seems to have been for functional languages (or predicate calculus for logical languages, which don't seem very popular these days).
The Mozilla situation is rather different. It’s actually two entities: the non-profit Mozilla Foundation ( http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/ ) and the for-profit Mozilla Corporation ( http://www.mozilla.com/ ). MoFo shepherd the code, but MoCo do a lot of the business arrangements.
Well, somebody has to be a failure of a blogger.

For reference, is this the sort of submission that should be flagged, or is flagging only for spam?
Yeah, at most this seems like something to use occasionally, to be more alert despite being sleep-deprived. Possibly an alternative to just piling on caffeine. But I would definitely not read it as a technique for reducing the amount of sleep you "need", since sleep is a lot more than simply a thing that decrements your drowsiness meter. Twenty-minute power naps don't do fun things like memory consolidation, for example.
It does go to the core, because it's heavier and it sinks.

But that's not the whole story - the mass of the solid planet is enough that it becomes the new planet. You can think of the solid planet as sinking into the core. OR, you can think of the solid planet as stealing the gas from the old planet and wrapping itself in this gas.

And both are correct, and both happen at once.

The collision speeds they are talking about here are indeed immense. Truly stupendous amounts of energy. However it only works if one of the two planets was in a very elliptical orbit, otherwise they are both in the same orbit when they collide, and little energy is released - they will just gradually merge. And the heat is not really from friction, it's more collision heat. (Like when shoemaker-levy crashed into jupiter.) But elliptical orbits are not "natural" they are created by action of some other body, or by capturing a non-orbital planet from far away.

Another thing they just passed right over is how the pre-neptune moved to a new orbit. Are they suggesting some sort of tidal exchange with the sun? Friction with the leftover gas doesn't work since the gas would move at the same speed as the planet (they are both in the same orbit).

It's much better to think in terms of momentum rather than energy. To move pre-neptune to a new orbit you have to transfer the momentum somewhere. And I can't think of anyplace except slowing down the rotation of the sun (much as the moon slows the earth, and moves farther away in the process). Maybe transfer to a different planet? I'm not sure that would work.

Edit: they link to an article with more detail, where they suggest jupiter did it.
I think it's more MoFo sets the direction, MoCo pays the tax.

"The creation of the Mozilla Corporation should eliminate some of the thorny legal and tax issues that have been caused by the revenue-generating potential of Firefox and Thunderbird. The Mozilla Corporation will now handle all relationships with commercial companies and its status should allow more flexibility in this area. It is hoped that the income from the Mozilla Corporation will help the Mozilla project (including both the Foundation and the Corporation) to be more self-supporting, though donations will still be welcome."

http://web.archive.org/web/20060907025204/http://www.mozilla...
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You're thinking of the Sunday Sport http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunday_Sport

They were famous back in the '80s for ludicrous headlines like "London Bus Found On Moon" and "Aliens Turned Our Son Into An Olive". I can't recall seeing it on the news stands lately.
Apples and oranges.

LaTeX is a formatter. (Actually a full-blown interpreter, but it's generally used for producing typeset text output from command files.)

Ulysses and Scrivener are an utterly different class of application; they're used for composition and editing of complex compound documents, with an emphasis on managing the structure (e.g. they both make it utterly trivial to change the order of chapters in a book, swap subsections within a chapter, write the text with no distractions, or mess around with the outline).

LyX is, effectively, a WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX (that is handicapped by not being flexible enough to generate arbitrary LaTeX documents, and so it tends to be restricted to using a set range of LaTeX templates).

Might as well be comparing motorcycles and ro-ro ferries.

Finally: parading your lack of knowledge of classical mythology or modernist literature really doesn't do you any favours.
Yeah, I quit reading after that. Just lookin' for a cheap troll.
You probably don't use a lot of MS products.

Outlook 2000 is 4 (maybe 5) versions old. At least 2010, 2007 and 2003 don't load images by default, I wouldn't be surprised if Outlook XP didn't either.

More to the point: no large organization is using Outlook 2000 anymore. It's unsupported and you can get 2010, 2007, 2003 or even XP on your current license agreement.
A better question, why did you post this on hn? :)
There is a multitude of reasons, as kliment says opening a blog it's so easy that you don't really need a strong motive behind the decision to start blogging.
He maybe just want to write something in english, it's not his native language after all...
Using MultiMarkdown in Scrivener and then generating LaTeX works pretty well for me, though I haven't written anything book-length with it.

http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/using_multimarkdown_...
The much simpler answer seems to be, if you're inexperienced and non-technical, there is simply no room for you in an early stage venture-backed technology startup unless you are someone's best friend, cousin or sibling. Failing that, get experienced or technical enough.
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I know more than one person ruined by fighting with tax law 'because I am right' - Wouldn't it be better to just pay the money and, you know, not be ruined? Do they think it somehow moral to waste yourself in a fight you know you can not win?
If you like the author, be sure to check out his other work:

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It's quite funny how author analyzed the response, it's obvious that he's classic fanboy.

All I get out of this conversation is Steve Jobs is a jackass, yes being a public jackass is really cool but doesn't change the fact that your are indeed a jackass.

Recently I blew up a really expensive Sony device, it was out of warranty. I gave them a call and explained that it's gone. Because I was one of the first buyers of that model they send me a brand new one for free. Now I love Sony, they didn't have to, I'd understand that it's out of warranty, however they did!

A company got millions of customers there are only a few customers which will come to you and say I dropped my iPhone from the window, would you replace it?, a good company got buffer to replace it a jackass company won't. They made millions out of it, replacing couple of thousand extra devices won't kill them. They can buy one less Yacht.
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FWIW, here's an opinion (2004) from the U.S. Dept. of Labor on the subject, setting out the six criteria that the linked article alludes to: http://www.dol.gov/whd/opinion/FLSANA/2004/2004_05_17_05FLSA...

It seems fairly stringent, essentially excluding any unpaid internship where the interns are, at least primarily, doing real work for the benefit of the company. And that opinion was from the Bush DoL, so I can't imagine the interpretation has gotten any more lenient since then.
But did he say he was a very naughty boy?
I don't think it is able to differentiate type of smileys. Only :). No :o, :p or :D

But damn cool app :)
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Yes something along these lines - being able to see the thing at work before signing up is common these days.
It seems these ways of falling asleep are really just creating favorable conditions for sleep.

A number of years ago I learned how to relax and fall asleep in a very effective way.

I was at a friend's house and tried a biofeedback device.

If you google search "GSR2" I think you'll find approximately the device I learned with. Later I bought my own similar device (like ~$10) from radio shack (google search "radio shack biofeedback monitor"). I don't know if they make that anymore.

What these devices do is teach you to relax. You have a tone, and when you relax, it decreases in pitch. If you just think you are relaxing, but the pitch doesn't decrease (or goes up), you can't cheat. By the end, the pitch is very low and you're almost asleep.

Once you learn how to do it, it's quite easy to relax and fall asleep. Using the other tricks like darkness, earplugs or relaxing sounds can then help you.
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Good (non-technical) writers are incredibly cheap right now. There has got to be a business model in that somewhere.
Ask HN: Do you think the world is really overpopulated?
I'm watching YouTube in Google Maps, and I conclude that the kindergarten rhyme is correct. "it's a small world after all."

Which kept me thinking, are we overpopulated enough? Because

- I see places that needs improving, and the earth definitely needs our technology, to manage and improve it's resources, in areas of farming, biology, food, distribution, livelihood and even on the common streets.

If we are overpopulated, then we need to improve people's education, in a manner that they are provoked to improve things, using technology, etc.. Then if they are distributed on different areas, they can do their thing, use technology and systems to improve the earth.

This we're just some thoughts I have, some puzzle, etc.. anything goes, but if you have some comments, feel free to say, it matters a lot to me...
I am simply amazed. The fellow, all morality aside, is simply Mr. BadAss himself.

Two years in jail for all that! I know of people who have participated in the sale of $10,000 US worth of Cocaine (a pittance, all things considered) and have gotten life sentences.
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> they have first class functions

No it doesn't. C++ has function pointers, and you can make functors objects. But that doesn't make first class functions at all. Thinking in terms of higher order functions in C++ is just a different sort of pain, though it's admiteddly usefull sometimes. But you better like making template functors then.
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That's because it was Cocaine, not because of the money. They could have been giving the coke away and they still would have received a life sentence, most likely.
If there's anything needs to be improve on the earth, it's the design and usability of the environment.

Like we don't see the synthesis between structures and plants, we don't see systems that improve the life of the plants synthesized on human structures, thus we can't sustain them on the penthouses of our buildings because as simple as giving them water systematically is not designed, thus people water the plants manually, which is not sustainable..