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Whats the right way to handle your finances?
I've listened to Dave Ramsey and I've read his book, The Total Money Makeover. He believes basically that you don't need to worship a credit score, or have credit cards, and the only loan you take is a mortgage from the bank with 20% down on the house. You always keep an emergency fund and you work to use the "Debt Snowball" to destroy all your debt (credit cards, student loans, etc.) and get rid of it once and for all. And with the lack of empty payments, you can now invest and save your income.

Robert Kiyosaki, Author of Rich Dad Poor Dad , seems to use credit to build wealth. I haven't studied his ways nearly as much.

I've been out of college and working for about a year, and I pay all my bills, including my student loans.

But I'm hung up on the thought of taking a small loan to buy a vehicle that I'd love driving. (Because I love driving, its not just point a-b, its the adventure in between, the experience).

Now of course this comes down to my conscience, and my own choice. I just want to hear what you think.

(the psychoanalysis of this will go : "You're just looking for someone else's opinion to verify that what you want is okay to do, thereby shifting the blame if something goes wrong and not leaving you with responsibility in your mind".) Actually I'm looking for a plan of action to get what I desire.

Also, lets touch on personal gratification. How do you judge if you deserve something or not?

Thanks a lot for your time and attention.
I've never done a 7-day retreat-- 3 days is the most I've tried-- and although my experience was quite different than the one described here, it definitely was quite profound.
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Probably not. But only because I think it would be less popular.
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Orkut launched two weeks before Facebook.
It is freeware, and I like to have something back in return for it. I have hundred thousands of email addresses collected already, something of no use at all for me - I never sell them or email to people. I just want to have them collected :).
what's your target market? day traders? offering stock predictions reeks of the snake oil trading systems advertised on cnbc, so I wouldn't combine that with a data/execution API (which is actually a serious product offering). I also agree with the look-and-feel comments, it's a bit amateurish with the gmail address and godaddy logo. there's also very little information on what this actual is outside of the API docs - how about some screenshots of the control panel?
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This reminds me seeing a Facebook group warning about a rapist in some area and how 357 people (almost exclusively girls) "liked" it. (http://pl-pl.facebook.com/pages/UWAGA-Gwalciciel-grasuje-w-P... in Polish).
I've worked remotely almost exclusively for 5 years now. For a handful of projects I've gone onsite for a day or two a week but those are the exception.

The key is to build your reputation and network like crazy. Get to know everyone you can. Work to become the guy for technology X. And get out there and pitch on remote projects and ideas that you do come across. Once you knock those out of the park, word gets around, so people will start coming to you. Even you can't do the project (skills, time, etc), try to make a solid recommendation for them. You'll still score some points.

It took ~2 years for that to happen to me, but I rarely go out hunting for work now. I make my presence known regularly and the rest pretty well takes care of itself.
>There is a famous graph somewhere with monotonically increasing estimates of a physical constant over time.

The Overton Window seems relevant here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Sorry somehow I missed the fifteen in your answer. Do you think ten minutes would do anything?
I worked on a popular medical imaging application that was released with Win95 support and still working with Vista/Win7. That's some impressive longevity. Mind you there were adjustments along the way to support newer DirectX libraries etc. but the rest of the application was able to compile fine.
> NTFS is a much more modern fs than HFS+, but that doesn't necessarily make it faster.

Nor modern, BTW.
Maybe the numbering of TeX will now go up to 6 and something...
I've benchmarked Tokyo Tyrant, MongoDB, and Redis for a smaller dataset (~20gb). We ended up going with Tyrant because it stored our serialized data more efficiently than the others. That index lives in memory on a big ec2 instance. The data I'm talking about will easily be around half a terabyte or more and I need efficient random access within it. At least initially. I assume that in the medium term this amount of data will grow quite a bit larger. I really do just want to use something like Tokyo Tyrant, but the data management overhead of sharding the datasets across enough high memory ec2 machines to get acceptable performance is prohibitive to going that route. I've kind of been driven to the dynamo / bigtable approach if only because it can store amounts of data in these sizes and can easily be ramped up by adding more servers.

That said, I'm still in the analysis stage of where our architecture needs to go next. It very well may be cost prohibitive to go with one of the technologies I mentioned.

Thank you for the benchmark tools and guidelines. They're immediately applicable to the analysis I'm performing this week.
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A 2-dimensional clone?
Well, you're wrong. There are tons of people in the Metalab scene who are into making money, and who want to get their startups rolling .. otherwise why else would there be so many startup meetings there in the first place?

>I don't think my talk would be welcome, or I would be given the cold shoulder, so I don't put myself through it.

Weird. Preach to the converted, much?
Maybe not the best idea. While the report clearly shows the irreversible damage caused by MDMA (as do many other reports), it does conclude with "Contrary to results of other neuroimaging observations, Mr. A’s brain scan did not show any gross cerebral abnormalities, especially at the hippocampal level," and over eager students might take away the wrong lesson.
I would defiantly pay.. just like i pay for any other service I enjoy.. if I would like to continue using the service or for the service to grow it needs support so why not.

If I don't care about the service then of course I won't.
> But I do look for companies whose profit is aligned with my interest.

This is excellent advice for building a business (especially in the B2B space). Thanks!
I really am annoyed and almost think it is borderline wrong that he failed to mention that to be an angel investor (his $120k invested in startups), you have to be an accredited investor by the standard IRS regulations. My guess is most of the people reading his blog aren't accredited investors, otherwise they would not be reading his blog regularly and getting all pumped up 4HWW style.

"Currently, there are two ways to qualify as an individual:

- You are single and make $200K/year, or you are married and make $300K/year as a household

- You have over $1M in liquid assets"

http://blog.adamnash.com/2010/05/19/accredited-investors-fix...
My initial thoughts were for a Redis style database. It certainly won't live in memory. That's why I've been pushed towards a dynamo / bigtable approach.
NTFS, for instance, always supported symbolic links. Only with Windows Vista a command for that was provided.
They could Re-architect Orkut so that it can run P2P and give the result to Diaspora.
I signed up and was surprised to learn that all the mockups would need to be created in an outside program. I guess that serves a purpose too, to be able to create a clickable thing to show your colleagues, but it wasn't immediately clear to me that an actual mockupping tool isn't included.
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I imagine that was the goal at the time.
Like it. Good concept, well executed. Aimed at designers. Hope it works out for you, good luck with the marketing!
Billions of records. I haven't yet determined which way to slice the dataset to be most efficient. A fair amount of it is denormalized and my assumption is that the initial dataset will be on the order of half a terabyte or more.

Right now the system I've conceived of has lookups by exact key, but the subsequent queries would be for data that is "near" to the previous query. I may mitigate that by increasing the size of data within the initial query to ensure that the "next query" is already loaded into memory.

The keys will always be consulted at random. That's kind of the problem.
Some young outlaw hacker needs to make a name for himself (herself?) by open-source publishing a perfectly undetectable screen-scraper for Facebook that outputs all of a user's data in an open format as XML or JSON.
Great site. I just use email to send mockups 99% of the time, and sometimes I have them printed in hi-res. Good luck though! I'm sure there are plenty of people looking for something like this.
Yeah, I made sure to put "With Mocksup you can upload website mockups" in the subhead on the homepage, and was hoping the Examples page would help alleviate that a little bit. But I know no one reads marketing copy. Good feedback, I'll keep tweaking that.
Still, ZFS sports adjustable redundancy, checksumming to prevent silent corruption, block-level deduplication, zero-cost snapshots and lots of other niceties neither HFS+ nor NTFS support such things.

BTW, BtrFS on top of LVM will support a lot of that too, as soon as it gets ready, something I suspect it's not. It also sports better disk allocation method (blocks and extents vs. slabs). It would be really nice if Oracle decided to merge both filesystems (or, at least, the feature-sets)
I've answered the size question in a few other posts, but I'm thinking billions of records, half a terabyte or more of denormalized data. Stored in whatever ec2 instances I need to accomplish the job. If the required computing power is more than my business can afford then it's really up to the management to make the determination as to whether or not they really want to go down this path.
Not sure... I think it's too extreme a case to show, most students would rationalize that by thinking 'but I'm only taking one it's not like I'm taking 40 000 pills'
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Ask HN: Accuracy of Google Webmaster Tools
I began tracking my site's data on Google's Webmaster tools. But a lot of it doesn't make sense, for example I get +2,000 incoming links but when I download a list of "all incoming links" I get an excel sheet of only 250. Also, for how it does with search queries, the number of clicks is almost twice as much as the queries. How is that even possible?

Are there any alternatives?
Is he also calling ignorant to the OO Scheme or Lisp programmers?

The best approach appears to me to be taking the best of both worlds. Functional may solve lots of problems, but you can't deny the advantages of a good OO design. Just devise your OO architecture for good reusability, flexibility, low coupling and high cohesion and then just use the best that functional programming has to offer.
Definitely not. Telling kids about the clearly very extreme cases just gives them an easy reason to dismiss what you're telling them.
Please don't undercut your competition on price. I remember a quote by Tony Wright (of RescueTime) where he said that "Getting traffic on and off is okay but for a business to survive, it needs a predictable source of potential customers and leads". If you are selling your service for $19/month, you will be forced to keep your cost of acquiring new customers less than that. Which of course means less budget for marketing.

Note that mockups is not something that can go viral, so your marketing costs will linearly scale with every new customer. $19/month looks great if service is viral but for business apps like yours it can prove to be a growth bottleneck.

Rambling aside, suppose 6 months from now when the hype around the cool new mockup tool has died, how do you plan to get new customers? (Hint: whichever method you choose, chances are than you are going to pay for it and that will come out of your revenues)
Shameless plug: if anyone needs a quality assurance engineer - feel free to contact me, I'm currently looking for a remote QA job.
You don't have to be accredited, but the company would be playing with fire by taking your money if you're not.
I am not a designer, so was staying away from specifics, but here are a few armchair observations
a) Your front page should be a jumping spot to the major things you offer. Right now I see your top tool bars, the explore|compare|learn columns and then one camera and then have to scroll down to see the rest. Heres a suggested improvement -> Just retain the explore|compare|learn columns and add ~128x128 thumbnails for the popular cameras in each category. So with five thumbnails you can cover a good camera in each category.
b) How about adding "Ultra Compact", "Travel Zoom" etc in the Just Tell me section.
c) Add the "compares the latest cameras and give personal recommendations" to the top black toolbar as a tagline and get rid of the second white toolbar.
d) Maybe add jump off points for popular use cases like -> "Take photos of kids sport events" etc.
e) Letting people ask their fb network for camera recommendations would be great. ie less technical users put a "request for camera advice", their friends click on it, come to your site and pick cameras for them, which shows up on the persons fb widget. Ultimately the person can pick the most recommended cameras. This might increase the viral coefficient of your product.
So, the solution would be to turn Windows (the heir of VMS) into Unix...

Not sure if the architecture impedance mismatch would allow it.
Thank you for the numbers about hypertable. In my exploration I've been leaning towards hypertable but I haven't done any benchmarking of my own yet.

My read patters will probably have locality but I have not yet figured out how to model the data in a key / value style to preserve the locality of the data. Can you describe what you mean by Zipfian distribution?
Interesting. N may not be such a great symbol to use for torque, because the equation relating it to force and radius is a cross-product. In that context, N often refers to a "normal" vector. Still, it's apparently in use somewhere, which is interesting.
Key detail: she got him to sign a contact (this was after her parents divorced).

Evidently he didn't initially intend to welsh on the commitment, he didn't until her senior year. Needless to say, parents who have absolutely no intention of paying their children's college expenses won't be signing contracts.

Divorce is bad news for college, the pattern of a divorced father not paying for his children's college is all to common. I don't know about other expensive schools, but one thing a friend of mine who's an administrator at MIT has noticed is that it has very few students from broken families (for whatever reasons).
That whole select box background change thing is slick! Very cool design.
New applications, I don't know. But we can decentralize the old ones again: e-mail, web hosting, file sharing… We just have to fix our crippled upload, and use SRV records for HTTP[1].

[1]: http://www.anta.net/nic/draft-andrews-http-srv-01.shtml

I fear there is a chicken-and-egg problem, however. Without a decent upload, few will host themselves. Without self-hosting, there is no incentive to give upload to people…
I'm curious if elevated levels of serotonine for extremely long periods of time would cause memory loss alone. It seems to me that memory is very much a "wow that just stood out from the norm." sort of tracking system. Under high levels of serotonine, maybe nothing can stand out from the norm long enough to be remembered?
I agree completely. I was thinking $49/month would be the sweet spot, but that's without any real analysis.
I just added it.
Ask HN: Is there a way to see a list of articles I upvoted?
Thanks.
Is the objective for him to come in on time? Or for the work to be done? I guess you are having buyer's remorse. Do you guys have a way of seeing progress in the product? That would be the first thing I would do. This way you can see if the working habits need to change or not.
Would put money on it being along these lines.
I am unsure if the whole of it was implemented or only specified.
'like' is one-dimensional, not descriptive enough to distinguish "agree", "endorse" or "noteworthy"
Very easy. The trick is to become irreplaceable at your current work, and then tell them you are moving and willing to negotiate.

But if you don't follow those steps, it's very hard.
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yepp I would do just the same ...
How can I buy something on a philosophy which I don't believe?

For people who believe in homeopathy, already know where and how to buy good medicine and don't need a red tape like FDA.
When you remove the "Uh Oh" from the title, it makes it look like Adobe is stating this.

For once, the Slashdot discussion was actually quite illuminating on this topic: http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/28/1932245/Porn-Industr...
It looks great alot seems to be in place and it's obviously well thought out. The two things I would consider is maybe re-wording the header, I think the objective of that was to fill up the empty space with bigger words, and then have the smaller text as a description. It seems most of the big text is just fluff I think you so reword it to include a quick pitch of what it can do via iphone/website/logo mockup-wise.

Furthermore maybe the process to go signup could be one click faster if here was a signup button on the home page.. instead of a "login button/ see pricing plans button" I mean the pricing plan button works as a sign up it just doesn't say so.. maybe that is just me I clicked the login button at the top right since usually the login/signup is at the top right.

Good luck with this project!
I noticed that when I first started thinking about the Css v tables debate. Google uses a fair number of tables for layout in its designs. Noodle around on Google's site with the web developer toolbar and Outline->Tables->Table Cells. If you're a CSS purist, you'll be horrified. Google's front page makes prominent use of a table for layout. The autosuggest drop down is also a table. Gmail: tables all the time.
Similarly, programming languages as relationship styles:

http://maradydd.livejournal.com/293666.html

Sample (from the comments):
"I don't think C gets enough credit. Sure, C doesn't love you. C isn't about love--C is about thrills. C hangs around in the bad part of town. C knows all the gang signs. C has a motorcycle, and wears the leathers everywhere, and never wears a helmet, because that would mess up C's punked-out hair. C likes to give cops the finger and grin and speed away. Mention that you'd like something, and C will pretend to ignore you; the next day, C will bring you one, no questions asked, and toss it to you with a you-know-you-want-me smirk that makes your heart race. Where did C get it? "It fell off a truck," C says, putting away the boltcutters. You start to feel like C doesn't know the meaning of "private" or "protected": what C wants, C takes. This excites you. C knows how to get you anything but safety. C will give you anything but commitment

In the end, you'll leave C, not because you want something better, but because you can't handle the intensity. C says "I'm gonna live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse," but you know that C can never die, not so long as C is still the fastest thing on the road.""
I was playing with the idea to do a support job remote - any ideas ?
Perhaps contributors should be able to submit their mockups, that way people can discuss the different ones from different people. Otherwise, I wouldn't call them contributors, perhaps observers.
Yes. Don't become a pharmacy.

That doesn't mean that a pill here or there will have the same effect. Considering how many different drugs he was on, we don't know that it was even the MDMA.

Let's keep in mind that this was five times the previous known lifetime dosage of anyone else.
Here are my public github repos : http://github.com/pangel

The only programming I have done professionally so far are a couple of projects for the UCLA Library (while I was there), which you can see on github, and 10 or so freelance websites (for small businesses, an architect, and a magazine).

I should work on actually shipping more small useful side-projects, if only for myself. For now I just keep learning through toy, purposeless projects.
No offense taken, but the point is, there's no "like these." You're comparing two very different things. Knuth's comment was aimed at piqueing the interest of the tiny fraction of people who might want to come see him at a TeX celebration-- which has absolutely nothing to do with hyperbole in marketing press releases.
> Microsoft is really getting their shit together. Win8, if it's even a fraction of what is planned, is going to change things permanently.

No offense, but I don't believe you.
Mutt Gmail Labels and contact suggestions via IMAP
No matter how many E-Mail client are released, the power of Mutt remains unbeaten

IMAP or POP3 ?!

This has become much a religious war like the Emacs vs VI. With most of the ISP's facilitating the users with both the protocols and POP3 with few additions like "Leave messages on server" and "until I delete them." or "archive them" is making the battle more violent. But with the fundamental principle and enormous response from the majority of Mutt users IMAP and Mutt goes very well together

sudo apt-get install mutt to get mutt or can get the source and compile if not on Debian based OS.IMAP must be enabled in Gmail (settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> IMAP Access).

The below is configuration template i made that helps to achieve Mutt+IMAP+SSL+GNU GPG+Labels and also contact suggestions using GoogleCL:
Place the file in ~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc
Its not the antichrist; its not a panacea; its just another language. Its like my yellow framing hammer; useful for one job, but I have other hammers too.
This is following the pattern of many medical advances I have seen in my lifetime:

Step 1) Alternative medicine quacks say that they can do something 'impossible', like regenerate teeth.

Step 2) Doctors say that claim is flat out impossible.

Step 3) Wait 5-10 years.

Step 4) Doctors have a medicine that does the claim from step 1.
Here is the initial announcement of the idea for doing this perl5 book: http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/38303
Adam D’Angelo: http://www.quora.com/Is-Google-Me-a-fake-rumour-Misleading-e...
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Tomorrow @ 5:30 PM PDT, to be more precise. http://tug.org/tug2010/program.html Given how many people on HN are interested in this, I'm curious to see how fast, and in what manner, the announcement gets posted here. Perhaps someone tweets it directly from the conference and the tweet gets posted here. I'm hoping for a post here by 6:00 PM.
I'd like to know why as well. I can't reproduce this bug on my linux server.
Voltdb = memory only database, thus unfair comparision...
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My team tests the data access layer separately, rolling back after each individual test, then mocks it out for the rest of the tests.
I've done this many times in both unit specs and Cucumber (what it looks like he's targetting), and I manage to get away with defining the Given step as stubbing Time.now. No need to get hairy with C at the low level.
We do consulting on dirty programming jobs. We have more work than we can handle, all of it remote. E.g. we do much of the heavy lifting on Teamspace (see sococo.net).

It took 25 years of working in and around Silicon Valley, until we can call on lots of folks with a personal reference. That got us started, but now we (3 guys) get cold calls from time to time as well.