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Most categorical statements are only useful as heuristics, not as hard and fast rules.

EDIT: I agree with your statement as a heuristic, but not as a rule. Printing presses do, in fact, exist. Someone had to invent the technology.
After reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etisalat#Internet_Censorship

I'm forced to conclude we all must be doing something right.
Bill was working at Goldman Sachs and Rich was in Hong Kong doing an internship. Rich was a little bored, so they started a company in Hong Kong selling advertising on taxi cabs. They landed a deal with the largest cab company in the city.
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Actually I think you're missing the point. Certainly he could actively engage in strategies that work in online dating, and doing so would increase his chances of success in getting dates through online dating sites. His point is that in doing so he plays a very different game to other dating environments - like amateur opera - and that the whole game is unpleasant and unappealing to him. That's pretty much the point of the original video as well.

Self depreciation is actually quite charming - but I really doubt it would work in online dating. So if I was actually trying to give WilliamLP dating advice, it would be to find avenues more suited to his talents. But if we're discussing online dating I think I'd say the things it emphasizes and encourages are contrary to the things that find good compatible relationships.
Strangely enough this post has caused me to decide to give D another wag.
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Backed up by this data:[1]

1960 1981
HS Grads 41.0% 69.7%
<4 College 16.5% 32.1%
>=4 College 7.7% 17.1%

(all numbers are cumulative (college-bound are also HS grads), and for people 25+ years old from the entire population)

A higher percentage graduated college in 1981 than entered college in 1960. A person was twice as likely to enter college.

Meanwhile, in 2009, we had:[2]

HS Grads 86.7%
Some College 55.6%
Associates+ 38.5%
Higher degrees 29.5%

(I separated Associates, as I believe those are often <4 years, but just to include it. Same data set & methods.)

Not directly comparable, I'll grant you. But the trend continues. Assuming Bachelors+ == 4 years or more, nearly as many people had 4 years or more as entered college in 1981. And look: the college-entry rate has nearly doubled again. Even with grade inflation, I'd say things are improving overall, despite (because of?) the lowered hours.

[1]: http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/education/p20-390/t... (contains more years + more data)

[2]: http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education/cps20... ("both sexes" excel link)
https is a good way to get around the block. Unfortunately https on HN redirects to http.

edit:

@andrewtj : yes, http://apps.ycombinator.com works.
I agree. Good point. There is a strong argument to be made for defining a prenup for all marriages, just as a contract would have a dissolution agreement. That way, the negotiation takes place when the people are on good terms and not trying to screw each other over out of spite.
Well it says at around 5'9 an inch is worth 30K. Two larger questions arise out of the whole topic?

1. Is the relationship linear? i.e. at 6 vs 5'8, is it 30K per inch, or does the price of the woman start to drop based on your height?
2. If a women's interest is dictated in $$$, what does that imply? Why do men tolerate women who act like this? Why do we raise our daughters to think like this?
I didn't argue either for or against marriage, he is the one who said its worthed. The assumption you take out from someone when he says something is worthed, is that they have experienced both extreme of the experience.

As for me, no I have not been married to a wonderful spouse and I am sure for every bad experience like Elon's you will find 4 good experiences (my parents have been married for 40+ years). But to answer your question, if its worthed to be married to someone for 10+ years and then getting divorced and finding out that she is sucking the last penny out of you for the rest of your life is NOT worthed; AFAI am concerned. I don't care how much bliss you had for that 10 years or so.
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You can do OOP in VB. It is almost proper OOP: the only thing not supported is real inheritance. So for every method in your child class you have to write some boilerplate to make a call to the parent.

As a side note, there was a really awesome book I read back when VB6 was still new. It's called Hardcore Visual Basic, and it is about how to do things that were said to be impossible in VB. Using the undocumented VarPtr functions, calling Windows API, etc. It is out of print (obviously), but available online at http://vb.mvps.org/hardweb/

That page mourns the late VB6. It is right: VB.Net is an entirely different language. I don't even know where you'd get a copy of old school VB these days (though VBA in Office is quite similar). Anyway, VB6 is dead, so you are probably interested in moving on to something modern.

The nice thing about Python is exactly that everyone keeps going on about how awesome it is :) What this means for you is that people have written some really good libraries. Many of them are in the standard distribution and are well-documented. This is what Python people mean by "batteries included".

As for what I'd use for this app... Not sure. I haven't written anything GUI-heavy in a long time. With Java I usually hand-code the GUI, but there might be good visual editors these days. For Python there is an IDE called Boa Constructor which lets you build GUIs. I have not tried it though.
I think RAW's point is that the principles of QM provide support for a philosophical viewpoint that can be practiced through adjusted semantics.

As far as the QUIM, I would like to see some data before making a judgment. I don't have sufficient understanding of the related physics to make theoretical conjectures about its plausibility (or absurdity).
Off the cuff solution: Require accounts be tied to a real identity (provide driver's license #?.. No I haven't thought about legal/privacy repercussions) and introduce a post-date rating system. Sprinkle in some sort of staleness algorithm along with an anti-maliciousness algorithm (IE: someone who always rates their dates as creeps might themselves be a nutjob) and perhaps the system can survive.

Off the cuff so tear this to pieces. Perhaps I just WANT the idea to work so well that I am not seeing the forest through the trees.
At first, this combination looks weird. But thinking about it, it makes great sense.
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Yes, the verticals that are likely to feel like bankrolling all the traveling tend to be the larger corporate ones - the ones who are in the Business of Business, especially.

Not saying there aren't fascinating problems to solve in there as well, but you're right, there can be a lot of churn...
One thing I'm curious about is what it's like for a hacker to become an angel investor. I get the impression that being a VC is not that much fun (from a hacker's point of view), and in many respects being an Angel seems closer to a VC than a hacker (you're "just" a source of money, you're less hands-on and more advisory, etc).

Doesn't the urge to actually "do" stuff cause you to exert more pressure on your investees? How do you feel if you see them doing stupid stuff (technically)? Do you get inspired to try hacking something related yourself?

And less related questions: do you try to consciously find "complementary" startups to invest in and then try to get them to talk to each other (e.g., an ice cream company + chocalate company = super delicious!)? What do you do about competitors to your investees? Do you "wish them the best" or do you try to give your company a leg-up somehow? Is angel investing "something to do", "a way to get rich", "a way to help the world", all of the above, or something else? Why should people become Angel investors rather than donate to charities, or build schools in Laos, or buy cameras for orphans, or micro-invest using Kiva, or buy a giant island shaped like a skull and a matching super-villain boat?
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You can do that if you want an aneurysm!

http://thereifixedit.com/

edit: disclaimer: I had a 21 credit semester. Not recommended.
I don't know if it's true for others but I could have skipped high school and college and I would have missed absolutely nothing in terms of knowledge acquired during those years. I don't think my sentiments deviate too much from the norm. Knowledge these days is much more decentralized and more readily available and if you want to learn something then you don't really need a classroom or a professor to do it. My suspicion is that more and more students are actually pursuing their real passions simply because it is more accessible and consequently they are spending less time on boring class material but are just going through the motions to get a piece of paper.
Self-deprecation
Yay, code jam was fun! I meant to do it the last two years, but didn't notice at the right time of year. But in 2010, I did remember.

What are your roadblocks?
What, that you both live in Seattle and you are Strangers?

I think this is the way to go, big sites attract lots of strange people. Also, from what I have heard, paying sites have better clientele than the free sites, which makes sense, but I have not been game to actually pay for it.
Really? It experienced the worst-case scenario -- running directly into something at full speed -- and came away completely unharmed. "Rock solid" would be how I'd describe it.

It would be very tough to implement "collision avoidance" without being overbearing on what the user can or cannot do. For example, it would be extremely annoying if the robot's collision avoidance made it actively try to stay away from walls "because the user could potentially make a sudden turn at full speed towards the wall, and then a collision could result, so therefore we should try to avoid that scenario because, damn it, we promised collision avoidance!".

The net effect would be that the user might have a very good reason for wanting to drive close to a wall, but can't because of artificial limits imposed by the software.

It's better to not waste time on those kinds of 'features' and instead focus on making the core experience better. In this case, focusing on the two-way video and reducing chat lag time.

Incidentally, those kinds of 'features' seem like exactly the kind of thing that a mature company would focus on (waste time on) and lose sight of making the actual product better, because it combines so many things that mature companies would like -- delivering on promises to the user, it sounds good on paper, etc. But it loses sight of the fact that the goal is to make the end product better, not to deliver a laundry list of things.
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Timeouts aren't about punishment (at least, not the way they were used in my house). I think it's difficult for people who were raised that way to see the discipline side of parenting as anything other than coercing your child to behave, but it isn't always necessary. For my parents, it was about teaching.

When I had tantrums, my parents sent me to my room. Not because having a tantrum is wrong and I needed to be punished, but because I wasn't in control of myself and needed to let my anger play out without bothering anyone. And you know what? They stopped. They got boring. They taught me that I couldn't get what I wanted that way. (Some parents give in and teach children that tantrums are an appropriate way to get what you want. I don't advocate for this at all.)

Misbehavior was "punished" by the natural consequence of the action. Being rude in a social situation = being removed from it. This how they taught me that you follow society's rules or you don't get to appreciate it. (Intentionally) breaking my stuff = losing it. I don't break things.

The spoiled kids aren't necessarily the ones whose parents never coerced them to behave; the spoiled kids are the ones whose parents hid them from the real consequences of their actions.

Saying "Mommy doesn't like it when you do that" and then driving them to the Zoo anyways is completely different from "Mommy doesn't like it when you do that and I've asked you to stop three times. I don't want to take you to the Zoo anymore; we're going home." The latter option sends the message without also making you an enemy worth rebelling against. Spanking does.

"Teaching" someone that bad behavior leads to a spanking doesn't make them understand why it's bad. It's not true of everyone, but some children (myself included) would not think "when I do this, there is pain, so I shouldn't do this.", as with touching a hot stove or an electrical outlet. They would think "when I do this, my parents hit me, and because they hit me, I don't like them, so let's think of some good ways to make them angry... hmm..." and so the arms race begins.
Okay well, I bothered to ask google about the article mentioned, it's at:

http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/lie-online-dating-prof...

if anyone cares.

I don't know what the reason it gets deaded is, but it is really heavy with the online site promotion at the top, and I can see how someone would think it would be linkbait.

Compare that to the okcupid blog:

http://blog.okcupid.com/

Which conveys the impression it is a proper blog, rather than a massive advertising exercise.
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I don't know about other countries, but most states in the US do not recognize common law marriage.
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The process is amazing. It's a giant highly optimized molecular recognition library. Random diversity in antibody binding motifs is generated by guided mutation of the DNA coding for the proteins in the antibody. This wide repertoire is then screened for antibodies that react to 'self' molecular patterns in the body, and the B cells producing those self-reacting antibodies are deleted. One B cell produces only one kind of antibody.

There is also evidence that this antibody repertoire is further primed and refined by constant interaction with the incredible molecular diversity produced from the bacteria that live on our mucosa (that is, barrier interfaces with the environment like the lining of the gut and lungs and the skin).

The immune system naturally tweaks antibodies to make them more efficient at binding (Affinity maturation it's called). If you are trying to make a vaccine, you are better off starting off with an antibody which has already had all the hard work done on it.

It should be pointed out that the donor they used is actually infected with HIV, the antibody didn't protect him because prior to infection it wasn't affinity matured or present in high enough concentration.

If there was a heirarchy of medical treatments, vaccines would surely be at the top. A jab when you are too young to remember and suddenly debilitating fatal diseases that have plagued humans for thousands of years are no longer a problem. The immune system is unique in that you can give information to it, you can communicate with it. It's an information technology, actually. I think this is why vaccines are so fantastic, it is a treatment that collaborates with the body. Pretty much all other medical therapies involved taking a broken system and breaking it even more to achieve some kind of withered stability which is inevitability temporary and has consequences for the organism as a whole (eg giving steroids for rheumatoid arthritis, chemotherapy for cancer).

The seasonal flu vaccine is a global immune system in action. It's a molecular rss feed, an app update, a glycoprotein tweet whatever analogy you care to use, perhaps one day an individual's immune system will be part of a greater whole linked via information tech. The immune cloud it might be called.

And millions will still die because of war and poor sanitation and exploitation.
There may also be less perceived benefit to studying compared with other activities, such as interacting and collaborating with the broader world. Oh, the horror!
I think you're really splitting hairs, frossie.

The page doesn't have a single ad on it. The online site promotion at the top simply gives a run-down of what content can be found on the site, which is the whole point of a header.

The OKcupid blog also has links to other posts on it, and actually has a widget full of gigantic social media widgets that follows you as you scroll down the page. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I wouldn't say the comparison was night and day.

Regardless, links from this site are automatically dead upon submission. HNs filters are too strict.
I had real trouble using autoconf back when the documentation wasn't very good (it may have become more newbie friendly but I'm not sure). In the end I wrote my own configure script in bourne shell. The shell script suited my needs fine and was much faster.

The selling point of the autoconf tools is that writing your own shell script is tedious and error prone. This was not my experience.
Yeah, I know. Even three times a week isn't enough. Perhaps it's a goal that isn't really important to me.
> So by all means, explain to me why the non-gcc implementation (6g, 8g) for Google Go not being LLVM somehow isn't classic NIH.

Disclaimer: I know a bit about the background to the choice, I wasn't involved but I've seen the consequences having worked with the 5g arm compiler.

The code generation part of 5g/5l is on the order of 10k lines of C, the whole 8g/6g/5g compiler suite is ~115k. I don't know how to break down LLVM but the whole project looks like ~270k lines of C++ so the code generation is probably more than 10k.

Now imagine you are tasked with writing a compiler for an experimental language where one of the key features is blazingly fast compilation. The plan9 compilers are fast, you wrote them yourself so you know their strengths and weaknesses. The plan9 compilers are also reasonably small and written in C which you know well.

You know nothing about LLVM. It could be good but it would take some time to find out. You also don't know too much C++ and it would take some time to get up to speed.

I would be very interested in understanding why this is NIH as opposed to reasonable management of risk?
Why does the collision avoidance has to be a hard limit? Allow it to be toggled on and off at will by the operator and it solves all problems you mentioned.

Collision off on cramped places with furniture.

Collision on when too many moving object (people walking around).
I guess you can do other things to show you know how to relax and your not just 100% business all the time. I think that's the main thing entrepreneurs are looking for by having a few beers with their investors.
I'm not implying anything about the achievability of the abolition of marriage, I'm just speaking about it from a theoretical point of view. I completely understand that the social conservative movement is too strong in America for anything like this to happen in the forseeable future.
Hmm.. autotools work and they actually work quite well.

Besides - most the replacements that have been written eventually end up even more complicated than autotools..
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While we're speaking about obfuscated game of life implementations, try this one in C. It draws on an X11 root window, no Xlib required.

http://www.ioccc.org/1991/davidguy.c
If one chases down some of the links on that page, one gets to a number of interesting/useful resources.

Thanks for the link. I'd run across some of those some years ago but since lost the references.
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> In a California divorce, the wealthier spouse must pay both sides of the battle even if they are not the aggressor.

Don't tell me, let me guess: it was lobbying by lawyers that created that law, right?
>I have the personality of leader,

You are entirely wrong, if you accept the rest of your post at face value.

Women like leadership.

Leadership in its most primal form is not about intelligence, decisiveness, alpha male-ness, or what-have-you. Leadership is about people believing you have any of those powers (or some several I forgot). And that's where you're going entirely wrong!

You think that such a belief is worthless. You think that people give up something when they follow a leader. A leader is just one who takes the desires and wishes of the people who follow them into his/her own heart.

You think that women are really such base operators and are upset at them for that. And that makes it impossible for you to see them as human.

If you think that making money and power will get you women, you're entirely right. You'll hit the point at which such things are so attractive that your other "defects" won't matter. Money can buy anything with a pricetag, and power can buy anything that can be intimidated.

But you won't be happy until you realize that you're on an equal level with those women whom you despise.

And that's the core of why I'm angry with you. You think you're better than women because they fall for speed seduction value elicitation bullshit, but at the same time you think you're hot shit ("personality of leader") and buy into same shit in your seeking of power. Do you think women will interest you once you can buy them?

The better framework is that yes, there are women who will fall for power and money; yes, there are women who will be seduced by "demonstration of value"; but there are a lot of women. Even speed seduction respects women's choice by taking tactics that try to influence it.

I apologize, I'm being harsh in calling you out so thoroughly. I'm a little drunk.

But fuck it, this story is about online dating in an absurdly negative light, and I've had more than a few friends succeed in online dating because they were serious about finding and evaluating someone.

Good luck in whatever sort of woman you choose to pursue.
There probably would have been others than got it but didn't invest because of the amount of competition in the blogging space. Sure it may be the easiest way to start up a blog online but your presented with plenty of different options if you decide to create a blog, each of which will serve the purpose.

Also I think it is in area where there is a risk of someone like Facebook leveraging their large user base with an improved integrated version of their current notes feature.

Posterous may well pay off nicely for investors but it's by no means a sure thing.
True, but it's not as bad as that. In the end, if you had to, you can give away the dog to a good home with a lot less paperwork. ;)
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