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Smart? He mostly offers superficial pseudo science, which doesn't hold more profound investigation.

The difference between a mediocre scientist and a really smart one is (as always) in the details. He sounds smart at first (many people could do the same; only very few are really smart though).

He's the perfect guy to mislead you in any wrong direction, if you simply "eat" all of his "science". To me, he's the typical representation of someone able to shout out loud and successfully, without really saying anything really scientific.

You have to be scientific, not only sound so. And, science is not absolute -- nothing is absolute -- but he puts science in an absolute position, which is simply not scientific, but already his religion...
I suspect the bigger challenge is making it so that releasing the energy happens in a controlled, preferably non-explosive manner.

There's lots of materials with super-high energy density that have little more than curiosity value due to their tendency to release said energy spontaneously before you're even done making them.
I'm not surprised HARO was successful. It's an incredibly useful service.
That doesn't help the original post: he doesn't remember which is for the US and which is for Canada.
Most of the article reads like Lenovo CEO's scorned-love-poem from China: ". . . a manager needs to be the string on which he puts one pearl after another. But Jobs himself is a big pearl. . . has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China. . ."

I suppose that Lenovo's CEO really wanted to talk about their new phone. But whatever tiny sliver of competition acknowledgement he let slip in turned his news coverage into a weird "CEO gives the competition advice" article.
Agreed. It was well run too. I'm actually very curious, what else would do well with something very HARO like - ie- 1-3 emails a day connecting people together.
Wow, quite the opportunity the last few days when it comes to outsourcing to pitch some services :D

Here is the incredibly short answer:

But to answer your question, yes. I am a virtual assistant and virtual recruiter; it is my job to execute the outsourced office-level tasks of my clients. A large part of this involves administering document management systems, and handling massive amounts of text. Within this I am tasked with copy writing and PR for my clients-the ends to this means being sales leads.

So yes, it is possible to outsource everything but coding. It's not entirely the easiest adjustment to make, and there isn't a one size fit all formula. Find the one that works best for your organizational structure and go with it. Check my profile if you have any further questions.
This is maybe not so useless but definitely awesome!

At least this would solve the whole "which server should I use for lisp" problem...
Grew up in Australia and then moved to the UK for 10 years. English people think i'm Australian. Or sometimes American (too much time watching US TV, I think). When i'd return to Australia, people would think I was English.

I then spent 2 years in Boston. And now 2 years in Toronto. My accent is completely mangled and jumps all over the place (ie, I might sound vaguely North American, but I know that you there's a 'h' in 'herbs').
With the important difference science is repeatable and verifiable. Don't trust CERN's data? Build a particle accelerator and measure it yourself.

How do you test/compare different, mutually-excluding hypothesis on the existence and characteristics of god given by the various religions?

You know perfectly well an all-powerful god is a logical impossibility.
Thanks, I'll look into this more. In the case of Mammatus response, the TTL would already be expired, so the only problem would be if it pinned for longer and didn't request again on failure.
Ask HN: College degree required?
I've been browsing job boards for a research project and I come across time and again a requirement for a college degree to land the position. Yet when I read the description of what the employer wants of its employee it is not clear that one (the degree) has anything to do with the other (the job).

For instance, a job posting will typically ask for a candidate (aside from particular work skills) to:

-have strong written and communication/verbal skills
-be able work independently and effectively multitask in a fast paced environment with minimal supervision
-professional, extremely well organized, thorough, and detail-oriented
-be proactive (aka go-getter)
-have an analytical/sales/managerial aptitude

While a degree may signal some of the above criteria it doesn't follow that the college experience adds to what the student already is capable of by the time he reaches graduation. If anything college may erode his value to employers by allowing him to skate by on a minimal course schedule whose work product is corroded by grade inflation. Students are taught that a minimal effort is all that is needed to be rewarded with a decent grade. In the real world that is decidedly NOT true and subpar performance is the quickest way to get you fired (outside of government).

It could be argued that what once was something special and where a college degree signified something important is no longer the case. For all intents and purposes a college degree doesn't tell you anything about what kind of future employee that person is going to be and if he'll bring the abilities and qualities you want in the job.

What is confounding then is why society has placed an ever greater importance on college when its value and worth has declined. College used to be valuable when access to information was scarce and communicating with and meeting new people was hard to do but the Internet has liberated us. Now we are overwhelmed with content and spend a good portion of our time on social networks and user forums. Therefore, the inherent "worth" of college has fallen precipitously even though employers paradoxically have required ever more of us to have such credentials.

My answer is that a college degree had conferred unto its recipient an "illusion of competence" whereby employers would take as a given that the graduate was an above average worker and place his resume at the top of the pile, so it "paid" to endure four years of coursework and thousands of dollars in tuition costs to obtain that signal.

As students put in the minimal effort necessary to graduate employers find out that graduates are nothing special and the marginal value of a degree declines. Therefore, the illusion that had held up throughout the 20th century has now been shattered in the 21st leaving employers frustrated with underwhelming candidates and graduates despondent over minimal job prospects and burdened with significant student loans.
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That was exactly my thought, the lisp deployment problem can be checked off the list. This also significantly lowers the barrier to entry for people that want to try lisp.

He seems to have done (much) more than a half baked job of it judging by the rest of the page.
That's truly the essence of HARO: making connections between people. Especially where one of the people is in need of something. The other part of HARO is that the reporters' needs would often be difficult to fulfill otherwise (e.g. I'm looking for people who've had a bad reaction to Viagra in the Boston area, etc.).

I bet there are other ideas like this out there.
Ask HN: Planning a trip to Europe
Alright, I need your help. After spending the weekend on different sites and trying to find the package I am sorta lost.

I am planning a trip to Europe and my plan is to visit London (and surrounding area), Paris and then Frankfurt..

All the sites that I have checked out give a one-destination deals.. however I am planning to spend around 2 weeks in these three cities all together.. looking for at least 3.5+ star hotel.

any idea which sites can I use to create and plan this trip?
I assume he still has all of his limbs?
The problem, I think, is that the US credit rating system is formalised. As far as I know, in most countries your creditworthiness is secret information which the banks may or may not pass among themselves. In the US it's all wrapped up in a three-digit number which anyone can access -- this means that other indications of creditworthiness tend not to be taken into account.

Come to think of it, the overreliance on the number could be another consequence of the US's obsession with race: if your bank takes anything into account except the magical number then you leave yourself open to a racial discimination lawsuit.

Oh yeah, and the third problem is that most adults without credit histories seem to be illegal immigrants, who make very little money and can vanish at any time. There are so many illegal immigrants in the legal immigrants are a tiny afterthought.
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I don't know of any sites, but can give you a tip: It's probably easier to use one city as a hub (say London), and then take return short hop flights + hotel deals starting from that city.
the books are returned, thus as long as the people do not make copies of the books all they can hope to do is memorize the sheet music. if they forget they have to go get it again. if it's already lent out, they have to buy it.
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pls review my website, mixing Football + Twitter + gaming.
This is analagous to McDonalds serving duck confit (and it actually tasting kind of good).
Melvyn Bragg (who is in possession of a beautiful accent himself) has done a large number of BBC radio programmes on the recent evolution of the english language, accents, etc.

Routes of English: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/
I tried to add a layer of gaming to the otherwise quite boring visualization of tweets "falling" about a particular topic.

In this case, the prototype is about football. Parsing about 100k tweets per hour during live matches.

Example of a "live match" page : http://www.foottweet.com/en/game/semi-finals-uruguay-vs-neth...

Example of a player page : http://www.foottweet.com/en/player/ssschwarz

Any ideas and constructive criticism on how to improve this most welcome, thanks !
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Count among the 95% the Arkansas Supreme Court's Committee on Professional (Clinton was disbarred in Arkansas for 5 years and ordered to pay a $25,000 fine) and the U.S. Supreme court, which disbarred him from appearing before the highest court in the land.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that(due to its largely african(mores) population) some southern dialects are as much arabic as portugese dialects?
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Email is huge for B2B. Executives -- especially those in non-technical fields -- generally couldn't care less about RSS or Twitter. But they spend half of their day in Outlook or (god forbid) Lotus Notes.
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Smarter deployment scripts, using nginx
After switching our whole environment to Nginx/PHP-FPM we discovered that this, besides much better performance, also offers us many new deployment methods.
every government when it comes to know of benefits its competitors/neighbors got, would ask for the same.

Google and may others shared every private citizen specific info with china, Indian government wants the same features.

India is the largest growing mobile market, 500million+ mobiles. it is easier to enforce mobile related laws. with 3G launch imminent, and internet on mobile going to explode, they have very few options.
Nowhere near as good as Steve Jobs' address at Stanford a few years back, which remains the gold standard for these things.

This one seemed mainly like Jeff congratulating himself on the neat things he's done, with very few actionable take-aways for the audience. The ending in particular, with its repetitive "Will you A, or will you B" device, smacked of laziness, as if it were hastily dashed off the night before.
In my country (at least in case of computer software) it may lead to 5 years of jail time.
Do you think that makes them more likely to read content coming into their inbox? ie- they use email way more for work type stuff, but they're indifferent when it comes to consuming content.
Oh, I don't know if reducing the grammars to Chomsky is really necessary.

Regular expressions, in their original version, are equivalent to Finite-stage Machines (i.e. ... regular grammars, no recursion, no stack, no memory further than keeping the current state). You can't describe the rules of HTML with a FSM.

Perl's regular expressions contain various enhancements. Newer versions of Perl's regexes also contain direct support for recursion (but frankly, you can't call those "regular expressions" anymore).

So ... if your regex library has recursion support, then you can parse HTML (since with recursion you can parse context-free / Chomsky type-2 grammars). If it doesn't support recursion, then you can't.

Btw ... the equivalent for a context-free grammar would be a Push-down Automaton ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushdown_automaton , which is a FSM + a stack.
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I have been doing TM regularly, b.i.d., since 1972. One benefit I get from meditating is a dyed in awareness of reality. This may not sound particularly special. But it motivates me to continue TMing. Words cannot convey this experience.
It is the case. It's not a ratchet and a spring, it's just a spring which can be compressed further than any spring before. (The phase changes along the way are interesting, but will reverse themselves as you release the pressure).

Now, if you could get a giant diamond anvil cell (with house-sized near-flawless diamonds), you could use it to compress a macroscopic quantity of this down, and then get the energy back. The problem is that while the substance in its compressed form may have more energy per cubic foot than, say, a tank of gasoline, in releasing that energy it would expand to something much larger, so your entire apparatus would be very space-inefficient for energy storage (not to mention the difficulties of obtaining those giant diamonds).
Spend $120K in angel investing if you're not rich & connected.
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Is there something that would be useful to the HN crowd?
Extracting variables out of PHP sessions inside Nginx config
I wrote a small Nginx module which allows to parse simple values out of PHP sessions that can be fetched using other Nginx modules like memcache or postgresql
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Hotel stars are fairly meaningless, unless the number of mini shampoo bottles in the bathroom is an important metric for your holiday experience.

At least in Paris I've stayed in perfectly decent 2-star hotels with great location, comfortable room, free WLAN, etc. -- but of course it's best to read some reviews first. The other end of the 2-star range could well be staggeringly bad.
My guess is that you'd want to exclude the HN crowd and look for somewhere that's not exploited. We're all pretty good at navel gazing here and might well have thought of it.

I've always thought, for example, that secretaries/PAs are an underserviced market. They have jobs that involve a lot of moving parts (managing people's email, time, travel, special events, ...). I bet there's a start-up in there making them a service that they need.
You said it twice, otherwise I wouldn't note it: the phrase is "losing touch," not "loosing touch."

To say something directly though, I think that wealth creation is a distinct from money. Even if you yourself can get many of those perks with a higher-paying job, the total wealth in the world is less than if that company gave you those things outright, since a variety of economies of scale would kick in.

And maybe Google's society is overly insular. That said, I don't really want the forced walled garden of Apple or the short-sighted pragmatism of Microsoft to infect Google.

(That said, Google isn't perfect, and they do have a variety of areas where they seem to be falling victim at least to the forced walled garden stuff.)
The black jack win was more of a confidence booster. He was going through a tough time, his investors would not raise additional funds. So he made $30K playing black jack which boosted his confidence and went on to raise another $10M or so.

Sometimes, I think that when you are setting goals to get to tough places - putting up certain milestones like that are extremely helpful.
I'd bet no. Coding is a "minor" part, but the product should be your core function, and the product encapsulates PR, marketing, etc etc.

Your marketing is your voice, you wouldn't want to outsource your voice would you? If you don't want to do that stuff find a co-founder who does
No, I've altered DNS and seen many thousands of connections continuing from these providers even after low value (300) TTL records have been changed several hours previously. I've observed this on a number of occasions.

In the case of Virgin Media, they have transparent proxy caching on some parts of the network I believe, so it's possible this caching was happening there rather than on the DNS servers themselves.
"one of the benefits of unfettered access to Blackberry communications is the potential for economic spying on multinationals with offices in India"

This is all very James Bond-ey, but anyone who works with the Indian govt and its electronics surveillance infrastructure and agencies (I do) knows it is no shape to do and has no intent of doing any kind of effective "economic spying". That's China not India. Wrong country.

On the other hand there have been instances of non-state actors using Blackberries to communicate with some very nasty people. I personally don't agree with the need to have access to all Blackberry communication to track these people down, but bureaucrats aren't very technical. The intent is security, not economic spying. If you have any data or personal experience pointing the other way, I'd love to hear it.
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Frankly, to me this is like, instead of answering a question, a person starts moralizing. Right? In other words, the difference is not so much philosophic as it is pragmatic?

There are atheists and there are militant atheists. I guess what you described sounds to me as a definition of militant agnosticism. Have I missed something important?
The fans of Boca Juniors are called Xeneizes, wich means genovese in genovese.Genovese is a dialect of the ligurian language...
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Paris would probably be preferable to London as a hub, since it's more central that will save you quite a bit of time flying. It's a good idea though.

Anywhere that easyjet flies to is probably a good spot, they're a dirt cheap carrier in Europe.
I had two of the best years of my life at B School. I met lifelong friends, learned a ton, and got to push the reset button on my life.

But business school is a bit of a scam, and the willing victims are the students. They sell glamor and wealth on Wall Street and throughout corporate America. "You'll be making half a mil in 5 years, what's $160k in debt?" Everyone is going to be a master of the universe. Except it doesn't work that way, even if you play by all the rules. Even at Harvard, Stanford, and Penn. Correlation is not causation.

Would I do it again? Hell yeah. But I was fortunate enough to go to a highly ranked public school for a fraction of that. I find it incredibly hard to believe that Stanford is worth 3-4x what I paid at Texas.

BUT... blowing $120k on angel investments seems like a very, very poor substitute for the B School experience. Yes, spend a crap ton of money educating yourself outside of school, but don't piss it away on angel investments. Spend it trying to do something.
Very much agree with the first poster. Distances are generally much shorter then in the US.

You can fly into London and then actually use the train to get to Paris and from there to Frankfurt (and Brussels and Amsterdam and Zurich and lots of other places). It may make sense to check out European rail deals.

http://railteam.com may be a good start to check on trains. Alas, they where never able to implement ticket sales into the site, it may be a good for general information. http://tgv-europe.com is the mothership of the French high speed train network. They do sell tickets. Not sure, though, if they send them overseas.

Flying is certainly the other option.

As for hotels. I made good experiences with http://hrs.com, http://booking.com and http://hotels.com are all fairly good and often offer specials (compare all three, if you have a hotel in mind).

Anyway, have a lot of fun and plan ample time for your visit.
> He mostly offers superficial pseudo science

What do you mean by this? Are you claiming his work in evolutionary biology is pseudo-science? What part of it? Or are you just angry that he doesn't believe in god and isn't afraid to say so?

> The difference between a mediocre scientist and a really smart one

Are you claiming he is a pseudo-scientists or a mediocre scientist?

> To me, he's the typical representation of someone able to shout out loud

What is he shouting about? In my experiences with his writing and speech he makes clear, persuasive arguments which make specific, disprovable claims.

You have made extremely strong claims about a respected scientist and provided nothing but your much derided shouting to back it up.
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> Apple still could have used it. It is open source, that is the point of open source.

Yes, but Apple chose not to. It had nothing to do with legal reasons.

> Not true. There is libapt, synaptic depends on it, for example.

Sorry, you're correct. There was a nascent libapt, but at the time, we just wanted dpkg, and as rbanffy noted, we could always run apt as a separate binary.

It really wasn't a "fear the GPL" response.

> I understand it is not an Apple PR story in this case. It just seemed that the story wasn't true and it seems to me often enough the untrue stories always favor those who have most fanboys or largest PR pockets.

OK. But it's why I was told we couldn't use dpkg. I don't know if you recall what Apple and Mac OS X was like before the 10.0 release, but both were very different beasts than they are today, and Apple had some very different priorities in respect to UNIX, the existing UNIX community, et al.
I'm not composting this year. If things work out I'll probably start a little later. My last heap turned to kindling since I never watered it, it was in a remote part of a farm and I forgot about it.

The city did send me a flyer saying they are starting a composting project and asking for interested citizens to respond.

The reason I went with organic soil instead of sticking plants in the ground is because our building is from the 1960. Lots of things were fashionable then like lead paint and asbestos. I already have a sealed ventilation shaft that has asbestos on my property. The dirt itself could contain anything. I've already picked out broken glass, garbage, rags. All of this is in the dirt. Like the Obamas, I don't want to find out my lawn has high traces of lead.

Going with my own soil I have control of what's in it and what, eventually, goes into me. BTW, my mints and basil have started to pop up. 2 fresh ingredients I no longer need from the store.