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I was intrigued by the reference to "Ovid’s frank advice on meeting women at the theater". This seems to refer to the "Ars Amatoria" which is an interesting read in its own right.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Amatoria

Full text (English translation):http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Artoflovehome...
"frequently-pirated music makes more money than less-pirated music"

Which can be rephrased far less interestingly as "popular music is frequently purchased as well as frequently pirated".
The last line of the article says a lot, a quote from someone in the long tradition of "its all because you are prejudiced against [insert whatever group the person feels they are an aggrieved member of]."
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On the way to the bar I was working up nerve to try the
master’s lesson on an ordinary girl. After all, you don’t
feel so bad disrespecting a bar girl who’s trying to get
you to buy her drinks — but a nice, ordinary, Southern girl?

We went into the bar, and before I sat down, I said,
“Listen, before I buy you a drink, I want to know one
thing: Will you sleep with me tonight?”

“Yes.”

So it worked even with an ordinary girl! But no matter how
effective the lesson was, I never really used it after
that. I didn’t enjoy doing it that way. But it was
interesting to know that things worked much differently
from how I was brought up.
"But seriously, what I'd like is to find out from people who actually know, if there's a financial level at which life changes qualitatively. E.g. is there a level at which it makes sense to stop working and spend your time managing your charitable foundation and hanging out at TED and Davos?"

Not that I know from personal experience, but my best guess on that level of wealth would be 100s of millions. That's a different level of existence.

I know plenty of people with millions, they seem more or less ordinary, though their leisure activities exceed the norm. The couple of people in the 10s of millions range that I'm somewhat acquainted with have very nice living environments (think estates), but don't have foundations. The one person I know with foundation/ted/davos is in a family with the 9 figure range.

Don't really know silicon valley folks, though.
Yeah, the ZFS stuff is getting a little out of hand. However, I am not wanting to get into the business of selling a hardware device, I only want to make the plans for the community to solve all the issues surrounding it.

FreeNAS is almost there, and they do seem to support ZFS now that I was looking into it more today. It looks like it is now just a matter of finding the right hardware. I think I do need 5 disks, 4 for backup and one for parity.

Hopefully it will support Time Machine right out of the box, since Time Machine backs to a sparse bundle, which by nature, can handle all the Mac OS X meta data.

Are you aware of anything that is 5-6 disks, GB, 5-6 SATA ports, or 2-3 multiplied, that is not huge, ugly, and massively expensive?

Thanks for the pointers, I will start looking into the core if/i7 stuff too.
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The 2nd sketchiest seeming part of the city is 6th and Market. It's like a zombie movie after midnight.

True. And it also has Tu Lan, Julia Childs' favorite San Francisco restaurant, as an old greasy newspaper clipping in the window used to proudly substantiate.
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The photograph was a bit unnerving. I couldn't see much of a gap to ride through. I wonder how right-of-way would work?

The reference to the bike share scheme is interesting too -several such schemes have started up recently here in .au.
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> Romantic relationships are about forming deep emotional connections, about being true with someone in a way that admits a very real risk of emotional agony.

That might be true for you. It clearly isn't true for everyone. Clearly there are some people who would rather not have "a very real risk of emotional agony" and their wants are just as real, just as authentic, as yours.
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One of the biggest mistakes that music/film/software industries make is assuming that each pirated copy is a direct revenue loss. I don't know if that's what they actually believe, though it's often reported this way in the media and I'm pretty sure organisations like RIAA support that style of reporting. Though the problem is, not everyone who pirates something would pay for it if that were the only way of obtaining it. Certainly the higher the price, the less likely that is to occur.
I got laid off in the dot com crash with a 10^5 dollars in 2001 (I know, I got lucky. Company out of money, but acquired by a bigcorp. Laid off the least senior folk with nice package).

It let me move across the country and not work for a couple years. Which was nice, and really it's ultimately been life changing what with a new environment, but it wasn't transformational or anything.
That these methods work so well makes me sad about the state of humanity and whatever dreams we could ever have at achieving relations between genders be on equal terms.

What? Average women have more power in gender relations than average men. Pickup techniques help achieve equality here. Also the average woman spends more effort on being attractive than the average man, and pickup techniques make men work on their attractiveness, helping achieve equality in this respect too :-)
Do you think that is true even for modern allocators like Hoard?

In other words, I'm curious what are the underlying malloc() implementations that pool allocation so outperforms.
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But, if they have a business model from the start, they need less money to grow.
Anybody that scores 'FYM' is an outlier in some way.
> ended fiscal 1998 on Sept. 30

Wrong decade. They lost 3.8 billion last year and expect to lose billions more this year [1]. They claim to have operational independence, but the Senate cuts them a check for losses that the Post Office will never pay back because its current form becomes less relevant and necessary every year. Fedex and UPS can do better package shipping, and electronic could take over for almost all documents now.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11...

I say close it down. Auction the assets off, pay post office workers a year or two's pay for no work to appease them, and give some kind of buyout to people with pension plans. Keeping the Post Office running to preserve jobs is a farce and massive waste of important resources.
Yup. Some of these items represent sound advice and not just superficiality.

To be fair, putting together an excellent company that can compete at the top of one of the biggest industries on Earth is not an easy task, no matter how much good advice you have to work with. However, becoming a better company by taking lessons from the best is something well in the realm of feasibility for many organizations.
That's true, but I think it's important to draw a line in the sand and say "students don't get to dictate that their studies should be easy".[1] Otherwise we end up with courses that teach little, are easily gamed, and produce graduates with little value.

[1] And to be clear, I think universities as a whole should take up the fight. When an institution keeps handing out degrees to anyone who pays tuition it devalues the college overall.
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Don't worry, I don't insult easily :) Maybe you should get over your antipathy to the term and read the post anyway, I don't think your comments match what I wrote.
I find that a lot of people these days are super judgmental about others... How much influence does he have? Who are his friends? Is he a slob or is he financially valuable? For some I'm sure this is an intimidating factor in why they shy away from meeting new people and growing their social network.

Personally, I try to avoid judgement as much as I possibly can (it's harder to do than you think, we all do it to some degree) and see the person and their potential for what can be, and not necessarily for what they are currently branding themselves. I help whenever I can, but more often than not they don't need the help (or really probably just don't want it) ... Ultimately, relationships are valuable to me, not just to have someone to drink a beer with, or to make a deal with, but to relate to and share in the experiences of the human condition. And there are a lot of people out there who want to do the same!

But people who are genuine, sincere, and have a lust for life and other people, are a real rare breed these days. When you meet them, hang on to them with force, because they're the ones who make life really worth living for!
The process you've described isn't really hedging, it's effectively closing out a trade, either through booking a profit, or mitigating a loss. The equivalent in the equities world is roughly these two cases; today you buy some shares in Acme Oil Company, tomorrow they announce that they've discovered a massive oil well and their share price rockets, so you sell and book a nice profit; or today you buy some shares in Acme Oil Co, tomorrow they announce they've sprung a leak off the coast of Florida and their share price falls, you sell your shares to mitigate the losses you've suffered (and the potential for more losses).

That is not hedging; hedging is the process of considering (at the point of purchase) how you can protect your investment against unquantified events. For example you might decide that Apple as a company is undervalued so you want to buy some of their shares, but the markets seem volatile at the moment so you want to hedge yourself against large movements in the index.

You can do this by selling short on the index at the same time as you buy your Apple shares. So suppose you're correct about Apple (that they're undervalued) and the market realises this and their share price increases by 1% relative to the index, without your hedge this could see your investment say gain 4% if the index goes up 3%, or lose 2% if the index falls by 3%, so you get either +4% or -2%.

Now suppose that you have your index hedge in place, if the market rises by 3%, you get 4% on Apple -3% on the index = 1%, if the market falls by 3% you get -2% on Apple and 3% on the index = 1%. So either way you get the 1% profit through your Apple intuition. By selling the index you've hedged yourself against movements in the underlying market.

So to hedge a bet on something like Roger Federer winning against Rafael Nadal in a match today, you need to try and find something else to bet on at the same time. I can't really think of how to do this though.
> "but I'd rather not attract women by appearing more confident than I actually am"

Having read some of the works in question - I have to correct a misconception. PUA isn't about false bravado - that's why the 3-second rule exists, so you approach the woman before your own insecurities kick in and your mind gets way ahead of itself. If anything, it's not an act, it's actual anxiety management so you don't act like a nervous buffoon.

I don't see anything wrong with this. We accept insecurity from our friends, families, and other loved ones frequently - but we rarely accept it so readily from strangers. PUA is not the art of maintaining romantic interest, it's the art of initiating it between total strangers - and oftentimes the strategies employed are counter-productive for long-term relationships (which is why everything they say must be taken with a healthy dose of critical thought).

> ""confident, funny and slightly unavailable" appearances, you neuter the possibility of a genuine emotional connection."

And that's not what it's about. So here's the thing, PUAs work in a hyper-competitive environment where, even before their arrival, it was already a hotbed of attempted pickups and blatant come-ons. Their strategies are mostly about rising above the rabble of men trying to hook up with drunk girls and appearing more attractive than the sea of dudes in the room.

All of this is still relevant to people who aren't in a sweaty nightclub and aren't just looking for one-night stands. "confident, funny, and slightly unavailable" is a great place to start, especially when your target is desirable and frequently hit on. You can connect all you want once you've beaten the crowd of suitors - that's the point.
Unless you are ACS:Law -- they seem to be making a profitable business from it.
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As life's, the nature of programming is a paradox: it's about two mutually-opposing views taking place simultaneously.

Programming is very much about computer science's theoretic abstractions as well as about bit-flipping in the physical reality of electric circuits. The trick is that while you must be at least partially aware of both views in order to be a good programmer, you can't program solely from one of them only. CS abstractions won't teach you to work intimately with your computer and, conversely, showing great command of your machine by knowing its eletronic nature and mastering its assembly language won't get you far until you can see on a high level what you're doing.

Programming could be said to be the skill of merging—or making— the theory and practice into a working program, and with the emphasis on the merging part itself instead of what is being merged. For example, at the same time, a good programmer must know both something about CS and electrics while still most of the programming work is about the art of making, which is yet another thing.

So abstractions are there. And they're there to assist you and provide solid ground to build on but at the same time, however, you can't rely on them either.
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How about recommendations like "people who write like Bukowski enjoys Burgess"? Of course the author names are links to your affiliate program.

BTW, the banner at the bottom of your site is taking ages to load.
I subscribed to the RSS feed but somehow the content in google reader is truncated to this:

"The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are: "

Would be nice to have the full post in there with the 10 links :)
"Have a Clearly Defined Leader: Everyone knows ... Tony Hsieh is the leader of Zappos"

I'm not sure but I may have heard of Zappos, I don't know what it does and I certainly never heard of Tony Hsieh.
Love is a verb, not a noun.
The Foursquare example is great, they got traction first then went for a seed round. It's a helluva lot easier to raise money that way.
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cperciva, I really appreciate the effort you put into this.

One thing I find a bit depressing is that even though this scheme hugely reduces the time one spends on HN by filtering the articles according to votes, the top voted articles are not the ones that I would want to read. I usually come here for that "hacker" hacker news (hackerhackernews.com used to be something like this, but now the domain name has expired it seems). Anyway I am sure there will be people who find your service really useful.
The type of engine you are referring to is called a 'boxer', and it has been in use in many other places from well before Honda ever used it.

Most notably in motorcycles probably the BMW brand, in car engines there was the Citroen 2CV and the VW beetle as well as many others, but that's not the same kind of engine as the one depicted in the article.
My blog code defaults to only putting one paragraph into the RSS feed -- for most of my blog posts this works well. I've adjusted my script so that future dailys will include the list of links in the RSS feed.
I thought about Amazon affiliate program, but I'm outside the US, and it's a huge hassle to deal with checks here.

Thanks for suggestions!
If offered the choice between empty meaningless sex and deeply meaningful unrequited love I'd take the first without hesitation.

The former might be shallow and empty but the latter is just horrible.
The more you interact with women, the more you get to know women.

There is no method.

Think about throwing a baseball. No professional pitcher looks the same. They each have their own peculiar windup, delivery, and follow-thru. They each have a different selection of pitches. Some are taller than others. Some are from the Dominican Republic. What do they have in common?

They've all been pitching for a long ass time.

Sure, they have insights on the process. They'll show you their grip on their change-up or how they flick their wrists out before they release their curveball. They'll show you little bits of technique but they'll never be able to teach you how to pitch.

You've got to figure it out on your own.

Confidence is absolutely key. You're up on the mound. Your entire team is behind you, waiting for you to deliver the ball. It's just you and the batter. You're on the spot. You can't undo what is about to happen. There is no proof-reading. There are no mentors to run things by.

It's all up to you.

The first pitch might be off target. That doesn't matter. You've still got at least one more pitch to throw. So what are you going to do, fret about what just happened or think about how having a 1-0 count can work to your advantage? What was that last pitch, a fastball, and you missed up and outside with it against a left-handed hitter? Perfect time to throw your slider in for a strike, just nabbing the upper right corner. Now it's 1-1. The hitter is left thinking if the first pitch, way outside that it was, wasn't just some sort of psychological test, a setup, a prelude for the rest of the at-bat.

Congratulations, you've just gotten through a single batter. There are at least two more to go, and that's just for this inning. If you're lucky, you'll get to face 27 or more of them. If you're not up to par, you might only see a dozen or so. The point is you are hungry for the chance to show off your skills.

It doesn't matter if you're a knuckleballer, a crafty south-paw, or a fire-brand young all-star. You're all experiencing the same thing.

However, the method used to succeed is your own.
BTW, the banner at the bottom of your site is taking ages to load.

Hmm, it's hosted on Rackspace Files CDN.
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Video of the engine in action

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It's not perfect, certainly -- over the past 3 days I've still only read about half of the top-ten links. This is about avoiding the situation where an interesting highly-voted article gets drowned out by all the noise rather than an attempt to find "good" articles which don't get lots of votes.
But there are significant tax savings when using a 401K or IRA, which combined with the long term makes it quite unlikely that savings will out perform.
> So women don't think you're a real man.

The problem is that they don't think you are a real man for the wrong reasons (usually, and in this case all the time, since this game is played before you actually know each other).

From the article: "Strauss was transformed from a short, skinny, balding..."

If the definition of "real man" (at first impression, before truly knowing a man) is based on height, weight, and hair, then the methods, psychological games, and trickeries involved in these methods are fair game.
Cheers, thanks for the quick fix :)
Many of my FB friends are writers, this thing has spread like wildfire through them today. But the thing is it's a flash in the pan effect. It'll do huge for a very short period of time with no revisits. If you monetize, do it RIGHT NOW. Tomorrow is too late. Almost literally.
"why wouldn't Obama support it?"

Because America is still a democracy and he would be voted out in the next elections and the guy who promises to end the subsidy would be voted in if the people do not want the newspapers to be subsidies.
I agree, just like almost every meme, it's short-lived.
Yeah, I tend to find the really interesting stories are not the top of the page ones. Love in the age of the pickup artist? Sorry, couldn't care less.
Why do you need five million dollars for that?
There seems to be some studies that indicate that this is the case, even though it is a counter-intuitive finding:

1. http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/01/dutch-government-stu...

2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pira...
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Based on your post, you write like Dan Brown.
My personal enthusiasm suffers from a lack of quality.
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My initial thought when hearing about all of this was exactly that: they hit the accelerator instead of the brakes. It took me a while to realise why they weren't standing on the clutch: most cars in the US have automatic gearboxes.

I'm guessing this sort of thing basically doesn't happen when you have a clutch, which, if you're used to driving cars with a manual transmission, you'll instinctively jump onto when braking. If you hit the gas instead of the brakes, you won't stop very fast, but at least you won't accelerate.
Remember that being at the top of the front page at some point during the day does not necessarily mean that an article is in the top 10 links for the day.

I think looking at scores -- without looking at how long it took for those scores to be reached -- probably weights in favour of more "interesting" stories and against link-bait stories, simply because the link-bait tends to accumulate most of its votes very quickly.
"Don’t Design By Committee: Another interesting tidbit from the most recent D Conference was Steve Jobs’ comment that Apple was the largest startup on the planet and that there were no committee. Apple puts the company first and foremost, not individual people. No one person, even Steve himself, is above Apple."

This paragraph directly contradicts itself. Committees are what you get from "no I in team" corporate collectivist ideology.

Apple has I's in its team: Steve Jobs, and I'm sure a number of their best designers and engineers as well. Apple can make good well-designed un-cluttermongered products because these people have the ability and the courage to say "no, bad idea." Great things are usually the product of one integrating mind. Committees roll balls of junk.

There is no doubt in my mind that when Steve is gone Apple will suck. I'm sure the investors will put some ivy-league MBA apparatchik in charge, and he'll form committees and be very proactive at leveraging their core competencies.
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