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You can't desire to analyze someone from an evolutionary psych perspective, out-strategize someone, or form a deep emotional connection at different points in a relationship?

I have yet to form a deep emotional connection upon first coming in contact with another person. That's something that must grow with time. From my experience, even going in with the idea that I might get into a serious, long-term relationship with someone, there's a hurdle that I must overcome before I can get a girl to desire a deep emotional connection. The "game" is one means of overcoming that hurdle. Yes, it means adjusting your personality to fit the circumstance, but I do that all the time. Is that somehow uncouth to do so when the end-goal is a romantic relationship instead of getting funding, finding a job, making a new friend, or any other potential scenario that involves another person/people?
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No, that he's boasting about it as evidence of why he should be trusted over Assange.
I can't help but wonder what their BHAG is for all this money. It seems like it's got to be an awfully big target.
Without a moment of hesitation? Ha. I'm no PUA, but I doubt you fall in love at the drop of a hat. And if you do spot a girl across a crowded room, and think, By God, I'm in love!, you're not going to walk over there and tell her that on the spot.

Relationship protocols are designed around taking acceptable risks. Just because you're playing for real beating hearts doesn't mean there isn't a game.
And it seems Zara is definitely on their way...see http://www.insideretailing.com.au/Latest/tabid/53/ID/8635/Za...
The last section is a bit pretentious ('darkened dorm room', 'do not lament your condition'). I do sympathize with the difficulty of learning how to love in modern times, etc. And I did enjoy parts of the retelling of The Red and the Black. However, there is a more sustainable alternative to PUA, which is also not naive (like blind Romanticism).

And that is, consciously, be awesome and find awesome common ground.
From the article:

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I don't equate "currently borrowing money from the U.S. Treasury to pay its deficits" as being "self-sufficient".
this was written in 2008
Squarespace are offering a great service. Is it a bad sign for my aspirations as an entrepreneur though that I don't know how I would spend that much money on a business like that?

I'm guessing a lot would go on infrastructure if they do the hosting themselves?
Sales sales sales. And maybe acquisitions.
SquareSpace was a 'single founder' startup founded well before that phrase was the meme it is today. I've used their service off and on since their early days, and can recommend it highly for its clean design and ease of use, if you can live within the limits of a managed CMS.

One thing they've always been stellar on is customer support. Even in the early days if I ever had a question or problem support tickets were taken care of promptly and expertly.
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Square space is a website building platform with included hosting.. it appears their going to charge $30/month for a plan that allow people to build sites that include the functionality of collect data (forms)

$8/mo gives you 1 gb with 75gb bandwidth and you use their sub domain

$14/mo give access to having up to "250 users" (email subscription?) and custom URL

$20/mo , $30/mo and $50 really just up the futures to any feature you could create yourself with the $20/month package that includes HTML injection points..

a mash up of woofoo, website builder and hosting...sold to people who probably will never need the 75gb of bandwidth of the first plan..
I think Elon Musk is too much an outlier to provide a great example to any generality.
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I wonder what internet explorer's stats are and to what degree those trends are based on toolbar generated searches.
How did this get upvoted? tldr; author "dismisses" science and argues for solipsism.
Yeah, I'm guessing they could end up surpassing all to become the CMS of choice for large corporations with their awesome in browser editor.
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Agreed. It suggests a significant change in business model.

You're not going to exit for half a billion dollars making sites for $8 a month for a bunch of SMEs.

Wild guess: they will make it all free, ramp up acquisition until they are a competitor to Wordpress hosted (et al), and then figure it out from there, Twitter-style.
Huh? His comment was critical of Howard Dean's campaign.

Here's what he said:
"No organization like Wikileaks can survive a cult of personality, or one person’s delusions of grandeur. Trust me — I worked on Howard Dean’s presidential campaign."

He's not saying "Trust me, I worked on a political campaign." He's saying, with a bit of dark humor, "Trust me, I know what it's like to be involved in a cult of personality and watch it fail because of it."
Jeez. The offer must have been really attractive.. otherwise why would Squarespace need all that money? Don't say servers.

Conversely, why would VC's throw in so much money into this business? I just can't see the exit strategy. Who can you name off top of your head that could potentially acquire them at a few multiples? I can't.

[Edit] This is just a web design operation, only difference is that the customers get the CMS login. hehe
Wouldn't it be nice if, instead of trying to "close the loophole" in the name of gaining revenue and "protecting" brick-and-mortar businesses, we eliminated all sales tax instead, and looked for that revenue elsewhere?

Any sales tax is a disincentive to buy things, and in a recession, that kind of disincentive is the last thing we need. If you want people to spend money at local businesses, make it easier for them to do that -- not harder to patronize the alternatives.

I understand that states have to raise money somehow when the budget is tight. But it seems absolutely perverse to raise it by expanding the sales tax on consumer goods, particularly when that involves invasive policies like having retailers submit lists of customers and their purchases to the state. It seems like the only possible effect of such a policy will be to exacerbate the budget problem by further dampening demand.
He would indeed benefit greatly from reading a bit of Polanyi.
So you're saying that it should be no surprise that answers today are all bologna?
I wish he didn't try so hard to impress us, instead of writing an exercise in clear thought.

I was with him up to the "Let's show off what I've researched about the history of Love," which turned out to be, yes: there have always been pickup artists of a sort, and yes: there has always been desperate deep love. Thanks. I skimmed most of that indulgent name-dropping.

Then he tries to get clever with words and it goes downhill. Loads of those sections could be stripped out for clarity; elegance from simplicity, not pretense from complexity.

Liked the personal stories, the accounts of modern PUA. Did not like the way the research felt like name-dropping. He was trying too hard.

Nowhere is this more clear than in the stilted final sentences. "You have no choice in the matter. Love was hard enough already; it has only gotten harder. Your love will exhaust you. But it will be worth the trouble."
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My other post describes the fix. I don't have a fancy blog to put up a demo, though.
Love the observation from David Weinberger via Clay Shirky via this post: "Clarity is violence" -- meaning, clear rules can be coercive and over-constraining in social situations, and especially-dangerously-prematurely so in an evolving online community.
"a one time large insanely public grant from the federal government"

There is one spot-on word in that phrase: INSANE-ly.
Is it necessarily destructive though? Not only is there some real wisdom and insight in their teachings (SOME), but if women really do hate it and get burned by it, perhaps they will learn not to respond to those behaviors? That doesn't seem like immediately a bad thing. You could perhaps argue they are only doing what comes natural, but heck- guys have rarely been able to get away with what comes natural.
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According to Wikipedia, the PBS Newshour has a 'pro-establishment' bias [1].

[1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS_NewsHour#Criticism]
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> I reject your attempt to frame my argument as anti-NCLB.

That "framing" was yours; if it wasn't what you intended.... I'll quote.

> Right, high altitude balloon flying is not on the standardized test that all government schools are judged by since the "No Child Left Behind" act.
> All government school teachers now have to "teach" to the test and can't waste time on projects like this.
Game is like the Force. The choice of being Sith or Jedi lies with you.
I just had some wall plastering done on my fence (I'm in Australia). The guy that did it was from Huntington Beach and now holds dual citizenship. His wife is also a US citizen. I kind of asked him how he did it but he ambiguously said he stayed here for a while and got residency.

I think it's pretty much a given that Australia and New Zealand will accept you if you (a) speak the language (b) have a profession and (c) no criminal record. When I goto the local playground sometimes I wonder if I'm not in a suburb of London, such is the amount of English accents I hear.
That's not what I got at all... I don't think he dismissed science by any measure and in fact argued against solipsism and post-modernism, did you read the article?
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* Forget DPB for a minute. Wouldn't employers be faced with discrimination suits if they tried to base hiring decisions on any random Internet post?

* After photos are implemented, I am probably going to build the feature you suggest. It wasn't a priority on day 1 to have that until we started getting a lot of content to organize.
Yes, I am here, and so is someone who is more knowledgable than I am: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1513470
I agree where you're coming from, but you are giving it way too much credit.

The thing to realize about this pickup stuff is that it is a product. A product which is being marketed to the most socially-retarded members of the "everyone's a winner" videogame generation. The consumer is looking for a secret button-combo to drop panties, so that is exactly what is being advertised.

The secret knowledge being sold really all can be boiled down to "Hit the gym, dress well, have a flirty demeanor, and then go out and play the numbers game." However that would sound like actual work and might require an ego-adjustment or two.

And eventually it comes back around to "social proof" and "congruence" and other weird jargony ways of softballing the fact that its easier to meet women if you aren't a loser. Humanity triumphs psychological tricks you can find on the internet, and pretty much everyone involved in this enterprise admits it.
Supplementary reading: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/49/2/Religion.htm

Feynman on The Relation of Science and Religion.
It really depends on what the alignment expectations is between the man and woman - and what has been communicated. If you're dangling the hook of a relationship in front of someone's face to get them into bed, with no actual intention of follow-through, then I'd consider that a destructive/irresponsible thing.

I think now, with the general awareness of The Game and the prevalence of PUA practitioners, more women are aware of what's really going on - and hey, as long as they're aware of the game and want to play, who are we to judge?

That being said though, there are still a not-insignificant number of women who actually intend to meet Mr. Right at a bar/club - and some PUA techniques with regards to handling that crowd is a bit sickening to read.
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> the issue of "gender equality" that you pose makes no sense to me

It already looses some of it's sense when we are talking in the context of relationships, and the methods and success of PUA's only serves to further confirm this.
Neither is DirtyPhoneBook the final arbiter of what's right and moral and nobody here ever claimed to be that. It's just a platform for free speech
I think what PG has done with YCombinator is pretty interesting, and a good "second act", although it's quite different from building something with code.
And what makes you so sure women don't enjoy a little (ahem) ass kissing? I have it on first-hand account that some do...

edit: I'm not sure if people don't like my sarcasm, don't understand what I actually meant, or are just close-minded.
Maybe with a one-bit half-adder?

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There is. It's called The 48 Laws of Power. Combine that with game and you have a potent combination.
I practice game to gain a better understanding of female psychology, but it's taught me volumes about human psychology as a whole.
Maybe the new design solves the problem traditional 2 strokes have that makes them pollute so much. The intake and exhaust valves are both open at the same time, which puts part of the fuel right into the air.

I can't really tell from the flash movie on the ecomotors site whats happening with the valves. I do see some slits that could serve as the intake port when the cylinder is fully open. And a tiny round thing which could be the exhaust port sits at the center of the cylinders length. Maybe the exhaust port is electronically operated and is closed by the time the 2 cylinders open as far as the intake ports?
Thanks kscaldef and detst for your replies. I do think a lot about moving out of Silicon Valley especially since the state of California is in such a financial mess. Theoretically, I could quit my job now, but it wouldn't make much financial sense, and I enjoy where I'm working.

My experience with $5M is in fact firsthand, and it feels a lot closer to "middle class" than to "rich". Maybe it's because I live a non-extravagant lifestyle and I just need to buy myself a Ferrari :-) 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?
You don't even need Hulu plus to watch on a PS3. Hulu blocks PS3's user agent string. You can just proxy the PS3 through a computer and replace the user agent string.
equally aware? Isn't a PUA's game kind of over if she realizes where he's getting his plays?
They are coming in Perl too ... with Moose leading the way.
That's because news companies are beholden to their advertisers rather than their readership. It's something you can see in (for example) the video games industry where the major magazines often handed out curiously high review scores to games coming from publishers that bought lots of advertising.

Another example would be newspapers which rely upon real estate advertisements for a large portion of their revenue; you won't see an article that's critical of the real estate industry in these papers.
Er, that's pretty much the exact opposite of what I read. He quite explicitly calls solipsism ridiculous.
A couple of quick points,

1) Illusion of true love; most people are against PUA because boiling courtship/romance into a state-machine automata is abhoring to their idea of true love. When in fact, I'd argue - it's the other way around, most men want to have sex or emotional intimacy with hot women and it's only later one rationalizes to oneself after that one is dating or marrying for "true" love. In fact, being "nice" to the girl is disingenuous (not to mention that it doesn't work) because you are not being truly "nice" to her but being nice in hopes that you can have sex or be emotionally intimate with her. In that situation, you are not being true either to her or to yourself.

2) Illusion of PUA being superficial; a lot of people decry that doing PUA is selling your soul down the river, like an American man who is desperate, taking the easy way out by ordering mail-order bride from Russia. But PUA, I'd argue is not about taking the easy way out but confronting and taking control of one's reality. Human biology dictates that in order to be happy, you need to both get laid physically and share emotional intimacy with a significant other. PUA is about achieving that means, with the minimal sacrifice on your time/resources (you don't have to be rich or learn how to shred on the guitar, etc). Nothing is sadder than a man who spent his whole life "nest-building" and "peacocking" in hopes for the right woman to come along in his life, only to give up his personal goals and vision in return. So in a sense, doing PUA is being true to yourself. Falling in love/getting laid is important to me but it is not the only thing in my life.

Of course, this is very subjective; but just wanted to express my perspective (which I don't think is the mainstream view) on this matter, to at least to get people to reconsider their belief about courtship/dating, if not change their minds completely.
I didn't seriously compare manipulating people to murdering bums, the post had an air of facetiousness to it.

But the analogy is valid. The end goal is to satiate animal drives by using people. One may be more extreme, but that is simply to demonstrate the poor logic that justifying this pattern of behavior encompasses..

Personally, murder is not what I'm looking for, but I constantly wonder what the of the bumkill community I can pilfer for my own ends - certainly their methods for generating intense blood lust should be of interest to anyone, even people like me who are looking to kill bears more than men.
Have you ever coded in C++? C++ can't alleviate the issue of call depth, it can only locally inline, the JVM can (doesn't mean it will) globally optimize common call routes.
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The idea of detecting if X and Y are changing while the cursor is over the button is a good one and actually something we thought about. While it does help mitigate the case where the attacking site dynamically moves the iframe, it's relatively easy to position the like button statically and just trick the user into clicking on its particular location, which would bypass this strategy (albeit at the cost of a slightly lower clickthrough rate). So I don't think this is a robust enough fix.

I think it's reasonable to say that clickjacking / UI redressing attacks are a browser bug - it's addressed in Google's browser security handbook: http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Arbitrary_pag.... But regardless - we as a victim site are mitigating the problem.

Do you think there's a better way to offer the one-click liking experience without an iframe?
There was a thread about Bill Gates applying for a patent on an Electronic Engine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=561057
And you don't even need a fancy "HD antenna". I'm using a broken old antenna from analog days to receive 1080i HD from 4 of the major networks, PBS, and then some. I also have an Eyetv connected to my computer so i have DVR functionality.
who answers questions during lecture? Who clarifies thought?
Not so sure I agree there. I'm no PUA, but when you are coldly manipulating the situation, I find that completely lacking in challenge. Like, once you understand some of the rules and know what to say and do, it's just too easy, and all you're doing is going through the motions.
Forgot about this post. Maybe it's not sensible to come back to it, but whatever.

There are several points of bullshit in your post. The first is that you are _absolutely_ ashamed of who you are. You don't think you'll be good enough for women! That's a wild self-degradation on your part. You'd take 1/3 of the women on dating sites? What kind of valid self-estimation is that supposed to be?

Second, no one cares about technical perfection. Technical perfection is not artistry, for one thing; artistry is about being, taking space, feeling, and embracing honesty. Things that aren't quantified because they aren't rational. This threatens to stray from the topic, so I'll cut it short for now and skip to the clearer argument, which is: there is someone better than you. The world is huge. And what will you do when you meet that person, if your ego depends on being the technical best?

For some reason you seek out visible status symbols to mark your ego's progress. Not everyone can be the President. Not everyone can program. Being the best is not a victory.

>I am never ashamed of who I am, and I will meet you face to face, give you my real name, and look you in the eye.

You just won't do that if I'm a _woman._ And if you did, you'd probably do a lot better at talking with them.
It is pretty well known/publicized that employers view facebook/myspace/whatever profiles of potential hires and I've yet to hear of a discrimination suit based on that.
Science is a belief because, just like magic, there's no greater force to appeal to. It's a belief I subscribe to, because it appears to be much more useful than magic, but it remains a belief.

Think about it: how would you prove that "science" itself is correct? My answer is "it accurately predicts (and optionally explains) what effect certain actions will have on the future". But this answer is question-begging; it assumes that prediction is useful, which is a scientific belief. To a magical thinker, it seems just as silly as "reciting a paragraph from this book will protect me from illness" does to us.

Magical thinking is fundamentally based on a distrust of prediction. Homeopathy has never cured any condition (excluding dehydration), yet magical thinkers try it because they think it'll work for them. Nobody has ever survived fasting for over a year, yet every few months there's another story in the news about somebody who starved to death after deciding to live on sunshine.

I think the modern world, in which we regularly live to 100 and have literally walked on the moon, is a result of science -- but I can't prove that. After all, the concept of "proof" is itself scientific, so it can't be used to argue against magic.
> I was making a glib joke, but to answer your question this is the tradeoff of using a not-so-strongly-typed language.

Not in this case. In this case it results from:

1. Python historically not having booleans and using 0 and 1 instead

2. As a result, `bool` inherits from `int` for compatibility reasons

>>> issubclass(bool, int)
True

with False mapping to 0 and True to 1 for compatibility purposes

>>> int(False), int(True)
(0, 1)

3. Add isn't overridden on bool

>>> bool.__add__
<slot wrapper '__add__' of 'int' objects>

therefore, when adding two booleans you're really adding two integers.

Most non-strongly-typed languages will not have the following behavior

>>> "foo" + 3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects
Re: solipsism (start of 4th paragraph):

>When we step down from their mental ivory towers and really think about it, the assertion that science is just a belief or another way of creating dogmas is monstrously stupid.

ie, if you can't "know" anything (solipsism), you can only believe in science. In which case, You're Doing It Wrong™.