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I don't want to get downvoted here, I bought 4HWW and liked it, and I used to like Tim's blog posts, but perusing this blog post, this book looks to be full of snake oil or just plain tacky ("How to give a woman 15 minute orgasms", really?):

--- From the blog post ---
YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each):

- How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails.

- How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends)

- How to increase fat-loss 300% using temperature manipulation

- How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time

- How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested

- How to produce 15-minute female orgasms

- How to triple testosterone, double sperm count, and (literally) have sex like a porn star

- How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks

- How to reverse permanent injuries

- How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months

- How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit

--- End of blog post excerpt ---

The "5K to 50K in 12 Weeks" is a complete crock (and yes, I run ultras). Not unless you've already trained up to 13.1 mile distances.

"Gain 34lbs of muscle in a month" was highly ridiculed in the fitness/muscle community and Tim's description of his techniques was considered dubious at best. I don't know any human who can survive 2 hours of sleep a night on a regular basis, etc.

If you're going to order the book, consider ordering a rather sizable grain of salt.

I've been really disappointed with Tim lately, when I found his earlier stuff very valuable (his early "pack light", "travel light", life hacks stuff was great, and real, solid advice). I wish he'd go back to that.
This is, at least historically, a well known MS tactic, for which they have been sued.
Is the 4-hour body like the 4-hour work week, where you count things like running a marathon as fun instead of exercise? "Oh, I'm not working. I'm cold calling for the fun of it, because rejection gets me pumped."

I really like how he's offering courses for buying more copies of the book. Surely, thats not to hack the NYT best seller list. I'm going to hold out til the book as offered as part of a get rich quick scheme on late night TV with both Tim AND Tony Robbin's signatures. The only thing missing is how the book would NORMALLY retail for over $300.
What should I teach micro-enterprises as a volunteer?
I'm starting a non-profit (possibly called "A Small Favor") that connects disadvantaged microenterprises with pro-bono work by web and design professionals.

The aim is to help them manage their digital brand and help them steer clear of an ugly and unusable website that would silently repel high-value customers.

In addition to providing volunteer branding and web development, I want to develop some easy steps people can take, like for instance, setting up their Google Local (and Yelp, etc.) accounts. Sometimes those are more important for discoverability than having a web presence at all.

I'm working with the Seattle-based Washington Community Alliance for Self Help: http://washingtoncash.org and they have agreed to supply me with contact to some of the micro-enterprises who have gone through their program.

I am hoping to crowdsource this effort a little. I now have my first few businesses. What can I do for them, or teach them to do that maximizes my time and the time of my other volunteers?
Are you a talented web designer who wants to help with a growing idea?
I am a college student with an idea that will revolutionize the college dorm experience. I know, it is a bit vague, but if you contact me via email then I can get into a lot more detail.<p>robbylewis7@gmail.com
IANAP, but it seems pretty unlikely that this would be possible, at least in any way short of living in underground bunkers. I would expect that either the atmosphere would boil off from the hot side (if there wasn't enough gravity to retain it), or the gravity COULD retain it in which case you would get constant world-wide hurricane force winds.
One thing working for him is that to play the survival version, you have to pay. If there was a free trial, I probably would've given that a shot and then escaped from the potential clutches of addiction. But it was paid only, so I paid. And I rarely pay for anything.
That was quick, Aaron. Good job! :-)
Excerpt:

2. Homeless brothers inherited more than $80 million.

You never know when your luck will change. Two homeless brothers selling scraps outside a cave in Budapest inherited $80 million dollars from their rich German grandmother.<SNIP>

3. Portuguese man left fortune to 70 random strangers

Luis Carlos de Noronha Cabral da Camara picked 70 random people out of a phone book and made them beneficiaries in his Will. He had no children, and picked one of the most eccentric ways to dispose of his estate...
It's amazing to watch the increasing habitability of newly discovered extra-solar planets. Remember a few years ago when a super jovian was an exciting discovery? Sure it was an easy assumption: planets ought to be common, if our system had 9 (yes back before poor pluto was demoted). The spector of the anthropic principle was always there though. Now, to see the discoveries mount - as fast and earthlike as our instruments are capable? That's exciting. Hell, 20 light-years? That's not so far away from the planned orion interstellar trip.
I'll put it on github tomorrow.
Do Assholes Really Finish First?
Furtunately, once you leave the sun's gravitational pull (enough), you can accelerate at a constant rate. So "even" if you accelerate at 0.1g, you can reach 0.7c in 100 years.

So if we had such an engine and an energy source, we could get to that planet in 200-300 years.

The cool thing is, technology innovations are accelerating as well, so we will develop better engines faster than the old ones will arrive to the destination. It's a cool race.
Good article. Mirrors my own experience in three ways:

1. Immutable datastructures make it a lot easier to reason about data flow and to write correct code.

2. Static typing helps write cleaner, more explicit APIs.

3. Programming effectively in a functional style is more difficult than banging out imperative code.

I wonder why they didn't try Scala. With Google's extensive Java infrastructure that seems like a more logical choice. Certainly the problems they discuss with Haskell's string handling and debugging support wouldn't be issues in Scala.
Not to start a bidding war, but I am willing pay $250 for the domain.
Some of us do run them for "fun" ;) I hate running as an exercise (unless it's on trails, out in the woods, preferably while rainy and muddy), but I like the challenge of pushing past everything in your body and mind telling you to quit.
Clickable link: http://salesathand.com/
Clean Tech Investor Vinod Khosla: Environmentalists Get In The Way
I also think he avoids any issues with the 'uncanny valley' of near-realism in games. If something isn't going to look exactly like a pig wandering the mountain slopes, why not make it look like a Lego pig and be done with it?
I'd rather be rich making 30% margins than broke because I charged 200%.
Yep the server dude went to bed. haha. but we'll try to do some more testing and see where we can optimize both in frontend and backend. And of course tell you what we find out…
My college has used TurnItIn for (at least) a few years now. At least, some departments do. I've only had to take one class that used it, Introduction to Psychology.

I went and spoke to the professor about this, asking if I could email her the paper, rather than using this service. She said that if it was up to her, I could but it wasn't and I would have to talk to the head of the department. I went and spoke to the head of the department and she accused me of wanting to cheat, due to my objections to the policy. I pointed out that I objected to the service keeping the rights to my paper to use for checking against anyone else's paper. She all but said that she didn't care and that my choices were to use the service or to fail the class -- it was too late in the semester to drop the class without approval from the dean.

I ended up using the service, I was a freshman and didn't want to fail the class. Especially not so late in the semester. At the top of each paper was a notice saying that the work was copyrighted to myself and that I didn't give TurnItIn permission to use it. I doubt the service noticed, it is automated, after all.

I've since made a point to ask every professor in a class where I would have to write a paper if the department uses such a service. They've all said basically the same thing: "We don't use that service, don't worry," and one even mentioned the concerns I had as a reason why they didn't want to use it either.
Mashable crushed us - here's how we bounced back
Apple has a strong incentive to make sure that people using OSX have a great experience. To make sure that OSX can browse the web well they need to make sure that Safari is viewed as a mainstream browser, and that it's easy for developers to test websites on it without having to go buy a Mac.

So by releasing it on Windows they can (a) gain marketshare so it's taken more seriously, and (b) make sure developers who use Windows will test with it.

As for why they didn't just use Gecko (Firefox's rendering engine), Apple also wants to be certain that websites look great on the iPhone/iPad. And my understanding is that Gecko is an absolute monster to get working well on mobile devices. Plus by having their own rendering engine they get to be certain that there'll be no problems adding features needed for touch-based apps to it.
Avoid Payroll Tax with Mailboxes, Etc?
Hi Fellow Hackers,

I just landed a killer telecommute job and my home city enforces a ridiculous payroll tax. This will end up costing me over $2000 per year.

However, the county directly adjacent to the county I live in does not have a payroll tax. I'm considering getting a Mailboxes, Etc box in a nearby city without payroll taxes and using that address for payroll purposes.

First of all, does anyone out there do this and get away with it?

If so, did you change your legal address for all purposes or did you just use the mailbox address for payroll purposes?

Are there any other caveats I should be aware of?
IE/Mac had completely different engine, and different UI.

Tasman supported — in it's own buggy way — properties like display:inline-table that Trident didn't support until IE8.
i preordered one because i'm at least mildly interested. i also bought 4HWW. liked some of the ideas, disliked others. at the very least, a somewhat entertaining read.

what i like about the possibility of this book is that it'll be much more objective. much easier to test an idea he presents on yourself and see what comes of it (provided you're already regularly exercising).
Yes, but I'm sure that the 4-hours of gym time, also includes a lot of exercise, which is not what the statement implies.
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Slight exaggeration. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
Or maybe he has a tough job and finds this relaxing.

I just dig big holes in minecraft and find it a pleasant, brainless activity.

Remember: This is water.
Freud's dream of any engineer :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garin_Death_Ray
I tend to remember that period as search really sucked, Webcrawler, Lycos and the rest where really bad. Alta Vista was the best and it was only the leader by a thin margin.

Anyway, From the day Google hit the market, and their searches actually returning something even remotely close to what you where looking for seemed like voodoo. Google exceeded the "remotely" part by usually hitting the nail on the head. Given the fact that their algorithm was not known it was not being manipulated like people try to do today. Search results where actually better back then then they are today.

Anyway to get to the point, I don't think there where too many people that thought Google was going to be anything short of "the" search engine. At lest those at the grassroot level.

I think this is the case of a executive dismissing the technical merit of a competitors product, when the other offerings where so abominable that technical merit counted.

When things are close you can win out on branding but this was a case of the buggy companies not seeing the horseless carriage decimating their market while the guy on the street could see the advantage of the new offering clearly.
I wonder how many corporate IT departments are starting to look at iPad a bit too close for RIM's comfort. Time to drop a little FUD into the mix.
Dark Patterns: User interfaces designed to trick people
419 scammers are pests, but scamming the scammers can go to far: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/363/E.... This story is interesting to listen to because you start off with the predictable reaction -- those scammers are getting what they deserve. But then it takes a left turn -- they get quite a bit more than they deserve. You end up feeling sorry for the scammers. Listen to the piece and see what you think.
I prefer the use pattern where all details of the transaction are summarized to the user, who is invited to press "Confirm".

It's fairly strange behavior for your client's customers to have to enter in an identical value twice. Maybe use an API that allows you to programmatically generate and the send the invoice?
You might not need an engine on the craft, just a big reflector and a tightly focused beam on some planetary body that bombarded it with photons.

The problem then would be slowing down at the other end though.
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Would gravity there be three Gs? I don't think we could handle that. The atmosphere might be too thick for us too. May it has a nice moon?
Probably almost none. It's very rare to find a gaming-related story on HN that gets any popularity, because the HN community overwhelmingly focuses on web development and getting/being filthy rich, which are both uncommon things in indie gamedev.
Hi, valid questions. FF support could be added with a few hours of work, it is simply not done (yet). The request for local storage is strange, to my knowledge there is nothing in the app that should cause it. I'll have a look and see what could be the reason for it. It appears only in firefox.
Well I'd expect that Google, Facebook, and Yahoo are MSDN subscribers. Its a lot cheaper to test with MSDN licenses than to buy retail.

Exactly, who do you think the partners are for the IE team? I'd think the most popular webpages. This isn't the ASP.NET team or Silverlight team. For IE their partners are the companies they work with to make sure their sites work well with IE. I'd have to believe Facebook provides lots of feedback and Yahoo. Google probably some, but probably less so as their also a browser competitor. And certainly Fortune 500 enterprise internal sites.

At least that's what I think when I hear the term partner for IE>
Jeff Bezos-backed health care provider Qliance cuts staff
Dextrose (jQuery game engine maker) acquired by Zynga
Some of the simpler list comprehensions (like the student one two parents up) are fairly "symbol soup" free, though - and a very clean way of expressing what you want.

OTOH, I can see how they could still be a hard concept for a beginner who hasn't done any functional programming before, particularly because they don't read front-to-back like most imperative statements.

EDIT: You can always split complex ones up as well, for most common usages:

meeps = [ s for s in str_list if s[:4] == 'meep' ]
suffix_str_lst = ['{0}_suffix'.format(m) for m in meeps ]

This one was probably a bit simple to really need that, but it's a bit easier to read. :).
"wave pattern with about 1' wave length and 1/4' amplitude."

Any idea why this length/amplitude?
If Nuclear pulse propulsion lives up to the projections:

(20 light years) / (13,411 km/s) = 447.4 years
Preview of the Aves game engine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3qQ4CEUTo
I think Youtube was different because they have almost zero revenue and crazy burn rate.
This is the actual URL of the article.

http://www.singularityhacker.com/2010/09/blackberry-playbook...
Did you count the replies and hidden comments?
All transactions are summarized on the invoice page, then they are able to click a button that sends them to PayPal, with their invoice number and grand total as part of the information sent. There is no entering data twice.

I assume you are speaking of when I talked of users entering their cost on PayPal. This was due to them not selecting anything to buy, but continuing to PayPal with a "Grand Total: $0" invoice anyway
I'd pre-order it, but I suspect these outlandish claims were designed to cause people to proclaim "BS! I'd better buy this book to prove it's hogwash!".
I'd love to see

* Number of Employees

* Monthly Active Users

* Server Operating Costs

* Monthly Revenue

for

* Reddit

* Fark

* Slashdot

* Digg

I'd assume the other sites would bury Digg (no pun intended) on at least several of those fronts.
Title should be changed to "Fight IE6 by overcharging your client for the headache"
I can assure you it's not.

I'm not the most amazing software developer in the world, nor am I the most astute businessman, but after a little more than decade of work and persistence, I'm in a position where I can do pretty much everything I've always wanted to do. Part of that time was spent figuring out what I actually always wanted to do (age brings clarity of focus, I think). I travel full-time (I'm in Bozeman, MT right now, on my way to Yellowstone), I run a company that builds stuff I'm really proud of and millions of people use, I work with two guys that I really enjoy working with, I occasionally get to meet up with our users and customers and they're awesome, and I make enough money to live on without having to think too much about money, and the revenues continue to grow at a modest but steady rate. I'm definitely not rich, and the subject of this story has made more in a couple months than I've made in four years of running Virtualmin, but I've got nothing to complain about.

Most importantly, I have as much freedom as anyone I know, including several millionaires and a few billionaires.
For all those here complaining that they could have done better:

"Designers foresaw the issue, and thought they had solved it by installing a high-tech film on the south-facing glass panes, according to Gordon Absher, the MGM spokesman. The film scatters more than 70 percent of reflected rays. But that's not enough, Absher acknowledged, as some pool guests are still uncomfortable."
i didn't read the claims, actually. i was interested from his previous mentioning of what he was up to. the outlandish stuff is marketing spin, almost definitely
I'd agree with your gut. I think the limiting factor is a common/shared platform for historic data aggregation and dissemination of possible sites to visit or actions to take for example.
The future of Blogs is Video?
Video is sweeter than reading, especially on iPhone, iPad, droid.

Justin.Tv, Leo Laporte, Revision3, Dvorak, Adam Curry, Jason Calacanis (ThisWeekIn.com), are blazing the trail.

I'm watching more videos, than reading blogs lately. How about you?
As far as I can tell, they are all being counted with that jQuery selector.
Spite is an incredibly powerful motivator, only outclassed by survival.
Careful, you never know if Malcolm Gladwell is lurking here.
I've never seen the term "IE partner" used anywhere, either in that doc or elsewhere. I have seen "MS Partner" used generically quite a lot over the years, meaning almost anyone who has any sort of business relationship (reseller, certified, etc) with MS.

So... I don't think there are any "partners" for the "IE team". I think they reached out to a variety of Microsoft partners across the board. If they'd specifically talked to Google, Facebook, etc., I suspect they'd have dropped those names, either to pass blame or try to show group decisions on certain decisions ("Apple's doing this too!").
IAAP but I'm not so sure what would happen, it's nonobvious. I did find this short article, based on a more thorough research paper from 1997, suggesting it might be possible though:

http://www.treitel.org/Richard/rass/tidelock01.txt

In short, not only can such a tide-locked planet maintain an
atmosphere, but it might even be habitable over much of its surface,
with an active water cycle and maybe even a near-breathable surface.
Many of his claims in 4HWW also required additional initially-unmentioned effort (as you so eloquently mention in your OP).

This tactic is common in tabloids with a majority female demographic ("Get your perfect beach body in 2 hours!").

I hope I'm proven wrong.
Are air applications being considered by Y Combinator for the startup program?
Hi my name is Lavon Woods and I wonder if YCombinator would accept a startup that is more of a software (AIR) based startup as appose to a website application, because there are so many web based application startups?
If you hate Java check out SFML: Simple Fast Multimedia Library

It's in C\C++\.NET but also has bindings for Python, D, and Ruby. http://www.sfml-dev.org

If you want to do 3D but aren't up for writing OpenGL, check out OGRE3D. Open-source and former Diablo 2 developers from Bizzard North released a game called Torchlight with it recently. http://www.ogre3d.org/
The Seed Media Group has a similar sort of parametric logo: http://www.sagmeister.com/worknew7.swf
A tidally locked planet with a significant atmosphere would not heat up as much as you might think. The atmosphere would transmit most of that energy around the planet fairly quickly. Consider the Earth has a circumference of 24,859 miles and the jet stream has been measured at around 247 MPH at those speeds air would circle the earth once every 4 days. However, far more important is radent heating increases as the fourth power of temperature which is why the moon never goes over 123°C even after 24/7 sunlight for several days at a time.
Corporate IT? Hell, most managers have already gone out and bought themselves one.
The Other Social Network
Wow, a more polished demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmtQOB_KFzU&feature=relat...

They have multi monitor support as well as the ability to play super mario bros inside of their game. That's pretty wicked.

I wonder if this engine will be released or whether zynga just swallowed it up.
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Clearly fleitz is assuming he'll be a passenger.
No. I will never bother to watch video blogs. Sorry, I skip all video links on HN, or any other source I read from. It's less accessible 99% of the time.

This is true for Ipad and PC. I can't speak to the other platforms.
reddit has more daily pageviews than digg by a few tens of millions, reportedly. So, their 6(?) person team is outperforming 100+ digg employees in the most important metric (revenue might be more important, but I'm not so sure...if I could pick a site to own, I'd choose the one that is bigger, growing faster, and has dramatically lower expenses).
You're not applying the same line of thinking. Their article starts with a study; your comment starts with a "maybe." If you actually had evidence that people drive drunk just as frequently but more dangerously because of drunk driving laws, that would be something.
Q&A: Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh on life under Amazon, future plans
I have a Mac mini sitting on my desk and I have to keep checking the lights to see if its own, I love it.
It's not very different.
Discussion about whether the board should have accepted the offer would benefit from knowing when it was made. In Digg's "heyday" is a bit vague. 80m is a biggish bird in the hand but 20m of that was earn out and given that Google were reportedly on the verge of a 200m offer in 2008, it's not clear that whoever thought 80m was lowball was altogether insane.
Wiretapping the Internet: Who's Responsible for What?