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Yeah, I quit playing professionally after finally deciding that my human/lizard brain was just not wired correctly to deal with the swings. Which is too bad, because the game is so interesting! And the fantasy--of making money with your mind, on your own schedule--is very seductive.

I think that a very, very small percentage of the population can happily play poker for a living; but for everyone else, I think long-term exposure to poker will almost literally melt your brain. The sheer amount of stress I used to experience during high-variance poker sessions was just absurd--I sincerely hope there's nothing else like it.
Because it is defined as such? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3100365/why-is-1-sizeofin...
I'm not sure if the parent link works or not, it didn't work for me.

I believe this is the article linked.

http://www.mercurynews.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/pr...

Edit: Nevermind, now it wants to work. Although I did link to the print version, incase anyone wants that instead.
I've recently bought a new wallet. The iPad doesn't fit in that either...
tl;dr: The article is deceptive. People where effectively cheating Battle.net.

Longer explanation...

The cheating appear to be people modifying save game files. They alter the file and give themselves more resources, units, etc.

They must have been logged into Battle.net in order for Blizzard to catch them. Single player != Offline in SC2.

The only reason to really cheat is to gain Achievements. As I said before, there are cheat codes built into the game[1], they are perfectly legit, but they do not give you any Achievements. This is why people were cheating - to get the benefit of the legit codes, but still gain Battle.net achievements.

[1] http://sc2.lancraftwc3.com/2010/04/starcraft-2-cheat-codes.h...
I guess it's because virus writers also to try to root the devices to install rootkits. I'm quite in favor of requiring hardware mods (although I'd prefer a jumper...) to modify the OS.
If you took time to really read my post you will notice I state quite clearly that its always easier to redesign someone elses' work.

This is just a fun project for me, and by the way, I used Illustrator. :)
What is a "luxury" vehicle? A certified used Mercedes-Benz C-class can be had for $20K. A new Chevrolet Tahoe lists at $37K.
This is a great project. It also does RTSP and M2TS/Apple Live Streaming.
If you're saying you can fit 2 phones in your pocket, you're kind of missing the point.
How find co-founder online?
Is it possible to find a co-founder oversea without spending much time.
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This is a ranking of ease of doing business, not starting a business. If you want to start a business in the USA as a sole proprietorship then you can just go ahead and start it.
Because of two's complement and the way implicit conversions work.
I had problems with it too, but got this working:
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_16291970
India to make own DoS -citing cyber security
Listen, if he's your partner and he's doing the stuff you don't want to do and you have paying customers, it seems to me it's worth trying to salvage over the next month. If your partner is doing more harm than good in certain aspects, why not agree that you need to formalise those aspects to accelerate growth, and then do it in a way that actually helps him not screw up?

For example: you say your website is a mess. If he can make it ugly, then he has too much control. Move to a CMS with a tight templating system and eliminate this pain point. If he's making repeat (and poor) feature requests, move to a formal feature request system with upvoting and make it public. Then you can point out that a particular feature has no user support. If you're answering the same questions over and over, institute an internal helpdesk system and just refer him to the answered, closed tickets and the search when he re-asks.

Basically, look at it as a management issue. The human factor is always going to be an issue no matter what startup you pursue; if you lack the soft skills to deal with it well, a systems approach might take you 80% of where you need to go until you've expanded enough to bring in another person who's designated job it is to take responsibility for these decisions.
His estimates are 2x what my wife and I spend.

Our 2BHK was INR10K ~ USD200 pm. This is by far our biggest expense. Our monthly petrol bill is INR2K ~ USD50. Groceries (we eat 4/5 meals at home weekly) is INR4K ~ USD100. Utilities ~ USD100.

Total ~ USD500 for a couple. And we live a good life!

On the plus side, we're now saving nearly 55% of our monthly gross :) (incl mortgages)
Well it may not necessarily be malicious. Maybe the developers responsible for say preparing the source tarball properly have just been given a lot of other pressing work.
It is independent of the representation of negative numbers on the machine, because of the conversion rules.
I wonder: what kind of format is easy to automate ? What makes configuration file difficult to "automate" is their multiple format (especially on unix), the fact that it is not easy to reload a configuration (most applications don't even allow it) and that there is no easy way to check that your configuration matches how the app is configured (especially for bad softwares). The format only helps for the first point.
Not to be a jerk, but it sounds like the author has problems with his ability to self-learn and is projecting that upon the universe. Turns out, maybe it doesn't work for you, bummer.

Re-title it, "My Self-learning was overrated (by me.)"
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If Google really wants Android to be open sourced, then it should be open source for users too, not just carriers. I'm pretty sure HTC did something illegal here.
Just bring legal action or ask the SLFC to investigate.
idk, I think this article just makes me realize how little a million dollars buys now-a-days.

I think the author is setting the bar way too low; There's certainly a psychological appeal to having a specific amount of money with 6 zeros at the end, but let's face it, to live out our collective cultural conception of what it means to be wealthy takes a lot more than just 1 million dollars- I can't really say how much it is today. Probably even more than tens of millions, more like reaching towards 9 figures, if not mid 8 figures. I think that really invalidates the author's point about supposedly wealthy people being frugal, buying habits of non-millionaires aside....
The company already had our money so they didn’t care about our accounts.

That quote was very much taken out of context in the article. With a title calling out Blizzard glancing at the quote you assume it to be Blizzard but the full quote reads as though it could very well be a different company.

The user has been through a similar situation before, with another game -- where he suspects the company had monetary motivations for the bans, “A bunch of people’s accounts got hacked and used cheats, so we all got banned. The company already had our money so they didn’t care about our accounts.”
Okay, looking at their website, they're planning on doing more than just Gmail as well, soon enough. Still, that's a bit disappointing; I've been wishing for a native pure-Gmail client that takes fewer resources and less loading time than the web version for a long time, and this is the closest anyone has come—but now they're moving in a different direction.
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I live in Brno, Czech Republic

Rent + Utilities: I am living in big apartment in the city center for $1000/month, you can easily get small apartment or studio for $300.

Internet: using Netbox provider you've got 100/100MB for like $60, if you are ok with 20 mbps both ways you will pay around $20 - $30

Food: good meal in fancy restaurant (not most expensive) will cost you for about $18/person. If you want to live on ramen, it will costs you about $2 from Vietnamese "restaurant" or under $1 if you do it by yourselves. You can live comfortable on $250/month food budget.

Health insurance and pension: is taken like a tax from your wage. If you are self employed it costs around $200/month (may wary by income level).

Typical wage for mid level programmer $1700 - $2000 if you work for local company, slightly more if you work for companies like IBM or Accenture.
I went through the getting started guide two months ago and at the time it pointed new users towards m2sh and had no mention of config files. Did something change in your docs?
In my opinion, http://newsmap.jp/ executed a similar concept better
That adds up to about 1500 EUR and the individual numbers sounds reasonable, but I know I can get by on less. I think the main differences are:

- mortgage: 350 for an 85 m^2 apartment near The Hague, after tax returns (no maintenance included)

- health insurance: 80 for the minimum package

- internet: 30

- energy: 100

- car: 150 (bare minimum)
How many 'ones complement' machines exist?
amsterdam is quite a bit more expensive.

i sublet an old, rusty, worndown (with views on a canal) 1 bedroom appartment in the best part of town (jordaan) for 900€/month. The bigger problem in amsterdam is to find something.
Odd, yeah site seems to require registration with a random(?) pattern. Maybe someone with enough karma can edit the original link to point to printed version, seems that I can't.
What made his remarks so notable?
Enlighten me: How did Blizzard abuse their authority? Banning cheaters? Valve does that too and a lost Steam account can hurt much more than a lost Blizzard account (based on the fact that there are many more games you can possibly add to your steam account than to your battle.net account).

Now, I'm not hugely into gaming and I might have missed some news, so I'm genuinely interested in what ways Blizzard is worse than Valve.
See my post on Brno, which is second largest city in Czech Republic and somewhere little bit cheaper than Prague (but not that much).

Same apply to Budapest, it is pretty much like Prague, maybe little bit cheaper.
You can get a decent 2 bedroom for $1100 or less ($550) per person. I just searched craigslist to confirm. If you luck out you can live in a really nice 5 bedroom house for $500 per bed room. I have two separate friends who have found such places.
I am full time employee but can invest time (around 15-20 hours).

My mission is simple; learn business by doing business even earning is small.
An alternative perspective is that it really is intense personal passion for what they do, not a sense of obligation, that drives leaders to do that.

Also, nobody wants to be remembered as someone who checked it of work and let the financial future of his family erode as a result of mentally just left the scene, so to speak. At least, in abstract; clearly, concrete feelings upon terminal illness can be very different.
But they can do that now already, just like the regular phone-rooting hackers.
This is very inaccurate.

For example, starting a business in the UK takes an hour or so (Fill out a form online). But it's listed here as taking 13 days, and thus UK is ranked 16th for starting a business.
I agree it's a valid question, I just think framing it in a more concrete way would elicit a better answer. The answers will be very different if we're talking about death vs if we're talking about not being able to use electricity every Shabbat vs. being vulnerable to communication outages vs. mental health burnouts.

Basically I'm saying if you're asking the question, there's a scenario in play there, and the scenario can likely be planned for. Yes, Apple stock will take a diver when Steve Jobs dies or retires, but if there's a strategic plan in place for that exit, the chances of it bouncing back are vastly higher than if there is no plan.

Or put another way: The New York Times has his obituary written. Do you really think the Apple board is less prepared?
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I am curious as to why one would hope that... Around the world there are plenty of small businesses which are in no need of any kind of limited liability, however they still make money by turning a profit so I'd still call them a business.
The common connection between companies that don't do so well is corruption, not previous government choices.

As far as following Adam Smith's works, the economy the US has is a caricature of Smith's ideas (e.g. Smith was anti-monopoly).
It's because they list out "Contact HMRC and register for PAYE" as taking 8 days, and they seem to think you can't actually trade before that's done. Which is idiotic.

So the study is pretty inaccurate.
Where do you "know" this from? Starting a business is dead simple in the US. Create a Delaware class-C corporation, or one in the state you live in if you prefer (in my case, in the state of Washington, it was just a few online forms and a nominal fee).
$400. Had over $3500 in living expenses to meet the month I got fired (at beginning of month). Been finding novel and intriguing ways to do so for 35 months now, though the expenses are bigger these days.
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As with most countries.
This is also possible in common lisp, however, there seems to be a lot more use of looping in CL than other dialects... Perhaps for performance reasons.

Suppose, for example* , that `range' conses up a list of START to END numbers, then sums that list. That's a bunch of memory allocation then a reduction. It may be elegant, but looping over the numbers and accumulating the result would be faster and use less memory.

I'm no expert, but it seems that a lot of production common lisp code will have gone through a few cycles of optimisation and arrived at a point of resembling imperative procedures. As a result common lisp teaches iteration (skipping over the need to rediscover the production tricks) while scheme teaches recursion.

* That's not to say that this form couldn't be implemented in terms of looping.
there is for in clojure
I won't speak to his other points, however if all the author met was a bunch of "me too" douchebags, then the author clearly hung out with the wrong people. To meet the real san francisco tech scene come to a scrodeo: http://scrodeo.com/.
London, UK

Rent: £675p/month in a shared property. Bills included. Zone 2.
This is quite cheap in comparison to most places in London. If you was looking to get your own place (a 1 bedroom apartment) then you're looking at > £800 a month PLUS bill and taxes on top of that

Travel cost: £99.10 a month for a zones 1-2 travelcard.

Food expenses...£100-£150 a month

I earn just under £30k and I've been in the industry for just over 2 years. I guess a typical programmer will earn £30k-£50k p/a during the course of their career, depending on what industry they're in
I was actually responding to @rdtsc's comment above: "This calls for another startup -- the funeral startup."
It fully depends what are you going to do and how much are you spending.

To get a baseline of what you need, calculate your living expensed plus do the worst-case calculations for a year.

Expect that your currently fully-working laptop and mobile phone are both going to break and you have to buy new ones. (sudden hw costs can be easily a couple of grands). Ditto for cars etc.

If you have a spouse, don't expect that working from home for a year is such a great idea, thus plan some money for renting a space.
>Seriously, though, countries with functioning
>infrastructure have trains that go nearly everywhere,
>or at least close enough you can walk or bicycle
>the rest of the way.

Oh you mean those countries without poverty, unemployment, corruption that built pollution free cities where everybody is happy?

Seriously.

First not everybody can or wants to use a bicycle.

Additionally you can't possibly hope to give access train to every part of the "country", that would be 1/extremely expensive 2/extremely uncomfortable for people living close to lines.

You need a density threshold. You can't have a bus line for two people once a week. You can see the density threshold problem in action in the USA.

Lastly comes the problem of service time. It's impossible to offer 24/24 7/7 service except for the most busy lines.

But perhaps you're willing to put 50% of the GDP into public transportation?

I live in a city with outstanding public transportation (Paris). Metro, buses, mini-buses, taxis, bicycle rental, you name it.

Yet, if you have several appointments within the same day in the city, it's not doable by public transportation because of the waiting and walking time that adds up extremely quickly.

If you go out to see friends that live outside the city, it's not doable to come back after midnight.

If you want to visit someone that lives outside the city, it might take a lot of time to use public transportation.

You're dreaming if you believe you can build a public transportation system that solves all transportation problems for everybody. If your system is good, you'll help people to go to and back from work and move around the city for a decent price.

But you'll always need individual transportation (In my case I ride a motorcycle. It saves me a lot of time and headaches and it's just damn cool and fun!).

Welcome to the real world, where things are difficult.
However, Common Lisp's LOOP really sucks. ITERATE fixes that: http://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/
yes but in CL you have "rules" when to use first/rest and when to use car/cdr. A noob does not want to learn them.
I've had a similar experience. When I've had work lifestyles where I had to get up early in the morning, long commute, bureaucrapritude job, long commute back, get back late, but every 2 weeks get a huge paycheck, I'd end up spending way too much on discretionary consumption & toys to make me "happy". When I've had more happiness-oriented work lifestyle phases, with no commute, no bureaucrapritude, but smaller or more irregular paychecks and less "security" I've ended up spending way less money on unimportant stuff, saved way more, and was way more happy in a substantive sense.
Because it's more of an apples-to-apples comparison for purposes of the survey and a more useful metric for people interested in creating and growing a business. It's also something of a clearer distinction from someone who just starts "doing business" by selling apples on the street corner or something.

That takes nothing away from small businesses that don't need that form of incorporation. Of course they are businesses - I was just talking about the survey itself.
correct would be to say clojure has first/next.
Sorry, didn't read carefully enough.
Ask HN: Email list subscription by text message. Any ideas?
I'm a CS college student looking for an interesting project that can generate some income on the side. Can you give me some feedback? My idea is to allow student groups on campus to accept mailing list subscriptions by text message instead of manually entering signups (primarily from student group fairs). I have a survey up at:

http://unbouncepages.com/text-to-list

that I'm circulating around campus.

Do you think this idea is viable outside of college where mailing lists are ubiquitous? Is there a better way to validate my minimum viable product? Thanks!
I have an APC ups for my two via Ubuntu servers, adsl, switch, etc for two years now and it works perfectly. I had many problems before because there where power drops and the via servers behaved abnormally after that. Now everything is very stable. We had a one hour power cut this summer (very exceptionnal) and everything worked perfectly. Both servers shutdown automatically after 30min, though they could hold 1hour (I tested). They automatically rebooted when the current was back.It has USB plug and looks like a big fat multiplug connector. It wasn't very expensive. I had one of another make before and it was sh*.
If you want a light weight email client, have you tried Mutt or Pine?
A data point for the higher end: Geneva (also, Zurich), CH. Currency is CHF which is almost 1:1 with USD.

Rent 1500-2000 (one person apartment!)

Food 500 (eating at home, eating out is minimum 30/meal)

Internet + smart phone w/ 3G: 150

Net salary after tax, health insurance, pension: 60,000 - 120,000 for a programmer.
where is 'here'?

I'm in Colorado, USA and you can get decent hair cuts for around $15. It's not hard really, just have to cut hair.

Speaking of which, I've tried doing it myself for free, in a mirror, and it did not come out well. Paying $15 or so for a professional to do it is worth it.
Budapest

Rent for a two rooms flat in a good part of the city is about 300-400€.

Internet is 40€ (15Mb).

You can get a meal for 3-4€. Monthly pass for tram/bus/underground is 40€. A pint of beer is around 1.5-2€ in clubs.

The average IT worker salary is about 1000€, but it's hard to tell because the tax system is complicated and everyone is finding and abusing holes in it.
"Operators of those servers would have had the capability to read, delete, or edit unencrypted e-mail and other communications passing through those servers during that time, he said. The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), used by e-commerce sites to encrypt traffic over the Internet, has been compromised so even supposedly protected traffic could have been exposed, according to Joffe."

This bit of the article doesn't make sense to me, and wasn't explained further. How could SSL be compromised via an Internet routing hack such as this?
The article mentioned that the new version needed hardware hacking to root. Maybe at one point a software hack will be found, I don't know. I'm just saying that there is a legitimate reason to lock down the software, especially for a mass market product like a phone.
I think it's just because the technology for it sucks, and I think it's a great idea for a startup -- you know, the idea of making it easy to just hang out with a group of friends online.

I think the difficulty of setting it up is multiplied by the size of the group: if it's difficult for 3 people to coordinate on installation and configuration of the technology (software) then imagine how difficult it is for a group of 7 people. Maybe the difficulty grows exponentially ..?
I think this a testament to the power of drive and passion. Doing the best he can for as long as he can is a way for the mentioned CEO, to leave the world with a legacy. Thus, the persistence. I think with such passion, this terrible news is transformed into a phenomenal motivational factor that will hopefully push the company to preform better in shorter time. The stakes are higher because everyone at the company is connected to this personal struggle.

The question is how to lead a firm where everyone considered the work to be a personal struggle without sacrificing so much.
You get your customers and colleagues only once, too. Maybe he could have chosen better priorities. At least he had some.
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Most people preached the benefits of rooting make a very compelling case. And often this case is to very dumb people. Dumb people like to complain. Loudly.

Remember from their perspective, 99% of all the feedback they get back (that they don't have to pay for) is negative. Therefore, they are solely concentrated on reducing that negative feedback by preventing failure in the first place. They view these protections as a way of doing that. It reduces the need for a larger support department and therefore their bottom line.

Of course, this ignores the fact that by making the methods for circumventing these protections more complex, they are creating a more error-prone process, and therefore a large support volume. But whatever, I didn't say it had to make sense.
They can improve their current procedure by using this technique: http://joemaller.com/___

1. Append bookmarklet as suffix to a short URL
2. Tell user to visit that page and bookmark that URL
3. Instruct user to edit that bookmark and delete the prefix of that URL

This removes the step of asking user to copy the URL from a textbox. Plus, if the user misses the step of removing the prefix portion of the URL, clicking that bookmark will direct them to the instruction page.

But yeah, the process still stinks.