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If you have no prior affiliation or interest in a particular martial art, choose a school based on the master and the school's culture, rather than the type of martial art.

A good master will make any martial art learning experience great. A poor one will ruin any school.

Go watch a class - are the students training diligently, treating each other respectfully, and being taught firmly but carefully by their instructor?

The master sets the tone, culture, and norms of the school. In a sense the master is the school.

I've been training Hapkido in Melbourne, AU (www.hkd.com.au) for the past 12 years, which ticks all the above boxes.

Congrats on everyone so far avoiding the 'martial' as 'marital' typo :)
This is the most appealing thing about BJJ in my opinion. Not only does full-intensity training entail a better workout, one also improves more rapidly due to the constant realistic feedback. BJJ is to The Little Schemer as karate is to Learn Python The Hard Way.
Thanks for the advice. Any tips on how to improve traffic efficiently?
The newer projects on the MS backed OuterCurve.org (formerly Codeplex.org) all use either an Apache or BSD license.

I suspect two reasons for MS accepting the Apache, BSD, and MIT licenses:

1) the terms of those license are not very onerous and let the end user pretty much do as they will. This is very important to a company like MS that has a lot of code and needs to be paranoid about subjecting themselves to patent suits.

2) Joe Briefcase has no idea what-so-ever what the "MS-PL" license is - no name recognition at all. The Apache/BSD/MIT licenses have been around so long and are so commonplace that they are generally acceptable to most everyone, and most developers shouldn't have a problem using one of those licenses.
Single page version http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/ff_ak47/all/1?pid=3456
How to Compose a Good Dissertation Plan 
The dissertation proposal’s practicability is determined by the dissertation plan. If planned well, the proposal will support and convince the reader that the dissertation is capable of producing good results. Reading this article will educate students on how to write a good dissertation plan.
If you just want fitness/exercise, might I recommend parkour? Most people don't consider it a martial art, but they do consider it a discipline rather than a sport. It requires the same level of dedication and practice to be good at, and enhances your world view in a similar way to martial arts. The real benefit, I find, is that it is far more social than martial arts; there's a great community of traceurs around the world who are constantly trying new things and helping each other out. I'm not going to go into much more detail unless you're interested, so reply here if you are.
Thanks for the suggestions. I added a downloadable chapter and am working on a workbook and screencasts. Price is up to 19.95 as well.
Linking directly to the news sites is just going to boost their SEO rankings. Why not just display the url without a link?
It seems that if you own a Mac and like Flash you "need to be converted" in the same way a dogmatic religious person sells you a life of enlightenment.

If you don't like Flash, fine. Just stop selling this fallacy that Flash has some universal special power to drain battery power, or has some special ability to empower the worst ads. It's patently absurd.
I've already added a comment about a particular martial art. But I think that you could also narrow it down through a kind of decision tree:

Do you want to be 'badass'?
Do you care whether there is a philosophy side to it?
Do you want to have a grading system (belts, for instance)?
Is it important to have a 'pure' art - or would a school that 'takes the best from different arts' sound better?
Can you just sit on the side at a school to watch a lesson (call first so they can suggest a suitable lesson)?
Do you want to be able to demonstrate to your friends?
Do you want to be able to do a 'form' (solo, regimented practice)?
Do you want to be taught 'weapons'?

Is the school run for love or money?
Are the other students people who you feel comfortable with?
Can you respect the teacher(s)?

Of course, other people have asked all the above questions better : http://everything2.com/title/Things+to+consider+when+choosin... - but I must emphasise the importance of making sure the school is right for you ...
This one really made me think:

You Can’t Do It All Yourself

After getting rejected by Y Combinator in 2008, my soon-to-be co-founders couldn’t take on the risk. I decided to do it myself, and ran out of steam (and moral support) after about 12 months and decided to fold. (Sid Viswanathan, CardMunch)
All politics and possible ulterior motives aside, this is awesome. I wish more companies made ballsy moves with the intended effect of giving users more control!
Valid point, but the hurdle associated with exporting and re-uploading that data is non-trivial for most people. Is it truly portable if a user can't figure out how to take it with them in the first place?

Edit: I should add that I think a fairer exchange of information between Google and Facebook would be a good thing for users. I just think the way Google is doing this conflicts to some degree with their past mission statements regarding users owning their data.
darn, I thought this was going to be a more extreme article about amazing coders that don't own smartphones and the like.
My understanding is that at present, Microsoft prefers for XBLA deals to be negotiated through publishers, as most of the (fixed in quantity) XBLA publishing slots for each year are assigned to those publishers more or less in advance.

If you really want an XBLA deal for your XNA game, your best bet is probably the MS-run yearly competitions. Honestly, I think you'd be better off talking to Valve and getting on Steam, because they're a) not totally insane and b) already selling other XNA games on their platform.
To me, Javascript seems headed in the direction of Self, not Lisp. Not a bad place to end up, by any means, but why do people think Javascript is trying to be Lisp in particular? (I know Eich was influenced by Lisp, but so were ML and Smalltalk.)

Sometimes I wonder if people just mean, "Wow, Javascript is actually a really expressive, dynamic language, once you get past all the idiosyncratic DOM stuff", but don't know enough other non-ALGOL languages to see that expressiveness isn't just a Lisp thing. Because hey, it doesn't have s-expressions, macros/static metaprogramming, an explicit compile-time phase at all, etc. It has much more in common with Lua or Self than Lisp. It could have been a really awesome language if the browser wars hadn't stunted its growth.
If it really is our data, then they should provide some sort of export-to-file that you could conceivably upload somewhere else. Streamlining the process of moving to another site, though, isn't part of being open with data. Its just a courtesy that they are now choosing not to extend.

With an export-to-file, you control your data in every meaningful way, Google has complete control over their product in every meaningful way, and Facebook doesn't get to freeload.

Plus, if they offered to upload from files, it would open up this process to anyone using non-mainstream services who could conceivably export in the same format.
Actually you should watch the documentary on Youtube called "The Nature of Challenge" - if that doesn't convince you then nothing will :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poph6Jmc688
"After some discussion, we’ve decided to do this via a “code drop” model..."

They lost me here.
re: "I don't have much in previous projects worth showing off."

Maybe that is part of the problem.
Searching here as well, which is a real killer since that is basically how I use Gmail. Also, and I just noticed this today, it took forever for the virus scan to work. I had to download about 20+ files and almost everyone of them took 30 or more seconds to scan so I could see the download link.
Practicality is important to me, and difficult to judge without some experience. Properly practiced Jujitsu, Sambo and Krav Maga are practical. There are useful lessons in Muay Thai and hard American kickboxing. Judo is acceptable, particularly if you are not possessed of great strength. Wing Chun's pitch sounds reasonable, but I cannot speak to its efficacy.

Avoid most schools of Karate (Kenpo especially), Capoeira, Aikido, Tae Kwan Do, and most of Kung Fu.

In any case, there are bad instructors to be found for every art. Caution is in order.
Really? Seems like I get one for Flash that looks a lot like this: http://bp0.blogger.com/_3xgfV_ITspY/Rsm9saAQ-rI/AAAAAAAAAD4/...

Edit: It was incredibly easy to locate this on Google, so I am sure a little research could have worked well for your comment and perhaps saved yourself the possible FUD attribution.
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> Certainly there's a more accepted nomenclature?

I don't know if there is, but there should be.

The defining aspect seems to be that there aren't pure ADTs, just collections based an associative arrays ("dicts" / "tables"), and methods are just table fields that contain a function. Also, Python has classes where Lua really does just have pure tables with hooks ("metatables", which make it easy to implement prototypes, classes, and many other constructs).
Totally agree on this. I've been training for 5 years. It has a very low barrier to entry (you get to spar on your first day) and nearly infinite variations on a small set of moves.

A really cool thing about it is that, unlike most martial arts, it's not attribute based (eg: boxing, were you need speed and strength and weight) that it's possible to see 125lb players going against 205lb opponents and winning (or at least surviving)

It's very pragmatic, all the mystical components have been stripped out (it's actually a disadvantage in BJJ); in my opinion, the only other martial art that could go toe-to-toe with a BJJ practitioner would be a Muay Thai fighter - but then if the fight goes to ground (which is almost a given for almost any fight) then it's over.

BJJ is akin to playing Chess.
They can't afford to do otherwise. Accepting community contributions will increase the MS surface area for copyright/patent infringements. The F# team is mostly a research outfit - they aren't going to vet patches.
There is actually an F# package for Mono (Linux/Mac) already: http://fsxplat.codeplex.com/ Although, the current release of F# has some bugs when running on Mono - open source release opens some cool possibilities :-)
but I personally don't find taekwondo and karate to be particularly realistic to fighting.

I have fairly high level belts in several arts. My father put my in Judo when I was 4, jiu-jitsu and Taekwondo by 6. While there are some Karate styles that have become obsolete with more contemporary arts surpassing them (Kempo comes to mind). I believe that Taekwondo is still a very relevant art even for combat.

Taekwondo while extremely difficult due to the technical kicking requirements is by far the most superior kicking art. The problem is that it is not a rounded art. In combat you cannot rely on the fact that you will land the kick ever time and Taekwondo does not really focus on that fact, it has to be augmented with another art. Which usually in Taekwondo schools is Hapkido. The problem is Hapkido is inferior to Aikido or jiu-jitsu.

That being said, my son is now 4 and the first art I enrolled him in was Taekwondo. Doing so will allow him to develop superior kicking technique which take the body the longest time to develop and some people after aging are never able to achieve the limberness required to master Taekwondo.

I agree with you to the extent that Taekwondo on it's own does not round a person enough to be confident in a street fight. But as an augmentation to other arts it will give you superior leg work over any other art and is very relevant to modern street combat. In the few altercations, that I could not avoid getting into, 2 where ended by a single kick and both where head kicks that are only taught in Taekwondo, so it is effective you just cannot rely on it as your only weapon.
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Does anyone know any good alternatives to Gmail? I briefly looked to switch back when they released Buzz, but there aren't any good competitors that match Gmail's ease of use, spam protection, and (previous) speed. Seems like it'd be a good opportunity for young, hungry startup. I think I'd pay $3-5 a month for a really solid email service.
Silicon Valley Governor Brown wins California election [YouTube]
is it bad that I solved this just for the hell of it? I was tempted to send in a doc that just said i am not looking for a job, however your puzzle was a fun waste of 11 minutes so i just wanted to say thanks!
It doesn't affect embedded YouTube videos across the web.

That's the problem YouTube5 solves.
It's really not a big deal. Just a bit cumbersome.

Lua has syntactic sugar where table:method(arg1, arg2, ...) is exactly equivalent to table.method(table, arg1, arg2, ...). All it really does is establish a convention and eliminate "self" from argument listings in methods, but it's still handy - its presence is an immediate sign of OO-style code.
Yup. That hurts like hell. I try to catch the kick with my calf and turn it away, but it's difficult. Timing and distance is everything.

I probably spoke rashly though, I don't really know enough about it to make generalizations like that. I take it back.
This is bad. First of all, while it clearly targets Facebook, what about my confidential work contacts that I upload in salesforce or exchange? Now my company has an obligation to let Google export my contacts?

Second, if you read carefully, the condition is impossible to meet:

in a way that’s substantially as fast and easy as exporting such data from Google Contacts

I would argue that since Google claims to be the fastest service out there, no one can be as fast as they are. And when they come with a twice as fast, and one-click export, it will automatically force hundreds of small apps to align or die? That doesn't make any sense and was poorly written.

Third, it's my data. I should own it. If I give permission to give it to Facebook, I don't want Google to have any say or impose any conditions.
Whoever applied the crank on you, wasn't being careful (especially if it was someone more experienced or higher belt) - you can always stop short of finishing the move against someone and wait for them to tap.
The best joke on the site: "Jason Boiled"
I am seeing that urban transportation doesn't work because people don't use them, so they fail to make money and in the long run getting worse and worse.

I am guessing, if the gas price triples the same thing may not happen just as it is right now.
You're right, I overgeneralized. I guess I was thinking about the emphasis on and endless hours of sensitivity reflex training we go through, and I never saw that in Muay Thai - only sparring. So I was just speaking from my narrow idea of what 'technical' means, I didn't stop to think that other people will interpret that differently. My apologies, once again.
Any ideas why the compilation is so slow? Compiling a simple "Hello World!" takes a noticeable amount of time on my reasonably well endowed laptop(i5, 4GB ram).

Is it slow just on linux/mono or that's the case on windows as well?

Other than the compilation time, all else seems well. I was following "Programming F#" and didn't run in any blockers on selective examples I tried. Once compiled, the performance is reasonable.
Geekdom and martial arts seem to be closely related, possibly for painfully obvious reasons that mostly reflect poorly on the geeks and the martial arts in question.

If you want to learn to defend yourself and/or get fit, box, wrestle, do Muay Thai, Judo, Brazilian Juijitsu, etc. That is, something that's practiced live against people who aren't cooperating. The downside is that the techniques will also be done to you.

On the other hand, if you want to put on strange clothes and raise your self-esteem by hanging out with a bunch of dudes in the same strange clothes, almost anything will work. Aikido, Ninjitsu, and similar arts are very popular among computing types as they offer the promise of combat effectiveness without being pounded on in the same way you'll experience if you come up in a 'live' art.
You mean "apple desktop bus," which let you attach multiple low speed peripherals to your Mac as early as 1987, back when the best you could do on a PC was PS/2 ports? Apple ditched that when they adopted USB 1.

Or are you saying computers should have room for internal expansion, even though most customers these days won't use it?

Or...
With a large and diverse enough IP address pool they could probably get around being blocked. It might be cost prohibitive though.
I checked out your site, and also checked workflowy just now.

Let's compare and contrast.

1. They have at least a somewhat clear and professional design. One that's focused on just the one problem they're solving. (I do have to criticize the horrible kerning between the "W" and "o" of their name though.) Minor quibbles like that aside, your site design is awkward at best.

2. They have a video that explains the problem they are trying to solve; and you only need to watch the first fifteen seconds or so to understand that they are an online outlining tool. Does the world need that? I don't know. But it seems they are definitely solving a problem. Your site is unclear and lacks this kind of focus.
Doing this in Firefox will result in an annoying "install missing plugins" warning from Firefox. You can click the "x" but to suppress the warning:

* go to about:config

* search on plugin.default_plugin_disabled.

* set to false
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I've been practising martial arts for quite some time. First I started with Capoeira (looks good, doesn't work in a fight) then I switched to Wing Tsun (looks like crap, very effective in a fight).

I've been practising WT for about 6 years. I basically changed from "the guy who punches like a girl and can't take a hit" to "the crazy guy who just took down someone twice his size". Our organization (Avci WT System) is also being practiced by German Special Police commandos, so I can say it is based on practical applications & dirty fighting rather than "just dojo" action.

If you really want to get competent in a real life fighting situation you should definitely go for a heavy contact martial art such as muay thai, krav maga, wing tsun etc.

Also carrying a kubotan as a keychain helps a lot.
I was under the impression this was/is going to be one of the side benefits of the Parrot VM.

Updated to add:
Directly from the Mono Project website "An open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET"

Now with F# on Mono...great things!
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How does a band get signed to a contract with a major label?

Most often, they play shows. They tour. They put out their own releases. They make money. Success attracts attention.

When they have demonstrated value, the big money is attracted. So far, I don't see any value in your site. I think you need to articulate this better, and, you know, actually make some money.

If you can't make any money, why should anyone invest?
Ask HN: Blue links
Is it a bad design decision to use links that are gray instead of blue for titles in search results in order to fit with the rest of the site's color scheme? What about ones that only underline when you mouse over them?
Ask HN: How much are we worth?
We are a small startup with two founders and no employees. Bootstrapped, no external financing whatsoever. We are selling software and making approximately $200K per year in sales, but we are also growing rapidly, at about 5% each month. We have $0 marketing budget - meaning we just split the revenue. We do not have any expenses other than our hosting ($10 per month).

I know that many variables are missing here, but very roughly speaking, how much are we worth at this point? There is interest by our competitors and they want to buy us, however I have no idea how much to ask for.
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Thanks everyone for the feedback!
If you need money so bad, why not move away from San Francisco?
Awesome questions!

Will we set a minimum price threshold?

Probably the major reason why we are considering selling the company at this point is because we are great at creating products but pretty poor at selling them. Stephen and I are both concerned that we'll fail to sell our product ourselves.

This is THE major issue that we will have to face over the coming few months. Once we have a repeatable sales model, I doubt we will want to sell the business unless the offer is very attractive for us.

There is definitely a price point at which we would just go "sure, its yours!" and a lesser point where we have to get the terms we want. Stephen and I love making things, so we're more likely to go where the interesting challenges are.

Did that answer your question?

How did you get a sense of your value?

Once we realized how central our device was to our potential investor's plans, it started to feel like we really could be a BIG THING on our own. Facing the potential of dropping Gridspy made us really think about how much it meant to us, how much it had cost to develop and how much it could potentially be worth.

There is a certain value to Gridspy that is our contracting rate multiplied by the number of hours that we have worked. Add on to that the investments we have made in R+D, external contractors, hardware, etc. That is the "Cost Price" of the company. We know exactly how many dollars this is.

Somewhere between cost price and "LOTS" is a realistic price for Gridspy. Stephen and I set a price that I still believe is too low, a price that is increasing every day while we lower the company's risk and gain traction.

Characteristics of the offer that are red flags

This is a dangerous question to answer because it goes into more detail about the offer than I would like to go.

However, I can say that our purchaser was expecting things to move extremely fast after the purchase, essentially a death-march from day one. I wasn't looking forward to that particularly much.

Just like getting VC, you need to choose someone you will be happy working with for some time.

Now that we are back into the swing of things with Gridspy, I imagine that we'd ask for more from our next potential purchaser. We have built a pretty cool platform and I believe that we have a lot to offer the market over the next couple of years. Life is really good right now.
Just let it sit there. There's no reason to close it that I can think of.
Is it truly portable if its impossible to take it with you in the first place? Because thats what Google seems to be fighting against here.
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wondering why there isn't a Diwali google doodle. Surprised.
It's all good, muay thai respect has been restored :)

It's easy to forget what real muay thai is, because of the mindless training we condition our bodies to. Hitting the pads or hitting the bag is not fighting. Coach always use to say, "be conscious of your body at all times. pretend your pad holder is your opponent. otherwise, you're just masturbating...hitting something to make slapping sounds to feel good about yourself."

training != sparring != fighting
My Indian engineer friend described it to me as Christmas combined with the Fourth of July and New Year.
Unfortunately, there are features in the Flash version of YouTube player which aren't available in the HTML5 version, such as subtitles. I've watched several videos where I didn't get the joke because the subtitles were missing :p