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No. It's very rare for customs to seize nootropics or drugs such as modafinil; the few American reports I've seen said that the first seizure simply lead to a warning letter (and not getting the shipment back). I've imported modafinil myself without problem.
E.g. here in Germany, you are required to write a Doctor's thesis (that needs to be accepted by a Professor) and pass an oral exam, but there are usually no required courses.

Any specific examples of this? (In Germany or elsewhere?)
unfortunately I completely agree with you here ... allowing Sarah Palin to become the face of the tea party (at least in my opinion) was the beginning of the end of it being a noble movement. They have turned into a group of strictly far right wing activists and lobbyists who care more about political agenda's than the state of our union.

We need serious term limit and campaign donation reform to be able to bring this country back to any visions of grandeur and unfortuantely without someone with Bill Gates or Warren Buffet money running the type of people who can bring that type of change would never be elected.

Our country is stuck in a two party system in which a third party is either absorbed by one of the political machines or left to rot all on its own.
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With that in mind, it's impressive that crack and heroin are on the same order of magnitude as alcohol given the relative number of users.
Empires rise and fall. The same could have been said of Microsoft only 10 years ago. Every platform provider faces this issue of responsibility and power — whether it be Facebook, Google, Apple or even Twitter.

The really interesting, and perhaps more fundamental, issue is that the various independent domains of the past (entertainment, communications, enterprise, gaming, mobile, etc.) are no longer so cleanly segregated and have been converging quite rapidly in the last few years. This inevitably results in the emergence of superpowers like Apple.

If we take this to be true, then the question becomes — what do we do about it? As entrepreneurs/developers/consumers, we fundamentally decide on the winners in these platform wars. But how do we counter superpower decisions? Lobby groups? Strategic pacts? Alternative, open, decentralised, systems?
I absolutely believe that it is reasonable. Given two equally smart candidates, one with good academic credentials and no experience, and the other with no academic credentials and a portfolio of work, I'd take the guy that has actually built stuff every time.
Why is this an "OR" question? Why can't you do both?
Yes, the article I point to is concerning LM hashes, but NTLM hashes are almost as bad - and you can stop using them.

This URL shows you how to force NTLMv2: http://windows-secure.net/O.Reilly-Securing.Windows.Serv/059...

The idea is to try to force Kerberos authentication only. I can't find any tips on forcing it explicitly (even through group policies) but perhaps there's a firewall method to disable any [NT]LM auth and only allow Kerberos auth. I think some specific services may only allow NTLM (such as Telnet) and some services (such as IIS) may have to explicitly be configured to use Kerberos.

(edit) I should mention that I am not an expert on configuring Windows domains or their authentication (obviously) but according to some random guy I asked in IRC, if the SPN is set on a calling ID for a given service, Kerberos will always be used (or attempted anyway) and enabling TCP instead of UDP for the communication may help it get through firewalls etc (and solve some other login-related problems with UDP attempts). However, I think NTLM is the only one that can get through all manner of proxies, firewalls, etc (for IIS for example).
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Are you intentionally being deceptive about this subject?

Your original claim was "Middle class. Have you been there to see the 300+ million people that are now buying apartments, cars, make up, creams, designer clothes et al.?"

Now we are talking about far less than 300 million making 15k per year and scraping by renting a small apartment and unable to go buy coffee regularly, let alone cars/housing.
The price of popularity is interest from assholes, unfortunately.
I agree with the basis of this article, re: their responsibility. But, as of late, I'm not sure we have anything to go on to say that they are acting poorly.

Pushing web standards seems like a good position for an industry leader to take. Seems like any large corporate power, like Google, we just have to expect the worse and hope for the best.
The article is wrong, the study it refers to as being about Computer Science is about IT degrees.

I run http://universityreport.co.uk a university course comparison website which uses the same underlying survey data (collected by HESA) that the study used, so I'm intimately familiar with the data set. They're using a mishmash of data and most of the CS figures they quote are actually for general IT degrees.
I haven't looked into SC2 as much, but in the BW version of the the extractor trick, the cost-benefit tips at some point within the timespan of 'rushes'. That is, it'll be wonderful for very very fast rushes, but more 'patient' rushes are harmed by it. And at least for BW rushes, the trend seemed to be in the last bit before SC2 came out to trend towards more patient rushes. People weren't even looking for the win off the rushes anymore, but rather some sort of fast econ harrass to early map control. That mind set, where fast extractor tricks were optimal probably carried over a bit into the SC2 build making process.
The sum of money just appeared in my bank account, but was so insulting low that I felt devalued. If a manager had just talked to me about how much my work was appreciated, it would have been better than money.

I see this repeated and repeated. I would love for someone to point me to an unbiased study from a reputable think tank that confirms this management meme. I think it is BS, I think it is a way for management to validate disproportionately lower bonuses for the doers.
> Too, it makes my pee smell really weird.

As people point out above, this is a good thing. Makes counterfeiting that much harder. It would be nice if all drugs came with such signatures of authenticity. ('Remember, real Viagra will cause a little shamrock tattoo to appear under your right armpit for an hour.')
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No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed
Yay! Jason has reinvented the burn-up chart.

That probably sounded snarky, and I apologize. I guess my point was that these very simple things keep getting reinvented time and time again.

Awesome concept. It is absolutely worth writing about again and a great idea for a blog entry. I also agree that everybody with a startup who isn't break-even yet should be doing this. It's such a simple and trivial thing, yet so immensely powerful. Part of the problem with such simple and powerful advice, as I just demonstrated, is that people too easily discount it because it sounds facile.
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You can code all you want in your spare time, but if that practice doesn't map exactly to what a employers (or consumers) are looking for then it doesn't matter. I wrote a SNES rom-hacking utility in C/win32 while I was in college and that didn't impress anybody. After I graduated (2001) I spent 3 months stacking boxes of silverware on pallets until I got a job as a night-shift backup operator for $10/hr. After 6-12 months of that I was like, "hey guys I automated everything can I work days now?" And just kind of went from there.

And typically, even when you do have the skills an employer wants, actually learning their particular systems well enough to be useful takes another 3-6 months, because training and integration is completely neglected. You'll get "read the docs." Which, if you are lucky, will be a disorganized mess of wiki rather than a slow and nearly impenetrable sharepoint labyrinth.

It doesn't have to be this way. I'm sure at the best tech companies, it isn't.
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I take it to mean a specific set of morals, which I'd call Ayn Rand-ian morals.
Awesome advice -- thanks!

Right now the product makes maybe $80k/yr. Not bad for something that hasn't officially launched, but hardly our companies key revenue source. We naturally would rather grow this than the consulting side of things.

I think what I am seeing in this thread is that it probably makes sense for us to hold on investment until a bit after we've launched. We'll learn more about what our growth bottlenecks are that way and what we really need.

It seems a bit premature at this point to take investment against our consulting income if we can avoid it. My guess is that we could probably get better terms if the product is doing well.
I think that's the point. No one, no matter how clever you are, can predict the future very well.
I appreciate your criticism, and take it to heart, except for that one big word "defamatory." Everything I've mentioned above is documented in one place or another and not just "insiderish."
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I've taught a fairly large introductory course, and every exam we'd have maybe 1-5% of the class taking a 1.5 or double length exam in a separate room, depending on the severity of their "disability." I'm not an expert or anything, but all of these kids looked fine for me. I suspect a lot of them got their disability certification while in public schooling at the behest of their parents, who wanted to give them an advantage.
People like Lukacs need to find organizations that are compatible with their irreverence. Although merit goes a long way, academia is VERY political especially when it comes to making tenure decisions.

Most large companies don't have a place for him either. Telling your boss directly he's wrong (even if he is) is a career staller, and going over his head will definitely give you enemies.

There are probably quite a few "Walters" here on HN who said "F* it, I'll do my own startup".
Yes, most high level play isn't really looking to do all-in rushes like this. The goal is more to "fast econ harrass to early map control" giving you an early advantage and allowing you to eventually win.
As always, some great take-aways here-- the first of which (download and read Rob's book) I'm in the process of doing now.
The problem with Apple is that they try and project some moral superiority while actually having a troubled record when it comes to moral actions. They claim to be champions of open standards, open architectures, etc. And oftentimes, they do exceedingly well: The early adoption of USB, a beautiful working integrated Java platform, HTML5 and web standards are all examples where Apple championed openness and followed through.

However, there is this other side: where Apple seizes a chunk of territory that they mark out as "ours to play with" and this is roped off and defended at all costs. When Google decided that cellphones needed an open option to keep carriers and developers honest, Apple reacted vociferously against this perceived incursion into their territory. And this is, I believe, what dhh is articulating unease about. Today Goliath Apple is fighting the good fight, taking down the monolithic clunky developer-terrorizing nonsense that is Flash in the name of open standards and on behalf of Davidesque HTML5. But tomorrow, there's no telling if Apple is suddenly going to decide that this is "their territory" and they are going to defend it against all incursions (open or not) at all costs. And that is worrying.

Apple's moral standards seem arbitrary, adopted post-hoc to conveniently justify a pre-ordained course of action. And that makes everyone fearful of their next move.
Oh dear. I find that almost all job adverts ask for people with 2+ years experience, plus rather a lot of skills. There don't seem to be any aimed at recent graduates. My plan is to work whatever crappy job I can find for a couple of years, while making sure I genuinely practice website/webapp development in my spare time, so that eventually I will be 'qualified' for the majority of job postings (for developers/engineers).

Of course it often crosses my mind that the requirements are some sort of elaborate bluff and the abundance of expert programmers (in Scotland) is a complete myth.
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A site for West Michigan moms to become a part of a community. The two focal points are activities (stroller walks, biking, educational, etc.) and discounts at local retailers (bike shops, photographers, natural markets, and things geared towards moms in general).

I did the design and development for this project. I'm not the founder. This is my first HN submission (long time reader), so not sure if a "Show HN" posting is proper for this type of thing or not (please advise).

The founder, Jenny White, recently pitched at Startup West Michigan's startup night and took first place. A few articles: http://d.pr/zOMi & from the Holland Sentinel: http://d.pr/jS8e

Would love some feedback from those that have created community sites.
Why don't internships count ? - certainly in the UK for most professional jobs having an internship in the field is a huge advantage over other candidates and in popular fields such as banking, media, etc. having done internships is pretty much a requirement.
I don't think that Apple is a superpower when it comes to promoting or killing technologies, be it on desktop or mobile. It is surely important in the whole scheme of things but certainly not the king maker. With the rise Android and Windows mobile 7 , apple and its iOS will matter even less. Here in India one can get an Android phone(1.6) for 7000rs( 120 $) which is a very competitive price, where iphone 3gs costs around 32000rs ( 650 $). I don't see apple getting a decisive share of mobile market anywhere outside of US in the foreseeable future.
1. Yes. There is overlap with our consulting customers as well as a 'release notification' email list of ~2k.

2. Initial release is feature complete.

3. Our team is awesome, but young/inexperience.

4. Yes. I believe we stand up VERY well. Our only downside is that we're new/unproven.
I have no worries about this, I can throw out my $199 iPhone and buy a new phone. The same apps I use (Planets vs Zombies, actually that is about it) will be available on the new phone shortly. Phones and its OS are dispensable. that is the great thing about them. As long as it can make a call and receive data the real utility of the phone will always be available.

The rest of it is just entertainment.
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I wrote this on the tea party about a year and a half ago:
http://www.geoffgolder.com/node/16

My core values are inline with the Tea Party, however, it has evolved into something it originally was not, and something I don't really respect.

It's outside of the scope of this post, but if you really want to understand the tea party situation, you really need to understand the difference between a religious-conservative and an intellectual-conservative.

Most liberals won't sense the difference and thus disregard (arguably more logical) libertarians as they can't distinguish them from the vast majority of religious-conservatives. This happens at a very large scale.
Though I am replying late, but the day you posted this link, the deadline for this had already passed, in this way you are degrading the quality of HN, so please don't do it from now on.
I had similar thoughts when reading his eyetracking book. In many ways it would be more problematic if these decorative images were getting a lot of attention; it would mean they were distracting from the content.
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I particularly recommend the chapter on virtual assistants. I haven't actually used one yet but that is on the list of things to try.
If you looked at the past 2 decades or so in China, you will notice that all these "plans" were not work out very well. The reality is, the China's economy miracle was driven by millions of small businesses that desperately want to be rich (the comparison is known as Wenzhou form and Sunan form where as in Sunan, it is government-leading economy and Wenzhou, it is all small businesses).

Basically, the Communist Party's role in China's economy miracle is overrated. If you read the history, it was that people broke the law first and then Party just mend it and let it go. That's, the ad-hoc market economy after all.
US (and, I assume) Canadian schools typically have a PhD Candidacy exam. Until you pass the exam, you are not officially a PhD candidate. The format of mine was quite fair, I believe, and representative of whether or not one can do research. In December, we were told 15 papers that we needed to read. In January, we were given 6 questions based on those papers. The questions had parts, and they ranged in depth from, basically, "tell us what they did in this paper," to "poke holes in this work" and "compare/contrast the work in this paper with the work in this other paper." We were given two weeks. I wrote about 24 pages for that exam.

The candidacy exam is one of the exams the student got out of. There is, of course, then the proposal and the final defense.
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I'm not really sure what the lesson is here. He says "Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development could have changed the outcome" but how? I mean, they could have shut down halfway through and saved a couple billion, but it doesn't seem like any amount of adaptability could have made a global satellite project cost-feasible in the face of cell phone ubiquity.

The only lesson I can think of here is don't finance a project that's going to cost a lot and take a decade to implement, because there's a good chance that technology will make it obsolete by the time you launch.
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Companies compete with each other and there are winners and losers.

When Google rolled out free Google Maps and navigation apps, they were directly attacking companies like Garmin and TomTom

Now frankly, it is reasonable to sympathize with many companies whose paid offerings are under attack by "free" products, but would you ask Google to recognize itself as a "superpower" and stop killing GPS navigation companies ?
Heh, fair point. Just goes to show that once you label someone a startup in your head, you can be blinded to such obvious facts!
> When Google decided that cellphones needed an open option to keep carriers and developers honest...

Google hasn't kept the carriers honest, and I've yet to hear of an iOS app that quietly copies all your SMS messages off to some server in Russia.
I agree. The photo on that page serves the same function as white space. It also helps the page feel less like a wall of text and more easily digestible. Plus, one can get the gist of the image without ever actually focusing on it.
I'll flip though some things when I get home this evening.
Thanks, I look forward to it.

And, come to think of it, you seem to be the perfect use case for virtual assistants-- I imagine the discrepancy between the return you get from one focused hour of attention versus the cost of one hour of a VA handling some routine task must be off the chart.
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I don't have a PhD but I do have a black belt, which shares some characteristics.

Specifically, I see people from time to time who I feel perhaps did not work as hard for their rank as I did for mine.

The lesson I've learned in the end is don't trust credentials too much. If you want to find out what kind of martial artist someone is, don't look at the belt, look at how they train.

I would imagine the same can be said for a PhD. Don't look at the degree, read the research!
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(Think what happened or didn’t to Blue-ray, USB3, Java).
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I'm not sure I knew that anything happened to Java and Blu-ray, can someone help?
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That was why my phone interview with Google turned me off to it... the interviewer and the recruiter had different DAYS on their schedules to talk to me, and the interviewer proved to be... well, not exactly the sharpest tack in the box. Or he wasn't paying attention, because he asked me questions that I had already provided answers to...

(Him: Wait, how will you swap those two entries? You can't just move them back and forth.
Me: using the "swap" function that I described immediately after you described the problem?)
Why leave Google to join Facebook?
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> Here in India one can get an Android phone(1.6) for 7000rs( 120 $) which is a very competitive price, where iphone 3gs costs around 32000rs ( 650 $).

Are they comparable phones? If nothing else, there've been two major Android OS revisions since 1.6.
It's an interesting debate to have, but this article is a bunch of hogwash. China has a booming middle class and an extremely "functional" diaspora.

http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/Rise_of_Chinas_Middle_Class
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But the "ignorant peasants" are doing great in China. They are the first one who signed the contract with government to "rent the land" and do the agriculture themselves. They are the main forces of Chinese small businesses (Wenzhou is a great example) and they are the main work forces for outsourcing industry in China.

We shouldn't be blind by the elite-leading economy in China these days (the PE etc.). Actually, I am quite worried about these "smart people looking after everyone's interests".
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