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These costs are already factored into the price of the shirts, so you don't have to pay any additional costs for shipping

Nice touch -- both for including the shipping price in the advertised price and for not calling it "free".

I also thought it's a good idea that you de-emphasized the "2011" in the design, so the shirt remains mostly relevant if there's another "snowpocalypse" sometime :)
I sensed a bit of that too.
You found the opportunity and owned it. I can't see how that deserves any criticism. How much did you make so far?
I feel the exact same way. The Path offer, then this... I never thought I'd say this but we, folks, are in a bubble.
This IS awesome.

Could you please provide details about the logistics behind the tshirts? Are you using Zazzle/CafePress? Do you have a contact in the industry that allowed you to very quickly start printing and shipping them?

I think that's the part most hackers will be interested in. Congrats on your success!
Congrats Sriram - great work!
So there aren't any insurance with 100% coverage? He would always have to pay some percent of the final costs?

I'm a french expat living in China and I get 100% coverage (up to 3 million dollars) everywhere in the world except the US and canada for 3250$/year. To also have coverage in the US, it would cost me almost double price...

As a side note, when I was researching insurances for expats, I found that American insurances like Allianz had a lot more exclusions than European ones...
I still don't understand why they don't send a DMCA takedown request to Apple and call it a day. Have they already done this yet Apple is refusing to takedown the offending app? I highly doubt Apple would take on that sort of liability.
I believe he came closest any author ever has to walking someone else through their imagination.

Tolkien only wrote a story incidentally. What he did was show us the real Middle earth, the one in his mind.

Most authors are the Lonely Planet Guide to their fantasy worlds. Tolkien... Tolkien was David Attenborough.
It's weird, they claim that once you it a certain level they require you to either use Adwords or pay (I think you have the option of paying) but they don't seem to enforce it, do you happen to know if it's true?
I simply love the fact that there are moves towards opening up this data. And, the site works remarkably well (ignoring the downtime after it launched).
The problem is that the small amount of signal that Bing picks up from Google carries more weight for the more rare associations that Google has worked so hard to help users find. Spelling mistakes stand out here quite a bit.
MSNBC reporters have a hotel with a direct view, and are also giving live commentary. Gunfire and what sounds like artillery are clearly audible.

EDIT: State Department has arranged evacuation flights and is advising Americans to report to the airport immediately.
Get well soon, Andrew. Really love your interviews!
No idea. I've definitely looked at MixPanel and would love to give it a shot, but my site would instantly put me into the paid range, which means I'll stick with GA for now.
Ferris tends to sell what zefrank classes as "brain crack". It gives you a high, fills your head with possibilities and a week after you finish the book you never think of it again.

Yes, generalizing - yes, a select few people will read this kind of press then go out and change their life, start a series of successful endeavors and make love like a wild badger / hamster / emu / whatever the popular animal is for the moment, but from my general experience of the kind of people that love these books, it's a form of fantasy or escapism.

I'm surprised your reply didn't get downvoted to hell simply because it injects spades of uncomfortable, sweaty reality to this specific kind of goal. Tim Ferris' achievements seem to be the intersection of several other significant bodies of work / effort that contributed to easing the pathway to achieving other things, but they are sold as if he woke up a few weeks ago and made it all happen.

Most people will need to at least invest significant material or psychological effort to get to the point where they can enable similar actions, but it's not going to bother the majority because they'll never get to that point of action - testing the validity of a fantasy tends to destroy the associated pleasure.

Edit: The similar scenario I always think of with 4HWW is the Banksy / Exit through the gift shop / Mr Brainwash thing - the guy basically outsourced everything to do with an art show (including the creation of art), crammed it all into the shortest window possible, and only _just_ scraped through the process (while destroying his health and having what looked like a complete breakdown). Additionally he created no lasting value or developed any meaningful skills (in either art or event co-ordination). Made some money, sure, but I'm not entirely sold in the tradeoff there.
Vim does similar up-arrow completion(with the :! command), good to know bash can do it too.
I think the entire game was a labor of intense depth. The internal fantasy was watertight, from the technology, to the politics, to the way the story changed dynamically depending on your choices.
The claim is 5 million pageviews per month if you're not an AdWords customer, but its not actively enforced, though all indications are that they'll get more serious about this over time.
> The valor to tell an entrepreneur precisely why you are not going to invest in her company rather than giving the traditional “VC no” by just going dark.

When I was raising an angel round for my last company, one well-known angel promised us an answer 24 hours after we met with him. He gave us a "no" the next day. But I respected him tons because his quick decision made him stand out markedly from everybody else we talked to, most of whom gave us the "VC No" by requesting lots of meetings and / or going dark.
"It was interesting to watch the level of protest and feigned outrage from Google."

This was the phrase that almost made me want to do another round of posts. As the person on the panel from Google, I can assure you: it was not feigned outrage. It was real frustration.
Indeed, watching good casters is a good way to master a new game. Delivering insight into the reasons behind the players actions and tactics is a valuable service.
definitely, why not? Completely people oriented, and for the most part, people who are on one site, are on another site (match, eharmony, craigslist?, etc.). Nothing wrong with multiple avenues of meeting people - so there's still room in this space.

Don't we all just want to be loved?! ;)
I've read it, and found it about as valuable as the average business book, which is to say, not particularly.

The premise seemed to be that people work for things other than money. While this is correct, it's also obvious, and the book doesn't really add all that much to the discussion, I think.
Would it have benefited against spammers to release the full source code so gaming the system would be more difficult?
Impossible. The supply is already far, far higher than demand for certain professions - acting and basketball, for instance.
Thanks Alexis. You're right, major congrats to the OkCupid team, and there are certainly precedents for large companies not screwing up too much with things they've bought. I have confidence that no one at hipmunk would allow such to happen. :)
You incorrectly assume those are the only activities that those people could possibly enjoy doing. Part of the trick is finding the overlap between enjoyable and productive.
What Apple does is curate the store to their standards, which makes them the decision makers on what is and is not acceptable. Copyright is a large and nuanced legal issue in which they can't be the final arbiter, so why would they want to expose themselves to that hassle? This exact issue is a great example: according to the "copiers", they have a legal right to release the app. Whether or not they do is not up to Apple to decide.
7/10 for both, Teredo is easy to set up. I can help anyone who has questions with it.
I wonder how many people visiting their site are going to take this opportunity to get the game at a discount... hopefully not many.
Here's waiting anxiously for Bitcoin to put these guys out of business.
He seems surprisingly dismissive of the "real world."

Academic computing science is doing fine, thank you, and unless I am totally mistaken, it will have a profound influence. I am not referring to the changes that result from computers in their capacity of tools. Okay, the equipment opens new opportunities for the entertainment industry, but who cares about that anyhow. The equipment has enabled the airline industry to make its rates so complicated and volatile that you need an expert to buy a ticket, and for this discouragement of air travel we can be grateful, but the true impact comes from the equipment in its capacity of intellectual challenge.
I'd be interested in reading paul's thoughts on creativity.
Some of the saddest people I know are people who achieved a lot in high school/college (prestigious school, high grades, awards, etc) but were always chasing goals set by their parents. In their post-college life, they've found themselves aimless because they quite literally don't know what they love.

Meanwhile, my friends who had the freedom to explore and learn what they're passionate about are much happier today.

(Yeah, I know, plural of anecdote is not data, etc, etc. But my sample of kids who were allowed to do whatever they want is slightly larger than the norm here because I was unschooled my whole life and so I'm in the position of knowing a lot of 20-something unschoolers, in addition to my peers who went to public/private school.)
I think what he meant is that there are many more people for whom basketball is their passion than can actually make a living with basketball. Therefore, it's impossible to have a society where everyone truly follows their passion.
personally, I'd recommend the classics.

1. winning friends and influencing people by Dale Carnegie

probably the best "quick introduction to people skills" I've seen.

then, if you need to deal with vendor salespeople

2. winning through intimidation by Robert J. Ringer.

(not that I really advocate doing what he says, but it's an important window into the sales mind. You need some applied cynicism to defend yourself the first time you go to rent an office, a server, or anything else, really.)

but, I guess that's only two, and neither is as specific as you want. I've never read a specific business book that I found useful.
Senator: domain name seizures "alarmingly unprecedented"
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The one used for the submission is more confusing (while not being much shorter), though. I don’t think you should edit the titles of submissions if it makes them less clear.

(Technically, the title of the original article is not very clear because hardly anyone will know what “Lugaru” is. “Counterfeit Game on Apple's App Store” seems like a perfect, minimally edited and very clear title to me.)
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Apple's response when they decide to take it down will be the interesting part. We'll find out if there is a kill switch or blacklist in the mac app store.
I haven't read any of his books, but as an Australian, Mr Ferris's tone fills me with dread, suspicion and an instinctual need to take the piss.

...but from my general experience of the kind of people that love these books, it's a form of fantasy or escapism.

I'm also not familiar with these books (except for discussions of them on HN, where they get a lot of negative comments). I'm American -- born and raised -- but come from a multicultural background and can't relate to a lot of popular American stuff. The above comments make me think/wonder if this is an American phenomenon, kind of like how everyone talks about wanting to win the lottery. I get all kinds of flack for rolling up my sleeves and working to resolve my problems. Americans seem to have the hardest time with that. Maybe it is selection bias, but foreign friends seem to have a much easier time wrapping their head around the choices I have made to genuinely resolve problems that are supposed to be "unresolvable".

My anecdotal observation is that people who have a huge love of Christmas and theme parks are typically people with their head in the sand, who only want escapism and god forbid that you offer them a real solution. That might involve work. That might involve being uncomfortable. That might lead to divorce or changing jobs or something.

Sigh.
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Looking at the way he states there will be a 2 week delay I assume he'll wait for the peak and then go ahead and contact his printer (I assume he's got contacts to make it easier) and get the amount he needs printed, that way he keeps costs down (ordering in bulk). If he got to the point where he couldn't handle the orders himself I'm pretty sure he'd be in the revenue areas that allowed him to contract multiple printers to do the work, printing t-shirts in bulk is cheap.
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You can't use Google's new in-app billing service. But both Google and Apple absolutely do allow you to sell physical goods through an app using your own billing process. Witness the number of shopping apps, including the Amazon app, Sears2go, etc. that allow you to purchase goods on your phone/tablet.
This is a fantastic example of identifying a bubbling market and supplying it with a desirable product. Great work!
I think the biggest problem with GA is actually its usability. Mixpanel doesn't do what GA can't do, but does better what GA does poorly.
I'm not lazy, I'm just intrinsically motivated. I love that characterization.

In all seriousness, this article hit home for me. I went through high school bored and came out with well above average, but not stellar, grades. I was accepted into a good enough college (where I'm currently enrolled) and have plenty of time to pursue my own interests, one of which is launching a startup. Which I'm doing.
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I don't think Apple is refusing to do anything. The corporate wheels must turn. The spice must flow.
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The argument seems to be that average online storage needs are simply growing beyond what can be provided by a flat-fee unlimited plan.

I don't know if that's true, but there's something important the post doesn't address: the potential declining costs of providing online storage. Might the two not balance each other out for the foreseeable future?

I refer to this most excellent post by BackBlaze, which outlines how they do storage:
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h...

While we might not see many additional leaps of over 90% reduction in cloud storage costs, I (a) wonder how much headroom such innovation bought Backblaze, and (b) whether their main costs, hard drive, will keep pace with user demands.
Pretty cool. Really liked the emphasis on the inclusion of shipping costs in the price. The design is perfect in my opinion and no wonder the sales are going viral. Congratulations and keep up the good work.
They can find a different passion. Basketball didn't even exist a few hundred years ago. People have the potential to enjoy more than one thing. Having the mindset of finding ways to enjoy things is the key, not mindlessly pursing the first "passion" you encounter.
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There are lots of ways to make a living if basketball is your passion beyond playing it professionally. For instance, you could do a sports-based startup (http://fanvibe.com) or coach middle schoolers or open a sports memorabilia store.

I don't see how you could definitively know it's not possible.
Having such a mindset is a great thing. For most, firing up a new passion is easier said than done.
glad to hear paul thinks my alma mater (CWRU) is 'good enough' ;-)
Congrats on the launch! LOVE the idea of beating a successful company/idea to a different platform, by the way. Please do that post when you have a minute - I for one would be very eager to read it.
I was actually editing my message to say that I didn't necessarily agree with this, as I have uncles and cousins who are kid's basketball coaches. I do see where he's coming from, though.
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Completely agreed. It's improving at something that's the most fun. As I get better at things, and improve more slowly, they become less fun.

That's especially true of sports and other zero-sum competitive activities: it's really boring when winning is the only goal, and you know you're going to win.
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Yay!

Not much more to say.
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The post said my feelings were feigned (definition: "to give a false appearance of"). My feelings weren't feigned.

(Also, it's spelled Singhal, not Singhai)
I think there is a difference between 'unlimited' and 'absurdly high.' Many hosting providers offer 'unlimited' storage but limit how fast you can upload -- this effectively caps their storage but makes it high enough for most users to never care. Instead of dubious 'unlimited' marketing I would prefer up-front pricing. GMail tells you exactly how much storage it offers for free with the idea that this is much too high for a normal user to touch. Much easier to deal with than an 'unlimited' service that breaks down under load.
Yeah, I actually had to check that I wasn't on a spoof website. The site looks cheap and ugly. Not like a typical Google site. Just compare to the recent ebooks and art project sites. Glad I'm not the only one thinking the site needs solid polishing.
I think the probable outcome is "Wolfire -> Apple: DMCA", "Apple -> Pirate: You've been DMCAed.", "Pirate -> Apple: Counter-notification. We believe we have a valid license. The DMCA says that they have to sue us to prove otherwise.", "Apple -> Wolfire: Well crikey, they're right."

That leaves Apple legally covered, although I would bet they terminate the pirates under the It's Our System And You're Causing Us Negative PR So Eff Off provision.
Costs of storage are of course declining rapidly, however so far the massive increase in available bandwidth and storage needs for customers is simply growing MUCH faster.

Part of the catch-22 here is also that with decreased storage costs for online storage providers (that increasingly are building their clusters with consumer component hard drives) keeps an even pace with decrease in cost for home-storage and the amount of data users are wanting to upload.
Again, you seem to think the book is about this claim that TF has invented some new kind of workout routine. Its not.

At a novice level there is a minimum amount of work that can be done to get the desired outcome. Further, an intermediate or professional athlete also has a minimum amount of work that can be done to get their desired outcome. In every goal, no matter what your experience or skill level, there is a minimum amount of work for the desired outcome.

How do you quantify this minimum amount of work is? The 4 hour body prescribes a methodology of continual trial and measurement. That is what the book is about.. applying this principle to your goals for your own body. And, he has sections in the book for both beginners and more experienced athletes.

Occams Protocol, as the book refers to it, is really a brilliant principle if you can just remove yourself from your expertise in this subject for one minute.

Starting Strength looks great. I started lifting about 15 years ago - my first read was Arnold's 'Encyclopedia of Body Building'. Either of those books would take me a few weeks to really absorb. The Four hour body took me about 6 hours to read, it encouraged me to cut back my workouts from 6 hours per week to 3 hours per week - so far with solid results. That is significant, that is important to me - that is something that I would like to share with other people.

btw, I would not take your bet, however, if that challenge was to happen, I would not bet against Tim Ferriss.
"The notable thing here is that Google is concerned & willing to be aggressive."
how are you dealing with shipping to Mexico without paying for importation costs?
Well, either way the post exists.

Now this way, it is getting attention for existing and for being squelched. Twice the press! Bravo.
I'm going to have to disagree with you, all of those are some of my favorite author/books
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I don't know if it's possible, but why not make the text itself be editable instead of opening a text field side by side?

It's kinda hard to see how your edits will turn out because you have to look away from where you are editing and the two columns of text are misaligned.

But it's awesome already.
agreed, I am curious about the logistics.

I'd guess that he has a wholesale contact, but the margins after shipping would still be very small. assume $8 for a t-shirt, $5 average for shipping, leaves $3 profit per sale.
This is probably one of the most frustrating aspects of the whole process. I'm raising money for Forrst right now, and I've lost count of the number of folks who have done this. They make it seem like saying a two letter word is some superhuman feat. Makes me extra grateful for the guys who stuck to their word and followed up quickly with a yes/no.
That's epic. Seems like someone at Flickr finally rolled up their sleeves and booted into Parted Magic.
Yeah. To contrast, one of the books that changed my life (well, fitness wise) was Rock, Iron, Steel - Justa's book of strength.

It was about 15 pages long, and can be summarized as "go and find some heavy things, then lift and drag them around for the rest of your life. Don't skip any days in between. Expect results in 3-6 years". The book itself is pretty useless, but it was a reflection of "there's no science here, just start".

I'm putting some hyperbole in that, but it was a distinct change for me at the time. Not saying I've got everything solved, but as a general rule if something causes me to spend more time imagining doing things than actually doing things, I try to avoid it.

One of the aspects in all this that incites the want to attack the style of book is that some of this is basic beyond books, beyond anything else - eg, if you want to lose weight, eat less and get off your ass. You don't need a book, or a hack, or even clever thought about it. Go the hell outside and move around a lot.

Full disclosure: I'm an Australian as well.
Sadly enough, I did this when I worked at $BIG_CO, not so much because it improved my productivity, but because the day was excruciatingly long with a clock staring at me in the corner. It helped a lot.
When Bing adjusts the results it shows due to user click-ranking, it does so without any notification. That's because its a ranking issue.

When Bing adjusts the results as due to a spellcheck done by their engine, it notifies the user so they can correct it.

On your example, Bing search does exactly this:
> We're including results for fast fourier transform. Do you want results only for fast forier twansform?
I wish this tiger mom thing would just die. It's so embarrassing for Asian people that didn't have insane parents.
Something that I would add to that is have someone you trust change your Facebook password (for the day, the week, until the weekends, however long). If you're like me, it's not uncommon to log in ~5-10 times a day just for a quick check. Doing so interrupts your flow the same way diverting your attention to an upcoming event does. However, when you get in the habit of not even being able to check it, that distraction disappears from your life.