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Of begars, bootstrappers and windmills
So as I read today's iteration of the entrepreneur's cliche "man up" article "Stop Panhandling Your Ideas"

http://bennesvig.com/post/4363890591/
stop-panhandling-your-ideas

I was struck by the variances between the conditions of those aspiring to start-up grandure.

There are so many aspects to the realities of entrepreneurial success that between the ethical, physical, will to power, market dynamics/timing, even the fine line between ardent entrepreneurial fire and the lunatic's ravings and chantings. It brings to my mind the line from the musical Man of La Mancha where the question is posited "Why are you poets so fascinated with mad men?" To which the answer resounds "We have much in common" the continuation describing a core commonality is that both poets and mad men "select from life"

An alternate iteration that I think better links the 'bootstrappers' from the 'beggers' is that they both execute selectively in life.

To illustrate I like what pg says about the reason for desiring to condense life's labors into a bitterly and ultra concentrated decade or less.

The answer, of course, is not inherently (nor do I think even likely in the case of many) the desire for money but rather the desire to execute on the remainder of life without having to sacrifice any more of it than necesary to money and it's trappings.

So if life is the value what I think those hyperly set on the concept of 'just do it' might consider is that virtually all are presently JUST DOING IT.

What I mean to say is that life (at least in my case) offers up chances that, whether or not you've landed the fiscal or professional fruits of a bootstrapped dream, you would be a fool to let pass.

Yet often such opportunities have strings that provide added obstacles to that bootstrapping dream come true in the realm of dollars or professional achievement - yet the very reason one seeks the prize is simply to augment or better facilitate those that are the actual life sought.

So while I'm all for finishing things. For launching, shipping and generally executing. I think it important to remember that the very reason many 'panhandle' their ideas is because they have already started bootstrapping other aspects of their lives yet cling to the opportunism and the exploitation of happy breaks as much as any real entrepreneur/founder deserving of the title 'relentlessly resourceful' must.

Just consider that in a way the ' panhandling' of the idea IS them doing something.

Not all Bootstrappers are successful in every aspect. But all who are genuine bootstrappers are, by definition, some flavor of 'panhandler'
Is it live?
I am a college student looking to do research on wearable computers and interface designs for this kind of device. Looking for interns?
How To Troubleshoot A Wireless Internet Connection
wireless may be mobile and handy, but it is also prone to minor glitches that can disrupt its performance. Here is how you can troubleshoot a wireless internet connection
That's not a true Regular Expression: it uses back-tracking, and to the author's credit, he notes that in the article.

True regular expressions can't recognize primes. It's important to keep these kind of distinctions in mind for two reasons.

First, without clear, precisely defined categories of formal languages, you'll fail to recognize unsolvable (or undecidable) problems and waste a lot of time. Personally, I put "malware dectection" in this category, as determining whether a given file constitutes a virus seems equivalent to solving the halting problem.

Second, sloppy usage like using "Regular Expression" for something else is one of those common usage issues that allow people to argue based on the name ("regular expression") to lure the unsuspecting in, but then fall back on extreme technicalities to trick people into agreeing with the argument when they might not otherwise have agreed. A lot like I've done in this comment.
> It states that it believes the reactor went into full meltdown in fresh air.The materials from reactor 4 core appear to be completely dissipated into the atmosphere [...]

You COULD read it that way, but the bottom of the slide says in big bold red letters that 'It is currently unclear if release from fuel pool already happened'.

To me it seems most of the bullet points on this slide are conjectures, not statements of fact (though note I haven't been keeping up to date on other news sources about the situation in Fukushima).
I don't agree it'll be less useful. Actual telepresence has a lot more possibilities than just a video stream.

You could interact with people in the virtual environment, build or design something together, brainstorm in new ways (For example, imagine architects designing a building while walking in it in realtime), and take notes digitally. Once you can do everything in the virtual "world", you don't need your hands/eyes free for other things.

(and I'm sure there will be a pop-up HUD interface in which you can do other things if you really want to be distracted like browsing HN during a meeting :).
I had never heard of that before. Interesting site/service, but I really don't see me ever using it.
Re: Hard Exercise - Bizarre. I work a mostly sedentary silicon valley lifestyle, with the addition of 2-3 miles walking a day, and typically get 5-6 hours of sleep a night, going to bed around 2:00 - 3:00 AM and getting up around 9:00 AM.

Recently, though, I started a linear progress novice strength training program (Squats, Dead Lift, Bench Press, Overhead Press) - three times a week for 40 minutes. My sleep patterns immediately shifted, and I am incapable of waking up without at least 8 hours of sleep on off days, and 10 hours of sleep on the days that I lift heavy.

For the first time in my life, ever, I'm finding myself going to bed at 10:00 PM at night so that I can get up by 8:00 AM the next morning.
the CNIL lacks power. All they can do is protest, but they have no real power.
I am 46 now and I still need more than 8 hours a night.
I tried less, but that does not work: thinking is a torture then, sports too.

If I get enough sleep, I feel great, I get 3 times as much done and I run and swim like a champ (still).

I love to get enough sleep!!!! It simply feels great.
If you ask the right leading questions, you're sure to arrive at the answer you want.
I think you're partly right, but I also suspect they may have been downvoted to quell any "piling on". Repeated jokes on the same theme have diminishing returns.
What do you technical people think of business/idea guys that teach themselves how to code and begin working on their ideas themselves? Do you find it makes the business guy easier to work and communicate with?
Tech start-ups reveal cost-cutting tips
[Waits for XKCD to revise his cute infographic.]
Symantec Report Details the Evolving Threat Landscape
It's really cool to see someone so successful talk like a hacker.
Could you maybe get some kind of approximation of color by holding up different colored filters in front of your eyes to filter out all but that color? It works for space probes :)
A quick look to APL [A Programming Language]
I think I could sleep 20 hours if given the chance, but I routinely will sleep until 7am regardless of when I go to bed. If its 10pm or 4am. I just wake up at 7am, I'm super sleepy still, but more hungry. So I have to wake up, make some cereal and then I'm up.

Not sure what that is, but I've never met anyone else who shares this trait.
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10 Steps to Initiating an OpenStack Cloud Service
When you want to create a new website do you start by looking at a bunch of clip art and images? Browsing through datasets such as the ones listed in this thread leaves me overwhelmed. I've never had any difficulty finding open datasets. If there is a dataset I need that doesn't exist or costs money, I find a way to create it from scratch.
Just wanted to clear up that by "them", I don't mean foreigners, I mean potential new friends.
I'm teaching a bootstrapping class in late April (NYC)
PS3 Hackers Begin Targeting Sony Executive's Personal Information
Meh. Keeps out the riff-raff. ;^)
It really feels like the world finally caught up to Steve Jobs rather than the other way around. Its a wonder how early he has been using the word 'magical' and obsessed with creating the best version of anything out there even with a hacky product like a blue box.
How America Describes Itself In Dating Profiles (Infographics)
Thanks for the link evangineer. Happy to answer any questions.
Do the "Hello World" of design. Developers like that approach.
This is garbage. "AppArmor Replaces: Barracuda Web Application Firewall (...)". Sure, restricting filesystem access and other system calls is exactly the same as (hopefully?) protecting against SQL injection.
Woz disputes long-accepted date of "Day One" at Apple
How Companies Are Finding Financing Without Small Business Loans From Banks
This is a really good writeup. I have never used Instruments before, and while I'm not an expert in OpenSSL, there was enough detail to point me in the right direction when dealing with this in the future. Thanks.
Ghost city of Pripyat street view
I used to need very little sleep. Unfortunately, it was because my thyroid was overactive. As soon as I went to a doctor and got it taken care of, I became a normal sleeper.
They do find short sleepers. They mention that the studies have them -- they're just not easy to find.
How is REST not mentioned anywhere? A RESTful interface is one of the most useful things about a framework. Sure you can implement it in any framework, but some frameworks are built around REST. This allows native apps and webapps to interface with the same application quite simply.
"It's just not as close to the surface as it was in the early days of the internet or BBS."

Precisely. I'll add that today that 'underground' is a very small (yet important, if not critical to its future) part of the whole internet whereas in the early days it was most of it; hence the appearance of it being farther from the surface.

No need to reach for Tor, take HN whose volume is certainly much lower than those Facebook streams and various LOLcats, yet it is certainly pivotal to what's actually built on the internet. The next Facebook won't come from its users, it will come from one of you.

Human-Computer interaction as envisioned is at its peak. Dare you tell me that Second Life, World of Warcraft, or Eve Online are not quite akin to the metaverse that was envisioned in Snowcrash. Tell me that those robotic prosthetic limbs are not close to what you see in Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita in the US). All those eyes, ears, and even memory prosthetic devices (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6574) seen in Ghost in the Shell and Johnny Mnemonic are not dreamt of anymore, they are very real and useful to many (although admittedly they did not reach such levels of advancement, but that's a matter of time). Tell me those efforts to control and monitor everything including the internet "for the safety of everyone and his dog" are not dystopian in many ways, and get a look at how the third and fourth world are manipulating technology in ad-hoc, cheap, creative and dangerous ways to try and follow us in our first-world countries steps.

Of course there is some error correction to apply with regard to what was envisioned before all of that was even remotely possible; it is no wonder that fiction varies from reality.

Cyberpunk lives, for the best and the worst, today.
I believe Reddit does this for the first X hours of a submissions life - to discourage bandwagons, and so that newer submissions that may otherwise be overlooked (due to having less initial upvotes) will get a chance. I agree that it's a good idea and something that may work well on HN's new page.
Cypherpunkish, more than Neuromancerish. Also, I know a guy who left the US in order to be able to keep gambling online, and a Google executive recently coordinated a peaceful revolution that toppled a 30-year-old dictatorship in Egypt, in 18 days. And there's some debate as to whether or not Iran's efforts to enrich uranium were stymied by a computer worm that destroyed its centrifuges or not, and the world's biggest distributed computers are operated either by the Russian Mafia or by Google, depending on how you measure.

I still see more Rainbows End than Neuromancer in today's internet, but that's hardly surprising; Vinge wrote it considerably later.
To see some genuine regular expression trickery, see https://github.com/matthiasgoergens/Div7/blob/master/regex7 for a regular expression that recognizes decimal numbers that are divisible by 7.

If you memorize that expression, you have a handy way to tell whether a number is divisible by 7.
Does the choice of programming language / development stack affect acquisitions?
I've never really seen this topic covered in any of the acquisition literature / blog posts i've read and couldn't really find anything meaningful on Google.

I've been a .NET developer on the Windows platform for several years but own a mac and have been learning RoR in my spare time. I'm planning on developing a new web app and I know at the moment I will be able to develop it much faster in .NET / Windows than RoR / linux.

Does anyone have any experience with problems / benefits your choice of technology stack has had when getting acquired?
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Q&A interview with Pangea Media's founder Seth Lieberman
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I don't see how the legibility is improved. It's different, but I think the current look is just fine. Maybe I'm just lacking an eye for typography.
Replacing the "Save" icon
I agree with you about the math class. As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I ended up doing a minor in CS (which comes out to about 6 courses). I focused these courses on the more theoretical/mathy options, and that has definitely served me well.
It is just an example of an alternate viewpoint. My point is that sometimes you will have more success finding data for questions that interest you than looking at datasets that interest you and trying to come up with questions.
Yes, I used GA & getclicky and the results were almost identical. The landing page I was using was extremely lightweight and loaded in less than a second in most cases. I'd be really surprised if people could bounce before it loaded.

By the way, I'm not the only one reporting this issue: http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=facebook+...
Well, considering that this was from 3/21 and since then there have been further revelations that things have only gotten worse.

Look at these pictures and tell me if you think it is possible that a reactor core outside the containment would not have release material.

http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm

Sure, we can speculate that it has not yet released 100% - and given the fact that refugees are being turned away for fear of contamination at hospitals, bodies from the Tsunami are too radioactive to be recoverable, and reports are stating levels that are just freaking scary - I prefer to err on the side of caution.

I think that in such cases its bettr to assume the worst case as opposed to saying "its probably less than we think".
Love everything apart from the fixed-width main column. Leaves me with huge margins at either side with my usual window width.
Let's be thankful that we only read this online, rather than actually sitting through someone delivering this presentation.
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Thunderbird returns to nest as Mozilla Messaging rejoins Mozilla
For learning the nuances of a language fairly quickly, I recommend http://projecteuler.net/. Start at number one and work your way up. You'll learn a lot about the language in just a few short exercises.
IPod touch prototype with capacitive home button leaked?
It kind of reminds me of this blog post from a while back about Apple's CFArray implementation and how it switches data structure implementations at about 300,000 elements: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2005/12/23/array/

Just a reminder that the simpler things seem, the more complex they can often get under the surface.
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You don't need to question a statement that is already couched in terms like "it believes" and "appear to."

Or were you meaning to question whether they believe what they say they believe?
I thought it was going to be Batman scaling a wall.
We need the option of fixing the margins ourselves, other than that great job!
I'd love to bring on an intern or two, but honestly we're just not there yet. I'm currently funding everything out of pocket, before we seek funding. There will definitely be such opportunities in the (hopefully near!) future, though.
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Would it be insider trading if it wasn't Berkshire Hathaway?
Zed Shaw's Advanced Network Architectures With ZeroMQ at Pycon 2011 [video]
Compute time, measured in ops performed, hasn't exactly stayed constant, though.
and on a macbook air with the browser maximized, i can't read the quote and whatever else this cloud is hiding:

http://i.imgur.com/pRWyAl.jpg
I don't get it. Sits on top of a dead product and adds features from another product that already exists. Who is the market? the ABM crowd?
$3 Million Prize To Develop Algorithm
From coffee table books to iPad apps: publisher ditching paper books
Given that the trait is genetic and extremely advantageous, why doesn't a much larger portion of the population have it? Is there a significant downside?
Between Anonymous and Wikileaks, I feel like we're practically living in a cyberpunk story. We're just the blissfully uninvolved citizens who don't live in the seedy underbelly.
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I really haven't been following this too much. I've been using HN as my news source -- but last I recall from some threads a week or so ago was that everything was overblown and you'd get more radiation from eating a banana?

Is it still the case and this is overblown or have things actually gotten bad enough that if you lived near the power plant moving further away might be recommended?
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Well of course. If you say nothing, you can hardly be wrong :D
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1572031

Did you add a question mark at the end to avoid the dup checker?
The market's diverse enough so it's not likely to be an issue. TI and National don't have a corner on any part of the market that I'm aware of. There's plenty of competition from the likes of Analog Devices, Maxim, Freescale, Siemens (not sure if Siemens is still in the IC market, tho) etc...
I'm not 100% on some the details (like whitespace and contrast), but definitely A++ for effort.
The regex is not complex, just the php implementation is.

I feel like any regex expression should give an error or at least a warning if is going to return a potentially incorrect answer.
Arianna Huffington (and me) certainly are no natural "short sleepers" :)

http://www.ted.com/talks/arianna_huffington_how_to_succeed_g...
I agree with you to a certain extent, but I think it's also important to realize that, just as languages evolve and dialects diverge, technical jargon evolves and diverges into dialects as well. To a large class of programmers, the non-DFA perl-type regex is more common and more important than the formally defined regular expression. The overlap is inconvenient, for exactly the reasons you state, and I wish it didn't exist, but it's unrealistic to expect one camp or the other to abandon their ingrained term for a common concept.

For my part, I use "regular expression" for the DFA-expressible grammar and "regex(en)" for the string-processing facility. The most important thing is clarity, and as long as you're being clear about which type of regular expression you're talking about, the double-meaning may be twitch-inducing but it doesn't impede communication.
Understanding the fundamentals of SEO
Here are some points related to Search Engine Optimization. If you are new to this field then you must have to read this article, as it is describing Search Engine Optimization quite well and in comprehensive way.
I followed the convention "Ask HN:" hoping to get on the ask list which seems to get more discussions. It failed to get on the list. After scratching my head for a while and I found this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2100609 . I shouldn't have submit my post without much previous HN activity. My bad...

I am launching a rapid HTML prototyping tool - App Sketcher - for web application development. Wireframe and mockup market have become crowded in the last two years. The approach with App Sketcher is different from most other tools as it's "web native" both at design time and run time. The artifact it produces can feed into downstream development instead of being a thrown-away. I want to get your thoughts on whether the tool is on some niche and whether it has a chance in today's market place. What kind of things (such as pricing, features etc.) can be done to improve the chance? I really appreciate your input.
> determining whether a given file constitutes a virus seems equivalent to solving the halting problem.

In fact (for a sufficiently rigorous definition of virus), it is provably the case that we cannot determine whether a file is a virus, using an argument very similar to a halting problem proof.

You might be interested in 'Computer viruses: theory and experiments' by Fred Cohen for the full working-out of the proof.
nice try, but its way better to see 20 items at a glance than to mouse around a acre of white space. readability isn't everything, workability matters too. "<ctrl> +" is a good compromise if your eyes are going!
I think a more accurate title would be "How to reduce memory usage 10x in almost anything that uses OpenSSL." Bottom line: All those bookkeeping data structures for compression take up a lot of space. Disable SSL compression and you can go from 1MB per connection down to 100kB.
It allows you to start off by sketching a webapp with Sinatra-like simplicity & get as complex & modular as needed.
Scvngr pilot LevelUp targets entrepreneurs with special local deal
Is anyone using this yet? It sounds interesting enough but it seems there is a waitinglist already.
The JavaScript Disruption: The mainstream language for the next ten years.
I'm not sure either, since I doubt there is one single person the same between this incarnation of Commodore that that one.
Inferential or renarrative mood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferential_mood

Not always intended as sarcastic, but:

The main body of the news report tends to use the renarrative correctly - but sometimes, again, it is intentionally avoided. (...) This is because, due to its ambiguity, the renarrative in such cases could be perceived as a passing of judgement or expression of doubt by the reporter...
Boy, and I've been doing it the hard way all this time (num % 7 == 0).