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Unless you close that up every night, I think I know exactly how zombies would be getting in there... Zombies smell and seek out hubris, they seek it like brains.
I wrote CCSA Exam Cram 2 (http://www.amazon.com/Check-Point-CCSA-Exam-156-210-4/dp/078...) which is a study guide for a Check Point firewall exam, and was the primary author for Wireless All In One for Dummies (http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-All-Dummies-Sean-Walberg/dp/0...)

I don't think I've got another book in me. For now I enjoy writing technical articles, mostly for IBM developerWorks. See http://seanwalberg.com for the list of articles.
It would be great to simulate this somehow and see how much of those raises would be spent at Wal-Mart.
The old One-Two or UPOD (Underpromise and Overdeliver) really works. But only for the first time.
The nightmare scenario you describe is already the current situation. There is already a "boy's club," you automatically become a member when you have acquired enough patents. The consortium is simply a way to lower the barrier to entry to be "one of the boys."

The problem with legal reform is that it won't happen, not that it isn't the right thing to do.

The consortium as an intermediate step would be a good way to slow roll reform. Once a critical mass of companies is part of the consortium, intellectual property value would start decreasing, due to the decreased offensive effectiveness, and legal reform would become more feasible.
I'm undecided whether I agree with your thesis, but I definitely disagree with much of your evidence.

RSS was primarily a nerd feature in the first place

Why is the concept of a bookmark that can tell you when it has updates a nerd feature? This was essentially Apple's implementation in Safari. (At least, initially, I haven't paid attention to how it evolved).

iTunes seems to have everything else in there already, one more tab that reads "RSS" wouldn't hurt.

This exists. It's called "Podcasts", and it's wildly successful.

Dashboard being a failure is clear.

Here, we agree. I think that if it displayed among your other windows, rather than being relegated to a modal view, it would have been much more successful. I believe this was a decision for performance reasons, but it was still never corrected once performance was no longer a concern.

Spotlight ... where was the value back when it needed to re-index on every reboot and dragged your computer to a halt?

Anecdote != data, but I never experienced these problems, and I was running 10.4 on a G4 iMac, which originally came with 10.2.

Honestly, I think Sherlock and Dashboard would be your two strongest arguments.

Then again, let's look at iTunes. Sure, it's bloated now, and sure, they bought it, but the reason it won is because it really was excellent. (I say this as someone who used Audion for years and I still have a giant place in my heart for it). Solving music library management was exactly the right problem, and iTunes (& SoundJam before it) got this right far before their competitors did.

How about iChat? It's built in, it's integrated, it's pretty darn good, but almost everyone I know who knows about Adium uses it instead.
Alright, so if I can interject my own personal history and views that counter your views sure.

I grew up on a farm and have both hunted as well as literally cut the throat of the things I've eaten (cows and pigs included). I think attributing the taking of another animals life as immoral is a bit naive. I'm not saying everyone should eat purely meats and proteins, but our entire natural world revolves around animals/plants eating other animals/plants.

I find the distinction of killing animals versus plants a false dichotomy, you are still killing a living creature of some sort. If we take an Aristotelean view that the telos of a human diet, given that we are omnivores is to consume both meat and vegetables, there is little point to describing killing an animal as immoral.

Now Aristotle logic problems aside such as most animals telos is arguably not to be eaten, its likely to reproduce and make more happy little animals, I'm curious as to your philosophical reasons for attributing eating meat, likely not from insects, to being an immoral action? I'll presume that no creature killed is "sentient", basically not human to make things simpler.

It sounds like your definition of moral behavior is consequentialist, but its hard to tell why outside of taking life being immoral. If we take a common law view, not even necessity is justification for murder. I'm reading between lines but guessing the killing of the creature is your immoral judgement. Ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens granted that was referring to murder of the cabin boy to sustain the rest, but I think its a example of survival versus morality.

Out of pure curiosity what is your take on Tibetan sky burials? Is it right to feed animals human meat? If not, I'm curious how you reconcile that against humans eating dead animals?

Ok back to my automation.
I'm sorry you took my statement to read that I think they're less trustworthy. I don't in any way shape of form believe that they are less trustworthy than anyone else on campus. However, from a security point of view, if you could successfully eliminate 100% of the risk for a given group of individuals, wouldn't you?

Anyways, I've either misspoke or you've misunderstood.
i would calculate the difference between their registration date and their last login. then i would add an extra criteria to make sure out of those the registration date is at least a month old so you would get the number of active users in the past month who are not new registers.

it's a pretty simple sql query.
This article needs an editor. I enjoyed it and agree with the points the author makes, but it's a bit hilarious that the first "data right" is labeled:

Give Us Access Our Data

Oops!
Patent 5,893,120 reduced to mathematical formulae
I've found the smartest people I know tend to embrace the ethos of this piece almost instinctively. As for those who have to be spoon-fed these strategies? Well, in short: they're not as smart.
We calculate monthly actives as those who returned this month who didn't sign up this month. We are also now tracking cohorts of users who joined in certain week to see how many of them come back week 1, 2, 3, etc. That will let us see if engagement features we've implemented are working.
I wish that people had told me earlier that it's possible to be both smart and not awkward. Circa sixth grade, I gave up my academic life for my social life. Now I'm in CMU desperately trying to get above 50th percentile.
I have written 16 books, mostly for two reasons: I really enjoy the writing process and it also opens a lot of doors for introducing myself to interesting people (people who are famous or much more talented than I am, that otherwise I would not want to bother).

I take a lot of the hassle out of writing by doing two things: I mostly just write about things I have used for work and only write about things that really catch my interest.

I mostly write about artificial intelligence, Java, Lisp, and Ruby.
Any one of the three are O.K. on their own; it's when you mix two or more together that things start to get bumpy- IMHO.
Surprised there's no mentions of Cuil.
Anyone remember BroadVision? (shudder!)

For a time there, I worked for UNext, an online University who decided that it was not enough that their site was powered by Broadvision (using highpriced broadvision consultants), but that their Intranet needed to run on broadvision as well. Oh swell!!

On top of that, they decided to contract those consultants straight out of Broadvision Inc itself, at over $300 an hour.

The CEO drove one of the $100k Mercedes Jeep type SUVs, imported ofcourse.

Not soon after, I left Chicago to go back to the Valley. And they ran out of money soon after.
A bit more semantic on "first time": It contiunes to work until the recipient actually begins to pay attention to who you are and what you're doing. At which point, the approach may need tweaking to retain efficacy.
CMU? 50th percentile? Congratulations on finding a community of people who are amazing enough to make you look normal :)
While in college, I self-published a collection of stories featuring the stories, passions and dreams of students at my school. Sold a box of 50 copies to my bookstore. Got my own ISBN number and everything. You can still buy them on Lulu or read it online for free.

http://www.stanford.edu/~jashen/home.html
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/stanford-spirit/448066
I had not heard of your fiction, but based on other comments here, I just bought "The Atrocity Archives" for my Kindle - looking forward to reading it!
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Good luck Sean
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Now, I would argue that you can't necessarily measure this; those you are convinced are the smartest could be significantly less smart, but may be able to trick you into thinking they are the smartest through social skills. In any case, though, I agree to some degree- the smartest can adapt well to most situations, including social ones.
There is something suspicious in itself about ordering laboratory glassware. When clandestine chemists buy, they use shell buyers, dodgy distributors, false letterhead, and/or squirrel purchases across many distributors.
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Pennies is a bit extreme. The risk in the enterprise is pretty high, expert assassins rare, and amatures likely to get caught.

While an expert assassin may take a job on a random Joe for on the order of a hundred dollars, an amateur with any sense will not, and therefor the price will be rather high.

And, even if assassinations of pedestrians becomes realistically common..On the order of car crash mortalities, its at least a cause of death that may make people consider how they act toward one another.
The submitted blog post is a humorous treatment of a topic studied in the scholarly literature.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=social+skills+gifted

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=social+adjustment+profou...

The submitted examples are almost frighteningly true-to-life. I gained perspective on social skills from travel. ("The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.") In my school days in the United States, I read a short story by Philip K. Dick that gave me and many of my contemporaries the idea that IQ difference between two persons is an unbridgeable social barrier. An expression of the same idea by a different author is "The child of 180 IQ has one of the most difficult problems of social adjustment that any human being is ever called upon to meet." But when I went to live in east Asia as I studied Chinese, I discovered that this view is largely confined to Western culture. Confucius said, "三人行，必有我師焉" ("where there are three persons walking, surely my teacher is among them") and expected to learn from anyone in his environment. Ancient Chinese culture didn't differ at all from ancient Western culture in noticing that people differ in ability, but it expected high-ability people to use their ability to get along with other people. That was a refreshing idea to me when I first heard of it. It's an idea I try to share with all my smartest friends in the West.

And of course Lewis Terman, developer of the first IQ test widely used in English-speaking schools, the Stanford-Binet test, wrote, "There are, however, certain characteristics of age scores with which the reader should be familiar. For one thing, it is necessary to bear in mind that the true mental age as we have used it refers to the mental age on a particular intelligence test. A subject's mental age in this sense may not coincide with the age score he would make in tests of musical ability, mechanical ability, social adjustment, etc. A subject has, strictly speaking, a number of mental ages; we are here concerned only with that which depends on the abilities tested by the new Stanford-Binet scales." (Terman & Merrill 1937, p. 25)

Update after noting a helpful comment by another participant: Yes, it can be helpful for learners who learn readily and find school easy when they are young to find other young people of similar ability to spend time with. That helps all those learners learn that they still have plenty to learn, and are likely to have opportunity to keep on learning from other people all their lives. School settings with underchallenging curricula in the interest of "self-esteem" and with prohibitions on ability grouping don't allow this valuable form of social learning. As Richard Rusczyk puts it, "If ever you are by far the best, or the most interested, student in a classroom, then you should find another classroom. Students of like interest and ability feed off of each other. They learn from each other; they challenge and inspire each other."

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Resources/articles.php?pa...
Back then it might have been an OK decision, you did get some very nice things with Oracle including scaling and MySQL was a lot less mature, only about half a decade old. It certainly doesn't sound like choosing Oracle per se was instrumental in eToys' failure. On the other hand I've never heard a good thing about Sybase.
boo.com was pretty impressive - $188 million in six months and all lovingly documented by their co-founder in CEO in a fairly unapologetic book:

http://www.amazon.com/Boo-Hoo-Dot-com-Concept-Catastrophe/dp...
right -- so a proper black hat would make autochk.exe do its bad stuff and then go ahead and do a proper checkdisk, so the user doesn't notice anything amiss.
That's the case with any currency or stock..It doesn't stop IPOs.
They ditched a perfectly working MySQL application and migrated to Oracle which caused them to hire Oracle consultants $2000 per day and spend millions on Oracle big-iron.
They were hiring out of control.
They decided to build a new building to house their new offices because the Ocean Park Blvd offices in Santa Monica weren't pretty enough.
They opened up a London office in Piccadilly Circus, the most expensive rental area in London.
They replicated their entire USA dev team in the UK for no apparent reason.
They started work on a German operation.
They launched a warehouse in Belgium (my baby) to service Europe.
All execs flew first class between Europe and USA.
Engineers were flown around the world as needed.
I was even told to expense my groceries while in Santa Monica for 3 months. Trivial, but the little things add up.

--- none of above would have happened, had they hired professional managers, not a bunch of children willing to spend every single dime on anything other than business itself.

apply that list to any business, including apple, google, microsoft, oracle, groupon, you name it, the result would be the same disaster as with etoys.
It's already widespread enough to use for some forms of money laundering. If you want to secretly move money from the US to Europe, just buy BTC in the US, deposit them on Mt. Gox (whose domain is registered in Japan, so I assume the servers are also in Japan), and from there sell the BTC and deposit the resulting money in your Swiss bank account.

It's also widespread enough to use instead of a Swiss bank account to hide money. Just move the money into a Bitcoin wallet, encrypt the wallet, and store copies of it on as many computers, in as many countries as possible.
I registered on a node out of curiosity but it lacked a lot of features. I am happy with Facebook.
hey G0abutt! Yes, Currently we are in customer dev! So, thank you for all the feedback!
The lowest risk cities in western Oregon or Washington are extremely questionable. The Cascadia Subduction Zone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone) could easily produce magnitude 9.0+ earthquakes, and the next rupture there could be devastating for the Pacific Northwest.
I did much the same right after WalMart crashed. Bought (hypothetical) shares for $0.02 a share; won the game by at least four orders of magnitude...
hey vnorby! Great stuff! Going the twitter way i see! Good luck to you too my friend!
Highlighting is very easy, even superior on the iPad. I highlight extensively when I'm reading PDFs in the GoodReader app, but unlike a physical book I can export the marked-up PDF back to my PC and easily index, sort, or modify them en masse.
One on Rails. One intro to programming with Python. Now working on one in C.
I ust looked at liberwriter - a very cool idea! A suggestion: you might want to support some form of easy importing material from Google Docs.
Building a Thinking Room
Having just now taken delivery of a new technical book - Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - I'm guessing that rumors of their death, as Mark Twain said about his own, are greatly exaggerated. I bought it on the basis of an online review that would inform this discussion. http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2910

In the review, Jeremy Bowers discusses his own experience trying to learn Haskell over the past few years from the random bits and pieces that float about the web and how the careful development of ideas in this book "blew what turned out to be my rickety assemblage of concepts apart and replaced them with a solid understanding of what is going on with them, and why."

We tend to forget that learning is not the same as carrying around a giant reference book. It's a painstakingly linear process where leaps of understanding happen only when a solid foundation is in place. Books and the linear style of books will always be with us, but to compete with instant search writers must learn to teach.
I would love to write a book. I have been thinking about spending an hour or two each day this summer working on one. It will be a fictional story. About what? That's still undecided.
Disarm. Don't be an ass. Be weak. Be self-deprecating. Build Ethos.

Bullshit. Building ethos has nothing to do with playing it down. As long as you do and talk only what you are sure and confident of and politely abstain from what you are not. Then you have disarmed and conquered.

Ethos is your projection on other people. And self-depreciation is not a way to impress other people. It shows that you are insecure and frankly, dumb. A smart person never points out his weaknesses, you may show that you are vulnerable - but any kind of drama ruins it.

There are countless strategies for social interaction. But none of the winning entail hiding in the corner and weeping.
I have this one in my bookmarks, probably found it here in HN :)
http://under30ceo.com/top-7-websites-to-submit-your-startup-...
Ted Nelson's Hypercard on steroids? Oh yes. As a bright-eyed technologist of 20 at one of the big 4 accounting firms, I remember being told to 'shut up about hyperspace' In fairness, I had very little idea what I was talking about; Appletalk didn't look like a solid platform and in 1991 few people had a clear concept of the internet to begin with.

I hope I don't find myself looking back in another decade or two and and sighing over the semantic web being too far ahead of its time.
First, let's get one thing out of the way. Wal-Mart is in the business of cheap goods. This means cutting costs everywhere possible without breaking the law. I don't work for Wal-Mart (thankfully), but I'm assuming the reason the wages are even this high is because of the minimum wage laws.

For the sake of argument, let's assume they went through with this plan and decided to increase wages across the board, they would do it as a public relations move. Being Wal-Mart, they would receive a lot of attention and the move would be dissected by both blogs and more reputable (and respected) media institutions.

However, once this happened, one of the biggest issues would be that Wal-Mart would then publicize the fact that they were putting the increased costs on consumers (to pacify shareholders). Consumers would presumably have the gut reaction of, "Wal-Mart is no longer the cheapest, because they are increasing their costs". A flood of consumers going to Target then ensues.

That's just my hypothesis though. It would be great to see this play out in a simulation.
In some .com disasters it was actually the "professional managers" who caused a lot of the problems as they were the ones who tried to replicate the infrastructure, pay and perks of the large companies they had worked for before.
عيد العمال، عيد العمال
the entire point of bitcoin is to be free from government control unlike normal currency
Telling all my friends not to buy a TomTom because it increases your liklihood of getting a speeding ticket.

This is about as good an idea as a grocery store deciding to use paintball guns to bean annoying customers that are blocking the isles with carts.
Why the other line is likely to move faster
That looks quite nice.
Vertica was C-Store, a column oriented store for analysis. VoltDB was H-Store, an in-memory database for very fast OLTP. (From testing VoltDB, it screams, and scales nearly linearly.)

I'm not sure HStore/VoltDB was a "spin off" of Vertica - they are quite different models fundamentally.
Even their failure was a letdown.
Absolute uniques per month is probably a good objective measure of size.
I'm not sure about this idea, both because things that could be replaced by a free web site or cheap mobile app should be, imho, but also because travelers don't want more stuff to carry, and people in general (not just travelers) want fewer, not more, paper products these days.

You might have an interesting starting point here not for a physical product, but for a mobile app or web site that does a bit more than a deck of cards could do. Maybe a site or app for crowdsourced location-specific activity ideas, for example.
I'd agree. It's quite easy to question the intelligence of someone who tries to socialise, finds it fails again and again, notices that everyone else has no difficulty but assumes the problem is with everyone else.
WIP (Work In Progress) is usually used for design work, I think. That seems suitable.
I've always found npm to be a remarkably pleasant package manager. Kudos on making it to 1.0.
Just as a quick reminder, since most people commenting don't understand how bitcoin generation works.

It is not possible to "corner the market" by having more gpu power than other people. The btc algorithm was designed to only produce bitcoins at a constant rate. Adding a million more systems trying to calculate the answer to the next hash block only makes it a million times slower.

If the bubble were to pop tomorrow and it went back to being a network with only a few hundred low power systems, the btc network will auto correct to produce new bitcoins in relation.

It is not possible to game the system this way.
Does anyone know where in the Linux kernel that is being used? Pure curiosity...
If GPG is a failure, I'd say failure is looking pretty good.
This is why the term "clue-bat" rejoices my nerd mind so much, as we all know deep inside that it's an oxymoron. One cannot forcibly insert clue into someone by wielding metaphorical instruments head on. The most effective LART is not a bat, it's lead poisoning. Yup, leading someone closer to truth (whatever that means) is something that requires patience and subtlety. It's a puzzle in itself, only sometimes the problem at hand needs no derailing towards enlightenment of clueless folks, for various constraints of time and complexity are prevailing, thus you wish you had some magical tool at hand, skipping the hand-holding process altogether, so that finally, can we move forward now, please?

Yet sometimes, the inexperienced, naive mind comes in and utters words of magic, triggering the process towards a brilliant solution that could have not emerged from our overarching minds, clouded by our experience and knowledge. This kind of emergence is one that we should learn to recognize and not mistakenly quench before it had time to bloom.

Maybe we're smart dorks, but we should be open-minded ones.