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It's a quote from Dickens.
I own [first name][last name].me and my take on this was to use my first initial as the part before the @ sign. So it's s@steven[last name].me because I wanted my e-mail to have only my full name and the least amount of characters other than that.
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Bloggers get rich by getting your attention, not by helping you.
Grellas is a lawyer in this space and he has offered a comment, which as I write this is at the top.
I think it best to learn how to code by working on an actual project. You seem to already have a project in mind, and I think that would be a fine project.

Break it up into steps. First write a program that opens a file, reads the book titles and displays them on the terminal. Then write a program that makes some sort of network connection; maybe download the HTML contents of a website. Etc., etc., until you've learned how to do the various subtasks involved with your project, and then assemble it all together.

I'd suggest that Python would be a good language to start with. I personally like the O'Reilly book Learning Python, though there are many options.
This is very cool, and through this thread I discovered the Google Chart API for creating QR codes. Here's my snippet that does kind of the same thing you're doing:

<img id="qrCode" />
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("qrCode").src = "https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=150x150&cht=qr... + window.location + "&choe=UTF-8";
</script>

I'm going to HAVE to play with this some more. This evening my wife and I were driving around looking at houses for sale and I was thinking that every For Sale sign should have a big old QR code on it that takes you directly to a webpage for that specific house with the listing price and details about the house. I shouldn't have to jump out and grab an info sheet, I should be able to scan the big ol' QR code from my car and see the details about the house.
Ooo2gd and LibreOffice - Almost good enough to move from Dropbox
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There's an old cliché, nobody remembers the second man to walk on the moon.

So my point was, there is value in being the first restaurant in the world to accept bitcoins. And to be the first coffee shop. or the first plumber to do so, etc.

But, of course, I got schooled by lwat who poked a hole in my argument ... Buzz Aldrin is very well known.

Incidentally, the second restaurant to announce that they accept bitcoins also is in NYC ... http://twitter.com/ocrepes
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"At 9 months, he had completed his goal, and a family member fell ill. He quite before the 1 year, but he had already completed his goals and was on his way to a good life."

Unexpected costs, such as medical costs, are one of the biggest hurdles to digging one's self out of poverty. Poor people don't access to insurance to help smooth out their costs. Of course, bad decisions play a part as well, but its not as easy as this guy's experiment made it seem to get out of poverty.
Return business is primary, yes. There's standard networking things like building a blog and being friendly, but also nonstandard networking: http://push.cx/craftsmanship-calendar

That calendar is way out of date now (it's on the TODO list to update tomorrowish), but spending time programming with people has done wonderful things for my network, my skills, my exposure to tech I'd otherwise ignore, my social skills, my vertical leap...
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There are several books about it. Off the top of my head... 4 Hour Work Week touches on it, Vagabonding by Rolf Potts has a version for lower-skilled workers, and Life Nomadic by Tynan is a free pdf.
The college vs. no college debate is bunk. The real question is: Why doesn't high school prepare folks with the skills needed to succeed in one of the professions mentioned in the article. The key to succeeding in all of those jobs is command of reading and arithmetic. If you can read a manual and do enough math to handle money at some scale, you're 80% of the way to succeeding somewhere.

Public schools utterly fail at helping students achieve this. 99% of 18 year olds should be able to interpret a train schedule or read and understand a big-city newspaper. 99% of 18 year olds should be capable of doing long division and computing percentages without tools. The reality is far less.

Getting through college is essentially a filter that eliminates the folks who are not appropriately literate or capable of doing math.

As an extreme anecdotal example, I worked with an illiterate retail computer salesman in his 30's while I was in college. He was a good salesman who relied on memorization and mastery of the legacy, AS/400 terminal based system. He was an intelligent, driven man -- but he couldn't advance, and struggled when the company introduced a browser based configure to order system.
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i don't think tf-idf relevant for tiny in-memory index >__>
I guess a lot of outsiders are failing to see why "this time it's different". A/B testing, a savvier industry, and customers becoming more trusting of e-commerce means that the web sector really can grow.

There's a limit, and the industry will hit a wall when people start investing under the assumption that earnings will keep growing (rather than hitting a wall), but that doesn't mean that the industry is overvalued now.

Oh, wait, I need a conclusion. Avoid stuff that's obviously over-hyped, but don't worry too much about the macro stuff yet. I doubt that an industry-wide catastrophe is imminent, and you probably have bigger worries.
The current job market seems to say that possessing a college degree is an advantage even if students are learning very little during their four years of college.

The problem with these studies is that what they actually say and the spin are two very different things. For example, from your link:

"After four years, 36 percent showed no significant gains in these so-called "higher order" thinking skills."

So 64% of students showed significant gains in higher order thinkings skills? That's non-trivial. This says to me that a good majority of college students are much stronger than when they left high school. And I suspect, much to the chagrin of many on HN, that many of those in the 64% are also top students. And for those that aren't top students, they're obvious in other ways.

The other thing the article seems to point out is that you can get through college with minimal effort if you choose to, but if you do put in the effort you reap the rewards.

While college is too expensive, I'm not sure its failing as an institution of learning. Its biggest problem appears to be making it too easy on those who want to take the easy way out.
Signaling works precisely because the signal is expensive. I would be curious to see some data on whether, in countries where higher education is even more highly subsidized than it is in the US, having a degree has less of a signaling effect.
Am I the only one who thought this was a post written by an ex-Get Satisfaction employee who has recently founded a startup?
I respect the author's point of view, and I have to agree that Wall Street has .. well.. no moral compass (or maybe its compass points continually to $$$).
But I don't completely agree with his description of what a quant does. It all depends on where they work and what asset class they focus on.
Some quants determine the trading strategy of a desk. They are in charge of making strategic and technical decisions. Some tech driven trading desks actually are structured as a sort of "start up" within the main bank. The team would have a couple of quants and a bunch of programmers working together. The quants specify the strategy and the algorithm, the programmers code, test and deploy it. In these situations, the quant is not a subordinate to the trader, but a peer.
This post reflect's the author's own experience and it makes for interesting and entertaining reading. I doubt, however, that it is a true reflection of what a quant's job is.
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"//" should indicate a URL
Honestly, no, that's completely wrong. There are in fact plenty of places like that to live in America. And americans like them, in fact routinely paying far higher prices for property there than they do in the awful suburbs.

Americans live in sprawl because they like it. It's simpler in many ways, cheaper (often due to hidden subsidies, but cheaper nonetheless), and broadly more attractive than life in the urban core is.

And this isn't a trait unique to Americans. I work, as do many here I suspect, with a very international group of people. When european and east asians arrive in the US and look for housing, where do they live? Yup, in the sprawl.

Basically, if you want to win this argument (and really, I'm on your side) you have to get off the high horse. You can't just rely on people finally "getting it" and moving back into the city.
I think that if you attack and damage entities seemingly at random then its a brand of terrorism. Its not al-queda and its not taking a plane from the sky and yeah terrorism is such a loaded term that we've grown to equate with real evil, but as a method? Its terrorism.

There are other -ism's that could apply as well.
Geohot works at Facebook
There was recently an article in de Volkskrant (a major Dutch newspaper) describing Twente (an area in the east of the Netherlands) as the European "valley" for high-tech, with quite a few world-leaders in niche technology's. I will go through my pile of old newspapers to see if I can find it, but it was from quite a while ago. If someone else has it or knows where people can read it, I'd appreciate it if you'd share it.

As I live about 30km (~18 miles) from Amsterdam, I will try to attend a meeting.
The Man from Earth (2007) is a worth watch.
In theory it's the difficulty that should settle such that the cost of the electricity to make them is approximately equal to their value.

So, for example, when generation switches from 50 per block to 25 per block, the value will remain the same and it will simply become uneconomic to mine. As miners leave the network, the difficulty will automatically reduce until equilibrium is reached again. (In theory. In practice, the time lag until the difficulty changes could make this an unstable feedback loop rather than stable).
I think you are analyzing too early. If this project is tackling a problem you haven't solved before, think of your first implementation as a prototype. You likely don't understand the problem until you have spent time solving it.

After you have something that works, you will have a good feeling for what you should've written the first time.

Personally, I don't abstract until I need it. Writing code because you "probably will need it later" can cause unnecessary work and be a distraction.
Just a quick comment about averages .. the writer makes the argument that the average income of a college graduate is much higher than someone who did not go to college but this is a very misleading statistic .. because the incomes of college graduates who got engineering, finance, medicine and law degrees have much higher incomes, but someone who got a history degree for example, does not.
HBS is a fad.
As you can see, even though has some of the best business schools, nothing was done to prevent bubble.
My wife and I are currently doing something similar. Traveling the world (4 continents, 20+ countries). She's working on photography and blogging while I'm developing my own iphone apps. Best decision we've ever made, and haven't looked back since (been on the road for 3 months, currently at an airbnb in Taiwan). My wife keeps a blog at http://www.shenventure.com if you're interested in reading about how we did it.
The cynic in me says, "What are the bank's goals with their approach to security?"

The 3D Secure stuff (Verified by Visa/MasterCard SecureCode) -- as commonly implemented, anyway -- seems to be directed towards transferring liability for fraudulent transactions away from the banks towards the merchants without actually doing anything to increase security. VbV/MCSC pretty much trains users to accept man-in-the-middle attacks by asking users to provide a password to an iframe served from a totally unrelated domain (arcot.com for HSBC UK currently, and securesuite.co.uk previously if memory serves). If a merchant -- or an attacker between the user and the merchant -- MITMs the VbV flow, how will the user be able to tell?

HSBC (in the UK) have recently given me a physical token for my personal internet banking service, which is used to both log in to their service and to authenticate specific transactions. This is a bit of an inconvenience -- I can't log in to my bank account with just the credentials stored in my grey matter any more -- but a great big step in the right direction. Now, if only they could apply this to their VbV/MCSC authentication too, or allow me to use my phone as the physical token instead of having another bit of plastic to carry in my wallet...

If my email or Facebook account is ever compromised, I'll be very unhappy -- I have a fair amount of private, personal information in both locations. If my bank account or credit cards are ever compromised, I'll consider it a more-or-less inevitable consequence of the way the system is designed and simply something to be accepted... but I really don't relish convincing the bank of this!
The // prefix is actually used for protocol-relative URLs. So //google.com leads to https://google.com on a page with SSL, and it leads to http://google.com on an unencrypted page.

See:

http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200710.html#e20071017T215538

http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/
Good point. Reversing type 2 diabetes comes when insulin sensitivity is gained back. For this to happen I believe a low carb diet should be enough, not a caloric restriction, but merely the elimination of foods that spike blood sugar. Would like to see clinical results of a strict Atkins / Paleo type diet for this group.
It's also an indicator of a pursuit of knowledge beyond required. High school is mandatory, college is not. Acquiring a college degree is a sign that you were able to persist and acquire something without any enforcement. (There are cases when parents force you to college, etc. but I think those are less frequent and usually finishing college is a sign of dedication on your part).
Does gmail make you enter the 2factor auth code to /remove/ the feature as well? If it doesnt, it should.

That way, even if a users computer gets owned with a trojan, the attacker couldnt change the gmail password or remove the 2 way auth tool without first having access to the phone.
It's a common misinterpretation (in my view). It's good to charge - that's how you validate your market. It's bad to get overly clever with pricing models, etc too early - that's how you waste time and money.
Also lost in the debate, it is not just the signalling effect or the acquired knowledge but the selection bias that is not taken into account. Consider this science experiment:

A scientist is testing a "success" pill. He picks 2 groups filtered by standardized test scores. He gives the pill to the high scoring group and a placebo to the low scoring group. Those in the group receiving the non-placebo are found to be more successful and the scientist concludes that the "success" pill is effective. Preposterous? Yes. The scientist is not randomly selecting groups. This is precisely what happens in stories linking college and success. The filtering or selection bias is not addressed and would occur even if the signalling advantages were ruled out.
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To extend upon that, bloggers get rich by getting your attention, which does not actually require they practice, subscribe to or even believe what they are telling you.
Ask HN: What's so great about having two monitors?
I've never used two monitors at the same time before, what's so great about it?

Also, what's a good way to try working with dual monitors before I go out an drop $200?
If you believe working for yourself is better than having shelter, food and a life, the more power to you.

It's romantic to imagine hoofing it alone, but be realistic- living costs money. It always has, if you consider money to be a replacement for labor- even if you drop out of "the system", you still need to work to provide for yourself to see another day.
Actually, the forEach version can end up faster than the let version... especially if you self-host forEach so that the JIT can do its job (e.g. inlining the LIB_addEventListener calls so there aren't actually any function invocations, etc).
Anytime there's such a tremendous gap in security it should be a story, script kiddie, government agent or other.
I've been using it -- on Linux and on OS X. I'm guessing that if I got more RAM, the "terminal unresponsiveness" would mostly go away. I've got only a gig in my old Macbook.
This is a great improvement, and having JSON data for the metrics means that you can skip having the server render all those graphs via rrdtool and instead use something like HighCharts or other Canvas based graphing toolkits.

Now they just need to switch away from RRD as the backing data store. Until then I'll be looking at OpenTSDB/Graphite for a more modern approach to metric storage.
His point is that if config.option is supposed to be an integer, not an object, then your proposed syntax falls down when trying to determine whether 0 was passed or whether nothing was passed.
That is not correct. They won't be allowed until regulations are developed and approved, licensing requirements are devoloped, and someone then actually gets a license. All that has happened is that a law has been passed that sets in motion the development and implementation of such regulations and licensing.
Just checked: Google DOESN'T require 2-factor auth to remove the feature, OR to change your password for that matter, if you're accessing the account settings from an authorized "don't ask again for 30 days" device (which is a trojan scenario).
When I work, I like to have several editor windows open, and the documentation (usually browser) open. On the first screen is where I have the editor window where I'm actually typing stuff in; on the second screen I have all the reference stuff that I can just glance at.
You know how on January 10th, 2011 you were still writing 2010 by accident? I was off by a decade. Corrected.
http://vimeo.com/10883376

Here is a talk from two years ago about basically the same thing. Much better than the article though.
This happened to my girlfriend and I had a similar freak out. After asking a few more questions she remembered getting an email to enter her gmail password to get more storage space.... She knows better, but just didn't think about it - it seemed legitimate. Ask your friend more questions, I bet she fell for the same scam. I've met 4 people now that fell for the same one.

I'm also very concerned about the no 'restore' option from gmail. What good are google backups if you can't initiate them?
I'm getting more and more annoyed by it on iPad. Besides the bad scrolling and the frequent failure of the option to view the standard site, it also frequently crashes the browser due to I'd guess excess memory use.

Do the individual WP blog owners actually chose to use it, or is it something WP foists on them?
Off-topic, but what is up with the font size changing seemingly at random?
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Flying cars would come in 4 more years (according to "Back to the Future").

It's more likely though that instead of flying cars in 2015 we would get self-driven cars.
Previous comments: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2568453
Most people don't. Some people follow quite rigorous diets. Shouldn't they get the information they need to pick the diet that's best for them?
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> which is already approaching a limit of how fast it can go

Do you have data to back this up? At least SpiderMonkey has projects in the works that give significant speedups on various workloads already, and lots of headroom left...

I would not be surprised to see another factor of 5 or so speedups on various code in the next few years in JS implementations.
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Internet allows "rich live" without actual traveling.

Besides, if you have kids, traveling is much harder / expensive.
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I'd guess that just about any diet would work. Type 2 diabetes is often triggered by bad genes, and excess body fat. I'm not exactly sure why. I'm guessing that if you have lots of fat, your body starts ignoring the "make more fat" message from insulin.
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There is a significant cultural difference in the matter of treating diseases between West and East.

In the West people first use a drug (rather tons of them), then, if no progress was made, a medical assistance, then, changes in behavior as an inevitable consequence and a restricted diet as a last resort.

In the East (Tibet, for example) people at fist use shifting to an appropriate diet and behavioral changes, then, medical assistance and a drug (which is in most cases a placebo) as a last resort.

The differences between these two almost opposite approaches could be easily seen in the life expectation statistics between poor (common) people in Tibet/China/Mongolia/Japan and, say, Russia (where they use vodka, in many cases along with antibiotics, as the first aid) or US where the medicare is the way to make money, not to heal people, could be easily found in the net. ^_^
Doesn't seem like it would be that abusive for it to end up being "auto-detect" when there is nothing to be relative to.

A "//" link in an HTTPS site would be required to be the same protocol anyway. It's only the spdy->http fallback that could prove to be a nuisance.
You are absolutely right and I do acknowledge that fact in the blog post. But legally it is now permitted as long as you comply with the regulations, which as you note do not exist yet.
Use cases. Add them to the front page. Graphical use cases.
i own both [firstname][lastname].com and [lastname].com so my blog is [firstname][lastname].com and my email [firstname]@[lastname].com
If you never have to move a window out of the way in the course of what you're doing, then for you it's indeed not so great. But I think it's pretty common to do this.

Also, I've worked on projects where Visual Studio or Eclipse took up the entirety of one screen, and the application in running form took up the entirety of another.
Vonnegut's prose is punchy, darkly humorous, and painstakingly crafted.

This is just a rambling, unedited screed from a blogger who can't find satisfaction in his life.
Why not use "unsustainable" instead of "Ponzi scheme?"