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They've raised the postal rates for first-class mail (that normal humans all use) many, many times. Not a complaint, just an observation.

Why not raise the rates for junk-mail?

Sure, megacorps will scream and cry that it'll put them out of business, but it won't. They'll continue sending out junk-mail as it draws in far more in customers than they spend on it. If some don't, that much better for the environment, since I'd guess >99% of junk-mail goes straight into the garbage (with a small percentage of that being recycled).

Seeing as the vast majority of mail I've received over the decades has been junk-mail, it should be an easy way to increase revenue.
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Well, I've seen some hacking I'm my time, and I like knocking stuff up I'm my back yard, but these guys take the prize.

Oh, picture 30, best use of smartphone I've seen.
> How would that be different with any Open Source application?

In theory the Unix way is to have plain text as input and output. This has meant that many open source softwares use nice plain text files for their data storage stuff.
This way of navigating was introduced with Vista; older versions had up button.
This was the dumbest thing I've read all day.
There are a LOT of semi-automatic rifles that aren't AR15s. There are semi-automatic shotguns, and semi-automatic pistols as well. Speaking objectively, most firearms bought today are semi-automatic. A semi-automatic weapon is inherently no more or less dangerous than any other gun in the hands of someone who knows how to use it.

Just for clarity, and I don't mean to assume that you don't know, but as most people I've spoken with have it entirely wrong, a semi-automatic firearm means that when you pull the trigger, a bullet is fired. There is no 'burst' or 'spray' mode, and there's no tangible difference between an AR15 and, say, a Browning BAR (http://www.chuckhawks.com/browning_BAR.jpg), and "assault weapons bans", in my opinion, penalize a gun for looking like military weapons, when in reality they function nothing like military weapons (as they don't have burst, spray or fully automatic fire modes).

If they're famous for causing havoc recently, it almost certainly speaks more to their popularity than anything else. If the most popular car in the America were the Ford Taurus, it would likely be involved in more accidents than other cars, based on sheer math. The AR15 is the most popular rifle sold in America today. The reasons for its popularity are because of its modular design, not its lethality. With an AR15, I can replace the upper assembly without need of a gunsmith. This means I can have one "gun" for both long and short range shooting. I can 'bolt on' attachments like a scope, night lights, laser sights, bipods, etc., without having to pay somebody else to do it for me. It's popular today for the same reasons Linux is popular with nerds -- because you can tinker with it.

As for its lethality, it fires a small caliber, low-weight round (.223). In its generally short-barreled configuration (though again, that is moduler) it is considered a 'varmint' gun, used to kill raccoons, coyotes, wolves and the like from a ranch, or what have you. If people were choosing their killing weapons based on lethality, they would have chosen an AR10 (.308 round) or something like a Saiga 12, which is a magazine-fed shotgun.
Sure. The best place to start is by keeping very close tabs on the types of books you want to write. Watch the new titles coming out, and track what they're doing to promote. You'll see a direct correlation between how well the book is marketed and how well it sells. The Publisher's Weekly deal newsletter is a great resource for finding new titles. Amazon is the best overall research database.

Also, start to pay attention to how your favorite books are structured. The hard part of non-fiction writing isn't really the factual content, it's how the whole book is put together. Once you get the structure right, the rest of the book comes together pretty quickly. For both of my books, I spent probably 60% of my time working the outline.

The overall lack of marketing sophistication among authors is astonishing. Publishers aren't good at it either: they'll handle negotiating with retailers, and some pitch in with PR support, but most of the time the author is on their own. If you know even a little bit about online and/or direct marketing, you have a massive advantage. If you already have an audience through a blog or business, you're golden.

Here's the landing page for my first book: http://book.personalmba.com/. That page has a 30%+ conversion rate to a retail visit. Among the retailers I can track, 50% of the people who visit a retail page for the book end up buying it. Just being able to track this simple stuff is huge, and makes it possible to spend more money on marketing. Treating each book like a product that must be supported indefinitely helps a lot - way too many authors launch a book without planning long-term support.

Depending on what you want to write, you might seriously check into self-publishing. Working with a large publisher has some great benefits, mostly in terms of editorial, art, and production support, but you give up a huge chunk of royalty and control when you sign a publishing contract. You can hire contractors to do most of these things yourself. I really enjoy working with Penguin/Portfolio, but I still run the self-pub numbers every time I think about signing on to do a new book. Print-on-Demand Book Publishing by Morris Rosenthal is a bit dated, but it's still a good overview of the tradeoffs.

As far as revenue: when I started, I was advising early-stage entrepreneurs full-time, and my first advance was a nice bonus. Now, somewhere around 80% of monthly income is royalties and advance payments, and I'm no longer doing active advising. The rest comes from courses, both online and offline. Every time I agree to write a new book, that's a nice bump in income for the year. I'm in the midst of re-doing my online course, so when that launches, it'll probably be a larger percentage of income. My income isn't huge by CEO standards, but I'm well past my personal point of diminishing returns.

My best advice in terms of finances is to keep your overhead low: being an author takes a lot of time, but doesn't require much stuff. Once you have a decent computer setup, the major costs are research and travel. Free time becomes the scarce commodity.

Helpful?
I have no idea why it would be a "disease", but he did seem to be diagnosing my attitude or "problem."

Don't care.

And yes, there is a great deal of mathematics underneath the structures of juggling patterns. Using them we predicted the existence of previously unknown juggling patterns, and have now used the math to create a proof that of all the juggling tricks of a certain type, we know them all (for some definition of "to know").
The beer situation may be related to tax law.
Hmm, besides being from 2009, this looks very very incomplete, there's almost no real functional code, just a multiplier, divider, and a simple ram module (and not sure if any of those work properly...). So all in all, not too exciting, unfortunately.
SilkJS uses mostly the same libraries and relay on the same VM as Node.js: V8. So it can't be much faster.
The note how it outperform Node.js http server, you can read from start page of its github repository, are misleading since it uses multiple processes (SilkJS http server forks itself).
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All the constitution says is:

"The congress shall have power ... To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"

I haven't chased down future acts, but the post office act of 1792 definitely does mandate certain postal routes to be maintained by the postal service.
It's pretty natural and rational, I think - Amazon rankings update every hour, and are better indicators of long-term success relative to other titles. Likewise, Amazon's bestseller lists target smaller categories, which is more useful than the broader NYT lists. You just have to filter out the random turbulence in rankings when new titles come out.
I honestly had trouble telling if this was being written as a joke for the first half. Then I started wishing it were.

For example an employee is fired for FedEx 'ing a proposal to USPTO - dumb, yes but fired? Oh and he snoops on his business partners emails, assumes everyone will betray him and denies paranoia.

Great read. :-)
I was just going to mention this. I know it got released a few days ago on HN.
Are you suggesting that home invasions don't actually happen?

To add at least one anecdotal data point, my home was burgled a couple of weeks before Christmas by a group of armed burglars.
[video] Before Google Sergey Brin was changing the world... of a pizza delivery
I have been hoping to pick up some F# with Mono, but I'm having a hard time getting started - not with the language itself, but with the development environment. For instance, MonoDevelop seems very flakey on the Mac. I'd love to try out FsharpX, but I can't find instructions for how to build or install it on Mono.

Can you make any suggestions as to places to read up on this stuff? The language seems so well put together!
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Thanks, glad you found my book useful!

I've been (mostly lurking) on HN for three and a half years now. I started my career in IT, and recently got back into programming with Ruby/Sinatra, so HN has been a great resource. Feels great to be coding again.
Ha, great point! For our own User-Visible Improvements goal we initially felt like it shouldn't count to fix a bug that we had only just created, since that's not exactly a net improvement. But then we decided that it's fine to count it, for exactly the reason you say.

We haven't gone quite so far as to count the actual creation of the bugs towards our goal though. :)
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060515/full/news060515-17.ht...
And my point is that you can't watch out and protect yourself from it, because the quirk can be triggered by different code from the code you're actually writing. You can carefully write code that works just fine, and then, unbeknownst to you, someone else can modify a completely different part of the file, and break your code. How do you protect yourself from that? By making sure that every single person with commit access always follows best practices? Good luck.

Please don't say something along the lines of, 'If you hire bad coders, what do you expect to happen?' Bad coders are almost inevitable, and their harm should be confined to code they actually write. Their bad code shouldn't have spooky action at a distance on good code someone else wrote.
Scatter: file splitting/merging based on random network coding
The text is "rainbow" on purpose because subpixel rendering is enabled (it enhances text for specific LCD monitor types)
I switch to this pretty much every exam period, mostly because I hate doing anything when I've only just woken up, nevermind take an exam.

The rest of the year however, there are far too many things to do between 5pm-1am that make this viable. Instead I flip it and go for the 5am-1pm which I think works well as a University student.
I've been reading Chris Smith's book:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-F-3-0-Chris-Smith/dp/14493...

With a background in FP, I can go through the book at a walking pace. It starts off with the basics, though, so it might not get into the nitty-gritty details that would interest you if you're already familiar with .NET and FP.
As if they weren't lobbying already for many years. No, here in EU legislators actually do pay more attention to consumer rights than companies - at least in the mass-markets that they understand, unlike software.

This legislation has been here for a long time and will stay, although the manual process is a bit of a hassle, it's still worth the money. And it's not extortion, it's how a normal deal should work - we had an agreement and I paid you to do X; you didn't fulfill your part and caused me damages (wasted time, missed connection flights, etc) - so pay up. In USA the same principle (damages from breach of contract) should apply, simply there it's too expensive to enforce your rights, so airlines get away with shafting you.
I'm not in Japan anymore, but from what I would see around me:

> Apparently low/middle class consumers in Japan would put themselves into debt to buy luxury brands like Gucci

It might be different for people with really low income, but in general that's credit card payment in 3 or 4 chunks. And for people really into brands, there is a decent resale value when a bag or other good is taken proper care.

> fake beer
It actually doesn't taste bad. Not as good as premium beer, but not so different from other run of the mill beer. 'fake' would be too pejorative I think.

> print media

It might be just me, but print media hasn't the same status n Japan as in other countries. The "it's printed so it must be true" way of thinking felt less entranched, and printed content was also lighter in tone and credibility. The nikkei shinbun would be the exception perhaps, other venues are seen as heavily biased and you'll find more truth on the internet anonymous boards (2chan) than on tv or newspapers.

About the cultural exports, I think the problem is less about fringe stuffs than About missing the boat on the dominant digital platforms (mainly iTunes and iOS). The same thing is about to appen on ebooks, where the whole industry is aving a hard time doing the transition.
Yes, juggling patterns can be expressed neatly by the use of fairly simple mathematics. Look up "siteswap" or "siteswap notation". (It's also closely related to the mathematics of bell-ringing or "chiming".)
For that kind of language, what simple question do you suggest? My objective is test if the candidate have basic coding skills...
Actually, all the stuff that I read about overbooking flights seems strange, as I (and my colleagues) have flown a lot and have never even seen such an incident of overbooking.

It may be that excessive overbooking is an USA-specific issue, and here in EU airlines are already deincentivized from this due to the compensations they would have to pay.
Did you know `length` is falsy? no need to compare to zero:

if ($('div').length)

You can even do:

if ($('div')[0])

That's even shorter than using the "most useful plugin ever".
This kind of stuff used to work well in years past, but no more. You're likely to get a duplicate content penalty for doing stuff like this now.
Looks as if lines 489 onwards are for detecting leap years.
blekko allows you to do this with their feature to create your own slashtags.

for unscatter.com I took the approach of using other sites apis but the caveat being I never intended it to compete with Google or bing or the like as it's results are based on recency rather than the relevancy.

in one incarnation of unscatter.com I did something similar to what you did except I used boss. one thing you should consider is there is a limit on how many characters are in a get request and you will hit it fast embedding all those site: declarations.

good luck.
I really recommend getting a sunrise simulator SAD therapy light, it really made a noticeable difference for me getting up.
Why would you choose a private commercial entity like Github as a host?
If you're looking for a shortcut, next time just google the first half a dozen or so bytes of the encoded payload. These compromises come from automated or one click intrusion tools, and they often use the same or similar code for years. Somebody else has always decoded it for you, and may have some additional insights. This backdoor has been used in the wild for at least 2-3 years now so there is plenty of discussion.

Unless it's entertainment for you, reversing these scanner based website compromises is generally not going to offer much insight. It's almost certainly prefab code spit out by a tool any halfwit can buy for a few bucks, it'll point back to an ip in a country that doesn't give a shit, and it's a good chance the isp actively caters to customers like that.

If you caught it quickly, odds are you wont see any active maliciousness going on yet. Most of the time a scanner will work to compromise a target number of hosts say 1000 or so, and then will either sell them as a bundle or mass deploy their own payload. This will almost always be some form of SEO link generation, scare-ware popup ads or browser exploit kits.

Do your mom, you and the rest of the internet a favor - help her migrate to a platform that isn't a constant stream of CVEs and infected addons. There are plenty of fully managed platforms that include easy data portability and custom domains.
I know publishing through Amazon, authors have access to that type of data.
It's probably Lorem Ipsum, which is commonly used when you want to focus on layout rather than meaning. Since the text is meaningless it won't be distracting, yet it looks close enough to real to be useful. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
Off Topic, but I don't really understand why TechCrunch would choose to refer to iCracked as the "Uber" for iPhone repairs when the AAA analogy is significantly better.
Are you from Great Neck[0]? That would be doubly confusing....!

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Neck,_New_York
That ignores the geographic disparity of our nation. It would be relatively easy to create a rapidly mobile police force in somewhere like New York City, but nearly impossible to create an efficient police force in Glendo, Wyoming. Houses are, at the closest, acres apart from each other. Going grocery shopping can be a half hour trip each way from a nearby farm.

Police cannot be readily available in places like this (or in New York really, but for entirely different reasons).
Amazon does very well in Japan, as does the homegrown equivalent, Rakuten. Yahoo is #1 because they have the most services that integrate with Japanese life (it also helps that they are essentially a separate entity from the Yahoo that you know and dislike).

Your other remarks are spot on though.
I agree that it is disconcerting to see guns like an AR-15 being targeted merely because they look scary or military-like, but they do have a number of attributes that make them ideal for mass-shootings, which tend to occur at short-to-medium ranges.

They are smaller and lighter than many of the other guns you mentioned, they have minimal recoil, and while .223/5.56 rounds are small, they are still quite lethal at the ranges involved in mass shootings. The lighter rounds also mean that you can carry far more of them and it is easier to use extended magazines with them.

Compared to a handgun: Better range, more capacity, higher velocity.

Compared to a shotgun: Better range, more capacity.

Compared to an AR10/M14: More capacity, less recoil.

Also, compared to a lot of other guns, ARs in general have less general utility - they are poor for home/personal defense and you generally don't use them for hunting (other than various pests, usually). I will grant you that they are enjoyable guns to own and shoot, though.
How do you know when you've found those people? Some people seem completely friendly and level-headed until things go awry.
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Having a newborn that just came off of 9 days on life-support, I can say without a doubt that having children is the most terrifying thing you'll ever do in your life.

Watching our 3 year old discover his physical limitations is an amazingly ulcer-inducing activity and I find myself constantly expecting the worst.

After witnessing the many falls, bruises, scrapes, and assorted damage that kids endure, I'm constantly amazed they survive into adulthood.
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To amplify/correct what's been said: The parts of his post that look like Bayesian poisoning are what he believes to be God speaking to him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning

http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html
I've also had a ton of fun doing this for PIC24 (the 16bit PIC family of microcontrollers), which has an incredibly straightforward instruction set. They're also quite fast, as far as microcontrollers go and while I do love the Propeller architecture, the 8-core goodness makes them a little more complex to thoroughly understand (though their deterministic nature and the fact that you can actually count cycles reasonably easily makes them less complex than most multi-core processors)
Yeah, I was not sure if that was all of it or not. Just release it, even if it does not build. If you figure out how to build it at some point, good, but if not, it's better for it to be released than not released even if it does not build.
I have experimented with it. The worst problem I had was that the terminal emulators were too slow for my taste. But overall, Emacs works surprisingly well for it.
And that's why I would never buy a ebook reader that phones home. This is creepy. It is no one's business but mine what I read and when and how fast.
I should note that while the right to repeal the second amendment is one available to Congress and the President, they do not have the right to just trample its provisions because they aren't able to get a quorum on repeal.
I like the ideas behind http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/. I too dream of a ipython-like shell, where the input/output is similar to GET/POST with Accept headers (so the pipes know if the source/destination can manage the data).

My idea is mix https://tablib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ as data exchange, python, ipython?, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/httpie/ (as example of the kind of commands), and termkit ideas on display, interface.

So, each command could do something like:

class ls(cmd):

def accept(self):
return 'json, xml, cvs'

def output(self):
return 'json, xml, cvs'

def run(self, input):
return output

But the problem is that do this is hard, take time, and to be useful, require rewrite a lot of basic unix functionality (however, a compatibility can be archived, as with ipython !command) and perhaps a custom language/interpreter to make it usable.
Thanks. I guess this is a bit easier for you because you are a consultancy and have lots of different projects going on. You also work in a very technical domain (I assume - really, I know little about what you're doing).

Where I'm having a hard time seeing this play out, is for a business that has an in-house software platform supporting it. Or for shops that develop and maintain a products.
Read this instead: http://www.datomic.com/rationale.html

It's a commercial product, so not that interesting. Using immutable data is a neat trick but something you can easily do with existing tools.
The second amendment protects firearms, not bludgeoning instruments that are shaped like firearms -- so yes.
TechCrunch is not an example of quality journalism. Much the opposite.
The website has an awkwardly placed link.

The link mentions "Saturn's South Pole … with its rotating vortex" with a link to another post from the website with a picture of the vortex, but the description is that of "the north pole of Saturn… [a] vortex of strange and complex swirling clouds" encompassed in a hexagon.

Do we have pictures of the south pole?
There are many flavors of location based social apps. Unlike the other apps, shoutt aims to solve people's everyday problems by connecting people based on what they need. So it puts you first. With respect to the chicken and egg problem, we plan to start city by city.