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Woman are programmed to find the leader of the pack attractive, even if said leader is an ahole.

That's the key point - alpha characteristics/interactions trump everything else. Girls like alpha assholes despite them being assholes, not the other way 'round.
I'm not sure if you understand what I mean by pricing tiers. I have no objection to people paying more in order to get more -- by pricing tiers I mean things like "plan A costs $5/month and lets you store up to 20GB; plan B costs $10/month and lets you store up to 40GB" because with a pricing model like that the 20,000,000,001st byte ends up costing $10/month, which is plainly absurd.
I have no clue what your question is trying to ask. Can you clarify?
On the front page of HN right now, TechCrunch has a post titled, "Venture Capital Down 50%. It’s Not Just the Recession, Folks."
Oh, I was thinking more along the lines of price discrimination:

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

Yeah, your example definitely wouldn't be good business.
remember - some of us might be waiting months to see those shows on regular TV.. getting them within 24 hours of first screening is amazing for us.

agreed with the main point though
Also, the alpha and dark males probably get the bigger rejections, and that's what the nice guys are seeking to avoid. So that's another factor for the struggling males, being able to pursue but then being able to pick yourself up after a rejection.

There's another factor at work to, 'consent.' A nice guy wants the interaction to be consensual, and it should be, but in a way she doesn't because as you say there's a stigma to it, but then again if she never gives consent, she'll not only end up attracting the aholes and be quietly looking for them to satiate her 'guilty pleasures', but also on the downside she'll lock herself out of the nice guys because giving consent will be too painful, and when she does, he may be ultimately turned off.

In the end, she'll marry a somewhat inexperienced nice bloke to raise the kids after being used and abused by the aholes, and she may cheat on him if her issues are unresolved.
It handles 2,000 HTTP requests a second on a single 1.4GB VPS server, which I think is good. It'll likely go to 10k/s or more... probably until the bandwidth is saturated.

Writing an HTTP server is easy. But making one that handles long lived connections (10s of thousands), and scales well, doesn't eat memory, doesn't eat CPU, etc etc is harder.

Having said that, it's easy enough that I think it's often worth doing if the webserver is integral to your success (It is with Mibbit).
I also find price discrimination inherently distasteful -- but even if I didn't, I'm not sure how it would be possible for tarsnap without adding a lot of extra complication.
Totally. I did it not so long ago (still am) and it's a brilliant confidence boost; everyone's there for the same reason, so it's not like just going to some club and hoping someone there will talk to you! You've got something in common, something to have a laugh about with every person there.

Go into it with the right attitude and you will have fun. Don't fall into the trap that some men do and think "ooh, such-and-such a magazine says salsa classes will get me laid", cause on their own they won't. Girls there can spot the guys who go there with one intention from miles off and won't dance with them. Go there with the intention to have a bit of a giggle, meet a few new people, make a bit of a tit of yourself on occasion (something we ALL need!) and learn some sexy moves while you're at it and the world is your oyster.

(Sorry for the disjointed response, I'm rushing out of the door! Will probably come back and write more later.)
Even if I was in the same city as the other developer I would just talk to them on the phone. I think the 'in person' meeting would usually involve enough time wasting to defray the benefits of the small increase in direct communication. If you are going to be doing a lot of work together it can be nice to meet the person but it isn't necessary just to clarify something.
I'll take your word for it that price discrimination would be difficult for tarsnap, but I don't think there's anything particularly distasteful about it as long as you're not sneaky about it (i.e. Amazon showing different prices to different people, who then figure it out and get irritated).
what would you recommend to supplement Russel&Norvig?
Exactly - I should clarify the "helped me a lot" in my previous post was more in terms of meeting lots of people and having fun than going home every night with some girl (although the owner of our favorite place once impressed us by showing up, spotting some girl, dancing a few songs and then heading out the door together). It eventually worked out pretty well because the woman I ended up marrying liked going dancing a lot when we first met:-)
(Theres a story about this being suggested as a hoax business idea somewhere...)
I agree that price discrimination isn't necessarily dishonest -- I just find it distasteful because it seems unfair. :-)
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Serious tease. I expected either the text available online, lecture videos or at the very least a courseware podcast from Berkeley. I guess I'll go back to staring at it at the bookstore...
After seeing my parents slave for other people, all their ideas wasted or stolen, why would I think it is the easy route not working on my own thing?
80% of guys have a tough time getting laid. It has nothing to do with being smart or not.
this agreement, which was negotiated in secret by Google and a few lawyers working for the Authors Guild and AAP (who will, by the way, get up to $45.5 million in fees for their work on the settlement—more than all of the authors combined!)

Wow
I keep hauling out the 'Information Rules' book because it's so good... I just picked it up and looked, and they do cover price discrimination some. There are plenty of examples where it's not really unfair, mostly where people self-select.

For instance, coupons are a way of getting people to buy something they may not have otherwise bought, with the thinking that those who have time to sit around clipping them out are a group of people with less money than those who simply don't care and go to the store and buy stuff without looking at the price much.

Student and senior discounts are another one that doesn't strike most people as 'unfair'.
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"what would you recommend to supplement Russel&Norvig?"

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That should be retitled to 13 things that do not make sense in Physics.
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For many startups I don't really see a great advantage to a formal office setup in the in initial phases. In the current climate where funding is had to come by solutions like this make a big difference.
Ask HN: best file manager for OS X?
Hi HN,

I've just switched from Ubuntu to OS X for dev purposes. Things have been going well so far, but Finder seems a little non-structural and limited, and I'm not alone - it seems there's about 20 or so different file manager apps for OS X. Is HN able to provide me with some pointers? Is there a Textmate of file managers?

Here's what I'm missing from Finder:

- Proper collapsible/expandable tree view

- Ability to see and create symlinks

- See file access, create, modify times

- Preview of SVG files

- SFTP/SCP support

- ACL / old style mode changes

- Nautilus style icon or text navigation pane (so I can
paste a file path)

- General single window operation - I shouldn't ever need to open another window to move or copy files
(disclaimer: layman speaking)

"We're pretty sure Neptune and Pluto pushed things out to form the Kuiper belt."

Perhaps, but that's not the question - the question is why the sudden drop-off beyond a certain point? It's not about what is pushing objects out, it's about what is (apparently) pushing them back in. There is a large spike in density centred around 44 - 46 AU which abruptly trails off by 50, the sharpness of the edge implying something holding them in/clearing the zone/having done that in the past. An undiscovered massive object is as reasonable an explanation as any other at this point. Works for Saturn's rings, after all.

And I don't think Pluto is large enough to do much "pushing" - the whole reason it was downgraded to sub-planet status was because it had failed to clear its orbit. Neptune, sure, but even that doesn't have much mojo beyond about 48AU.

As well Mike Brown's work that found Xena, Santa, Easter Bunny etc. would have picked up on a Mars sized object past the Kuiper Belt but close enough to shepard things."

Let's remember that these are all very recent discoveries; the ones you mentioned are from 2005, and they're relatively close compared to the "cliff". If we're still finding completely new objects that huge and that nearby just in the last few years, I wouldn't be so sure to rule out something pretty big hiding outside the Belt.

As Brown himself said, "Could Lykawka's planet be out there and have been missed? Easily."

Oh well, we'll know for sure soon enough. Pan-STARRS et al should definitively answer this and many other questions.
The ToC doesn't contain anything about the situated cognition, enactive cognition schools of thought, so I find applying the term AI to this book too broad. The topics covered seems to broadly fall under "automatic problem solving strategies" or something like that. Check out Rodney Brooks' robotics work for anything that feels like intelligence.
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From the user perspective, I find this a very attractive policy. I considered it for my own business model.

Do you refund 100% of the initial fee or do you deduce some processing charges ?

I'm thinking of this 7 day full refund law abused in the domain name business. People would get a name, test its "responsiveness" in hits, and ask for a refund of names below a threshold.

What protection do you have against such type of abuse of your refunding policy ? Are the refunding cost "payed" by other clients ?
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If we woke up tomorrow and all our neighbours were Houdini/Tesla/Feynman/Jobs, would we hack?
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KDE4 is approaching stable on OS X, and it has two file managers that do what you want (dolphin and konqueror): http://mac.kde.org/
I love the loband version. the only thing I miss is a simple search box. so, hopefully they'll add it sometime in the future
Why did you choose to do reference counting instead of more sophisticated techniques?

I can imagine that ref. counting is much easier to implement and the drawbacks are unimportant in your domain. However I'd still like to read about the reasons for your decision, since you will have thought about that issue much longer and clearer.

But I guess I should take a deeper look at http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-11-10-tarsnap-public-be... before writing anything..
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Ask HN: computer parts benchmarking site
Anybody know a good site which benchmarks CPUs or graphics cards, hard drives etc. For notebooks there's notebookcheck.net which is an excellent site, with rankings, reviews and other useful stuff, but i haven't been able to find any decent site for desktop parts on google.
Path Finder (http://cocoatech.com/) will let you do most of what you're asking. (tree view, symlinks, file attributes, previews, mode changes, single window operation)

I'd highly recommend it.
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Vertical search engines which scrape a large number of sites already do something like this and some may already have the tools described in the article. That being said most use regular expressions instead of XPath because of malformed markup. CSS selectors are another option.

In my opinion the other side of the problem with uptake of the semantic web is that the tools and formats used to describe and access the data are kind of heavy weight. It would be nice if there was a simple way to define new data types as well as store and access the data. Perhaps something like Google Base with a bit of server-side JavaScript for scraping thrown in?
bash/zsh, whatever shell you want. Just forget the "Proper collapsible/expandable tree view" - why are you limiting yourself to GUI file managers ? Get on the new old thing - command lines.
OK, I've not read the article or any of the comments. My theory is, well, it all comes down to Game Theory. All things being equal, if you are nice, an arsehole or rich, if a guy/gal suspects you are _significantly_ smarter than they are, they will (un-)consciously believe you will soon find a 'better' partner and move on. So they don't invest in you => you don't get laid.
Yeah, that decision seems a bit daft. Copyright infringement doesn't cause any direct financial harm to the publisher, as one pirated copy doesn't necessarily equal one lost sale. So even if piracy is at 90%, you may not have lost many sales. But if you're letting people use your bandwidth and processing time for free, there is a direct financial loss, and 90% suddenly becomes a huge problem.
i haven't been able to find any decent site for desktop parts on google.

Well, I don't know how picky you are or how hard you've looked already but tomshardware.com and anandtech.com are two "standards".
Regarding SFTP, I use ExpanDrive (http://www.expandrive.com/mac) which works with Finder. They act as remote drives in the left pane which you can interact with just like an external drive. It's not free, but it's pretty cheap and really versatile. You can have drives auto mount on login, and it can be controlled from your terminal.
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It's funny. Most of the people I know didn't take advice a) loosen up, they took b) move, and went to europe following a smart female they met during postgrad.
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A quick question:

Is it or is it not the case that the higher tax rate is only applied to income over the $250K threshold? So, if you make $260K, then only $10K would be taxed at the higher rate and the rest would be taxed at the lower rate. Or is it that 100% of the income gets taxed at the higher rate? I've heard it argued both ways.

The majority of the people out there seem to think it's the latter, but the people who believe it's the former, though fewer in number, are very passionate. I always tend to believe the few-but-passionate over the general consensus when it comes to issues that are glossed-over in the press.
Interesting.... tsumobi.com. I've always been curious about what they've been up to since they originally had something similar to Hecl, apparently.
I wear my IQ and education like a suit of armour most of the time

It's interesting how smart people build up various defenses to keep people at bay -- including hyper-competitiveness.

I remind my wife that you're supposed to let the boys win once in a while when we play cards, and we both get a laugh. She is merciless on my ego.

But there's something to be said for fitting in, going with the flow, taking things as they happen. That's not to say to act dumb, just being in the moment at a rock concert probably isn't going to elicit Shakespearean quotes. There's a fine line between being smart and acting smart. Appearing smart is not necessarily a desirably externalized attribute in all social situations.
Yes of course. For all I know my neighbours could be Houdini/Tesla/Feynman/Jobs. I love what I do and my neighbours have no impact on what I do with my life.
Your income determines your tax rate.

Your tax rate applies to everything you make.

As a consultant who's salary easily gets into the six figures, and somebody who has to write a check quarterly, I can tell you that the progressive tax system, to me, is a great disincentive to being more productive. I'm just as happy with less billing and no tax worries (except for the startup dream, of course)

I directly control how much I make, so I think I would have some personal insight into how tax rates affect small businesses.

But what do I know? As I understand it from my peers and the article, I should be happy to do all of that extra work to support other causes. I don't know what's wrong with me. I must be terribly selfish, assuming that I should work for me and my family instead of the collective good.

Funny that I don't feel that selfish.
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> Ability to see and create symlinks

PathFinder might let you create symlinks, though pretty much everything should display them with a little arrow overlay.

> Preview of SVG files

I don't think any finder replacement will do this for you. If you have an app that can edit SVG files, it should be generating a preview for you. I know that doesn't help much but in short, look for a SVG preview generator, or something along those lines.

> SFTP/SCP support

Likewise, I think you need a 3rd party solution. MacFuse or Expandrive (which is basically a nice UI on MacFuse). Pity finder doesn't handle this though, yet more insecure FTP use encouraged...

> ACL / old style mode changes

command-i, under 'sharing & permissions' gives you most of this (which you probably know), but no non-standard options like suid/sgid. I imagine PathFinder has a nice UI for this.

> Nautilus style icon or text navigation pane (so I can paste a file path)

Not what you asking, but fyi command-shift-G does this in Finder (even has tab complete)
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Yeah, I came to OSX from Linux and I only use Finder maybe 30% of the time, and often I cd to a directory and just use 'open .' from the Terminal anyway.
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Of course for this to work, you have to have someone at/near the top that believes in it!

(...says someone who used to work in a place that would have gotten me fired if I had worked like this.)
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Yes. And if you still have any questions, why not read the relevant laws?
FedEx and UPS take the most profitable business from the USPS, while the post office serves everywhere and everything, very nearly. If it weren't for the universal service requirement, the USPS could operate like the private companies. But personally, I like getting my mail no matter where I live.

You do the math on that universal service vs. choosing the profit maximization thing.

Talking about the post office's losses without citing that context is disingenuous.

Also, from having worked at a mailing house, I can tell the author doesn't understand much about how the post office actually routes mail.
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quick question rephrased:

Alice earns $250,001 and Bob earns $249,999 each before taxes. Who has more money after tax?

If the increased tax rate is applied to 100% of the income, then Bob gets more money than Alice and the system is stupid. Easier to calculate, but unfair.

Update: After reading the other link, i believe that the US tax system isn't stupid. Alice still has more money than Bob after taxes.
FedEx and UPS take the most profitable business from the USPS, while the post office serves everywhere and everything

That is an awesome insight, it really cuts through all of the noise.

If it weren't for the universal service requirement .. But personally, I like getting my mail no matter where I live.

This part I question .. shouldn't people who live in expensive to serve places and/or people who want to send mail to those places pay for the costs that they're imposing on the system?
I would be interested to hear thoughts on how CouchDB would compare to Google gears from those that have worked with either. Would it make sense for Google to expand the gears API into some kind of monster that would make it easier to work with app engine or similar by only writing client side JS?

What about a JS lib that allows you to interact with gears as if it were CouchDB? This gets you a little wider audience since you only have to ask people to install Google gears. And what user does not trust the Google brand :)
People ask questions here because there's an efficiency that comes from asking someone who already knows the answer vs. the time to, say, read through pages and pages of tax laws.

I'm happy to share wisdom when it's quick and easy to spread if it saves someone else a couple of hours of work.

But, your suggestion does result in a new acronym: RTFL! :-)
We're working on something remarkably close to what the article describes, but not taking the search engine approach you allude to. Rather, we're trying to make it into a useful multi-tool close in spirit to systems like Pachube, a component that coders/bloggers/site authors/whoever can drop into their projects.

And you're right. Semantic formats are very heavy weight. There are a lot of useful things that can be done with semi-semantic data before we achieve full linked-data across the web, if that even ever happens (you could argue for and against such visions, IMHO). Check it out at: http://scrapmetl.com/ and give us a shout on Twitter @Maciek416 and @corban if you're interested in playing.
There's a long-standing tradition that communication between any two of a country's citizens is important to protect as it is a public good. Postmaster General was a cabinet position for many years because of this. The desire to impose market pricing on market costs for everything is unsettling to me.
I used to work for the post office, and I think their big problem is universal service, unionized labor, and lack of investment in labor-saving technology (for whatever reason). They also can't just adjust prices as needed.

If they're not responsible like a real corporation, nobody told their management that. The work environment there is like a pressure cooker, and they chew out carriers for going 5 minutes over their allotted time. But there's really nothing else they can do besides acting unpleasant because it's almost impossible to fire a carrier after they've passed their probationary period.

I doubt that a private corporation would do much better with the same constraints. Of course, in the age of the internet and telephones 6-day/week universal service may not be as important as it was in the 19th century.

Also, what's this BS about calling the post office a "ponzi scheme" because they rely on advertising and we're in a recession? Are google and broadcast TV also ponzi schemes? Is the recession going to last forever?
>FedEx and UPS take the most profitable business from the USPS, while the post office serves everywhere and everything, very nearly.

Yes, they actually send unprofitable packages through the USPS.