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this is the primary reason I buy Red Bull over other energy drinks. I don't need 18oz. of liquid, especially on long drives.
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I wonder if it's the vanilla or the alcohol suspension agent they don't like?
Self-published a book in April, which is now selling in Paperback and Kindle versions (http://www.amazon.com/Berkshire-Hathaway-Letters-Shareholder...). It's been doing pretty well although there was a built-in audience and it's not too difficult to market a book when the author is Warren Buffett.

I did a printing of the book and am selling the physical version on Amazon Advantage. Advantage takes a 55% cut of the List Price, and handles all shipping, ordering, etc. I just have to send them inventory when needed.

The program works, but so far in my experience it's a huge pain in the ass. They send out Purchase Orders when they need more inventory and it's pretty unpredictable (an order could be 4 copies or 900, which means shipping really changes my COGS). They also "lost" a shipment of 800 books that took them a month to find. So I wouldn't recommend Amazon Advantage unless there isn't another option.
My friend Duncan McGeary is writing again.

His timeline is.

- Hermit, single guy, writes and gets three books published in the 80s

- He Marries

- Purchases a pop culture / comic book / store of awesomeness

- Can't keep writing and keep up his business and his family, so he quits writing

- The business expands (Sports Card Bubble, Pog Bubble, some other bubbles) opening 3 other locations

- The business contracts (bubbles pop)

- Focues on making one location super solid

- Gets his business dialed in

- Finally pays off all his debt, store is doing really well

- Works two days a week at the store, hires solid employees

- Devotes other remaing days to writing books

- Has been publishing ebooks

- Has tried to go the traditional publishing route

Take aways

- The dude has been around the block

- He writes at least one blog post a day (he has been doing this for 5+ years)

- He shares A LOT about what he is doing (store front business, book writing strategy, business strategy)

- He has hired artists

- He has hired an editor

The one warning I'll give, is a lot of the time his blog is him processing. You really are reading the guy's journal. So it may feel he repeats himself. I personally enjoy existing in the guy's head. It is a different type of blog. One where you eventually see him work stuff out and you almost get that "AHAH!" moment with him.

I really respect Duncan. I'd tell anyone interested in either business or writing to follow the guy.

http://pegasus-dunc.blogspot.com/
https://twitter.com/PegasusBooks
http://amzn.to/149vsQG
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Well, someone clearly paid attention in Programming Languages class :)
Spend a lot of effort on designing the cover

Did you hire someone for this? If so, who?
There is a big difference between saying you will buy something and actually buying it. Just a sliver of your overall fanbase will convert into paying customers, unless you've acquired them through something crazy awesome method.
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I think this is just the other extreme of unschooling. The focus is on blindly excelling.

I "went" to high school. I graduated with a 95% average. In high school, there was a tie between me and some blonde girl to get valedictorian. I told my physics teacher that I didn't even care and to give it to her because for her, it was a huge point of self-validation. I got 100% in physics and calculus because I loved the subjects. I spent my summers studying calculus. Excelling was a by-product.

Through high school, I played sports, wrote music and had sex with girls. I did well academically too, even though (or because?) I stopped attending classes during high school and never went to class in university.

I graduated university from a top 10 university on the dean's list and I ended up making hundreds of thousands of dollars every year by taking my own route.

I love what I do and I loved every minute of university.

The problem I think is as she says herself: she focused on excelling, not on doing what she enjoyed. Maybe her parents are to blame. I don't know. But this is not at all a strike against the school system.

The school system is broken. But IMO, this is not why. It works very well for the 5% who enjoy academic pursuit.
I don't think the article was very good at explaining _why_ they've lost it. A lot of controversial decisions turn out to be good in the end.

I think the biggest mistake has been to neglect Linux power users, which has been their biggest grassroots evangelists. At one point some years ago _every_ Unix guy I knew ran Ubuntu on their laptops because it "just worked" (well, compared to other distros). And some of them had started recommending it to friends and family. Nowadays, many of the same people are running Macs, and guess what they recommend? Macs (or iPads).

Their second biggest mistake has been the "me too" attitude. Netbooks popular? Ubuntu Netbook Remix! Oh wait, tablets you say? Ubuntu for Tablets! Google and Apple launch TV platforms? Ubuntu TV! Oh, and don't forget that we have a phone OS as well!

To make any one of these succeed they would need to dedicate great salespeople and marketers to secure deals with PC, tablet, TV or phone manufacturers or operators. Or they would have to make them so insanely great that people would line up to get them. Google TV, backed by a big company is pretty much dead in the water.

I would LOVE for all of these products to succeed and to use well designed open source products. But it's just not going to happen this way.
I'm assuming that the Logic Pro files are binary, not text, this link may provide useful information:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/104453/version-control-fo...
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I thought you said bye?

>> Twisting words? You said "sort of person". There is no such "sort". That you then say "oh that means people can't excel at stuff blah blah blah" is of your own making.

Yes, twisting my words to make your ridiculous point. This comment specifically is nonsense - "Then why did nobody ever put their mind to curing cancer in 5 minutes then? Too busy with more interesting stuff?" And yes, by excelling at everything in school she has shown she's the sort of person that can excel at many things, by studying and applying herself. Not everyone has it in them to excel in one space, let alone lots. I'm not really sure what your problem is here.

>> Sure, but that doesn't mean they automatically are great at basketball or rocket science.

No, why on earth would it? But it might mean that they are at a crossroads now and can excel at whatever direction they decide to take their life, be that cancer research, rocket science, whatever. She's smart and shown a capacity for dedication, so can probably be nearly anything she wants.
Seriously, what is your problem with this?

(--edit-- hell, maybe she wants to buy some land and run a drum workshop, it's her choice too, I'm not trying to constrain the discussion to academic disciplines)

>> I mean yeah, if I put my mind to the things I know I can excel at, then I can excel at anything I put my mind to. Big whoop.

Now you're just spouting nonsense again.

>> I'd say it's reflecting on robot like tendencies. Why would one even have to realize that unless they had some kind of issue before that?

Because they're an adolescent just waking up to the extent of the world around them. It happens. Her parents and teachers probably have influenced her thinking about how her life is due to unfold. She probably had an internal roadmap that was partly put there by society, partly by the adults in her life, and partly by her own assumptions. She's realising it's not set in stone. Good for her.

>> Ever saw kids play, heck, toddlers cry? Knowing you have choices is the default, and it gets broken and beaten out of some. How can you deny this? Because there are also people who excel and do so out of their free will? That's just throwing a wrench into a perfectly good discussion just because it goes over your head.

I'm not sure I have any idea what you're talking about any more.

>>I mean, just to switch gears for a sec, ever noticed the plague of "achievement hunting"? People ticking off boxes just because those boxes exist and they have nothing better to do with themselves? Same thing. This can also be found in school among some, and in businesses as well. How could you possibly miss it?

No, really no clue.

>> That somehow means you are not just quoting parts of my post, then talking stuff that addresses none of or isn't even about anything related to the quote?

At least I'm quoting what you actually said instead of making shit up.
Since Linus is not actually impolite in this email, I'm just going to ignore that and comment on the main thing he talked about:

Calling things "professional" is just more of the same -
trying to enforce some kind of convention on others by trying to claim that it's the only acceptable way.

Being professional is similar to being politically correct. Don't say anything impolite or you'll offend people, don't say anything 'unprofessional' or you'll get fired, don't say anything 'not politically correct' or (in some countries) you'll have the police knocking at your door. That is where it leads and that is why I support his argument.

Additionally, in my experience, the above behavior leads to behind-the-back sneaky and spiteful behavior. People who don't like something xyz is doing, so instead of risking confrontation by telling someone politely that it's annoying / won't work, they'll talk to the manager or get back at someone 3 weeks later.
Hmm. There is self-publishing and then there is not publishing with a legacy publisher.
I recommend the later -- every writer needs a little help.

So technical stuff out of the way:
* don't use MSWord (probably obvious), but it is way easier if you write in UTF8 with basic mark-up for italics. Markdown is great.
* create an epub and then think about Kindle. You want to be everywhere. You need both formats so (Amazon is your primary target market) but it's easier on everybody if Kindle formatting comes second.
* eReader specs are all over the map -- it's like a throw back to the browser incompatibilities from 10 years ago -- so clean mark-up is vital. If you want your book to look good on as many devices as possible, don't use a conversion meatgrinder (like calibre) to create files. Do look carefully at lean pub.com or pressbooks.com, especially if you don't need your hand held in this area.
* you will need to buy an ISBN, either directly or through a third party

Editing
* you need an editor -- your wife, your neighbour, a freelancer -- somebody needs to edit your work. Don't be fooled otherwise, even if you write a blogpost a day and have for the last two years. Good editors will catch problems with tone, spot areas that are confusing, and generally shape the work. This is especially important because writing down complex thoughts is hard. A lot of people think they have a book in them, when really they just a magazine-length article or a blog post or an idea for a tumblr. A good editor will call BS on your ambitions.
* proofreading is not editing. Have someone that isn't you or your editor look over your work before you publish

Selling and Marketing
* If you are going to spend any money what so ever on your project, spend it on the cover. Self-publishing is plagued by terrible covers and even pro designers trip up when they try to approach ebook images. Do yourself a favour and hire a real book designer. If you can't afford it upfront, publish first and then redesign the cover later.
* You want to be on Amazon, B&N, Kobo, iTunes, and (maybe) Google Play. You can take this upon yourself or get help from a service like SmashWords or Bookbaby.com
* And of course sell on your own site and through your own newsletters using shopify or the like.
* Again, it should be obvious your book is not going to sell itself.

All that said, the hardest thing is the writing so get to it.
Self hosted sentry, very pleased with it.
I always assumed mosquitoes are going by the IR/heat emissions, but apparently they follow smell. They also have very rudimentary olfactory system, which is easy to confuse by filling the area with a smell "override". It could be a bug spray or a citrus smell (citronella, etc) or it could be a smell that humans don't even pick up. Latter is weird, but it works really well - it's a small plastic dispenser bottle with a wick and heater element on top, just like an oil-based air freshener, but it has no smell whatsoever.
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The reactions he got were great. Everyone apologized and will now make sure such mistakes don't happen again.
It would be very poignant of you to point that out if the interface was not trying to emulate famous and well-known real-world objects.

Music people eat that up. It's entirely the right choice, and the rest of the interface is clean. There are no problems here, just good design overall it seems.
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> You can move them around, read to them, write to them, execute them...

That functionality depends entirely on the file system and the file in question, as much as the operations available on an HTTP resource depends on the verbs that the resource implements and how it implements them.

Also, a file system will typically not execute your files. Nothing stops you from executing an HTTP resource in the same manner. Say,

<script type="text/javascript.js" src="bla/bla.js">

or

curl http://bla.com/bla.sh | bash

> Now think about what the browser runtime can do with "files"

Using the standard HTTP verbs, you can read, write, create and delete resources.
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It seems sort of unfair to compare kernel contributions from Canonical to a company like Red Hat simply because of the time-frame during Linux's development that Red Hat was a part of. Isn't is possible that Red Hat helped out more because it was around closer to the start of the Linux project?

Also, Canonical's and Ubuntu's strengths may not lay in kernel development, but instead pushing the boundaries in what can be done on the UI. I certainly don't remember Red Hat or SUSE doing the sort of risky things with their UI that Canonical is willing to try.
This is where being an hourly contractor really has its perks. If people expect long hours from a contractor, fair enough, but it will cost them. In my own situation, when overtime opportunities arise, I'm thinking of the money that I can make. This, versus being salaried, where I'd ponder the hit my private life going to take, with no extra compensation, to boot.
Ask HN: What has been the best career advice someone has ever given you?
Lets share, shall we?
Ask HN: Should I validate my HTML?
I have been doing web development for a while now and up until a few years ago I would validate the HTML and CSS of the sites that I built. Is there any value in validating HTML?

As an aside, HN has quite a few validation errors: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.3+http%3A%2F%2Fvalidator.w3.org%2Fservices
I don't get how you arrived at the conclusion that genetics does not influence loyalty, resourcefulness, or diligence.
It's unlikely the Logic Pro team were disclosed on the iOS 7 design direction before WWDC. Even if there was a push to "flatten" Logic, it would have been too late in the cycle to do it for this release.
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I actually just announced the launch date for my self-published ebook this morning: http://www.petekeen.net/announcing-mastering-modern-payments...
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I've been working on it for a few months after reading Nathan Barry's excellent book Authority. Based on that I started a mailing list right away and have collected a few hundred email addresses that I can market to.

I can't say I have any concrete advice (bdunn's advice sounds great, though). Best of luck to you!
Snowden claims that encryption works, and I have no reason not to believe him on that. There definitely is significant amount of people doing crypto research who are not (directly) affiliated with NSA, I'd suspect that they all collectively can not either have missed any intentional backdoors or been bought off by NSA.
Literally, a different robot but it looks like he puts adhesive gel on the feet to help the landing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mF9_2...
I've always thought the Ableton sound engine was pretty average compared to Logic. Ableton has always felt a bit muddy in its summing (IMHO!).
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After you fork, you know you can just pull from the original project? That's why they call it the upstream.

Perhaps you're saying that you can't take the community with you? That doesn't seem like a reasonable expectation. You can fork, and you can continue to pull from upstream, but you can't force people to use it.
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A lot of the time the first step to getting the data into decent formats is for more people to become aware that it is even available, though, so they can start asking for changes.
Exactly. I'm beginning to get sick of the debate about design. Design has one purpose - make things easier to use.

For example, rounded corners in digital design aren't just for a skeuomorphism trend, but rather a trick to reduce cognitive cost.[0] Let's stop pretending it's anything more than that.

Note - One of the principles of design is the aesthetic-usability effect[1]. I would argue this is the main reason why we continue to debate trends and their effectiveness around usability.

[0] - http://www.uiandus.com/blog/2009/7/26/realizations-of-rounde...

[1] - http://courses.washington.edu/art479/media/universal_princip...
I'm also about to publish my first book (about a guy called Elon Musk). Here are some links I've saved that were interesting to read:

Selling my e-book on Amazon (http://snook.ca/archives/writing/selling-ebook-on-amazon)

How you can make a million writing your own e-book (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2040044/Kind...)

How to Write and Promote New York Times Bestsellers: Tim Ferriss and Jack Canfield (http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2012/09/01/how-to-write...)

How to (Really) Make $1,000,000 Selling E-Books – Real-World Case Studies (http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/04/04/how-to-make-...)

How I Used Hacker News to Sell My eBook (http://rubysnippets.com/2013/04/26/how-i-used-hacker-news-to...)

An eBook pricing model that resulted in $100,000 in sales (http://blog.asmartbear.com/selling-ebook.html)

5 rules to sell thousands of copies of your ebook (http://mir.aculo.us/2012/10/20/5-rules-to-sell-thousands-of-...)
It shouldn't be surprising. The real instruments aren't going anywhere and are found side by side with installations of Logic Pro. These images aren't archaic reminders of objects no longer used in daily life.

It's not like the iOS Phone app icon, which depicts the outline of a style of phone handset many people below a certain age have never seen or laid hands on.
If you're on a Mac, why not give Ardour a spin? It won't do MIDI sequencing inside of the program (you will need Ardour 3, which AFAIK only runs on Linux), but it's highly usable for everything else. And it's open source :)
That's where I see recomputation as not quite pushing the same goals as reproducibility, even though its advocates often couch them as the same goal. Recomputation can be useful, but re-running the exact same code in the same virtual machine isn't really an independent reproduction of the claimed scientific result. That often benefits from not using the original source code; two independently written implementations claiming to implement the same approach and achieving the same results is a much better reproduction.

In the natural sciences, independent reproduction often finds subtle dependencies on the original apparatus that change the interpretation: when lab B tries to reproduce lab A's results on slightly different equipment and can't, it can highlight an unnoticed dependency on some specific feature of the original equipment, and may throw into question the original paper's conclusions. You would never have found that if, instead of lab B independently reproducing the result, lab A just packed up their equipment into a shipping container and shipped it to lab B, who unpacked and ran it unchanged. That's what the VM approach is arguing for, and that's not really reproducibility.
I don't believe so. Both DD-WRT and Tomato are essentially Linux builds (2.6.xx kernel) with drivers for the router's hardware. They are fairly close in features with some people preferring the Tomato UI to DD-WRT.
I've actually been storing my Logic projects on GitHub for a while. It works pretty well for the most part, but I do run into some issues when dealing with the size of the files. Perhaps Logic X shrinks them down in size a bit in comparison to Logic 9, but I doubt it.

Here's the repo if you are interested: https://github.com/jpsullivan/LogicProjects

One day I'd really like to make an open source album that people could fork to remix entirely new sounds. It'd also be nice to get some people talking about best practices when mixing. Perhaps a Logic Bootstrap if you will.
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Curious, have you ever considered Reaper? I'm considering making the jump over the course of the next year or so (switching DAWs is such a pain).
I went to school in the UK and there was a rape near my university. They had a program where males can come down and "voluntarily" get a cheek swab to "assist" in the investigation.

This is also the country that has the MI5 which is a stated domestic spy agency. I am completely against the NSA spying but if you are living in the UK you have less privacy and less rights in regards to search and seizure. The police can also stop you at any time and question you.
New JavaScript Widgets library Webix released
XB Software, a developer of high-quality web applications, announces the release of Webix, a powerful cross-browser JavaScript UI library for building responsive HTML 5-based web apps.
Webix is lightweight (about 100 kb of compressed code) and fast JavaScript library for building desktop and mobile web apps based on the latest web standards (HTML5, CSS3).
It provides a wide range of feature rich JavaScript UI widgets ranging from simple widgets, like a menu or combobox, to highly interactive charts and powerful data tables.
All Webix widgets are compatible with the latest web browsers allowing developers to create web apps that work in Internet Explorer 8+, Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
One of the main Webix features is that there’s no need to write two different apps for mobile and desktop devices. Web apps developed with this library run correctly on multiple platforms.
Mobile web apps based on the Webix library have a native look-and-feel and operate flawlessly on popular touch devices.
The server can be organized in several ways. Webix widgets are compatible with MVC frameworks (MVC.Net, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Yii) and can be easily integrated with server-side data feeds. It’s also possible to use Server Side Connectors (for PHP, Java, ASP.NET) that allow the creation of fully functional data feeds in a few lines of code. In addition, developers are capable of using any server-side technology at backend, which can expose RESTfull api for data loading and data saving.
Other Webix features are dynamic data loading, easy styling with CSS, offline support and external/internal drag-and-drop operations. Possessing all mentioned advantages.
Webix is dual licensed under open-source GNU GPL v3 and commercial licenses.