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I just finished listening to 'how to get rich' by dennis felix, which is a good light, humorous book. Take everything with a pinch of salt, but mixergy.com has some good stuff.
Ecorner.stanford podcasts are all pretty damn good, harvardideacast and knowledge@wharton are interesting but not to the same level. Can also recommend venturehacks and venturevoice podcasts for customerdev/marketing entrepreneurial stories.

I listen primarily when running or at gym, killing two birds...
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Stanford's "Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders" podcast might interest you. The quality's uneven, my favorite is Steve Blank's (customer development) talk. Mitch Kapor and Shai Agassi were pretty interesting as well.
are you planning on writing the next in the series soon? pretty interesting.
Yeah on my older G5 system I've noticed that happening. Mostly what it does it beachballs for a couple of seconds, or more depending on size. No real issues on the 15in MBP with 4GB ram though
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But what exactly is a compiler error?

What if it were a warning? What if we were all trying to program a forbidden fruit?
> Anyway, this seems an uncharacteristically juvenile HBR article. Of course businesses are not 100% efficient, they are run by humans after all. But firms which are more efficient then others have lower operating costs, better R&D, higher margins, more innovation, etc. - these are the competitive advantage that 'efficient' firms use to get the edge on competitors. That's not to say that each one doesn't do something to make you as an investor go crazy.

Cut him some slack, from his bio he looks like a pure academic who hasn't done business. They all have lofty ideas about how easy and organized business should be, as opposed to a gritty, murky, sorting-it-out type thing.
Net profit is a factor of many things that have nothing to do with the bot. How good of a system you have for getting new accounts/ip addresses, how well you can funnel money from one dummy account back to you, how well you avoid detection, etc.

Those are ancillary factors that have an effect on net profit. They are not metrics. Taking the story from the post, if my "friends and family" were asking me about the "success" of a poker bot, I'd still point to net profit as the best metric with which to define success (unless you're doing it for CS/math reasons).

It's a bit like if I'm a professional, regular poker player and family members ask me how I'm doing. I'd tell them how much money I've won (or lost), not the intricate details of how I play.
He's talking about how Apple made the simulator in the iPhone SDK.
Almost every programming language is written in English.
Yeah, I've gone through much of the rest of the process before between bonus abusing casinos, running a rakeback site, and my own poker play.

Once upon a time Party Poker offered a guaranteed 10% APR on all balances up to $10k, paid out monthly given a certain relatively small level of pay. I imagine their multiple account detection process back then was relatively crude compared to what Stars has now, but it caused me some pain. And I know Full Tilt is very good at it now.
Yeah, soon.

Anything specific you want to hear about?
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The posts from the people that are releasing the sales data are extremely interesting to me. Thanks!

As an aside, does anyone know of an agregator of blog posts concerning sales data for ISV's?
The point is that it is a rant on a blog, and the real idiots here are you and I sitting here in a forum discussing its merits as a literary contribution to society.
open-sourced course materials (such as MIT's OCW)

This is already taking place: http://www.core.org.cn/en/
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I have a power pc mac so 10.5 is the end of the road. Maybe I don't feel like shelling out 130 to apple for nothing.
That's a big part of the reason the iPhone has become so successful — the first release had half the features of other smartphones, but it worked well.

Apple has been slowly adding functionality — third-party applications, video recording, MMS, copy and paste — at a pace that lets the engineers get it all right.
This is a monkey patch used in the right place and right time.
Well, I was a professional poker player for over 5 years, and you're wrong. I looked at it the way he did in his article. We all do. You probably wouldn't tell your dad that stuff only because he likely wouldn't understand, but it would be at the front of your mind.

We're obsessed with the performance metric, big bets per hour for live players, big bets per 100 hands (BB/100) for online. Standard deviations, results ranges, levels of certainty. You obsess about that stuff or you end up broke. (Of course, you may do both.)

In fact if you read online poker forums, hands and win rates are rarely ever discussed with dollar values because they aren't very relevant. They're almost always given in terms of big bets, and most if not all online hand converters (which take a hand history from a poker site and print it out in an easy to read format for posting on forums) convert to that automatically.

The absolute dollar amounts are only useful for getting a very rough estimate of the level of competition given no other information.
> Now they need a kind of apprenticeship: real tasks to work on, the freedom to experiment and to risk failure, but in an environment that models respect for commitment.

As someone who just got out of an AP Computer Science class, I could not agree with this statement more despite the fact that it was written over 15 years ago. While I had an excellent teacher and really enjoyed the class, I found that in the textbook and on the test that we were simply required to demonstrate that we knew the basic components of the Java API, not necessarily how to implement them. Even on the free response questions, the test writers held our hands through unrealistic problems that tested whether or not we knew what a HashMap was and if we knew how to iterate through it.

The GridWorld case study doesn't help either. In their failed attempt the create a more "real world" problem, they created more questions that could be answered on the ability to memorize what classes in the program do what and not on how well you understand programming concepts.

Sure, it makes sense for Google to "test" their job applicants with a programming problem, but I honestly doubt they ask "The following program will throw a (blank) exception".

Perhaps The College Board should structure their curriculum similar to their Studio Art curriculum, where students send in pieces of their portfolio to be judged and "graded". Students should be given a real world application to create or a difficult puzzle to solve that must be turned in at a certain date to be given a grade. Obviously there would be a bit more involved thinking in that process, but I really think that would provide a much more meaningful experience.

Any person can memorize a bunch of rules from an API, but a real "5" student can actually apply those rules and manipulate them to solve any problem thrown at him.
I think you should remove the "12" that is a section number.

(oh, how we will miss you <marquee>)
Honestly I didn't even bother trying setting up multiple accounts.

The money was a nice, but it really wasn't the primary goal. Plus, in order to maximize profits I would have had to tread in a lot of murky waters that I didn't want to be near.

For example, say you have a roommate run the bot. How do you get the profits from his poker account into your bank account? Not as easy as it might seem.
Why was it so bad as to be comparable to eating glass?
"In addition, students select one to three additional exams, and this choice depends on what they hope to study in college."

Does that mean that a student must choose a major before they enter into college and stick with it throughout their education?
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For games sure, but most software in the windows world still lists win98 as a supported platform.
I would have thought it would be an advertisers dream to have an audience of serious business minded teenagers. Where else can you get that kind of niche audience. It's easy to advertise to teenagers on fun sites such as cracked, or myspace... but where on the web has the kind of demographic that the above idea is talking about? This kind of highly targeted niche audience is worth huge amounts of money to the right advertisers.
Relatedly, the version number you peg on something is entirely a marketing decision, and not even that important of one these days. (Since I don't charge for upgrades, literally the only use I have for it is reproducing bugs. You won't find one written on my website anywhere.)

Back in the "all software users are software enthusiasts" days, all that stuff you learned about "point upgrades" and "beta releases" and whatnot actually made sense to people. Your mother does not care about the difference between a .1 and .01 point release, and never will. Make sure your website distributes the newest and best version, and make upgrading between not-the-newest-and-best-version and the-newest-and-best-version as automatic and painless as possible, to the limit of your business model's ability to do so.

Adjust as required if your product has to be compatible with other things. (Not ordinarily a worry of mine in B2C land.)

(I really envy you web-only guys some days. "The website has the latest version of the software on it" and "All users are using the latest version of the software" being axiomatic are so cool.)
students in China actually must apply to specific majors when they apply to college. for example, instead of applying to MIT, you'd apply for electrical engineering at MIT. it's also very difficult to change majors after you've been accepted into a particular one.
Somehow I never read Coding the Wheel until tonight.

My initial impression is that he made some things way more complicated than they had to be and other things way simpler than they needed to be.

But who knows--there's definitely more than one way to do it.
What I meant was that building a bot is worse because you don't realize immediately that it's a bad idea, unlike eating glass.

This topic is important and deserves a long discussion--its one of the main things I want to write about in the future.
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Venture Voice is awesome, there some 50+ hour-long podcasts. http://www.venturevoice.com/
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Hasn't everyone tried the Snow Leopard beta?

I've tried it and am very happy with it. But even if you haven't, many people are still excited about it. A cocoa rewrite means much better performance and extensibility.

Now they just need to re-write iTunes in Cocoa (hopefully something they'll do for iTunes 9)
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what about electronics?
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I've asked allan about that in IRC, and he's said it's being worked on.
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I thought so too, but I don't grasp how a stationary "Twitter access point" would be of use while the revolution is going on at the street.
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Some woman needs to take that :)
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Despite this contributes nothing to the Iran thread, I find it amazing that you say 'we'. I neither want to go off-topic here. But it occured to me that people closely attached to the web tend to realize a 'we' amongst them, across all borders.
> It's sad. All of the teachers that are forced to teach to the status quo do so because money is on the line.

There's more to it than just that, actually. What happens when a teacher demands excellence? Well: grades drop, students (mostly the mediocre ones) complain, parents complain, teachers must do far more grading (and be forced to back it up -- every single point), other faculty members can get disgruntled, administration wants to know how this will impact standardized test scores (because they have to answer to the superintendent who insists that the scores go up every year or else you're doing something wrong).
I agree that Preview's annotate feature works well. Still, there something about the physical process of underlining words that helps me connect ideas together as I'm reading.
An RSS feed which takes me to the comment page of the submission.

Reason being that I like to use live bookmarks in Firefox, and the RSS feed which goes directly to the submitted link means if I want to read the comments left by HN users, I must go to HN's homepage to look for the article, and then click on comments.

Which is a lot of work compared to clicking on the live bookmark entry, then opening up the submitted webpage (in a new tab) from the submission's comment page.
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It would have been much friendlier to link to the multipage version on the WhatWG site, rather than the everything-in-one-page version on the W3C site:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-xhtml-syntax.html#obsolete-features
"give away your content instead of writing a book"

You've used quotation marks, but what you've but between them is not a quote. As I said before, giving away knowledge and selling knowledge are not mutually exclusive. Unless you believe that textbooks are the only possible way to sell knowledge, there is no way to read the post as suggesting that selling knowledge instead of giving it away is verboten.

generally they are collection of random thoughts, not complete contextual subjects laid out in concise logical order with examples... like a textbook.

First of all, they are not "random", they are the same thing he suggests professors spend their time on and publish for free: "pages or chapterettes or even entire chapters on topics that matter to them".

Secondly, nowhere doe he suggest giving away textbooks for free. You're grossly distorting the text by implying that. That he describes assigning a textbook as "academic malpractice" strongly indicates that his position is not that textbooks should be freely available.

So my assertion that his blog is a marketing channel for his paid-for content is correct.

How is that relevant? I never disagreed with that assertion. Nor would I, because it is transparently obvious. Are you saying that selling books is inherently hypocritical?
Will this be part of the "TextMate Forever" release or is it being considered for a TextMate 1.6?
"A cocoa rewrite means much better performance and extensibility."

Only if they bother to make it fast and extensible.
Pro-tip: the legal solution to the roommate dilemma is limited power of attorney :)
A while back Vancouver Film School (VFS) released a short-film on how Iran embraces new media, namely the web. The piece is titled "Iran: A Nation of Bloggers", can be watched at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MChlT0GvFPM . With about 100000 (one hundred thousand) actively maintained blogs, I can imagine Twitter indeed does play an important role there.
I think the post is just a cheap shot based on the title of the book.

We all have to do things that we don't like as part of our jobs. The point of the book is that by becoming more efficient and effective at what you don't like you can spend more time doing what you do like. If you classify what you like as "work", that's fine, do more of the work you like. I doubt the book author would have a problem with that.
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Redirecting to home.php is the default behavior when accessing objects on Facebook that have been deleted.

This happens with pages, apps, groups, etc. I'm not surprised it happens with usernames, too.
Where can I find a mirror of the video? Has the Streisand Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect) kicked in yet?
How was this potential easter egg discovered?
Ask HN: What are your favorite management books?
I am curious about how companies scale from a start-up stage into sustainable multi-million dollar businesses. So far I've found Richard Branson's autobiography to be very informational in learning about scaling and expanding a business. What other books are there that provide good stories OR methods of growing a business?
If this works out, this is a big breakthrough. One of the encryption schemes described in the paper also looks like it should be reasonably efficient to implement (the scheme "E_1"). That scheme doesn't give you everything you'd need for fully homomorphic encryption, but it is part of the way there.
I think this is about culture, not language. It's two very different things. Except for all the ASCII/Unicode nightmare, there's not much in a programming language that depends on country/language/culture.

Who wants to see something like that :
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I'll stick my head out and endorse Andrew Warner's stuff on http://mixergy.com

He has a mixed reputation on Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AndrewWarner) because of his "dubious" past business, but his interviews are good. I only listen to about 20% of what he puts out, but what I do consume I find very compelling.
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Nor is this unique to China; the same is true in South Africa where you choose your major before applying to university and then apply specifically to that degree program, which has its own unique requirements, instead of applying to the university in general as you would in the US. And once you have started your degree you cannot (except in rare circumstances) take modules from other courses that aren't a part of your syllabus or jump easily between majors.

To my knowledge this is actually the way higher education in most countries works, with the US being a bit of an exception.
And now there's a lot of hype centered around real-time [1][2] so expect this to continue even if in many cases it's a bit ridiculous.

[1] http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/ron-conway-to-focus-ang...

[2] twitter.com
Blogging and seeking out what should be remembered
Funny I should see this now, as I just came to Hacker News to submit my own, tangentially related essay, "Blogging and seeking out what should be remembered": http://jseliger.com/2009/06/14/blogging-and-seeking . Book/lit blogs seem to have a somewhat more balanced repertoire than the noisy sites shouting "new! new! new!," but they're hardly immune from crowd-following.
Worthwhile for the image and caption alone.

This reminds me: I'm a bit tired of quick reactionary articles in the news that come in response to relatively minor sociological, psychological, or medical studies. These new developments are indeed interesting, but they're often treated as factual rather than small nuggets of scientific exploration.

In this case, anyway, I'm glad that The Economist maintains a reasonable perspective, that this is a single limited study conducted by an individual as opposed to new, dazzling, irrefutable Facts.
That's true for the Mac, too.
Again this is an example of people who have no idea what is actually going on in schools trying to make policy without consulting those who do know what goes on in schools.

The problem with e-books in schools below the College level is the readers get broken. High School age and below kids tend to be careless. They throw their back packs down, play keep away with them, etc... So traditional e-book readers don't work.

That said, as someone responsible for the IT needs of a school, I've been experimenting with one of these: http://www.peeweepc.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=70...

The Ruggedized nature and tablet mode seem to make it possible (again I'm still experimenting and am a little nervous about the hinge at this point). So don't get me wrong, I think a solution exists. But the Governor just wants an immediate cheap solution and that's not the way e-books are going to happen.
I really like the idea. However, there's a brief note in the article which isn't really addressed in detail: students need computer access to use an on-line text. Although computer access is increasing, poorer students wouldn't have the same amount of access (if any) as students from better-off families.

I can think of a few ways to lessen this problem. One would be to ensure that public libraries are freely accessible to students, and offer Internet access for students who don't have it at home. Another option would be to allow students to print out, at school, relevant materials from on-line texts. The second solution would be very expensive in the long run, so I'd say that some form of the first solution needs to be put into effect for the Governator's proposal to succeed.
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I don't think he wants traditional E-books. What I imagine when I hear the phrase "open-source online textbooks", I think of websites where you can navigate through chapters, appendices, etc -- similar to how some texts are already available online (i.e. Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp, available not as an e-book but as a website, at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ )
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Well the problem with that is you still need textbooks in the classroom. If he wants to replace actual textbooks he needs to find a way to put them in the classrom. That's going to require a reader

(There are actual studies, lots of them in fact, that show students learn more when they can follow along in a textbook so you couldn't solve the problem with a projector for example)
What's interesting to me is how fiercely competitive the "new!" or "now!" market is - many of the content sites and the newspapers & magazines focused on it are dropping like flies. How much room is there if everyone's reporting or commenting on the same thing?

Also, the example he gave, Cracked.com is notorious for linkbaiting, which isn't a bad thing. Even if people are only viewing new content when they visit the site, at least the old articles have a higher chance of showing up in the SERPs later on.
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Same here in India.

Oh, and the entrance test you take has nothing to do with the "major" you choose. I'm an IT student, and the entrance test to my university had 3 subjects: physics, chemistry and mathematics. Nothing else. And no, you cannot choose.

You have a bunch of extra curriculars under your belt? Oh, so you contributed to FOSS? Well, nobody cares. Because, "academics are more important for your future, kids".
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