skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis ( http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Felix-Dennis/dp/009191265... ) THE best get rich how-to guides that I've read (not that I've read too many of them, though :)
> Yeah, but it's still much worse if the official climate is that it's "acceptable".

How about some supporting evidence?

> It can always be worse, you know.

Yes, it can always be worse, but whether or not a govt has said something is wrong has no predictive power on that issue.

Every post-1900 by-govt mass murder was committed by a "we don't do those things" regime.
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Empires of the Silk Road yesterday and Inside Central Asia today. Also The Lightness of Being, A Savage War of Peace, and Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
Don't forget "a bird in hand is worth two in the bush".

At those conversion ratios, it goes without saying that a thousand birds in hand is worth a whole lot more than one in the bush.
I will hunt down the video if there is any and let you know.
Per box - it all depends on the number of boxes you have, but once its setup for one, its setup for all.
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
A Guide to HTML5 Hiccups
It's interesting that you view near-zero revenue as a positive sign.
> For a project I'm working on I need to make sure as far as possible that users are not able to signup multiple accounts.

For your convenience or theirs?
Perhaps you are asking the wrong question. A more effective question is "what happens to a business when one of the owners gets divorced?" I have no knowledge of this area, but I'm sure there is a ton of info on the internet.

I'm sure the answer largely depends on your business structure. For example, a corporation is a separate entity from your personal finances and there are really no owners, just shareholders. So in this case your wife may only be able to take shares.

If you don't have a corporation or haven't created any other the other business structure then any money you make is dealt with by a schedule C which makes you a sole proprietor. This money goes into the "marriage pot" and your wife would be able to hit this the same as the rest of your finances.

Best advice, talk to a lawyer and an accountant. ;)
World population will likely grow until there isn't enough to feed the world by any method. So the less toxic, time-tested method should continue to provide an alternative.

Have you thought about the method which this ceiling will impose itself?
Very short-sighted. You need confidence as a sales person so that you avoid wasting your time when the customer is not going to buy but if you "manipulate" someone into buying something that is not useful for them, then go back to sell to them again...
There remains considerable controversy over whether nanotech/GMO should play a role. Currently the former is allowed, the latter is not.

Another interesting article here: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/03/16/...

I note the irony of citing Rachel Carson's Silent in the article you linked to what with her assertions debunked in subsequent years not to mention the resulting increase in deaths from malaria - at least some of which was preventable.

Additional thoughts here: http://www.reason.com/blog/show/122504.html
I've been trying to get through a book a week recently, and not quite succeeding. Here's the three I'm going through right now (no affiliate links):

Arabian Nights, Hussain Haddawy's translation. Hilarious and many life lessons, strongly recommended. http://www.amazon.com/Arabian-Nights-New-Deluxe/dp/039333166...

Healthy at 100, John Robbins. Just started, looks promising. http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-100-Scientifically-Healthiest-...

The Psychology of Self Esteem, Nathaniel Branden. Gosh, Branden's so smart, I just wish he'd use smaller words and sentences so I could get his general ideas faster. http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Self-Esteem-Revolutionary-A...

I just gave up on "Execution" by Larry Bossidy, it seems good but I wasn't connecting with it right now.

I read "Katsuno's Revenge and Other Tales of the Samurai" recently, which was a good, short book. It's like 120 pages, with six stories or so. A few of them were interesting, a few didn't speak to me, but overall worth a read. You'll learn some underpinnings of Japanese culture from it. (Also, it's only $9 on Amazon right now, can just add to cart for next order) - http://www.amazon.com/Katsunos-Revenge-Other-Tales-Samurai/d...

Finished "The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan" recently - very interesting, it's a look at the more political machinations and presents a dirtier, less ethical picture of the great strategists in the Sengoku era. http://www.amazon.com/Samurai-Banner-Classics-Japanese-Liter...

Don't start with it if you're not familiar with the era, though, you'll get the general sense wrong. I'd recommend start with Eiji Yoshikawa if you like Japanese history and want to learn more - of course, start with "Musashi", which is fantastic. If you really like it, "Taiko" is good too.

Musashi (my favorite book, huge for people who have lots of potential and are having a hard time dealing with people close to them because of it) - http://www.amazon.com/Musashi-Eiji-Yoshikawa/dp/4770019572/r...

Taiko (start with Musashi, if you like it a lot, pick up Taiko) - http://www.amazon.com/Taiko-Eiji-Yoshikawa/dp/4770026099/ref...

Also, finished The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing which is the best business book I've read in a long time. Short, simple, to the point. Highly recommended. http://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Marketing-Violate/dp...
Turns out CS4 is the Snow Leopard Problem Child
A forum thread documenting common, repeatable bugs in Adobe Photoshop CS4 running in Snow Leopard. If you need to use Photoshop, DON'T UPGRADE YET!
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Interesting, but not too surprising. How is this going to help you in the recommendations business?
There is no objective good. If propagandistic violence towards women increases the overall birth rate, then it may well be a practical, Darwinian good.
The "we" line is used all over the place for web design shops. My question is does it become valid if you regularly use sub-contractors and/or interns?

I recently did a video interview with an Icelandic freelance web designer and just posted a small excerpt, of which the main topic was honesty and authenticity in business (he spoke specifically of the "we" talk).

Worth a look: http://www.designlitm.us/articles/honesty_and_authenticity/
There are a lot of sorts of number that we're running. This was just one of the things that I was curious about today. There's a lot of data available in the US Economic Census breaking down business by size and I wanted to figure out which sectors I might be ignoring in our analysis.

Often when I do stuff like this I like to post it somewhere so that it gets picked up by Google and can save someone else the time later on should it be useful.
Caleb (the author) here. That is a weak sentence for sure. My point here was that there are many sources of data, and not all are massive and easily understood by machines. But for those sources that are, algorithms provide the opportunity to make meaning out of the massive data.
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Second Treatise of Government - Locke
On Liberty - Mill
The Communist Manifesto - Marx & Engels
Eros & Civilization - Marcuse
Civilization and Its Discontents - Freud
The Road To Serfdom - Hayak
Milestones - Qutb
> What's up with all the Ayn Rand? Misogyny, xenophobia and unvarnished greed aren't exactly admirable characteristics

The big problem with Rand is that she's downright nasty to the other side. So people feel attacked and tune themselves out to her good ideas. Rand's anti-politicking, pro-individualism, pro-triumph, pro-innovation, pro-going against the grain, and so on. She rails against the very real, very nasty backroom deals that give privilege and blessing to companies who can work the political system at the expense of companies built by clueless-to-the-law engineers and scientists. She makes a heck of a lot of good points...

...but she's really nasty about it, incredibly unfriendly and unsympathetic to the motives of people who have other politics than hers. It makes it easy for people with other views to tune out everything she wrote, even though there's a lot of value in it.
what self entitlement? if anything the cause of this is neglect
John Siracusa's in-depth review of Snow Leopard on Ars Technica
Please, please, please don't let Hacker News approach the tone of reddit's front page.
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Just finished The Time Traveler's Wife... Working on GEB, and Ulysses (also a simple French reader and Le Petit Prince since I'm just learning French).

I also got a book about Ulysses to help me glean as much as possible out of this intellectual and physical monstrosity of a book.
I don't think $400 per cell phone is necessarily high. A huge portion of cell phone payments go to pay commissions to various people up and down the line. I have no hard data about this, but I sold cell phones at Radioshack for a while, and the generally accepted wisdom was that it took 12 months of a 2 year contract to pay off all of the various commissions.
Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch

The Hobbit

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill

I track my reading on Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/enkrates
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland by Philip K. Dick

Sometimes a little bit of fiction is nice over the usual technical / theory books one might read :)
The Lumiere project: The origins and science behind Microsoft’s Office Assistant
Starship Troopers.
Began and finished off 1984 after all the hubbub about it recently on HN.
How to Keep Your AWS Credentials on an EC2 Instance Securely
Seems to me that "Usage note" can be summed up as:
Often people use it wrong. This doesn't irritate most, but some people prefer the English language be used correctly.
You'd probably also be interested in the book Rogue Economics by Napoleoni. It discusses how the money from illicit activities are flowing around the world.
This is a good point, a lot of the time your unable to discuss technical concepts/ ideas/ research with the people around me the same way you can online with people who have a large depth of knowleadge in the areas that your interested.
Newegg has an autopricing algorithm that ramps the price up into the stratosphere if a lot of people are buying something. It takes a while for the price to settle back down to 'reasonable'.

Either find it elsewhere, or wait it out... Amazon has had good prices on hard drives recently. The magnetic kind; I haven't been paying attention to SSDs.
Founders At Work, On Lisp, SICP, Idoru, The Art of Racing In the Rain (Garth Stein)
Finished Amusing Ourselves to Death a week ago, now reading Cryptonomicon.
What's interesting is that Ayn Rand thought Victor Hugo was the best novelist ever. She also thought that the philosophy in Les Miserables was at odds with his "sense of life".
Sales as a profession is slightly depressing.
Is there a market for the business equivalent to "Men's Health"? Instead of "10 ways to get great abs in 5 minutes", it could be filled with similar advice for businesses.

Not that I want to deride the advice - I guess some things one just needs to hear over and over again, until they finally sink in...
Well, he did follow it up with Zoe's Tale, a fourth book. And there's also Jane's Diary or some other book that is tangentially related to the main trilogy.
I've got an idea.

I'll kill msboxnl.dll - it's just living in the system32 dir - and REPLACE it with some harmless dll!

Anyone got any ideas on what harmless dll to use?
Is it me, or does this news have very little to do with being a hacker and much more to do with being a money-grubbing entrepreneur?
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They are pretty surprisingly hard to get. At the beginning of the summer I tried to buy, I think, 20 drives, to upgrade all the developers to SSDs and I remember being surprised that I cleared out Amazon AND NewEgg completely to get the drives I needed.
Tangent: Scubadiving is not so expensive. You can get your open water license for a few hundred dollars, and go out diving for a day for $50 including renting all gear, wetsuit, etc. I mean, it's not really cheap, but it's not much more expensive than going out to the bar drinking, or even to dinner and a movie. And it's one of the most enjoyable, transcendent experiences on Earth. Buoyancy over the ocean floor, with clear visibility in warm water, and a school of brilliant colored fish swimming around you - it's better than sex. And it's not so expensive, really. It just scares a lot of people that didn't grow up "upper class", the way tennis, golf, etc. scare people. You need someone to introduce you to it, and you'll be in love. I do my best thinking underwater. It's that good.
Making of the Atomic Bomb
>I guess great people fall so much in love with their great ideas that it never occurs to them that the most important piece is finding the boundaries for where their work applies and where it does not.

Well said.

I think many ("normal") people would benefit from listening to this, but more importantly, by practicing it.
And as the editorial in the title is not straightforwardly implied by that line, we can confirm that the headline was crafted to provoke outrage.
This would be interesting if it aggregated a lot of sites across segments.

Maybe there is only one Music site in the top 100, but the aggregate for Music may well be much higher. That is, what's the aggregate for each segment, what's the average and the stddev.

From this you'd see what segments are more fragmented than others -- i.e. there might only be two "Auction" sites because eBay has it sewn up. There might be only one music site, because there are 1,000s of music sites and nobody's dominated.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1704650/index.html
Yes, Rachel Carson has been thoroughly debunked. But I'm more interested in the University of Michigan studies cited in the article I linked.
It's fixed now. Sorry about that.
I've known three types of sales person.

The first is perhaps the most obvious: Mercedes, slicked back hair, always on the phone. They work by having a kind of primal desire to win: they never stop, they keep calling, they play hard, they give 100%. It's distasteful, but if I had to get 100M in sales, these are the people I'd try to attract. I've heard them called "lions". You need these if you're trying to win big contracts against competitors, because they can go from no foot in the door to a contract by sheer persistence.

The second is I think (hope?) more common in tech. Smart, fairly technically inclined, and long-term thinkers. They don't come off as slimy, but they do somehow remember your name. These people keep clients by learning requirements, keeping track of them, keeping relationships warm, and keeping the tech/product people loosely coupled with the customers. You need these if you're a tools company, because you live by long-term customers.

The third is more subtle, and I've only met one. This is the technically minded, completely non-conniving leader. By apparently completely honest, clear technical dialog with customers they build trust and confidence, which are the root of sales. It just happens that it's genuine. This works really well, but you sure can't fake it.
I just finished The Brothers Karamazov. It was excellent.
Lots of people, even in their teens, but certainly by their early 20s, take almost a scientific interest in "clothes and carriage". These are the sorts of people who become business majors and read Maxim.

Examples of the kinds of things they talk, think, and work on quite deliberately (I am not making any of this up):

- How high should you hold your drink? (Correct answer: A little above waist high, somewhat at your side.)

- Details about ties, suits, shoes, shirts, pants, accessories, etc. The exact social niche that each possible choice puts you in.

- Should you ever apologize, even when you've done something wrong? (No consensus here, but a surprisingly large contingent say "no".)

- Exactly how to position your feet when standing casually, in order to demonstrate high status. (Sort of an L shape.)

- Which hole in your belt at which to place the buckle. (Correct answer: the third hole.)

As Paul Graham pointed out, most people spend pretty much all their time thinking about and practicing these things. Women work on this stuff much more than men, and they tend to notice your skill level at those social games very acutely. It might look like that stuff happens unconsciously, but it doesn't. It's practiced, discussed, refined quite deliberately.

It makes me think of programmers thinking about small things like how to name variable names (e.g. name arrays with a plural), when to use aggregation or inheritance, etc. You keep refining every little detail of a skill every day, and two things happen after a while: you get really good, and you can size up someone else's skill level very quickly and accurately.
This may be nit picking, but FarmTown hardly invented the social farm game. The genre has been popular in China for a while now.

http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/08/04/five-minutes-ada...

Also, it's not like FarmTown is getting destroyed in the marketplace after it's been cloned - they're still the third most popular game on Facebook with 18 million monthly active users (behind FarmVille and Mafia Wars).

http://appdata.com/
GHC commentary: architecture documents for Haskell's flagship compiler
Oops. I just thought it was an amusing anecdote, but this isn't a constructive direction.
* The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It :: by Jonathan Zittrain

* The Elementary Particles :: by Michel Houellebecq
The Almost Hopeless Challenge Of Web Security :)
YCs founders are hardly representative of founders as a whole...not many people over the age of 30 are willing or able to put themselves in a position where they can start a company with $20k.

http://www.kauffman.org/Details.aspx?id=1784
Why would someone use OpenDNS on a per-PC basis? I must be missing something.
Ask YC: valuating IP of old software games
Hi all,

How would one go about valuating the source to a game like Blizzard's StarCraft? I don't mean the brand or trademarks, but the game itself - the strategy, balance of the races, etc.

Is it protected under copyright law? If one were to clone the game-play (but not the graphics, unit names, etc), would it violate Blizzard's IP?
Good question. I would be interested to know if there's a correlation between startups who stuck to their ideas, and startups who failed
Pass the lubricant
Ask HN: What to put on a resume for a start up. 
Hypothetical situation: You're the founder/CEO of a start up, you're rapidly growing and now you're looking for an employee to fill a customer development role. As it`s an important role, what are you looking for on a resume of the ideal applicant? I am sure there is no cookie cutter answer to this question, so I am searching for skill/trait generalizations.
Yeah, I can second that, having been born and spent part of my childhood in the USSR.

The medicine was neither on the forefront of high technology nor equally distributed nor ideal, but the preventive tactics and the highly rigourous, fundamentals-oriented education of the doctors more than made up for it.

It's the same idea as Eastern Bloc polytechnic institutes; why do you think 15 of the 16 bank / capital crime hackers wanted by the FBI are ex-Soviet? It's certainly not because they had access to the latest and greatest Western commercial gear at any point in their education or experience. It turns out that it doesn't matter; the focus was on strong mathematics, computational theory and machine processing. They understand what a buffer overflow is and how to effect one easier, better and faster than their more empirically trained counterparts.

We have a family doctor in his 80s now who still practices medicine in what's left of the state system in Russia. After my parents get frustrated with yet another round with pointless paper-shuffling bureaucrats practising defensive medicine, with their army of office assistants, nurses, medical billing consultants and transcriptionists, they
unfailingly call him for good advice - and it works.
Ah, not for free, no. Good call :)
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I'm also finishing Atlas Shrugged finally this week, having just finished The Fountainhead. Next on my list is Anthem, then I think I'll go back to some non-fiction for the next couple books... like Outliers and Capital and Freedom.
It's split onto 23 pages? Uh, wow.
You are very right with that !, I have a friend who is working on his product and sometimes he asks me to come over and hack with him. If i know what it is im going to hack and its more typing then actual thinking or problem solving i may come but if i need to do some serious work i never take him up on the offer.

Reason is, it is about locking yourself up, getting through alot of the problems on your own and working on the next one. The minute you have someone there (even if they are coding as well) and when your task is not integrating it becomes more of a distraction having someone there.

For me, youtube, hacker news and sydney morning herald get me through my lonliness when im hacking away, also the odd trip to subway to get myself a sandwich and the lady at the counter :)
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight by David A. Mindell

Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers by Justin Seitz
Just because it was created for PBS I don't think it's fair to say it was created via government intervention. They get roughly a third of their funding from the state, a third from the private sector and a third through public pledges. It's not like the government has any direct impact on the show.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

and

The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
Windows Exploit Programming Primer [2 hr video]
Computational Pharmacokinetics by Anders Källén

Secrets of Consulting by Gerald Weinberg

Le Ton Beau de Marot by Douglas Hofstadter

Born to Win by Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward
Focusing on problems that impact lots of people does not make Google Microsoft. Google is still innovating quickly -- see pubsubhub, chrome, wave, android, maps, gmail, etc.

You can argue that Google's products lack the personality of startups, or that Google hasn't excelled in social applications, but taking a quote, bringing up successful startups, and then saying -- i heard that at microsoft therefore google is microsoft -- is absurd.
This is one reason being on a campus can help.

Then again, that has its own challenges. I've tried to work with several different uni friends in last few months and it's astonishing how many things they have calling their attention leaving little to no time for the start-up.

What I do is lock myself deep inside a little library cubicle. Then when I need some fresh air, I chill out by the student union. Talk to buds. And return to work. It really helps that my product is hyper-focused for the college market.
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I think the your second paragraph answers your first. In economics this tends to be called transaction costs, though I think that is typical economists avoidance of ever dealing with mess.

Standardised contracts allow buyers & sellers to compare, potential deals or other deals in their area.

A restaurant owner may not have trained his mind to value options or futures. He almost certainly can't see through the legalese. Besides the direct cost of having this explained to him by a lawyer (times how many contracts he has reviewed), I don't think it is preferable to hand over decision making power to a lawyer. They tend to undervalue upside.

Short answer: It's simpler.
Well, it's probably the cheapest way to drive adoption. It isn't just web developers who want the change.