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Hey, do you have any feedback on where would be acceptable to short-stay live in Hawaii? I've had a hard time sorting out which islands/neighborhoods would be good to spend a couple months on, any input would be massively appreciated.
I'm quite certain that if you take highest quality CD-R medium (he mentions that he had used highest quality tapes), burn it carefully, and then store it away from sun, excess heat or humidity, it will last 30 years.

Wouldn't say same for the drive used though, and that's where the real problem kicks in.
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ah. try ff2 maybe? Other possibility is that what ever issue you were having has been fixed in the last five days.

Absolutely brilliant idea!
Seriously? You're hanging out at news.ycombinator.com and claiming that he should quit developing something because he doesn't have prior experience?
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Yea, I was doing freelance programming for 1.5 yrs (moving on now to work on SEO stuff==> no more clients), I moved to Buenos Aires/Brazil to geoarbitrage, made a ton of money in relative standards and lived like a king on a relatively meager US salary. This year, off to India, Thailand, Vietnam, South Africa, and Kenya. Not a bad life :)
What I find interesting is that there may be an even better way to lose weight. Let's say you run five miles. That burns around 100 Calories or 100 kcal or 4.184 x 10^3 J.

Now, consider this. Let's say that a 165 lb (72.57 kg) human male is around 100% water (this is not true, its about 60% water, but for our purposes it'll be ok). Now, since this person is made of water, we'll consider that the specific heat of a human being is about that of water, thus 4.186 J/(g.C). Now, how much energy is expended in order to raise 72.57 kg 3 Celsius degrees? Q=c.m.dt = (4186 J/(kg.C)).(72.57 kg).(3 C) = 911,334 J.

What's interesting is this: by decreasing the temperature of your thermostat by 5.4 degrees fahrenheit, you can burn more than double what you get by running 5 miles. Of course, there are other benefits to exercise, but if your only gain is to lose weight, why not take advantage of the Laws of Thermodynamics? Of course, I'm simply restating what doctors have known for years. Unless you're a world-class athlete, your diet isn't providing energy for your various activity, it's providing "living energy." This is all the energy that your body requires simply to stay alive. The proper name for this term is the "basal metabolism." It makes up far more of the average person's metabolism than anything else. Thus, by using it to your advantage, you can lose weight quicker and easier.

Edit: You can also stop shoving calories into your face, but I don't get to do math/physics with that.
I'm alive twenty five but I've still got no control.
Thanks for your comments, and I appreciate your point, but I think that it is a little too simplistic. There have been many great entrepreneurs who sold a company and then used their newfound position to go on to create even better and more important companies.

Tony Hsieh created Link Exchange in the 90s, then he sold it to Microsoft, and then turned around and created Zappos (which he recently sold to Amazon).

The paypal guys sold to eBay, and took their money to start all sorts of new ventures (off the top of my head, I can think of Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX), Max Levchin (Slide), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)

Is your suggestion that they should not have sold PayPal? Were they just "in it for the money?"

An entrepreneur who sells and has enough money not to worry, can continue to start businesses ad infinitum which puts them in a potentially better position to create "something bigger than money." If Elon Musk had stayed at PayPal, I doubt he would have started a satellite launching company as well as Tesla Motors!
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That's awesome. Thanks.
thats also part of the anything money zone, but i was placing the threshold to hit anything money at the 500k-1m zone. after that, the next important threshold is in that 2m range.
That was the problem they have had though, if they can't make any money then there is little point in their continued development work.
This depends on whether you enable people to work longer. You could keep the pool of workers larger.

Ohh, and accelerating a social security collapse or reform is a good thing.
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Yes, the candidate does have to fit in with the team. However the article mentioned that he was doing a lot of recruiting for distributed teams. Therefore the output generated would probably be worth more than how the people get along face to face.
Sowell is an extreme outlier.

Anyway, the "nature vs. nurture" argument invariable avoids a simple fact: Nature has a one-time cost, nurture has an infinitely-ongoing cost.

I mean: Even if the left is right about schools, institutions, teachers, practices, education, etc, etc, being able to equalize the differences between people, you are essentially dividing the population into two parts:

1. Those who naturally meet a standard, and

2. Those who require 500,000 dollars worth of state intervention to meet the same standard.
The real problem is thinking that IQ and reason are the same thing. Just because someone can process fast does not mean they process correctly, and the latter is the most important quality.
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It depends on what you're looking for. Oahu has all the amenities since Honolulu is a pretty big city, but there's still plenty of beautiful beaches and rural places elsewhere on the island. There's also a small but blossoming tech scene in Honolulu. If you want complete peace and quiet, then I would suggest the Big Island or Maui. The Big Island is like being in the middle of the Everglades in Florida, with a few small towns and nothing for miles. Maui is a little more suburban and cosmopolitan, but still somewhat rural since there's no big city like Oahu. While Kauai is absolutely beautiful, it's very small and far more touristy and commercialized — I'm not a big fan.

Renting out residential homes is technically illegal, at least on Oahu, but people still do it and you can still probably find tons of people renting out rooms in their homes for short-term stay on all the islands on Craigslist. On Oahu there are a lot of short-term accommodations in Waikiki, but Waikiki is very touristy, somewhat expensive, and most of the places are converted hotel rooms with no kitchens. A few centrally-located neighborhoods you might want to check that are relatively affordable are Manoa, Palolo, Kaimuki, and Makiki. Kailua and Kaneohe are also nice, but they're on the other side of the island and they're inconvenient without a car.
Huxley shows China's genetic experiment being successful, contra linked article.
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It used to be that dejanews was my first stop for just about any issue that I ran in to. Then the spammers came and flooded it, dejanews did their best but was slowly losing the battle. Then google took over and spoiled it completely.

Haven't been there in years.
I'm a little bit tired of how many blogs out there are trying to grab my attention with blustery 'ground breaking' opinions about how the iphone is actually crap or how Twitter doesn't work or how customers don't care about anything or won't pay for anything or will pay for things or how any other number of attention getting subjects that waste my time and leave me cold. I've got a ground breaking opinion I want to share with tech and marketing bloggers: If you've got nothing of substance to say, please don't post anything this week. It takes me half the article to realize you're full of hot air and there isn't enough time in the day.
"... Manila, Manila ... I keep coming back to Manila ..." back here doing startups after trying out Rangoon, Kabul and Dubai :)
Don't listen to ad hominem arguments.
You're ignoring the fact that the food industries in Europe and America are very different. When Italy has an Applebee's in each strip mall then Italians will be as fat as Americans. People are people; neither you nor Europeans are magical in their limited appetites. They simply haven't been conditioned from birth to overeat.

Or, alternatively, fat people are sissies. It's an, uh, interesting theory you've put forth. Best of luck in getting that paper published.
He got pretty upset about the "Welcome" message. It's a pleasantry.... I sincerely suggest that NOBODY ask this guy about the weather.
You can live in a shared apartment in East Palo Alto, cook all your food at home, buy a used car, and select free entertainment options. No need for drastic actions.
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I don't understand the mindset, but maybe that's because I've never actually been offered that much money (studies show that money tends to accentuate our preexisting biases). But I mean what sort of comparative outcomes could you have been looking at to make you turn down $20 million? Say the company tripled in value and you sold for $60 million...did you have plans of what you needed to do with 60 million that you could not do with 20 million?

I'm sure you've done enough beating yourself up here and I'm not trying to insult you, I'm honestly curious as to what your thought process looked like at the time. That way if I ever have the same thoughts I'll know of at least one example where they obviously weren't justified.
In the US when Camarades Inc. was still alive (Michigan) we used the address of our lawyer as well.

This was handy in several ways, the most important one that he could handle any envelopes from the various government institutions regarding taxes, reporting and so on directly.
Ask HN: Best technical kindle books
I am going to be traveling a lot in the next couple of weeks so I am looking for some new technical books for my kindle. I'm wondering what you have been reading on your kindle and what you would recommend. I just finished reading Building Scalable Websites by Cal Henderson, and Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran.

I'm open to any suggestions. I don't want to be stuck on a plane flight with nothing good to read.
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The inability to pass (some) links via twitter is the fault of twitter (or the "features" thereof), a fault that doesn't suddenly disappear because someone else provides what amounts to a workaround.
I had to write a freeciv patch for my girlfriend which adds a daily move and/or time limit to the game.

It was much appreciated, still have a couple of odd behaviours that I'd have to iron out before letting it out into the wild.
depending on what you are doing (and who you can hire, and what you can charge for your time) I think working part-time sometimes makes a lot of sense.
the quoted author is simply describing meta cognition. I think some intelligent people would be shocked to know just how infrequently most people engage in it.
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Thanks for that tip Patrick, I passed it to a friend of mine that does a fair number of these payments.
Um, reorganizing your shelf for a party? Hiding your OCD is OCD too :)
13TB of it in the last 4 years.

Haven't used it for text in many years though. I still resent Google a bit for buying Deja News and letting it die on the vine. Google could have transformed usenet into the web era. Dealing with all these random web forums lacking basic features that good news readers had 15 years ago is just a clumsy way of dealing with discussions. When possible I use RSS feeds of forums to bridge the gap. Unfortunately it's still not all that well supported or commonly disabled on many forums.
Ask HN: moving to US
Am based in India and working at the startup. Startup culture in India is lot different that in US. Efforts/Returns ratio is inadequate. Also I feel; am not the founder material yet and I no longer want to work at big firms. Its bizarre and I couldn't manage to get returns on the work I had done there despite performing well. I want to move to US to work for any of the good startups. What I need to do to achieve this? Am bit confused and onsite/H1-B job I want to do is not what most of the folks from India do at big firms there.

am sure I'll get genuine answers here. thanks for reading this.
Who are Palm harming and how? Pre end users don't see the vendor ID, so aren't being deceived. iPhone end users keep working. Apple aren't under pressure to support Palm, they can simply say the device is unsupported and to contact Palm for issues.
Quality of the content, as well as the various points made in the OP.
I've lived in China for the past 9 years and as far as I can tell everyone uses Taobao so I'd think the Taobao business is doing pretty well. Some more points as to why it's popular:

1. IM between the buyer and seller is built in. There is usually discussion and negotiation over IM before a sale.

2. Funds are held in escrow until the buyer confirms receipt. It uses Alipay - from the parent company Alibaba.
It pretty much says it all when this company's* only hope of turning a profit was getting someone to buy them. If your business plan is getting bought and leaving someone else with the bill, you have no business plan.

(*) Not entirely sure I would consider a 20 line PHP script a company.
He seems to be unaware of Apple's pricing scheme in every country other than the USA. In every country in Europe and Asia they're significantly dearer than their competitors for lower spec hardware.

Compare apple.com and apple.co.uk.
my bookshelf contains tons of books, hardcore zines and vinyl - I wouldn't have it any other way. The chance of me finishing reading a pdf/ebook of the smalltalk 80 manual from front to back including the appendix is slim to none - however order it for 3 bucks off ebay and keep it around and with in a month or so I've read the entire thing at my leisure. On top of that When people come over and I start ranting about programming I have physical implements to push my point - "look at this book!!" I almost scream as I reach for the sacred yellowed tome, "It's from the 80s and it's more relevant than 90% of everything that's come since!"

Also the chance of lending someone a book or record and having a meaningful discourse follow from that incident (during/post lending) is much greater than just saying "check out w3c" or "listen to minor threat on myspace".
Once I actually used it, even in its current buggy pre-alpha state, I realized that Wave is actually pretty cool and there are all sorts of ways in which I would prefer to use a tool like wave over a wiki, email or IM. I believe Wave has serious potential, but it's also got a long way to go.
Or you could simply not use stupid URL shorteners which have absolutely no purpose anywhere on the internet.

That one website (twitter) has a post limit of 140 characters doesn't mean we should spread the stupidity to everywhere else.
When my kid was born. That was a pretty good wake up call. I was 28 at the time and up to that point just taking whatever gig that I could get. Lots of money one part of the year, dirt poor another, it didn't really matter.

The extra responsibility helped me to focus quite nicely.
How do you figure that spending a 9 to 5 day working for someone else through your 20's and 30's NOT a total waste of your youth?

I jumped the 9 to 5 ship at 23 and never looked back.

Your world-view is absolutely baffling to me.
Funny, a little ways below is a thread about people moving out of the US in order to start a startup so they can decrease their cost of living...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=751742
I think there are simpler ways to achieve that goal.

A one line filter rule in the profile would do nicely.
Only a stubbornly dense reading of the title is a lie, like the cliched way imaginary characters like Spock or Data take statements literally.
thanks for that, I always wondered why I was never charged a paypal fee for some of the payments I got
Nothing is "absurdly" easy. No, $1000 is not an incredibly difficult monthly recurring revenue number to achieve, but to say it is "absurd" or even "easy" unless you're a marketing guru with considerable capital and resources at your disposal is preposterous.
For plenty of fora they're handy as well, then there's IRC

Another good reason to have them is to be able to spell them for somebody over a phone line.
How does Apple belong to that group? They (also) sell hardware and people pay for them. Unlike url shorteners or twitter etc..
No, it doesn't. Some are saying it's the new California due to the enormous economic influx it's attracting, and given that its government's fiscal house is comparatively in shape.
Looks well done, but seems like there ought to be audio with this (am I missing something basic?)
back in uni, engineering paper (the green with squares) was expensive so ... i made my own.

it's really simple, just fire up spreadsheet and resize the rows and cols respectively, then border them.
Twitter should really, really provide a separate field for URLs. This would solve this whole thing.

What is the point of an SMS with a shortened URL if you have no internet access? To be able to access the web page you need web access. If you have web access then you can get at the longer URL in the web interface or via Twitteriffic etc.
Think about it in more distant terms. He has explained for us why some people make a point of pride about wearing cheap plastic glasses, trucker hats, and the ugliest second-hand shirt they can find. A kind of luddite rejection of one kind of perception of the rules of the game, for a whole different set of constraining rules.
How well do tech books hold up on the Kindle? If there is code, does it display OK? I realize there is no syntax coloring, which is a major downside for me, but I guess for small amounts of code it might be OK. How about diagrams?

I imagine anything with large amounts of code won't do well in this format. Higher-level (like the OP mentioned) or software-engineering books might do a bit better (I have Mythical Man-Month in queue).
Adding a link to a chain, any chain will make a it weaker:

Either the link is as strong as all the other links then you have a new element that can fail, which is bad, or your link is weaker than the other links in the existing chain and now the whole chain is weakened to the strength of the new link.
They can't make any money because it is not a unique proposition and it does not have any obvious hooks on how you could monetize it.

Conclusion, as an independent business it has very little chance of being viable.
This is a dual edged sword. They are making a name for themselves as the high quality luxury whiskey.

But they may miss the boat on timing... and delivering the goods to folks when they want it.

Remember Walmart crushed Kmart because of their ability to master the supply chain issue and stock the goods the people wanted in the quantities they wanted when they wanted.
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Think of lightweight articles about SHA1 rewrites in order to pull the requirements of the OpenSSL libraries out of GIT as the HN version of idle gossip.

Not every article has to be serious, and of foundational importance. Some sites have pictures of funny animals. This one has Kernel Developer insight into their OCD desires to defeat the compiler from messing up their code...
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Where I work we bill fixed bid and then go hourly if there is a scope change above and beyond that. It's the best of both worlds.
I've only heard of mid to large sized companies sponsoring H1Bs, but startups rarely. Maybe they don't have time for the red tape?
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"Also, I think you're jumping way back into coder-world by talking about declarative high level languages."

Not really--"specifications" are usually understood to be expressed in declarative English, and any sort of "specification" that can be programatically translated into a program would simply be high level source code.

I'm not against writing specs, I'm simply saying "a spec that can be compiled is code".
I've got an original Kindle, not the DX. Most of the time when converting a doc, it comes out readable enough. Its not perfect, but, readable.

However, pragprog offers kindle editions of most of their books. These are all perfectly formatted for reading. And usually very useful to read.
Okay, I didn't think of the funding aspect, which would be a reason they were limited to that group, but again, regardless of why they were limited, the fact that it was a limited group still casts some doubt on the broader applicability of the study. As the PI admits, they want to study men, different ethnicities as well. But then there's also that quote where the PI suggests that everyone should be taking vitamin D.

But you bring up the point about there being no a priori reason for why it shouldn't be applicable to other groups. OK, I can understand the argument, but...

Older, post-menopausal women have higher requirements for calcium than other groups. The amount of supplementation at 1500mg is 50% higher than RDA of calcium for men. In men, if that calcium isn't going to the bone as it presumably would be in these women, then where does it go or what effect does elevated levels of calcium have?

Also, as I already stated, calcium has been found to increase prostate cancer in men. That's not obviously not going to show up in women.

Hmm...

I searched real quick. Besides studies showing increased risk of prostate cancer in men with higher calcium intake, it looks like there are studies that show calcium is not associated with total cancer in men, but increased intake is associated with lower total cancer women (as in this study).
Pretty much to the point - just do it.

Although Rupert Murdoch's already decided to do this for his arsenal of papers. In Australia it will work for the financial paper The Australian Financial Review, but we'll have to wait and see how it will work out for the rest of the 'normal' papers, including the only national paper in Australia, The Australian.

As for me, I'm going to continue to get my news primarily from the A(ustralian)BC and the BBC, both provided by taxpayer money and providing a public service with little of the advertising baggage that commercial providers come with.