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I love running but is this really hacker or news-related?
For the investment of 28 minutes you get to tell people you've read the new Vaynerchuk book, and have conversations about it with your clients and potential clients. If you're not able to go out and book a few grand worth of sales this way then you're not using your social capital effectively.
I think the suicide bomber they mention in this article did that ... sort of.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10...

I am certainly afraid that this incident will have an impact on the security searches we'll be subjected to at the airport.
Agreed but someone who "recognizes" themselves as brilliant is someone who is thinking of their brilliance as something defining and unique - ie, they are exactly the people who don't understand the potential in everyone.

I'd further mention that many people unconsciously choose to not be brilliant because this allows them to fit in.
If I died, I wouldn't want my parents to have access to my Facebook page.
The trust you speak of is an illusion. Security through obscurity at best.

I would rather warn of the dangers.
I came onboard full-time after graduating in 1998 and grew
the business from about 4 million to 10 million in a year
with 0 percent of that in online sales.

Here is the passage from the book. My guess is massive advertising spending. No way to grow it that much in a single year otherwise
She makes working hard and working on the right thing seem like two exclusive things. It's not a zero-sum game. You can be working hard on the right thing perhaps?
You know, I would've thought it evident by now that it's not exactly what any thinking person expects them to say. It's sort of evident from the existence of so many:

- articles, such as: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/18/60minutes/main4675...

- blog posts, such as: http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2008/12/24/ki...

- web comics, such as the xkcd one

I don't really understand what you're trying to accomplish here, but whatever it is, you're not helping your case by stating that xkcdsucks is funnier than xkcd. Yes, the humor in xkcd might be extremely nerdy at times, but at least it's not hateful trollery.
He's got a step on me. I was academically unsuccessful and thought I was brilliant. But the truth is whether you are brilliant or not is meaningless. Only how hard you try really matters.
There is such an easy way to get around the "well, it might be a liquid bomb" problem...

Have people drink from any water bottles they're taking on board.

If someone managed to make a liquid that's simultaneously explosive and non-toxic enough to be ingested, we have bigger problems, namely ingested bombs. Heck, I can just imagine some terrorist swallowing a condom full of explosives, then lighting the detonator wires hanging from his butt.

Maybe then they would have to ban assholes on planes.
just sent you a message, and the correct email is: btown cooperative village at gmail, with dots between those words. Sorry about the typo above - it looks like I can't edit it any more.
Rome wasn't much worse off- a 20 year old would expect to hit 54.

Here's hoping for the hockey stick.

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/Life.html
It's not insulting them, it's looking at them as if they're naive because they don't know half the other guys or girls also secretly want to be the some thing. I have yet to meet anyone that's become a poet as a career choice. It doesn't pay. Only a handful of those girls ever become fashion designers. It's like looking at a little kid saying I want to be a policeman, fireman or doctor. All the little kids at 5 years old seemed to pick one of the three. You give them encouragement with a smirk and always expect things to change. The professor has the right to his opinion and to give his personal recommendation when asked. A person who has the balls to tell you you're wrong when he/she really feels that way should be respected not demonized. This should not be an earth shattering visionary destroying event if he recommends the contrary to what you want based on experience. I think the author exaggerates and throws the blame outward way too much.
I don't have a CS degree (or any degree for that matter) and have been programming professionally for 3.5-4 years, 13 total. I never interned, but I spent a lot of time as a child/HS student writing code independently and working for a few open source projects. That got my foot in the door but until recently, it was rough finding work.

Any (career?) suggestions in general? I have a strong background in CS (I made prodigious use of ocw.mit.edu), and I feel competent at a practical level.

At this point, I'm just trying to pick a particular language to master while learning something esoteric on the side.
I've seen a couple of reports that this limit was removed in the final release. Can anyone confirm this?
There are non-DND pen and paper RPGs if the wizards and warriors trope doesn't do it for you. Peter Watts pointed out Eclipse Phase[1] recently if transhumanism/singularity/horror are more your style; the PDF is legally available on various torrent aggregators if you want to try your hand without having to convince a half-dozen friends to shill out for a book.

That said I haven't actually played it yet myself, as others have pointed out getting a group of friends in different zip codes into one session is NP hard.

[1] http://www.eclipsephase.com/game
Most "industry standards" are de facto standards. We're not talking about laws here, or even open standards like C or Common Lisp. An industry standard is simply a widely-accepted practice, which is perhaps defined by the fact that it would not usually be questioned by a casual observer from that industry. Painting interior walls some shade of off-white is an industry standard. Using Python for scripting and application logic is an industry standard in the same way.
According to Zuckerberg, Facebook already had thousands or hundreds of thousands of users when they took funding, and they were funding growth with ad revenue.
More people are googling the word MySQL means it scales better?
I was part of the private beta for Fusion 3. I have had nothing but a good experience with the new version. The UI has gotten much better and it seems like it uses fewer system resources in almost every case. The 3D graphics support is phenomenal for a virtual machine (I am also a virtual machine developer).

I will definitely be upgrading (although private beta testers do get 25% off purchase/upgrade price).
Or, "Why I Use Mailman and Spam Filtering". I just talked to a list moderator about this issue yesterday, actually. It's highly annoying and some project contributors have actually posted on lists to say "Sorry, there's too much spam, I'm unsubscribing".
Yeah, your rules->formulate strategy->develop tactical plan->iterate is usually a great approach! Sadly, Go's rules are so simple it's really tough to guess what good strategies are from a reading of the rules. I think this is because so many of the strategic concepts -- power vs. influence, chasing, pincers, leaning attacks, etc., are the emergent properties of tactical features -- eyes, life & death, ko fights -- which are themselves emergent from an unbelievably simple ruleset. It's similar to looking at DNA and figuring out protein shapes. It's just CGAT, how hard could it be?

Relatedly:
So i've heard of two different ways to teach go -- the Eastern way and the Western way.

The western way is to be told the Rules, the Object, and the Strategy and Tactics that will get you there.

The eastern way (this is hearsay) is that a teacher shows you the rules -- and then leaves you to memorize 50 games in their entirety, on your own.

For someone who's done all his learning the western way, my first reaction to the eastern way was "that's stupid."

What's not said in the eastern way is that you learn in reverse. First you have to puzzle out the Tactics -- why did they do this and not this? Why did they take 10 seconds for these 5 moves and 5 minutes for this one? Then you can start to figure out the strategies and feel the flow of the game. Then, maybe -- only maybe -- can you then guess at the actual object of the game.

After memorizing 50 games, then a teacher might actually help you. How dumb! how silly! And yet, this way, the teacher already knows that the student is willing to work.

Anyway, that kind of rambled. I'm sorry you had bad teachers. There's lots of them, probably myself included. Go is really, really hard to teach. I still don't know what the object is, just how to count the score at the end...
Startup Riot 2010 Accepting Applications
Is 10 million rows really the number? I have log files on my disk that are much bigger than that, and I manage them fine with "grep". Inside a database, I would consider this amount of data "trivial".
You have control of your actions. Even if you're scared of the outcome, if you still practice despite that fear, you will improve.

When I first started training BJJ, I was indeed scared about being "stuck" in bad situations when rolling. I trained anyway. What I tell the beginners is that I'm not the most athletic or the most talented, but I've trained regularly for years. In fact, I feel that I'm actually a slow learner in jiu-jitsu. Showing up to practice despite my fears is why I've learned what I have.

I don't like being controlled by fears, so I find I'm drawn to the activities that scare me. The standup portion of fighting - boxing and muay-thai - scare me. I'm not good at it. But when my jiu-jitsu training partners spar, I spar too. I'm scared, but I don't like backing down because of that fear.
one of the stronger players i know did this -- he just played blitz with a 7d over and over and over in a coffeeshop, didn't ask many questions but just imitated first & drew conclusions second.
Google code is something like once a month in read-only for network maintenance, I really wonder what they do in the downtime.
seems like the only people making money off social media are the "experts" who sell the hype to other people.
Comparing freedom on mobile linux:Nokia's Maemo & Google's Android
I've used Arachnophilia. Its a great editor. Was one of the first source code editors when I started moving away from the basic M$ editors :)
This isn't a good option either. It would be possible to have a bottle that was lined in such a way as to have drinking water and an explosive in the same container. Or, perhaps the explosive is denser than water and non-polar... if this is the case, you could add enough water to make it drinkable, and still have the explosive available.
I agree. Maddeningly slow.

Pity we can't all chip in a few bucks to test the upgrade.
I'm curious about your opinion on this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7536167.stm
I feel like TSA must know they're running a security theater operation, and this post was to defuse (no pun intended) any public concern about laptop batteries so they don't have to go and ban them too...
AlphaLab Applications Due October 30th
AlphaLab - a program similar to YCombinator, but located in Pittsburgh - accepts applications up until this Friday (which is after the YCombinator deadline....) (www.alphalab.org)
It's like the people who audition for american idol. They secretly feel they can sing at the highest but only a handful of them are good at singing. If they knew there's a huge amount of people that think they're geniuses at singing and actually suck they'll more carefully re-evaluate themselves.
Turns out there's a huge amount of people that got CS majors just because they felt it fitting after spending half their life on the computer playing games. Programmers that don't have side projects and don't do it for fun will be way inferior to those who do.
I got so tired of this problem I created my own service:

http://www.ectofeed.com/

It takes a bit to set up the filters, but once you do it gets rid of all kinds of junk. I've experimented with the services that claim to be able to watch what you read/mark/save and cater your feeds accordingly, and have found them to be greatly lacking. I just don't think we're there yet in terms of what AI and similar technologies are capable of.

Anyway, you're welcome to give it a try. Feedback is always appreciated.
Startup Riot is hitting its third year in 2010. It is absolutely not a pay to pitch event and has never been - selected presenting entrepreneurs pay NOTHING to present. They also don't pay for a booth or anything else other than their own travel costs. In addition, I'm putting together a travel assistance fund to help entrerpeneurs that need money to pay to come to the event. All startups regardless of stage or need are welcome to apply. The only ones that aren't are services 'startups' with zero innovation (think startup law or accounting firms or consulting practices).
I can't find anywhere on the website that states where (geographically) this actually takes place.
I think this article roots to the kids narcissism - just because you have an high IQ, does not mean you will become somewhat more important, more powerful or more successful than "Joe the plumber". Let me ask you this: Was Godel happy? Was Alan Turing happy? Even though they both were brilliant and had academic success, still - their personal lives was pretty much a sad state of affairs, and depression characterized their lives. Brilliance and success is not happiness. You are 20 (!) - I was around 25 before I found my academic passion, which by that gave me a inner calm. I wish you the best of luck. But to expect every piece to fall at place at the age of 20 is plain naive, actually a bit provoking. In addition to the large tasks here in life (like education and career) the small enjoyments like coffee in the morning, listening to the birds, getting a proper workout - is what keeps you smiling, or at least, it's what makes my day swell.
Evidence Points To Conscious 'Metacognition' In Some Nonhuman Animals: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830430
whoops! sorry - Atlanta, Georgia. Will fix right now.
What free market? Intellectual "property" IS a government-given monopoly.
I'd avoid using the terms "bombs" or "explosives" anywhere within earshot of airport security. Maybe if you use "Richard Reid", most of the TSA employees probably don't know who that is.
YC: Help, I quit my job, now I cannot get Apple to pay me out for iPhone Apps
Hi HN,

(Text below is pretty long, forgive me)

I'm a long-time user, you may know me on this site, but I'll use this brand new account because I don't want this story to be public yet.

I registered an iPhone developer account about a year ago (a company account, with an English Ltd). I started with one small app, made $30 in the first month, then $90, then $700, $1000, $2500, $3000, then $3500.

Good income, right? Problem is, I have never seen a penny of it. When I signed up, I made a mistake. I had registered as a company, but I gave my personal bank account. There was a field to enter the account information, it went through a verification process of a few days, and came back alright.

At the point I made $2500, I quit my job. Things were looking good. A few days later, Apple wrote me an email saying that they tried to pay me and it did not go through.

After a series of emails, it turned out that even though Apple lets you specify the Account holder name, they do not send to that account name! They send to the company name. My bank of course rejected this transfer from Apple.

So I tried to make a bank account in England. I could not because I don't live in England! I decided to change the company to a company in my home country, and the bank as well.

This process took well over 3 months to do. Apple would take weeks to reply emails, and I had to send a letter to Steve Jobs and some other random high-ups at Apple before some head of department suddenly appeared on the scene, and got the issue resolved in a couple of weeks.

At this point, my savings had dried up (yes, I did not have a lot), and I had to borrow money to live. Apple would always say that they were shortly about to resolve the issue, I just had to sign this or that or fax to this number this document. It kept dragging on, till finally, last week on friday, it was over! Company name was changed, bank account was changed.

Apple issued me a payment file for $11.000, the amount they are owing me. I checked my bank account several times. Nothing.

Then I wrote an email, asking why I had not received the money. They wrote back saying that all income was still associated with the old bank account because it was earned by that account, and that they could not transfer the money to the new account. They had sent the money to the very same account I had started the process with!

Now, in spite of earning $450 on saturday, $400 on sunday with my iPhone apps, I am broke and don't even have enough on my bank account to pay my rent.

I feel like I'm an ant trying to break down the great wall of china - HN, What can I do? Who can I email to solve this problem for me? Before going public with this, what can I do? How do I make them reconfigure whatever Oracle payment system is preventing them from just transfering the money to the correct account?

What steps can I still take here?
What a strange idea. It saves a few keystrokes, but at the cost of creating some rather gnarly-looking expressions.
Hurray for Bluetooth API and multitouch support.
When asked them what they want to become, a number of nerdy boys I know (cousins, nephews, etc.) have answered "I want to make video games!". Knowing that it is a competitive subfield of an already-competitive IT industry, I always encouraged them to look for alternatives.

The guy should get a physical. He may have low thyroid, anemia, etc. The cure may be as simple as taking an iron tablet occasionally.
But is there any way to set the "very magic" option in your .vimrc so you don't have to type \v every time you want to avoid a barrage of backslashes?
I think the EU has an obligation to its citizens to not extradite them to a country that is known to treat non-citizens accused of a crime unfairly. Gitmo is a very rare case, but it is a track record that makes us (the US) look bad. The US is also less likely to care what happens to this guy, since nobody that cares about him can vote here. There is no incentive to treat him fairly, and the EU should take that into account before handing him over. (I know this isn't the first extradition ever. But this guy did not really do anything that bad, and he is facing extremely harsh penalties in a country with a third-world prison system.)

As a US citizen, I would rather be tried in the US than in France or Italy. I hope my government would consider the prison conditions there before extraditing me, especially if I didn't do anything particularly harmful to society. I am glad that this guy's government is doing that for him. (And I'm glad that the EU regulations force them to do so.)

On the other hand, if I ever feel like going on a killing spree, I am totally going to do it in Sweden or Norway. Please extradite me.
In addition to useful special characters in search pattern matching, vim can also do some excellent stuff in the second phrase of its substitution statements, as documented in sub-replace-special: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/change.html#sub-replac...

I find \U, \L and \E to be most useful, for example:

:%s/ALL_CAPS_\(.*\)_HUZZAH/SOME_LOWERCASE_\L\1\E_HUZZAH/g

Will translate "ALL_CAPS_IS_GREAT_HUZZAH" to "SOME_LOWERCASE_is_great_HUZZAH". Super handy in certain situations.

It's also worth noting that these "magic" settings affect :s, :g, / and ?.
Geocities is now closed, the crawler is reporting 410s for lots of urls. RIP
I would prefer the electric chair to 60 years in a US federal prison.
I'll let you know when I'm on a computer that can watch that.

What's your opinion of explosives experts who found the actual plot and chemicals to be used completely ridiculous?
Ah - I see, fair enough. Thanks.
Proof MBAs Are Overrated, by 20 People Smarter and Richer than Your Professors
You can get a large amount of almost any liquid onto a plane in your carry-on so long as the label is somewhat official-looking and identifies the contents as being medical supplies. Get one of those contact lens caddies and pack it with a 12oz bottle of ReNu and see what happens at the TSA checkpoint. They'll likely just set it aside. If not, you're only out $5 or something. That ReNu bottle could be full of nitroglycerin or kerosene and they'd never know.
I believe there is no "very magic" nor "very nomagic" option, because the "magic" option itself is assumed to be binary by legacy vi scripts, which Mr. Moolenaar does not want to break. Also, either of those would wreck functionality on a lot of existing scripts, which make assumptions about the environment's level of magic.

I had a period of time where I reflexively typed \V or \v before everything, but really, I think it's worth it to just get used to remembering which characters need to be escaped in magic mode.
Well said. Most problems are actually people problems. Like other problems having awareness of their nature can help you sort them out when you're in them and occasionally avoid them before they happen.

The biggest lesson I got from this type of thinking is that people are surprisingly predictable. I don't know where to draw the line between recognizing behavioral cues and patterns and manipulating people but at the least being aware of the potential should help you avoid being manipulated yourself.
Reserved TLD's
History is written by the victors, and they will always exaggerate. More, Shakespeare was writing for the Hollywood of his day, and who would trust Hollywood for historical accuracy? Consider "Pearl Harbor", "Enigma", "A Beautiful Mind", or the worst, "U-571". Each of these is an absolute travesty, defended as "It's only entertainment!"

How can you trust Shakespeare to tell the truth about odds of 5 to 1? Why is it a surprise that it was closer to even?
Good stuff. Giving a booth/table to each presenter at an event that doesn't charge startups to present is a truly class act.

I am sure the audience prize will make it more exciting too.
You could also have a hidden bladder of fluid inside most anything. That'd make much more sense than trying to hide fluid in a portion of a fluid container.
I actually love this book. History and strategy. You use the tricks that suit your personality. And become aware of the rest.

I can't compare it with Sun Tzu. Because Sun Tzu is purely metaphorical. You have to think deep to see the applications.

And Machiavelli, while a pretty good strategy book, is very instructional. I like 48 Laws of Power a lot better. Its a lot more entertaining with stories,

(Also - if you want a mindfuck, you should read The Prince by Machiavelli and The Hero by Baltasar Gracian back to back. Both have opposite lessons. But both will get you nodding your heads while you're reading it. (Baltasar Gracian apparently wrote The Hero as a response to Machiavelli.))
In the past year, I've accidentally left liquids in my bag multiple times, and every single time the scanner has spotted them. Perhaps I'm just unlucky, but the technology seems to have gotten pretty good.
Is sexual sublimation considered a valid psychological concept these days? Isn't this part of Freud's theories and isn't most of that considered defunct?
The TSA has been blogging for many months now. They don't have a "lair". We just don't like what they have to say.
I don't use them a lot too. But I suppose companies like Amazon, Barnes & Nobles probably require a lot of transaction support (otherwise their shopping carts could get really messy).