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"Meet Your Happy Chemicals: Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin" by Loretta Graziano Breuning

http://www.amazon.com/Meet-Your-Happy-Chemicals-Endorphin/dp...

I was curious how this works, so I followed instructions from a reply below to retrieve an 'authentic' WHOIS reply for the real domain: use 'WHOIS domain apple.com'. However, this led to another 'spoofed' result [1].

From what I gather [2], WHOIS often matches sub-domains before top-level-domains, making it easy for someone to create a sub-domain such as 'microsoft.foobar.com' with false records that will populate before the actual domain.

It seems that using the following WHOIS query returns registrar information for Microsoft.com, though it requires sifting through the 'spoofed' results: 'WHOIS =Microsoft.com' [3]. You'll have to wade to the bottom of the results.

[1] MICROSOFT.COM.ARE.GODDAMN.PIGFUCKERS.NET.NS-NOT-IN-SERVICE.COM MICROSOFT.COM.CAN.GO.FUCK.ITSELF.AT.SECZY.COM MICROSOFT.COM.EENGURRA.COM MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.A.PRESENT.COMING.FROM.HUGHESMISSILES.COM MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.MESS.TIMPORTER.CO.UK MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.STEAMING.HEAP.OF.FUCKING-BULLSHIT.NET MICROSOFT.COM.IS.IN.BED.WITH.CURTYV.COM MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NICE.WHEN.TOASTED.COMKAL.NET MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.YEPPA.ORG MICROSOFT.COM.LIVES.AT.SHAUNEWING.COM MICROSOFT.COM.LOVES.ME.KOSMAL.NET MICROSOFT.COM.MAKES.RICKARD.DRINK.SAMBUCA.0800CARRENTAL.COM MICROSOFT.COM.MATCHES.THIS.STRING.AT.KEYSIGNERS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.RAWKZ.MUH.WERLD.MENTALFLOSS.CA MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.COM MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.INSTALL-GENTOO.NET MICROSOFT.COM.SOFTWARE.IS.NOT.USED.AT.REG.RU MICROSOFT.COM.WAREZ.AT.TOPLIST.GULLI.COM MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.SLAPPED.IN.THE.FACE.BY.MY.BLUE.VEINED.SPANNER.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZ.IS.0WNED.AND.HAX0RED.BY.SUB7.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZ.MORE.DETAILS.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZ.LOLLERSKATES.RENDRAG.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.IM.ELITE.WANNABE.TOO.WWW.PLUS613.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.LOLLERSKATES.RENDRAG.NET MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.IS.A.GREAT.COMPANY.ITREBAL.COM MICROSOFT.COM

[2] http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/6D00L0K00G.html

[3] Domain Name: MICROSOFT.COM Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC. Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 292 Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com Name Server: NS1.MSFT.NET Name Server: NS2.MSFT.NET Name Server: NS3.MSFT.NET Name Server: NS4.MSFT.NET

Also, I enjoyed the author's previous – and first – post: Small-Batch Blogging [1].

[1] http://pathsensitive.blogspot.com/2015/05/i-like-doing-thing...

While I agree with some of the author's points, such as considering your tolerance/appetite for working within a chaotic environment before joining a startup, the article seems less about deciding whether to take a startup job and more about why one should choose to work at an agency instead of in-house for their first role.

>4. You need to be going wider than deep right now.

The author's argument is roughly that working a at a startup is limiting because you will work only a single problem because a startup is focused on solving only a single problem.

I disagree.

1. A company that seeks to solve a single problem is a company that has focus; I would argue that many startups lack focus. Many startups do not know the specific problem that they are solving nor for whom. Much time is spent on product/market fit. So, I disagree with the premise that startups are solving for a single problem. Successful ones do, yes, and that brings me to (2).

2. The idea that you will work more broadly at a successful, time-tested company than you would at a startup does not seem accurate. Startups are known for allowing people to wear many hats for a reason (because they often require people to wear many hats). For individual contributors, roles at a Fortune 50 company will be far more specialized – and opportunities to join projects even slightly outside your domain of expertise will be far less prevalent.

This is why I think the argument is really about in-house vs. agency work. Agency work will teach you their methods and provide you with exposure to a range of clients and industries, sure.

3. The premise that because your startup is focused on solving a single problem, you will not get to work on a variety of problems or get to 'try different things' makes me scratch my head... If only solving a problem were that simple, that efficient!

What does this say for the GMAT? The test has two categories: verbal and quantitative. 35% of Verbal questions fall into a category called 'Sentence Correction', which test grammar. Many correct answers to these questions are hotly-debated and often in contradiction to current style guides.

Perhaps, there is some value in segmenting test-takers in their ability to learn and apply an arbitrary set of rules in place of their own. But, perhaps not.

I've found CBTI for Insomnia[0], an asynchronous 'course', to be helpful in improving my sleep. Of note, some elements of the program – particularly the metrics/habits that are most important to improving sleep – were not factors I had previously focused on or considered really.

I'm 3 weeks into the program and this is the first time I've been even remotely successful at improving my sleep.

I sound like an advertisement.

[0] http://www.cbtforinsomnia.com/

> "Too much text/instructions"

I disagree that too many characters or too much instruction is a sign of a bad interface.

For users trying to complete their desired task, an interface lacking instruction/explanation will often cause lower task completion rates and longer average task completion times than an interface with verbose instructions. This is especially true for new users.

Don't get me wrong: I dislike wordiness and consider myself an advocate for simplicity, minimalism, and concision – and that might be the author's sentiment. However, while bloated instruction may hinder task completion and user engagement, incomplete instruction will prevent it.

I believe more useful measures of good instruction are when it is presented, where it is presented, and how well it is understood by users.

For example, a well-designed mobile app avoids a text-heavy interface by disclosing the appropriate amount of instruction at the appropriate time. Limited screen real estate happens to be a handy constraint in this case, and transfers more instruction responsibility onto a well-designed onboarding wizard. That wizard will really only get one shot to educate users, usher them to their 'aha' moment as quickly as possible, and hold their hand through the few actions that strongly influence successful user engagement and retention.

Anything comparable out there for iOS?

I used similar materials, and I found The Foreign Services Institute's course workbooks (1989) [0] as a helpful supplement for learning Spanish – and they have courses for 37 other languages, all free (PDFs and MP3s).

They courses were intended for international diplomats preparing for exams or relocation that require (at the least) conversational proficiency in their destination's local language. So, you learn the basics as quickly as possible without compromising understanding for rote memorization.

[0] http://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/

Assuming your question is not rhetorical, do you mean 'why is this on the front page of Hacker News', or 'why is this on Hacker News?'

If your question is the former, and thus regarding rank, then there are a few resources from where you could begin pursuing an answer to your inquiry [0].

If your question is the latter, Hacker News has clear guidelines [1]. When I find something is not immediately of interest to me, I like to pause thinking about myself for a moment and ask myself, 'would this be of interest to others in the community?'

Further, based on the recency of the post and upvotes, the answer to that question is 'yes, there are some numbers of 'hackers' or Hacker News readers who find this article interesting.'

[0] http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

While I find PowerPoint cumbersome to use and strongly dislike the idea of wasting time aligning and realigning elements arbitrarily, I think the larger problem isn't due to the software itself but that it's overused and often the wrong tool for the job at hand.

Presentations are not substitutes for documents.

At a workshop on presenting information, Edward Tufte introduced the idea of beginning meetings with a high-resolution transfer in the form of a printed document. In short, you prepare a document in advance, print a copy for each attendee, share it at the beginning of the meeting, and give people plenty of time to read and digest the information.

The benefits: -each person can read and learn according to their cognitive style and at their rate of consumption. -time spent taking notes is converted to time spent thinking and analyzing -information can be communicated much, much more quickly than it would be through oration and a deck

>People don't want a "personalized local search engine" because there aren't millions of restaurants and bars around where they're at right now. It's just not that big of a problem to find a place to eat and yes, while they do an ok job helping out if you are looking for that, so does Yelp.

Hm, I would wager that there is a considerable population of people who would want - and use - a personalized, local search engine, so long as it lived up to its promise.

Second, people have preferences. My hunch is that people's criteria for finding a restaurant are more nuanced than simply '[finding] a place to eat', or a place that serves food. They may want to find a place with Thai food that's affordable, or an American restaurant with vegan options that rarely has a wait, or a pizza place open at 11pm within walking distance of the job they're walking home from.

Last, there are 26,000 restaurants in New York City. For people living in metropolitan areas, there are many options from which to choose. Fortunate people are not living in survival mode or using apps to seek minimum means of shelter (nod to Maslow and his hierarchy). The drivers in decision-making are more complex and could be a careful balance of any number of factors, such as convenience, speed, cost, acceptance, mood and so on.

Add in entertainment, parks, museums, music venues, activities, and so forth - and personalized local search becomes increasingly valuable. If Foursquare can accomplish its goal and distill the signal from the noise, save people time, and allow them to have delightful experiences, then I would want it, and use it.

Other people might, too, but I can't speak for them.

For those unfamiliar with UTM:

Urchin Tracking Module was an analytics package that Google acquired way back when.

UTM defines a set of query parameters that Google Analytics, and other web analytics platforms, use to capture and provide and information about a referring source (or 'channel') to a webpage. At the highest-level, the buckets are direct, organic, referrer, social, email, display, and paid search.

The three UTM parameters that are required to track 'campaigns' in a web analytics tool, such as Google Analytics:, are Utm_Source, Utm_Medium, and Utm_Campaign.

Example: http://stilldrinking.org/utms/utm-mangler.html?utm_medium=so...

If you clicked on the link above, it would inform stilldrinking.org's Google Analytics property that you, the visitor, came from Facebook and are part of the 'jan-15-hn-woop-woop' campaign.

I used 'but' to call attention to the group conducting the research as I feel that's important for context and full disclosure when referencing a study. My intention was not to discredit the research or Amnesty International.

The headline is a bit misleading. Less than 6% of favelas are occupied by police. Specifically, only ~40 of the 750+ favelas in Rio were selected to receive 'Pacifying Police Units' (UPPs).

The UPP project began in 2008 and - from my conversations with several people living in favelas - was part of a larger effort to improve living conditions, which it has to an extent; some favelas now have basic sewage systems, for example. However, the police presence was seen as ineffective and the project disingenuous in that it was inspired by the desire to make Rio a stronger attraction to tourists during the World Cup rather than by the concern for the welfare of people living in favelas.

Additionally, the relationship between law enforcement and residents was also quite crooked. The Guardian reports that "80% of Brazilians are afraid of being tortured by their own police force," but the study was conducted by Amnesty International. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/18/brazil-...

Last, I can't imagine policing in favelas to be an easy job. When I visited a pacified favela, the police unit walls were lined (50+) with large bullet holes.

"We all line up in expectation of hordes of customers. Six on one side of the store, six on the other side, pallbearers of an invisible casket." Lol.

Next chapter: an interview with Paul's sandals, please.

Hazel seems like a more robust solution, and it also allows you to set rules beyond just the 'Downloads' folder.

Hard to read; hard to sort; false, non-intuitive affordances; way too many font styles/colors; and lots of bugs: * headings overlapping text * half-visible tables * 'pause experiment' times out

"An Open Letter to the Phrase 'Having Said That.'" http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-the-phr...

'Blowing up its business model'? I enjoy hyperbole in prose. Headlines? Not so much.

These are my 'must-haves', or very close to it, and most of them are free or offer a free version.

Alfred 2 (search and a lot more)

aText (text expansion)

Adium (Chat)

Adapter (audio/video filetype conversion)

Caffeine (prevent display from dimming or sleeping)

Chrome (browser)

Colloquy (IRC client)

Dash (documentation and snippet browser)

Dashlane (password management)

Doubleplane (window resizing)

Dropbox (cloud storage)

Evernote (notes, bulky)

Firefox (browser)

F.lux (smart display brightness)

Handbrake (video transcoder)

Hazel (file/folder automation)

iTerm (terminal replacement)

Jumpcut (store and recall clipboard history)

MailMate (email)

Mou (markdown editor with live preview) Readkit (RSS reader)

Screenmailer (free, easy screencast creation and sharing)

Simplenote (notes, lean) Skype (calls)

Spark (hotkey)

Sublime Text Editor 3 (text editor)

TicToc (time tracking)

VLC (media player)

Travel, without question.

Given the usability of said company's website, Apple would be doing web users a favor acquiring that domain.

Reminds me of how professor Leonard Susskind closed a talk on his friend Richard Feynman. Instead of trying to honor him with a TED talk, which Feynman would not have enjoyed, we can best honor Feynman by 'getting as much bologna out of our sandwiches as we can.'

I admire people who challenge their own certainty.

'See, I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something, how careful you have to be about checking the experiments, how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself,' said Richard Feynman. 'I know what it means to know something and therefore, I see how they get their information and I can't believe that they know it.'

There are a number of testing tools relying on this methodology. This is useful: Evan's Awesome A/B Tools (http://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/). It includes a Chi-Squared test, sample size calculator, two sample T-test, and Poisson Means test.

error: failed to find worker for algorithm

Not very. Watch the two videos and you should be able to complete the tasks without a problem. Only snag that you may run into the common error where the first form HTTP and the second form is HTTPS, but the workaround is listed in the instructions (complete each form individually, merge results manually).

Helpful animations on how locks work: http://toool.us/deviant/

Good presentation on types of locks and approaches to picking: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-08/Deviant_O...

And a guy who knows a ton about picking: http://deviating.net/lockpicking/slides.html

Two additional suggestions: 1. 'A Mathematician's Lament' by Paul Lockhart (http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsL...)

2. 'How to Solve It' by G. Polya (http://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-It-Mathematical-Princeton/dp...)