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Hahaha

Please, surprise me: examine your own behavior and tell me how you act differently

The most obvious move (pun intended) would be to hire a bunch of top scientists who study emotional and social signaling.

It will be independent startups and amateur dilettantes are going to discover these technologies, because their financial interests are most aligned. So I suspect the internet marketers are going to be the ones to profit. Of course spamming is short sighted... the smart ones have yet to reveal their strategies.

Find the influential nodes on the network; cater to their interests; profit. Figure out who influences the influencers; cater to their interests; profit. Bubble all the way down. Trace the inner circles of influence until you can find cost-effective points of entry.

If anyone else is thinking similarly please get in touch...there's got to be some linear algebra to collapse this into an effective system. Or maybe it's a non-linear system. Dunno. I got to study up on Neural Networks; I prepaid my tutor for a session.

Once I read http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Economics-Routledge-Classic-Ethn... I'll do an analysis of Bitcoin.

My respect for Dorsey grows day by day. Rationale: because he's a powerful man.

Fun Rationalizations:

- New Twitter was an awful decision and represented poor judgment. Better product intuition will lead to more usage of the Twitter platform. If you wish to refute this then you must cite relative statistics of social engagement that are better proxies than growth and uniques: one challenge I invite is for someone in the know to contrast Time on Site for Facebook & clients vs. Time on Site for Twitter & clients (vs. potential engagement on Twitter platform).

- An ally of your enemy is not your friend. This move will create cultural stability and reduce confusion.

- Jack has the potential to create an incredible alliance between Twitter and Square, ushering in the new payment protocol, ready to fully embrace a technology like Bitcoin when the moment becomes appropriate.

- Twitter has potential to be the ultimate payment protocol platform because it maps exactly relations between leaders and followers. Money is a metric of social value; so is the leader/follower dichotomy ("Following" people on Twitter, ReTweeting to signal alliance [the same function as laughing], etc. [I don't really know what I'm talking about.]).

Thank you for the feedback. I forget about this.

This is interesting. Is it possible it's a truth and actually you're lying to yourself?

Is this useful up to a certain level of process-execution and then inversely useful?

Can someone please explain why this is a fantastic picture? I would like to encourage future commissioned designers to adhere to such standards

I'd like to apologize for an inappropriate, tired and not very thoughtful comment. I would like to amend it to refer to Sorkin's character of Mark Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network. Although I'd very much like to, I do not know Mark.

Mark Zuckerberg could easily become likeable within a year. He just has to make it his annual challenge; he must prioritize connecting with people (one aspect of himself) over animals (this year's challenge though another, perhaps less immediately relatable aspect of himself, though perhaps also a smarter long term strategy).

Please take this with a grain of salt because I am still working on liking myself but at this stage in my life I do identify with Mark Zuckerberg very much. I listened to him talking on a YouTube interview at the Palo Alto house in 2005 and noted an intense similarity or parallel I perceived in our body diction - particularly vocal tone.

I did not enjoy school or camp, with the exception of ACE Computer Camp.

<3 I owe so much to Learning Perl

Gonna be great for searching lyrics

How's life at Google?

Have you ever noticed how they bulk bill you for all your transactions, a few days after purchase?

Venkat's essays have helped me understand memetic grooming in a new context

I am still working at finding the right process for absorbing information and integrating it into habit.

Important edit: I recommend buying books if you can afford it. Many reasons for this. One, it's fun to receive packages in the mail. I get a rush every time I rip a package open. Two, it's good for the ego. It helps you keep perspective on how much you've been reading. Three, you can underline the books as you read them, this can be VERY helpful. Unfortunately I do not recommend loaning books to friends, you will never get them back.

Awesome! You can start by reading 1 book a week, which is an aggressive but doable goal. To some it may not sound like much but if you have not been making a habit of reading regularly, it will take you a while to get back into it. In a year you will have read 52 books. I am of the belief that compound interest is most effective when you have staggering sums of money. It is second most effective when it comes to knowledge.

Amazon will sell you books for cheap, but there are many business classics that will probably be available at the local library. I bet your local library will at least have one of these seven books:

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

{anything} by Seth Godin

Positioning by Al Ries

Getting Things Done by David Allen

21 Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell

"Sales fixes everything" - Guy Kawasaki

Is it possible that you actually can't really do those things if your startup failed? In other words, is it possible you're representing having skills that you don't actually have? (It reads to me as if you have a willingness to practice those skills, though they aren't well developed.) Maybe it's time to honestly evaluate where you're at and invest some time into personal growth and development. You will reduce cognitive dissonance and through surrender to the mastery process some of your depression will be ameliorated.

Develop internet marketing skills.

I've also been hellbanned before. I totally deserved it. I decided to shape up and play nicer with others. I also tempered the controversial, wildly politically incorrect conversation pieces. Now I think I'm a model HNer! Hopefully this account does not become hellbanned. Given my invitations to startup school I think I'm doing OK.

I would too. This is one of the few known cases in which showing upvotes would be a good idea.

I don't understand? :)

I don't understand why compressing an image is going to generate the same 8x8 image each time no matter what aspect ratio it was originally... whether it has been stretched before.. If you stretch and then recompress a bunch of times don't you eventually lose the information?

That math is for some reason totally counter-intuitive to me. Could someone do a proof?

another way i like to think of it (someone please correct me if i'm wrong) is that high-frequency means high-detail (highly frequently needing information to specify how it looks) whereas low-frequency means low-detail

(is that completely off or is it an analogous transform?)

There was a cool HN article a while back on building your own Shazam clone in Java.. I think the author received a C&D..

Found it! http://www.redcode.nl/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/

The Biology of Transcendence

not sure if that counts as technical or not ;)

Obviously you're not from Chicago =)