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The only type of web site where I would consider the name acceptable would be some kind of storm chaser community (where are thunderstorms happening right now, that kind of thing).

Also the FAQ seems really silly (is it save? Yes, bla bla) - You think scammers are incapable of writing "100% secure" on their scam pages?
Would you care to elaborate on that?

If Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Kandinsky, Mayakovsky, Markov, Kolmogorov, Gelfand, Arnold, Gromov, Perelman have / had spoiled genes, then I wish such "spoiled genes" were more common in the West.
I commented on his blog, too, but I used to do this with jekyll. It was pretty sweet, but I've moved on to Posterous now.
Aren't most of those other sites derivative though? They opine on the news reported by others (or just copy/paste), and often poorly without relevant context. Moreover, I kinda like one-stop shopping for World, National, Business, and Technology news. It's not perfect, given journalistic biases, but it's often good enough.

I may be biased though. I grew up delivering and reading the newspaper.
<sarcasm>I didn't realize anyone still read traditional news outlets.</sarcasm>

Well, maybe only slightly sarcastic.

This is the death-knell of the traditional news media. When they start actively driving consumers away by charging for services once rendered free, there is no way they will be able to recover. The Internet has enabled citizen journalists to get inside the established media's OODA loop and take them out. Established media is too slow and too antiquated to ever be able to catch up, let alone get ahead and stay ahead.
Good daily news must be free, because the facts are free and there are too many places that will freely distribute those facts.

Good content, on the other hand, does not have to be daily news. Which is the distinction I wish more newspaper companies would understand. You'll never get people to pay for box scores or reprints from the AP/Reuters. You will get people to pay for investigative journalism, quality insight, in depth reporting, etc.

The Times would have a better chance at monetizing if they stuck to such a 'members' section concept. Another under-appreciated fact overlooked in most monetization schemes: people will pay for the ability to comment and be given preferential comment placement.
And when only subscribers can comment, it's far easier to police for spam and moderate for civility.
Hopefully they will make "default" search engine configureable.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Heritage exists to offer arguments in favor of a certain ideology. Naomi Klein writes to offer arguments in favor of a certain ideology. Neither offers all the data when presenting their arguments, because doing so would weaken their arguments. However, I still read things from both Heritage and Naomi Klein because buried in their bias, you can still find interesting viewpoints and truths.
Maybe there's a business model to be had for a decent aggregator? I know I'd pay (how much is the sticking point) for a nice mashup of NYT, WSJ, and Economist content. That might be my dream news publication, actually.
Normally I just buy a plane ticket somewhere where I have someone to visit, but this repair is taking a month (new engine!).

So far I've stayed with a friend for a week, took a trip to Austin and visited family for a couple days, and also rented a car and am staying at a friend's house across the bridge while he's out of town.

I took all of my food and laptop and left everything else... I trust the mechanics.

You could also just do a sublet. I was thinking of doing that since I knew the repair would be a month.

The hardest part was getting my moped back into the city. I had to stuff it in the trunk of a rental and drive with the trunk open.

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No, he has a ~50 person company called "Watermark LLC" that manages his family's personal life. When one of them signs up for something, it's done by an assistant there that handles all contact.
There's no way Apple would allow any other company to do a Blackberry-style Bing takeover on their phone.

And if it's just changing the default, who honestly cares?
they've been independent from the mainland for hundreds of years

who are "they"? Hong Kong has never been a sovereign nation, it was a colony of Chinese, British and Japanese Empires, and now PRC.

It is still run as a colony by Communist China - no political sovereignty but higher economic freedom relative to mainland (thus far).
Hah, then I grok your initial reaction better. :)

There is actually a class in Perl 6, called Buf, for when you want to talk about a sequence of bytes rather than a sequence of characters/graphemes. Buf is array-indexable; in fact it works a little like a string a little like an array. It's there to make it harder to screw encodings up. See http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/39236 for how.
This almost sounds like you'd be willing to pay dues to the AP or Reuters. I don't think that's such a bad idea. I know it would never fly in America but a funding system similar to the BBC, where households have to purchase licenses for things, might work well.
This is a totally exciting and great idea, but the down side the cynic inside of me sees coming is the spam/ads saying "Work from home as an author and make $$$" and junk Kindle-only books flooding Amazon.
Can you point me to some good citizen journalism then?
Are the facts really free? Take what's happening in Haiti. What's free there? Seems like a lot of very difficult work to me.

Interesting last point. Citation?
The reason we use an embedded scripting environment is so that the control can be handled by Erlang. Its quite true that we could have an external system doing Map/Reduce a la CouchDB-Lucene but that would just increase the pain point, plus make things even harder to move between systems due to configuration overhead etc.

Though the point of this post was mostly to play with the new erlang_js package as well as try and determine what cost is associated with the stdio communication channel used by the current view generation model.
Real (inflation-adjusted) wages have declined or stayed static since the 1970s. Even if college tuition only increased at the rate of inflation, it would still be harder to afford today than it was in the past.

Also, Ford workers at that time were making above-average salaries. They weren't the lower-middle-class to middle-class auto workers of today, they were solidly upper-middle-class. And 32 days is like 12% of his salary, so it wasn't exactly cheap for him (though far better than the 30-40% we see now).

Finally, it's disingenuous to compare 1918 colleges to 2008 colleges. Two major events really shook up the post-high-school landscape in those 90 years: the GI Bill and Vietnam. The GI Bill sent like 5 million people to college in the 40s-50s who otherwise couldn't have afforded it. Then Vietnam made college compulsory for middle-class or upper-middle-class men looking to avoid military service. Throw in desegregation, affirmative action, and co-education, and it's pretty clear that college went from being the domain of the brilliant and affluent to being open to the majority of Americans who finish high school. This total structural shift and basic re-definition of college makes pre-70s tuitions irrelevant to today's system.

If you want, you can also toss in the degree to which the job market has changed to requiring skilled workers with some form of post-secondary education. While some of this is likely a result of the education levels of the labor-supply, at least part of it is due to our changing industrial and commercial landscape.
So far Windows doesn't seem to be getting the same boost, so we'll see how things shake out. Though I'm more excited to hack in some other code I've already written which will avoid the JSON conversions all together.
I would agree here. The effect is ubiquitous computing in both cases, but rather than "a computer in everything" we have "Computers you can take everywhere".
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Flash is already on it's way to Android this year.

The iPhone will not be getting the Flash runtime but instead the new version of the Flash IDEs will be able to compile into native iPhone apps.
It seems like maybe they could be mounted in a two-part rocking carrier, with a weight at the bottom of the fridge itself. It'd be a bit bigger and heavier, but it would allow safer operation of the fridge. It'd probably need to be lockable for driving, though. They may even make fancier models of fridge that can be safely operated on a bigger slope, I dunno. My RV is actually a pretty low end, bare bones, model. All of the accoutrement is toward the cheaper end of the scale. The big diesels tend to be decked out with the nicer kit.

They've also gotten a bit better at surviving sloped operation; modern ones can be operated while driving and for short periods parked on a slope. Older ones were more sensitive.

Also, sleeping on a tilt is uncomfortable. So, leveling is kind of useful for humans (and dogs), too.
If you're single, you could reverse engineer this to have a higher chance of getting a date. Look for attractive girls who have pictures with all the attributes that get poor responses, and it should lead to less competition and better odds for you.
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So, am I correct to assume that authors mainly need publishers for printing, distribution, and marketing? Will we see more self-publishing as a result of the Kindle/Nook/etc?
> In my country it is called “cadre deployment” and is an official position. The ruling party employ their members (cadres) at all public institutions to follow the ruling party’s will

Well, on a more positive note about Romania ... my father was the general director of such an institution, and when he was removed from his position based on political reasons, he sued the ministry.

Such actions can be taken because as I said, almost everyone is more or less corrupt and can be caught with a hand in the cookie jar :) ... but in the case of my father (which is either clean or smart :)), he got justice and had to be reinstated.

He's now a senator working in 2 commissions ... and I'm really proud of him for having big balls :)
This is brilliant. Anything which streamlines distribution has always helped the consumers and producers while increasing overall efficiency. Redfin is a good example, this looks like it will be another.
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For about a year, Firebug was horribly unstable for me. It seemed that each time they introduced a bunch of new features, the crashing, hanging, and erratic behavior (e.g. breaking at a line of source code far removed from the actual breakpoint) got worse. Happily, though, the last release before this current one reversed that trend. It didn't eliminate the problems but it did make them tolerable, which was a relief. I hope this one doesn't revive the previous tradition!

I think part of the problem is that FB wasn't designed to work with large (or even medium-sized) JS programs. We bundle all our JS into one HTTP request. It's a few thousand lines, which is big enough to cause FB noticeable trouble. A lot of the fancy features they've been adding are pretty useless to me; I wish they would simply make the console and the debugger rock solid. (And fix things like the horrible way they print arrays...)
We've seen the answer to that - it already happened in Japan.

The search for cheap labor moves on to another poor country, and the newly rich country is an economic benefit to all as a trading partner.
There was a rash of articles on this topic, in the general media. Probably due to the popularization of a research result, and/or piggy backing onto a particularly prominent news article. I don't recall the timeframe, but my memory fits your description.
I've been hoping for this for over a year now. I'm _more_ than happy to support their journalists oversea and at home (USA for me, as for the NYT). Without some sort of support, we wouldn't be getting the same breadth and depth and quality of news.

It astonishes me when people think this should be free. KNowledge should be free, yes, but news that costs money and much, much time to acquire and then disseminate _does_ cost money and I'm glad to pay for it.

This is high quality journalism from hard working people: asking them to do it for less and less is ridiculous. Content is tangible, to me at least, and worth money, just as a few lines of code "anybody" could write is also worth quite a bit.
I grew up delivering and reading newspapers and this has only shown me that the vast majority of "news" is just re-hashed press releases, or opinionated FUD.

The vast majority of my round bought the Daily Mail (who supported the facists in the UK, "hoorah the black shirts") or The Sun (famous for their "HIV is only catchable by homosexuals" opinion).

The world would be a better place without most of the newspapers out there. Quality reporting is another matter all together and is NOT synonymous with the term "newspapers".
They act like the photo is all that decides if someone will make contact or not. Is it possible that people that don't look into the camera also haven't put much time into the rest of their profiles, thus lower contact rate?

I do love that they publish this info so openly and in such a readable format.
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Perhaps the term is "cheap" instead. Because once someone has broadcast "the facts" it is very cheap to inform everyone else.
Chargify has yet to send me an email for their beta (which I've signed up for several times). They don't even bother to send an email acknowledging my interest. Its a great looking website and an interesting value proposition. When it gets ready for prime time, I'll try it if I haven't already moved on to a solution thats actually available.
This sounds like an awesome/crazy way to pair program.
I'm actually playing around with XNA+C# right now, and I agree that it is (in general) very easy to develop with.

Just - for the love of God - if you're going to get into doing reflection in C#, understand that you are about to stare into the void, and mentally prepare yourself for that.
Here in America, I'd find it hard to classify Beckham as anything other than upper-class (upper-income, if you prefer). He's got enough truckloads of money (and his former-pop-star wife is also likely well-off) that he doesn't deal with middle-class or lower-class issues like affording his mortgage payments or saving for retirement or paying for college educations for his kids.

I suspect it's a cultural difference. Here in America, people don't really care much where your parents came from or how you did in school, they measure success and class by what you have. We haven't really discriminated on "old-money"/"new-money" lines in decades at least, and we've never had much in the way of titled lineages. We don't have the centuries of cultural history of class immobility that Europeans have (I don't mean that judgmentally, I'm just saying we don't have that history in the back of our minds).
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I like how his first Tweet is a "Hello World". Still a programmer at heart I guess.
The rapid growth in his follower numbers is certainly impressive, but I'm more curious about who he chooses to follow. Looking through the list, it was mostly foundations. What struck me as odd was that he followed Ashton Kutcher and Ashley Tisdale. We all have our reasons for choosing who we want to read/hear, I would love to know why he lent his mindshare to those two.
I thought the "having animals" numbers were pretty interesting too; it looks like having a pet in the picture may lead to a fairly sizable increase in contact rates.
Why not just link directly to the PDF?
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I was just playing with this the other day. One interesting this now let's you do is cross-site basic http authentication if your server is configured to accept the new headers.

I'm talking to YOU, Twitter...
Largely the same discussion happened on this item:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058507

Probably there's not much point reading that rather than this, but I thought I'd make the connection since I noticed it.

Also reported here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060009

A connection is suggestion with the release of the Apple tablet.
There have been plenty of concept bluetooth rings and watches as well. Technologically they're quite doable and even offer some neat features. None have yet resonated with society enough to be common, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if these caught on in a more significant way much closer to 2009 than 2019; particularly as peripherals integrating wirelessly with a primary personal computer (phone).
We'll probably see more self-publishing, but marketing will still be extremely important for authors.
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yes that was supposed to be appalling. I will leave it as is so that your comment stands.
Rather than spending 2 years in the gym, one could just borrow the neighbours dog and get even more responses.
Kurtzweil's predictions are mostly on target so far and his arguments hold that if he is a couple of years off on a prediction, the prediction is still essentially correct. I am not sure though that I agree with him on the timing of the 'singularity issue'. I pretty much agree with him though, that we are at the dawn of a new era where computers and bioengineering will have a profound effect on humans.

There are many reasons as to why I am skeptical about the singularity - primarily stemming from my experience in programming. At present we do not have the engineering tools to do so - and nobody is really working hard on it. We are lacking efficient ways of generating software and most importantly the management skills to do so for extreme, extreme as extremely large software. Secondly to simulate the way the brain works we need to have a paradigm shift in how we build computers. It is also my contention that a large part of what we call human intelligence lies in language and NLP is a hard still unsolved problem.
I'd imagine that some Twitter clients allow them to have a celebrity-only view, so they can filter out the noise from the plebs.
Would you? As someone who is new-ish to Git the author's argument seemed pretty sound. I would be interested in counter points.
So I need to get ripped like Jesus, then take a shirtless self-picture while petting my cat, playing the guitar and not-smiling at something off-camera.

See you soon, ladies!
It is about 2 AM here, so I can't find the blog post on it for you, but they have tended to greatly increase my conversion rates versus linking directly to screenshots.
> At least "flip" is just a very dumb name.

It's funny. I just registered on HN, and on my way in I took the time to read http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html where the expectations on comments are outlined:

"What we especially discourage are comments that are empty and negative—comments that are mere name-calling."

Do you wish to make your negative comment about 'flip' less empty? Or have you expended your fount of criticism already?
I can agree with you given your context. For me, I am interested in political systems in general. Klein and Heritage are both actors in that system, so I find them both interesting. For people who do not want to expend their time thinking about political systems (i.e. rational people) following Klein and Heritage is not a worthwhile investment.

However, my main objection to myth_drannon's comment, was that he was quoting Klein. She is hardly different from Heritage. Moreover, in this specific instance, the report in question is quantitative with a well-defined ranking system. Obviously, Heritage's underlying qualitative claim was the impetus for the report, but that does not preclude the veracity of the data.
For men.. for females it is the worst possible context they graphed.

Having an animal tells a female the male is responsible and cares for others??
I've been using this since early beta. It's performance is worse than 1.3.x. The new features are miniscule at best. I happened to open an older VM the other day that was running FF3.0 and Firebug 1.2. I was shocked at how fast it was compared to the newer versions. I had forgotten. They need to stop worrying about new features and focus on speed.
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Ask HN: Good agency/website to find short-term contract programming work (nyc)?
Anyone worked with a good recruiter or agency in NYC to find a contract job?

I'd like to get a short-term contract programming job in a big company with deep pockets and high headcount so I'm as anonymous as a grain of sand on a beach - just to pay the bills for a while.

I'm thinking about approaching some of the big national recruiting agenencies - KForce, etc - but I'm concerned they have so many heads they may not be very "attentive" in terms of finding work for me.

Also, lately there seems to be a lot of Indian agencies trying to disguise themselves as local agencies but when it comes time to get paid they have a reputation for being less than diligent (I don't know how true this is - just anecdotal reports).

Would appreciate any feedback or recommendations people may have on particular east coast or national general-purpose employment agencies that focus on I.T.

The rentacoder-type websites are useless because of the low rates. But perhaps there are sites that specialize in contract work that someone could recommend?
Yes, but simultaneously, the competition in NYC would be stiffer. You're* a computer nerd with a startup that pays crap-all now but might score big in 5 years. The other three-quarters of the bar are lawyers or bankers who bring in a lot more than you do right now. Throw in all the actors and writers for good measure, and you can see that the competition is going to be challenging.

I'm not saying that that makes it not worth the numbers advantage, but it certainly tempers that edge. I'm also not saying girls are swayed entirely by a man's financial prospects.

* - generic example, not you specifically
Comments which you disagree with, are factually wrong, or are refuting your point, provided they are relevant to the discussion. My reasoning here is that these types of comments provide discussion points, which is why this sort of linksite exists. upvote == agreement can lead to boring groupthink, instead of interesting and informative communities.
i think they need them more for editing. All the kindle-only books I've read, had a ton of spelling errors.
My brother used to do long-haul trucking. With the right person to set up your loads, you can make $300k a year.
... only to find they use velcro fasteners and then later self tightening twist laces (little prediction for you based on memory materials).