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The best way to spread your risk with banks is to make sure you never have more than your federally insured cap with any one bank. (that's a luxury problem though). Over that and you're up the creek without a paddle if anything should happen to that bank.

The funny thing here is that the people that the bank owes money over that amount are ruthlessly culled, but the people that owe the bank are not.

I think that should cut both ways, in other words if a bank folds then both the debts and the deposits should be capped or none. But it seems to be completely asymmetrical to keep the people that owe the bank on the hook while capping those with whom the bank is in debt.
The problem I see is that any netbook I lug around is going to be less useful than an iPad. The netbook screen is short and you pretty much have to use it in landscape orientation. The keyboard and trackpad are small and cramped.

Also, I question "a lot more powerful." if you mean powerful in terms of range of apps or peripherals, then I see your point. If you are talking about raw performance, you are probably right, but I doubt the difference is going to be that significant.

I have access to a netbook, but I almost never use it. There aren't many situations that I'd choose it over either my iPhone or my laptop. The size, runtime and interaction model of the iPad, on the other hand, suggests advantages over both a laptop and my iPhone for situations I'm in every day (not that I won't have me iPhone with me a. The same time).
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ActiveRecord...

The SQL was pretty simple I believe..select * from location where device_id = ? order by date_added desc limit 6...something like that.

Edit: Also, I don't know how much it matters, but MySQL probably only has ~256mb memory available to it (its hosted on a Xen box).
I took all the information from this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089829
No one is saying the two people ARE dating and marrying. They're saying the process of finding a co-founder is LIKE dating and marrying.

That's what an analogy is. "a⋅nal⋅o⋅gy - a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based"
That I think was the conventional thinking but it's gotten to a tipping point with massive new proposals for complexity / government spending/programs. I think a large part of the popularity of the tea party/'throw the bums out' movement and perceptions of corruption in Washington is the result of push back. Irrespective of political leanings, the loss of the seat Ted Kennedy for decades in Massachusetts to a Republican has to be a shocker (even to the republican leadership that didn't spend much time or energy backing their candidate until the last few days). Simplification means less corruption and fewer costs not only for small business but for everyone.

A useful reference point is to consider the positive relationship between economic growth and reduced regulation and you can see that through the World Bank's Doing Business guide comparing various states (http://www.doingbusiness.org)
if you had an index on device_id there shouldn't be a difference in performance between the original table and the partioned one. the index is used to reduce the rows that need to be scanned so there wouldn't be a full table scan. btw, why do you use a table lock?
Thanks for the link. I'm sure you and a number of other very smart people are trying to figure out viable paths. I know it's not clear what the right solution looks like, but it is pretty certain that it's going to involve disruption to the current model and discomfort to the current players.
Doesn't matter if you're brick and mortar, you still need licenses having a basic business.

In general, the laws aren't really made with small/virtual businesses in mind. You need physical locations, in-person meetings, non-electronic paperwork, etc, etc.
I did this today - they have an iPhone-optimized website.
This article starts out interesting, if a little breathy, but then veers hard into crazytown. It lost me for good sometime around Hitler and eugenics. Someone tell me if it got better after that?
Eric Schmidt has addressed this multiple times. He just sees it as a conversation starter. Someone at the meeting can always suggest 'Is this evil?' and people can ponder if it's the best course of action.

I think it is refreshing that this line could be said in a meeting and it not just be laughed at.

Edit: apostrophe
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it seems like everyone is willing to shutdown everyone else.

amazon removed macmillan's titles after he signed with apple

apple blocked google voice application

apple is refusing to support flash in favor of html5

google blocked old browsers in favor of html5

google will support (adobe) future flash as a mobile platform

jobs said google is willing in killing iphone

guys, take it easy, with ipv6 there are enough addresses for all of us.

with these streams of negativity it feels like it would be better to get offline for a while.
Hiring someone is far more complex than just having the funds to do so. Ignoring all the taxes, there is a lot of paperwork and agencies you have to deal with.

I would hire someone right now if it were easier, but I can't afford to hire someone once I factor in the administrative and tax overhead.
anyone that has ever run a small business know how taxation and regulation make it much harder to hire new employees. sure, monetarily, but also in terms of simple time and increased risk (lack of ability to make truly binding employment contracts). you discourage things by taxing them, you encourage things by subsidizing them. if you reduce taxation on new employment (such as, say, waiving payroll taxes for the first 3 months of employment) it will increase the ability of employers on the margin to hire.
"One of many fusion hurdles swept aside", would be a less sensationalist headline... It seems they aren't even at break-even yet, so it's not like we can start building power plants this decade...
I can help put it in spreadsheet form ?
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ZFS handles the three-tiered model well (with the L2ARC implementation). Also, the authors of this paper didn't consider the "write-limited" implementation that the ZFS authors use: they write at a fixed rate to SSD (e.g., 8MB/sec) and pull entries near the end of the RAM-based cache (i.e. the ones that are about to expire). Still, quite a great paper.

http://www.sun.com/emrkt/openstorage/0309engineers.html?cid=...
Just reducing the number of separate agencies you need to deal with would be a help, even if the net amount of taxes remains the same.
Queries like that should be very, very fast even with low amounts of ram. Good article, but consider using EXPLAIN a few times first before embarking on such adventures. :)
Why would it be odd for Apple to add a sensible product to a hole in its product lineup?

It seems to me that very few people are actually impressed or interested in the iPad, particularly since expectations, desire and hype was for what this basically is...not for an overinflated iPod touch.
The Lessig video that I just submitted has a great analysis of the incentive facing government representatives and why these kind of reforms are impossible. You might want to check it out.
Reshuffling jobs from nonproductive to productive is a huge increase. Ask yourself, would you rather have less accountants and lawyers and have more people who actually produce something that makes your life better -- whether it be new software, improved medical care, better food, etc.
Still, for a grand I'd hope that the machine could keep up with my finger swipes.
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Small businesses do spend increasing amounts on tax accounting and legal. There's a very real and tangible cost to complexity in both regulations and taxation.

"No. That would be stupid. It has nothing to do with my argument." You're right it would be a stupid argument except according to you, a job is a job. Not sure how it's even a tenuous argument to point out that reducing friction increases jobs as it not only frees up people who have to navigate the complexity - ie the tax accountants and lawyers to doing something more productive but it also reduces the costs of compliance for companies themselves. The US tax code is now over 16500 pages with non-compliance a criminal offense.

I find it remarkable that you don't think there's an increasing cost to this compliance. Ask just about any internal accountant or anyone in a position of leadership and they'd tell you differently especially over the last 15 years.
> 2) Small businesses just don't spend that much on administrative overhead.

I may not be a typical case, but this is false for my business.

I am the founder and sole employee, although I have used contractors for jobs before.

My first year, I spent at least 2-3 hours / week on average learning and dealing with the accounting and legal needs for having a corporation. There are a lot of agencies and each have their own rules. Just keeping up with all the tax law changes is a fair amount of work, nevermind the risk that you've misunderstood / forgot something.

Obviously, it wasn't my full-time job, but it took a big enough chunk of my time (and therefore potential income) to be a real hassle.

The next year, I outsourced much of it and ended up paying around $2,000 (not including the actual taxes and license fees). I realize that isn't much, but for a one-person entity that's a non-trivial amount of money. (yes, cost of doing business, blah, blah, blah ...)
I like how on Hacker News, Calacanis was getting his throat bitten out by Aaron and the community, while he was trying to feebly defend himself and do damage control.

However, when you read this article, it makes them sound like great friends, and it reads as if Mahalo is this awesome little indie site that wants the community to help. I especially love the comment by Dorfman reinforcing how he was ecstatic about Aaron's advice and had a great time noodling it over.

It's like if your dog takes a dump on the sidewalk and, like usual, you don't pick it up. When someone [and an angry mob of your peers] makes a big enough stink about it, you argue and argue, until it degenerates into a fiasco. Finally, you write on your blog, "Thanks for helping us be even better, buddies! You guys are awesome! Gonna think about picking up the shit real soon. We are all so excited about what you guys said! Let's grab sushi, ya?"

There's a lot of ways to lie, and I've just learned a new one. It would be cool to see an apology with an accurate representation of the scandal.
knock yourself out :)
I hear what your saying.

However at the moment, for me at least, Amazon offer such a great package for the consumer - both in ebooks and hard covers - that I can't help but support them ( within limits).
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Re (7), I've found that freelancing has actually been really good for keeping up with housework. I can't work 8 hrs straight through in a day no matter the location or job, but when I'm at home, I can spend one of my little breaks taking 5 minutes to clean up the kitchen. Little incremental chores like that keep you from developing an intimidatingly large backlog.
Certainly working as a sales person is the best way of learning the skills of selling. However, the points I was trying to make was that:
a. Business Students completing degrees at Australian Universities will never be exposed to Sales - despite the fact its the most important thing they can learn in a commercial career.
c. There is a lot about sales that is theory based and that you won't learn on the job (customer psychology, legal frameworks for transfer of title, designing a products revenue model etc.)

I think the argument for including Sales 101 into commerce degrees is strong.

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This app is simply awesome. I can't believe almost no one saw its potential. Of course you have to be a musician or else it wont be of any interest. The point is to be able to clearly see the lyrics while you're playing the song with an instrument. Btw, I would love it if there was a place to see the chords. I mean, not the chords above the lyrics but just a little floating box with the basic structure of the song (ex. Chorus : G - D - C, Verse Em - C, Bridge ...)
I don't think anyone claims that Lojban phonology will help people guess the meaning of its root words. Even if you guess that {klama} means "travel", you probably can't guess that it means precisely (x1 travels to destination x2 from origin x3 via route x4 using conveyance x5). As a native English speaker who's been learning Lojban casually for a few weeks, I find the phonological resemblances helpful mostly as mnemonics - {prenu} is easier to remember for sounding a little like "person", {nitcu} like "need", et cetera. (And remembering the place structures does get easier, there is a fairly consistent rationale to how they are chosen.)
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And the awkwardness comes in because not everyone is keyed in to the analogy. It can be easily misconstrued as the two people are dating. For two guys however it's less awkward because people naturally seek another explanation for the term dating first. But for some people they could jump to the romantic term for dating, and knowing this is why it can be seen as awkward even to just some people.
While the write up was good, the author makes assumptions about what's happening seemingly without checking. He didn't post the actual query or the original and final query plans.

Partitioning is a rather complex solution to his problem. See the limitations at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/partitioning-limitati...

I can't know for sure since there's not enough information there, but I'd suspect a simple index would have done the trick.

CREATE INDEX my_index ON Location (device_id, date_added desc)

SELECT *
FROM Locations USE INDEX (my_index)
WHERE device_id = ...
ORDER BY date_added DESC
LIMIT 6

SELECT *
FROM Locations USE INDEX (my_index)
WHERE device_id = ...
AND date_added BETWEEN ... AND ...
ORDER BY date_added DESC

I'm assuming that he had the index and it just wasn't getting used, so the index hints are there in case the query planner was somehow missing them.

That said, table partitioning is an awesome feature. I've seen it be most useful when you spread the partitions over tiered storage (latest on SSD, archive on spindles), or when you want to drop a whole range of data quickly on a regular basis (like last month's logs).

* Edit: Missed something:

You may need to specify more hints than I originally thought if you want to force index usage for the order by clause as well. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/index-hints.html
It depends on context.

When you think "small business", don't think "startup". Instead, think "neighborhood shop" -- these kinds of small businesses represent the vast majority of hiring, and they hire help in response to customer demand. So even if they could save the equivalent of one full-time employee on accounting and legal (an exaggeration, but let's go with it), they'd only re-invest that savings into other employees if it made sense to do so in light of current demand.

The general problem I have with the assertion that lowering taxes will create jobs, is that it assumes that taxes are the limiting step. In my experience, that's not the case for small businesses. The much bigger problem is ensuring that customers are always walking in the door.
Yeah. It's not the crispest distinction to make. But, note that the U.S. has also helped a whole lot of people.

a - b = c

Being utilitarian about it, which country has done better in the last decade?
The government cannot afford to buy anything it is worse than broke, it is in serious debt. The amount of unfunded liabilities that are coming down the pipeline are ridiculous.
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In theory yes, repurchasing shares should do just as well as paying out dividends.

In practice, no.

Most companies are run by people who are utterly bad at allocating capital. They will buy stock back when it is overvalued, when it is trading towards its high because they feel on top of the world and unstoppable. They are almost always making a grave mistake.

Share buybacks need to be used like Henry Singleton at Teledyne:

You buy back stock when it is trading towards its lows and likely undervalued.

You issue stock and use it as currency for acquisitions when it is trading near highs so that you take advantage of its overvalued status in the market place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Earl_Singleton

Singleton showed how to properly allocate capital in tech and do it in a way that enriches everyone. That's why most people today look to what he did at Teledyne as models for best practices in capital allocation.
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In many cases you're right, Flash UI conventions are not going to generically hold true across the board for iPhones. A lot more would work than the current situation, where none do.
It's not a website, but _Programming Pearls_ by Jon Bentley is still an excellent way of getting into an algorithms frame of mind. Don't be dissuaded just because it's a few years old. I like the way it presents the thought process of solving the given problems.
Were those single indexes like
CREATE INDEX index_1 ON Locations(id)
CREATE INDEX index_2 ON Locations(user_id)
...?

If you have multiple single column indexes it won't help you here. The mysql query planner probably correctly guessed the table scan was a better option than hash joining the results of two seeks given the machine's limited memory. It also probably underestimated the cost of disk IO on a virtual machine though.
According to the article, Amazon wants the power to set the price for ebook edition. Amazon has other priorities besides selling your book for as much as possible, such as pushing the adoption of Kindle. So if Amazon decides that your book is gonna be a loss leader, you're stuck.
Oh come on !!
Isn't it more likely you would browse through the book in a shop - check the price on Amazon, find it's 30-40% less and buy it there?
Sorry I should have been clearer.

I was referring to the type of small businesses that start very slowly, as is the case when someone with a current job wants to start a business but doesn't have the money to do so full time.

Most people I know who start non-tech businesses fall into this category. It may be a year or two before they are able to support themselves full time.

For them, they could use that $1,000+ to pay part time workers to help them grow faster.
That hardcover which I paid $16 for likely has a list price of between $25 and $30. If the publisher was only paid 30% of that $16 sale ($4.80), that means they sold it to the distributor at a wholesale discount of over 80% off list.

Are any publishers really offering those kinds of terms, even to Amazon?
Look at all of the companies you just listed: amazon, macmillan, google, apple, adobe...

Those are the biggest corps in each of their respective fields, and they all somehow compete with each other in some way. Of course they're going to be battling constantly.
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Definitely want to second the advice to use EXPLAIN.

MySQL has a lot of very specific limitations about when it will and will not use the available indices. It also matters how you created the indices (one index on multiple columns vs multiple indices on individual columns).

For example, if you created a single index with the columns (date_added, device_id) MySQL would not be able to use the index since device_id is the second part of the index, not the first and thus not available for use in the WHERE clause.

See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-indexes.html for more limitations.
> ‘The Project’ I referred to is the project of the Rockefeller Foundation and powerful financial interests since the 1920’s to use eugenics, later renamed genetics, to justify creation of a genetically-engineered Master Race. Hitler and the Nazis called it the Ayran Master Race.

That's about all you need to know about this article...
Marketing is worth spending money on if it brings in more money than you pay. I'd agree that it might be worth it if you're shooting for a bestseller, but the author lays it out as an unavoidable expense.

I love books, and being a writer sucks as a way to make a living even for very talented people, but the solution has to involve radical change to the publishing model. Big publishers seem to take a massive cut without improving the quality of the end result. I'm a big supporter of authors looking at alternative models, like Peter Watts with free downloads in the hope of donations:

http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
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> Now is it simply philosophical sloppiness? What leads the Gates and Rockefeller foundations to at one and the same time to back proliferation of patented and soon-to-be Terminator patented seeds across Africa, a process which, as it has in every other place on earth, destroys the plant seed varieties as monoculture industrialized agribusiness is introduced? At the same time they invest tens of millions of dollars to preserve every seed variety known in a bomb-proof doomsday vault near the remote Arctic Circle ‘so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future’ to restate their official release?

I was able to glean this before giving up. It's burying the point in conspiracy theories and a bunch of, "this person was head of this before they were head of this" nonsense.
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Thanks to Apple people from third world countries have better education? No. They have free access to the internet? No. What has Apple really achieved, apart from having all their shops packed with people looking for cables, adapters, plugs, docks and batteries that only work with their products?

I'm having a deja vu moment. A company selling proprietary software and hardware? Yup, I've seen that before.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1090376

My comment there: I watched this and was very disappointed. Not recommended - go build something instead.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1090500
That's entirely right; to explain a bit more, the reason that index is good is because it's a covering index. You have all the data you need to pull from the table in the index (which you've found via binary search through your B+tree), so you don't need to run out again to the table, and that saves an extra disk seek.

To make a covering index takes longer, so insertion speed drops, but that shouldn't be the hotspot.