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The subsidies to banks are incentives to loan. Fewer incentives seems likely to result in a fewer loans at higher prices.

If the price of education was set entirely by the market, the price of education would be equal to the expected reward - which would imply student payments so high they leave a graduate making little over the minimum wage for their entire lifetime. Even more, the student is more likely to overestimate their expected reward from education (everyone thinks their above average) than the bank is likely to underestimate it so some students today can wind-up with truly absurd debt loads (think of the people who drop out of medical school with no degree but owing $150K).

This situation provide such perverse incentives that it's in the interest of society to prevent it through lower-priced state education as well as private education subsidized by scholarships. During the 1950's, when America happen to be growing and productive, this was the paradigm. In the present era, the movement towards the marketization of education has only accelerated the country's decline. Why providing even more marketization now is "good thing" is beyond me.

Education and basic health care should be provided free to each citizen (to extent, forced on each individual) because they are a good, benefit for society as a whole rather than being merely a good for each individual. You benefit when everyone is healthy and smart (unless you're a con-man looking to outsmart your fellow citizen). The willingness of this society to go in the opposite direction has been a powerful force moving downwards.
I stand by my statement. the world, on net, has more income mobility now than at any time in the past. everyday is pretty much the best day the world has ever seen from a net welfare standpoint.
Damn kids. ;)
The problem solved by Flash video wasn’t can I show a video? Instead, Flash solved can everyone watch my video? HTML5 video doesn’t provide this solution; it just adds another approach to the incompatibility pile.

Isn't support for codecs built into browsers that support the video tag (rather than requiring external software to be installed, when embedding)?
This is a good platform to pose this question as well.

Can someone lay down some information about just how money equates speech. Its used so often by now that its meaning is lost, merely a talking point.
"Drivers traveling at the limit should get a string of green lights."

I wish more civil engineers followed that. Realistically, there are a lot of other concerns leading to traffic flow management. For instance, some cities work with CHP to disrupt traffic flows in order to better stagger traffic entering the freeway.

Determining the effectiveness of this strategy is left to the reader.
"Bottom line (and greatest irony): the only company we can actually count on to make HTML5 successful will be Adobe."

Uhm. No? Where did you get that idea? Microsoft has the majority of the market. If Microsoft suddenly forced an update to all browsers which supports html5- well gosh. html5 would instantly be a huge success just because almost everyone is forced to use it! I'm not going to go into other examples where other companies could also make html5 a success because I already disproved your point; however, I will say that I don't believe the success of html5 is up to adobe.
Absolutely. Thanks to wave-particle duality, gravity affects particles such as photons. We're not used to thinking of photons losing energy as they fight gravity, but gravitational redshift, as mentioned by wwalker3, is quite real.

Thanks to mass-energy equivalence, your choices for visualizing this are many. Perhaps the two easiest are:
Physically lifting the 1kg matter+antimatter to elevation h, which is equivalent to
Gravitational redshifting of the 1kg-worth (converted to energy) of photons between ground level and elevation h

As an aside, if momentum is conserved, shouldn't each photon be paired and emitted in opposite directions? The author charitably attributes the inability for such a system to be energy neutral to "engineering problems," but I think it's pretty clear that there are also physical laws that make this impossible.
While I'm always glad to see articles created by non-famous people on Hacker News, it sucks when the article turns out to be utterly worthless and riddled with inaccuracies. Seriously, a random Slashdot post is more worthwhile than this, yet it is the #1 story. This also pretty much proves that either the Hacker News voting system is flawed, the author is gaming it, or the community is no longer as tech savvy, or doesn't read the content. Any of those possibilities is sad.

Myth 1: the video tag will replace Flash video

The video tag won't replace Flash video? Has he missed the memo that YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion have already rolled out HTML5 support? It is not perfect, but it is clearly going to happen. Whether this hurts Flash, is another story: but HTML 5 video is already here and has replaced Flash for many people.

I'd like to see a good analysis arguing why this trend might not continue -- not an apologist stick his head in the sand.

Myth 2: HTML5 is here, Flash is dead

Flash obviously is not dead. However, HTML 5 is here. See WebKit, Firefox, the iPOS platform (his invention), Google Chrome OS, etc.

Myth 3: Canvas is good for artists

He doesn't really expand on this point except to give a few minute examples of things he doesn't like about it. For example, you can't use fonts that didn't come with the browser. Pardon? Has he totally missed the web font module of HTML5?

Canvas doesn't provide interactivity and it is impossible to make a game with it? What? I have personally played Contra with an HTML 5 Canvas NES emulator. http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/

Myth 4: HTML5 will solve all the problems associated with Flash

He goes on to argue that most of the problems with Flash (splash pages, high cpu usage, etc.) will continue with HTML 5. This is true, and his only good point, although I have never heard anyone actually say this...

However, HTML 5 will provide a much better, open sandbox for these problems. E.g. you can modify the DOM to block an ad, or detect a script that has gone into an infinite loop, etc. See Google Chrome or various ad block or Greasemonkey scripts for some creative uses of this fact.

With Flash, at best, you can simply kill the plugin.

Myth 5: Adobe is not scared of HTML 5. In fact, Adobe is pushing HTML 5 forward even harder than Apple?

I was about to write up an angry rebuttal to this, but seriously, it's not even worth responding to. After reading this last one, I kind of feel like I've just been trolled hard.
Alternatively, an interactive online side-by-side diff version. http://diffpaste.com/#/388/387/
ASSEMBLE app helps you meet up with buddies
What I wouldn't give for the SVN revision log of the original (untranslated) bible text.

That would upset a lot of holy applecarts.
If you had a way to transmit and store energy with no loss, you could just transmit it back and forth, and that would be perpetual motion.

I don't know of any indication that the motion of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1 will ever stop.
The Real Hustler - The Ride Principle
Hypothetically, if all I want to do is exchange emails and browse the web, why should I have to learn how to use a "real desktop computer" or a "full UI"? I'd be learning a whole bunch of things I probably don't really care about or need to know. Empower me as a user to be able to do what I want to do, don't burden me down with a whole lot of details that get in my way.

Computers can be very powerful tools, but I am not sure many people are really interested in using that power -- I think many, even those who grew up with computers, would like the details to go away.

To follow your car analogy, cars used to be much more complicated to operate than they are now. Modern cars have electric starters, automatic chokes, and in many cases automatic transmissions, for instance.

Apple is simplifying things with iPad, Google is heading in the same route with Chrome OS, and I'm sure there are many other players we haven't heard from yet. It's going to be very interesting how things eventually play out.
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Do I think this is happening? I honestly don't know. I have no proof. What I do know though is that it's easy to do, hard to detect, and the Chinese government appears to be engaging in a massive IT espionage. That's a worrisome combination.

If I were in charge of any enterprise where I thought I had any reason to think that these Chinese authorities might be interested in what I was doing, I'd stop buying Chinese computer products today. Until this issue of Chinese cyber-espionage has been cleared up and cleaned up, I simply couldn't justify buying or using hardware that might be working against me. If you consider it for a minute, I think you'll agree.

Who is his audience? Dumb heads of IT?
Simplicity on Steroids
While it is presumptuous to think that I would support a government, public roads, public hospital, of any kind, but alas, I have no real "plan" to speak of.

However, I could describe in details how might an anarchistic free market society would work.

If there are any plans, it would be mostly be about trying seasteading, counter-economic black market activities, among other things.

Liberty to me, can only occurs on an individual level, not through social engineering by a carefully selected technocract.

Indeed, I don't have anything to answer for a "plan" nor do I know if it is realistic at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxo81Ok9Urk
I wonder if Google has any way of figuring out what proportion of their IPv6 traffic is coming natively over IPv6, versus over one of the various IPv4-to-6 tunneling schemes? If a lot are in the 2nd category, this might not be a great move: a high-bandwidth site like this could overwhelm the tunnels and make new tunnels less attractive to operate.
timtoady.
> Often this ends up as a big mess

Care to give us a concrete example? Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point here, but my experience has been somewhat the opposite. The tight integration of the Microsoft development tools (for example Visual Studio, SQL Server) is what makes it such an appealing and easy to use development platform for so many enterprise developers.

> a decade and 1000s of devs can also introduce many new flaws with each update.

I find that silly - what are you basing that argument on other than anecdotal evidence? Using that same logic you'd expect linux to be extremely flawed since so many developer's hands touch it.
how does one test this? write a script that uses threads to access pages in parallel? see what happens...temporarily pay for more hardware (i have a virtual machine with linode), gain some understanding, ..., profit

any particular services, snippets or frameworks people use to test this?
What are the kind of things that will retain their value after 40 years that you or I could stash away for retirement?
You just proved her point that people like to break things, it's easy to watch someone's live pitch and criticize it. This is well thought out, perfect grammar or not. She has the last word with the win and the funding.
It only works if people have a new enough version of the browser. Until that happens it's not a good solution and given the current rate of new browser adoption I don't think that will happen for many years.
If you're handing dates straight back into the interface sure, but if you're calling an ajax api or similar it may be better on the client side. Twitter for example, nice dates on the web and in clients, the ajax stuff gives the long ones.
Obviously GP is 100% dead serious ;)
> lol, it's called thermodynamics

The point is that saying "Can't work because of X" is a cop-out to actually going through and proving where the loss of energy is. Thermodynamics just predicts that somewhere energy is lost from this system. Blindly saying "thermodynamics" and not critically thinking about how/where/why it applies is intellectually deficient. If people don't challenge assumptions, then progress is never made. Some day someone might be able to disprove thermodynamics in some really funky edge-case, but that knowledge will never be discovered if no one ever questions.
Google is your friend.

Of course, you should read it.
But that's a double edged sword, because to truly 'read' it you'd have to learn Hebrew.

Also, the order doesn't matter, as the first section is 'foreshadowing' or a 'condensed explanation' as long as the result is the same.

Also, there is an accompanying book to Genesis called the book of Enoch. (also Job was the first book NOT Genesis.)

There is a backstory, even before the creation, you should read it.
I'm not, I mean seriously, if you make a machine that "produces" energy, you have to be the worlds biggest idiot to sell it for 10'000$. It's like selling a chicken that lays golden eggs, you just don't. You keep it and make profits.
DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 121 - Mr Miyagi Says No IE6
Sloppy Google.  Really Sloppy.
No matter how hard you try, no matter how long you try; you will never ever be able to convince the people of the internets that Flash isn't a crash prone performance hog.
Most people stumble getting the words out, let alone pluralizing words.
I could write and write about all the problems with Marx's arguments, because there are many, but it's just not worthwhile.

To those less informed on the whole situation: The simple fact is that Flash isn't going anywhere for a long time, but at the same time, implementation of HTML 5's features is quickly going to become far more pervasive (we're already starting to see this). You, of course, have people from both extremes arguing both sides ("Flash is dead!"; "HTML5 will never get anywhere!"), but if you're really listening to just these opinions, you're only going to get a very polarized view of the situation.

Sit down, read the HTML 5 specs, keep up with the latest HTML 5, Flash, and major browser updates, and you'll get a better picture of the situation. Listening to people like this Radley Marx really does not give you an informed or balanced view of the whole situation.
I've heard (don't know if it is true) that the first sections of the bible were only oral history. Most of it only got written up during the exile in Babylon.

I don't know if it is true or not, but I think it should be taken into account that such things might happen.

It is pretty impressive though that Jews have a 3000? year history - which is pretty unique. My people were still clobbering Romans over the head with blunt instruments 1500 years back.

Also pretty impressive that they have a history that is 3000 years old - yet I can't seem to find 12 year old Geocity pages...

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Ugh. Equating technology with wealth is extremely naive. Standard of living refers to cost of food, housing, health care, etc.
Ok so how does Google fend off an attack like this? Well… imagine if they drop support for all browsers BUT Chrome…. Now wouldn’t that be something.

Oh it would be something. Something totally crazy! If anyone thinks people will change their browser just to keep using the same search engine, they haven't met the gzillion IE6 users out there :-)
You can, depends on your power company.
We used 4758s in the last crypto-type job I had. Very cool stuff.
the order doesn't matter, as the first section is 'foreshadowing' or a 'condensed explanation'

How can a condensed explanation put things in a different order? The very least I expect of a condensed history is to get things in order.
"Perpetual Motion" is a bit of a misnomer. The term should be "perpetual force".

If it were "perpetual motion", then everything would constantly be in relative perpetual motion until death of the universe. For example: despite me sitting motionless relative to my computer, I am moving relative to the moon, or the sun, or pretty much everything else in the universe.
so are you more concerned that he's not dropping out of school and moving to the US, or that he's not putting up any money?

i can see both points of view, but it does kind of sound like you're asking a lot of him. from what you've written, he's created your core IP so he's put in his share of work (vs your money) and simply wants more than $10k from your brother in the bank before he drops out of school and moves to another country to work with you.

is his staying in europe really that big of a deal to your customers and investors? it sounds like he'd be willing to come over as soon as there's some serious funding available, or after he finishes school.
nothing we produce today will be of any use 40 years later

I'm living in a building that was built in the 1920's. It is definitely still useful.

True, consumer goods generally don't last that long, but capital goods can last for a half-century or more.
Deleted, my assumption about an m-by-n board with opponents starting in opposite squares was wrong [0]. Apparently, there will be arbitrary maps with what looks like mirrored (not random) starting positions. My intuition would then be to generate dynamic strategies which attempt to box the opponent. But that seems easier said than done :)

0. http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10...
Don't you know that a Chinese-made circuit board can take over your processor and network card to steal your information? If not, clearly you know nothing about how computers work!!11!

Oh wait...
Yes. So in which step are the laws broken?
I'm sure we can look at the numbers and come up with a conclusion.

A long, long time ago I read an article comparing the increase in the cost of college education vs. the published inflation rate. They were roughly the same. Really. But this was a long, long time ago...Camelot.

After student loans came into existence this rough equality disappeared and the cost of an education rose faster than inflation. Economically, that makes sense. Subsidize something (education) and you get more demand. With a somewhat inelastic supply of colleges, the price goes up.

Of course correlation is not causation. Many other reasons can be cited as well. But once upon a time college, while still expensive, only kept pace with inflation.
> Myth 5: Adobe is not scared of HTML 5. In fact, Adobe is pushing HTML 5 forward even harder than Apple?

> I was about to write up an angry rebuttal to this, but seriously, it's not even worth responding to.

I think he's talking about adobe air which comes with webkit and makes use of html5 storage and more (well, everything that webkit allows).
Based on what? It sure didn't work out for Sun, what makes you think it'll work for Microsoft?

It's no secret that part of the reason Microsoft makes so much money is because of vendor lockin. Embracing open source would make it easier for users to switch vendors - and I really don't see that as beneficial to Microsoft.
I imagine that the first part of the question has to do with paging. The first page is just the first n hits. But for subsequent pages they need to start at the beginning and skip page size * page number hits until they get to the hits for the current page. That gets expensive, so much so that they don't let you do it past 1000.
1. I wouldn't offer a salary to someone who I felt wasn't good enough for a job. If the job needs people skills, then he'd only get an offer from me if I thought he already had them / could gain them.

2. Pointing out to someone that they are very successful and can afford you isn't insulting. Pointing out to someone that they'd be on food stamps if you don't throw them a bone is, because it belittles them.

3. Dick move all around.

Don't forget that salary negotiation is supposed to be just that - a negotiation. You arrive to it when most other terms of employment seem acceptable.
If you are going for a clean design, you can go in the opposite direction too. I'm fairly sure Ethernet and html evolved from a working solution. Now, granted there should be a really clean and open interface if we are going to try and make it a standard, but it's often the easier approach.
> We're talking about a traffic spike that is 30-to-1 type ratios. In other words, 30 times more IPv6 traffic is coming out of Google's data centers than before.

Given that Google enabled IPv6 traffic to a high-bandwidth service like Youtube, is the spike really of any note?

If a week ago 100 people were using Google Search via IPv6, then today one person views a single Youtube video, that would easily account for a "30-to-1" spike

The actual number of users with IPv6 would be interesting, the fact there was a traffic spike seems quite irrelevant..
I'm not sure it is valuable to segment the market into those who buy "toys" and those who buy "hard-core games". At the end of the day, there is just one big market: the human population.

Yes, Microsoft sold 30 million Xboxs to "hard core gamers" and effectively conquered that market niche.

But, in the same time, Nintendo sold 50+ million Wiis to people who like "toys", making billions of dollars in the process.

As a hypothetical investor, I don't really care if Microsoft "wins" the hard-core market, I care about the bottom line. Nintendo effectively created a new market and capitalized on it, and they would get my hypothetical dollar.
Play with Palantir's software that the government uses to track terrorists
Good article, as usual for mises.org (I credit their material a few years ago for motivating me to get out of the stock market).

I am in my 50s, and one of my common little rants is how selfish my generation and the next older generation is. My children and my young grandchildren will indeed have to pay for our collective excesses. Really unfair.

I believe that it is human nature to care for younger generations, so the current wave of selfishness is really sick and unnatural behavior. Two generations of gluttons.

This selfishness is on personal, corporate, and government levels. The worst is starting unnecessary wars on credit, but the general blame trickles on down.
> Whatever. The fact is that in Ruby you can easily write a DSL that looks as if it was custom rolled for the domain and task at hand. In fact, you can do it so transparently that people begin learning the DSL without learning Ruby (cf. Rails). If that doesn't mean Ruby's syntax is extensible, I don't know what does. (And, yes, I get the difference between Ruby's implementation of DSL support and True Lisp Macros; it's just unclear that the difference matters in any significant semantic way.)

If by "custom rolled" you mean "laden with :symbols, forced into ruby's function invocation structure."

> I thought we were past trying to praise Lisp's features over Ruby's simply by calling Lisp's "real" (where "real" means exactly the same as Lisp's down to the backquotes and preprocessor). That argument is tautological: no language could ever possibly measure up to Lisp with that kind of criteria.

Except that I don't make that claim. Dylan did it just fine. I'm asking for real modification of the syntax tree. I'm asking for a real extension of the parser. It's not tautological and there are examples in the wild of people actually succeeding here without the classic sexpr syntax.

> Raganwald et al seem to have managed just fine...

Dozens of lines to mimic at runtime what compiler extension just allows it, in a far more natural and understandable way. I didn't say it was impossible, I said it was awkward.

> And deriding the brackets is just as meaningless as someone deriding the parentheses in Lisp.

I didn't deride brackets. I said that these complex runtime proxy solutions are hacks. It's like C++ people arguing they have anonymous functions because they can write Functor classes. It's a non-argument, because it's almost certain that you _can_ accomplish it. The question is, "How much extra complexity do I have to introduce in order to make this desirable way of programming possible."
You can tell pretty accurately by looking at the source address; 6to4, Teredo, and the major tunnel brokers allocate out of known prefixes. Google should be receiving little tunneled traffic since AFAIK they only return AAAA records to clients at ISPs with "good" IPv6 support.