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When you will come to Shenzhen, setup this business and meet with Smith, maybe you will understand. I am not sure though, you are able to do all these things. I live in China since years and i do trading for a living. i have many connections here that can help overcome any problem. I think i do know much more practical things to get things done in a totally clear way, than you. Sincerely. Alberto
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You'll know when I rant. :)
Um, this idea was taken from BitKeeper which has had this feature for 10 years.

I know it's not cool to give BK any credit but almost 100% of what is in git, hg, bzr came from BK and you can go dig through the history and prove that for yourself.
If you're a straight male, college is the easiest place to meet women in America. For that reason alone, it's worth checking out for a couple semesters.
In the 30+ years Emacs has been around people have written a huge amount of Emacs Lisp that does pretty much everything you can think of. Almost every feature from other editors and IDEs has been implemented in Emacs. I like Lisp but rarely write very much Emacs Lisp, and when I do it's usually an extension of some code someone else started. There aren't a lot of new ideas and when an Emacs user sees one he implements it for Emacs.
Epic Title Hyperbole.
In the US, but we've used PayPal's direct payment gateway (Websites Payment Pro) for a number of client sites, and its been great.

The rates are very reasonable ($30/month, 2-3% + $.30 per transaction), and the only weird requirement is that you have to offer PayPal as a checkout option (and we would anyway).
"Socialism was very popular around the turn of the last century and for several decades before and after. Especially among intellectuals.

Then people saw what happened when you tried it."

Yeah. All the citizens got full medical care, and they had a strong social safety net that protected their welfare. What a nightmare!

Oh, maybe you're not talking about socialism but about totalitarian communism (aka "state capitalism"). That really was a nightmare. But not because of the economics. Rather, it was because bloodthirsty dictators managed to wrench power away from the people and used it to oppress them. This is exactly the opposite of what socialism is about.

As for socialism not being a science... so what? Neither is capitalism.
It's one of those red pill blue pill deals, and perhaps at the heart it drives at the current melt down of society (depending on your vantage point). If you go with what you believe you risk having others say things like "you just haven't applied yourself" to you, and they will forever remind you to go back to school and hold it against you when you don't. It's really a world view issue. Honestly, hacker news is not the best forum to ask about this. For the most part the answers here will be one sided.

One thing to consider is the debt you will accumulate. You also don't want those around you to be unhappy. Tough deal right? My hope for humanity and the human condition has actually diminished in recent years, despite a lingering optimism for well into the future. It's just been pushed a little further along, I suppose, by a generation or two.
No, an ad-hominem would imply an attack on the character or worth of Rand personally. gnosis's comment was merely a bald assertion about the novel, though indeed not an argument as such. Of course, your Rand quote was also pretty much just a bald assertion without any supporting argument, so I guess it works out.
If you're near a large library that allows public access, they may have subscriptions that allow access to journal articles on their computers.

I'm an ACM member, but for any other papers I just walk into the university I live near with a USB key.
Autoconf and portable programs: the joke
Please tell me that this complaint about being unable to access an anti-capitalist screed on a Kindle is edgy performance art targeting latte liberals.
The point is, there are no new advancements to be had in in ai - you either hand code it (good old fashioned ai) or search for (machine learning/genetic programming) or a combination of both. No 'new' algorithms will be found that will magically solve ai.
Little bits of coding here and there that use an 'ai' technique don't cut it. Automated trading uses 'ai' techniques, billions of dollars worth, but it won't make a dent towards creating ai.
HN discussion from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179107
Actually Hayek and Keynes never used much math in their arguments. Keynes ideas were put into economic models by later economists with science backgrounds: Alvin Hansen, Paul Sameulson, James Tobin, etc.

Quit pointing out that Einstein was wrong. Thats obvious. The point is that a physicist can contribute to economics. Had the original poster simply pointed out the flaws of socialism, this discussion would never had taken place.

Edit: original poster = I mean the guy who said JM Keynes on QED - had he pointed out socialism flaws this discussion would have never taken place.
the rest of the time is yours, program as much as you want to program.

On this point I disagree. I think that much of the value of college comes from things that don't really seem valuable at the time: sports, clubs, experiences with friends, or even study groups. As such, I'd really recommend limiting the programming a bit, and forcing himself to engage with other students first, and program second.

And as a corollary to that, I'd recommend trying to find ways to get to know students who aren't other people with identical interests and socioeconomic backgrounds. The more one stays in one's bubble, the less one is going to get out of school.

"I am insufficiently motivated to do clearly beneficial things when they require non-trivial amounts of actual work.

This is huge. Absolutely huge.

I have very little interest in hiring somebody who thought, at age 18, that he knew everything college could teach him; nor one who could not spare the time to give himself such a clear advantage.
That is exactly the point: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/finding-awesome-stuff...
"All the citizens got full medical care, and they had a strong social net that protected their welfare"

That happened in market states with welfare systems. You're sharing Glenn Beck's confusion about what exactly "socialism" is.
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I sympathise with you on the polylingual tendencies. I'm currently working on something for one client that uses several different programming languages plus the usual web-related stuff all on the same project (and with perfectly legitimate reasons, not just because of historical baggage).

Still, I think this raises an interesting question: is it more beneficial to choose exactly the right language for each project in isolation, or to adopt a "good enough" general purpose language that can be learned in more depth by the development team, and used together with comprehensive library support and a strong and familiar IDE?
I previously used psigate, although I'm not sure I would recommend it
Doesn't work for me so no Flash can't render 300k 3d particles.
I typed this into Eclipse, and it's super-awesome-excellent auto-code-writer decided that it should be:

public int doubleFooBarBazQux(Foo foo) throws NullPointerException {
try {
return foo.bar().baz().qux() * 2;
}
catch(NullPointerException e){
throw new NullPointerException(e.getMessage());
}
}

If only there was a right-click option for "improve quality"...
I stopped at "We'll keep track..."

Yes, I know that they do and that they will. Enough!
I also find it annoying to switch from mouse<->keyboard, so I don't want a UI that relies on constant keyboarding.
That's where I first heard of this as well. Here's the link:

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/09/05/want-an-unpaid-internship...
You are far out of your depth; this'll be my last to you.

"Quit pointing out that Einstein was wrong. Thats obvious."

Please point that out to the people trying to sleaze in the claim he was right. :)

"The point is that a physicist can contribute to economics."

To quote another physicist, you're not even wrong!

"ad the original poster simply pointed out the flaws of socialism, this discussion would never had taken place."

Well no - gnosis apparently would have never submitted this, judging by some of his other remarks.
It's an article about hacking women :-)
Slickness is an underrated quality of good user interfaces.
I want to make something like this for personal use. This has inspired me to move it up the queue a bit. I've still got back-end work to do in the mean time.
For me, not owning my own server as a serial entrepreneur is like a graphics design consultant not owning a mac. Or a mechanic without four extra cars in his backyard.

I'm sure Heoku is a great deal if you don't have the sysadmin skills. My skills are just good enough and I manage my own box. I bought it 5 years ago..4 cores, 8 GBs, 73GB RAID-1...for $5000. I pay $105/month to host it.

This is at least the equivalent in horsepower of what you get from Heroku for $500+ a month (that's being generous). So in a few years, I'm ahead of the curve: $11,300 vs $30,000. Add in the fact that I paid down $5000 in advance as a capital investment and I'm still ahead. You could do this today for under $3000 capital investment and have an even more capable box.

Sure there's risk I'll have a hardware failure (I did have 3 years 24 hours on site warranty, but that's still potential downtime and headaches). But there is also risk that over the course of that time you will want to run things on your server you did not anticipate when you started. It certainly was the case for me. e.g. I started my app in rails then switched to merb. Now I run a second site on the same server with mongodb and solr.

Bottom line, if you have moderate linux skills and know your going to be in "some business" that requires you have a server, buy your own. If not, Heorku seems a fine choice for some.
I think you have the right idea. My idea was immediately along the lines of "if you have less to control, you can devote more hardware to control it", which would seemingly produce higher levels of perceived intelligence.
No, but you also don't say that it does. So does it ?
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I'm looking for a subscription model so unless PayPal has a recurring billing, I can't use it. Thanks for the tip anyway.
Its refreshing to see new ideas being implemented well. What makes this particularly interesting is the panning desktop metaphor (which seems to be getting more and more popular) and is quite appropriate for multi-touch screens (think ipad).

It would be most interesting to see this idea extended in this manner, and possibly alter it so coding can be done differently. One possible way might be to have a collection of functions available, then link them together to create new functions. In most cases, this could be done using relatively few commands, so could be done on a touch-only screen.
> Oh, maybe you're not talking about socialism but about totalitarian communism (aka "state capitalism").

The problem is, the path to socialism was laid out by Marx as violent uprising against the capitalists. Then people are surprised that the newly minted generals and blood-covered revolutionaries aren't wise and decent rulers? I mean, what the heck did people expect? Castro, Pol Pot, Lenin, Kim Sung Il - I think these guys really, honestly, truly, legitimately had socialist utopia intentions. The problem is, when you overthrow the current regime in a bloodbath - well, what the heck do you expect after that? Peace and harmony?
All of the organizations you admire have computer systems, and substantially all of them suck. So you've got that going for you. Word to the wise: they suck for a reason, and finding out exactly why they suck may not be a pleasant experience for you.

You're wonderfully fortunate in that you have a skillset which scales to infinity and beyond. Many of the people who are doing things you think are important are working in the virtual stone-age. You can alleviate that, and give them force-multipliers which will let them spend more of their sharply limited time/effort/money on stuff that matters and less of their time/effort/money on doing largely worthless things in inefficient ways.

Feeding the poor: worthwhile! Inventory management which relies on having a woman with a graduate degree count cans and tally them on paper: waste! Human factors which make eliminating her 'job' sound like you are attacking 'the cause': substantial!
I was actually in contact with them recently. Did you receive bad service? I'd like to know before I go with them.
It's only socialism until it fails. "I have seen the future, and it works!"

Afterward, it retroactively becomes capitalism.
'There are a lot of things you can teach, but the most important ones must be learned.'

One thing that I would love that someone else had shown to me when I has in high school is what does it mean to learn, and how to learn. These are some resources that really helped me understand the value of true learning [1][2][3]

What I would recommend is that you wait some years to get into university/college. You really have no reason to rush, and the whole experience, if you later choose to live it, could be much more enjoyed if more maturity. Go travel, study programming by yourself or doing projects, study languages in other countries, take some telecommuting jobs, take some risks, and above all else, learn what does it mean to learn.

[1] http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/560

[2] http://www.papert.org/works.html

[3] http://ournature.org/~novembre/illich/1970_deschooling.html
Have you tried ringing the banks direct?

Back in AU (I now live in Canada) I was able to get a pretty good deal and system from my local bank. I have no idea why it was not promoted online but their merchant facilities did the trick!
Some people earn 30k a year and some earn 50k per year. Yet we're all equally broke at the end of the year.
Ideally, you should be using SSL any time you ask for information you don't want others to ever be able to see. Think about it this way:

You log on to your site via an open wireless network at your local coffee shop. Anything that you aren't SSL encrypting is being sniffed and read by the shady looking dude with the laptop and latte over in the corner. What don't you want him to see? SSL encrypt that.

For my sites, this generally means any page where a password is entered. You might want to take it a step further and protect private profile pages or anything like that, but at a minimum, authentication should be encrypted over the wire.

You might say "Well yeah, but I run a site where people post pictures of their morning poo, who cares if they get hacked?" - that's fine, but people have a horrible tendancy to use the same email and password all over the place. When Joe logs in to PostMyPoo with joe@gmail.com/hunter2, chances are Shady Latte Guy is going to pop over to gmail, punch in those credentials, and the vast majority of the time, he's in to Joe's account. He can now go through Joe's email to see what else Joe is signed up for, try his existing credentials, or issue password reset requests to get into anything else he wants. Suddenly, Joe has a data/identity security nightmare on his hands, and you bear some measure of responsibility for that.
Perhaps you could combine it with something like Spreedly?

http://spreedly.com/info/payment-gateways/

I haven't used them before, but I am looking for an excuse to try them out.
If you're looking at doing subscription stuff, check out spreedly, http://spreedly.com/. They'll handle all of the subscription and billing stuff for you, and abstract away whomever you end up using as a gateway. They do support Paypal as a backend.
Any recommendations on a certificate authority?
I (Canadian) have an account on http://www.internetsecure.com/ -- I haven't used it yet so I can't advise, but it's one for your list.
I'm pretty sure Paypal does have recurring payments. I think they call it a subscription payment.
The author should have watched the entire interview if he was going to blog about it.

Annie Leonard sounded reasonable, not knocking all material things, but rather saying that we should get good use out of what we do have. Also, Colbert himself at the very end of the interview obviously liked either her and/or what she said.
His comment is an ad-hominem attack on Objectivists (e.g., people like me.)
Amazon has a very strong subscriptions/reoccurring billing system with a nice of API for subscription management.

https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=devfps/adv...
Yeah, a bloody revolution must inevitably result in an oppressive dictatorship. Just look at what happened after the American Revolution. Oh, wait...

Anyway, I should be clear that I am not advocating bloody revolution (I'm against all violence except in clear cases of self-defense). And I very much doubt bloody revolution was what Einstein was advocating either. For that matter, I think you'll find very few advocates of bloody revolution among today's socialists.

The trend is towards peaceful, gradual change towards a more socialist system. Northern Europe and particularly South and Central America are proving to be valuable models in this regard. Unfortunately, the latter has been distorted by bloody American intervention over the last hundred years, and by the anti-democratic dictators the US has propped up. But even there there's hope.
Economics can contribute to economics, so long as they are not dynamic macroeconomic theorists. That stuff is witchcraft.
AFAIK this is not available through their gateway - you have to send the user to PayPal.com and even then I believe they have to use a PayPal account to subscribe.

If there's a way around this I would love to know.
Arguably the two world wars of the 20th century were a consequence of the expansionist tendencies of capitalist economies, and between them deaths were nigh on 100 million.

Of course you may well reject such an argument, as I might reject the argument that the tens of millions of deaths in totalitarian states that described themselves as communist were an inevitable consequence of their politico-economic structure.

My point is not to claim that either of these points of view are true or false. My point is that complex, somewhat subjective and potentially contentious historical analyses are required to attribute causation to the 20th century's multiple clusters of mass homicide (unlike, say, the deaths caused by the 1918 flu pandemic where an objective attribution of cause is relatively straightforward).

The evidence is not as straightforward as you portray it.

(edit: I missed out the word 'deaths' in the first paragraph)
I would go with mercurial.
It just works well with both Windows and Linux (I don't have a MAC).
And like alfred said, hoping is not a good option for you.
I would always go with any tool, that's proven that obscure.
Playing around with it, and testing it is fine if you are a <4 people team.
Anything more than 4, and I think it's time to google "XYZ number of users" and it will show you stuff.

If you still need more information to be sure, I think I trust these two, esp recommend the google code link.

http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis

http://rg03.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/mercurial-vs-git/
This one is a little balanced. more like a good info on internals of both. A little too long, and I didn't like the fact that the guy says both are great, in summary.
I knew that already...pick a side if u write a VS article...or else what's the point.....
Kurzweil Critiques Avatar – Technology Applied Unevenly, Cast as Enemy
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I've seen this on a few New Zealand current affairs shows and have never seen any footage of an unassisted outdoor flight. Every time the creators have had media coverage they have insisted on doing it inside and not allowing it to go higher than a few meters off the ground.

I'd like to see them do a real test flight higher than a few meters off the ground before I'm convinced that this is the real deal.
[edit: fixed link]

This approach might be conducive to RFS 5: Development on Handhelds (http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html).

Bubbles - smaller chunks of information more suitable for a small display

Arranged in a spatial layout - fits with the spatial, panning style of the iPhone UI.
We use Amazon FPS at Mixpanel and it's okay. The fees are certainly low.

However, you have to send your users offsite to a co-branded page to get them signed up, which is a pain in the ass. They also have to have an Amazon account, which many businesses don't (if you're a B2B startup).
I think they need to tell us pretty quickly that they aren't using the same key for all data.

I hope they can!
I'm looking pretty seriously at MongoDB and I've heard that Cassandra is worth considering. I do a lot of data warehousing / statistical analytics which generally means some sort of star schema-based reporting with lots of crosstabs, dimensions, etc.

If anyone can relate their experience with either of these two platforms, would either be a good choice for live querying for these types of applications? I know you can use MapReduce to eventually get the data you need, but I need to support queries that respond in (well) less than a second, even for very large data sets.
Time to change wife then, if your woman is a money grabbing, careless shopaholic freak, get her therapy or fire her.
Authorize.net's CIM with custom app for flexible rebilling.
Have a look at Recurly as well: http://recurly.com

We use PayPal though.
Thanks it sounds like a good idea.
For Python Netbeans/WingIDE/PyCharm do this good enough.
Maybe this is just a generational thing, but when I entered my years of intellectual curiosity I had access to the local university library, bookstore, and the internet. Although I don't disagree there are mindblowing concepts out there, I feel they are much more efficiently delivered in texts written by practitioners with worldwide recognition in their fields rather than from a powerpoint lecture made by average state U professor. It seems rather absurd many students must pay thousands of dollars per semester for the privilege to sit in on these lectures when one could purchase the definitive treatment of the subject for $35 and read it in a month.

There are a lot of ways of interpreting the question. But to me, the main interpretation is: is it at all cost-efficient to charge students $60k+ and 4 years of their lives to sit in on lectures in order to "learn" abstract bodies of conceptual knowledge? To me the answer is no.

But of course the other aspect is the social signal. Many middle class wage paying jobs will not consider uncredentialed people. For this reason acquiring a degree is probably 'worth it'. And of course if you can go for free and delay the real world for that long, hell yeah do it.
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Thanks for this comparison.

Can you recommend the company that you colocate/lease-to-own with?
Yeah, obviously if you're near or below the poverty line, it's a little different. I'd assume he was assuming people were programmers or the like.

And really, if you can't afford to take 3 months off, you also can't afford to be unemployed for every long (unless you have an outstanding severance package promised to you), which is bad for your financial stability. First of all, you may just not be able to find a job, and even if you can, it's possible that the ability to hold out for another month could have gotten you a much better job.

I'm just 17, but I can't imagine being in a longterm situation where I'm saving very little if I'm making a programmer's salary. Stability is a much more important "luxury" than eating out, nice stuff, cable TV, etc in my book.
Protocol Buffers are flexible because they support 'optional' fields. So we can change the structure of Protocol Buffer without breaking the system.