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Is it time to defend our rights?
USPS Estimates $230 Billion in Losses over Next 10 Years
Please keep this sort of political crap off of hacker news.
I just had a 40 minute bike shed moment thanks to this question.

How else would you indicate strong disagreement with a comment given the HN culture of well thought out replies and a zero cost binary device for weighing in on an issue, when you have nothing else to contribute other than "I disagree"/"I do not like your post"?
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We are losing it. The Internet is becoming the new radio.
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One approach that works for me: search for play lists on grooveshark.com that have songs that you like. Sometimes people put together play lists with other interesting songs on them (and sometimes they're rubbish, but such is the nature of exploration).
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Is "discrimination" necessary to explain the sex gap in earnings?
I think this is really interesting, there's so many modern myths.
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Isn't it a little strange that he announces his "blogging retirement" on a magazine's website inside an article hidden behind an interstitial ad? Shouldn't this have gone front and center on Joel on Software?
Yep. I remember a few years back seeing Jobs compare Apple to Chrysler (I think?) in this respect... something along the lines of: Chrysler makes minivans for families. They happen to also be really good for businesses that need to shuttle executives around, and Chrysler is happy to sell to them, but that's not who Chrysler is thinking about when they design them.

This was obviously a few years ago. :)
WRT healthier walking and posture: what shoes can be purchased that don't look completely ridiculous?
I'd seen them before, and they do look like a good idea.

Edit: here, I found where I'd seen them, at Wired:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/barefoot/
added some cushioning to original Free

Is that a joke? Or was there some need to add cushioning?
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And Chrome will keep gaining with things like Google Chrome Beta Browser Adds Translation, Privacy Features - http://bit.ly/baCeoV
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/

And in particular the iPhone Configuration Utility: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL926
Software, primarily.

But, more relevant to this essay: I don't know of another tablet with a screen the size of iPad's, a 10 hour battery, and a shell that's 1.5" thick. (Not that it doesn't exist, I'm just not aware of it.)
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Preventing the windows from being broken isn't the broken window fallacy.
Maybe they should stop saturday delivery and stop undercutting FedEx and UPS on shipping charges and they might stop losing money. The government only stops them from expanding their business and closing rural branches.

Also sell sponsorships on the carrier vehicles, like "If you had netflix we would be delivering you a movie right now"
Plus ça change...
How many times do we have to flag the same story?
I discover a lot of new music from people I follow on Twitter, many of whom link to Youtube videos or Last.fm tracks. VC Fred Wilson (familiar to most here, I would imagine) is a good example of someone who tweets about what he's listening to regularly. I've discovered a number of new artists and sub-genres that way.

As far as discovering new artists in genres that I really like, you can't beat Pandora.
This is great timing for me. I sat down a few nights ago with the intention of learning Clojure, but ended up spending the whole evening wrestling with Emacs and SLIME, trying and failing to get a usable REPL. Perhaps I should have given up and just used the REPL in a terminal window, but I already know from my Common Lisp tinkering how useful it is to have SLIME.

On my adventures I found plenty of blog posts like this one, but none of them very recent, and I couldn't get any of them to work. Hopefully I'll have better luck this time, with a guide matching the current state of Clojure's distribution.
The problem with liberalism is that it's thoroughly impractical. Liberals largely have home-owners association syndrome, where they believe they can change the world by idly meddling in other people's lives. The problem is, their programs generally don't work, and regularly create mis-aligned incentives.

Take 100% FHA loans and desktop underwriting pioneered by liberals like Barney Frank so that everyone, especially poor people that are constantly taken advantage of by the man, in America could own homes. That little scheme blew up spectacularly.

Take it to the extreme, and go all the way to communism. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Under such a system, why would I possibly want to sacrifice and work long, hard hours? Society would be like a giant high school, where most people do the absolute minimum to get by. Most smart people would figure out that hard work doesn't pay and would optimize for easy, fun jobs, or they would organize to change the system. The lackluster productivity of the Soviet Union countries should be evidence of this, but people still spout off nonsense about how wonderful it would be.
The 6 cases where IIPA objects to open source mandates
http://twitter.com/jamie_love/status/9875510148
You would need to do on the fly reprogramming which is slow. The game designer would have to be intimately familiar w the fpga architecture and the game software complexity would increase ridiculously. Fpga density cannot rival dedicated gpu gate density for dedicated rasterizing, etc. I doubt performance would improve at all. Game computations are dominated by what gpus are built for.
same as it ever was. the only difference is that this time you have a front row seat. governments have been using the same rhetoric techniques to accomplish the same goals since the agricultural revolution at least, and probably before that.
That's a syntax error, presumably. You can't assign to a symbol.
And here I was hoping that all the reports about China's espionage efforts was tied to I don't know rumors of China cutting back on rare earth exports. A sort of "keep selling us neodymium or we convince american sto stop buying from you" threat.

No silly me just plain old fashioned Big Brother. Anyone taking bets on the google attacks being a false flag operation?
Perhaps private shipping companies should be allowed to compete in this sector.
Ask HN: Designing a Database
I'm primarily a designer with a good amount of code experience (classes in school, messing around on my own etc.) I started to learn rails over the summer, and built one pretty messy app. That said, I'm gearing up to build my second app, this time around I've been thinking a lot about the database and how everything needs to connect etc. rather than doing it as I go.

So far I've drawn it on paper (looks like something out of MS Access) but I was wondering if there are any other recommended steps I should take before I start coding this all out (besides the usual flow charts etc.)?

Thanks!

-bgnm
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Timing is everything, but Burry was careful to find a long-term bet with limited downside. He wasn't shorting stocks - he was buying credit-default swaps which are essentially insurance policies.

"For instance, you might pay $200,000 a year to buy a 10-year credit-default swap on $100 million in General Electric bonds. The most you could lose was $2 million: $200,000 a year for 10 years. The most you could make was $100 million, if General Electric defaulted on its debt anytime in the next 10 years"
Chrome has plugins too, not as many, but I am sure it will grow as the number of users grows as well.
Agreed, I am a huge fan of Weave and FireFox. While I do agree that Chrome is also an excellent browser, I would hardly say it is evident that Chrome has out innovated FireFox, especially this early in the process.
He mentioned it in the Stackoverflow podcast either last week or the week before as well.
You know what looks ridiculous? Hobbling because cool looking shoes have smashed your feet and wrecked your knees.
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Ready to be bought by Google, integrated into Google Goggles?
All the downvoting actually makes finding and reading your comments in a post a lot easier. Just look for the faded blocks of text in the sea of dark letters.
Balsamiq's been a stand-up company. Doing non-profit web design, their core product was a little out of budget for us so they graciously donated a free copy, no questions asked.

Building a design blog is a great move since it helps focus customer feedback, sets future expectations and even hits their core target market: UX Designers. Looking forward to reading it.
Each time a discussion about a public service comes up, I feel obliged to remind that even if a public service is not financially viable, it may have positive externalities that it cannot capture, but that make the whole venture more-than-viable to society.

The Post Service is a classic example of such a service. They serve remote areas and communities that commercial delivery services would not cover, therefore jumpstarting commerce there. Otherwise these communities would be economically isolated and would wither away. The state usually recovers their expenses soon, given that increased commerce means increased tax income. Also, this is a form of long-term investment for the society as a whole that is non-obvious and for which other mechanisms do not exist.
I think a confusing hardware lineup, confusing messages and overall confusing strategy have a whole lot more to do with its merger than any compulsion to control code.

Their tech is great. Their management not so.

And I don't believe in untenable situations.
GPUS: nVidia/ATI have amazing toolchains, especially CUDA.

FPGAS: we have amazingly bad toolchains
I'm about three-quarters through Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, and it already feels life-changing.
well, hopefully there'll be a good crop of young startups coming out of this round. YC is always an interesting spectator sport.
jQuery and PNGs are actually not HTML5.
I understand they aren't the same. jQuery is often cited as a "Flash killer" of sorts, just covering the bases.

See the ADC for a pretty nice selection of examples which do actually rival Flash websites, often without even using JavaScript.

Right. Except that they don't always.

I'm not saying that Flash should be what we use for creating innovative content. Standards are slow. Video tag? We're just starting to see this implemented? After how many years has video been a demand on the web?

Flash will always do what the browser can't handle native. New demands for VOIP, Web Conferencing, h/w accelerated 3D will keep Flash alive as well an IDE (with mind crushing bugs, mind you) that brings everything together.

And if it doesn't live as a file format, that would be alright, too. There is a different experience with creating content within the Flash IDE. If Flash eventually outputted in native standards, that would be a great thing.
Now I know not to trust Jason Calcanis. He always seemed like a good guy, if a bit of a megalomaniac.

Anybody who forwards private emails is way beyond the pale of somebody who offers a MacBook Air for good coverage. The latter is an ethical lapse, the former is evidence of a deep character flaw.

Jason Calcanis owes the community a large, unequivocal apology through his newsletter - without ads and hyperbole.
In a lot of countries bribery is necessary on a daily basis, otherwise government officials can take literally hours to carry out simple requests. It seems to occur when the person carrying out gets very little pay verses the value of the service they carry out to people using the service.

For instance, it's quite common on land border crossings between developing countries to have to pay $2/3 for your passport to be checked, but that money only goes in the guy's pockets. It might not sound like a lot, but when you consider their daily wage may only be $10-15 and there are 100s of people crossing everyday, it works out quite well I'd expect. If you don't pay it might take them 30mins or more to check your passport or they find some minor problem and send you back wasting several days of your valuable time.

Mostly in the cases I've seen in developing countries, is that you just bribing someone so they will actually do their job properly.
Of course I was not working full time on this. Most publishers give an advance of $6K when writing a full book, which can take a year or so. Nice article about this: http://beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/
I didn't know what was causing this problem first. I tried to login to the Playstation Network (PSN) and always got the "An error has occurred. You have been
signed out of PlayStation Network (8001050F)"-error. I first suspected my internet connection. The annoying part here was, that the internet connection test on my PS3 showed that my internet connection worked, but the PSN login didn't. The funny part then was, that I first searched for the Twitter account of Sony PlayStation (https://twitter.com/SonyPlayStation) to find information about this issue, instead of searching for the official blog, where the actual information about the network status was posted (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/latest-info-on-playst...). Anyway, thanks to their Twitter account I got to the network status message on their blog, and I was somehow happy to know that it's a known issue and that they're working on it (this point goes to Sony's Incident Management). Now I hope I didn't lose any of my hard-earned trophies :)
I found that turning off addons helps a tremendous amount - on both Windows and Linux. Also, 3.6 appears to be much faster. I don't think Chrome is a safe browser.
Noblesse Oblige ... look it up. It's a sad reflection on your personality that you would go after a little guy like this and still defend yourself.
Why not? Large number of the population doesn't have anything worth writing about or losing if their mail/phone call show up on CNN or Fox News. It is sad, I agree.

Lesson for us is not to despair but to figure out how we can "sell" a good idea as an economic incentive (vs. scare tactic). Majority of the population understands that. I would point to Bill Gates Innovation to Zero as a reference of this tactic. Check that talk out on TED.
do people who suddenly inherit enough money never to have to work have a difficult time with that transition?

Since you ask; yes, often they do.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/70165/winning_the_l...
It's like saying that voting for Nader was taking votes away from John Kerry :P
Make sure you've read Wikipedia's article on normalizing databases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization
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Do UPS, FedEx and DHL not count?
1. I did everything myself, except reviewing

2. Sorry the old page is gone, it was a very crappy 2 colors page w/ a box in the middle w/ bullet points. My idea was, if I get decent CR on this, I'm guaranteed to sell some. I don't remember the CPC and the bid, but I spent 50$/day for 2 days on just a few keywords (about 10 iirc).
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I interviewed at Savant once and got an offer. They seemed like a pretty cool place, but they were way out on Cape Cod and I figured I'd go insane out there.
They can perhaps take dual roles of other government agencies too, like US Census.
Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement
When I heard about this Sunday night, the fact that it happened on the last day in February immediately set off little warning bells in the back of my head. And while we can hope to be wrong about such basic things, unfortunately that's what it usually is.
I really liked the second comment.

This reminds me of the article decrying the horrible state of the country’s youth and how they heralded the end of the world. The article was written in ancient Greece.
Woah, hold it right there. So some guy on the road can pull a picture of me and get to know a LOT about me? That's kinda cool, but it creeps me out. If this can't make a person paranoid about privacy, then nothing can.
this is one industry that could benefit from privatization, or at least they could adopt some practices from the private sector and become more lean.
First Steve Yegge and now Joel.
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This is somewhat interesting from a "games are losing their soul" perspective, but at least five years late. Also game piracy isn't new and has mostly been "solved" by consoles and online multiplayer.

Ps. Calling copyright infringement "stealing" still makes you seem, at best, uneducated.
They don't deliver standard mail, afaik.
It does help, but for me personally FF is pretty worthless without the addons. No firebug? No gestures? What's the difference between it and IE at that point?
Also he was not exactly an outsider:

In early 2004 a 32-year-old stock-market investor and hedge-fund manager, Michael Burry

For everyone that lost big in the collapse someone made out like a bandit beforek, durring, or after it.
That "Hire me" button was so nicely designed + plus rollover states of glory, I just clicked on it despite not needing a designer. That is good design.
Ask HN: Are there any Chrome extensions to hide HN stories?
I'm tired of flagging stories about Valley Drama oozing comments about why so-and-so is or isn't a douchebag. Obviously the readers here like this stuff, so much so that such stories get 200+ upmods. I realize my tastes no longer match HN's tastes as it has grown in user base, much as they no longer reflect proggit's tastes as it grew.

So... Is there a simple way to hide posts? Perhaps a Chrome extension or a JS bookmarklet? I'd like to participate in a subset of HN's discussions without the distraction and without wasting the mods' time by flagging stories that are obviously popular.
Coming soon: masks made of frosted Plexiglas.
Chromium is open source, so if Google does something really bad with it, it can be forked.
Thanks! It's pure CSS3 rounded corners and gradients.
As I understand it, they're not allowed to compete with letter delivery/first class mail:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes
Instead of profiting off people suffering from bad investments in housing, Burry should have stuck with his career in neurology and profited off people suffering from brain cancer.
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They can connect your face to a lot of information that you've already made public.

I'm not sure that privacy enters into it.
Steve Jobs:

> "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."
But the journalists here are doing more than copy and paste.
Another advantage of Chrome: extremely fast JavaScript engine. That puts them at a distinct advantage for the coming deluge of web apps.
The concern is not so much that. Indeed I wouldnt particularly worry too much either way about being monitored.

The problem is as follows:

- not everyone feels comfortable being monitored

- innocent data (such as porn surfing) can cause serious damage to someone if released in the wrong way/light

- there is the capacity for serious abuse. Someone could get unauthorized access to the system. Or the government could use it to impose censorship etc.

So while the majority have nothing to lose - they also dont have a huge amount to gain (because things like this wouldnt stop malware being a problem as claimed - etc.). On the other hand it would adversely affect a reasonable minority for all sorts of reasons.
Well till now, they would have to know atleast my name to get said publicly available information.
He is saying that blogging has had a significant opportunity cost and that his blogging time could have been spent on something else that would have led to Fog Creek crossing over.
It is too bad that there isn't a place in the medical field for people like this. I think medicine is suffering from a lack of analytical minds.
I think you're being too kind to them:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/congress-mau...
> My biggest criticism of the barefoot running crowd is that they usually treat it as a way of life.

This behavior is a common pattern with groups on the margins. Although it can be annoying, it doesn't have any bearing on the merits of barefoot running. The Ruby community is a good example, as are vegetarians.

I'm failing to see how callouses would be such a show stopper with barefoot running. Any of the minimal shoes available on the market are enough to prevent callouses if you're concerned about them. I've never owned a pair of traditional running shoes that didn't give me agonizing arch pain within 5 minutes of running, but I've been running for 6 months in a pair of Vibram Five Fingers with no pain at all--I've also got no ugly callouses.

> Feet, legs, and backs aren't evolved to properly support overweight joggers.

You're probably right on this point. But, to me, it's a lot like saying that our cardiovascular system is not properly evolved to transport blood with high levels of cholesterol.

Edit: The callouses bit.
Apple recruits former Microsoft, Mozilla security chief (Window Snyder)
Might want to check out waterproofing options and recommend good ones to your users:
http://www.amazon.com/TrendyDigital-WaterGuard-Waterproof-Ap...
Not exactly an insider either - raising money for his hedge fund as a doctor with a blog.
> after getting pushed out of there (which I did by someone who posted about 50 different crossword puzzle apps in one day)

This is a real problem on the Android market; I experienced that myself. In almost all categories there are people pushing 10 or 20 (mostly poor) apps in one day, driving all others out of the first pages... Maybe a submission timeout would help.

This is problem is avoided pretty well by Apple's approach, although I prefer the open market of Android.
I would buy the public service line if more then half of our mail didn't go straight into the trash. I am excited when I see a Fedex box on the door step. Not so much when I see a mail box full of junk addressed to current resident.
Hey folks - I'm the creator of passwordchart.com. A friend just alerted me to the submission here - I guess I picked the wrong day to try to get things done and ignore HN yesterday.

I built passwordchart.com four years ago after reading a comment on Slashdot. It got me thinking about building a simple form of a personal one time pad that could be regenerated via memorable phrase. The interactive password part is really just there to show how to use the chart.

Finally, for a data point for others wondering what a post on HN means for traffic, I normally get around 300 to 350 visitors per day. Yesterday there were 5623 visitors and so far today Google Analytics is reporting 1333 visitors.
If nothing else I think we can be certain of one fact regarding barefoot running: it is a very appealing story. How many publications that don't typically cover running have written the same story now, and how many times has it made the front page of hacker news?