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Really? It would still be pretty disconnected from reality, mostly because:

a) The Earth's magnetic field is incredibly weak compared to anything you'd get from transcranial stimulation, and

b) The Earth's magnetic field doesn't change significantly over the course of the year.
Sticking with my hypothesis and my principle, I would sway passion first, understanding second. You can go about finding a way to improve your understanding. You can't do that with passion.
The nice thing about linux is that it IS an IDE. With built in tools its easy to do much of the heavy work VS does. I also use VS at work and its very refreshing to use simple but extensible tools. VS takes forever to load and none of the tools work half as good as the cmd ones.

VIM is just an editor with advanced editor tools. If you are looking for more of a IDE emacs really follows that path. Its highly extensible and has many more IDE type features.

Again using an IDE is fine and dandy if you ship things. :)
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Why doesn't your landlord raise the rent?
There is absolutely no reason to believe that countries with high levels of homeownership, like the U.S., have better economies than those with low levels of homeownership, like Germany.

And yet the US has a higher per-capita GDP than Germany, right?

Besides, homes have to be owned by somebody. If homes aren't tying up the wealth of Joe Workingclass they'll be tying up the wealth of John Richbastard instead.

How much of the low rate of home ownership in Europe can be attributed to property title? If the only housing units available are blocks of apartments on a single deed then you'd expect a low rate of ownership, whereas if the entire country was split into individual-title houses then you'd expect a much higher rate.

EDIT: Wait, I forgot to mention the screwiest thing about the long-term prospects of Germany: it has a birth rate of 1.4 per couple, way below replacement rate. I'm guessing that this could have a lot to do with the housing supply being concentrated towards small apartments and away from large houses.
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It may be cheaper for your landlord to pay all that than it would be for you to do so, though, so he might not be losing that much. In particular, if he bought in a while ago, he probably pays much less than the official rate for property taxes, due to Prop 13 grandfathering in an anciently low valuation.
Well myspace has always been in the business of cashing in, I doubt they factor in a long term profitability when they decide that this is the optimal amount of ads on a page.
A more un-misleading title:

IPad taken apart and re-assembled.

Four minutes is the length of the video and has nothing to do with how long it took to do the actual work.
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Travel itself should be quite ok even regularly, it certainly wouldn't be just siting in your seat for 2 days and looking out of the window, more like a hotel on rails. But I'd very afraid of bureaucracy: entry visa, transit visa, various railway companies and their mess of various offers and discounts… Land trip across Asia means passing through countries like Iran, China or Russia. And given how unkind seems rail travel even within EU's borders (where only the last problems applies, and you can get all schedule informations you need by just typing your destination at http://oebb.at or similar site) for many people, and not because the length of the trip.

On the other hand, it would be wonderful business opportunity for travel agencies. And much more interesting than just booking the right plane. I almost want it to happen :-)
The Microsoft Natural keyboard is surprisingly good for its price. Despite being to wide I really enjoyed it before getting the Kinesis Advantage.
I've been using Zotero, though I'm still undecided how much I like it (but I do know know people who love it): http://www.zotero.org/
Remove the word 'criminal' above - and people living in non-democratic countries, such as Iran, Uzbekistan, Russia, China etc. will be very grateful to you.
I think that HTML5/CSS3 may bring back the days of useless animations, horrible text effects, and web pages plagued by usability problems due to the implementation of "features" for the sake of novelty that we had the "pleasure" experiencing in the 1990's.

I'm looking at all those novices out there that use Expression/FrontPage/Dreamweaver as their environment of choice for writing HTML once those WYSIWYG tools begin to incorporate HTML5/CSS3 into their toolkits.

The rest of us will make good use of these new features and only implement them when it makes sense. Sadly, many unprofessional elements within the web design community will be all too eager to show off their newfound "sKiLLz".
What about when I pay a lot of my mortgage early? Say, within a few years?
Worth it just for this bit:

Despite the lack of time, Moody made an announcement to the passengers that has been described as "a masterpiece of understatement":[3][4] “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.

I've always found the use of understatement to be an interesting difference between British and American English.
Heh. I've flown two times since 2001, both in 2008 on an A320 that had standard AC outlets nearly everywhere.

Until I clicked that link and double checked, I had assumed the same was true of nearly every plane on every carrier in general -- I mean, it's 2010 -- and the 757 I will be taking in a month in particular. It isn't. Bummer.
Compared to the BSD-family of licences, the GNU GPL is less free, as it restricts what one entity can do with code granted by another. I'm not saying this is a bad thing; this is exactly what the GNU GPL is written to do: enforcing a share-and-share-alike ethos for a given set of code.

I do think that the rhetoric (including the "four freedoms") is nonsense that could be left by the wayside with no harm, and possibly even improve it. That's the part about the GNU GPL and the FSF that I can't stand: don't try to tell me that this is about freedom. Tell me that this is about building a base of code that requires share-and-share-alike behaviour and that you're doing it because you think it will produce a richer environment. I may not agree with you, but at least I'll respect your stance.

If I want to restrict others use of my software in a way that they have to grant others the exact same rights that I granted them in the first place, then I will happily pick the GNU GPL or some other license that achieves the same thing, because that's what I want in that case. If I don't want to restrict others use of my software in any way, I will pick something much less restrictive (such as the MIT or BSD licences). If I want something in-between, I will choose an in-between license like the MPL or the LGPL. But in no way will I pretend that my application of restrictions is increasing freedom. It's the restrictions I'm choosing for the software I'm writing. No more, no less.
What about for the purposes of restarting the engines?
non-paying tenants can linger for months

Make that years, at least in San Francisco.
With the exception of your first sentence, I completely agree with what you've said. (I disagree with the first sentence on philosophical/semantic grounds that aren't really relevant to your point.)

When I want to force others to share code that I have written, I will choose the GNU GPL or something very like it. If I don't care what others do with code, I will release it under a much less restrictive license.
Cognitive science departments (at universities that have them) generally provide wonderful coverage of HCI topics, though some CS/EECS/CE departments do as well.
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Last December I flew SFO to Buenos Aires to SFO to Sydney to SFO in the space of a month. If I'd done that via land and sea I would have spent the whole month on a vehicle. (Actually it kinda felt that way anyway).
No, I've never liked that Smalltalkish idea of storing programs one function at a time. You lose information that way. I prefer to view programs as text. A text file is actually a very cool and underrated abstraction.

It's not hard to imagine someone reinventing it as an advanced version of the Smalltalk approach: add the ability to view multiple definitions in some predefined order, add control over indentation (no small thing), add the ability to intersperse comments between the definitions, and bingo, you've reinvented the text file.
Because it's in San Francisco. Rent control.
I find R syntax to be really annoying, and I am trying to work more in Octave, a matlab compatible system. I don't like the mostly gratuituous complexity of the R type hierarchy, and prefer to have everything be a matrix. I also detest the use of periods as plain text. FWIW.

http://www.octave.org
OK, so the big thing I've got from this thread is: don't be a landlord in San Francisco.
Help. RSS 2 POST? Is there one?
I am looking for a RSS reader that checks for changes if changes found it will send a post request.

Preferably in Python. Is there anything that does this that you know of?
You're assuming that they are acting rationally or testing at all... just because they have a zillion pages views per day doesn't mean that they operate like it.

Perhaps they do A/B testing, but I think it's a leap to assume that they do.
That doesn't even make the slightest bit of sense. You think damaging the global economy is a good thing? How would you feel if you got laid off because of this mess and couldn't find another job? And a volcano isn't an externality, because humans aren't responsible for it.
Who says the market is sensible? There's a lot of noise out there. Someone buying property not only has to guess that an area will go up in value, but they also have to factor in:

1) inflation rates (higher inflation is much better)

2) tax changes (e.g. the passage of prop 13 in California helped investment property owners greatly)
On skimming Apple's supplier responsibility compliance report: http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/SR_2010_P..., one thing that struck me was that there were no independent agencies verifying Apple's statements (although it talks about local third-party consultants, we are given no names of these).
Botnets do it. It can't be too hard.
It's not just growth prospects, you're making a bet on the regulatory environment continuing to restrict the supply of homes. It may seem like California will never open up more land for housing, but it's not a law of nature.
Out of curiosity, why do you see Sac rebounding strongly?
To clarify what I was intending to say, but didn't make as clear as I should have (I was posting from the iPhone).

1. RMS is incredibly consistent in what he says. He is a zealot in the best sense of the word. When he talks about software freedom, he always means the four freedoms, and he does his absolute hardest to never compromise his principles. This is (mostly) admirable[1], if infuriating because pragmatism would often get his arguments further IMO. However,

2. RMS is not the FSF, and not everyone who works with or for the FSF is as rigorous with their use of software freedom in discussions. When you step even further outside of the circle to those who support the FSF, the rigor is even less present.

So, what I didn't make clear in my excessively short initial reply was that I wasn't talking about RMS's lack of rigor; I was talking about the wider FSF circle.

[1] The whole "GNU/Linux" thing is one of the points where I think that the lack of compromise and zealotry is not admirable and demonstrates the same sort of negative zealotry that would be associated with a radical religious sect. It's great that RMS sticks to his guns, but sometimes he goes in directions that harm his position far more than if he were to compromise a little.
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Every now and then I see articles like these. It always seems to me that the author is simply trying to justify the fact that they rent. Renting vs. buying is a very personal decision and has a lot more to do with lifestyle and personal choices than financial soundness. I bought my house in 2005 at almost the top of housing market in Florida. I paid $145k for my house and told everyone about how smart of a financial decision I was making. I've spent $15k in home improvements and my house is now worth $125k. Oops. However, my mortgage is still very low and I can easily afford it regardless of the current worth.

Now the question is, if I could see the future back in 2005, would I still buy this house? If all I could see was the housing crash of 2008-2009, then of course not. But if I could see the great times I've had in this house which includes absolute peace and quiet, friendly neighbors who don't change every other month, and the feeling of a little place by the beach to call my own, I would indeed buy this house. Buying a house has a lot more to do with making it a home than just a shelter for cheap.

Nobody knows the future. I could have rented this exact house and instead of benefiting in the long run, I could have ended up losing more money if rent prices skyrocketed. All I know is that for people who can afford to buy and afford to rent, money has very little to do with buying vs. renting.
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Haha...love it.
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+1 for correctly stating how those investment vehicles are structured. In fact, expect not to see them much later in the future as people didn't understand how or why they performed as they did.
"I stopped reading..."

I see this phrase regularly, but I don't really understand it. Does it mean you read no further into the article, or did you actually read more, if not all, but use this phrase to signify that you disagree.

I find the idea of only reading until you find something you disagree with curious. It seems to indicate a belief that one flaw in a person's work invalidates the remainder of that work. Surely you don't consume opinion in a binary fashion, either accepting or rejecting it in its entirety, but rather you have the ability to consider each point and reject some and accept others based on their merit?

[pulls rant up short]

Not meaning to single you out, you just happened to use that phrase at the same time that I had time to reply
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I dabbled with Zotero for research purposes awhile back, might have to give the latest version a spin to see if I can bend it to my needs.

I have tons of ebooks, word docs, ppt, PDFs, etc. though, and manually organizing them would probably(definitely) take too much time.

How are you using Zotero?
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It's not a Google "product", just a site. It's "Google Investor Relations".
Is anyone aware of any such services that actually allow encryption that _you_ control? I.e., keyed off a password you provide?
No, it's such a well-established principle among high-traffic sites that it's a leap to assume they don't.
In the limit, that's like buying the house with cash up front, which amounts to betting that the appreciation will exceed any investment income. For example, given person A who paid cash for a house a year ago and person B who put that money into an index fund, in most parts of the country B would be much better off right now.
Bizarre article.

After lots of fluff, it delivers some good insights into why the game succeeded, then calls on our moral obligations to stand up to sociopathic corporations?

Did not see that coming.
"When I am predicting an Apple product I never think about beauty, I only think about specs. But when I have finished, if the leaked pictures are not beautiful, I know they are wrong." - paraphrasing Buckminster Fuller.
I'm in the category of startups with low capital which is why I asked. In spite of it being a win/win for both parties it doesn't seem to be a common occurrence — as a domainer (for want of a better description), would you say my perception is off or is that really the case? Would a sedo-like service for leasing domains interest you?
Well of course the marketer would benefit if their ad was the only one on the page. They would benefit enough to pay Myspace not to run the other 16 though.

Ad rates are falling (in some areas, not in all) because supply is growing faster than demand. Also more ads are appearing on less intent-focused sites, like Facebook, and branding ads always pay peanuts compared to direct sales.
You assert that this research is just "a toy project that messes with electrical currents in the brain jazzed up by moral and ethical philosophy".

Where is your evidence that it isn't "clearly delineated research objectives backed by solid scientific theory"?

Surely, occams razor suggests to me that people actively researching in the field aren't complete morons, and have some idea of what they are doing relative to someone who (assumingly) has no experience in this field. What evidence do you have for your conclusions?
Yep, this is a good description of his blog.

As a daily reader of his blog, there still is this deep, deep seated arrogance against any company other than Apple. Apple gets a fair set of positive and negative coverage, but any other company almost always gets _only_ negative coverage.

For example, the current frontpage has depressing things to say about Flip(Cisco), Adobe, RIM, Motorola, Goldman Sachs, Palm, Sony and Ning.

Positive mentions: Just 2. One each for Adobe(this is rare, and only because of hard evidence -- 2x speedup in Photoshop CS5) and Google. (One neutral mention of Unity).

The more worrying concept is that he is widely read by all of Apple's employees, all the way up to the top. Clearly some of his views resonate _in_to the company as well, so even if he is not on their payroll, I very much consider him an Apple evangelist, and take every negative comment of his with a huge pinch of salt.
I'm not a homeowner, but I believe most mortgages are
"frontloaded", at least to some extent, so you're paying off the interest before you pay off the principle.

Its not uncommmon to pay ~2x the principal in interest. So I couldn't say for sure, but I don't see it having a huge impact.
I don't stop reading when I disagree with something, but I have stopped reading when there's something so ridiculously off-base that it throws everything else the author may think about the topic into question. If there's a fundamental misunderstanding of some aspect of a given topic, it makes it likely the rest is not worth reading.

I'm not obligated to read anything, and if the author is wrong on basic topics, I'll not be giving them more of my time.

It's rare, but it does happen.
Well I'd never say the market was sensible at any given place and time, but I think it tends to fluctuate back and forth somewhere around the vicinity of "sensible". If you decide that renting is going to be cheaper than buying for the rest of your life then you're gambling on the assumption that the market stays on one particular side of "sensible" for decades.
Not necessarily, because there are some effective costs that a homeowner pays that a landlord does not. First, the loss of the ability to move easily. Second, the landlord probably has economies of scale on things like time and money spent on maintenance.
"I post, therefore I am"

That made me laugh, esp in today's context.
Know your evils: FarmVille is not an MLM. If FarmVille were an MLM, you'd have a downline (the people recruited by the people you recruited) also sending you money, recruiting would provide material awards far in advance of actually making or selling virtual pumpkins, and there would be a sub-industry of teaching you how to become a better recruiter of recruiters of virtual pumpkin farmers which would itself also be an MLM scheme.
Mortgage payments are usually calculated to be equal over time. Therefore, a greater proportion of the early payments goes to interest, but a greater proportion of the later payments goes to principal. Payments in excess of the set payment amount are generally applied to the principal. Thus, making payments in excess of the set payment amount early in the life of the loan will reduce the principal faster than expected, and the total interest paid for the loan will be reduced.
Could the 80/20 principle be wrong?
Some markets (Texas?) are sensible in exactly that way. California is not.
Just a guess based on the vibe of the place -- it feels like a city which is going to continue to grow in population and importance, and it's come down a helluva long way since the peak of the boom. I could be wrong. If I had a really good reason for believing it then I'd be out there buying instead of talking about buying.

I'm only picking on Sacramento because I used to live there, there could be much better buying opportunities in cities I don't know so well.
Easy to combat this though, a HN ad would just be a sponsored thread, although people can eventually ignore this given the time that HN has ran ad free, if there really was a need for an ad they could be really picky about only advertising things that the community would be interested in.
This approach looks very interesting. I will give it a try. Still comfort using native apps will be there for the end user.
We can make judgments about leisure activities just as we can about any other part of life. Playing sports, reading novels, and watching (good) movies can all make you a healthier, more reflective person, while being intrinsically entertaining. Even WoW, while it has some disturbing aspects, has the wonder of exploring a fantasy world, online society, and some strategy.

I don't play Farmville but I don't know of anyone that argues it's time well spent. Players don't even seem to be having "fun" by any normal definition. At best, it exploits social rewards to make you conform to the game makers' agenda.

Perhaps it's closer to fashion than recreation; where you're on a consumption treadmill that's largely controlled by others. Without the consolation of having nice clothes or looking any better.
Wow...thanks for taking the time to go through all of this ismarc. Definitely gives me a lot to think about and helps me 'segment' my decision-making better.

I guess if I had a co-founder or someone else working with it would be easier, but you are absolutely right. I am trying to do everything at once, although I did try to segment them it seems I am not doing that properly.

In my case, the UI is very important and even though I am no graphics person, I think I will likely go with your #1. Then once I am done with that, cross that bridge.
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Don't forget winning a limited edition, orange "Farmville" Lexus SUV if you generate the most leads and longest chain in a quarter.
Thnx for the encouragement fhirzall.

The truth is, a funny thing has started happening. The more I used jQuery and the more I solved some problems, is the more I understood javascript better - which was a bit strange at first. I have had a few 'epiphany' moments.

Your analogy about the car makes total sense, especially for what I am trying to do.

Your point about my questions helping other programmers is also very true and prescient.

This is why I love HN, because I can get good, heartfelt feedback about issues I am dealing with in the moment.

Thanks again.
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I think renting does make more fiscal sense, but there are so many reasons to own your own place beyond finance.