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Are Americans so lonely? The article doesn't seem to establish that. There's a reference to a book, and an assertion, but since I'm not going to read that before I read the article, it doesn't help.

Saying that people have fewer friends or neighbours doesn't equate to being more lonely. People may have richer lives with less face-to-face contact because they can now interact with people who are more in tune with their beliefs and dreams.

It doesn't help to have lots of neighbours if all of them think you're just that weird goth kid. But if you can share a virtual space with thousands of other weird goth kids, you may be better off, and less lonely.
That's not what ad hominem means. Ad hominem is when you disagree with an idea because of who supports it. For example, "gun control is a bad idea because Hitler believed in it".
Lucas Critique

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique
Sorry, "bounce" is the command for "Resend mail" (not rejecting email) in a lot of unix mailers. Say A sends an email to B who sends it to C.

If B forwards it to C, the email appears to come from B.
If B "bounces" it to C, the email appears to come from A.

(it's the Resent-to header in RFC 822 IIRC)

So say you get a bug report from A than you know only C can fix, by bouncing it to them they get to easily reply directly to A and get on with it, leaving you out of it...
As a native speaker, it doesn't mean something else than "some space with walls around it." I'd imagine that they work in some sort of shared office space. My startup's office, for example, is on a loft with 4 or 5 other companies all around us.
I somehow doubt anyone from HN is going to come to my funeral. We've created a system that allows us to select our own designer social network. With you're neighborhood, you're stuck with those people, you can't just go looking for a new physical community as easily as you can a virtual one. I think this is actually a good thing; it tends to teach a lot more patience between people.
The current uninsured group are mostly low-wage earners (McDonald's workers), self-employed, small businesses or unemployed. Except for the low-wage workers, the rest of the consumers will likely be buying insurance directly from the health insurance companies.
This worked well when I didn't have a job, a girlfriend, pets, etc.
"It sucks up your time, and drains your motivation."

It takes very little time, gathers my thoughts, and motivates me to get through what's written down. There is no greater motivater than crossing entries off the list.

"Those who have to-do lists usually manage them constantly"

Correct. By doing the work and crossing stuff off!

"half the time the tasks on the list never get done"

This isn't a fault of the list, it's the author clearly not having enough time, or not working hard enough to clear it. Either way it highlights a problem that needs fixing.

His concept of the One Thing System actually turns out to be a todo list. You just focus on the first thing on that list and don't do anything else until it is done, he even goes on to suggest making a list! :

"Make a list of possible things to do, if you like, or routine tasks that need to get done for one reason or another. "

So, don't kill your todo list, just use it properly (or better)
The point of the article is that limited resources are countered by human innovation.

And human innovation is driven by population. In a small town, there may not be enough people interested in computers to even form a club; in a big city, you can find enough interested, talented people to form a business many times over. The explosion in wealth generated by large populations is not something to be discarded lightly.
Fannie and Freddie actually lost market share as the bubble really got going. They were prohibited from getting into most subprime, and tried to get around their regulations.

Wall Street was the driver in buying up these shitty mortgages to put into MBS/CDOs -- and quite a few big banks bought mortage originators so they could get bigger margin on these deals. Unfortunately for them Wall Street couldn't find buyers for all of this toxic crap and/or were too dumb to realize how bad some of this stuff was (ie Citigroup). That's why you had a bank run on Bear Stearns, once people realized the collateral they were using in the repo market was effectively worthless.
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But "Arch Linux"? Come on. Was that really necessary to push?
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The last thing they wanted would be for customers to modify the firmware in the field ^_^. Plus they would be cheaper.

I suspect they had a few machines back in New York that would write official firmware releases, which field service would then keep in stock and deliver to sites as needed.
Before Amazon does it, someone should patent identifying a user based on their mouse speed and gestures!
iTunes itself came from an app acquisition. True, not an iPhone app, but they do purchase small companies to take the technology/people
"Maybe it's a generational thing? ... They're (we're?) settling into more urban neighborhoods."

Maybe it is more an urban vs. suburban thing, more so than generational. Of course, younger people might be more urban and older people more suburban.
No, it's not. Ad hominem is when you argue that something wrong with the person invalidates the person's argument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Our forebrains don't care. Our hindbrains do.
Peak [insert metal here] isn't directly comparable to peak oil/coal/combustible for the obvious reason that when the former is used up and discarded, it can be reclaimed, while the latter is gone forever. Obviously you can still hit limitations, such as when demand is greater than the entire supply on earth, but that at least puts the problem further out, buying more time for innovation and reducing demand for less valuable things that also require those resources.
>Whether the porch is physical or virtual isn't nearly as important as the actual sharing of ideas.

That would be like saying that the only important part of sex is the exchanging of fluids. Yes, the internet is great, but it cannot replace a strong family or community.
Seems kaput - anyone know what's going on?
One area that doctors' offices are hurting is in billing to the insurance companies. Its a whole bunch of paperwork specific to each insurance companies. If a site is created that allows the doctor's office to electronically enter each claim and then that claim is automatically submitted to the insurance company, there would be quite a bit of efficiency at the doctor's office.
@quellhorst, what do you think about slightly fading the color of all category links that have no posts? I certainly don't want to browse through categories that I know have no posts.
THis still involves many steps for someone looking for a library or gem that already does what he is looking for.
1. Do a search on rubyforge/google etc
2. Go through list to see what has actually released code
3. Check isitruby.com to see if someone's commented on it
4. Test out and then comment on isitruby.

if it does not work, there could be other reasons as well as for example, a dependency not installing on my machine.

In fact that brings up another point. What if the given gem has more dependencies. I would have so much to test out just to know if it works on 1.9.

I would think it is best that the author declares he has tested it on 1.9 on a given OS. Then others can add their feedback whether it has worked on their OS etc.
What does Arch Linux have to do with developing Ruby?
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Fannie and Freddie bought a lot of subprime. I had friends that worked there and told me so and I've read about it. Over the long term Fannie made a lot of people rich. Read Beating the Street by Peter Lynch. He made a fortune off Fannie. Taxpayers will pay, unfortunately.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08...

Without Fannie and Freddie and the backing by the US taxpayer Wall Street would not have taken as much risk.
For what's it's worth, I've never made it more than 20% of the way through a Scala tutorial before it broke down on account of incompatibility. Eventually, I gave up. I would definitely take the warnings about broken tutorials to heart.
AW had to reboot, back now
I don't see how it factors into their resource usage at all. A crawler that's blocked waiting for a reply from your site is unlikely to be using much/any CPU time compared to an active crawler, and that time is surely being used by another crawler on that machine. All crawlers blocked and waiting? That means they can spin up 50 more!

Unless they're doing it wrong, and I very much doubt they are given it's central to their business, it's purely a user experience issue.
Many neighborhoods in NYC have great established communities, it's just that the community doesn't necessarily include you.
Anyone know what they are using to do the world map on there?

oh nevermind, I see it now at the bottom

Alistair MacDonald of hyper-metrix.com for the SVG+Canvas world map
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To learn.
Siri seems to be using Nuance (http://www.nuance.com/) for speech recognition, so Apple doesn't seem to have bought any of the actual speech recognition technology.
I recall the article written by the lady who put her son on the New York underground.

The media berated her because they were sure other people would do something bad to him.

I often think this lack of trust, paranoia and fear separates us--leads to loneliness.
I think this post has a grain of truth behind it, though I don't agree with the reasoning about resource utilization.

I noticed that when one of my sites went from 300ms response times to 30ms, the crawler started indexing more pages per day, and would index deeper, which meant more of my pages in their index. The result was a healthy boost in organic search traffic due to more long tail search matches.
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The maze was done by hand.
You may be right, it is plausible the author refers to her decision to work on Wall Street to change it from the inside as the product of the innocence of youth.

I should have given the author the benefit of the doubt.
Sorry, I was considering whether running a your own Tor proxy gives you some degree of immunity from prosecution rather than suggesting sending your own torrent traffic out through some other poor souls network connection.

I remember this story http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526140
There's only one planet Earth, finite in size - and therefore a finite amount of natural resources exist within it. Once we've split all the uranium and washed all the phosphorus into the ocean, that's it - you can't think up more Zinc, Rubidium or Lithium - once it's gone, it's gone.

I'm sure we could do vastly more recycling, use alternatives for some things, improve efficiency, develop magical new technologies, etc, etc... but almost no-one I've spoken to about this appreciates just how terrifyingly rapidly we're approaching these limits. If we run out of available mine-able Zinc & Copper in 30 years - which is quite possible - what then? Do we have enough time to switch to coping strategies? Will that be a smooth ride? It seems to me that the front of the train has already hit the buffers, but we've still got our foot on the gas pedal, back here in the cab.

Most of the useful mineral resources on Earth are only available in vanishingly tiny quantities elsewhere in the solar system. We currently do almost no recycling of anything, compared to our consumption. The human population is huge, growing in number, affluence and resource usage per capita. We're on course to run out of the minerals required to run our economy & infrastructure within most of our lifetimes.

Nice infographic with some estimated timescales for various resources:
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2605/2605120...

The Greatest Shortcoming of the Human Race is our inability to understand the exponential function:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

I'm not being alarmist - sometimes things are actually alarming.
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Home brewers have a very similar problem. When you make beer from all grain, you need to stop the heating at certain temperatures and stay at that temperature for some amount of time to let certain enzymes activate. Using a cooler to maintain heat is fairly standard in home brewing. Very neat.
I agree wholeheartedly about preemptive TDD: http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s...

Almost nobody in the Rails community uses foreign key constraints with ActiveRecord. I chafed against it at first, but if you're drinking their validation koolaid, it wouldn't add value in most cases, since the validations can add stronger constraints with better exceptions.
I think you were replying to my last line. I only added that since I had mentioned some gripes and i wanted to avoid someone getting upset and saying "if you don't like it, go elsewhere".

I have my reasons to love working in ruby, most of all is probably how easy it made my work. I have come from other languages which i initially loved but then found too verbose and cumbersome and sort of strait-jacketing. That there are some issues with ruby (such as repositories, or obsolete gems -- a problem with perl and other languages too) should not make me dislike it. Cheers.
I think, and I hope, that you're right.

I was describing the behavior and mentality of the currently dominant generation and classes.
I don't know the details of how their crawler works, but it seemed to me that if a page takes more time to serve to the crawler, there would be some lost resources.

Even so, faster page load time also means higher AdSense CTR, and more money - though I guess you could make an indirect user experience case for that.
I wonder if we could get enough traffic together for a cooking-oriented HN.
Along the lines of lincolnq's comment: |sort |uniq can be shrunk to |sort -u
Just because you live in a neighborhood, and have neighbors, doesn't mean they'll come to your funeral either. What I'm saying is physical space might not be the core issue here.

The system we've created allows more freedom, freedom to choose your communities more closely. In some cases the trade off might be less patience, and I suppose in my own case, I value freedom above possible lack of patience.
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Technically, an 18 year-old girl and a 17 year-old boy would be an adult/child relationship.

Also, based on what I just read, it seems he is using pedophilia to describe sexuality between children. Playing doctor.

Regardless, it is clear that the spirit of Gawker's "He supports child abuse!" is way, way off.
Very cool, thanks for sharing that with us.

Love those old style straight stroke solenoid head actuators on the disks (Winchesters?). Brings back memories of '70s era CDC SMD disk pack drives.

Which would frequently blow their driving power transistors; I had a friend who'd pop the caps and reattach the leads, this was for a small student run computer center with no budget to speak of, using all sorts of surplus equipment, in this case the prototype Lisp Machine's disk drive with a prototype Xylogics 4 card wire wrap UNIBUS controller (Mylar sheets between the card to prevent shorts).
I'm starting to wonder if people are interpreting "resources" to mean "CPU resources," when I really mean "resources" as in time, money, etc.

What's your hypothesis for why the crawler started indexing more pages per day when your response time improved? That seems like evidence of my theory, but I'm a designer by training so maybe there's a more technical explanation I'm missing.
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That's an association fallacy, not an ad-hominem.

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

Ad-hominem is where you use qualities of the arguer as disproof of the argument.
I got about 10 pages into the paper and then that there's a good reason that I didn't get into Harvard.

Anybody up for compiling a summary?
For me, there are three main reasons:

* Customizability. It's very easy to build a system just the way I want it.
* Rolling release. There are no releases every six months, but when a new version of a software is released, I get it after a short testing period.
* Package availability. Everything I need is either in the repositories or easily buildable from AUR. (Using simple recipes called PKGBUILDs).

BUT: This is only great, if you know your way around Linux - I can install and configure Arch in less than 2 hours, but my notebook for instance uses the same install for about 2 years now. The good wiki helps to gain this knowledge, but it's still very unfamiliar for most people.
Agreed. I re-read it and agree DHH's response is legit. However, I don't see the original comment as an attack on the community as much as a (warranted) critique of the community being over-focused-on and at times distracted-by, 'cool'.
Actually, that change took place well before the introduction of reliable birth control. See "A Farewell To Alms" for an account of the transition from resource-limited birth rates to the modern world: http://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Alms-Economic-History-Princet...
It's really sad that someone as talented as she is ended up at an investment bank.

If she's an analyst, instead of a direct promote to associate at the very least, I think I'm going to barf blood.
It's not the most complete book on the financial crisis, but it's not trying to be. It is certainly the most entertaining though.
I hardly disagree about the WSJ in general but I read the end of this article differently. The author's final question is a good one: why on earth did she take a job working for the very people whose irresponsibility her research exposed? Her answer, assuming it's sincere and not quoted out of context, is indeed naive: she's doing it to change the culture of Wall Street. Well, I agree with what I imagine the author's implicit points to be: (1) the odds that Wall Street culture will change because she took an analyst job are infinitesimal, it doesn't matter how brilliant and well-intentioned she is; (2) this is the kind of grandiose fantasy you have at that age.

Sadly, many young people overestimate how resilient they will be to a culture they abhor, which is how they get sucked in and assimilated. The risks to the beast are negligible compared to the risks to her soul (if this were a movie we'd all be yelling Nooooooooo...) and she's not unusual in underestimating this.

On the other hand, it's easy to understand why any "large New York investment bank" would want to hire her: anyone who can figure out what they do that masterfully will be useful in doing more of it.
It occurs to me that we need a more nimble and inexpensive method for removing or forcing the correction of defamatory materials online.

This is a common problem already, but as the web evolves to allow for more easily discoverable anonymous comments about average people (and it will), it will become an even more pervasive one.
I usually only write tests for more complex pieces of code. For simple code, tests look too much like a violation of DRY for my taste. I do realize that 'simple' can be subjective though.
This plus the leaked facebook integration makes me think Apple's going to try to branch out from its walled-garden semantic database (mobileme, mail.app, etc integration) and into a more open integration of popular services (facebook, yelp, gmail, opentable, etc).
Not quite every major gateway/payment company. Unless I just missed it somehow, I don't see Bibit (or RBS Worldpay, which now owns Bibit) on the list.
Great breakdown and appreciate that you're responding here - would also request HTML5 format video for iphone / ipad viewing for future episodes :)
I have made a modified sous-vide setup based on the following excellent instructions which I have not seen mentioned here. Total cost was under $75 for me since I simplified the setup a bit. Temperature accuracy is excellent.

http://seattlefoodgeek.com/2010/02/diy-sous-vide-heating-imm...

Quick overview of my modifications. I used a 6" deep full size hotel pan I got in chinatown as my water bath and a standard $9 1500 watt water heater element instead of the set of immersion heaters.
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In practice, it is very hard, if not impossible, to make any sustained progress in Scala (and Clojure) with zero background in Java. Both are "power tools" for people comfortable with the Java ecosystem. Both change fast neither is in a state where you can have zero knowledge of java(and the associated bits of the java ecosystem like classloaders, classpaths and so on) and still program anything except toy examples comfortably.

If you don't have a (minimal) java background you should probably acquire that first (unless you have a buddy/mentor who can ease you over any java/jvm roadbumps as they appear).
And a world-class amateur violinist. And apparently something of an idealist.

I hope she continues to do good work with her many gifts. While the cynic can argue she'll get crushed by the system, occasionally good people can get in and make positive change happen.
> To learn.

Learn what? How to get the basic functionality working? So that when when you are installing Arch, you would know how to do it? Sounds perfectly reasonable, I guess.

P.S. I've been using Linux since the '90s. Configured X, etc. a bunch of times. You know what I've learned? That it's stupid when the computer can't do it for you. Not all "learning" is created equal.
For me, a physical presence isn't a requirement in order to have a strong relationship with someone. So in my case, it could very well work as a replacement.
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All interactions increase the richness of your social graph, IMHO anyways. It's the difference between ordering your lunch from a human vs. tapping it out on a touchscreen and having it appear from a pneumatic chute.

One of the themes I'm getting from other comments here is that modern society makes you too independent - everything we need we get from machines, and in the places where we must interact with other humans there's a corporatized formality to it that robs it of human substance.

For example: Your local grocery store is probably a gigantor-chain, the person at the counter is probably running through a script of unenthusiastic niceties - a far cry from smalltalk with the grocer you see every day at the corner store.
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