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you really couldn't expect anything different considering how all-out the opposition went, combined with the fact that people respond to negative statements easier than positive statements. it's never a good combination for the people trying to Change things

i noticed some lessons have been learned, though. you can see this learnination in how the financial reform has played out, with the president full stop calling out the opposition's assertions as false
My understanding is that game theory isn't there yet, so you can't do a first principles market approach. But one should still try to make things work better and more elegantly.
Wow...the WSJ has sunk to a new low for me.

'Autos, health care, energy, Wall Street and now telecom. Is there any American industry this Administration doesn't want to run?'

Are they joking? I know they profess to be 'free marketeers', but are you telling me that they really thought the Obama Administration should NOT have bailed out the Auto industry and forced them through pre-packaged bankruptcies? They should NOT fix the broken health care system? They should not tackle the looming energy crisis and allow wall street to run wild doing anything they want?

Sometimes, I would prefer some amount of editorial integrity. The editors at WSJ need to say no Ailes & Murdoch at least some of the time.
Ehrlichman: “Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason that he can … the reason he can do it … I had Edgar Kaiser come in … talk to me about this and I went into it in some depth. All the incentives are toward less medical care, because … the less care they give them, the more money they make.”

President Nixon: “Fine.”
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At the risk of destroying their reputation. If you have an open source version and a closed source version, it's better to differentiate them on features and support not on code quality. If someone has their technical staff do a code audit and the answer comes back that this code is so horrible that we don't want it touching our data, that will be thought true of both versions.
Ethernet is cheap and ubiquitous and works well if you need wired networking an ethernet network goes about 300'. There is a signal propagation limit in the usb protocol that makes it unable to go over ~16feet without adding repeaters and there is a max of 5 repeaters.

from http://www.usb.org/about/faq/ans5 :

Q2: Why can't I use a cable longer than 3 or 5m?
A2: USB's electrical design doesn't allow it. When USB was designed, a decision was made to handle the propagation of electromagnetic fields on USB data lines in a way that limited the maximum length of a USB cable to something in the range of 4m. This method has a number of advantages and, since USB is intended for a desktop environment, the range limitations were deemed acceptable. If you're familiar with transmission line theory and want more detail on this topic, take a look at the USB signals section of the developers FAQ.

Q3: How far away from a PC can I put a USB device?
A3: With the maximum of 5 hubs connected with 5m cables and a 5m cable going to your full speed device, this will give you 30m of cable (see section 7.1.19 for details). With a low speed device, you will be able to get a range up to 27m, depending on how long the device's cable is. With a straightforward cable route, you will probably be able to reach out 25m or so from the PC.
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I think you are right. I think that an issue here is the assumed "more then others" so the question "Do you like the Beatles?" carries the connotation "Do you like the Beatles more than other bands?" Its a nuance of the language I think rather then an attempt to lock someone into an either or situation.
It sounds like this guy thinks his job at Google was as good as it gets. This is like a musician thinking their job at a marketing agency writing jingles is the best they can hope for.

My feeling is he probably gave up too early on finding a way to integrate money making and his passion. Maybe this works best for him though.
I slept on the floor in college, didn't even own a bed for about a year. Things change when you have an SO;) Extrapolating from that, simplification may need to take into account changing conditions - what was nice, simple code may need to take on complexities when the problem you're trying to solve changes. This often happens once you ship something the first time - the critical thing is being aware of it and refactor once you can see the next simplicity present itself. Often there is an interim complexity that is necessary when you don't have enough data to simplify further.
I'd agree that the Apple app store is a pretty close comparison. However, wonder how one would compare the value FB delivers for their 30% in fees to the value, say, ebay delivers to the auction sellers for the ~3-5% (guess) they charge in posting & paypal fees?
I like having the option of seeing more recent results, particularly the past year. The new layout requires more clicking to get that, and I keep forgetting which of the ambiguously names side menus I need to click to get it.

And I see that clicking on the posted link has now changed the default appearance of Google every time I use it. :(
I'm all for simplification. However, I don't think the other person that sleeps in my bed from time to time would appreciate me saying "we're sleeping on the floor now, honey! it's just like camping!"
Calibre tends to do pdf to epub conversion as a series of png image files (one per page).

While that makes the resulting epub file viewable, you lose the ability to zoom the text or search for words, etc.

A better solution is to go pdf -> html or pdf -> text, then use Sigil (http://code.google.com/p/sigil/) to make an epub file.
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Matthew Crawford's book is pretty good, I think. The original essay is here:

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-sou...

One thing to note: Crawford is a motorcycle repairman, but he's still a knowledge worker to some extent. And, of course, the book length treatment of the subject was subsidized by a university.
well, the president had what i think was at least a couple dozen speeches on why it was important, and in many of them he was quite detailed. and the kind of reform that republicans were proposing was in the opposite direction... towards deregulation

but as i said elsewhere, when you have one side poisoning the well and otherwise completely pulling shit out of their ass, the other side doesn't have many easy options. the negativity drowned out the actual info

also keep in mind Fox is a propaganda network that many people take seriously
This isn't SMS you know.

But isn't it? I have several friends who get their Twitter updates via SMS.
How often do people actually read their receipt?

It's good that they do have the charge listed but I still feel like most people are not aware how much of their bill went to the VAT whereas in general around here you can't possibly miss it.
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Just one, exercise.

I try to exercise at least 3 times a week, I do some cardio and then exercise with weights. After a month or so, your food intake will likely change and you'll start to realize what you need in terms of nutrition. Your body will also become stronger and you will sleep much better and the exercise itself is great for stress relief.

As far as supplements, I don't like them. Even the case of taking multi-vitamins is getting mixed reviews from physicians.(I take a vitamin D supplement on Dr's orders)
I had a bad cholesterol profile: low HDL and high LDL and triglycerides. I really didn't want to take any statins because of the dangerous side-effects, so my doctor prescribed niacin instead: Niaspan. I had taken over-the-counter niacin before with no results, but the Niaspan gave me the niacin flush that first night, and after a few months my LDL, triglycerides, and total cholesterol were all in well inside the healthy range, and my HDL was just below the healthy range. I just had my six-month followup blood tests, but I haven't gotten the results yet. I'm expecting to be in pretty good shape.

I've taken between 1000mg and 3000mg per night, adjusting based on my body's response. At first the flush happened within an hour of taking the pills, then it either stopped or it was happening while I slept. I ramped up the dosage as the flush effect weakened and I stayed at 3000mg for a while, but now that's too much. It seems like my body only needs 2000mg now for the full effect, but I don't flush until about six hours after I take the pills. Based on my blood test results, I may ramp up again to get the flush faster or back off to reduce it.

The flush itself lasts about an hour. It's not comfortable, but it's not bad either. You get hot, red, and kind of itchy. I understand that it's part of the healthy effect of the niacin: expanding your blood vessels and washing out toxins through your skin (which causes the itching).

If you want to try this, you need to get the prescription stuff. The OTC niacin is definitely not the same, at least not here in the US where vitamins are unregulated food products that generally don't contain what they claim to contain.
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Browsing the Android market, especially in the top paid application section I have not seen any application particularly worthy of me purchasing it. Could you give me examples of any apps actually worth buying?
what the heck. are people really this dense? it's an obvious joke. just wait for the video to come out
Actually, I think in the hypothetical case it would be fair to write what Mr. Someone is saying off as FUD, and ignore them, unless false negatives are of serious consequence (eg, you're an investor).

Self interest aside, it's such a trollish statement that adds nothing to the real discussion, which is a) what's wrong with product x, and b) what my product y does to fix this. Such behaviour correlates reasonably strongly with incompetence, at least in my experience.

My problem with the grandparent post is more that the question was actually posed by a journalist, which is night and day different. They're sexing up the content to sell a story. So reframing the quote as being from the Clustrix guys is quite dishonest.

Had the quote actually been theirs, I'd have no problem laughing at their expense, although I realise such behaviour is not encouraged here.
To quote NetFlix: "Friends is a feature on the Netflix Web site that’s been used by less than two percent of all subscribers since we added the feature in 2004."

That strikes me as a wholly adequate explanation.
It's kind of humorous to me that someone who doesn't even know about Zynga can express an opinion on this topic.
There are enough reasons to beat facebook over the head. This isn't one of them.
Easy solution: before serving that warning page for shortened URLs, dynamically determine the endpoint. If it does point to a bad site, then serve the warning page. Otherwise, do the right thing.
Do you have a collected edition of everything you know about Facebook apps somewhere that you'd be willing to share? I decided against doing one for the next project, but there is always a next-next-project, and the little gems I've gleaned out of your HN comments suggests there is a diamond mine hidden somewhere out of my sight.
It's not just the black swans either, it's the averages. You're a 1 in 100,000 success on the iPhone if you make a million bucks total. You're not even a 1 in 100,000 success on Facebook if you make that much per month.
That much weight loss (6 Kg) sounds great! Good job. Be careful with loosing too much too fast, that could leave you with skin folds (excess skin hanging loose). I seem to remember 1 kg per week is the safe amount. Ask a physician.
One of the best articles that's been written about the issues with today's wall street.
Mark Suster would not approve of your career choices! :) </tongue-in-cheek>
Are most programmers even capable of this sort of physical work?

Muscles grow faster than hacking skills. And if you're used to hacking skills, you probably find a way to do it better and safer.

Also, what happens if you get injured on the job?

What happens if you subject your body to sitting 100 hours a week in front of a computer for decades?
Hmmm. I got a server error. But it sounds like the problem is recognized. Thanks for the link.
The musical "Wicked" puts some of this sort of thinking well, and definitely the book on which it was based.

From the song 'Wonderful' - "There are precious few at ease with moral ambiguities, so they act as if they don't exist".

But that thinking starts so early on. Most movies I watch with my 4yr old son now, he'll ask "Is he a baddie", "Is he a goodie".
Get to bed by midnight & get up when you wake (no alarm clock).

Only eat wholemeal wheat.

Eat plenty of greens - broccoli, kale, savoy cabbage (high iron stuff)

Eat an apple on your way to the office.

Coffee only before mid-day
ha! I've seen the web when Microsoft gets it's way. It's not a pretty place. They pay lip service to standards now, but it wasn't too long ago that they sat on their hindquarters twiddling their thumbs.

You think IE7-IE9 is their good will towards man? Think again. They thought they won the standards war, with Netscape dead, but they forgot about the sleeping giant in free open source software and now they want to "engage" with the standards community. We're not buying it. Microsoft lost the war and they're just now realizing it trying to scrap back what they lost. But it won't work, not this time.
I'm reminded of this, written in May, 2007:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TwoAndAHalfMen.html?HN
It's more complicated than that. Some app frameworks, like Phonegap, fall within the defined boundaries of 3.3.1 - everything is written either in Objective-C or Javascript executed by WebKit.

Others, like Unity, seem like they should be fine but it seems like they haven't been tested yet.
Ack! I meant 6lbs, 3Kg!!

My understanding is it tails off after a few weeks, but thank you for the advice. I think it has something to do with fluid loss in the early stages or something like that.
The value of a programmer is not in what he has learned but in that he can learn fast.
Go to bed and get up at the same time every day.

Don't do anything in your bedroom except sleep and sex.
I think the distinction you are looking for is Fred Brooks' "accidental" vs. "essential" complexity. To paraphrase Einstein, your code should be as simple as possible but no simpler.

If you've ever tried to write your own code to handle dates you'll notice that much of the essential complexity comes from the crazy rules we use to define calendar years, etc.

I suspect a SO falls into the latter category. :)
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This is very close to my line of thinking.

What real benefit is there starting out with NoSQL when most websites really don't need to scale that big.
As they say: Different isn't always better, but better is always different.
Drink enough water. Even slight dehydration causes fatigue, emotional discomfort, and loss of focus. (There's an easy way to tell if you're hydrated: your urine will be nearly clear.)

Get enough sleep.

Eat a balanced diet: lots of veggies and fruit, some lean meat and dairy, and the right amount of carbs to keep your blood sugar consistent without adding too many empty calories.

Keep your body moving. Sitting in your chair staring at a screen for 8 straight hours is stressful. Get up and take a short walk while you're thinking through a problem. Pick up a hobby like biking, swimming, or martial arts.
I have a number of friends who started funds straight out of college. In almost all of these cases, these friends had been able to get in touch with wealthier, more established fund managers early on via the internet and have gotten their help with raising capital. So this wasn't a case of rich kids getting bankrolled by their parents.

These guys don't come from money. One started out with $2M in AUM in NYC, lives with two roommates, eats tuna fish every day, and has no entertainment budget. He doesn't go out to bars but spends his time at the library, museum, parks, etc -- free stuff.

But, that is the kind of sacrifice that has to be made in order to make living off of a $2M fund work. In the long run it makes sense because if you put up good returns, that $2M can scale fast. Two years into it, a friend that was managing $2M is up to $50M in AUM.
Though I do think there will come a time when it will be just as easy to start with NoSQL as SQL.
Well, they use (or used to use) RabbitMQ, which is written in Erlang.
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I don't - ignoring that I would have been dead four times without modern medicine by now, I couldn't hunt much without glass.

And I don't recall any hunter-gather tribe that had those.
I can submit a link to any URL in my control and swap it out for something else later. That can apply to every single link on the web. By that logic they should maintain a whitelist of not only redirection services such as shorteners, but for each and every domain.

I'm all for whitelisting and being paranoid, but it just doesn't make sense here and it seems a bit like they're trying to make the competition look bad. This should really be a blacklist instead.
I have this ambition to move into the middle of a forest some where. I'd love to spend my day tending to a garden, and maybe a few animals supporting myself. To live life the way it used to be. At night i'd hack on code again, or actually spend time with my girlfriend (maybe wife?). At least in that case if I worked 70 hours a week, I personally would receive the value from 70 hours of work. Right now I'm just getting fatter, my cloths smell because i'm too tired to do laundry, though I see my girl friend every day I'm too tired to do anything.
Ask HN: How can I make something which people appreciate?
It's one of my dreams to make something which makes someone who I don't know say, "Wow! That's cool!" Either that or build a community. Or both! However, I'm unsure how to do that. I think that I'd like it to be something web-based because of the wide audience which the medium offers. Can anyone give me some advice on how to accomplish this goal?
That or a combination of Arduino + bluetooth + lightweight android devices (something I've been playing with).
Not using a relational database alone doesn't make changes any easier. Often times the complexity is just moved on to a different place or time. Of course a completely generic data model makes it easier to make a particular modification on a live system, but it makes understanding the system and the consequences of that change harder.

The question is really which parts of the entire system depend on particular invariants and constraints? Where are they checked and enforced? How are the rules represented? Moving lots of rules out of declarative and into procedural code won't make things simpler.

I have experimented a lot of with all kinds of data representations, non-relational ones mostly, but I have to say, there are trade-offs that are rarely discussed in a NoSQL context. Probably because NoSQL was primarily the answer to "how do we do something incredibly simple on an incredibly huge scale?"

Many years of doing data integration have convinced me of one thing. Closely linking application code to data makes things simpler in the beginning but it leads to a completely unmaintainable mess rather more quickly than people anticipate. Data and applications have a very different life-cycle. Data lives longer and there is rarely a 1:1 relationship between application and data. That's actually where the real impedance mismatch originates, and I'm afraid it will never go away or become much simpler.
It's also hard to really "design" markets in an overarching way; they tend to be nothing but formalizations of and patchwork fixes to various existing practices. The stock market, for example, is a formalization of the paper-stock-trades market with an attempt at improving transparency and reducing fraud; the commodities exchange market is similar for commodities, with the additional goal of providing a clearance mechanism to get counterparty risk out of the picture; etc.
The only problem I have with this is that he left a job where he had the potential to make a net positive change in the world to one where he is a tool in destroying the environment.

Sure personally he feels less obligation, but it just seems like eventually that will catch up with him, i know it would to me... especially for someone who professes to love the outdoors, and then contributes to its destruction. The motivation is a little hypocritical...
Quite Huxleyan of him. This paragraph by Neil Postman is worth cross-referencing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Comparisons_wit...
Everyone would know that bugs have been inserted into the code to make it unusable.

But programmers can still learn something from the code regardless (e.g., high level design).
If you read the (unfortunately unthreaded and super-hard to browse) comment thread, there were a lot of users questioning that.

I guess I'd like to know more about "active" users, and social features.

Also... in 2010 it's just super surreal in a domain as vast as "movies," to not have deep social features to help people manage and discover.

I'm buying the OP's suggestion that Friends was turning up tons of recommendations that you can't stream (that part is the studios' fault, not Netflix's), and it was leading to a lot of dead-end experiences.

But I just really don't buy that Netflix's longterm strategy is to get less social. They are too ahead of the curve, and too smart to think/do that.

My personal theory is that they are overhauling Friends and social in general, behind the scenes.
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"Furthermore, the American Heart Association and the National Cholesterol Education Program both take the position that only prescription niacin should be used to treat dyslipidemias, and only under the management of a physician. The reason given is that niacin at effective intakes of 1500–3000 mg/day can also potentially have severe adverse effects. Monitoring of liver enzymes is necessary."

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Simplification is different for each of us. We each have our own needs, goals, lives to lead, and different importances.
One is that they don't support transactions in the conventional sense. They do support some simpler atomic-operation primitives, but generally not for multiple objects updated in the same atomic operation, and not including other fancy things like rolling back transactions.
Thanks for the peek behind the curtains. I just googled "thinking machines hiring" and came up with this article:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Thinking-Machines.aspx

I agree, I've never even known a company to even verify anything on a resume, much less tip off an applicant's current employer.
Except that the promise is also a lie, for the academic Marxists get slaughtered when a real gangster like Stalin uses the instrumentality they've created against them.

A fitting end, too bad so many innocents have to die or suffer in the process.
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Good luck with payfacade. I think it's a good idea. I just have to ask though, are you aware of the PCIDSS implications of a service like this? Level 1 compliance which you will need can cost around a million dollars all said and done.

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> It taught me so much that I couldn't have learned by staying behind a computer desk all day long. It taught me how to relate to people, for one.

The topic of relating to people always fascinates me. Would you say it is more about not facts but sharing feelings? What would you want to tell and teach your future son or daughter about relating to others? Thanks in advance.
Every time I drive this place I fantasize about buying it and restoring/repairing it.

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