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just having a discussion.

Technically you pay less in taxes on the low end, but those taxes get taken out every two weeks, you just get a refund at the end of the year.

It doesn't really matter what you are in favor of, the taxes will still be taken out of your paycheck. Of course you get things in exchange for your taxes. It's nice to say "well in the perfect world you could live on X", but we don't live in a perfect world. That's why I'm no longer a liberterian.

Fine let's say you have $1,000 per month in cash.

And fine, let's say you find a roommate deal at $450 a month.(btw once again, don't bring up hong kong or other countries, we are talking about you wanting to eliminate American minimum wage). Oh and let's not forget the $450 deals are fairly rare, so if millions of people start getting paid below minimum wage, those few good deals will be snagged up quickly.

Anyways that leaves $550.

Minus your $70 for the train pass, $480.

The food issue is a good one. The $200 you spend, gets you just enough not to starve to death. Do you think 40 hours of labor shouldn't be enough to avoid not starving?

So we are down to $280 a month.

But have you forgotten something? The water bill? The gas bill? The electricity bill? The phone bill? What about all those other expenses? Like health insurance, replacement clothing, etc?

And of course the goal is to get a better paying job. But by not having a minimum wage, you have wage depression. When you can pay entry level slaves $3 an hour, you can pay the guy with 6 years experience $5 an hour. And what kind of mobility do you think someone working at MickeyDs have?

The goal here, is for you to realize, that there needs to be a living wage. Where working 40 hours a week, should be enough to make ends meet.

How about the ideal of the 50s? Where you could work 40 hours a week in an entry level job, and could afford a house with white picket fence, a car, and basic luxuries and could support your family?

Your whole argument is based around a young, single, healthy guy, going through a rough patch. Not the situation, that the minimum wage laws were created for.

What's with this idea that the people should be ground down into the dirt? We already have 39.1 million people in poverty in United States, why do you think we need to increase that number?

The difference between $7 an hour and $3 an hour for Mickey Ds, is measured in them selling 1 extra big mac.

For every person who crawls out of poverty like you did, there are thousands who stay there indefinitely. We live in America, not a 3rd world hellhole, and our cost of living reflects that.

I doubt there is anything you can say, that'll make me agree that someone living in New York City, should be allowed to be paid $3 an hour
So all that LabPixies' Line Up playing wasn't a waste of time & brain power? Whew, I is smart now.

While I would wait on seeing this study peer-reviewed before believing it wholeheartedly, it's a very interesting study. There are lots of puzzles that purport to improve memory. It's even arguable that Bejeweled can improve visual pattern recognition.

What I wonder is, how soon after playing a casual game did the researchers test their subjects? Does this cognitive improvement decrease back to average levels over time? Can it be sustained with frequent gameplay? And does this effect occur in people under 50 years of age?
The problem with facebook is it does not produce any value unlike Microsoft and Apple.

Both Apple and Microsoft's product help people create stuff, get things done, entertain themselves. Facebook does a tiny bit of entertaining and socializing, it is no where near MSFT or AAPL in terms of having a tangible impact on people's lives.
Hire someone to sell and find something else for your co-founder to do. If you are at the stage here "sales are starting to come in", you are looking at possibly expanding soon anyway.
I think the more interesting news here is that Apple is now the second largest company in America (about $50 billion behind Exxon).
You mean the anecdotal accounts of sleep and admittedly poor perceptions of exercise the participants in the study had?

It seems what they should be claiming is that your mental state matters more than your physical state for sleep. Changing your mental state clearly has an impact but it doesn't make sense to say changing your physical state wouldn't impact sleep as well, even if to a lesser degree.
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Since when did Diaspora become an alternative to social network or even Facebook? No one knows what the hell it is, other than a few kids drawing some diagrams on a black board.
Roaming charges for data are ridiculous.

http://www.gsmarena.com/eu_parliament_slashes_roaming_charge...

What you could do is simply buy a pre-paid card that allows data transfers. You'll have a different number for a while but at least you won't have to mortgage your house for a bit of connectivity.
Yeah I've been seeing this too recently, mostly "codeweblog" results.

I thought Stack Overflow was doing a pretty good job of burying these sites.
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It's at least an empirical opinion. Apart from some extraordinary individuals I am not aware of a heavy pot smoker (from among my retinue of friends/aquaintances/people I know about) who does not suffer from some form of associated problem.

I'm willing & happy to be proved wrong, but there hasn't been enough studies yet to prove one way or the other (though as far as I last read it was starting to come down on the side of what I have seen)
It's tragic that they announce this exciting technology and they've already got customers hitching at them in case they get banned from the iPhone becuase their supplier is fraternizing with the enemy.
controlling, maybe. MSFT is not the most "controlling" tech company out there (take a look at electronics and automation companies for real tight arsed behaviour)

The problem people had with MSFT is their use of market dominance to kill off competition.
I think Play+Scala should be competitive with Rails in expressiveness, while still being a lot faster. Of course, if you prefer dynamic typing you might disagree with me here.
> Apple's is considered the beginning of things.

Who says that? They could be at the top of their game right now and not see more growth and stabilizing and/or decreasing in the future. There is no way to tell, otherwise you'd be very rich already ;)

> Stock value today isn't based on today, it's based on "tomorrow".

Who says that?
Many believe that Apple stocks are overvalued today, that's for sure. Oh, and again, there is no way to tell the future.
My dad, while growing up on the frugal end of things in the fad obsessed 80's, explaining why I wasn't going to get those vans and 'chute pants.

"To you those kids at school must seem like big stuff, but to me they're just a bunch of stupid babies spending their parents money on whatever shit the tv tells them to, no matter how ridiculous it is."

Too damn right, dad.
Diaspora "Dudes": Keep truckin, don't hate the players or the game, as you caught some luck, and there is no shame in that, nor is there any room for complainers.

Cheeky got them buzz. There is plenty of eye balls on them now to deliver I agree. Good luck to all!
Well the idea isn't to avoid correcting people who go astray but rather to avoid pointing to others faults as evidence of your righteousness. That's what most people do (even those who aren't religious as I'd normally define it).

The Bible states in the same book (Romans chapter 2 for the first citation and 6 for this one) that the wages of sin is death--meaning this life or the next.
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I'll take the time to read Kurzweil's book on building an artificial mind after he actually builds one.
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I agree strongly. If I can paste my url into a demo site, and and get a taste for how easy this would be for me to a/b test my next question is what do I have to do to make this happen? A blurb telling me all it takes is copying and pasting one line of code takes care of that. Maybe show a video showing how easy it is - how long would it take? under a minute?
It's still amazing to me how powerful these devices have become that you can put a GC on a mobile platform

Really? Colleagues have told me of applications using GC that ran on 486 with good performance.

The popular notions of what dynamic languages and GC are like are literally decades out of whack. This is a self perpetuating phenomenon, which is why you can have popular languages that are between 1 and 2 orders of magnitude slower than they should be. (Outdated GC being a prominent factor.)
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Ah, you are correct. I just tried it (with a dummy account). Apologies. I work at FB but don't delete my account often. :)

It looks like you will be asked to confirm deletion if you log in during the waiting period. Simply logging back in will not cancel the deletion request.

"Your account has been deactivated from the site and will be permanently deleted within 14 days. If you log into your account within the next 14 days, your account will be reactivated and you will have the option to cancel your request."
I didn't have an engine puller so a friend helped me lift the engine out of my Spitfire to replace the clutch. When I put the engine back in another guy helped me and we almost dropped the engine and both got major back pain. I realized that friend 1 must have done 75% of the lifting. Next time: engine puller.
Dense population led to specialization, which led to civilization
Hmm yea that is usually what i do, esp since i never used any data, but since i got my n900 im always connected. Thing is im only there for 4 days, so it wont be worth it.
Maybe next time
Why couldn't phone support be crowd-sourced as volunteers in 100's of "party-line" style chats?
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Yeah. I know a lot of heavy pot smokers who are also heavy programmers.

The only correlation between heavy pot smoking and low performance is that people with nothing to do in their life also enjoy smoking pot.
I did notice that throughout the clip a lot of guys were just standing around chatting with their hands in their pockets.
the difference implies that the market is assigning a higher multiple to AAPL presumably on the basis of growth. Whether that is warranted or not, I do not know.

I actually think it is more useful to look at these companies from a yield perspective. So if you take the free cash flow / enterprise value of each company you get:

10.8% for MSFT and 6% for AAPL. This is in line with what you said (MSFT producing greater earnings) but presents the data in a more readable manner I think.
Thank you for doing this. Much like http://www.searchreddit.com/, this is cool but missing a lot of data and features.

You may want to check out these links, also:

http://www.searchreddit.com/faq.php

http://www.reddit.com/help/search
Thanks for pitching in an opinion from the perspective of a user. How heavy a user are you (if I can ask) - joints/day?

I guess you raise an interesting point; the life enrichment versus the "although it usually takes me longer" aspect is the trade off.

I wonder at which point that becomes too much?

I've attempted a number of drugs over the years on the belief that you can't really hold an opinion without knowing all the facts, and trying it. I readily admit a slight bias arising from the fact I never really "got" any of the highs; the trade off was instantly too much for me.
Yeah, that's the key thing: in comparison to the print product, it's attractive to me.

But if I can get the info I'm looking for from their free no-storage website (and 30 seconds later bounce to another website, as we web folks are wont to do), it's really hard for me to get motivated to remember to go buy a $4.99 1 GB (500 MB on my iPad, 500 MB on my Mac where iTunes lives) app every month.

How can they successfully compete with themselves? And yet they can't shut off their free website and become utterly irrelevant.
Somebody take screen shots of all these comments for posterity!
If we apply the same level of innovation around cleantech as we have around optimizing the flow of information about Kendra's post-baby weight, we could turn the world around. Persevere, people.
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I'm just reading 'The Singularity Is Near' at the moment and am finding it fascinating finding ideas, such as 'reversible computing' and interesting information relating to cellular automaton.
I think the perspective here is a bit skewed--the problem of abuse is here; it's as widespread as it can get. That problem can be alleviated by legalization: We remove the legal difficulties inherent in asking for help with problematic consumption, and--as illustrated in Portugal, the Netherlands, and other places--may very well decrease consumption, as well.
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The open source movement missed out on the desktop wars, simply because they got off the ground much later

Very well could be true. But is by no means proven.
We are social creatures, so products which aid that do have value.
Incidentally, I did so, and he said I was far from being the only one with this concern, and that they are preparing just such a statement.
Would love to see a comparison to Node.js on here, as well.
It has a pleasant atmosphere in part because it mostly avoids inflammatory topics like politics. I'd much rather talk startups and business, and maybe living abroad with patio11, for instance, than discuss why he's a Republican and I'm not. The former is bound to be a useful, interesting discussion; the latter most likely not.

Actually, I'd be ok with the latter discussion too, but only in person, not on an internet fourm.
>We believe that people own their information and not only should they have control over it

vs

>The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly.” He adds: “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/05/26/zuckerberg-motivati...

These two opinions seem inconsistent.

>We believe that people ... should be able to take [their personal data] to other services.

How is FaceBook actually making this possible?
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How can you not understand this? Look at the prohibition of alcohol for an example. Organized crime ran the bootlegging operations; people were shot in the streets for control of the alcohol and money generated from it.

Now, look at what is happening in Mexico and the southern parts of the U.S. Try to tell me that crime wouldn't be reduced.
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Ask HN: Developers, do you play computer games?
As a tech-person, do you play computer games?
If so how often?

Do you think that gaming kills productivity?
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Interesting read but

> That it be a normal DOS program capable of producing the same results under WINDOWS as well as real DOS mode.

so it's pretty useless to me
RailsMentors.org will help. This is one of my pet projects for RailsBridge, and we have a ton of volunteers.

Hell, ask me any time and I will teach you to write tests if you want.
Lots of tourers stick a paper map up there. If it's the 3G iPad following your location with the Little Blue Dot™, you could glance down to see upcoming streets/turns/merges. But yeah, for God's sake don't multitask on a motorcycle.
I'll bet facebook has more impact than Apple. Apple makes your iPod, that let's me listen to music. Facebook creates your social life (for a lot of people it does).
Surprising number of upvotes on this article, I never figured there would be such a big intersection between hacking and an interest in drugs.
Excellent article! There's no "royal road" to learning a foreign language: (i) You have to be willing to put the time to memorize and (ii) you have to be in an immersive environment with some people who are willing to help you. To be able to do (i), there mist be some large incentive for the outcome.

I always thought that two near-monolinguals dating or getting married would be the quickest way to learn a new language, although I never had a chance to test this hypothesis
Sure - these are issues which need to be sorted out. But it's not the end of the world if the average user doesn't completely understand the system as long as it works.
> "They could be at the top of their game right now and not see more growth and stabilizing and/or decreasing in the future."

In the future, anything's possible. But the future is almost always a function of the past, and current trends indicate anything but a decline in Apple's growth.
Stock price isn't meant to predict the future, it represent trust in the future turning out well for investors.
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I'm sure I can find a way to do it on top of my current car stereo, in the car I listen to Pandora anyway
Email is also pretty featureless.

*Google Wave enters, stage left.*
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I have several examples like that in my circle of friends, but I could also point you to at least one guy worth about 60 million euros that is a heavy pot smoker and a few others that did very well.

I think it is about the person at least as much as it is about the drugs, some people can deal with things like this better than others.
Why does the Semantic Web feel so over-engineered?
Ariane rockets are also assembled vertically [1]. Since assembly and adding the payload are two discrete steps, done in two different buildings [2], both of the times vertically, that tells me that there is more to it than the payload.

[1] http://www.arianespace.com/spaceport-ariane5/launcher-integr...

[2] http://www.arianespace.com/spaceport-ariane5/final-assembly-...
I meant in practice. You could, but do you? Does anyone? What happens when your computer shuts down for the night?

Email is centralized in that individuals usually register with a provider, rather than use their own machines. I think social networking can adopt a similar model so all we really need is an easy way to pick up our social data and go to a new provider. I mean who I consider to be my friends is my data, so why not have a systematic definition of it that can be carried with me to every site, instead of recreating those connections using whatever interface is on each of the social sites I use.
Where is joining a particular political party (even 'independent' parties) a requirement for participation in the political process?
FYI NOVA on PBS is currently running an episode "Mystery of the Megavolcano."

Here's a map of what they're calling "supereruptions" from around the world (nice cluster in the Western US):

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/megavolcano/blasts.html
This is cool, eventually we'll have every no-sql use case covered, so there exists a data store which conforms to your applications usage with respect to the CAP theorem...
Smells like an Apple bubble?
Thanks for the feedback :).

I just noticed that I'm seeing a 30-40% failure while using the API - is there any reason that should be so ? I'm batching around 20-30 ids together (as recommended).
Here's a video of that keynote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHNrqPkefI
a question: They do not use SIP are they injecting a third party switch in order to avoid having to use Sip and thus opening themselves up to the legal back door they mention?
Just unfounded opinions.
Do you imagine that the people in Mexico and South US are not the same people who, during prohibition, would be running alcohol?

So has the removal of prohibition removed problems due to trading in illegal substances? Answer, by your own admission, is no :)
That sounds like a much more plausible explanation and fits just about all the evidence in my environment (quite a bit of evidence actually).
Thanks.

About releasing, I'll clean the code up and share it when I have time.
the problem of abuse is here; it's as widespread as it can get.

If by widespread you mean it is everywhere then agreed. If you mean in terms of numbers I disagree - it strikes me as logical that a legalized drug will have more users, and equably more abuser.

That problem can be alleviated by legalization: We remove the legal difficulties inherent in asking for help with problematic consumption

I agree with the last part. But am unconvinced that legalization is required to achieve that - just decriminalize personal possession, or remove any legal fall out associated with rehab/drugs help.

If that's our sole reason for legalization I don't think it stands up.
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I've already head this conversation at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1377077 about Moose. Moose is good, but it's not that good, and certainly not nearly enough to make up for the terrible language underpinning it.
I have been thinking that math is similar. Little substitutes for simply rote memorizing your basic multiplication tables to be able to multiply. You can remember the relationships between various concepts, and it helps to validate and update your memory, but in the end, it is pattern matching. Rote memorization helps you jump straight from A to B without needing the translation step of C in between.
How are you going to run a benchmark like this and not include nginx and nodejs?

I mean, okay, node is new...but not including nginx?
I disagree. For me, the only way Facebook helps me socially is as a sort of phone book and with events. Catching up over Facebook seems a useless event compared to conversing IRL. Besides, an inordinate amount of people use it as a game system with a leaderboard. Facebook's value isn't really social at all. It's pseudosocial.
Optimized for what? Speed? While I can picture that happening, it has been my experience that this is not the case. The memory squishing optimizations I'm talking about require dumping the assembly output and I've never seen my stupid memcpy() routine suddenly turn into optimized-for-speed code. I'd be pretty upset if that were to happen...
Indeed. Perhaps the site will provide good data for potential leaders to decide whether to run in Republican primaries?
From the abstract:

"Conclusions: For early adulthood, findings did not support commonplace or expert opinion that exercise behavior has a favorable influence on sleep. Rather, the findings lend support to the importance of cognitive processes in the onset and maintenance of sleep complaints."

They are claiming precisely what you suggest they should. Saying that the evidence does not support physical exercise having an impact on sleep is not the same thing as claiming to have evidence that exercise does not impact sleep. They simply mean that the data they collected does now show any such link. In this case, it is clearly because the cognitive processes appeared to dominate the results.

To test the former directly, I suppose one would need some physical measure of good sleep. Perhaps by monitoring brain activity and restlessness.
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Let's be fair here: they also wrote some old Unix jokes on that blackboard too.
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