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> That goal is best achieved, though, by each party to the negotiation acting out of pure self-interest, not ceding any unnecessary ground to the other.

That's true for certain cases. In an iterated game, possibly with more than two players, enlightened self-interest could make people seek a reputation for fairness and generosity.

Also -- have you looked at the ultimatum game? It works like this: Alice proposes how to split a dollar between herself and Bob. Bob can accept the division, and both get paid out by the game, or Bob can reject, and nobody gets anything.

Real Bobs tend to reject `unfair' proposals, even when the game is not iterated. That's not rational (at least within the game). So if Alice where driving as hard as she could go with a rational Bob, she won't get anything when playing with Humans.
Along with the excellent recommendations here, I would add "The Worldly Philosophers" by Heilbroner (http://www.amazon.com/Worldly-Philosophers-Lives-Economic-Th...) for a slightly different angle. It covers a wide range of famous economists and describes the high points of their theories along with some biographical detail, in a very engaging style. It's the economics version of "Men Of Mathematics", which is also a fascinating book.
And that was always the plan. 3.0 adoption was supposed to take several years. So it's all good - the big thing which needs to occur before most people will is some of the big libs need to port over.
simple but nice tricks !!
I use a ThinkPad X60 and Synergy as my "keyboard". I've had way too many keyboards over the years, but the X-series ThinkPads are the only ones that don't make my hands ache after a day (or night) of code wrangling.

Alas, I can't comment on which modern ThinkPads are best. I know for a fact that X40 and X60 lines are perfect. I've never used an X200 though. On the other hand, I've had a T400-something from work for a few months. That keyboard was worthless compared to my current X60.
The rationale is that the type declaration demonstrates how you use the variable. For example:

char *(*fp)(int, float *)

You now have a variable called "fp". Follow that pointer by putting a * in front of it. Call that function by passing it an int and a float pointer inside parentheses. Follow that pointer by putting a * in front of it. That gives you a char.

Same kind of thing here:

char *strings[10]

You now have a variable called "strings". Index that array by putting an offset less than 10 inside square brackets. Follow that pointer by putting a * in front of it. That gives you a char.

Here's a simpler example:

char *str

You now have a variable called "str". Follow that pointer by putting a * in front of it. That gives you a char.

Here's the simplest example of all:

char ch;

You now have a variable called "ch". That gives you a char.
Could you expand on the gliders? Or give the link to the comment on Snarkmarket?
There are 2 Problems here:

a) Opening gmail to compose an email

b) Opening gmail to look up an email

In either case I don't want to be seeing any new email. This solution works somewhat well for problem a), but what I'd love to see is this:

A gmail labs feature that puts gmail in a "fake" offline mode by default and gives me a "Fetch mail" button as if it was a desktop app. New mail would only be displayed after pressing this button.

Any ideas on how I could achieve this?
Regarding the heat issue you are having with your laptop: I was having similar problems with a different laptop, and I got an "XPad Slim" (http://www.xpad4laptop.com/) cooling pad to put under it. It weighs around a pound, has no fans, and does a pretty decent job of dispersing heat from the computer. No more burning legs!
Thanks, I did some searching and found this, too, after I wrote my comment.
I'm German and you're 100% correct.
Apple keyboard (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB110LL/A)

I just like the feel of it, but normal keyboards feel like chunky Commodore 64s to me now.
The "Free to Choose" television series is really great, second that. They're all on google video, search for the obvious keywords and "long" duration (20+ mins) to find them easily.

I especially liked the debate segment in each show, where Friedman argues his points with both supporters and detractors. It struck me while watching it, you really can't find stuff like this on TV anymore.
Scientific Method

Honestly I would not call this one a misconception. In fact I'm pretty close revising that section or just removing it altogether.

The "textbook definition" is simple only in that it is abstract. It's not rigid at all, in fact it's extremely flexible. If what you are doing can't ultimately be described by the scientific method then what you are doing is not science and you probably shouldn't pretend that it is. Paleontology, and astronomy, for example, still involve observation and hypothesis, even though many predictions cannot be tested with existing technology. Just because discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation was discovered accidentally doesn't mean it's not an empirical observation.

Yes, reality has more details. But in my experience, so many people fail to understand even the simple scientific method that worrying about the realities of how actual professionals practice science is rather silly.
We do have general algorithms for solving Linear Integer Programs. They just take some time, because IP is in NP. (It's also in Co-NP, if I remember correctly.)

If P=NP, and somebody has shown a polynomial algorithm for any one problem in NP [1], then we can construct a polynomial algorithm for IP.

Of course, getting a good polynomial algorithm for IP would still be an interesting problem. E.g. bubble sort is polynomial, but far from the ideal sorting algorithm for most applications.

We also have lots of algorithms to solve IP already, that work well in practise for many types of problems. But all of them become slower than polynomial for certain pathological inputs.

Interestingly, no polynomial simplex algorithm (for continuous linear programming) is known, but in practise simplex often performs faster than most polynomial algorithms for solving LP.
You see - the reason your hit list of itches were not fixed were because no one stepped in to do them - this isn't anyones fault, but it doesn't mean important things were not fixed. Instead, the other itches (such as bytes vs. strings/unicode) were fixed.

Function annotations, the standard library cleanup, and other things came along for the really big ride, which was the bytes/unicode/etc ride. So, there's lots of improvements that came with 3.0 - but the nice thing is is that it continues to evolve.

We now have a New (more rational) GIL, we're probably going to have a futures package (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3148/) and so on (heck, python3 is also getting a jit). And things will continue to be added. Everyone knows and admits that the transition will take years, but now with 2.x being "done" (meaning, no more releases past 2.7) and more great work being done in 3.x, hopefully people in general will start to see the benefits.
Why was this downvoted? It's a great book, and it's on topic.

There should be a law against downvoting without giving a reason :)
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One sunny day I went outside and tested glossy and matte lcd side-by-side. I had the same results as described here:
http://netwalker.nl/2007/07/28/glossy-vs-matte/

Glossy was better. (lcd panels were from different manufacturers, so my results may not apply to every case)

edit: unlike in the linked blog-post, backlight intensity of both lcd-s I tested was roughly the same.
I find your comment ironic given your username.

At one time, bloodletting was mainstream in the medical world.
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Most part of society doesn't involve coercion. Most of us don't go around threating people with murder because we believe it to be wrong. If most men are criminal, we wouldn't be able to have a civilization.

What people really should be striving for is voluntary alternatives to coerciveness measures, not trying to find the best form of coercion.
That's a very different type of event, I'm not sure how this is relevant to the discussion at hand.
So far I have had no issues with Chrome crashing while running two to three tabs of content each playing flash content.

As for advertising Chrome ... that wasnt my aim, rather to let Mozilla people of my issue. Could be a wider spread issue then myself. Ive used Mozilla as my main browser since 2003, unfortunately after the update Im not able to use it at all :(
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Individuals (scientists, doctors, lab technicians, inventors) can do the innovating, can do the research. They just need to be paid and given space and tools and time to do it in. Enter government. Government does not need to innovate, just write checks.

In principal, you are correct, but you are neglecting one very important point: the government is not a nebulous entity with an endless supply of money. Therefore, the individuals that comprise the government must identify (either directly, or by selecting individuals who are most qualified in a given area of expertise to serve as proxies) the scientists whose ideas, proposals, past productivity, and requests for facilities most warrant funding.

Separating the wheat from the chaff is a non-trivial exercise. It may not be be direct innovation, but I would argue that it is every bit as challenging.
> This is a great explanation. I found it really easy to follow.

I found it relatively easy to follow. But many of the technical details are either wrong or misleading.
Agreed, can't kill Facebook by copying it. It'd be easier to kill Google by copying it (less network effects there), and that's pretty much impossible too.
An iPhone, drawn entirely with HTML:

<img src="iphone.png">
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Whoa what with the hacker love for Austrian economics?

It like everyone take after Eric S. Raymond, the hacker who extends Austrian(Hayekian to be more exact) economics to the field of software development in his The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
I call bunk.

There are many thousands of biotech companies, the vast majority of which do not sell drugs that treat chronic diabetes.

Any one of them would love to sell a diabetes drug that cures diabetes.

Either this researcher only courted a few companies that already sell diabetes treatments, who unsurprisingly didn't want to fund him (does Comcast fund startups that help you avoid buying cable? NO!) or there is something else about his research that made people not want to continue with it.
Glad to see SoftLayer are still on top of things. I used them when they first launched and the guys from The Planet moved over as I used to run a shared web hosting business.
Ask HN: what could kill Facebook?
Considering their rather iron grip on identity (FB Connect etc), and the network effects of the social graph (everyone is there), and their so-far pretty good execution (they're down a lot less than, say, the much smaller Twitter), what could, at this point, kill Facebook?
I'm also German, living near Berlin, and I had to analyze Kennedy's speech in an exam at school.

I fully agree that "Ich bin ein Berliner" was the correct variant. The alternative phrase "Ich bin Berliner" wouldn't have fit well into the context of his speech.
the content is going to have to be extremely compelling to compete against youtube/vimeo offerings. For premium content I have a real desire or need to see (concerts, something for work/school/etc) I might pay, but possibly still would look elsewhere. I think the idea is interesting, but you'll need to find the specific publishers that think they have the content worth paying for.

Are you timing the playtime, or putting in 'pay wall' at a specific timer in the video?

Also, going to a separate website is way too jarring - I think the experience would have to be in-player for it to be workable. I might be proved wrong, but that's my gut feeling.

Good luck!
Actually taxing the income of living in your own house as similar to rent sounds reasonable to me. Making debt payments tax deductible is a bigger problem.
Hey CVG.. I know that it's tough starting a startup and at this point you feel that you have done enough work to consider feedback. I can only really comment regarding your interface.

That is to say regarding the process someone has to go through from beginning to finish to use your product (in any degree).

As you can see from the feedback you've been given.. even with people that have set out with the intent to look at your website.. there is little to no patience for the explanation.. or the product/service.

What I would do is cut out alot of the fluff you put in the homepage to "fill" it up. Then add the content on the "start now" page onto the homepage to remove that unnecessary click (something like what your competitor http://33banners.com/ has done but keep an explanation on the homepage) . After that Remove any duplicate call to actions (I can see you have at least one, and also the bullet points to the right may be mistaken for call to action buttons).

Finally maybe ask for any user sign up information at the end of the process.. using the time they invested into your website as incentive to sign up and revive the rest of their "shizz". Otherwise i'd say it is looking good can if you keep working on it.. it can mature into a very painless, alluring process for people who want a quick banner ad.
Could a consistent effort by a deep-pocketed competitor kill them, if they can't find a good way to monetize (which seems unlikely)? The same way Bing is attacking Google search: just spend heaps of money on it, and wait for the other party to make a mistake?
Google's attack on identity seems to consist of making it more open, through various standards. Hasn't succeeded yet, but it's possible that, once identity settles down in a form that's stable (there's too much innovation still going on), the open formats will become more attractive and eventually win. So that's how identity might play out, although it would take time.
I believe he's saying he uses Emacs.
Agreed, but i still really want to give it a try
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I hear this argument all the time and it ignores one fundamental fact: there is more than one large pharmaceutical company and they don't all make $disease_x_treatment.

That one company makes billions selling a treatment for a disease has no bearing on a competing company making a cure for that disease and cornering the market. If anything, it's the very definition of a market-driven solution to a problem.

Now, it's true that there are diseases which are so rare that it's not commercially worth developing a cure, and perhaps government funding is useful in that case but that's a completely different topic.
If Google can somehow get access to the data they need to make search social, enough of it to make sure facebook's search isn't better, then they might not need to kill fb, they may not be threatened.
Hate to say it, but: Me too.
Economics is so fantastically politicized---in a more honest age, it was called political economy---you'd have to apply your maximum filters for Wikipedia to be of any use. Probably not the best choice for a beginner.
If you write code like this:

if x:
# do stuff
# do other stuff

Your indenter will not know where to put the third line.

In languages whose blocks are closed using nonwhitespace the problem doesn't exist. Your indenter just has to push everything as far to the right as it can, and problem solved.

It's nice that your editor gets copy and paste right, but it doesn't and indeed can't decide how to indent your code, something that works in every other language I've dealt with.
Is America the only country in the world where he could get his drugs trial tested and put into market? There are umpteen number of pharma companies in the developing countries which are ready to take a working product to their market. Why not use them?
Some of us dislike the new "features" in TB3, like:

- opening a new tab for each email you read

- or worse, double clicking on a collapsed thread opens a new tab for each email in the ENTIRE thread...
That's not such a magic number in this case. In most cases, console manufacturers make a loss on the console, and profit on the titles. Nintendo makes money on the console too, so it's not such an important figure.
Emacs!

No, wait - vi!

No, wait - what was the question again?
Out of curiosity, why would you want a web-based text editor?
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There's a whole sub-industry based on diabetes! You have goods providers shuttling out boatloads of sharps, insulin testers, strips, etc. A lot of companies profit beyond just insulin, which isn't terribly expensive unless you have to use a high dosage.
A big part of the reason that so many people fail to understand even the simple scientific method is because of the way the textbook version of that method is presented. The way the scientific method is often taught in public schools in America is as a rigid formula, or at best a recipe.

Among other things, this leads people to misunderstand the iterative nature of science, the nature of an on-going scientific investigation, the particular creative difficulties that come with doing science, and so on.

It is not taught as something abstract. To do that, you'd have to provide a series of disparate examples from different sciences and show how they all involved observation and hypothesis in a way that made sense of the method as defined.

Here's an alternative presentation by people who are concerned about this sort of thing:

http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/howscienceworks_02
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Good point about "it keeps you from getting fooled". Thats a serious conclusion you make, and however you needed to get there, Im glad you were able to finally arrive at my main point. :)
Microsoft extension to rotate and scale <div>

div#id { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Matrix(sizingMethod='auto expand', M11=1.532, M12=-1.286, M21=1.286, M22=1.532); }

WebKit extension:

div#id { transform: rotate(40deg) scale(2.0); }

I think WebKit has the better candidate for a cross-platform standard......
The small startup doesn't have the 10s to 100s of millions of dollars that it takes to get a drug approved in the US. So they would be happy to do it but are incapable.
Yes, Microsoft has Office Communicator. However, it's a terrible client, it's about on feature parity with AIM version 0.5. It doesn't even turn "http://... strings into hyperlinks.
Facebook won't be "killed". It probably won't disappear in an instant. But it may most likely fade away in time due to a confluence of many factors, not just one: 1. early adopters growing up, 2. decreasing marginal utility, 3. failure to directly align revenue with consumers, 4. lack of vision, 5. corporatism, 6. solipsism, 7. something better coming along.

See: "How the Mighty Fall" by Jim Collins (http://www.amazon.com/How-Mighty-Fall-Companies-Never/dp/097...).
Is it really going to kill them to add -moz-border-radius and -border-radius for every -webkit-border-radius?

It seems like that sort of stuff where you know it's already supported begs some action.
If you like thinkpad keyboards you might be interested in the usb version: http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo... A colleague of mine swears by this, he says its just like the X60 series except bit bigger and can be placed at an angle. Nice touches are the inclusion of volume control and the trackPoint.
I believe the point is that, with that syntax, you can't declare multiple same-type pointers on the same line
Sometimes my brain is in Vulcan mode, and sometimes in Ape mode. I suspect that Vulcans alone, while they may be able to program, could never develop software.
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"While putting metal in a microwave can damage the magnetron by causing an impedance mismatch, it depends on the shape and size of the metal and the time it is in the microwave. Electrical arcing may also occur on pieces of metal that are not smooth, or have points (e.g. a fork). Distributed metallic surfaces that are not subject to arcing and do not appreciably alter the magnetron's RF load can be used in a microwave with no danger; examples include the metalized surfaces used in browning sleeves and pizza-cooking platforms."

I learned something today! I had always thought that ALL metal in the microwave was verboten. Fascinating that it's the shape of the metal, not its material, that matters.
"That one company makes billions selling a treatment for a disease has no bearing on a competing company making a cure for that disease and cornering the market."
But it's actually more efficient to develop a treatment for the second company.

It's better to share an extremely big market with a competitor than to corner it while making it much smaller. The goal is not to destroy all competition, it's to make more money.
So, grep for what's calling your function, or use pdb.set_trace()
CellFinder is one app that does this.
because you know that if you blink, it'll be gone

Indeed, it goes away if the sun goes behind a cloud. Even better when you have kids, and have to make sure the baseball field is dry and safe for them. You'll be shoveling mud into wheelbarrows, transporting it to a mound of dirt, and coming back with wheelbarrows-full of dry dirt. Heavy work. More rain. So you do it again. You. Well, and the mosquitoes.

I agree that there are glorious days in the spring here, but in my view they don't a season make. But all-around it's still a fabulous place to live for the climate.
Insulin is cheap but diabetes is enormously expensive. Nytimes has an excellent series of articles http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907e2da1f30f...

The articles describe diabetes patients as floating "shipwrecks": a rudder broken here, a sail there, no one at the helm. It's a good analogy because, when you have diabetes, almost anything can fail without warning.
I'd like to just throw my hat in the ring in support of Steve here, who wrote exactly what I would have in response to you. And I'm talking from experience as well. Your assumptions are quite common though, so it's nothing unusual.