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To grok the subject, it will take a while.
Search for a good undergraduate economics course and follow that.
I second Hazlitt "Economics in One Lesson".
But if you truly want to understand this, you will need to start with one book and then note all the books and theories which come before, going back a long way 200 years or more. Read or read summaries of those as well.
In that way, you will get a firm foundation and understand how some "new" stuff is just old stuff with a new name.
Looked at that collection. I've read a lot of Austrian stuff and I'd say that Hayek's elaboration of the trade cycle and the dynamics of international currencies are the two greatest works of Austrian Economics. They are not the basics by any means though and are pretty tough going, as hard as reading books on compiler design.

http://mises.org/books/monetarynationalism.pdf

http://mises.org/books/pricesproduction.pdf
I think that these billionaires who give $ to Africa are trying to destroy their fortune without looking bad.

They know better than anyone that to help Africa is to plow the sea.
Hopefully, it does as well as their Twitter killer and their Wikipedia killer.
1. I disagree. The number of partners has to do a lot with the depth of any given relationship. The reasonable analogy is learning a skill. The more time you spend on it, the better you become. The more time you dedicate to other disciplines, the more broad interdisciplinary knowledge you gain. It's a tradeoff. And I don't see why this cannot be applied to people.

2. As far as I can tell from everyone else's experience (haha) there are always issues. Issues is not something to be ignored, but rather something to be discussed, otherwise they grow into something you can't actually solve. The more partners you have, the less time you have to discuss those issues.
Here's another vote for Basic Economics. It's a great (and fairly thorough) overview, written in a down-to-earth manner. Lots of real-life examples are used to explain basic economic principles, making this subject understandable and even enjoyable (for me, at least).

Here is a direct link to it on Amazon (reviewers here gave it high ratings as well):
http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-3rd-Ed-Economy/dp/0465...
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I think in the last decade "killer" has become something of a cursed moniker. The last person to do a string of "killers" was 90's Bill Gates at Microsoft. When he decided he wanted to take a market, he just took it.

Since then products have almost inevitably become killers sort of by accident, especially in the fast-moving and uncertain age of the web. Making a killer thus is kind of like skating to where the puck has been, not where it is going.
Thanks. I do a lot of inserts and updates, so yeah, I'm really feeling the burn right now.
To use python you need to download it first, from http://www.python.org/download/

It'll work from Hong Kong, and probably most places in the world, but if you cross the Chinese border into Shenzhen, you'll get "The connection has been reset". Same with other places in mainland China I've been.
Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt: http://jim.com/econ/, http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lesson.pdf

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

Applied Economics by Thomas Sowell

Free to Choose by Milton Friedman (video series, too)

Use of Knowledge in Society by Hayek (short, non-technical paper which is full of brilliant insights): http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html

Not a book, but the Econtalk podcast is fantastic: http://www.econtalk.org/
One option is to browse some major university websites for commonly used textbooks and pick one that's appropriate for your level (in terms of math/econ background) and seems interesting. Some common choices are Krugman & Wells and books by Mankiw. Textbooks are drier than popular books, but they are clearer and more rigorous, and you have some assurance that any reputable one will attempt to present a balanced, mainstream view rather than pushing a personal agenda.

Another option that is a bit more expensive but may be a lot more enjoyable is getting some DVDs from the Teaching Company. They get what are usually very good lecturers to give their courses, and

http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=550
http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=5610

seem to be the kinds of things you're looking for. I haven't watched these, but maybe worth a shot.

(Regarding some of the other suggestions: blogs are ok, but the more econ-heavy ones will assume some degree of familiarity with economic concepts, and will post on random topics in no particular order, so they don't really solve this problem. Non-mainstream books or famous monographs are also ok at some point, but as with all such things, it's generally best to at least understand the basic mainstream stuff first.)
This should be required reading everywhere.
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1. While your basic idea is good, the aspect that you're missing is that relationships with one person can actually enhance your relationships with another. Poly actually encourages the very skills that make relationships work.

2. From my actual experiences, there are always issues, yes. However, they're not as big, because you quickly get very good at communicating and resolving those issues.

I didn't mean to imply that issues should be covered up, sorry. That's absolutely not the case. What I meant was, you can appreciate a relationship with different people for different reasons.
The only way to beat facebook is to out-open them. Facebook thrives on being a place where users have very tight control over their identities. Watch for something that strips that control from everyone.
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The author is currently doing time for refusing to pay income taxes. A crank, IMHO.
The poor man's version I use on Chrome is to add one of the plugins that will autorefresh every n seconds. It's far from ideal, but if I'm working on css it saves me a lot of time.

Another hack I've put together is to use applescript and a keyboard shortcut. Set it up as a universal shortcut and give focus to your code editor at the end of the script.
If Apple opened up the protocol tomorrow, there'd be a better (3G) implementation on Android fairly sson.
E.g. http://www.zazzle.com/polyamory_is_wrong_tshirt-235470507350.... Yes, it's a stupid term, but it's established at this point...
For a while now Google has been pushing a much need redesign for Orkut (I don't have it yet, nor have I ever really used the service). I somehow doubt they're giving up it just yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa5xuQZnmtE

Oh, and wasn't Facebook about to launch a Google killer the other day..?
Usually you want to default to InnoDB unless you know for sure that the table's usage pattern fits MyISAM's strengths. Those include read-only tables, read-infrequently tables (like configuration data), and logging tables, where you're appending a bunch of rows at once and rarely (if ever) need to mutate existing data.

If you want full-text search, you're usually better off with something like Solr/Lucene or Google Custom Search Engines than MyISAM's built-in full text indexing.

The problem with MyISAM is that if you ever get significant write-load, the table-level locking will kill you. InnoDB uses row-level locking, which scales much better under heavy writes. Writes are far more likely to be a bottleneck than reads, so the faster read speed of MyISAM is rarely a boon in practice.
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Hmm.. Google already has orkut.com
Okay, points taken, they sound valid. Although the problem for me is, I can't take your word for it. I wish there was some research on it with some real data. That would rule out any speculation. For now, there'd be mostly subjective views and opinions with no evidence. If there was some evidence, then we could probably see the general pattern of relationship changing over time and see how humans would handle this in future.
The object of the negotiation itself is to seek equilibrium. 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. (The Nash equilibrium of the Iterated Prisoner's dilemma has both sides defect on every turn, in other words.) To "win" the negotiation, both sides should be primed "hard."
> It'd probably be more accurate to say that Java deliberately limits its expressiveness, in order to make it harder for people to shoot themselves in the foot, and to make it easier for one programmer to understand what another has written.

That is exactly what I meant.

Bad programmers exist. They will write bad code, no matter what language they're made to use.
Yeah, at least go for the good old Micros~1
You do. The signal strength bars are to the left of the carrier name, while the connection type (EDGE, 3G, WiFi) icon is the right.

The WiFi icon (which acts as a signal strength indicator for WiFi connections) unfortunately does hide the cellular data indicator, which shows whether you're connected to EDGE or 3G.
I'm moving from SF to Pittsburgh in about a month. What's the best way to get info on local meetups/resources/etc? I'm hoping to meet up with some like minded people and maybe even find a co-founder when I move out there.
Just tried it out - works well for editing code over SSH. Great work, thanks.
Programming languages all come with a specific mental model for how you're supposed to code in the language. That's why it's so useful to learn different types of languages so that you "pick up" those different ways of thinking. Everybody thinks differently so not every language is going to suit the tastes of every developer. You may find that Lua or Ruby are a better fit with your thinking patterns and that you are more productive using one of those as a scripting language of choice.

The power of scripting languages really come down to a very simple thing: each line of code in a scripting language is equivalent to roughly 5 to 10 lines in a systems programming language. You're doing the same mundane programming tasks but with fewer lines and getting nearly the same performance as if you had written the code in one of the systems languages. It really won't make much difference which one you use, you'll see the same productivity gains using Perl, Ruby, Python, Lua or practically any of the others. However, the more obscure the language you choose, the fewer developers and the fewer available libraries to use.
I rather like Google Buzz actually and probably now use it 1/5-1/4 as much as Twitter. It's very simple to use with the great GMail inbox integration and connects me to a different set of friends vs. Twitter and Facebook.
Well, if we're doing the anecdotal thing, then I'll be happy to back up mr. maroon. My current contract is with one of those Fortune 500 companies. I work in server ops, and am very much aware of what we have.

There are a couple of thousand servers, across three DCs, a mix of HPUX, Solaris, and Windows.

Not one Linux server. Maybe there's a few dozen running in VMs on developer's workstations, but even they tend to prefer Solaris, since that's their target, anyway.

At this scale, nobody really cares about the licensing costs of an OS. There's no reason not to buy RedHat, if only to keep the PHBs happy.

OS license costs are a smidgen, a rounding error, damn near nothing compared to the costs associated with standing them up, not to mention development, ongoing operations, etc. I'm pretty sure our storage costs, per month, exceed all the money we've spent on licenses in the last year (if not longer).

I also know of a lot of small businesses which have nothing but Windows. I know of few that have even heard of Linux. I'm talking about every law office, every doctor's office, every real-estate office...well, you get the idea.

I like Linux. I've been running it on servers and desktops of my own for over about fifteen years (since the 1.x kernel). I seldom see it in the field.
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And yet his son has been considered one of the celebrities of the economic crisis for predicting it so well and profiting from it. The line between crank and brilliant is blurry.
You'd think so, but when I was doing some quick testing with just one window and multiple tabs it only refreshed the current tab. Doing some more tests now with multiple windows, it seems to only refresh the active tab of the back-most window in the stack.

I think that's rather counter-intuitive, but I doubt it'd be much of an issue in practice.
I'm really of two minds on this topic:

On the one hand, stable legally enforced identities on the internet that everyone has possession of would be a boon to ecommerce, they would be the foundation for any conceivable framework for performing binding transactions over the internet, and would drive a lot of new business, and enable new business models.

On the other hand, mandatory public identification of everyone, even in situations where it's unwarranted would be an Orwellian nightmare. And letting people require trustworthy identities in frivolous contexts (equivalent to asking people to show you their driver's license at a party, or to shop at a supermarket) is a bad idea, an extremely attractive to ethically challenged marketers bad idea at that.

The gripping hand of course, is that we can't not do this. As a society we have set ourselves on the path where the benefits outweigh the risks, and the risks of not creating a trustworthy system of identity that does it's best to guarantee both the security of transactions (non-repudiation) and the freedoms that come with pseudo- and ano- nymity outweigh the benefits of sticking with a broken system of partial identification, where identity theft is a simple matter of copying the right strings to the right places.

Frankly if you read the PDF referenced in the story, it's not as bad as some of the comments in this thread seem to think it is, the people involved have obviously been reading Kim Cameron, and aren't completely at sea on the privacy issues, or the social implications. That doesn't mean that this process doesn't bear strong scrutiny, but it does give me hope that this necessary piece of infrastructure won't get implemented in the absolute worst way possible.
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In a way, that is evidence of a very impressive model that they built in their earlier years. Very robust.
It's true.

It's hard to find out about this for a few reasons. First of all, it's really hard to get good data. This thread is actually the most I've ever spoken about it on the internet, because I'm not really 'outed' in public except to the people who know me in real life. This is largely due to the stigma (and probably some holdover Catholic guilt) that's associated with poly.

Secondly, the data is tainted by people who aren't _really_ practicing open relationships, and only do it to 'spice up' or 'save' a slowly failing monogamous one. I largely attribute my own success to it being one of the preconditions on my relationship being formed.
At first I thought this was spam, due to the ads atop the page. Then I saw the following:

> Sally's Apizza in New Haven, CT. Aside from NYC, New Haven is probably the best pizza town in the U.S. There are at least 10 pizzerias there that are better than every pizzeria in my home of Atlanta. New Haven sports many styles of pizza, all good, but this is the quintessential "New Haven Style". No other town I've been in makes this kind of pizza. The pie below is half Marinara and half cheese. My photo of Modern Apizza, a few miles away, didn't come out that good. But Modern is even better than Sally's in my opinion.

This guy sees through the hype about Pepe's and Sally's and gets right down to it, though he's not even from New Haven. Impressive! (The only thing better than Modern pizza is B.A.R. pizza, IMHO.)
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Unless I am missing something, the only way the whole world can be a net saver would be for for all of us to start exporting goods and services off-planet. Anything else is simply a mirage that obscures currency inflation. :) Which, on a related note, goes eleventy-fold for anything remotely related to derivative instruments.
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This project will only display correctly on a webkit browser

Can we honestly say this is any better than "this site will only display correctly on IE"? Even if they're using open standards, it just doesn't seem right to be incompatible with 90% of browsers. Is there any practical value of these demonstrations of CSS prowess to HN?
There's a lot of these "x done entirely with css" posts as of late. It's cool, but not really newsworthy. Drawing stuff with CSS is the new ANSI art[1], I guess.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art
I haven't seen a good Hacker News app for Android yet but I'm not sure if it's possible to keep all the features without an official API. The web based mobile HN apps I've seen so far aren't very touch friendly.
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Any reason you don't use Thunderbird 3 / 3.1 ?
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> The more fantastical option is a lightweight system with just enough power to run X and connect wirelessly to a server.

If you ever do build and use something like this, I'd like to read about the experience. I have considered trying to do something of this kind, but I always found the documentation on putting together thin clients to be woefully incomplete.

I also found it surprising that you write all your code in Kate and it is interesting that you're still on KDE 3.x (although I certainly understand why you would shy away from 4.x).
Wow, I like this site. Some of the author's analysis seem slightly off to me, but there's a heck of lot of anecdotes and data and quotes. A heck of a lot of anecdotes, data, and quotes makes for good reading.

I particularly liked the part about the sleep habits about the various genius creative people. Cntrl+F "da vinci" to start on that section of the article.

Personally, my best sleeping pattern so far has been a 1-4 hour nap and 4-7 hours of sleep at night. I want to see how low I can go while getting at least a few hours of high level performance and able to function the rest of the day. I don't actually need full speed productivity all of the day and I even prefer cleaning and organizing while I'm a little tired, I get into sort of a zen of it. Anyone else have thoughts on how low you can go while functioning?
I use Windows Live Messenger, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and will likely use Azure at some point (love the tech, but don't have anything for it yet). We exist.
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Although his son predicted the crisis, he might not have profited from it. Part of his investment strategy was based on the assumption that the US economy would decouple from the rest of the world. As it happened, foreign investments were also hammered in the crisis.
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Google is fighting too many wars now. They need focus and polish, and to stop less competed services from degrading.
Take care of indentation, you mean?

1. People don't indent consistently. There are a lot of (imo, pointless) arguments about where to place the braces, etc. One of the advantages of the language forcing a style is that arguments about it are no longer necessary.

2. Why should tools be taking care of this? People indent to understand the code better. Everyone agrees that you have to do it. So what's the problem with the language forcing you to do it? I'd rather it be part of the language than an external tool enforcing it.
This does get to be a problem with people not indenting consistently. I.e., some code using tabs and some using spaces, and then copying between them.

Technically, your editor should take care of that for you, but some of them don't do it properly (and sometimes can't do it properly), and it really sucks.

Well, everything has a downside :)
I'm in the UK, a lot of less sophisticated users use MSN chat and many still have hotmail accounts. I guess Microsoft is the default until you know about other alternatives.
excellent article.. upvoted~
Actually kiwidrew nailed it.
But, you are right. I have not done enough research. I actually didn't do any. I built some software and it turned into a reverse auction site (as defined in the WP article). I guess being sick and tired of terrible customer service helped as well. Thanks for your feedback. I am going to do some more research now! I am not sure why that did not seem like the thing to do when I started... Anyhow. Back to work!
The distinction is simply (but critically!) this: the standard operating procedure (and, in fact, the only available way!) to shut down a piece of crash-only software is to crash it forcibly. There is no quit button, no shutdown command, no remote API, there is just kill. Sounds simple enough, but where it really gets interesting is in how this mindset affects your design and implementation decisions.

Imagaine for a moment what it would be like if during every second of work during every day of the week each and every thing you did was accompanied by a corresponding design exercise along the lines of "okay, but what if it crashes right then." Now that would sure produce some "software with good error handling", now wouldn't it. That is crash-only software.
That's one of the best interviews made to Mr. Gates I had ever read. The interviewer was knowledgeable enough to ask right questions and the style was great. Nice to see that in perspective.
Except this is the type of thing the advances in CSS are meant for. It's not a creative hack. This is people exploring the bleeding edge. They introduce new and arguably better techniques for presenting content and I also think they serve as a good barometer for progress.
When the standards are widely implemented those who are already familiar with them will have a head start.

Unless some people push things forward they will forever stay the same. We don't all have to move in lock-step, that kind of thinking leads to watered down systems and is a recipe for stagnation.

There's also graceful degradation and progressive enhancement, where you can serve the best supported content to each client based on their capabilities. So you can use the new shiny stuff if supported but nobody is left out in the cold entirely. HTML5 video is a good example of this.

One last point. Other browser devs may see these demos and think "hey that's cool! we should be able to do that too", leading to quicker uptake of new standards.
I have software built but I think after posting here it was a simple answer... No.

I have been looking for a co-founder that is sharp but the two guys that I talked to wanted to talk about Stanford and MIT more than about building applications and businesses.

Thanks for the reply. It was insightful and I appreciate you taking the time to respond.
I agree it's kind of silly to put forth a visual web demo and exclude 90% of browsers (especially when these same effects can be rendered in all browsers, with the proper browser-specific tweaks), but does there need to be a practical value? I think the point is "Huh. Cool." Demoscene for CSS. These demos are also good for putting new features/techniques through their paces.
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I believe fizx was referring to Jaiku (twitter competitor) and Knoll (Wikipedia competitor), not Buzz. both of which failed to rick off.

I think with buzz they are trying to make a service which brings all the features of the various social networks to one platform, its something between Facebook (you can "like" stuff), tumblr (judging by the length of the posts and it allows comments), and twitter.

I have to say that buzz is really nice, and I would use it if it didn't have the gmail requirement.