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I'm sorry, could you unpack your point a bit more? I'm not even sure where he made an argument in that post, let alone "defeated a straw man". It's mostly just musings.

Are you perhaps misinterpreting his post as a question of how far the state can be pared down (given your second paragraph)? Because that's not the question; the issue of government size is nearly tangential and just parenthetically touched on. The question is the minimum size a society can be at our scale of sophistication. One could then speculate about how "governmenty" that society would be but that's really a separate question.

This is really an engineering question, not a political one. Since we're asking about the minimum, we're pretty much assuming that the component people have the optimal organization and the exact details of that organization don't matter to the answer much.
The title should be changed to read "Video chat for Android in 30 lines of XML." It's all Flex configuration. I don't see any Android code at all. That's kind of what I was excited to see, but there are no algorithms to look at whatsoever.
Yup. So does Firefox. (And Opera, for that matter... Chrome did not invent these features.)
> In reality, you DO HAVE FREE TIME

... Yes, but also no. There are only 24 hours in a day. I've had quarters in school where my day contained roughly one hour of time not spent sleeping, traveling, in class, at work, or in lab. My choices: eat, or do something fun and starve, literally. It was close to two full time jobs, and IIRC I was spending my weekends replacing the engine in my car, which had exploded.

> In reality people who say "I don't have time" are just not willing to sacrifice anything for their dreams

You are technically correct, but some of those things I feel don't deserve disgust. For example, I'm unwilling to give up a minimum amount of sleep, a minimum amount of food, and school. The former two for obvious reasons.
Could a regex library parse a regular expression and decide reasonably quickly which engine to use?
Your examples aren't very good. Cigarettes are a politically incorrect product, and GM cars are a more politically correct product, but I can't imagine many people who know better to actually prefer GM cars over the competition. Likewise, if an enthusiastic smoker wanted to invest in his favorite tobacco company, maybe that would work out.

A better example than GM might be Krispy Kreme, which was a terrible investment even though the doughnuts are delicious.
You think the teachers' union is more powerful than any single company? that is a joke. If teachers had the power of the top dogs in the finance, pharma, defense or energy industries (to take a few obvious examples) have they'd all make 7 figures.
Demographics are a major factor in the increase you cite. A disproportionate amount of crime is caused by men in their late teens and early twenties. The Baby Boom caused a rapid increase in that, with predictable results.

Another factor is greatly improved reporting. Rape in particular used to be very poorly reported, and this has improved a lot as the social stigma against reporting it lessened. The shape long rise from the 60s to 1990 was certainly strongly affected by that.

A number of reasons exist for the recent drop in very violent crime that the murder graph shows. Demographics are surprisingly only a small part of it. Most of it was the result of public health efforts that reduced the incidence of lead poisoning. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07... for more. A much smaller factor which many have heard of was the legalization of abortion. While this has an effect, and was popularized in Freakonomics, the effect was much less than the benefit of reduced lead poisoning.
Ask HN: What problems do you have on the Windows platform?
Probably in the minority here on HN, but I love Windows, Windows Server, .NET and the Microsoft development tools - although it has to be said, I am still partial to a lot of the Alt.NET solutions.

What bug bears / pain points do you experience? As well as developing, I just love the idea of 'perfect' development, testing, deployment etc, particuarly the deployment of the same app across many servers and then a consistent upgrade process.

I'd love to know what fellow HNers struggle with on Windows because I fancy looking at building something in this area - perhaps open source, perhaps not, but either way, hopefully this can be a melting pot for those of us intereste in Windows centric software and solutions
What is wrong with mainframes?

The problems banks solve are the reason mainframes exist. Billions of data points that must be processed 100% correct 100% percent of the time. It seems wrong to demonize mainframes as old and outmoded.
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Japanese people who go abroad for an extended period of time outside the confines of a work order to do so come back virtually unemployable (for white-collar work).

(There is pretty much one exception here, and that is a young lady who wants to work as a freelance translator. Note that this has externalities for her life in other ways, particularly with regards to who and when she can marry.)

I think this explains much more of the issue than "culture", which is everyone's persistent all-purpose explanation for any difference between Japan and anywhere.
Well, returning to the OP, selling a call short does not automatically mean you lose money. It's just that once in a while you are exposed to losses that far outweigh the price of the call.

So perhaps the Dick and Jane example is one where you are ahead of the game by leaving the code as is and only refactoring it later when needed.

It does take real skill to forecast what is needed and what isn't, we 100% agree on that :-)
Source control applications don't generally worry about dependencies, and they also generally aren't concerned with multiple projects.

Using .NET as an example, the SDK patches would include:
Drivers
DirectX
XNA
WPF
BackOffice
SQL Server (or Express or Lite or whatever they call it)
System libraries
ASP.NET
C#
F#
ILR
C++ .NET
VB.NET

And the list goes on.

Apple's developer kit has a similarly vast suite of libraries and services, I just don't know all of their names. Each one in isolation wouldn't be all that big a deal, but combine them and you have the option of massive downloads or a nightmarish dependency management problem.
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The fisheyetabs extension has similar goals, at least for avoiding scrolling and making tabs easier to locate (no grouping though). The implementation might not be flawless, but I'd like to think that the concept is sound.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4845/
Disclaimer: I'm the author of f.e.t.
Well, you say you don't have the time or the budget to contribute to Cassandra and Thrift now. Don't despair, perhaps in the future you could contribute to those projects.
Probably, but python-core has no interest in maintaining multiple regular expression implementations: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101606... (this thread starts talking about regex, which is a backwards compatible enhancement to re, but also covers re2)
Have you asked if you can work 4 days a week?
Prison facilities only make up about 10% of the incarceration cost.

Annual per capita costs of incarceration in California: http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/laomenus/sections/crim_justice/...

http://www.lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/education/ed_anl08006.as...

Education costs are a bit higher than the article suggests, and you are right that they would increase further if building expenses were included. Part of the problem is that most spending is controlled at the county level and many people oppose centralizing education spending or policy at the state or federal level.

Other interesting data can be found at the links provided, albeit a year or two behind the latest budget #s.
Incidentally, free-enterprise as you describe it is essential for freedom of speech. If everyone's income becomes incumbent on the government, then they don't want to say anything to piss off said government.
if one founder is going full-time and the other isn't, then it would seem like someone going full-time should get better equity.

you should have a written legal agreement covering the process of equity distribution and vesting, which includes a mechanism for when there is a change in commitment levels by one co-founder versus another, including if one of the two were to leave at some point. in other words, get your pre-nup done ;). (not to mention assignment of intellectual property etc -- speak to a lawyer)

a cash investment would normally receive additional equity and with a senior position (i.e. if company is sold for $25K, the $20K investor gets their money back first before the remaining $5K is distributed), though w/ $20K you probably can't afford legal paperwork for pay for that.

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That's exactly my point though. Whether the product is good or not has little or no bearing on whether the stock is a good buy. It's all about the underlying financial fundamentals of the company.
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as opposed to what? Every time I try to come up with an answer for that question I get stuck at 'dictatorship headed by the fairest and wisest person I know.' It's probably just a coincidence, but that person usually turns out to be me :)

What's your alternative good?
Original Usenet post by Daniel Green: https://groups.google.com/group/sci.fractals/msg/b891a40bc12...
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And that it caters to a specific niche.. and ..but I meant this more in terms of taking YC.. go against one another.
If you inject cash and want to translate that into more equity, the first step is to determine the monetary value of your MVP product. To measure the effect of leaving your job you need to measure how this factor will increase the value of your MVP product. One you have put numbers on those two factors the rest is an easy computation.
It only works if you're dragging a tab into another tab area.

You can't drag a tab into window without tabs (only 1 tab hence no tab area). You also cannot drag a window (only 1 tab) into another window.

FF does have some subset of Chrome's functionality, but you cannot use it like Tab Candy to easily organize sets of tabs. Which is the whole point of the post.
If I was going to delve into another language why would it be OCaml over Haskell or Scheme?
Recently? Probably deciding to go downtown for coffee with Thomas (tptacek) last Christmas break, which lead to a very enlightening conversation about consulting. (Short version: "People will pay you money to consult for them." I did not know this. For real.)

All time? I've got to go with the wee little project that was supposed to pay for a video game or two, even though that is a pandering answer here. If not that, working hard academically and financially to get into WashU, which offers opportunities roughly equivalent to many schools except the quality of their Japanese program ended up being lifechanging for me.

Financially? I had a burrito at this new restaurant called Chipotle, read that McDonalds was spinning them off, and bought a few hundred dollars worth of stock over the next few years. Don't do that -- invest in index funds. That said, burritos now make up a larger contributor to my net worth than anything save bingo cards.
Co-founder bailed on my laundry delivery startup. Looking to replace him. 
Hi,

I have a laundry delivery platform web app built in python.
Plus an already existing relationship with Boston's #1 laundry/dry cleaning business. You can check it out: www.laundrigo.com

The vision is to be in every city in the country and be the grub hub of laundry/dry cleaning delivery. The general motto is: Hate Laundry? We have an app for that.

I need somebody who can make UI tweaks in order to launch this Fall for back to college. I have a backlog with 30 or so items. Not all of them need to get done prior to launching. The website is built on python.

I fully understand us needing to go on a few dates first and would be happy to pay a reasonable hourly rate. Bear in mind this is a scrappy bootstrap operation.

Feel free to email me with your questions:
LiranBaron at gmail.

If you want to learn more about why my cofounder bailed, then please email me. i don't want to "air our dirty laundry" in public ;). Basically he couldn't make time.
It is odd that http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/world/middleeast/24israel.... would be killed, but thanks for looking into it.
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You are much more familiar with the situation in Italy than I am. My comment was based on Codes of the Underworld (Diego Gambetta, 2009, Princeton University Press). On page 70, he says:

"The wider the range of possible transgressions, the greater the amount of potential information available for mutual blackmailing... Italy is a country with a high level of corruption that has proved hard to explain...Italy has in excess of 100,000 laws and regulations...The probability of living a life, indeed of going through the day, without incurring at least one violation must be virtually zero for Italians... It seems plausible therefore to hypothesize that the high levels of corruption in Italy could depend on the fact that everybody has some dirt on everybody else."

My apologies if I have been misled by this.
Apple just saw record mac sales last quarter. They CARE about macs, they just take their sweet time in releasing updates.

There was just an upgrade to the mini.

Also their laptop sales far outpace mac pro sales, thus they get more attention.
US incarceration are ridiculous and irrational. Why are European countries and Japan so different, though? They also have elected politicians and special interest groups, what’s going on there?

I think it mostly has something to do with the directness of democracy, not with a difference in opinion or mentality.

Democracy in the US is very local and direct, politicians can actually be punished by the voters for not being tough on crime. That’s not so easy in (for example) Germany. You vote predominantly for parties – the whole package – not politicians. Something as comparatively unimportant as criminal law is going to get swamped by all the other issues, hardly anybody will focus on the particular weak spots of one lowly member of parliament. That would be a waste of effort.

Moreover all decisions about the criminal law are made on the federal level, in commissions full of experts (a lot of academics: criminologists, psychologists …). There is no reason for politicians in those commissions not to follow their recommendations. Voters will hardly ever notice what they decide, it is going to get lost under all the other issues.

You can actually be successful as a German politician who has a image for being tough on crime on the very local level (in, say, a city state), but on that level you can do no more than strictly enforce the rules that already exist. That will hardly change incarceration rates, though.

You don’t need a culture shift, you need a different political system :)
Perhaps, but businesses are not run on the basis of the long run (unless you are in R&D mode for 10 years), they are one short run after the next.
Please just add tree-style tabs feature to Firefox (and Chrome). This is a stellar way to handle tabs on modern wide monitors. It's much, much easier to scan a list than it is to scan a bunch of icons, page images, or (as today) trying to scan two-character scrunched titles across the top.
%s/follow your dreams/stay upwind/g and I'll agree. Take more risks, make learning time a priority, etc., just please let's stop using that phrase.

http://paulgraham.com/hs.html

Anyway, as for the guy in the story, if the guy's been "always wanting to get into animation and design" for 10 years, I have to wonder if that's just a conversation piece rather than a real desire. Though then again it could be he really is just ignorant on how to proceed, sort of like "I want to be rich" but not knowing a workable/desirable/easy-sounding path to it.
For sake of argument, how does the environment/type system determine if something is a "real program" or "scalable" ?
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Legislation is a kind of procedural code, compiled and interpreted by various governmental organizations (courts, agencies, etc.). Rather an abstraction to be sure, but 'if X then Y, else Z' is the sort of logical proposition which underlies both programming and lawmaking, and parsing the resulting code is the sort of intellectual task that hackers enjoy.
This seems a bit like the Chumby. Anyone know enough to explain what the difference is?
No. If you have a new alternative, let's hear about it. Churchill wasn't saying there can't be a better system - he was saying that in his view democracy was the best of the alternatives tried to this point.
"Conservative politicians in the US...

I think these ideas are mostly delusional because they rely on a fundamental misapprehension about the world around us — namely that we live in a society that can be made simple enough to comprehend.

Let's take a look at the superficial structures around us..."

He presents a characterization, says these ideas are delusional because, then leads on to his observations. It's not unreasonable to think he was making argument.

The straw man he creates is equating anyone who wants to reduce state expenditure as wanting or believing in an over-simplified world.

That said, the characterization was insulting to anyone on the right, and about half seem to have taken it as their main takeaway and about half seem to have passed it straight by. So that might be why.
Our biology is designed to anticipate gravity. Regardless of athletic training the average person is capable of adeptly throwing and catching a ball.

I work in construction and I regularly throw and catch objects like rolls of tape - duct tape sized rolls - 18V drills, levels, etc. but it's only when we throw something light (IE that air-resistance has an effect) and then you start getting screwed up. We don't expect things to slow down dramatically when it's thrown or falls.
Thats 10% in a state with a large budget problem. Every little thing is being looked at there....
Firefox and Chrome have the exact same functionality here, unless you turn off "Always show the tab bar" in the Firefox prefs. (It is turned on by default in Firefox 3.5 and later.)
Why is it odd? It's not about technology, it's not about entrepreneurs, it's not about startups, it's not about math, it's not about physics, or user interfaces, or philosophy, or any of the other topics I've seen discussed at length here.

I also think it's thoroughly misplaced.
A democracy is only as good as the citizens involved in it. Some regions have stronger cultures, valuing education and liberty, than others.
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So changed.

I gad used the original title because that is what appears in the link.
"We need a way to organize browsing, to see all of our tabs at once, and focus on the task at hand. In short, we need a way to get back control of our online lives."

Will power? Priorities?

Reducing friction or eliminating annoyances is not always a good thing, and may not accomplish what you want. Worse, it may give you undesirable side-effects.

For example, people complain about freeway traffic, how it takes too long to drive from your home at X to shopping at Y. So city planners go off and widen existing freeways, and maybe build new ones. For a while things are great; little traffic, and it's easy to get around.

Before too long, though, you find that traffic is no better than it was before. But there's lots of new housing construction in your area. Seems the promise of easy access encouraged people to keep living far out from the city. You still have bad traffic, plus more people, and worse air quality.

Had there been no attempt to reduce the friction of traffic there would likely be incentives to drive less often and fewer miles. There would be more opportunity for stores opening up closer to where you live; more locally businesses would thrive.

Likewise, maybe the annoyance of managing large numbers of tabs is a good thing. It's a reminder that maybe you're getting carried away and need to adjust your focus.

(Raise your hand if you've ever been silently relieved when a tab-heavy browser crashed and you couldn't recover them.)
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Wow, I've been feeling like this for the past month or so.

I'm glad(should i be?) that someone felt the same way. I love reading HN but some days, I really dread typing HN's URL and visiting the site since I know fully well that I haven't done anything significant recently.

Reading the awesome posts here kinda demotivates me as there is a lot of pressure to run a startup, make it successful, and to get FU money.

Btw, I know fully well the things I need to do, I'm just ranting, thats all.
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The current #2 post on HN is http://www.economist.com/node/16636027?story_id=16636027 (Too many laws too many prisoners)

Is that Economist post about any of the things you listed ?

If you think that the Economist post was relevant,it is easy to argue that the New York Times post which opened with a paragraph that mentioned the "byzantine complexity of Israeli politics" and "A growing crisis between American Jews and the Israeli government over a proposed law " is also relevant.

PS: Using the "not about startups, not about .." argument for the NYT post about Israel , but not for the hugely popular Economist post about America illustrates your own bias, but it is interesting to see that a large number of people share that bias
The Sony Dash uses Chumby's software, as far as I know. That means it also supports wattvision.

http://blog.wattvision.com/wattvision-gets-an-in-home-displa...
I believe sometimes mods change titles to be more accurate or neutral. I've had it happen to me before, too.
One big difference between owning sloppy code and issuing a risky stock contract is that the stock contract comes due on a certain date, which is known in advance. Sloppy code is much harder to manage because we never know when we will be called to account for it. Like debt, code sticks with you until you pay it down or go bankrupt.

Maybe it's more accurate to say that automated tests, refactoring, and other code quality measures are forms of insurance against future requirements changes.
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Interesting idea and good luck in your search for a co-founder.

It looks like your web app redirects to the https version. In Safari 4 on Mac, I receive "Safari can't verify the identify of the website www.laundrigo.com" and I see an error "This certificate was signed by an unknown authority". Chrome shows an even scarier message.