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I doubt it. Android does not work that way; activities that aren't being used don't run. They exist in memory, and "killing them" removes them from memory, but that doesn't affect battery life.

Now, if you install every app from the Market and don't use them, then that can be a problem, because some apps do run in the background. But that is a very special case. Things like Maps, Browser, etc., aren't eating your battery life. Things like updating Twitter every 30 seconds are. Telling Twidroid to update your tweets every 15 minutes instead of every 30 seconds will save more battery than all the task killers in the world ever will.
Many of the wealthiest people in America opposed the repeal of the tax in the first place - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1170874.stm

Warren Buffet has been quoted as saying "The idea that you get a lifetime of privately funded food stamps based on coming out of the right womb strikes at my idea of fairness."

There's a strong argument for high estate taxes on the principle that the inheritance of wealth is inherently anti-democratic. Most historical dictatorships have been based on the simple principle of compound interest. In Britain two thirds of our land is still owned by just 6,000 people, most of them aristocrats. I think any American would be a fool to forget that their nation was founded as a rejection of British serfdom, and that their nation is perhaps the only one in history that has not lived under the tyranny of oligarchy. It seems to me to be no coincidence that America is almost unique in the world in not having a common cultural sense that economic wealth inevitably translates into political power.

For a contemporary example of the perils of unearned wealth, we need look no further than Russia - in less than two decades it has descended to a state of pure plutocracy, based on little more than unchecked accumulation of wealth and simple corruption. Those opposing campaign finance laws and regulation of that sort would be wise to look at the career of Vladimir Putin as a cautionary example of what happens when wealth is allowed to dominate democracy.

I consider myself a classic liberal, on largely utilitarian grounds - I believe that a free market is good for us all and that any regulation of that market is likely to do more harm than good. However, I fail to see the harm done to society by considering a dead person's assets to be essentially 'dead money', beyond that which is necessary to sustain his family. If you truly wish to have a lasting influence on the world after your death, trust laws give you ample opportunity to leave a permanent economic legacy. The likes of Gates, Buffet, Carnegie and Rockefeller seem to recognise this. I fail to see what good comes of inheritance, but do see a long history of great wrongs resulting from it. From the perspective of this Brit, inheritance seems to be more fundamentally un-American than most things condemned as such.
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It's usually "all intensive purposes", but yeah, this comes up a lot.
Every single time I'm autofollowed I mark them as spam. I wish Twitter enforced their terms of service more strictly and these annoying people got their accounts blocked. You can even make a game of it - mention 'social media marketing' and see how many 'experts' will be autofollowing you within the hour.

"The only auto-following behavior Twitter allows is auto-follow-back (following a user after they have followed you). Automated un-following is also not permitted."

-- http://support.twitter.com/articles/76915

I wonder how many of the people following this guy back are just other bots/marketing types with an auto-follow-back option turned on?
Actually, no, it's worse than that. Threaded code on Python often runs slower on multiple CPUs than on a single CPU. David Beazley ran some numbers on a simple benchmark than indicated that running the same program with two threads on two CPUs was twice as slow than running the same program on a single thread on one CPU. It's not just a matter of not being able to use extra cores: the GIL actively slows down the other threads through context-switching overhead:

http://blip.tv/file/2232410

Also, the serialization introduced by the GIL hurts worst when you're gluing together complex applications. Say that you have a finely-tuned C++ app that spends about 20% of its time in an embedded Python interpreter (number chosen to make the math easy). Now you make the C++ multithreaded and run it on four cores. The 80% of the CPU time spent in C++ gets parallelized effectively, so now it's only 20% of the original runtime. But the Python access is all serialized by the GIL, so it's still 20% of the original time, or 50% of the new runtime. At this point, you're highly likely to get thread contention issues between different threads attempting to acquire the GIL (as per the video), so your Python performance goes down even more - which makes thread contention even more likely, and so on.

By contrast, if you'd rewritten the Python in Haskell, the most you could get was a 25% speedup, because most of the execution time was spent in C++ anyway.
That is the problem nobody talks about - illiquid assets. The estate tax destroys value when sales are forced to cover the taxman's bill. It's not just farms, but any illiquid business.
So you're comparing dying in order to protect a life with dying in order to avoid excess taxes?

The question is not "life == money" vs "life < money" vs "life > money", the question is why are you attempting to compare life and money in the first place?!?
T-mobile has built in apps deployed with their "skin" like "My Account" and "Genius Button" - that will always "hang around" if not killed.

Your mileage may vary from phone to phone.
Openid is a mess. I really want to like it but it's simply too confusing IMHO.
To get new messages, you could simply use long polling so it becomes push instead of pull. For checking if the user is online (I'm assuming your clients are running in web browsers), you can use the onbeforeunload to send a HTTP request that the user is leaving. Of course, you still have to poll at regular intervals because the user might have put his computer to sleep which wouldn't trigger onbeforeunload but your interval can now even be as high as 60 seconds because most clients will trigger onbeforeunload.
I worked on Forumwarz for about 3.5 years full time, although my salary was far from glamorous. I'd say I was eating a lot better than ramen though :)

It was amazing experience that I wouldn't trade for anything, and I met so many amazing people and learned a lot, but eventually I realized that earning half of what I was capable of earning as a developer wasn't a good idea in the long term.

I now maintain the site on a part time basis along with a half dozen volunteers. The site still pays its operating costs but there isn't too much left over.

My goal is to run the site as long as possible, which is a lot more affordable now that it isn't doing 40M pageviews a month.
This was for a site design after the images had been uploaded.
Clever enough to fool myself
Because most of the inheritances in the U.S are leftovers from robber barons, land speculators, and plantation owners? Wealth, at least in the U.S. simply doesn’t persist from generation to generation. The wealthiest people today were not the wealthiest people 50 years ago.
Aside from looking totally unreliable:
http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/9steps.htm

>Because cilantro mobilizes more toxins then it can carry out of the body, it may flood the connective tissue (where the nerves reside) with metals, that were previously stored in safer hiding places.

>This process is called re-toxification. It can easily be avoided by simultaneously giving an intestinal toxin-absorbing agent. Our definite choice is the algal organism chlorella. A recent animal study demonstrated rapid removal of aluminum from the skeleton superior to any known other detox agent.
According to both the last president and the current one, neither are American citizens, necessarily.
This is old news, microsoft.com had the same crap for years.
Quite true. And people often refer to Mexico as a poor country. False. The average Mexican is better off than the large majority of the world, with a per capita GNP of over $7,000.
Sounds like there's room for an alternative. Odd thing to suggest here of all places, I know.
It's nothing like that. Even the corruption isn't so bad and seems to be improving.
It seems there are two issues here: a moral one and a pragmatic one. [edit grammar]

1. Moral Issue: Does society have some claim to the wealth that is created by the most successful members of that society? This is a complicated issue. When we are talking about natural monopolies due to network externalities I might agree with this. Mark Zuckerberg hasn't created billions of dollars of value. Facebook is valuable because everyone uses it. Zuckerberg just created a marginally better website marginally quicker than the next guy.

However, it is inane to say that "every fortune depends as much on society as it does on the individual." That's selling creators short. There is a scarcity of people who create things; people with vision who can make that vision a reality. People who create great things should have a right to the fruits of their labor. They should have a right to share those fruits with their loved ones.

2. Practical Issue: We want to put the incentives in place to encourage people to create wealth and produce things. You argue that wealth inequalities distort economic incentives, but I think the arguments for that are pretty questionable. See my post on guard labor.
http://aspiringeconomist.com/index.php/2010/02/04/guard-labo...

Taxes are bad because they distort people’s behavior. We want to raise revenue for society by taxing people who won't change their behavior in response to taxes. See Ramsey Optimal taxes. So the question is: are estate taxes a good way to tax people without discouraging them from working as much? It's an empirical question I don't know the answer to. I do know that the estate tax encourages people to spend lot of time and resources trying to get out of paying taxes (trusts, offshore accounts, consulting lawyers). That is definitely a waste.
Quite simply they'll have to 'hack' together a cure or a solution to this obviously potentially big problem.
How about zero forces, and a negative budget, by fining employers who hire workers with fraudulent social security numbers? That would save money in the budget to build a giant fence on the Canadian border to keep the cold air out.
That's why you need to think about providing a valuable service, not "extracting money."

A potentially good business model in the future could be to provide services such as taking piles of media from the family and compiling it into slideshows, videos, etc.

There is a ton of analog media that people want digitized. Offering this service to mourning families and creating a package that could be purchased by/for members of the family could be lucrative.
Nip it in the butt.
That's not really fair. A lot of Pythonistas are also quite strong Haskell, Scheme, or even Clojure programmers. On their own time. But the nice thing about Python is that they can also get paid to write it.

The part about the GIL that I hate is that it directly affects my ability to use Python for work. There's a good chance that a Python-based system that I love will be replaced with Java because the GIL simply isn't workable in a multithreaded environment, and there're a bunch of other engineering reasons why the system really should be multithreaded. I don't suffer any GIL-related problems in my personal programming, because my hobby projects simply don't get to the scale where it matters. But most of my hobby hacking is in Haskell anyway.
I think that this is an attempt to keep the users first. If the users love the service enough to pay for it, there will be no need for potentially-user-experience-degrading changes like sponsored subreddits.

I don't know if it's the right move.
Brilliant tactic encouraging members to set their own donation amount. I imagine Reddit will receive significantly more donations and overall totals than had they set donation structure.
re: too much time on my hands, I guess it just comes out of being an information junkie :| I try though, I've been blocking those sites on my machine, and it does fee la little better.

I do have a minor web-presence, I guess it's time to step it up a notch. Thank you for your words!
When I was in japan I worked on two organic farms for about a month total. I did it through the wwoof program which is available all over the world. It was a great time. Even though the work was really tiring on some days I still felt happy without the crazy distractions and responsibilities of school and a part time job. Probably the happiest I've felt in a while.
Lots and lots of details. Doesn't exactly draw an overall theme but gives you a lot to chew on.
TicketMaster typically obtains agreements to become the sole provider of tickets for all the commonly used venues. They already have quite a few competitors, but these exclusive deals prevent competitors being able to compete in most venues.
They don't mention Google Accounts integration, which seems a bit odd - it's my absolute favourite feature of Android. The integration of Mail, Contacts and Calendar feels incredibly 'cloudy', for want of a better word - it's the incredible lightness of not having to worry about where your data is.
How much would it really take to replace the ads on there now with google ads?
Wow.

LOTS of useful stuff here. In addition to a lot of the usual stuff, most especially keeping control, there are these not unrelated gems:

"Retaining control over the company proved to be crucial to Google's success. Most of the early company revenues came from enterprise search, and the investors and Eric Schmidt pressured the company to drop consumer facing search and to focus on the enterprise market. However Page and Brin disregarded this advice as they anticipated the growth of a market for online advertisement. At the time this decision was being made, the New York Times was quoting experts as saying "No one will ever make $250 million dollars a year from online advertising." It has also been said that Page and Brin disregarded pressure from investors to copy Yahoo! and diversify Google into a portal site, deciding instead to focus on the core search and advertising market."

We also now understand their particular style of secrecy: avoiding getting crushed by Microsoft back when that was the fear of every high tech company it could possibly compete with.

The comments as of now are also of high quality and some are not to be missed.
I don't use AdBlock very much, but I must admit that the "thanks for not using adblock" message made me to promise myself that I'll never use AdBlock on reddit.
I've been told this by family and friends. And you're very probably right.

But sometimes I got to bed thinking that it could be wrong, and I could do better.

It seems like.. well, it seems like there's a lot more struggle than is necessary. I wish I could explain this a little more clearly. I'll get back to this comment in a while. Thank you!
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ThousandDollarComment.com, I found this site to be very interesting and honest. I commented. I want more people to comment, so the guy can get his money and I can hopefully win.
Try reading Indian news every day for a month or two. I think you'll find many headlines quite similar. The media in any country goes for sensationalism, and disasters fit the bill perfectly.
A purchase money loan can apply to a 1st and an equity line as long as both loans were taken out for the purchase of the home. In my situation, I put 10% down, took a 50% mortgage and 40% equity line.
That is exactly right. I'm to the point where I will only sync with FB if I know and trust the founders of the company.

That doesn't scale so well.
Iv'e seen these so much they don't even phase me any more.
I gotta believe Advanced Task Killer isn't the 4th most popular app on the Android Market simply because of a placebo effect. I think maybe it has less to do with misbehaving background apps and more to do with general wonkiness these days. When you experience those weird events like dial pad lag, missing notification sounds, slow home screen switching, ATK can fix that very quickly. The only other option is a phone reboot which takes a few minutes. From talking to my friends with Motorola Droid's I'm starting to believe a lot of this is HTC Sense and not Android itself. They don't seem to have as many of those random WTF moments. (ie, audio from two apps playing at once, audio playing while you're on a phone call, etc)
I read and commented on the launch post when it happened. I thought it was actually a real service! (I didn't sign up, but suggested he show more demos and screenshots of how it works. Now I know why it didn't have any).

On one hand, I think this kind of planning is pretty clever, and definitely may steal a page or two from it.

On the other hand, I feel kinda tricked :( I was a labrat, run through a maze, at no benefit to myself for giving up that information (not that I was expecting anything in return).
I think a 1% estate tax is too much.

The point of the comparison is that if we're basing how much someone deserves their windfall by the tax rates, then the message being sent is that eating Fritos and playing the lottery is a more acceptable way to earn a fortune than generations of savings and investment.
I'm not equating dying to protect life with dying to avoid taxes. The first point was, it can be seen as reasonable to die to help your children. The second point is my stipulation that to say it's only ever reasonable in the case that your children are in mortal danger is silly.

If you value your life very low (for example, you are bedridden in the hospital, terminally ill, on the verge of death and will be in excruciating pain for the rest of your short life) and the well-being of your children very high, why is that so crazy? Soldiers in a country being invaded can go to war and die to protect their families from enslavement, rape, pillaging, and so forth, not just from death, and no one (well, usually) criticizes and demeans them for that. Are soldiers the only ones allowed to do that?

I can sense you're balking at the part money plays in the equation, and you do not like when money is assigned value beyond pieces of paper. Consider that the people making these decisions are likely not thinking of the dollar amount of the inheritance. I would bet they are thinking of the amount of good (whether getting lots of money = good can be debated, but let's assume it does, or at least assume they believe it does) they can do for their children when they pass. Being taxed on that money means giving up a lot of that good.
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There are two reasons those things make headlines:
1.They are uncommon and thus newsworthy.
2.They are sensationalist trash having only some vague relationship with reality.

Things could obviously be better, but there are trade-offs with living anywhere.
Have you considered adding support for additional persistence layers?

http://pablotron.org/?cid=1557 This guy claims to have unified quite a number of them, I have not tested it.
Quibble: Starbucks owns Seattle's Best Coffee.
I think that they would have dodged it by not existing or being so big.
I'd love to give you the reason why I decided just the other day that I want to leave reddit pretty much for good. I have been a fairly active user for the past 2 years or so, both commenting on and submitting content to reddit. When I joined I was fleeing digg's transformation into a 4chan wannabe. Over the past 6-9 months, I've been noticing the same virus, if you will, infecting reddit. The users became more and more meme obsessed, less interested in reading stuff they don't know and more interested in repeating what they already know. I finally looked at the front page the other day and realized there wasn't one article that I viewed had any intellectual value. Yes, I know if I want something specific I can go to individual subreddits, but even most of those has been infected to the point where some users are creating their own academic hideaways on reddit in order to preserve the original reddit intellectualism that once strived (e.g. /r/depthhub).

This is not something reddit can fix, and I fear that reddit will meet the same fate that digg has recently met. Both digg and reddit gained users at a steady pace, then skyrocketed in users and plummeted in intellectual value. On both sites users complained about how the site had changed but no one listened or cared. Eventually, as all the intellectually curious users left, the users that remained realized they are no better than 4chan and began looking for a new home as well. I believe this is an inevitable cycle for all social news websites. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years I am fleeing Hacker News for the same reason.

I'd love to hear what some of the reddit admins think about how reddit has changed over the years, seeing as you all have had a better perspective than anyone else on reddit's evolution.

Good luck monetizing reddit, I will most likely donate some to show my appreciation for all reddit has provided me for the last couple of years.
Now that's an interesting thought. Two governments occupying the same space, selling you services commercial-style.
And Amazon, and Yahoo, and other popular domains. The problem is that InterNic should not sit and quietly accept this kind of abuse.
these were both -1 when I got here, where's the sense of humor HN?
"It's why people pad or lie on resumes. Some people do it 'cause they're lazy, but some do it because they believe the end justifies the means. The unfortunate part is that a lot of these students can continue doing this and get a job at a big company because a big company doesn't care so much about actual performance, so as long as you have the credentials."

Most big companies don't care about grades either. If you pad your resume with lies, you might be able to slide by some of the time, but it will eventually catch up with you.

"Disclaimer: I cheated once on a spelling test in 5th grade, apart from that, I do not remember ever cheating again."

I cheated once in elementary school also (I think it was on a history test). But I learned that cheating is wrong and I haven't done it since.

"Well, without laws, whoever is still alive at the end of the day has made it."

School is a step above the anarchy that was the earth before modern times, not a step below.

"For example if a child is told to do task B, but aren't given a satisfactory reason for doing it, then they are highly compelled to cheat, lazy or not, if completion of the task gets them something of understandable value."

"Cheating" for some tasks are just another word for getting it done more efficiently.

"When students get to college many more of them see this, but still a lot don't understand the full importance of actually learning."

Some students don't learn because it's something they just don't want to do. When you have a choice between hanging out with your friends and partying all night and studying for a test/learning something new, the activity that is more "fun" trumps all.

When the student that is partying all the time starts failing (IE: bad grades), they will then be forced to either start studying or leave. Without grades, they would just continue partying.

I still don't really see your point.
Sorry about that!

That's one of the potential downsides, but the information is so valuable that I think it's worth risking (to a certain extent).