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One problem with open immigration is that it makes all these supposedly separate experiments actually interdependent, which tends to lead towards either: 1) them all converging; or 2) immigration restrictions.

For example, Social Democratia has a free-rider problem with respect to its neighboring Low-Tax Libertonia: healthy and prosperous people will go live next door so long as they're healthy and prosperous, but anyone who gets sick or ends up destitute will conveniently move across the border to Democratia for the social safety net. Social Democratia will have to either drop its social programs (converging with Low-Tax Libertonia) or institute some sort of immigration restriction.

Or, say Crime Preventistan sets up a really good set of programs, education, etc., such that there would be virtually no crime in their country, and they can have very minimal police and virtually no government surveillance of their citizens. But they live next door to the Wild West Republic, which spends money on neither prevention nor police, and its rampant criminal population enjoys carrying out cross-border burglaries, or maybe even moving next door to set up their outlaw shop in Preventistan. The Crime Preventistan experiment can't really happen unless they're able to close their border with the Wild West Republic and restrict who's allowed to immigrate.

In short, I think it'd be difficult to maintain any differences between countries in the face of complete lack of border controls (open immigration, free trade, etc.), because any differences between them would be arbitraged away as soon as someone found a way to exploit them.
It's already being done. I got an invitation to a friend's wedding via this service:

http://www.paperlesspost.com/
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I liked the part where nothing interesting happened.
"Maybe hedge funds need to get into this business."

Profits are too low. What does a US mortgage do nowadays, 6-10%? That's before costs and risk premium. With money tied up for 20 to 30 years.
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That seems completely illogical since you cannot and will not verify most of information, and since information does not come in any kinds of packets or chunks of truthfulness. Why does an incorrect statement invalidate the whole article? When you find that your dog has a flaw, you don't throw away the whole dog now, do you?
> something disruptive

Not to pee on your parade, but what you described is a neat idea, but it is not disruptive. Making something that would cut down the cost of a wedding by 50% and be so overwhelmingly and obviously beneficial as to become viral - that is disruptive. Otherwise it's just a noise on a market.
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"extremely"

Lighten up on the coffee :). When was the last time something newsworthy happened because someone said 'a software'?
I've created something like that a while ago: http://wappr.com

p/s: looking to sell it. anyone interested?
>Focus is rare; I was recently diagnosed as having ADHD by a psychiatrist, who I saw at the urging of my therapist, despite my staunch refusal to acknowledge it as a real disease. I don't Get Enough Done.

"It's not a real disease" may or may not be true, but I would argue that is irrelevant.

Speaking as someone else who has been diagnosed with ADD, who is also unsure how it differs from simply being a lazy bastard, I can tell you that the drugs they give you for that are /very effective/ if you want to get more done.

They say it's not a silver bullet, but god damn, it sure feels that way. Unmedicated, I get one good day a month; I often get more done on that day than I do the rest of the month. Medicated, that day becomes somewhat average.

For me, most of the depression issues were caused by the fact that I was very obviously not performing up to potential, and when the stimulants fixed that problem, the depression issues mostly went away.

I actually was in a pretty similar situation around your age. Right out of highschool, I made a couple brilliant career moves, but after the .com crash I ended up stagnating from age 22 or so to 25 or so. At which point I started on medication. Four years later, I'm a published author, my company is paying my bills, and I'm generally not ashamed to be where I am. (Now, I'm not on medication anymore... long story... and I'm once again /much less productive/ so it's not like the problem is solved permanently. But medication can give you some very good years- years you can leverage to build skills so that your 'down time' is more productive, too.)
Actually, those guys send virtual invitations; you are going to print them out. So not the same thing. But similar in trying to undercut high-priced competitors.
Be very careful with stratfor. I was a subscriber back before and during the Iraq War, and as the war progressed it was clear that their information, as in-depth as it sounds, mostly reveals itself as BS in the long run. One example relavant to your comment was that they were among the worst at pushing obviously and flagrantly false WMD stories even many months into the war. But that's just the start; their seemingly detailed and insightful articles were ultimately wrong about just about every little detail they contained. It became perfectly clear that their sources came from the same ranks as the mainstream media's (the US military and a variety of polically motivated officials), the sources were just more obscure and lower level. Stratfor might have done a 180 in the past couple years, but I highly, highly doubt it.
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Hmm, then it's going to look like you're picking a fight (whether or not that's really the case). Get creative with the name, it's more fun anyway. Maybe some HNers can help you out.
When it comes to news sources, it's best to 'throw out the whole dog' when they can't get the very basis of their usefulness correct - reporting facts.
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It sounds callous, but what do I care if somebody gets kidnapped and killed? That doesn't add any value to journalism in itself. All I care about is what ends up in the paper I'm reading.
Instead of mortgages, if you focus on the payday loan industry ( particularly online ), you won't need $billions of dollars. You could hold your own loans and probably scale up from 6 figures.

The issues are pretty much the same as mortgage and there is alot of room for innovation.
"In accordance with regulatory instructions" has the overtone of a regulatory issue, but their little communique fails to elaborate properly, thus I assume paypal messed up somehow.

It does reiterate several times how sorry they are. They are so sorry. So so very sorry.
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Ask HN: printed and bound RFCs, geek cred for your coffee table or crap?
I went to read rfc2616 HTTP 1.1 and got through about a paragraph before realizing there was no way I was going to read through this thing on a laptop screen. I don't have an ereader, and I am not interested in printing 100+ pages from my printer. Then I thought, that it would actually be pretty cool to have a cool looking hard copy of RFC 2616 sitting on my coffee table. I threw together a website to see if there was any interest to other hackers.

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My point was that it is hard to say when something is 'simply bad' in the sprawling and multifarious carnival that is the English language.

I vaguely recollect from reading the blog Language Hat that modern linguists sometimes decide which variant of a class (for instance, 'software' vs 'a software' vs 'softwares') is more correct by counting how many Google search results each variant returns. No doubt they need to filter this data in many ways, but it would seem that it is no longer possible to say 'X is correct, all else is not.'
I'm a snob at heart :) or so I am informed.
My suspicion was that this was one way Amazon is paying back MS as part of the patent agreement/shakedown MS and Amazon recently reached.
The restaurant data is the only one that is at odds with intuition, and strongly so. Why would Thursday be 3.5x more popular than Wednesday? Without an explanation, I'm more willing to believe that there was a data anomaly.
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Most of the comments seem to be missing the point. There's a lack of cross-discipline. If you are bad in field A, and an expert in field B, you may be able to comeup with a revolutionary idea for field B, not because you're one lucky son of a bitch, but because your expertise in area A put you in advantageous/unique perspective. We all saw biologist cooperate with engineers (using nature-invented systems in engineering, prostetic arms, etc), politicians cooperate with doctors (cheap medical solutions for poorer countries), and many more awesome examples. I think we're lacking some kind of platform or incentive to interconnect disciplines. Programmers among us see it everyday — just go to your local DMV, take a spot in the endless waiting line, and notice how much you wish they'd let you write a decent piece of software or build a simple mechanism to make this hell go away. We need to allow people to tinker in unrelated to their own fields. How? I don't know, but I think it's a big deal.
Oops, sorry, I took the top comment at face value :(
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That's amazing, I'm going to leave the search window open now, A badly designed Windows feature is the best virtual pet I can think of.
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Agreed. Sorry for the noise.
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This is an interesting concept since my fiancee and I have been working on our invitation for our upcoming wedding. Its a hard task but it is actually kind of fun.

Our design discussions revolve a lot around what Jobs/Ive would do if he had to design it :)
The data suggests that Thursday night Tapas bar/restaurants are very popular and that is included under "restaurants" according to yelp.com.
This is kind of like deliberate decision to miss the point based on a mistake in an irrelevant point. Too personal to argue though.
I don't agree: we have no reason to doubt his claim that he wrote a task switcher for DOS. That means he's reasonably clueful. It's easy to dismiss someone as a complete loony, because he's wrong/confused about some things and is getting burned to the ground for that. Remove the flaming and there is criticism and the pointing out of mistakes, but nothing to indicate the guy has no clue whatsoever. If that were the case, it would be hard to even being criticising the idea. The fact that people could succinctly point out the problems means the ideas were stated in reasonably clear language.
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We launched our first publicly-accessible version of Stormpulse in late 2006. Even though we emailed everyone we could think of (as we had time), our traffic stayed pretty flat (0-250 visits per day).

We continued to refine the product, continued "to try to get word out" with simple blogging and SEO, and continued to see a flatline of traffic until August 2008 when we launched our affiliate maps program (map is free to embed on your site as long as you link back). The program took off like wildfire and our traffic six months out of the year is now in the 6-7 figure range.
The depressing part is that when you fix the query to "I need software that...", you get almost exactly the same list of responses.

There's simply nobody using it correctly.
This is a great idea. And when you sell/toss out your computer there should be a "shut down, for the very last time" button you can press that would play something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbN0g8-zbdY

Although after the first minute you might be tempted to just yank the power cord out.
I would definitely agree with this plan of action. I am intending on launching my bootstrapped startup in around 4-6 months time, with that in mind I started my seo campaign with longtail keyword landing pages just last week.
Off topic, but FYI "-4" is a lower bound for display purposes. E.g., if you get 40 down-votes, you lose 40 karma...but it will still display as "-4". Can be very harsh, sometimes. I've been self-censoring since learning that.
That's because many of the top results are referring to this story. If you scroll further down the results for that query, most results just have those words, not necessarily in that order.
At least it wasn't saying "Look behind you" or something.
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I looked around the site but I couldn't see what the licence was for the WordPress plugin?
Adblock Plus does a better job of blocking than those mechanisms, however, and it could handle google.com/analytics just as easily as google-analytics.com.
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There are certain terms (like "a software") that are never used by people who's first language is English. IANAL (I am not a linguist), but I'd consider myself a "descriptivist" when it comes to defining a language. I think that a living language is defined by its usage by native speakers. Forms that are never used by native speakers can be defined as "incorrect". Of course, languages change (especially English), so those forms can and do become incorporated into the language over time. But, as English stands in 2010, "a software" is less correct than simply saying "software".
That depends on whether you're talking about statute or common law. With statute law, no law does mean "not prohibited". With case law it does not: the courts can and do make up new law to fit the facts.

Lack of case law affords no protection. It just makes it hard to predict the outcome in advance.
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nVidia has closed source drivers too, no? I think your best bet is the Intel stuff. If I recall correctly, they produce actual open source drivers that end up integrated where they need to be, rather than as some binary blob you have to download.

Of course, I don't think the Intel ones are high end, but all I need is browsing and emacs, really.
Don't you find your view a little bit too convenient? "We can still be the good guys even though we're engaging in multiple occupations, because they.. um.. want us there!"

EDIT: P.S. It's pretty low for you to pull the race card on me. Thinking like "brown people"? Wtf is that garbage supposed to mean? My view comes from how I would react in their situation (i.e. they are just as smart/capable/etc. as I am). You are the one who seems to suggest that they can't cope without the help of the US.
Hm, I though Douglas Hofstadter updated his book.
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I suspect you don't know what you want to be because you've been hanging around American computer programmers too long. You're simply doing what they do. You need to go Traveling for a while.

Book yourself a ticket to Thailand this winter. 2 months return, starting in early December. Book it today and it will run you $800 from the west coast. You'll need another $2k in savings to handle expenses for a couple months in SE Asia.

Why? Because you need to meet some Europeans and Australians, and that's where they'll be this winter. You'll meet tons of people your age and younger who are so much more squared away and confident in what they're doing than you that you'll be blown away. Make friends with these people, figure out how they do what they do with so much less (because I guarantee you none of them will be pulling in $60k/year and they're doing trips like this every year.)

Use this trip to build the pattern for what you want yourself to be like from here on out. Start being that guy while you're on the road and nobody is around to see the transition. Then come back to your job and simply continue being that guy.

It's tough to change who you are while people are watching, but it's somehow acceptable to come back from a long trip and be "changed". Take advantage of that little social hack.
Our wedding invitations were the cheapest part of the whole project. We hardly gave it a thought.

If you really want to disrupt the wedding industry, make a search engine for the venues. My wife and I spent weeks driving around the Bay Area looking at restaurants, wineries, and meeting halls to find out open dates, prices, menus, restrictions, etc. I would have loved a single site listing everything and searchable by all those parameters.

BTW, make sure to use non-toxic adhesive on the envelopes.
Marketing is going to be a huge challenge. For a data point, consider that TinyPrints (which owns Wedding Paper Divas), spent nearly $50 acquiring new users last holiday season (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/technology/internet/22sear...). Granted this was for holiday cards, but I would imagine that for wedding invitations, the spend for new user acquisition is still going to be quite high.
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If you have only tried the closed source ATI drivers (fglrx), you might find it well worth your time to give the open source xf86-video-ati drivers a shot: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/

As long as you don't need 3D acceleration, they are the best choice. In distributions like Ubuntu, they are built into the default install, so your display will be working perfectly even on the live CD. Also, their multi-monitor support is fantastic.
Ask HN: How much is a remote job worth to you? 
What percentage or amount of salary would you give up to have a job which allows you to work from anywhere. Meaning you never have to go to an office or be in any particular country. Let's assume your work hours in UTC have to be approximately the same no matter where you are.

I just want to get a general feeling of how much people on HN value the freedom to work from wherever they want.
It's a start. You can't topple a giant by smashing into them head-on.
His point is, getting hard news is hard, comment is cheap.
There have been problems with the latest intel chips on Linux, and even on well supported chips I've had trouble with weird resolutions, multi-monitor, etc. I'm currently using an AMD 785G chipset based motherboard which comes with a Radeon 4200 - the open source drivers for this actually work, including enough 3D support for desktop compositing. It's more stable than the proprietary driver for my old GeForce 8800. (no crashes or corruption so far)

That said, Radeon 5xxx series support is in its infancy.
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Can you please tell us a little bit about the data/population that served as the basis of this analysis (ex: how big is total population of data set, how big is the subset of users who went to both gym and park, etc). It would help us better provide feedback and understand the your results.
Thursday is a _HUGE_ night at bars (and restaurants with bars) for college students. A lot of kids will take advantage of happy hour pricing on Thursday night and lax attendance policy on Friday morning.

This is anecdotal and I don't have data to support my claim (although someone can probably find something on Google).
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If they're Unix apps, they support Linux - RHEL is probably the most popular enterprise Unix for new projects.
The data is from March 15th to May 1st (~45 days). It is a noisy estimation based on foursquare and twitter location check-ins (estimated samples from a population of about 100k users in San Francisco, CA with a technology bias). I haven't analyzed user-specific data, such as who went to both venues. I am open to suggestions on future analysis.
I guess by your argument and the prevalence of usage by native speakers, who's is correct as well.
I don't have kids, but I have friends who have smoked marijuana with their parents, bought marijuana for their parents, received a bong from their parents as a gift, etc. It's not that uncommon.

The amount who try marijuana that move on to cocaine isn't even close to 100%. Even if I was to grant you that marijuana was a stepping stone, statistics put the number less than 50%. Most polls put the amount of American adults who've tried marijuana close to 42%. Only around 16% have tried cocaine. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1821697,00.ht...

Also, most marijuana dealers only deal enough to smoke for free plus a little extra. They certainly aren't getting rich off it. And many of them don't have connections to other drugs.

That said, there is some truth to what you are saying... In school we are taught that ALL drugs are bad, that they will kill you, ruin your life, etc. Then people try marijuana, and realize it actually isn't a big deal. So that can lead some people to incorrectly conclude that all they learned was lies, not just the part about marijuana, and so they recklessly continue trying other drugs. I'll grant you this happens occasionally. But the fault there not within marijuana, but within the current education policy of treating all drugs equally. Give kids the truth and a little respect, and they just might surprise you.
i see. good to know. can you say what kind of technology you deal with?
If you take vitamin D, make sure it is D3!

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