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The article misses everything that isn't economic. That might sound appropriate for economics, but economics is influenced by human behavior, and human behavior is influenced by a lot more than economic factors. For instance, to say that a high-end prostitute working fifteen hours a week is more like a trophy wife than like a street hooker is utterly oblivious to the many, many obligations a trophy wife has. Being a trophy wife is, if not a full-time job, at least a half-time job. A trophy wife has to fulfill all the expectations of a wife of her social class, and fulfill them exceptionally well. She has to entertain. She has to manage a household. She has to manage her social life and social image, and often her husband's as well. Often a trophy wife has to bear and raise children. Of all the duties of a trophy wife, having sex with her husband is among the least essential. I would wager it is the most negotiable, the most often neglected, and the least likely to cause serious dissatisfaction on the husband's part. After all, a husband can develop other sexual interests, but his social image is built around his one wife.
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This is my entry for the 10k apart competition. I've done an analysis of my entry here...

http://bennolan.com/2010/08/26/under-10240-bytes.html
Eerie success is impressive. Routine failure is not anti-impressive.

People treat Google the same way every time some Labs experiment like Wave fails. They think it means Google's lost their Edge and spinning their wheels. It's equal-and-opposite pessimism to go with the optimism.

This is why I do not treat your counterexamples to Silver's accuracy as a convincing slate of proofs. I don't have enough context to judge those failures against the background of his success or vice versa.

I do find Nate Silver interesting not just for his psychic abilities. He also brings a certain love of statistics and visualization that deserves the level of coverage he gets. Is he doing any better predicting than some quant or world-class stat guy? No, and you can probably find someone who has a better combination of predictions and historical accidents. But he's also bringing the science to the populace, and that is worth praising and talking about.

I do find this 2005 (!) opinion piece by Krugman calling the housing bubble to be an interesting datapoint.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/opinion/08krugman.html

But between the Silver stuff and the Krugman stuff I do feel like I have enough context to judge that you have your own axe to grind.
My wife can't stand having little LEDs on all over the place. We've hidden our wireless router, our battery charger and everything. One night my laptop was on the floor as we were going to sleep, and I said, "Oh! Let me put away my MacBook," and she said, "Don't worry about it, I find it soothing."

This is definitely a detail that is appreciated.
I read a piece on Krugman that was really interesting. For one, it challenged the exact perception that you're advocating: that Krugman takes strong stances on policy matters and uses strong language to defend them, to the detriment of the economics behind them. Interestingly, the piece pointed out that Krugman is usually the stereotypical economist -- quick to qualify and slow to make a strong policy statement without mountains of evidence. The writing style of Paul Krugman may be more the writing style of his wife, who encouraged him to advocate for more policy change. The article definitely painted Krugman's column as more of a cooperation between him and his wife than a straightforward economics work.
If it's true, is one of the scariest thing could happen to you
-march=native implies -msse2 (when possible). You might have meant -mfpmath=sse. -fomit-frame-pointer is probably not the default in VC6, so that might be unfair.

(It actually is the default for linux and darwin now, because DWARF unwind tables obsolete frame pointers for most uses.)
I wasn't thinking transcription. I was rather thinking about better navigation or focus on the interesting parts of a video. For instance:

idea #1: play video at 2X (or 1.5X speeed) with no pitch modification, so quickly go through most content. When I focus on the video frame, slow down to normal speed. Maybe have an obvious "rewind 30 seconds" like TiVo, so I can re-hear what sounds interesting

idea #2: tag the video timeline from other users commenting on specific times of the video (I have seen this on some video sites). That helps navigate faster and "move around" a video.

The main problem I see with the video format? Think of DVD vs. VCR. It's about rewinding and direct access. A video player online is just a long line, you get lost very easily. Somehow, you don't get lost navigating pages of text. Haven't you ever been frustrated that you couldn't find back something you just saw in a video? And I don't mean search by keyword...
Yep.

The Key to Being Excellent at Skimming has an arrow pointing down.
Papercrop looks really intersting...does it store text as text within the output PDF or does it just convert chunks of the page to an image?
I think you might be surprised. I'm not sure where you'd go to find these people, however. Is there something like stackoverflow for code reviews? I just posted a related Ask HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1632965

but sadly got no responses. I just procrastinated half an hour reading HN. I probably would have preferred to review some young, eager programmer's code.
Neither have I. That's why the flight attendants insisting that I have to put away my Kindle during takeoff and landing "to make sure I'm not distracted during these safety-critical times" is so absurd.
It is as hard to find great students as it is to find great masters.
Great... but don't forget key number 7. - Don't give up too early.
He's said in previous interviews that they all just ask Jessica, who is extremely good at judging character, because the rest of them aren't very good.
Completely agree. I'm faced with the relatively simple task of accepting a self-signed certificate. The things that HttpClient is making me do ...
He's saying it's better than the first option: pursuing a business that requires a very high percentage of quality employees in order to have any chance of succeeding.
I wonder, on a site like this, what measurement they're looking for - time spent on article, etc?
Maybe virality of the post to FB / linked in buttons?

I'd love to run a split-test of all bullets no header vs. current format - would be informative, maybe will try in one of my own blog posts . . .
"Social media marketing can't be measured, at least not effectively. Spending money on social media marketing reminds me of the early 2000s, when you couldn't measure the effectiveness of banner ads. Everyone was spending on it without knowing what the outcome was."

This is very true. While tweeting and facebooking might be very cool, how can you tell it's worth the time you spend doing it without a MEASURABLE return? And if it's not resulting in sales is it worth doing?
The RSS autopost stuff puzzles me. Are they turning into an on-line RSS reader, with a shared discussion space?
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Did it work for you? I tried many times during school, and it didn't for me. People would appreciate the spirit of the rule, but it would be too subjective to be useful in the most heated situations.
You should make a fake book cover that you can slide your kindle into. If you hide the bezel and only show the e-ink screen up flush with a page-cutout it just might work!

good luck!
Yes, as the Asian proverb goes:

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."
The Alchemist http://www.amazon.com/Alchemist-Fable-About-Following-Dream/...

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry...

How to win friends an Influence people http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/14...
Not to mention that the attacker's DNS resolver could merely ignore the TTL and bombard your DNS server - if that's the weakest link, why even bother with the rest?
I would dearly love a "report spam" button for phone calls. But then, the land line which needs it most will be the last line to get it.
I DON'T like all this belief that economic inequality is good. Is good if you are on the right side. As Keynes put it:

"For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. "

I think wealth (the PG way) and an healthy society are not mutually exclusive.

I don't want to be rich in a desolated and poor Land. And it is not something to hope for. For you too.
Sorry, I was just adding the link /info and didn't word it particularly well. (I did upvote you original from the 0 - don't know why someone would downvote it).
Yeah, who upvoted this article? Downvote me but jesus, there is nothing new in this post. And it's a list post. Does Harvard auto-get you front page karma?
Ask HN: alternative to 'mailto:'?
The current version of 'mailto:' (http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_mailto) is broken. For one, it works in firefox but not in IE or chrome. And two, it only gives options for gmail and yahoo mail.

I'm lookin for an alternative that will take the user to his email login page (just like 'mailto:' does) but across all browsers. The closest options I've come across are the 'email' buttons in sharing widgets (sharethis.com for example), but my split-tests show that users don't like to use them since they requires the user to enter their email login info into a 3rd party app.

Any suggestions? Is it possible to modify these 3rd party widgets to send a user to his email login page rather than having him login in the app directly?
Well now I know why I spent a half hour just staring at that stupid light when I got my new MBP. There was something about the radiance pattern -- now I know.

Seriously though, that's a brilliant feature. Most companies wouldn't give the time or money for developers to come up with that.
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http://streak.ly is in beta right now, but it's exactly that.

and for a shameless plug: I use made http://101in365.com to handle goals over the course of a year with the ability to track them in smaller increments (i.e. daily).
"free" calls in the US is a lie. as most operators bill you for received call minutes.

And calls to google voice (even the call back feature) does not count as "free cell phone minutes" according to bloodsucking at&t
This poster didn't say that anyone could be good at staying at home. They said anyone can stay at home. I think this is true and don't understand the downvotes.
Ask HN: Is TripIt a product or a feature?
There have been a few articles recently pushing the notion that "TripIt is a feature, not a product". I think the functionality is pretty good. This makes me wonder "if TripIt is a feature, what would I call my minimum viable product?" A micro-feature?

Pretty intimidating, especially since I have a tendency to be critical of my own product ideas that aren't "full-featured" enough. I can easily talk myself out of testing a new product in the market because "it's just not ready". Of course customer development doesn't require a working product, but I hesitate nonetheless.

What constitutes a product vs. feature to you? Do you ever let the concern that you don't have enough features prevent you from releasing?
Ask HN: One of the YC Demo Day companies has built my idea, what should I do?
I was watching the YC Demo Day coverage with interest, seeing a few cool new companies emerge.

My heart sank when I saw one particular company (I won't name names). They had pretty much built the app I've reserved the next 3-or-so months to create.

I'm wondering what I should do. The market seems big enough to support two (or more) competitors, but ideas are a dime a dozen.

Should I pick something new, or stick it out and try to kick ass?
Totally agree with your wife, for the most part. I always cover the exposed LEDs on my various devices before going to bed. However when I'm not trying to sleep, my MBP's pulsing light is mesmerizing.
Articles:

1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/howlett/tripit-for-business-a-feat...

2. http://1travelworld.com/business-travel/rearden-execs-taunt-...
Yeti is awesome. I've been using it internally since Reid first started working on it, and it's made running cross-browser unit tests a breeze (especially on mobile devices).

I plan to set up a dedicated test machine soon running a bunch of browsers in different VMs, then use Yeti to push tests to them all as I make code changes.
That's the missing link in so many of these articles. A big RAND study recently concluded that the real problem is that S&E careers have become unattractive to Americans, largely because of wage erosion relative to other fields:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-07-08-science-engi...

"Other approaches such as making K-12 science and math courses more interesting and pushing for more qualified math and science teachers "may have merit in their own right," researchers said, "but we think they pale in importance to the earnings and attractiveness of S&E careers as major determinants of the supply of U.S.-born students to S&E.""

That said, I actually agree that the US is in serious trouble, mainly because I don't agree with the RAND group's assertion that "the slow growth of U.S.-born technical workers "will change when the earnings and attractiveness of S&E (science and engineering) careers improve.""

This is what would happen if you could resurrect a devastated profession as soon as the careers become attractive again. But you can't. My grandfather was an engineer and encouraged me to become one. One generation encourages the next. When you break that chain, you can't just revive it on a dime.

Personally, I think that the US pursued a policy that greatly discouraged the smartest young Americans from going into engineering. There was a short term gain in that we did get talent on the cheap, but at what I think will be a profound long term cost.

A more interesting article would be a high profile tech CEO discussing how the policies his own company rigorously pursued ended up discouraging US citizens from becoming engineers.
"Big Site" were manually posting each story, so this just make it an automated function.
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Still, I find Hacker News to be a much better tech news source.

I'm just going to come out and say this:

Hacker News is better than other aggregators because of the smaller population of morons. Although I did find the PG hatefest on Reddit over his "no assholes" comment quite amusing. I think it's ironic how they hold the discussion on the board of a YC startup.
That's cool man. Spec out some manufacturing costs and see if you can do a test run of 20 or so to see what people would say. The speed with which it cools is insane!
Once can combine numbers 2 (hard work first), 3 (intense practice), and 6 (regular/ritualized practice) by doing some "deliberate" and challenging study first thing every morning. For example, find a true classic in the field of interest, and consume it for 1-2 hours immediately after waking up.

I've been doing that with SICP and it's been an immensely rewarding experience.
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I have a lot more respect for Chief Judge Alex Kozinski. His comments on fences and poor people are a nice rational argument to prove why this ruling is so unfair.
unixy.net doesn't sell DDoS insurance. They're not in the DDoS business at all. Check their portal.

Best
Could you elaborate on that point? I'm unfamiliar with any licencing issues that would restrict this activity. I'm not an android developer, though.
Hi HN,

This is my upcoming game/app. It's based on an existing Wiki game, and modified to reinforced the cognitive process of "learning through connections". So far, I have personally learned a lot while developing this game (e.g. "pines" are "coniferous trees", and "coniferous trees" lives in "northern hemisphere".).

It would be nice to have some early feedback and suggestions. The app should be out in couple weeks. By then I will put out some free copies for fellow Hacker Newers.

Thanks,

Ivan
It really is a shame that so much of the Android marketing has taken its cue from Verizon's techno-masculine Droid branding.

Google was dead on with the Nexus One's "Web Meets Phone" ad. If you haven't seen it, it's worth watching - right at the center of Google's brief expressive / cute / minimalist advertising phase. Think back to the "Parisian Love" Super Bowl ad and the Motion Theory "Google Chrome" short. They're delightful.

These shorts present Google as a very different company - one that's personal, bright, and helpful. Much of this work is coming from (or commissioned by) a division called Creative Lab that's largely independent from the majority of Google's culture and management structure. I had the pleasure of collaborating with them on a couple projects and was amazed by their creativity, insight, and lighthearted approach.

I would love to see more work in this style from Google. They've demonstrated they're perfectly capable of creating very good ads that deliver a consistently solid impression, but have ceded much of the opportunity to brand Android to carriers who have screwed it up to the nines (though we shouldn't forget that the platform is actually called "Android"), with the lone exception of HTC's highly personal commercials.

I hope they can turn it around. If and when they do, I further hope that it will be a part of a more comprehensive strategy to rebrand Android as a whole. It's a solid platform with a lamentably robotic image.

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[1] Nexus One ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6COwgigJ-g

[2] Parisian Love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU

[3] Motion Theory's "Chrome": http://vimeo.com/5721933
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There's a great scene in Objectified about the indicator light on a MBP (or, in that case, perhaps an Air) and how it appears and disappears when needed. Viz.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0fe800C2CU#t=04m40s
It's free for the person initiating the call on their computer. Cell phone companies never, as far as I know, extended free minutes to incoming calls as is the case for land lines. So, obviously any minutes on a cell phone would be charged any fees regardless.
Arthur Schopenhauer: "You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want."
There is always room for a competitor. I think you should launch as soon as possible. Don't worry much about your competition. They already have edge on you but you can build a better product or carve some useful feature.

Good Luck!
Sounds like what you want is a long-term, subject-oriented (not single tasks), mastery-directed (aiming to build real skill), social learning context and tool. Would that be a fair summary of the high-level requirements?
When running, music seems to keep me energized. The playlist I have now starts at a fairly quick tempo and increases slightly toward the end. Since I tend to stay in rhythm with the music, I find myself running faster without realizing that I'm putting in extra effort.
My MBP is asleep whenever I am, and the light is actually kind of soothing right before dozing off.
In my opinion the most bizarre illusion Professor Deutsch discovered is the "octave illusion".

Be sure to use headphones and prepare to be surprised!

http://philomel.com/musical_illusions/example_octave_illusio...

The mechanisms that give rise to the illusion are not well understood, but it seems to have something to do with hemispheric asymmetry. Individual differences in how the illusion is heard often correlate with handedness (ie whether you're left or right-handed)
Are they hiring? Being the first employee at a company which is working on an idea you're excited about might be almost as good as being the founder.
Was going to say the same thing!
Flow:

1. Decide to read comments before the article.

2. Read your comment.

3. Decide I don't need to read this again.

4. Decide to leave a thank you before going elsewhere.

Thank you for your informative summary.
The US is not a 1st world county???

Here you can't fire them "for cause" and deny them unemployment benefits (which will increase your payments into the system going forward) but these sound bad enough that it's probably worth it.
humans are sentient, though. yes, we have DNA that points us in a certain direction, our environment and upbringing point us in a certain direction, but this doesn't necessarily predetermine our outcomes. some people are a product of these things, and others break out of the proverbial mold.
It's not only Germany, but lots of other countries as well.

I remember, several years ago, noticing that the White House had been pixellated out of Google Maps. Later that day, I used a rest-stop bathroom near Washington, DC... and noticed, above the urinal, an enormous aerial view of the White House.

Also, I'm living in Japan right now, and there's an elementary school on the next block. I noticed that there's no Street View on any of the streets encircling the school. Why?
This means I'd end up with 5% of the company (if I'm lucky) according to most of what I've read (could be wrong, of course).

The theory over there seems to be that the founders keep as much of the equity as possible, and pass it out the 1st/2nd/3rd employees in very small parcels.

Normally when I build a product here, it will be more of a 3rd/3rd/3rd split (Design/Dev/Business), or at least 20%/20%/60%.

I guess that means I'd prefer to be a founder, take on the extra risk (and the chance of extra reward!)
Hey there thanks for your comment. I am the founder. So I think we've all learned that socializing on the internet is acceptable (ie meeting people on online dating sites, or on message boards, etc.) and what we're trying to do is bring those sorts of interactions to the mobile device. While I admit it's a bit weird to think about now, seeing how the product worked at YC Demo Day was really interesting - we had 200 people in a room and it's hard to talk to all of them at once but the "backchannel" provided an interesting additional medium to interact with people.
Flow:

1. Read article, throw up.

2. Read comments, then realize that the comments made this substandard post worthwhile.

3. Upvote many comments.

4. Return to regularly scheduled programming.
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Yeah, but Google seems to continue to launch features with an opened ended ETA for when it will reach Apps users. This is why I'm just sticking with my Google account and using my Gapps account for my personal email and nothing else Google related.
Council Tax in the UK isn't a percentage of the value of the property. It's an annual charge which varies according to the bank your property falls in.

A local council sets the charge for 'band C' (I think) and the rest are calculated from that. (This then pays for rubbish collection, libraries, all that sort of stuff.)

If you're buying a property as an investment, council tax isn't hugely relevant. If the property is occupied, the occupant pays it. (Unless they're exempt, like students are.) If the property is empty you don't need to pay it for up to six months.

So the tax does scale according to the value of your property (ie, your wealth) and is an attempt at progressive taxation, but it's not a direct tax on that wealth.

If you're buying investment property in the UK, your tax liability is going to be income tax on the income and capital gains tax if the market value of the property has risen. In addition you'll have to pay Council Tax based on the property you're living in, regardless of if you own or rent it.
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