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Sort of. There's a real tendency to look at these CPI prints and say that inflation is low, but that is only one aspect of inflation.

Aggregate price inflation has been low over the past several years. A big part of that is that energy prices are much lower than they were three years ago (remember $4+ gas?). That is only a very temporary phenomenon (long term supply is constrained, demand is exploding as Asia develops), and in any case energy is only one part of the economy.

But asset inflation is a real problem. That is why the price of gold has tripled in the last half dozen years. If you put money into either stocks or cash 5, 10, 15 years ago, you're way behind where you would be having put the money into a store of wealth that is portable and not subject to inflation.
It's even more of a web world than a windows world. Seriously talking to an average person, they're uncertain where windows ends and the web begins.

I saw an add on TV where a guy was talking about how he could use Windows 7 to look at his videos in Europe. My reaction was, "what about youtube? what about hulu? What about dropbox, etc" Is this 1997 where all our data is stuck about on 'our' computers". If moving a few files from machine to machine is what Windows has to offer, it doesn't seem like the future.

That doesn't mean that there's another desktop where you're likely to run your browser. But it also means you're less and less likely to run anything but your browser. Unless a desktop offers something more.
Yeah, you're right. Also see my other comment.
Inherit, I would say.
After all of the caution around jumping to conclusions on whether we were just witnessing smear tactics...

They've now tarred his name with no evidence and generated a massive media buzz and FUD around the fictional rape charges.

It certainly seems like wikileaks have made enemies that are very happy to play dirty.
Are there things that you donkt like to do? Like laundry or cleaning. Make a simple business doing the things that other students don't like doing. That is the whole premise of business, solving problems or doing things that other people don't want to do or can't do on their own. People will pay for services they don't want to do.
So what are some of the things you don't like doing at college?
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No, at least not without you telling me why someone needs to hold on to the information. In what way is that obvious?
Why would he necessarily think those who have tried to contact him are people? He could think only he and his tribe are people and the others are:

1. aliens
2. demons
3. spirits
4. some animal
5. lesser humans
6. and so on

Numbers 2,3 and 5 are not too far fetched. Heck even in the 20th and 21st century there are modern cultures that think this way. Racism is really all about #5. Various fundamentalist religions have a tendency to think in terms of demons and spirits.

It is a completely valid hypothesis that he believes he is the last man on earth or the last 'real man' or whatever.
BP were until the gulf oil leak, and might go back to doing so.
Gold doesn't do anything, except in some specialized applications.

Suppose you had some completely arbitrary asset. Kneezles. Over the last few years, the price of kneezles have tripled. The kneezle-bugs come out of the woodwork and say, "Look, if you had invested in a store of wealth that is not subject to inflation, you'd be doing better. Your kneezle-denominated wealth has fallen greatly."

Well, what are kneezles anyway? They're lumps of metal that don't do anything. Hey, sounds familiar...
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> *Apparently they were lying.

Apparent based on what? The prosecutor hasn’t made any such statement?
what if it was self-generated?
"If this is discovered as a frame-job, it'd be a god-awful PR disaster. The risks don't merit the rewards."

Once I think I would have agreed. But that's a pre-Rovian way of thinking.

All that will really stick in the public mind is the fact that "Wikileaks" and "Rape" appeared together in a single headline. Everything else is a footnote.
you're still taking on the risk of waking up one morning to an accounting scandal rendering 5% of your portfolio worthless. unless you diversify so much that you're essentially an index investor anyway. the stock market isn't rigged against retail investors like many believe, but people are far too quick to assume a few years of good performance means they're "beating the market".
Thanks for mentioning SuperCollider. I thought ChucK was the only one available for audio programming. Any place to start audio programming? I was really bad at physics so Sin and Cos stuff only go over my head.

My stack:

Javascript to play with Node.js

Ruby for web apps

Java for android's sake

Mirah for it's ruby-like syntax for java stuff

Used to do python a few months back

Learning Common Lisp

My next would be Haskell

P.S: There's nothing serious I'm working on right now. So most I do i try out stuff to write opensource code to show off on my resume.
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I'd think this would make you less likely to believe in conspiracies.

If this were a conspiracy someone at a high level would have agreed to it and the whole point of it would be to get media coverage. What happened instead is just the opposite. As soon as the case started getting media coverage the high level people went into over drive to investigate the claim and determined it was unfounded.

Even if the conspiracy was just to get the claim out there briefly the Swedish government wouldn't have withdrawn it by saying the charge was unfounded. If it was a conspiracy they wouldn't give a reason or they'd say it's still under investigation. That way people who were inclined not to trust Assange could continue to believe it.
> Gold doesn't do anything, except in some specialized applications.

Neither do paper dollars - it's an abstraction that has been historically coveted and accepted as money, and that's why it's valuable. I'd take gold alternative to paper money if someone wanted to pay me in it and had proof of its purity.
I don't know. My company is on any given week reviewing code for as many as 15 different applications, for companies running the gamut from web startups to Win32 desktop software vendors to embedded software vendors.

I stand by my assertion. Most people aren't writing in C/C++ anymore. Even the embedded vendors find ways to avoid it.
Perhaps a scale could be useful on the zoomed map... It's isolation, so distance, that we are talking about.

(A grumpy cartographer).
I had to flag this. The title has nothing to do with the article, which is a short blog entry about how difficult it was for some guy to get a refund for the unused copy of Windows that came with his new Asus tablet.

Article's title should be "Guy has trouble getting Windows refund from Asus", but I guess that wouldn't get as many click-thrus.

As for the title -- based on the systems we support, I'd say that around 20% are Macs or "other", and the bulk of the Windows dominance is in the business market where businesses tend to just source their workstations from a single supplier. In the consumer market Windows doesn't have nearly as large of a lead, and even among those whose primary computer is a PC running Windows, most of them have at least one Apple device (iPhone, iPod, or iPad).

I swear I'll start collecting statistics on this soon.
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Gold doesn't do anything

Gold is a store of value. Stores of value provide a useful function in society. Very few things actually qualify as stores of value, and gold is the most known of them so I used that, but you could replace the string 'gold' with 'store of value' in my argument without changing the substance of my argument.
I'll posit an explanation. The powers that be were gauging the media response to extrapolate the kind of coverage an assassination would bring.
Moved from C++ to C# for a few years but ended up making a comeback to C++. C# does not cut it for scientific computation. See my C# forum post here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/csharplanguage/th...

Mathematica for heavily mathematical tasks. Sometimes Matlab to use some of its built-in library functions. I wish Mathematica supported object-oriented programming natively.

Have used others for various random tasks: ActionScript, Python, Verilog, etc.
Tin foil hat on: I'm assuming that the high level person who looked into it and asked them to withdraw the warrant knew not of the other high level (could also not be swedish) person who asked for the warrant to be issued. Secret services have ways of gettings done. But they aren't always good at it.

EDIT: clearing up what I'm trying to say ;p
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The immutability of string literals (at least, the property Jacques is demonstrating) isn't platform-dependent.
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It convinced a generation of framework designers not to bother designing a decent concrete syntax for their domain-specific languages. When the framework is small and/or its developers probably couldn't hire a good language person anyway, this might be for the best, but it's a shame when a huge, well-funded and otherwise fairly well designed beast like WPF/Silverlight/XAML is trapped behind tasteless syntax.

On a deeper level, the element/attribute distinction unnecessarily mucks up the data model, but I'm not sure how big a problem that is in practice.
> or they'd say it's still under investigation.

It still is under investigation, though. Whatever happened is not serious enough for a rape charge with the current evidence, but as I mention below, molestation or just general asshattery is still on the table.
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Why stop there? Assassinate Julian Assange? No. The trial balloon was clearly the shadow annexation of Sweden. After all, didn't a scholar at the AEI --- famously part of the US military/industrial/intelligence compound, home of the "neocon" movement --- intimate just that strategy in an op-ed just a few weeks ago?

If you're not going to constrain yourself to actual evidence, you can make any claim and then force anyone who'd dispute that claim to prove a negative. Those suppositions aren't informative. They're boring. And they're epsilon from forum trolling.
"Because people buy stocks for only one reason, they want them to go up in price."

Indicates the author knows little to nothing.

"It is pretty much impossible for some man or woman or child who devotes a couple of hours per week to the market to outperform the professionals who spend 24×7 doing this for a living and when they are asleep"

There are so many people performing so poorly - even professionals, that working 24x7 obviously doesn't buy you much "performance". While it's true you're competing against everyone else on the market, that doesn't mean there's a large group of professionals performing so well that you can't compete. In fact it's the opposite.

"So what does this mean for you ?
It means that I don’t know if the market will go up or down, or by how much."

I'm thanking God that what it all means to me is not dependant upon what this author knows.

As for the remaining "scarcity of capital" argument - it's like the author can only see one point in time, and not the big picture. There's a reason why all the capital being made available is not being borrowed. It's because smart companies know growing for the sake of growing, without demand is a bad reason to borrow, thus they don't. It's your job to determine who they are, and the fact you can't does not mean that it can't be done.

There's more to comment on, but overall - I couldn't find much I could agree with.
I am going to disagree with you there.

When it comes to picking out frauds, you can usually tell by looking at the accounting who is playing loose and who is not. That wont give you an indication of whether or not a company is necessarily a fraud, but it will give you the opportunity to know who is being aggressive with their accounting. And if they are being aggressive you should probably stay away.

There are a ton of books out there on forensic accounting (Financial Shenanigans, Creative Cash Flow Reporting, Quality of Earnings, Financial Fine Print -- Along with changes to GAAP and IFRS) where if you have read all of them you should be able to pick out weird issues with accounting.

The other benefit of investing in small companies is you can in general get better access to CEOs and managers. If you were to invest in JNJ, the chance of you getting to talk to the CEO is slim. But with a lot of nano-cap companies you can actually go visit with the CEO and start quizzing him to see if he is BSing you or if he is actually smart and competent. I like to ask the same questions to two competing CEOs and see how their answers differ. You can really go as deep as you want when investigating some CEOs. You can start visiting their community, talking to people who are active with them in organizations. Just a lot of work to really scrub their background and get at who they are. Plus, these businesses tend to have fewer moving parts too, so you can analyze them in greater detail.
I supposed it's possible but the CIA would have to be pretty reckless. When I said high level people I was thinking their Secretary of State or higher.

Because if the CIA (or whoever in the US government) is trying to use another country's legal system to frame someone that would be considered the conducting operations on foreign soil. That's very much against International Law without getting the permission of the Swedish State Department.

So if they did that without the very highest levels of government being involved they'd be risking a very public international incident plus they'd be cutting themselves off from ever being able to impeach Assange's credibility in the future (because once you have a verified attempt to discredit him in such a manner no one's ever going to believe a claim against him again).

Again I'm sure it's possible but it just seems too reckless to be plausible to me.
Related HN post - Why Android devs are losing money, and it’s not due to piracy :

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1609643
"Store of value" is the technically correct term, I suppose, but it's a misleading term because it doesn't actually store any value. The term "store of value" actually refers to currency, except civilization outgrew using cumbersome lumps of shiny metal to conduct its transactions.
Thanks. I stand corrected.
More informative article here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100816155000.ht...
I’m guessing that they simply added the short Assange statement to the front page of the english site, and that the text below it has nothing to do with it.
I've been writing up some of my research recently, and when I go back to it after a month, the examples are the most helpful part; second is psuedo-code. That's so far, anyway.

I'd actually gone to a lot of trouble to define input and outputs precisely (in set notation, using LaTeX), and defining explicit constraints/relations between them, and even outlining proofs. This was a lot of work, and the process did increase my clarity of understanding, but it hasn't helped me at all in reading it - in communicating to myself. I guess proofs are primarily about proving, not communicating.
Another problem with proofs is that the best way to conceptualize/visualize an algorithm for the purpose of proving it may be quite different from the best way to grasp it intuitively. Proofs are not primarily operational.

Re: defining terms in the article: I think metaphors can act like definitions of terms, and are very helpful for communication. An apt metaphor can imply all kinds of behaviours and interactions that the reader already knows, enabling them to quickly grasp your meaning in a few words. I think it's arguable that our thinking is actually metaphorical, in that we interpret new ideas in terms of existing ideas; even to the point of tools being neurophysical extensions of our arms.
The difficulty with apt metaphors is finding them; and before you can do that, you need a very clear understanding of what you mean. Improving my own understanding is probably the best way to improve my write up of it... though, writing it up definitely also helps improve my understanding, as implementing it also does.

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So, an iterative back-and-force process between notes, writing, thinking and implementation is probably the most effective route to clearer understanding and therefore clearer writing.
The Longest Journey or Deus Ex may be good choices that qualify for that criteria. But they are longer than Portal, and their aged graphics can make them unappealing.
Got any links or literature on this as I find it interesting?

Also, I am just starting out in trading. Any literature you would recommend in general for the field?
There are 21 arrest warrants for suspected CIA operatives that kidnapped someone in Italy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4297966.stm
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Closed as subjective and argumentative. Darn, I wanted to pick a fight there. ;)

Many of the really crappy aspects of XML have been thoroughly abstracted away by libraries. I'm of the opinion that you can only truly despise XML if you've tried to write a parser for it yourself.

Examples of the issues: It requires arbitrary lookahead & backtracking. There is no canonical document encoding. (Support arbitrary character encoding for content: great idea! Support arbitrary encoding for the metadata/XML itself: The opposite of a great idea.) Entity references: need I say more?

There's a reason this sort of thing keeps coming up: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/08/researc...

XML as it would be in an ideal world would be (a) simple and (b) unambiguous; it fails both.

All that said, there's a huge benefit in the whole world arriving at a somewhat standard way of doing things, and a lot of that benefit remains even if the standard itself really sucks.
A nice subtle smear. It'll go into the narrative as "Julian Assange who was once charged with rape in Sweden, and is the founder of anti-government site Wikileaks ..."

They're not trying to destroying him at this point, just ramp up the pressure.

They have to be a little bit careful because he does, apparently, have that encrypted and distributed information bomb.
I think there's a very real chance the younger generation says, "Look, you guys voted goodies for yourself and then didn't fund the programs. We're not paying" - and work to have these programs nixed. I wouldn't count on any pensions or benefits as part of my retirement strategy.
When I began to work on overcoming my addictions, I never gained any traction on it until I made meditation a part of my routine. I don't know anything about the scientific aspect of it but I noticed that I was more patient with things, able to suffer/sit through things and sit with myself a lot more. I think the sense of self-comfort that came from meditation was the most important thing. not the sense of comfort, but being comfortable with myself.
I don't think it does. Just because it's perfect doesn't mean it can't be made better, or that it can't be modified to better suitit's enviroment.
The gameplay, dialog and story that made it so fantastic remain, and the modifciation, if anything, shows how powerful and different it's medium is. Being able to modify a work after it's been delivered is a very new concept, but I don't see how it harms the work. Of course, we do have the special editions of Star Wars, that many people see as a negative thing, but I think new ways for the creator to interact with his work are a good thing.
Check out the nightly builds of Sequel Pro for tabs. They'll be included in the next major release (0.9.9):

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Fair enough. Perhaps all the C++ effort is simply a dying gasp from the collective industry.

In any event, we're talking to different sets of embedded vendors. The embedded vendors I talk to are still using C++ and so are their customers. Maybe I'm talking to the less profitable ones, though. ;)
> Because if the CIA (or whoever in the US government) is trying to use another country's legal system to frame someone that would be considered the conducting operations on foreign soil.

CIA has been doing that and worse for many years. Look at South America for example. "Using another country's legal system" is just child's play compared to training assassins, installing brutal dictators, and overthrowing democratically elected governments.

> they'd be risking a very public international incident

Rendition flights in Europe, the rape of South America, torture, and assassinations, training terrorists didn't phase them. Do you really think they'll back down in front of the Swedish press. They can launch their own PR campaign in the US media to protect their image, they certainly have the funds for that.

> CIA would have to be pretty reckless

Sometimes that would be appropriate as well. Some campaigns are designed to intimidate and make it circumstantially obvious what it is, while still officially maintaining their distance from the case.
seems like some guy's opinion on a chinese forum trying to almost ridicule India/Bangladesh/etc? (atleast it seems that way from the translation provided by google)
+1 for How to Win Friends and Influence People. Though I am not really into self help books and alikes, that is definitely a must read.
It does get filtered into its own folder; it's just that I prefer to read that folder's contents in Google Reader, along with all my other "feed" stuff, in one shot.

This is more appropriate if you mostly lurk on mailing lists; if there was a list I was highly active on, I'd probably treat it differently.
People perceive an incompatibility between Islam and the West, not because of points of doctrine, but because Islamic countries still condone barbaric practices such as death by stoning for the crime of adultery. Wikipedia says it is not common, but the optics are very bad.

Even in Western countries a woman I know who had an Islamic father had to go into hiding after her male relatives beat her severely for dating a non-Muslim boy.

In other words, it is the practices of the Muslim community, not their doctrine, that makes it look alien to the West.
I wasn't familiar with a couple terms you used:

- A trial balloon is information sent out to the media in order to observe the reaction of an audience.

- http://www.aei.org/home, The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative think tank founded in 1943

To your first paragraph: I didn't realize the AEI raised the point. To your second paragraph: I thought by clearly stating that I was positing the position, that it was up for discussion, in a friendly manner. I certainly wasn't trying to troll. Sometimes creative exploration of an idea without debating first can lead to interesting places. In fact, Edward De'Bono has written reams on the matter. So thanks for enlightening me on those terms, peace.
I accidentaly upvoted this, so I may as well comment. There are few really great and engaging games, but there are out there. The Longest Journey is better written than a lot of (good) movies. Eternally Us[1] actually made me shed a tear at the end, wich no book ever made me do.
Games are a powerful, meaningful medium. Very immature and maybe slower at maturing than others, but I have little doubt than in time games will be as appreciated as books or movies are today.

[1]http://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=130...