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No, your numbers don't make sense. The percent difference between the items is identical and did not change.

Please do not make the error of comparing absolute difference in prices, because that is not how money is compared.

The biggest problem with energy taxes is that when you increase the cost of energy, you also increase the cost of building a solar power station. So you can never catch up.

If solar power was cheaper than hydrocarbons, then no tax is needed, people would use it on their own.

If on the other hand you add tax, then solar power stations become more expensive to build, so they have to charge more for the energy - so much more that tax does not help them.
Why does a native compiler matter? If its compiler emits C code, you're G2G as far as all of your stated goals.
It still boggles me that ARM is everywhere and Intel still gets to call the shots in the market. I hope that doesn't last much longer.
Kudos to them. This feature was just a matter of time.

In addition to the growing popularity of 4square-like services, exchanging contact info w/new people at events & places has become less "What's your number?" to "Are you on Facebook?". This feature will make that sort of interaction much easier.
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I believe its possible to hold an opinion about something without needing to polarize discussions about it. you just don't see a lot of evidence of that fact on the internet.

Here's a better topic: I am struggling with Agile processes for the following reasons. x y z.... How should i best deal with these problems? Is agile the wrong approach?

(please fill in x y and z)
Bye bye FourSquare...
Don't build it into a lamp. Build it into something that looks similar to one of those speakerphone things... with a big red "recording" LED flashing or something.

If it's function is more visibly obvious, I might buy it. but I wouldn't buy the lamp... it looks too much like I'm trying to hide something... and I don't like looking like I'm trying to hide something. Besides, I don't use desk lamps.
We had three old transformers that drew 20 watts each. The drier draws around 6000 watts for 40 minutes. Though I usually use a mode that uses less heat.

Anyway, I have a gauge by the sink showing the current usage and monthly total. It's cool because I could flip on a light and see the change. Right away I found $50/month (out of $250) but then over the years I kept looking to find the extra draws. I'd shut everything off and flip breakers to narrow it down. Since then it's guided purchases so I avoid things that waste energy.

At the peak of my "research" I had no fridge and then something I built that drew 300 watt hours per day. Back then my electric bill was only $7 (plus $15 delivery charge.). Though now I just live like an ordinary person. We use about $25-$45 plus delivery charge (a big chunk is a dehumidifier for our damp basement).
they partnered with FourSquare/GoWalla, actually. there will be a full read/write API. read is open today, write is in closed beta.
hehe ... that was really funny :)
I've never worked there, but I bet most of them answer to "cover your ass" before anything else.
(Long comment here. Hear me out :)

When you see a Big Corp logo on a small-ish SaaS company site, it's not the whole company using it. Just a small team.

Even when a plan says "unlimited," I can promise you multiple people in the same company are buying overlapping services. Why? Because folks want their own username/password/account management. (Plus they probably aren't even aware somebody else in their giant company is using it. I can pretty much guarantee they aren't IT-driven purchases. Not that they shouldn't be.)

As somebody else pointed out, employees can buy pretty much anything up to $1000 without approval from a higher up.

When things truly are being used by an entire large company, (driven by IT) they usually have some sort of account management/identity system that can hook into the company's own system (almost always Active Directory). Things like Google Apps or Salesforce, where you really don't want overlap (because you want to manage groups and permissions) have this capability AND don't have tend to have unlimited plans. (Unless specifically negotiated, you pay per seat.)

(In the future, OpenID or whatever evolves from its principles may replace it. But in the enterprise, SAML/AD/LDAP is kinda it for now.)

SaaS offerings that talk to these systems and are sold to Fortune 5000 corps typically start at $250,000. Somebody much smarter than I has outlined this strange enterprise price gap ( < $1000 or > $250,000). It was possibly Joel Spolsky. It's not a crazy theory, it's real. (As somebody else in the thread pointed out, anything above $1000 requires approval and lawyers, and is a really expensive for you as a vendor to deal with this for anything less than $250,000).

Tangent:

If you're a SaaS developer and want to sneak into the enterprise, get into Google Apps Marketplace. If you hook your app into Google Apps, any company already using Google Apps can use your app with a little less work (for them) than if you were just a regular web app.

As of summer 2010, there are about 30 Million Google Apps "premiere"(paying or enhanced) users.
Erm, there's tons of alternate browsers. There just can't be one with it's own JavaScript parser baked in because of the ban on interpreters, and even then they said you can ask to include one in the latest round of SDK revisions.
You will apparently be able to opt out of being tagged in someone else's checkin, and the default privacy of a checkin is friends only. I have been critical of facebook's privacy policy, but this is promising.

...until they change the default, as they did with name, photo, friends, work history, education history, likes, interests, activities, and others to globally public with no privacy setting.
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"What possible reason would anyone who has one have for buying a new one?"

A low-cost ultra-portable computer?
When will it just run in the background, so it'll tell me when I happen to be within 400 yards of a friend in NYC? Now that would be cool.
Here's the blogpost from fcbk:

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/403
This would work: http://gist.github.com/536715

I'm not sure wether this is good style. Probably not.

Edit: Bah. Fixed an error.
What's the history for Facebook squashing competition?
I don't read tiny white text on black backgrounds. I don't care who wrote it, or what it purports to say. Period.
This seems great - the only thing stopping me from buying is knowing how annoyed my room mate would get after the first week or two.

Is there any plan to make "Monday / Friday" plans or something less frequent?
How many people do you have on the phones? How long do they work?

I'd like to see a smaller plan size, something I could do on a one-off basis to someone on twitter.
I love this idea, I want to do it. However, the biggest thing missing that I see here is the ability to a) tell you what timezone I'm in and what (approximate) time(s) I'd prefer the call to be made at; and b) leave a short note with additional information that will help you make the call.

For example I would consider getting this for my business partner because I think it would make him laugh, but I would want to tell you to call around 9:30 am EST and explain that he's my business partner and that if he asks why the heck you're calling him, to just say that his employees think he's super.
It's at least good for a short introduction - a "why you should be interested".
I think you mean inflate the currency. Deflation would make their debt burdens worse.
But I agree, they are going to stagnate. The country owes its success over the last few decades to generous transfer payments from the EU. Now those transfer payments are going to the poorer former Soviet Bloc countries like Romania and Bulgaria. Greece is going to have to learn to rely more on itself, which means stripping down government expenses. Considering the strength the public unions have there, I think that's unlikely to happen.
All these two companies have going for them now are stamps and badges...
Great, now except quizzes and quotes and YouTube videos posted on my "News Feed", I'll have check-ins too!

Okay, maybe that was little ironic. Glad to see Facebook advancing on other fields too, and as for those check-ins on my feed, I'll click hide on those people who check-in every 15 minutes :)

And glad to see that they aren't kicking out the competition, but partnering with them!
Rod Begbie asked a great question at the top of the Q&A... "How do I take down the address of my home if it gets listed and becomes popular such that FB makes it public?" (FB said that popular locations become public if enough people check in, so imagine you are having a party at your house...).

The answer is you can't, and Facebook clearly hadn't thought of that in their user stories and use cases. The group on stage didn't seem to feel it was an issue either.

For all of Chris Cox's pretentious guff (dude, give me a break) about their interest in sociology and FB respecting the "3rd place" concept, I think it shows how out of touch with "IRL" issues FB product development is. I feel they see everything as a 'data problem to solve' not the people + human behaviors that are really going on.
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"2. ubiquitous laziness can lead to some really subtle bugs"

I find myself implementing Iterable wrappers more often in Java now, largely due to the influence of Clojure lazy seqs. Then I can use the abbreviated for loop syntax, for example, without creating a ridiculously large ArrayList in memory.

I know that the Iterator pattern has been around for a long time, but I never realized how broadly it could be applied to use high level iteration constructs while keeping a minimal memory footprint, before I got used to Clojure.

So Clojure has made me a fan of lazy evaluation, even in Java.
I upvoted you because I agree and disagree. I agree because it would be totally cool if we both wanted that. It would be totally annoying if one of us actually wished to be private at that moment, or was in a rush, etc, and just forgot to turn off facebook.
I guess there's an established trend how one writes about switching to new language: it's usually a long blog post containing facts distilled by others, sometimes mixed with author's wishful thinking. All that because author probably feels a need to justify his decision.

It's normal - we usually want to justify the reasons why we do stuff, esp. when the new way is time consuming. It's also great that the OP is willing to dive into new waters. But such article cannot be taken as an expertise, even for the reason that it's not from OP's experience (yet).
Well yes I was talking about street cranks. Like the original article is. I didn't mean to imply all environmentalism is like this.
Probably, but IMHO one key difference. A few years ago the "midrange" Ultraportable was like $1200. I just picked up a Toshiba T115D-S1125 w/11" screen, dual core athlon, radeon 3200, and Win7 x64 (2gb) for under $500

It's a great little machine and actually has pretty decent battery life as well.
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"Given any mechanism for filtering people, I claim that there are smart, productive people who will be filtered out. These are called false negatives. It is impossible to create a repeatable hiring process that does away with false negatives."

While it is true that no test can avoid false negatives, it is also true that if the quantity measured by your test is uncorrelated with the phenomenon of interest then your test is neither sensitive nor specific and its PPV and NPV will be poor no matter where you set your decision threshold on the ROC curve. If you advocate such a test publicly, you should expect to be criticized for doing so.

"I now understand that he was using a strategy for hiring people, not a metric for measuring me. His strategy for hiring people worked for his purposes. Why take that personally?"

You could decide which programmer to hire based on skin color and write a blog advocating that "strategy" as well. (You'd get sued for doing so, but that's tangential to the point here.) If you did that, it would be unreasonable to expect the "it's just my strategy; it isn't about you, so don't take it personally" argument to be taken seriously. Whether you are aware of it or not, when you advocate a hiring practice publicly you are making an implicit claim that it has some validity and the community is right to spew vitriol in your direction if your hiring criteria are not well constrained within the realm of demonstrable merit and cross over into areas that are none of your damn business as an employer.
One thing I've been wanting to mention at HN but don't think is worth starting a thread for is how bad email is for task / project management, and how much I think there's room for an alternative.

My running dream is that it would be web based (but not a todo list) and would be based on the idea of a project built of tasks with definite finishing points, and subprojects, and the ability to direct other people to them and ask/answer questions, make notes, verify things and confirm tasks are complete.

I picture it in my head as Etherpad meets old-school vertical scrolling 2D games meets Gantt charts meets braiding ( http://theautry.org/ortega/images/four_string_braid.jpg ), I guess meets Google Wave though I've never used it.

The braids go to other people "request input from Alice, then verification from Bob, then back to me for implementation", and as the "view" scrolls, the completed tasks are fixed in time and cannot be altered, but can be brought back up to the front for reattention.

I put it here so I can note it somewhere and because it's related to how annoying email is to use for ongoing work between people. I'm suspicious that it's impractical if delved into in any depth, and that the good bits are done in some existing tracker / helpdesk / ticket / project management software if I knew how to look for that kind of thing.
The scandal is really about the policy put in place by the Obama administration.

From the article you cited:

"Career employees were ordered to provide Secretary Janet Napolitano's political staff with information about the people who asked for records — such as where they lived, whether they were private citizens or reporters — and about the organizations where they worked.
If a member of Congress sought such documents, employees were told to specify Democrat or Republican."

That's a dangerous politicization of DHS and the FOIA process and certainly goes against the spirit of "transparency" the Obama administration was voted in on.
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The answer was interesting though: there had to be social proof behind a place before it would be available to a larger audience. In other words, even if somebody maliciously added your apartment as a place to checkin, barely anybody would see it unless they were in your direct network of friends.
Good point. Even if you don't wind up using Clojure for real work there are certainly things to be learned from it.
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"If for some reason someone else picks up your phone and is abusive to us, we reserve the right to terminate your service and issue you a refund." :-)
Sounds like you need to follow Rich Hickey's example and create the language you want to program in, as the scratcher for your itch doesn't yet exist.

So, not a pipe dream so much as a lot of work to be done.
Mossberg chimes in on Facebook Places
well, from what I heard the more popular a place is the more public it becomes to the point that it could be come 'totally public' if it reaches a threshold (no mention what they are, though).

And as they were clear to state all the way through - this is about creating persistent stories that are permanently attached to a place page on FB - so presumably your home's place page becomes public.

That concerns me about having private parties in private homes (pretty typical use case)
Would also be a good idea - maybe just for the fun of it - to have a stepped pricing plan.

So for $2 a month, someone will call you once a week and tell you that "You're adequate". :)

Seriously though, a cheap pricing plan (something less than a beer) for someone to do something similar via Social Media (Twitter, Facebook) might work too.
Most importantly, the analysts using the satellite images can look look at historical earnings reports to see whether the tool has any utility before they use it to make a prediction.

In fact, I'm almost positive they did (in part because the article says so, more or less).

EDIT: In particular, the regression mentioned was no doubt based on the relationship between historical earning reports and the sat imagery (once controlled for daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal variation, etc.)
I wonder how this would scale...using Mechanical Turk?
No fat decreases dopamine, but sugar increases and both cause obesity. Logically, balancing the two would cause no increase or decrease and should lead to a balanced weight, yet the researches don't say this they say people should avoid eating fatty foods or carbohydrate rich foods.

I'd be interested to see whether a balance of protein/fat/carbs in equal 1/3 parts by weight or 1/3 parts by calorific quantity provides the least effect on our dopamine levels.

I know personally that when I was on a high-fat diet, I lost weight. I've also lost weight since I switched from margarine to real butter (note: you'd be surprised how easy it is to clean baked foods when it's real butter, it took literally 5 seconds to get a bowl spotless with just hot water which normally took about a minute after being soaked in hot water with detergent in it), plus my food tastes a lot less like plastic.

I'm sure this has something to do with my working in construction, however I've never been sugar-sensitive. I literally tackled a bag of brown sugar with a spoon as a kid and didn't get a sugar rush, while my wife has gotten a sugar rush off a caramilk bar.
Surprised that Foursquare and Gowalla actually took part in this.

The underlying data they have on location and check-ins is basically being given to Facebook. That means that the only real value left in those apps is what they have to offer on top of that, which is not super defensible, whereas Facebook gets to be the underlying platform where there is real value.
It would be nice if the write API was available, but at least we'll be able to get the read-only stuff into Locurious before the next update goes out :)
You could write a mobile Facebook app to take the stress out of restraining orders...
But why does a domain need to host a webpage? I get that we mostly want snazzy domains for webapps these days, but if I grab a domain, point it towards a server that only serves SSH externally, what's wrong with that (Actually, I am considering doing just that for a domain I have been eying).

Defining 'substantial' is difficult, especially if we start pulling lawyers out to sue for the lost of virtual 'real estate.'
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Coded this up yesternight and tested/debugged it this afternoon. It passes my test cases so far but may still be hilariously wrong at the same time.
For twitter there's already awesomeupdater that will do it for free: http://www.awesomeupdater.com/content/index
Outsourcing to a country like India could work.
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Ask HN: Investing your $$$ in your startup...
So I'm thinking of launching soon, and wondering if it is legit business tactic (or just sort of shady) to invest in my own company. I'm assuming that I'd also eventually be looking for outside investments in the next year or so.

I have between ten and twenty thousand in the bank that I could use for the startup. I'd like to retain a bit more ownership since I'm using my own money than if I just went out and found an angel with my product.

If I do this, will it hurt my chances of finding additional investments at a later time, and is there something important I should know about doing this? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I don't just mean giving myself money, I mean starting another company(runT1ME's Angel LLC) that would give me(RunT1ME's software corp) seed funding in exchange for a percentage. The reason is so even if my shares as a founder get diluted, my shares from the other company do not...
They advertise as "fat-free" but i think theres still fat that could be trimmed, that wouldn't be needed in a base framework.

I don't really understand why they call some of these plugins through the F3 class instead of using them separately.

Wouldn't it be better to separate db class, and do Db::query() or Db::sql() instead of F3::sql(), which uses a __callStatic() magic method and loops through all the files in the autoload dir and checking each class to see if it has a sql() method. Just seems like it's doing a lot of extra un-needed work, even if it is caching it
According to this website (http://www.worldcentric.org/about-us/faq#pla6) it takes at least 180 days for a corn-based cup to biodegrade in a compost. Biodegradable or not, it's probably more efficient to hire people to just clean up the trash periodically instead of hoping for a biodegradable solution.
Does anyone else find this live coverage ("Live from Facebook HQ!") with interviews on-site with the developers a little ... weird?

Does any other site out there offer live coverage of their own feature announcements?
You and I read the constitution very differently if you think it explicitly forbids copyrights. According to Wikipedia "the Intellectual Property Clause and the Progress Clause, empowers the United States Congress: 'To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.'" Regardless of what Jefferson may have thought, that's a pretty explicit promotion of the idea of intellectual property (with a vague notion of how long they should last for).

In fact this is exactly what I mean by no logical and coherent argument. A 12 year old could read that and tell you that the Constitution expressly promotes the idea of intellectual property, and gives Congress control over the details. He could also Google for some Supreme Court cases, such as Eldred v Ashcroft, that have upheld it's constitutionality. I'm assuming you're not unintelligent, which means the only way you could come up with "There is no provision in the constitution for the treatment of ideas as property, and the guys who wrote it explicitly disdained that idea." is if you either never actually read the very clause you cited, or if you simply saw what you wanted to see.

Also it's troll as in an internet troll. It had a negative connotation before it was applied in this context. Whatever the derivation, it's clearly derogatory and an ad hominem.

Writers don't write because they love the idea of selling paper. As one I can tell you I'm we're mostly OK with digital distribution. See the Author's Guild's controversial settlement with Google for evidence. But that doesn't mean we want other people able to sell or distribute our work without our permission or compensation. It's not about the media and it never was, media was just a necessary evil.
What happened to "Kids will be kids"? Society might change to put less weight on what people did when they were young.
It's funny, because I'm 46 and I've spent most of my adulthood wondering when I'm going to 'feel like an adult'. At some point it just happened, but to be honest, I'm not entirely happy about it. As George Bernard Shaw said, "Youth is wasted on the young."
Why not buy your room mate their own reminders as a gift?
I'm not sure that I get it. Isn't this a bit shallow? Surely it takes some of the joy out of being told that you're awesome if you have to pay people to tell you that you're awesome? A bit like paying people to be your friend?
Wolfram Alpha did. Apparently nobody told them they were launching a website, not a spaceship.