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Here in Australia, we got rid of our 1c and 2c coins years ago; the way it works is that if you pay for something with cash, 1 and 2 round to 0; 3, 4, 6 and 7 round to 5; 8 and 9 round to 10. It works out pretty well, but since so many people pay for things with credit/debit cards, it doesn't matter much in practice.

Those are the legally suggested rules, but not every company exactly follows them; I recall hearing that one supermarket chain always rounds downward at purchase time, but rounds up if you return the product for some reason - a nice gesture.
I always used to wonder why they would make the filling contain the hard crunchy part, which I really didn't like.
Gaurav, http://billmonk.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/billmonk-now-on-twi... lists you as the author of the comment.

However, I'm assuming that you didn't write that comment. In case, that comment was spoofed, you may want to write a disclaimer
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Have you reported this?
The other point is that the tests should be "formative", which is educationalist babble for "just for fun".

Frequent summative (non-formative, i.e. stuff that determines which uni you go to, or whether you can progress to the next level) tests are bad and dangerous, as they force the kids to conform every day of their lives.

If kids want to blow off a formative test, then it's no big deal. If a kid makes a few silly mistakes, they don't have to beat themselves up. They shouldn't have to (or even want to) stay up to 2am cramming. They should be having fun with friends, learning to cook, playing sports, learning an instrument, or hacking on their graphics calculators. But if they flunk, it means they aren't learning, and something needs to be done.
It seems fitting for a commodity company to have a cloud offering. It will be interesting when your neighborhood energy company also offers computing resources on demand.
Where do I get the Haskell of databases?
Sadly, people who can code out of high school are a dime a dozen. I can go to any local high school and find half a dozen kids at each that can hack some code together.

I admire that you were able to autodidact your way into a successful career, most people aren't capable of that. I think it's ultimately unhelpful to advise people to follow in your footsteps unless they really truly are capable of following in your footsteps.

I really really wish I had had better opportunity in my youth to have gone to school right after high school, instead of burning through 4 years at uni, I burned through 6 years banging around in various tech jobs and trying to get past the notion society has that you really should go to school for jobs in the skilled labor fields. I watched many people who were not as good as I was absolutely leave me in the dust. Then I burned through another 6 years putting myself through school part-time while supporting me and my family.

Hell, I'd give anything to get 8 of those 12 years back.

>in fact, I think that if your mindset is "screw you I won't conform", you especially don't want to skip school, because you don't know what you're talking about.

Truer words were never spoken.
I think you mean "nickel's".
In Australia things are routinely priced at e.g. $4.99 (including tax), but the smallest coin here is 5 cents. They just round the total to the nearest 5c, it's really not a problem.
It would be very interesting indeed.
People certainly still pay for intel's C compiler.
And perhaps it was just managers expanding their empire. You know, principal agent problems between managers and shareholders.
The legal ramifications will be interesting once it is released to the masses and not just a few partners.

Org's such as the UFC or NFL will hate this far more than they hate justin.tv/ustream.tv because it will make live streaming more mainstream for the masses.
I agree, I thought that it might be intersting for others as well hence I submitted this article. I am not an expert in this field unfortunately, so if somebody knows more about it, I d be interested to hear more :)

Somebody from Albania around?
I'm impressed with the quality of the comments. They appear to be not only moderated, but also summarized in one line by Tufte, who then responds in a separate posting. Very pleasant and skimmable format.
With managers actively encouraging employees to go home to their families.
Ask HN: How is instant search implemented?
Since Google released instant search, I have been seeing different variations pop up everywhere.I am wondering what is the special ingredient making it happen. Or is there more than one way?
It's actually a good way to ensure that only bright, hard working students get filtered into top positions. At least, it's better than the usual alternatives - nepotism, cronyism, plutocratic selection, and politicking.

Of course, the test degraded (over centuries) to a several day exam, where students were expected to write a massive essay. So they just competed to smuggle in lots of stock essays that they could just copy an appropriate one out.
I tried Youtube Instant first and hated it. Should have opened my mouth earlier...

It's okay; maybe I'll just get used to it, like every Facebook revision, ever.
if only tiny pigs pollinated figs
Shall I say Facebook.
Isn't making a personal, emotional connection with another human being pretty universally considered an important part of being human?

If you're one of those people who look down on the pursuit of sex as not worthy of their time/intelligence/effort replace "sex" with "love".

Is doing math more important than experiencing love?

Anyway, I think OP is making the point that it's perfectly possible to do great intellectual things, make a difference in the world, and still get laid regularly.

So "I'm too busy doing math" isn't really a valid excuse.
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Except of course that YouTube won't allow their site to turn into http://www.justin.tv/directory?order=hot&lang=en

The current sites could prevent it, but they have VCs to impress and no assets to protect.
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Or you could turn off instant search.
I ate a few pounds of figs this August, they are such a great fruit. Interesting article but it doesn't mention that most varieties of fig do not actually require pollination from a wasp. Probably why I've never found a dead wasp inside my figs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_fig#Pollination.2C_fruit...

Edit: There is a longer thread about figs here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1684798
One point not being made here is that nearly every wireless carrier requires you to add an Enterprise Data Plan to your service in order to use an Exchange connector. AT&T requires this with the iPhone. Verizon, T-Mobile, etc. all require it for the Blackberry. I haven't heard of a single device/provider that doesn't require an elevated service level to allow for enterprise mail access.

So there's a security by obscurity to start with: the average user doesn't know to ask for the Enterprise plan, let alone what Enterprise even means in context. So the scenario here requires that a) the salesman talked them into it, b) they bought into that service for the extra $15 on top of the data plan, or c) they consulted with the company's IT department or policies and knew they had to get that service. If they didn't, they simply cannot connect to the Exchange account. There's very little "oops, I didn't know what I was doing" here. I hope that most companies have a clear policy against checking your work e-mail from personal devices, and on your own time. There are legal implications for overtime pay. We may look the other way in startups, but this can't always be done.

Most law firms require this, unilaterally. It's part of the deal-- we'll pay your enterprise data plan in exchange for knowing that we may wipe the device, control which apps you can install [this is another can of worms], so on and so forth, per the requirements of malpractice insurance and data security.

In a perfect world this wouldn't be required, but I think we all know this can't possibly be the case in many industries.
My suggestion:

if (there is a very promising good startup offer):
take it
else:
work on your side project until it takes off as a real startup
Ask HN: To git or not to git
Hello world.
I'm at kind of a crossroads: I want to make a site that will feature a web based editor for text files in some markup languages aimed for non-developer users, but I want to offer them the ability to track changes to those files and maybe even "fork" and "merge" other documents/document-clusters; again, all via a web interface. Basically, you could say that it's like a web-based github for non-devs.

I could use a key-value store like couchdb or cassandra to store diffs between times when something is saved to show histories and do merges with one of the strategies git uses; and maybe in the future let users use a desktop app and thus clone/push/pull changes like a regular git hosting site. Again, in a skimmed non-dev approach to git.

For the record, this talk has practically convinced me of using git http://www.techscreencast.com/language/ruby/using-git-in-ruby-applications---scott-chacon-/1431 because I realize that it might seem overkill at first but I don't want to end up reinventing git. But a little n00b voice in my head still screams overkill.

So, hackerworld, what's your take on this? I mean, I could just do something with the [ruby](http://github.com/mojombo/grit)/(python)[http://gitorious.org/git-python] interfaces to git and something like gitosis, or create my own subset of file history management like said above; what would be the wisest choice?
Nor would I classify all introverts as being Isaac Newton.
dabbledb seems to be managing ok. Not sure if things will change now they've been acquired though
I personally see $4.95 more often than $4.99 in Australia.
i am not a geneticist, but i look at any change without lots of historical data and studies as alpha or beta quality and i assume a possibility for bugs.
I'm mostly indifferent to it. I like not having to have a noticeable delay after pressing enter or whatever, and this doesn't affect my autopager addon, so I'm leaving it on unless it makes me mad somehow later. Most of my searches are in the google-bar anyway rather than through their homepage so I don't get it much.
Usefulness of a Model Essay
Different types of essays have different sets of requirements. An argumentative essay needs to be written in an argumentative manner and a persuasive essay needs to be written in a persuasive manner. Any student who does not know how to write their essays will be benefited by a model essay.
But ultimately what's "useless" is the comment itself. It does nothing to better anything. It leaves the developer in a void of wonderment. What's useless? Is it lacking a feature? Is it not working at all? What void were you looking to fill?

I also get an overwhelming amount of 5 star ratings with well thought out reviews. So when one of these "useless" comments pops in, it throws me back to high school days, when everything "sucked" - which is why I wonder if the word is the new "sucks".

Thinking back, saying "sucks" so often was quite useless.
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online is not a backup. there is a reason we back up databases to magnetic tape, store them in remote locations, rotate tapes and test their integrity.
That comment was not written by me, Gaurav Oberoi. I've posted a follow up: http://billmonk.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/billmonk-now-on-twi...
speaks,
are you trying to find a rationalization to stick with what you're doing?

the whole 'fun' thing has two aspects.

There's the practicality aspect i.e. business in general and startups in particular are painfully difficult and you can't really win if you don't like (or ideally love) what you jump in to.

If you can work only 8 hrs a day but your opponent loves his work and words 14 hours a day you're screwed.

There's also the reality aspect.
NO ONE ever does a start-up without motivations like money and pleasure and importance.

If your prime modality is making money and comfort then a start-up isn't right for you at all.

Also, all your reasons for wanting to do a start-up are meaningless. stepping stone to other opportunities?

if you're taking such a big risk fucking do something that is the ultimate opportunity.
Ugh--sorry for the inadvertent downvote. My bad.
Woah, thanks for pointing that out. How unfortunate and confusing. I took your advice and posted a clarifying comment. Sigh...

http://billmonk.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/billmonk-now-on-twi...
This just popped into my head, might be terribly wrong, but I would just do ajax. Like the way you implement autocomplete by listening to keyup events and returning stuff to fill the list of results. The thing is that this should be wicked fast to be instant, so some optimizations with load balancing and cache related things must be going on there as well.
Unfortunate...

I've noticed they've been more and more unrealiable over the last few months - i.e. random fatal errors, recurring bills going weeks without occurring.

I even recently started developing a clone for my flatmates and I to use in Django, shame it couldn't wait until it was ready :)
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Well, yes and no. Grades went out of favor because there actually is a considerable body of research pointing to the fact that grades are harmful. What they do is not simply pointing out weaknesses but establishing a ranking. One schildert is suddenly 10% "better" than another because of that seemingly objective number below the test.

It reduces children (who are sensitive to messages like that) from a full person with a unique character to their performance as tested. If you haven't yet developed the necessary cynicism to deal with this onedimensional assessment of personhood, you will quickly. If that is actually desirable is another matter.
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Personally I never use a checking account as any NSF (non sufficient funds) fees will absolutely kill your account. I've had NSF fees of about $1500 due to a family emergency. What I have now is a line of credit and a credit card.. much less of a hassle having to watch where my money is.
Are you implying that Isaac Newton was having fun the wrong way? I fail to see the point. The most important thing to any organism or organization or complex system is survival, because everything that exists today got here by being good at existing.

Isaac Newton found a way to achieve immortality, he just did it by reproducing his ideas on paper as opposed to making mini-clones of himself with his dick.
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I read the whole thing and walked away even more impressed than before. I think if this 'social network' was created by anyone else, they would have settled for the billion dollar and essentially moved on to other things.

I admire his conviction.
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I agree that this is a good design philosophy. But I also think that the problem of "the user not reading the app description" (as described by the parent) is a separate issue.

For example, I found that there were several problems to be solved that were all related to the same domain. Apps existed that do a decent job of solving problem X. So I wrote an app to solve problem Y. I have received numerous 1-star reviews because the user is disappointed that my app does not solve Problem X. In my case, I am pretty confident that I clearly described the problem solved by my app. I even explicitly say that it is not meant to solve problem X.
I have also received many positive reviews from users looking for an app that solves Problem Y. So in my case, I don't think it was a problem with understanding the user.
No. That’s not our secret advantage. This is our secret advantage: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/may/27/america...

> By far the best thing about America is its universities. Not Harvard, Yale, e tutti quanti: though marvelous, they are not distinctively American—their roots reach across the ocean to Oxford, Heidelberg, and beyond. Nowhere else in the world, however, can boast such public universities. You drive for miles across a godforsaken midwestern scrubscape, pockmarked by billboards, Motel 6s, and a military parade of food chains, when—like some pedagogical mirage dreamed up by nineteenth-century English gentlemen—there appears…a library! And not just any library: at Bloomington, the University of Indiana boasts a 7.8-million-volume collection in more than nine hundred languages, housed in a magnificent double-towered mausoleum of Indiana limestone.

> A little over a hundred miles northwest across another empty cornscape there hoves into view the oasis of Champaign-Urbana: an unprepossessing college town housing a library of over ten million volumes. Even the smallest of these land grant universities—the University of Vermont at Burlington, or Wyoming’s isolated campus at Laramie—can boast collections, resources, facilities, and ambitions that most ancient European establishments can only envy.[fn1]

> ...

> My own perspective is still colored by that year in Davis. Originally the agricultural extension of the University of California, precariously perched amid the rice paddies of the Sacramento River delta—halfway between San Francisco and nowhere in particular—UC Davis now boasts 3.3 million volumes, a world-class research faculty, and the country’s leading green energy program. Some of the most interesting colleagues I know have spent their lives in Davis. At the time, however, this was a mystery to me: the year completed, I retreated cautiously to the Olde English familiarity of Cambridge. But nothing was quite the same. Cambridge itself felt somehow reduced and constricting: the pancake-flat Fenland as remote as any rice paddy. Everywhere is somewhere else’s nowhere.

> [fn1]: By way of comparison, the University Library in Cambridge, England, boasts just seven million volumes; the University of Vienna (founded in 1365) just 6.6 million.
Different things are important to different people. I don't think there is any set right or wrong way to live our lives and I don't think there is really any set of experiences that our life won't be complete without. It's up to the individual, I'm sure there would be people that say something like not seeing the world isn't living and others happy to spend the vast majority of their lives in one place, is either wrong?
I'm thinking it would be a bigger problem if people can stream from their phones. You would be able to see a lot of different angles, and behind the scenes type of footage.
Totally agree and love this post. Rejection is what separates the winners from the losers. Winners shake it off and losers internalize and quit.
From wikipedia "although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_(university).
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Ericsson could have had a need for multicore already back in 1997, when the first SMP Erlang prototype was written, but the space and power budgets for the processor boards made it impossible to get any matching hardware for it. SMP in those days was not multicore, but several CPUs. It was only usable in servers - not in embedded systems.
New Zealand is much the same, although we eliminated the 5 cent coin as well about 2 years ago (NZ dollars are worth about 9/10ths of Australian dollars, and 7/10ths of US dollars).

Stores still do pricing in exact numbers of cents and only round the final result, which means the price you end up paying with plastic is slightly different than what you'd pay with cash.
Not by sitting in front of a computer.

Perhaps you mean LIKE footballers in popularity and hopefully, pay.

Maybe.
It's not really appropriate to phrase your argument in terms of how a "crowd like this" won't agree with you because it would "undermine a great deal of the narrative", or to assemble a straw man about a "seeming consensus" regarding the imposition of cultural values.

Argue the idea, not the person.
Amended: "If you're not paying what it's worth, ..."
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I thought of this 9 years ago, and got stuck at the same step as the hat guy. Once you have the login details, then what? The only thing you can really do with the information is be a giant douchebag, and that's not cool.
Agreed. The median CMU CS undergrad started at $80k/year last year:
http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/students_alumni/pos...

Add on bonuses & that puts smart but not necessarily rock-star kids at close to $100k/yr straight out of school.
Speaking as a shy person, who managed to mostly outgrow his shyness, remember these simple pieces of advice:

Know when you're being obnoxious, and don't be.
Be nice, but don't let others push you around.
Talk less, listen more, people like it when others listen to their BS, and don't like to listen to your BS.
Don't be arrogant, don't assume people are stupider than you, even if they are.
Be funny, but only from time to time, if you find yourself making an ass of yourself all or most of the time, calm down.
Most importantly, be bold. Start small, talk to a stranger, do something stupid, or anything that makes you a bit uncomfortable, and gradually move up to the harder stuff, like asking a girl out, or something like that.

Don't be afraid of humiliating yourself to much. After you internalize the fact that being humiliated isn't so bad, being bold will not be to much of a problem, and you'll be less shy.

p.s.(if you have bad hygiene, start with that, being smelly makes most of the above advice useless.)
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problem is, Google will not remain non-evil forever. The public market has a way of corrupting the soul of a company.
There's a benefit to getting to know people with interests other than yours. Perhaps you'll discover that you actually like something new.
How does it save resources for Google? It can only cost more resources, since every time someone searches now, they are actually searching about ten times. Can you explain your logic?
While we're talking about currency, why hasn't anybody in the US(to my knowledge) made a payment processor that works by generating transaction numbers, and then sending those numbers instead of sending people payment authentication credentials?

Let's say George wants to give Sally $5.

1. George logs into his PayCo. account. He clicks generate transaction, amount $5. The server returns a very long randomly generated key.
2. He copy-pastes that key into Sally's pay-info server.
3. Sally sends that key to PayCo.'s server, money changes hands, and the key is no longer valid.
There are no fraternities in Poland, at least none that I am aware of. Reading this thread, I came to believe that main purpose of frats is making new friends and/or creating artificial bonds with other people. This does not make much sense here -- the country is not that big, and many people attend universities near their living place and they don't feel so lost in a completely new place, as they commute every day. People whose universities are too far for them to commute, frequently live in school's dormitory, and its social system pretty much resembles the fraternity's one.

The correlation between fraternities and the quality of education is in my opinion artificial. I don't really know much about the US system, but I guess the main reason behind such quality is high funding.