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Because Moore's law speaks to transistor density, mentions nothing of price, let alone broadband price, and the last mile of the broadband market is dominated by the market forces of regulatory capture and cartels. Also, the dominant technology in the last mile is copper wire, not silicon.

I used to pay $30 a month for dial-up (14.4 Kbps), and now pay $40 for 7.5 Mbps, thats a doubling factor of 8.6 over ~20 years which is roughly 2.3 years per doubling, thats awfully close to Moore's law. The reason prices aren't decreasing is that new applications are coming out which consume the extra bandwidth and that people value the decreased time to load more than the reduced amount of money. It's the same reason that a processor still costs $200.
I'm willing to use 0.60 more coins during transactions if it saves people from actually learning how to count.
Not quite in the USA you buy three items that end in 99c, but two of them have state sales tax, one of those has local sales tax and the other has a liquor tax.

SO you can work out the change IF you know the random extra amount that will be added at the checkout
Um no. They could and that is what they wanted to name Google originally

Off hand, I don't remember who it was, but their first investor misspelled the name as Google on the check and they just took that as the name.
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I strongly agree. This is the correct answer to the problem. That and adding sales tax to the tagged price (i.e. don't add sales tax at the time of the transaction).
Ok, I see. I live in germany, where the tax is already included (a 99 cent coin would be really efficient here).
> high income taxes

Must have been an exciting week. (Anyway, you'd need to compare the whole tax burden, since there's no sales tax.)
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I picked up the JQuery and CSS cookbooks. The CSS one really looked sharp and any solid guide on JQuery is a must have for web developers.

I keep getting suckered with these $9.99 deals. What are you doing to me, O'Reilly?!
Interesting article. The title is misleading, though. The author talks about why the liquidity premium may go down, but it won't become negative.
I wonder how the Nytimes front page will be converted.
How much of this is parents' doing? When I showed my kids sites, I made it clear that 'this is how you get to the fun stuff', and anything not that way results in removal of computer privileges. Are kids discovering new content through some medium other than parents or previous experience?
Interesting concept, but they're going to limit their audience to liberal U.S. residents by picking on Palin in the post there and here which is linked to in the upper right-hand side of the site:
http://kommons.com/questions/3

I don't think that is helpful for getting more people interested in it. Celebs and others "blocking" questions is something that happens when anyone is trying to protect their image.

In addition, having a single list of questions and a Twitter-centric @(some_id) way of referencing people and other entities (corps, brands, etc.) seems limited. Why not have a search page that has mined names from Twitter, Wikipedia, etc.? Also, for the the selectbox currently being populated with suggestions in the upper-right, how do you determine how many of the multitude of people should show up? It would seem that eventually there will be too many to pick from that easily? I think a more advanced search is in order, and possible a dedicated page.

Finally, the name looks a little like Apache Commons was taken over by Russia. :) I say that somewhat jokingly, but remember the made-for-T.V. series "Amerika" in the 80s? All it takes is changing a C to a K and you have added a little cold-war Russia flavor, at least to older Americans that remember it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092316/
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Well, some people really like cash, and I still run into places, particularly in rural areas, where credit cards are only allowed on purchases over $20. The credit card fees are a great incentive to keep cash / coins.
I used to know OCZ as a bit of a shady, benchmark gaming outfit "back in the day". Today however, the SandForce based Vertex II Pro SSDs are amazing. 10K+ IOPs sustained with a genuine database load. 100GB for just over $600. Compare that with STEC Mach8 devices at ten times the price, not super-capacitor backed, and lower throughput.

Sure a couple JBODs stacked with 15K RPM disks could do the same for $50K... Now imagine a small single-parity array of four SandForce devices. ;-)

For most things, meh. But for databases, it's a real game changer. 2010 is definitely the year SSDs changed everything.
I'm a Microsoft developer who has switched to Mac at home and is running Chrome at work. I really don't care about IE9.

Someone please enlighten me (this is not sarcasm... I'm asking): what is the value of IE9 over everything else on the market?
It annoyed me that Apple removed the top tabs from Safari without providing a option. I still use it as my primary browser but on my MacBook I'd have liked to keep those extra pixels.
Time for me to get on red zip-up pajamas with the white padded feet; watch shows like G.I Joe, Voltron, Thundercats, The People's Court, Highway to Heaven, Airwolf; wear white tube socks with the color stripes on top and Reebok Pump hightop sneakers; replace my iHome with a Sony Dream Machine alarm clock; and use Print Shop on my Commodore PC XXIII and print out my radical flyers with my dot matrix printer.

Ahhhh I feel younger just thinking about it and writing it out (no, seriously). Although that would take me back to my single digit aged days, just a little too far back.

A spin on an 'Ol Dirty Bastard line: "I'ma rub your ass In the moonshine / Let's take it back to '89"
Can i suggest splitting the $ into 20 equal parts and then each of those parts into 12cents.

Then you could have 1,2,3,6 cent coins and 1,2,10 part coins.

For anyone that can manage the calculations for feet/inches/yards/miles, drams/ounces/pounds/tons it should be simple.
Well, kids tend to access a few sites only. I did when I was younger. I mean: What they need to do on a browser?

Facebook? Wikipedia for school? Hulu? I guess kids needs are more easily found, they need to remember a few sites that cover a big percent of their total usage.

I mean, it's not like they have to make some _hard_ research on topics they are interested due to work or hobbies.
XP is dead and I'm not sure how Microsoft can make that any more clear than completely avoiding releasing products on it any more. Upgrade or lose out on the newer features available in later OS releases.
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You usually access an API programmatically rather than via the browser, so this shouldn't be an issue for most use cases.
As someone with very fond memories of the Commodores of old, I think they've kind of missed the point here
Bullshit, that domain was simply already taken. Googol.com was registered in 1995.
But this wasn't like the 70s at all - back then there were far more smokers, for example, and I bet they didn't say, smoke as much as you really did back then, eat what you ate back then, etc. It was merely forcing them to exercise more.
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Snarky comments were running through my mind, but I credit them for being reasonably up front about the uncertainty of radiation risks. The first item under under Radiation -> Health Risks starts with:

What is the impact of everyday radiation during pregnancy?
Today, the evidence remains mixed.

Edit: After further reading I agree with the comments below. There's no real balance here.
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Did anyone really expect 6–9 year-olds to be giant searchers? 6-year-olds have only been reading for a couple of years, and are still mostly on picture books, many reading aloud. Are they supposed to be typing complex text-based queries into google to turn up mostly more text content?
Sounds like a number of bars in Bushwick...
I'd imagine the digital currency would be run by the government. So they'd be 'minting' these new cards, and as such there'd be no fees to talk about.
as a huge fan of audibooks myself: Can you tell me what series you are talking about?

(see? Another chance to hook somebody)
Check the comments there--some parents are discussing this.
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The negPenny! Anyone want to write a quick script to check combinations that include negative values?
Allow me to offer you an idea:

When I go to Yelp to search for a restaurant, the filters I have available are type of restaurant, proximity, rating and price. My next step is to either sort by those filters, or individually click a restaurant. Looking at an individual restaurant, my options for consideration are photos of the restaurant, consisting of either interior/exterior or images of the food, and user reviews. The user reviews consist of reviews about the service, atmosphere and food, but I have to chug through each review to get this type of specific information. And with a task of choosing a restaurant and having to repeat these sets of actions is immensely tedious.

What's missing?

A way to discover restaurants near me that I can discover by their actual dishes. The user flow would be this -> I'm in the mood for a burger. Show me restaurants that serve burgers. I get a range of places from diners to more high-end to delis and more, but instead if getting a list of joints, I get a sortable grid of user's burger photos from places near me. Then, all I need to do is say, that burger is the one I want and, barring other misc info such as price or needing reservations and what not, I will go there and get the burger that I saw with my own eyes.

The advantage you will have over Yelp is that While Yelp provides a way to discover restaurants by very general filters, you will provide a way to directly discover restaurants by the actual individual dishes.

As a side note, think about when you go to a restaurant and get a menu that has pictures. It gives so much more reference to choosing a dish, because the mystery is taken out of the equation. Your service would do exactly this. Remove the mystery of what you're going to a restaurant for.

Also, while you can see some food items on Yelp in the individual restaurant pages, #1 they come with no context and #2 I can only access these photos on these individual pages which is tedious.

There you have it.
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Honestly I wasn't aware of Haystack's security issues, but http://haystacky.s3.amazonaws.com/www.oblomovka.com/wp/2010/... cleared up a bunch of it.
It's not as simple as that - they are a hybrid. An interface as easy to use as the previous Macs, hardware as cheap as a PC, an underlying OS as powerful as Unix.
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Just to keep this into perspective, we are reading about this because it is Google. But every system and every relay through which your email passes is a point where somebody with less then well-meaning intentions can read your email. We may be able to somewhat rely on Google to enforce some privacy policy, given publicity pressures, but some danger lies in all the carriers between point A and point B.

It is a shame that PGP only took off in the hardcore user community. If it was made insanely accessible to users -- maybe even transparent -- maybe we could have a better assumption of privacy for our communications (as well as a potential reduction in spam?).
Emailed Eric something akin to the "Hunch for food" idea a while back.

How I roughly imagined it:

Scrap the calorie count. Unless you're at a fast food restaurant where it's posted on the menu, people really are bad at guestimating these things.

Change the health ranking to a taste ranking, and have it be for specific dishes at specific restaurants. While Foodspotting is sort of playing in that space, they are just asking people to submit pics of stuff they like, sans rating. While it's great to know what people like, I also want to know what to avoid. And it's much harder to sort through comments than it is to glance at numerical ratings.

Use case: I go to Corner Bistro for the first time. I do a search for Corner Bistro on Eatly. I see that Eric has had the cheeseburger and that Mike has had the chili and fries. With ratings added, I see Eric gave the burger a 9, but Mike gave the chili a 5, so I'm going with the burger.

In the same vein, using tags and descriptions, aggregate photos and average scores for menu items at restaurants. So I look up Corner Bistro, and I'm presented with a photo (the top ranked photo?) and average taste rank for each item on the menu. It's the Waffle House of Menupages [and I just created a new vertical].

And, yes, eventually it could suggest restaurants and dishes based on my activity and that of friends.

Obviously need to make the entry process as frictionless as possible. Few different thoughts there:

1) Expand current email capabilities, a la Posterous. Use special characters to note the restaurant name, add tags, rate the item, etc.
2) Automate and outsource: map EXIF data to restaurants (imagine you guys could find a database like that somewhere...), superusers for aggregating and tagging, etc.
3) And has been mentioned, iPhone app that makes it all pretty and easy
>Also, the URI bar is why we have so many users typing Facebook into Google search, going to the first result and then flooding whatever random forum with complaints about "the new Facebook", without realizing they weren't even logged onto Facebook's site. Most people don't know what a web page is, and they lack the conceptual model of linked documents, not to mention they will never know about DNS or Internet protocols.

I'm at a loss then. If you're recommending getting rid of the address bar, exactly how are users supposed to navigate anywhere? If your solution is Google or the search bar, that doesn't solve your given example of users searching and missing facebook. I fail to see how removing the address bar will make users better searchers.
I have a second gmail account (in the olden days that's what they recommended on http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/publish.html - I see now that they have switched to using filters), and this didn't happen to me.

Are you sure you didn't use the first gmail account to send an invitation? Because in that case it does add the address to both accounts address books.
This part of the actual article contradicts the implication of the title:

I asked Nielsen if he thought children’s tendency towards an app mentality was a broader trend, and that everyone would be less dependent on search in the future — both because these habituated children will age into adulthood and because alternatives to search like apps and the social web are growing in usefulness. He said he didn’t think that was necessarily the case, because kids in the upper age range of the study — 11 and 12 years old — were observed to be avid searchers.

Further, the study itself (http://www.nngroup.com/reports/kids/) was on how children used websites. Not on how children used the the internet. As far as I can tell, he means that children did not use the search features on a particular website. Which I rarely do, too. If I need to search a website, I usually do a search on Google. I've learned that most websites have terrible search results.

But even if the study had demonstrated that young children don't use search engines to navigate the internet, it wouldn't necessarily mean that future generations will use the internet differently. I think people tend to underestimate how subtle searching the internet can be. We see a single text box on Google's homepage, so it has to be simple, right? But that implies that the work to figure out what to put in that text box must happen in our heads. Being able to synthesize what you want to find into a few keywords that you think are likely to be associated with what you're looking for requires sophisticated cognition.

That, to me, would be an interesting psychology topic to study: how early can we effectively search the internet? Is there any connection to the existing models of cognitive development?
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Thanks for pointing that out. My point is not that the liquidity premium will go negative, but that there could be just as much (or as little) premium for illiquid assets as for liquid assets when SWFs are driving force in the market.
$59 could also buy folic acid, vitamin d3 and choline capsules.

There's a simple exercise you can do in the final weeks of pregnancy to encourage your baby to lie in the optimal position for childbirth (which is ofc free to view, but, amazingly, isn't widely put into practice, I understand).

http://www.bloomingbellys.com/bb-blog/optimal-fetal-position...
Man, I LOVE wkhtmltopdf. It's an excellent, quick-n-dirty way to get your site into a PDF. There's some caveats, though:

- Want to do columns? You're screwed! It uses WebKit as the rendering engine, so any columns you specify will go WELL past the page break before they wrap, and looking HORRIFYIN'.

- If your fonts aren't set up perfectly, expect some super-ugly text (jaggies, etc).

- You will have to play with it for quite a while if you want to do anything fancy with headers, and you'll likely have to settle for something less ambitious than you started with.

- Have Unicode in your source HTML files? Hope you're comfortable with how that all works, or are cool with transliteralisation. Or cool with all kinds of #?^s through your files.

For anything heavy-duty, I'd recommend biting the bullet and using FPDF or a heavy-duty PDF creation library. But for quick and easy, wkhtmltopdf is excellent.
Because Yehuda will be working on SproutCore, I took another good look at it last night, playing with the Ruby (Sinatra) and the Clojure back end tutorial examples.

I met Yehuda at a Merb camp and listening to his talks about efficiency altered my view of using Ruby.
Because the government does everything else so well and it's all totally free!
You'd still not know which of the incoming payments to an account is causally connected to which outgoing payment.
We are probably living in the most peaceful moment of our species' time on earth
http://venturepimp.com - has a couple of posts each week where he points to an interesting start-up

http://blog.asmartbear.com/ - Good articles about the world of start-ups
Ridiculous.

If your cellphone is in your pocket, you're not protected from these perceived risks, if the radiation is coming from behind you, you're not protected either.

It's this kind of scaremongering that drives me insane. Expectant mothers are under enough stress as it is without some pointless product telling them they are being attacked by vicious radiation on a daily basis despite their own admission that there is little to no evidence to prove that it is potentially harmful.
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Yes, remarkably understated compared to scaremongering stories. Though still quite overstated compared to the evidence.
Thanks, I'll look at this tonight and get it fixed.
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Given that they are not specific about what materials they use I can't help but wonder if they are just selling expensive organic cotton clothes labeled as baby protection.
This actually makes the non-uniformity worse, not better -- things priced at an even number of dollars don't factor into the calculation before tax (and there are lots of those), but after, change amounts get disproportionately weighted to the amounts of change produced by even numbers of dollars. Argh.
Because the cost of digging up sidewalks, laying fiber, installing routers and switches has F* all to do with transistor density?
Commodore USA, the company with big claims to the Commodore name, but no paperwork to back up those claims.

I smell a scam intended to dupe Commodore fans...
100% of US Income tax goes toward interest on US debt.
Nobody has seen any pictures of this 'pc in C64 clothing' - and their last attempt was just another crappy pc in a keyboard form factor with the wrong commodore logo on the box.
Just bought some. Lets see how many of them I will really read...
While you have a point, there is a flipside, specifically regarding cash v credit/debit cards.

1. Privacy

If you use a card for every transaction, then you can be tracked for every transaction. Simple as that.

2. Tangible spending

If you have digital currency, it is often hard to mentally understand the value of money. Everything is equal; be it $10 or $1000. I value an hundred dollar bill much more than an hundred dollars in my bank account, and consequently am less likely to spend the bill.

Digital currency has it's upsides. Let's remember there are real downsides as well.
My thoughts exactly.

How do Belly Armor products work?
Without getting too deep into the details...

Indulge me, go into the details.
Are we using the same definitions? I thought the liquidity premium is the differential in return people are willing to incur for the convenience of liquid over illiquid assets?

What meaning of premium are you using? I want to make sense of "[...] just as much (or as little) premium for illiquid assets as for liquid assets [...]". Thanks.
I upgraded my MBP to the Corsair Force 240GB and it's been blazing. Boots in seconds and I'm never waiting for anything anymore.
That's a good idea. I'll put that up tonight.

FYI, I don't store any data at all. The username and password are required to get an auth token from HN, which is only needed for voting and commenting. The token is what's stored in the cookie that HN issues.
Or for $20/month (10 books/month) or $40/month (unlimited books/month) you could get a safari.oreilly.com account with access to every O'Reilly book published (and more).
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This press release says their "RadiaShield Technology" is silver. So at least it does what it says, even if what it says it does is ridiculous. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4511834.htm
Joking of which, complex currency would also be an interesting toy.

The imaginary part could represent some orthogonal aspect of worth, e.g. consumption of scarce resources.
That makes sense. I hadn't considered academia. I was thinking that if there is a business need for mapreduce, then the solution is probably going to become long-term infrastructure, in which case the cost of setting up hadoop can be amortized. But it makes sense to me that researchers would have a higher proportion of one-off problems, and in that situation, a simpler python solution can be a big win. Thanks.
Some buddy! In my naivety I was thinking of a third party.

Thanks for the 'duh'. This is not a term I use or have heard used by anyone I know (well, that's how the world can be sometimes for English speakers outside the US) but I have now looked it up and have therefore learned something.